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FT Magazine
Why encountering a beached whale profoundly changes so many people
...Britain’s cetaphobia, boosted by Thomas Hobbes, persisted into the modern age....
March 2, 2024
UK economy
UK energy security bill paused to prioritise support for businesses
...Additional reporting by David Sheppard...
September 15, 2022
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
BBC
BBC sells London music studios used by The Beatles and David Bowie
...The BBC has sold music studios in London’s Maida Vale that had been used by The Beatles and David Bowie to a consortium including Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer....
August 14, 2023
ReviewBiography and memoir
The Maverick — George Weidenfeld, publisher to saints and sinners
...No matter: A World Restored by Henry Kissinger supplied an early sign of what Thomas Harding calls the publisher’s “remarkable perspicacity”....
September 27, 2023
FT GlobetrotterFT Globetrotter’s month-by-month guide to what’s on in our cities
What’s happening in Copenhagen: FT Globetrotter’s month-by-month guide to 2024
...British bass baritone Christopher Purves sings Saul, the Old Testament king driven mad by his envy of the young David (Danish countertenor Morten Grove Frandsen)....
January 30, 2024
Style
I like Georgian furniture. So what about the clothes?
...The influence of French Rococo during George II’s reign is apparent in Hogarth’s portrait of the theatre producer David Garrick and his wife Eva-Maria Veigel, with her egg yolk-coloured gown, frilly lace...
May 4, 2023
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
ReviewTheatre
Dancing at Lughnasa — a beautiful new staging of Brian Friel’s play at the National Theatre
...Dance (gorgeously choreographed by Wayne McGregor) becomes a leitmotif....
April 27, 2023
The Big Read
After years of false dawns, can Britain realise its nuclear ambitions?
...It was the late Queen Elizabeth II who pulled the lever at Calder Hall in Cumbria, setting into motion the world’s first commercial nuclear power station....
January 19, 2023
UK financial regulation
Former Sky executive picked to lead City reforms
...Letter in response to this article: Reforming Solvency II rules is not a free lunch / From David W Green, David Green Consulting, London NW3, UK...
September 12, 2022
ReviewMusic
The Metropolitan Opera’s Don Carlo returns, trimmed and improved
...The new cast is an improvement, although when I went, Russell Thomas was replaced in the title role by Rafael Davila, who performed respectably....
November 9, 2022
HTSIInside 15 extraordinary homes
At home with Rose Hanbury and the Marquess of Cholmondeley
...“I met David when I was 19, and we started hanging out in Paris. He’s a great friend,” says the model....
May 12, 2023
The Weekend Essay
Simon Schama: can Charles III’s coronation speak to modern Britain?
...In a country that — as Sir David Attenborough has reminded us in his recent television series Wild Isles — has the most calamitously depleted natural environment in Europe, the King has been, decade after...
May 6, 2023
The Elizabethan age
A history of majesty: the Queen’s portraits across 70 years
...His pop art “Elizabeth II” in candy colours, repeated like postage stamps, flatters and updates the royal brand....
September 8, 2022
Arts
1973 — the year pop culture found its dark side
...Like the young male protagonists of Cameron Crowe’s autobiographical Almost Famous, and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza, I too turned 15 in 1973....
January 7, 2023
Europe Express
Rasputin’s shadow spreads over Russia’s Wagner group Premium content
...As the FT’s David Pilling reported in December, companies linked to the Wagner group have won control of a gold mine in the CAR as well as access to diamonds....
January 21, 2023
FT Live
Inside Politics: who will win the UK general election?
Exclusively for FT subscribers
Wednesday, 8 MayDigital Conference
FT Magazine
This Joshua Reynolds painting is a national treasure. Why is Britain struggling to keep it?
...The Getty was the obvious international candidate; the family has given tens of millions to museums, including Britain’s National Gallery, and J Paul Getty II became a British citizen and was knighted before...
February 23, 2023
Due Diligence
The car vendor on a collision course with short sellers Premium content
...The company traces its roots to a rental car business called the Ugly Duckling, which was founded by Ernest Garcia II, a businessman who in 1990 pleaded guilty to bank fraud and is the father of Carvana’...
November 4, 2022
Travelista
Six superb seaside hideouts in England and Wales
...From £165, coldatnight.co.uk (Almost) On Chesil Beach West Dorset: good enough for PJ Harvey and Mark Hix (and Jane Austen, and Thomas Hardy), good enough for us....
July 31, 2022
Britain after Brexit
Brexit’s comeback year Premium content
...As for the trade picture, well, as we reported this morning via a British Chambers of Commerce report marking two years since Lord David Frost’s ultra low-ambition trade agreement came into force, the “Brexit...
December 22, 2022
UK politics
Liz Truss: Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister
...When Queen Elizabeth II died on Truss’s third day in office, she struggled to find a register equal to the national mood....
October 20, 2022
Britain after Brexit
Hunt’s measures provide difficult backdrop to next round of UK-EU talks Premium content
...The overhaul of the Solvency II insurance rules is one of the more concrete post-Brexit opportunities, writes Helen Thomas....
November 17, 2022
Interiors
The Harewood Biennial showcases craft as a force for social change
...The estate still belongs to Lascelles’ distant relatives, David and Diane Lascelles, Earl and Countess of Harewood, and was once home to Queen Elizabeth II’s aunt, Princess Mary, who married into the Lascelles...
March 25, 2022
Trade Secrets
Is free-trading ‘Global Britain’ just EU Mark II? Premium content
...Some ambassadors in Geneva are muttering that Global Britain is so far the EU Mark II. The Global Tariff and tariff-rate quotas were missed opportunities to change direction....
April 26, 2021
History books
Trading with the Enemy — old world order
...During the brief regency of Philippe II, duc d’Orléans (1715-23), a Scotsman named John Law urged the French monarchy to adopt his “System” of public credit and paper money....
July 13, 2021
FT Globetrotter
Rambles from the Ritz: three walks exploring the environs of a London landmark
...The west side of Grosvenor Square is entirely taken up by the façade of Eero Saarinen’s former US Embassy (1957-60), currently undergoing conversion by David Chipperfield into a hotel....
September 27, 2021

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