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Chess
England seeded fourth at European teams as former Russian makes his debut
...Hopes of a top-three finish were encouraged by last week’s world seniors gold medals for Michael Adams and John Nunn....
November 13, 2023
Labour Party UK
Inside the UK’s increasingly toxic by-election campaign
...“People are proud of being from Rochdale,” said John Blundell, the town council’s former cabinet member for economy and communication. “This by-election doesn’t represent the people of Rochdale at all.”...
February 13, 2024
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
US interest rates
This is a Bad Santa rally
...John Williams’ grinching be damned, last week’s Fed pivot was a bona fide Christmas miracle....
December 19, 2023
InterviewMusic
T Bone Burnett, architect of the Americana music revival, steps into the spotlight
...“I believe it was that night that Elton [John] told him, after hearing that song, that he had to make a record.”...
April 10, 2024
Energy sector
Top US energy trader Bill Perkins opens London office as gas market goes ‘crazy’
...He has produced films including Unthinkable starring Samuel L Jackson and The Baytown Outlaws starring Billy Bob Thornton and Eva Longoria....
July 19, 2022
FT Globetrotter
Holy roast: the best of the City of London’s church cafés
...Friday, 7.30am–3.30pm Website; Directions This Queen Anne-era building, designed by the renowned Baroque architect Nicholas Hawksmoor, was where the slaver-turned-priest and writer of “Amazing Grace” John...
October 9, 2023
FT Live
Innovation in Wealth Management Summit
Augmented intelligence for client-centric services
Thursday, 2 May9 Montague Close, London, UK
FT SeriesTen ways to feel good in 2024
The second coming of the shag-pile carpet
...“I’m obsessed with fully carpeted rooms,” says Billy Cotton, the American designer behind the creative, often flamboyant interiors of artists including Cindy Sherman and Lisa Yuskavage....
January 3, 2024
ReviewAlbums
Billy Valentine relaunches a label and his career with social-commentary covers — review
...sessions with John Coltrane. Thiele’s son, Bob Jr, a long-term Valentine collaborator, now heads the rebooted label which has co-produced this album....
March 31, 2023
Media
TV chat-show host Michael Parkinson dies aged 88
...His guests included John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Billy Connolly, Orson Welles and Sir Tony Blair — who sparked controversy when he told the presenter that God would be the judge of his...
August 17, 2023
ObituaryCarla Bley
Carla Bley, jazz composer and pianist, 1936-2023
...At one of them, Birdland in midtown Manhattan, she saw many of that era’s greats: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus and Lester Young....
November 4, 2023
Travel
Rodrigues: the far-flung outpost of Mauritius — with far fewer visitors
...“The Aldabra can live for 250 years,” says Billy Nemours, a manager at the reserve, as we take a tour. “And I’ve seen some sleep for five days.”...
February 28, 2024
ReviewTelevision
Futurama returns — Matt Groening’s cartoon comedy gets a reboot
...The episode proves timely in sending up the current industry crisis when brash android Bender (John DiMaggio) is brought in to replace maligned human screenwriters....
July 25, 2023
ReviewMusic
Five stars for PJ Harvey, tackling the big themes at London’s Roundhouse — review
...The other musicians were Giovanni Ferrario, James Johnston and Harvey’s collaborator since the late 1980s, John Parish....
September 29, 2023
ReviewMusic
EFG London Jazz Festival — Makaya McCraven and Joshua Redman offer searing, virtuosic concerts
...“Maids”, an affectionate waltz, came next, and then a ballad, Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington’s “Isfahan”, articulated roundly with vibrato and slurs....
November 14, 2023
FT GlobetrotterFT Globetrotter’s month-by-month guide to what’s on in our cities
London in 2024: FT Globetrotter’s month-by-month guide to what’s happening
...Acts announced so far include Andrea Bocelli and Robbie Williams — with plenty more to come. 2023’s line-up included Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen and Guns N’ Roses....
January 30, 2024
FT Live
Commodities Asia Summit
Enabling decarbonisation in a time of disrupted trade flows
Wednesday, 6 NovemberSingapore
ObituaryJohn Motson
John Motson, football commentator, 1945-2023
...Many of English football’s biggest moments of the last half century were voiced, impossibly mellifluously, by John Motson....
February 26, 2023
ReviewMusic
Five stars for a magical Midsummer Night’s Dream at Glyndebourne — review
...After the full-blooded Verdi of Antonio Pappano it comes as a surprise to encounter the lighter style of conductor Bertrand de Billy....
July 4, 2023
Corporate bonds
Market maker Citadel set to accelerate credit trading transformation
...for them to enter and make an impact too, and my instinct is with a firm like Citadel, they’re only going to enter into a marketplace when they feel like they can make a sizeable and real impact,” said Billy...
July 17, 2023
Television
New Full Monty, same old Britain: ‘I was feeling the same fury again’
...He has co-written the series with Alice Nutter with whom he previously collaborated on Trust, about the abduction of John Paul Getty III. “Our mindsets have changed,” says Nutter....
June 2, 2023
Interiors
The bathroom reborn: designers do a utilitarian U-turn
...Influential US interior designer Billy Cotton used a kaleidoscopically colourful carpet for singer and actress Lily Allen’s living room-like Brooklyn bathroom....
May 12, 2023
FT Globetrotter
Greener getaways: a trip to Melbourne’s Dandenong Ranges
...Captain John Freyer, unable to locate adequate timber to repair the ship in the young city, headed to a mountainous region to its south-east and found “a forest of tree masts” that meant the Admiral could...
March 10, 2023
ReviewMusic
Five stars for Dialogues des Carmélites, Metropolitan Opera — outstanding ensemble in revolutionary drama
...John Dexter’s production dates from 1977, when it was the Met premiere of this work, and is something close to timeless....
January 17, 2023
FT Magazine
Flying car, anyone?
...What looks like something out of a movie or a cartoon is really happening,” says Billy Nolen, acting head of the US Federal Aviation Administration....
January 12, 2023
ReviewMusic
It’s a Wonderful Life, English National Opera — an enchanting Christmas show
...Jennifer France is a touch thin of voice as Mary, but there are keen cameos from Gweneth Ann Rand as George’s mother and Ronald Samm as his uncle Billy....
November 29, 2022
Nilanjana Roy
Children deserve better than this morass of poorly written books by celebrities
...John Travolta published a weird short fable about flying, Propeller One-Way Night Coach, in 1997; fellow actor Jamie Lee Curtis kicked off a 25-year career as an enthusiastic children’s author with When...
November 1, 2022

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