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FT Magazine
Why encountering a beached whale profoundly changes so many people
...Abandoned by their respective families, these seals don’t know how to eat yet....
March 2, 2024
News in-depthChinese politics & policy
‘Speed dating’ with Xi: China shows off its new friends at Winter Olympics
...“When I talk to Chinese government officials about Russia policy, I don’t get the sense that there’s a great deal of shared culture and warmth between the two peoples,” he said....
February 14, 2022
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
The Big Read
US vs China: Biden bets on alliances to push back against Beijing
...“We are concerned that these kinds of deals or arrangements don’t push China to move away and abandon certain elements of their economic practices,” he says....
March 4, 2021
Goldin Financial Holdings Ltd
HK property tycoon fights off creditors as coronavirus bites
...“I don’t think local property developers are in distress, in fact I think many of them are . . . waiting for opportunities like this,” Mr Chan said....
September 29, 2020
Coronavirus: free to read
‘Wolf warrior’ diplomats reveal China’s ambitions
...“We don’t export revolution, poverty or hunger, and we don’t cause you any trouble, so what is there for you to complain about?”...
May 12, 2020
Insurance
Travel insurance: so complicated, you’ll need a holiday
...“Some people don’t want to write these kinds of risks so they don’t put a lot of time and effort into it,” he says. “We try to ensure that no one is uninsurable....
August 23, 2018
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
World
How a Frenchman helped transform Argentina’s wine industry
...You can only know if it’s a great wine 20 years after making it, so we don’t know yet in Argentina,” he says....
September 19, 2016
FT MagazineJancis Robinson
Breaking China
...I don’t know about other wine lovers but I felt a small glow of pride when the Chinese government made wine its diplomatic weapon of choice in the trade war over the cheap solar panels it exports to the...
June 21, 2013
Energy sector
Severn Trent rejects improved offer from international consortium
...Michael Rolland, chief executive of Borealis, said: “LongRiver is surprised and disappointed at the reaction of the Severn Trent board.”...
June 3, 2013
Special Report
Captain cool: Sam Warburton
...“If they do, I’m the first one to say, ‘don’t call me that’,” he says, preferring the more familiar moniker of “Warby”....
June 17, 2013
European companies
A vineyard’s ambitions for a bouquet from Brazil
...“We see analysis come out that there is a complementarity between the Brazilian and Chinese economies, but we want to go beyond complementarity, we don’t just want to sell commodities and import manufactured...
May 28, 2013
Life & Arts
A pressing issue
...“I don’t believe in buying before I know a city well,” she says. “The property situation has changed very much due to the [financial] crisis....
September 2, 2011
European companies
Kerviel cover-up ‘criminal’, says SocGen
...“It’s true we don’t write down that it’s forbidden to commit fraud.”...
June 15, 2010
Jancis Robinson
Bordeaux’s quiet masters
...“I exchange wines with properties in Burgundy, but I don’t drink them.” Has he travelled much outside Bordeaux? “Oh yes,” he assured me. “As a student I went to Alsace and Roussillon.”...
October 30, 2009
Life & Arts
Voyage to the bottom of the earth
...I don’t want to make ‘the best wine possible’, because that is something subjective. Instead, I try to make the best picture of the terroir and the vintage that I can.”...
July 25, 2009
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
Wine magic and other mysteries
...vehemently denied doing anything other than their own thing but the most popular intervention from the audience came from the Andalusian sister of energetic US importer Jorge Ordoñez, who said: “Although they don...
May 5, 2008
Jancis Robinson
The American telling the French what to do
...“And, if things continue to get better for French wine exporters, there’s a danger that producers will then say ‘See, we don’t need to change’....
January 5, 2008
Life & Arts
Big, bold and beautiful reds
...If you don’t like Earl Grey, you won’t like this. Fortnum’s Canon Fronsac 2000 Ch du Gaby Fortnum & Mason £10.50 Quite a coup to underprice Sainsbury’s Vieille Cure (see below) so decisively....
November 18, 2005

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