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US banks
Goldman bought UK and US companies using Chinese state funds
...The bank’s chief executive David Solomon met CIC’s executive vice-president Qi Bin and chair Peng Chun in March, according to a CIC statement....
August 29, 2023
The best books of the week
Your Absence Is Darkness — a rich mosaic of Icelandic storytelling
...The novel even features, as a postscript, its own playlist of key tracks featured in the text: Nick Cave to The Beatles; David Bowie to Amy Winehouse....
April 24, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ReviewBooks
Who Owns This Sentence? — an attack on copyright
...: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs by David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu Mountain Leopard Press £22, 384 pages...
January 11, 2024
The best books of the week
Everywhere an Oink Oink — David Mamet’s funny, fiendish account of 40 years in film
...Before anyone had heard of fake news, Dustin Hoffman in Wag the Dog (1997) was a PR man for whom the truth was as disposable as a coffee cup....
April 26, 2024
ReviewFT Books Essay
Spy masters — the hidden lives of Ian Fleming and John le Carré
...David Cornwell, who wrote as John le Carré, had no time for James Bond. Ian Fleming’s pasteboard hero, scoffed the younger spy-turned-author, “on his magic carpet takes us away from moral doubt”....
October 12, 2023
ReviewBiography and memoir
The Maverick — George Weidenfeld, publisher to saints and sinners
...David Pryce-Jones, whose biography of Hitler-loving Unity Mitford prompted a venomous anti-Weidenfeld campaign, thinks that “He needed love and he was looking for it all the time.”...
September 27, 2023
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
ReviewFiction
The Secret Hours by Mick Herron — scheming and bungling before Slough House
...Given the absence of the Slough House cast of misfits, the tone feels darker than before — less David Brent, more George Smiley....
September 8, 2023
ReviewFiction
The Factory — a nightmarish Japanese satire on working lives
...This is captivating, disquieting prose, deftly captured in David Boyd’s translation....
December 7, 2023
Climate change
UK climate watchdog chief quits as Sunak green policy comes under fire
...Lord David Willetts, a former Tory minister known as “two Brains” for his intellectual mien, is widely considered to be the frontrunner as CCC chair....
January 11, 2024
Due Diligence
Has Microsoft found an antitrust cheat code? Premium content
..., Paramount’s controlling shareholder, is unconvinced by an $11bn offer from Apollo for its Hollywood studio, people briefed on the matter said, and is instead negotiating a rival deal with billionaire David...
March 21, 2024
ReviewFiction
The Romantic by William Boyd — a wild ride across the 19th century
...His delicious jeu d’esprit Nat Tate: An American Artist, published in 1998, purported to be the biography of a lost painter, and came with praise from David Bowie and Gore Vidal, who were in on the joke....
September 29, 2022
HTSI
The who’s who of art advisers
...The behemoth: Philip Hoffman “To be a client with us, you need to be spending about $1mn and up on art,” says Philip Hoffman, former deputy CEO of Christie’s Europe, and founder of The Fine Art Group....
February 20, 2023
The Weekend Essay
Effective altruism was the favoured creed of Sam Bankman-Fried. Can it survive his fall?
.../ From Jeff Boyd, London E9, UK Imagine Anatole France’s take on effective altruism / From James Meyer, Gurnee, IL, US...
December 29, 2023
Special ReportResponsible Business Education Awards
Schools build consensus for focus on social purpose
...David Marchick, dean of American University’s Kogod School of Business, for example, has recently revamped a specialist Masters in Sustainability Management....
January 16, 2023
HTSI
20 ways to look soigné at the best soirées this winter
...large bracelet, $4,300 Saint Laurent crepe maxi dress, £2,175 Louis Vuitton preowned leather sandals, £250, reluxefashion.com Blancpain red-gold Villeret Quantième Annuel GMT watch, £34,100 Fferrone Boyd...
November 25, 2022
FT Live
Business Book of the Year Award 2024
The search for the best business book is under way
Monday, 9 December1 Grosvenor Pl, London SW1X 7HJ, UK
Music
Musician Jake Shears: ‘I’ve always liked making weirder stuff’
...In 2001 he and Scott Hoffman founded Scissor Sisters, a band that channelled the underground energy of New York’s gay nightclub scene into mainstream transatlantic pop....
March 16, 2023
FT Magazine
At the movies: a photography special
...Working for Elle magazine that year, aged 25, she found herself in Cannes, photographing Dustin Hoffman....
August 19, 2023
The Art Market
Christie’s gets Gauguin and Joan Mitchell in $50mn collection
...Those in on the hoax at Modern Painters magazine, where Boyd was on the editorial board, included the musician David Bowie, who hosted a launch party while Boyd himself created Tate’s art....
September 22, 2022
HTSI
The UK music bar reborn
...A fortnight later our group, The Mr David Viner Band, was supporting them on their European tour....
November 18, 2022
FT SeriesBest books of the year 2022
Best books of 2022: Fiction in translation
...Diary of a Voidby Emi Yagi, translated by David Boyd and Lucy North, Harvill Secker £12.99 Ms Shibata, a company employee burdened with the menial tasks her male colleagues consider to be a woman’s work...
November 25, 2022
Letter
Letter: US must not exploit crisis to rubber-stamp gas plans
...David Hoffman Global Energy Monitor Prague, Czech Republic...
March 18, 2022
The Big Read
Has China become too cosy with private equity?
...In 2015, the prime minister at the time David Cameron called for the UK to become “the partner of choice” for China in the west in a speech marking the visit of the Chinese president Xi Jinping....
May 31, 2023
Robin Lane Fox
Ravishing roses to riveting books: Christmas gifts for gardeners
...A neatly potted rose for an arch or wall now has a tag of £30 if it is from the David Austin stable....
December 16, 2022
News in-depthGambling industry
Casino mecca Macau gambles on becoming a global tourist attraction
...“Macau has hit rock bottom,” said David Green, a gaming and governance consultant and former adviser to the Macau government on casino tenders....
January 8, 2023
Stephen Bush
Does it matter who plays Stephen Bush on stage?
...When I hear Jackson speak, I’m irresistibly reminded of Laurence Olivier’s inquiry to Dustin Hoffman on the set of Marathon Man: “My dear boy, why don’t you just try acting?”...
October 10, 2022

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