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How TikTok’s Chinese owners took firmer control ahead of US ban

...Any journalist would know this has failed the journalistic standard of putting forward actual facts.”...

April 25, 2024

...Thanks to such dubious standard-bearers, V-necks have since occupied opposing ends of the sartorial spectrum — denoting a certain slovenly brand of old-school masculinity at one, arch geekery at the other...

April 8, 2024

FT Live

Business of Art

Market shifts and future growth

ReviewTheatre

James V: Katherine, Edinburgh review — exceptional entry in Rona Munro’s Scottish history series

...Patrick Hamilton, a Lutheran preacher, gets married then is swiftly burnt at the stake in St Andrews. His 19-year-old sister, Katherine, refuses to recant and is taken to Edinburgh to be tried....

April 12, 2024

Live news: Yen weakens to ¥155 per dollar as US stocks edge higher

BHP proposes takeover of Anglo American

...Bloomberg first reported news that BHP was considering a potential takeover of Anglo American....

April 24, 2024

Live news: Cancer drug sales propel AstraZeneca to 18% revenue growth

BHP proposes £31bn takeover of Anglo American

...Anglo American confirmed the offer in a statement on Thursday morning....

April 25, 2024

Chess

Chess: Half a century on, Fischer v Spassky at Reykjavik still echoes

...The most famous chess match of all time Bobby Fischer v Boris Spassky in 1972, still casts its echoes....

March 11, 2024

FT Live

Moral Money Summit Asia

Strategies for greener, fairer capitalism

Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch

Why are American roads so dangerous?

...Instead, an underrated factor seems to be not American cars but American drivers....

April 19, 2024

Instant InsightPeter Spiegel

Coalition government, American style

...The Republican Speaker has sworn fealty to the former president, but Johnson struck at a moment of maximum weakness for the party’s standard bearer, stuck as he is in a dingy Manhattan courtroom for days...

April 20, 2024

Israel-Hamas war

Israel passes bill to shut local Al Jazeera office

...In 2022, Shireen Abu Akleh, a well-known Palestinian-American journalist working for the network, was killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank town of Jenin....

April 1, 2024

Visual Arts

Through the Lens — Latif Al Ani’s peerless photographs of ancient Iraq

...“Most visitors were wealthy foreigners, generally North American tourists,” Azara writes, radically abridging Al Ani’s statement into the much terser: “Newcomers came. Pandora’s Box was opened.”...

January 30, 2024

Architecture

Tropical Modernism at the V&A — the architects who built a postcolonial future

...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....

March 1, 2024

Israel-Hamas war

Israel raids Gaza’s biggest hospital

...Israel has alleged that the al-Shifa compound sits on top of a dense network of underground tunnels housing Hamas command centres....

March 18, 2024

InterviewTheatre

Benedict Andrews on shaking up Chekhov: ‘You want to feel you’re watching life in all its spontaneity’

...But Andrews sees in it too a story for our times....

April 20, 2024

Inside BusinessSujeet Indap

Delaware, Inc agonises about Musk backlash as its lawyers seek changes

...About two-thirds of American companies are incorporated in Delaware, attracted to the small, mid-Atlantic state by its sophisticated legal system....

April 23, 2024

Tefaf Maastricht 2024

Battle to keep sculpture in Britain highlights European museums’ struggles

...However, Britain’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport has placed a temporary export bar on the carving and given the V&A until June 14 to raise £2mn so it can match the price paid by the American institution...

March 2, 2024

FT Live

Commodities Global Summit 2025

The pre-eminent gathering of senior commodity executives, traders and financiers

ReviewPhotography

Photo City exhibition review — photography and the metropolis in conversation at V&A Dundee

...Photo City: How Images Shape the Urban World at the V&A Dundee is a terrific exploration of the exchanges between the ways cities have been photographed and of how those images have shaped the subsequent...

April 11, 2024

Israel-Hamas war

Hamas chief calls for march on al-Aqsa mosque as hostage talks struggle

...Tensions between Israel and Palestinians often soar during the holy month, particularly around al-Aqsa, which sits in a compound known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif....

February 28, 2024

Janan Ganesh

OJ Simpson and the paradox of American power

...In Europe, both the “woke” movement and much of the alt-right reaction against it are American imports. And the US isn’t even trying to do this....

April 20, 2024

Israel-Hamas war

Israel withdraws from al-Shifa hospital in Gaza

...But the raid left much of al-Shifa a burnt-out shell....

April 1, 2024

Israel-Hamas war

Qatar reconsiders mediator role between Hamas and Israel

...But its relationship with Hamas has faced scrutiny and criticism from some American conservatives, many with ties to Israel or American Jewish causes, as well as from Israeli politicians, including Netanyahu...

April 18, 2024

Israel-Hamas war

UN officials call for probe into reports of mass graves at Gaza hospitals

...The IDF did not comment about the situation at al-Shifa hospital....

April 23, 2024

Thames Water

Thames Water crisis prompts jitters over ‘gold standard’ debt model

...“[WBS] was viewed, outside of government debt, as the gold standard of UK fixed income investment,” said Steve Curtis, a finance partner at law firm Latham & Watkins who has advised on a number of water...

April 23, 2024

FirstFT

FirstFT: BHP proposes all-stock takeover of Anglo American

...BHP, the world’s biggest mining group with a market capitalisation of A$229bn (US$149bn), is seeking to use an all-stock takeover of Anglo American to expand its portfolio of copper mines, according to people...

April 25, 2024

FT Alphaville

FTAV’s further reading

...— The Simpsons’ Cypress Hill London Symphony Orchestra gag comes true (BBC) — Al-Yamamah arms deal report comes to light ending anti-corruption campaigners’ battle (Guardian) — March Madness of NYC Hot...

March 25, 2024

Mining

BHP proposes £31bn takeover of Anglo American in mining mega-deal

...BHP said it would increase its “exposure to future facing commodities through Anglo American’s world class copper assets”....

April 25, 2024

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