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ReviewDance
Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon is vividly played by the Royal Ballet — review
...MacMillan’s larky pastiche of conventional pairwork loses its edge if the players ham it up....
January 22, 2024
FT SeriesBest books of the year 2023
Best books of 2023 — Thrillers
...White Fox by Owen Matthews (Bantam/Doubleday) The last in Matthews’ outstanding trilogy featuring KGB Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Vasin sees him exiled to Siberia, to run a remote and brutal outpost of...
November 15, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ReviewThriller books
Thriller round-up — from the Gulag to Glasgow grit
...Antonia Scott, the heroine of Juan Gómez-Jurado’s Red Queen (Macmillan, £14.99) is a super-solver with an IQ of 242....
April 3, 2023
HTSI
How To Give It: five ways to make a difference this month
...The collection, described as “the very best of British” by Bonhams’ head of sale Janet Hardie, also includes Iain MacMillan and Banksy prints, Manolo Blahnik boots designed by Damien Hirst, and an Alexander...
February 19, 2021
FTWeekend Live Q&A
Live Q&A: who would come to your fantasy dinner party?
...Live Q&A The FT’s Restaurant Insider Nicholas Lander and Food & Drink editor Alexander Gilmour will be online on Sunday March 29 between 12 and 12.30pm and 5 and 5.30pm UK time to enjoy your tasty reveries...
March 29, 2020
FT SeriesSummer Books 2020
Summer books of 2020: History
...The Fortress: The Siege of Przemyśl and the Making of Europe’s Bloodlands Alexander Watson, Allen Lane/Basic Books, RRP £25/$32 If you read one military history book this year, make it Alexander Watson...
June 25, 2020
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
FT SeriesSummer Books 2020
Summer books of 2020: Economics
...Basic Income and Sovereign Money: The Alternative to Economic Crisis and Austerity Policy Geoff Crocker, Palgrave Macmillan, RRP$59.99/£44.99 We live in an era of radical policy proposals, in response...
June 23, 2020
Fashion
Soft power: the cardigan gets cool
...And he, in turn, was stealing from the British intellectuals of the 1950s and ’60s — from Harold Macmillan to Alan Bennett — who had established that clever types wore cardigans....
October 11, 2019
ReviewLife & Arts
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall, London — a Beethoven of raw energy
...A disparate quartet of soloists — Erin Wall, Sonia Prina, Simon O’Neill and Alexander Vinogradov — were carried along on the tide, not without being hustled at times....
August 1, 2017
ReviewLife & Arts
Mayerling, Royal Opera House, London — vastly rewarding
...Mayerling, Kenneth MacMillan’s study of the deaths of Archduke Rudolf and his mistress Mary Vetsera at the Royal Hunting Lodge in 1889, is a consummate theatrical machine — exact in evoking a past, crafted...
May 2, 2017
FT SeriesPrivatisation revisited
Returning the UK’s privatised services to the public
...Alexander Jan, a director at Arup, says it is unlikely foreign state-owned companies would want to lose money by overbidding for contracts in the UK....
February 26, 2018
Robin Lane Fox
Floral tourism: on the trail of Transylvania’s elusive crocus
...In her superb book Peacemakers, Margaret Macmillan describes how the Banat, a “bucolic backwater”, was split between Romania and Yugoslavia in 1919....
October 17, 2017
ReviewLife & Arts
The Nutcracker, Royal Opera House, London — review
...Alexander Campbell’s elegant variation and tender partnering were let down by a slightly ragged coda....
December 2, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
Romeo and Juliet, Royal Opera House, London — review
...The production was strongly cast: I greatly admire Alexander Campbell’s alert and subtly detailed Mercutio, Tristan Dyer’s clear-cut Benvolio, Gary Avis’s arrogant, dark-hued Tybalt, as I do Bennet Gartside...
September 21, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
‘Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Vol Two: Everything She Wants’, by Charles Moore
...Thatcher paid Macmillan homage, even as she gutted the one-nation Toryism he had done much to create. She knew how high the stakes were....
October 9, 2015
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
ReviewLife & Arts
Song of the Earth, Royal Opera House, London — review
...It is dance artful, impeccably made, rewarding to perform, and the Royal Ballet’s lovers — the enchanting Emma Maguire and Alexander Campbell, the commandingly beautiful Zenaida Yanowsky with Nehemiah Kish...
June 2, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
All Cranko!, Opernhaus, Stuttgart — review
...Overshadowed from the off by Kenneth MacMillan’s Song of the Earth with which it shared its premiere, it explores similar themes: life, love, death....
May 19, 2015
Robin Lane Fox
A cultivated view of paradise: the art of painting gardens
...Show off a dead kingfisher, read Das Kapital in a palace and give birth to the son whom the historian Margaret MacMillan has aptly compared to Toad of Toad Hall....
April 10, 2015
Life & Arts
Upcoming dance performances
...roh.org.uk, 020 7340 4000 … Alexander Whitley, Various venues This intriguing new choreographer is touring two recent creations around the country....
September 26, 2014
Life & Arts
Upcoming concerts and festivals
...The conductor is Alexander Shelley....
January 23, 2015
Life & Arts
The FT’s summer books 2016
...Gideon Rachman History Joseph Chamberlain: International Statesman, National Leader, Local Icon, edited by Ian Cawood and Chris Upton, Palgrave MacMillan, RRP£63/$100 Making sense of late 19th-century...
July 1, 2016
ObituaryLuxury goods
Robert Pirie, lawyer, banker and bibliophile, 1934-2015
...James Hanson, Conrad Black, Rupert Murdoch and Robert Maxwell, for whom he captured Macmillan, the New York publishing house, were among his clients and dinner guests....
February 6, 2015
Life & Arts
Upcoming dance performances
...This new programme offers creations from Kristen McNally, Christopher Wheeldon, Alexander Whitley, and – as with everything this splendid enterprise produces – is well worth you attention....
August 29, 2014
ReviewLife & Arts
Romeo and Juliet, Royal Opera House, London – review
...There are undeniable longueurs owed to the score’s expansiveness (Kenneth MacMillan’s scissors were skilled), and the profusion of particoloured tights among the Verona citizenry is Bad News....
July 29, 2014
Life & Arts
The FT’s best books of 2015
...Alexander McCall Smith Author of The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine (No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency) Rosemary Goring’s After Flodden introduced us to her talents as a historical novelist....
November 27, 2015

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