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Janan Ganesh
How Europe should negotiate with Donald Trump
...Trained in ideas, the political class sees in grand terms — “authoritarian” this, “isolationist” that — a man who is, at bottom, a miser....
February 20, 2024
Gillian Tett
What medieval painters tell us about wealth today
...Thus artworks from that period, such as Hieronymus Bosch’s “Death and the Miser”, contained elaborate depictions of avarice....
December 28, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Janan Ganesh
Remember the untemperamental geniuses
...If you want the Pietà, put up with Michelangelo the loner and miser. If you want people on Mars, let Musk keep Musking. Erratic behaviour can seem a necessary, not just common, feature of genius....
November 24, 2023
ReviewVisual Arts
Money and medieval morality tangle in a New York exhibition — review
...In the late-15th-century painting “Death and the Miser”, Hieronymus Bosch captured the lure of lucre. A man lies mortally ill in his bed, unlikely to last the night....
November 21, 2023
Andrew Martin
Cold comfort and climate change: a very British freeze
...Our coal fire gave way to a gas fire — a “gas miser” as my father depressingly called it — in about 1972. For aesthetic reasons, I have put that policy into reverse in every home I’ve owned....
January 20, 2023
Janan Ganesh
Why homelessness is still with us
...Some are friends of mine, and wouldn’t be if I held them to be brutes or misers. The problem isn’t malevolence. It is innocence....
January 8, 2022
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Moira O'Neill
What Dickens and Scrooge teach us about money
...So it’s a good moment to focus on the old miser’s belated realisation that his hoarded money is useless to him and the world around him....
December 24, 2021
The Weekend Essay
Seven lessons from a late-starting entrepreneur
...like Molière’s Miser hoarding gold....
April 8, 2022
ReviewBiography and memoir
Family Business — the John Lewis family brought to vivid life
...John was a misanthropic miser. Spedan was kind and gregarious, but only within his family and his business. Socially awkward bosses have a weakness for adopting favoured employees as surrogate friends....
August 19, 2021
ReviewVisual Arts
Fabulous creatures — Moreau at Waddesdon Manor
...The glint in the eyes alike of “The Miser and the Monkey”, the one gathering coins beneath his fingers, the other mischievously dropping them one by one by hand out of the window, implies parallels between...
July 21, 2021
Christopher Plummer
Christopher Plummer: star of stage and screen
...And he didn’t need a truckful of make-up to play a mean old miser. Those narrow eyes, lizardy features, grizzled-aquiline bone structure: he had aged, mercilessly, into acting’s imperial purple....
February 6, 2021
European companies
Pandemic makes peer-to-peer grandee think twice about banks
...Only a few months back, he differentiated himself from the misers in suits, saying: “I personally care about normal people getting better returns.”...
August 7, 2020
Q&AProperty law
Property Law: Can I evict my tenants to cash in on Airbnb?
...Ed John is a partner in Howard Kennedy’s real estate disputes team Cold comfort from miser landlord I live in a flat in Brighton. Our landlord is a notorious miser....
November 22, 2019
Janan Ganesh
Van Eycks, vaccines and the super-rich
...J Paul Getty, a miser of an oilman, whose house had a pay phone for guests, was looser with his billions when art was at stake....
January 25, 2019
Janan Ganesh
Why Scrooge’s strategy makes him a very modern miser
...A Christmas Carol’s enduring reputation as a morality tale is a more audacious achievement than its uninterrupted print run and its hundreds of adaptations....
December 22, 2017
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Letter
Not dead but alive and well — and even found in Welsh
...Cast an eye over any Latin-English dictionary and it is remarkable how many English words are sitting there with a similar or identical meaning to today’s (minus, plus, miser, to cite just three)....
January 5, 2018
LexUS & Canadian companies
US tech deals: shrinking violets Premium content
...Where takeovers are concerned, most are misers. Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook occupy the top five spots in the US index, with a total market worth of $3.5tn....
January 17, 2018
On Wall StreetAlexandra Scaggs
Future of post-Mifid research has Ancient Greek echo
...That won the poet a mixed legacy, according to Ms Carson. He was known as a miser and apparently wrote a poem for a mule, once he was offered an “adequate” fee....
December 29, 2017
ReviewLife & Arts
The Miser, Garrick Theatre, London — it’s all too much
...Giving the miser Harpagon’s son, Cléante, an outrageous lisp and his daughter, Élise, rhotacism takes us straight to the Pontius Pilate routine in Monty Python’s Life of Brian, and is tactless when the guy...
March 14, 2017
LexEuropean companies
Boliden: mean well Premium content
...Even better, its managers are misers. Chief executive Lennart Evrell underscores this parsimony....
July 20, 2017
ReviewLife & Arts
Vice Versa, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon — welcome vulgarity
...When he co-adapted Molière’s The Miser for its current West End outing, Phil Porter acknowledged that play’s debt to the 3rd-century BC Roman comic playwright Plautus....
May 21, 2017
Observations
Douglas Coupland: Frugality
...Or imagine marrying someone who turned into a creaky, prematurely aged miser — would that be a deal-breaker for you?...
January 22, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
The Man Who Wouldn’t Get Up by David Lodge — a wry short-story collection
...One story here, “The Miser”, about a group of schoolboys after the war who are anxious to buy fireworks, recalls Greene’s 1954 short story “The Destructors”, about a gang of feral boys who break into an...
October 21, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
Elvis Costello, London Palladium — ‘A vast range of music’
...Published last year, the book is a digressive affair of some 700 pages, written as though to endorse the critic Kenneth Tynan’s stereotype: “The English hoard words like misers; the Irish spend them like...
May 11, 2016
LexUS downturn
Business travel: up in the air
...It is well known that when times get tough that full-fare plane ticket and downtown accommodation is the first thing that the misers in accounting like to cut....
February 12, 2016

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