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India’s foreign spy agency drawn out of the shadows by Canadian allegations

...“The key point is that R&AW had been unwilling to take its operations into the west,” said Walter Ladwig, an expert on South Asian security at the Royal United Services Institute think-tank in London....

September 20, 2023

News in-depthCoronavirus treatment

Scientists grapple with long Covid puzzle as millions fall sick

...Walter Koroshetz co-chairs a nationwide research programme at the US National Institutes of Health, designed to uncover the “biologic mechanisms” behind long Covid and potentially develop a cure....

February 15, 2024

FT Live

Business of Art

Market shifts and future growth

The FT ViewThe editorial board

Elon Musk and the privatisation of defence

...The balance has shifted too far towards the private; while US business investment in R&D more than tripled between 1990 and 2020, federal public R&D spending was almost flat....

September 15, 2023

The Aesthete

What’s your soundtrack to the summer?

...by R Can & Sonic Noise. I heard it at a party; it’s a kind of techno dancehall track. It’s so good, so spontaneous....

August 7, 2023

Markets InsightBill Gross

The Fed needs to stop raising rates

...The economist and journalist Walter Bagehot noted the pain point for savers in the days of old in the UK: “John Bull can stand many things, but he cannot stand 2 per cent!”...

December 19, 2022

Transcript

Transcript: Author Amy Edmondson on ‘intelligent failure’

...They ran the gamut from Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk to an investigation into human rights abuses in cobalt mining....

December 20, 2023

FT Live

Due Diligence Live

Where leaders in investment and finance meet

FT SeriesHTSI spring arts special: creatives in their communities

The Château that fired Picasso’s imagination

...La fin du début (opening 8 April) – Young Picasso in Paris will be hosted by the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in New York, opening 12 May....

February 24, 2023

FT Magazine

The scandalous, scarcely believable journey of the little Kandinsky

...At one point, they had the largest collection of Klees, and the second-largest collection of Kandinskys after Solomon R Guggenheim....

November 3, 2023

Miranda Green

An East London night school that built an artistic movement

...This quality, wrote art critic R H Wilenski in 1930, strikes every visiting French painter as unique and beguiling....

January 25, 2022

ObituaryQueen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II: April 21 1926-September 8 2022

...“The 1969 film and the 1992 documentary Elizabeth R were broadcasts that changed the scope and style of the monarchy.”...

September 8, 2022

The Big Read

Covid vaccines: the race for a single shot to prevent new pandemics

...One of the most advanced candidates has been developed by scientists at the US military’s Walter Reed Army Institute of Research....

February 8, 2022

Fashion

Do cargo pants come with too much baggage?

...It’s a bit Walter Mitty, he points out....

October 22, 2021

Prime property

‘A handful of hectares at your finca’: the rise of the hobby vineyard

...The retired R&D consultant, originally from the UK, usually keeps 20 per cent of his grapes to make 350 bottles and sells the rest to a négociant — a wine merchant who buys grapes from small farmers to pay...

May 4, 2021

News in-depthThe Big Read

Drug wars: how AstraZeneca overtook GSK in UK pharma

...“Slowly but surely she is turning the group around,” says Mr Walters. Yet the team’s initial moves are now raising questions over GSK’s longer-term focus on the UK....

May 27, 2020

ReviewScience fiction books

When nature is to be feared — the best of new science fiction

...In George R Stewart’s Earth Abides (1949), a measles-like disease causes the collapse of civilisation and ushers in a simpler, more bucolic way of life....

May 8, 2020

FT Live

Brazil Summit

Building a resilient and sustainable economy

Europe Express

Frugals refuse to finance the EU’s budget ambitions

...The clash came to a head in November at a dinner hosted by the German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier....

February 21, 2020

Letter

Echoes of the US savings and loan industry’s collapse

...Alex J Pollock Distinguished Senior Fellow, R Street Institute, Washington, DC, US...

May 19, 2019

Pharmaceuticals sector

AstraZeneca chief claims vindication five years after Pfizer bid

...Joe Walters, a fund manager at Royal London Asset Management, a top-20 shareholder, pointed out that on Tuesday AstraZeneca’s shares were just £3 above the level Pfizer had offered....

April 24, 2019

North American prime property

The landmark US skyscrapers refurbished for luxury living

...Walter Gropius, director of the Bauhaus school in Germany, entered the first realistic design for a modernist skyscraper....

November 15, 2019

Due Diligence

A deep dive into Tom Barrack’s Colony Capital Premium

...Michael Leuchten, a research analyst at UBS, credited Soriot with “giving the organisation its R&D mojo back”....

April 25, 2019

FT SeriesJony Ive leaves Apple

What will Apple do without Jony Ive?

...The power of the design lab Jobs was a frequent visitor to Apple’s design lab, according to his biographer Walter Isaacson, and ate lunch with Sir Jonathan most days....

June 27, 2019

News in-depthCurrencies

Brazil’s weaker currency suggests fading of carry trade appeal

...2016 of above R$3.40....

April 19, 2018

Brazilian economy

Brazil pulp merger creates global commodities titan

...The R$36bn takeover by Suzano of its larger counterpart was sealed on Friday in a deal that will create one of Brazil's biggest industrial companies with a market capitalisation of R$83bn....

March 19, 2018

FT SeriesRace to a trillion

Silicon Valley: Big Tech prepares for its second act

...One message from the stock market divergence of Facebook and Apple in the past week has been the heightened risks — and potential rewards — that come with a period of raised capital spending and R&D....

August 3, 2018

John Gapper

Advertising’s acquisition carousel is slowing

...Sir Martin used it to buy everything from J Walter Thompson to Young & Rubicam and to defy the broader trend against holding companies....

April 18, 2018

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