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InterviewMusic
Actor Billy Porter: ‘I wanted to be the male Whitney Houston!’
...Signed to a major label, he was originally stylised as a heterosexual R&B smoothie, serenading women in his videos. The final straw came when his planned big single release was used for Celine Dion....
September 1, 2023
FT SeriesHow to host a cocktail party
Ryan Chetiyawardana creates a ‘house party’ mood at his Thameside bar
...His music choices are eclectic, spanning R&B, hip-hop and 2000s French rock. The goal is to be “as real as possible”, he says....
November 24, 2023
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Israel-Hamas war
Biden intensifies diplomatic effort to contain Gaza conflict
...In his remarks at the White House, he also sent a more explicit warning to Tehran, saying he had moved the USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier group to the eastern Mediterranean and was sending additional...
October 11, 2023
Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC
Democrats question Reckitt Benckiser’s plan to sell baby formula unit
...US senators Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker and Bernie Sanders, along with House representative Katie Porter, sent a letter on Tuesday asking Jonathan Kanter, head of the US Department of Justice’s antitrust...
June 22, 2022
FT Magazine
How Silicon Valley’s ‘Oppenheimer’ found lucrative trade in AI weapons
...He self-describes as a “big R” Republican and a “little L” libertarian. He’s non-interventionist, but this is not as counterintuitive as it sounds....
March 28, 2024
ReviewAlbums
Ibrahim Maalouf: Capacity to Love — a thrilling cultural mix
...The stylistic range is wide — trumpeter Maalouf was born in Lebanon, raised in France and is a fan of hip-hop and R&B — and collaborators stretch from JP Cooper and Gregory Porter to rapper Erick the Architect...
November 11, 2022
FT Live
Climate Capital Live
The leading global platform for climate science, finance and business
Wednesday, 19 March 2025London, UK & Online
Music
The best summer music festivals worldwide
...Guitarist Pat Metheny, Malian songstress Fatoumata Diawara and Grammy-winning vocalist Gregory Porter share the limelight with rising sax talents Lakecia Benjamin and Immanuel Wilkins as well as alternative...
May 30, 2023
HTSI
In Bali, paradise is being upcycled
...Spanish designer Andreu Carulla works with Desa’s on-site R&D workshop, producing roly-poly stools from recycled Styrofoam....
March 2, 2023
HTSI
15 buys to brighten up the home
...Technogym Kinesis Personal Heritage training equipment, £12,100, conranshop.co.uk Bang & Olufsen Beolab 28 speaker, £11,950 Barisieur tea and coffee alarm clock, £345, harrods.com Barber Osgerby Signal R...
May 22, 2022
ReviewAlbums
Cécile McLorin Salvant: Ghost Song — gripping juxtapositions
...The banjo strums that sustain the fast pace of “Optimistic Voices”, a consonant-crammed lyric from The Wizard of Oz, segue via a burst of free-jazz flute to the sultry R&B of Gregory Porter’s “No Love Dying...
March 11, 2022
Inside Politics
Cracks in the NHS go deeper than Truss and Sunak think
...The pay problem isn’t just impacting consultants; it potentially drives lower paid NHS workers — porters and cleaners — to move to warehousing and airport jobs....
August 26, 2022
HTSI
Jens and Emma Grede – the brains behind Skims
...They also masterminded the original idea for ecommerce site Mr Porter (Torstensson’s partner is Net-a-Porter founder Natalie Massenet)....
May 11, 2022
Economists Exchange
Brad DeLong: ‘The US is now an anti-globalisation outlier’
...Then you have the problem that you don’t want R&D exclusively conducted by governments because of bureaucracy....
November 24, 2022
ReviewDance
Alessandra Ferri shows off her astonishing technique in L’Heure Exquise
...Willie (a tender, deadpan Carsten Jung) is a suitably Beckettian figure with his vest and bowler hat: more porter than porteur....
October 21, 2021
FT SeriesBiden’s first 100 days
The first 100 days: just how radical is Joe Biden?
...Both were the partial fruits of federal R&D. Today’s Sputnik moment is the rise of Xi Jinping’s increasingly ebullient China....
April 29, 2021
FT Live
Financial Times @COP
FT Live events coinciding with COP
Monday, 11 NovemberBaku, Azerbaijan
InterviewHow to Lead
How a love of science led to health breakthroughs
...It brought in third party investors and was sold in 2009 to bring in more funding and critical mass to support the costs of R&D....
September 5, 2021
FT Swamp Notes
Trump, McCarthyism and the demise of demagogues Premium content
...That finally stirred a quiescent establishment, including President Dwight Eisenhower and the legendary CBS broadcaster Edward R Murrow, to fight back....
July 16, 2021
The best beauty buys of 2020
Winemakers are stepping into the beauty game. Do they measure up?
...But that didn’t stop the essence becoming a bestseller on Net-a-Porter and winning a slew of awards....
November 22, 2020
US retail
Neiman Marcus files second big US retail bankruptcy of lockdown
...Neiman Marcus is the latest addition to a list of private-equity backed bankruptcies in retail, which includes Toys R Us, Gymboree and Payless ShoeSource as well as J Crew....
May 7, 2020
The best beauty buys of 2020
The great beauty reset: how to reboot your skin
...Its first product, the Resurfacing Compound (which sold out three times on UK stockist Net-a‑Porter), was designed to replace toner, vitamin C, hyaluronic acid, AHAs, physical exfoliants, antioxidant serums...
September 7, 2020
Wish I were there...
Wish I were there: Edmund Hillary’s ‘Happy House’ in Nepal
...In Rhythms of a Himalayan Village, the American writer Hugh R....
April 9, 2020
ReviewMusic
Cheltenham Jazz Festival — chimes, strums and grainy honks
...It has become something of a Cheltenham Jazz Festival tradition that tickets for the American singer Gregory Porter swiftly sell out....
May 7, 2019
Fashion
Hi it’s Burberry, wanna chat?
...Instant messaging services have already been employed by online retailers Net-a-Porter and Matches Fashion (although only for VIP clients)....
September 6, 2019
Moral Money
Coronavirus hits home; Oil shocks threaten green investments; EU carbon tax plan falters
...The study establishes that within five years of coming under pressure from activist investors, companies lost on average 7 per cent of their employee base while operating expenses and investment in R&D fell...
March 11, 2020
Film
Does Hollywood have a problem with homosexuality? Damn straight
...In 1946, another musical biopic, Night and Day, had Cary Grant play Cole Porter as a heterosexual romantic lead....
May 10, 2019

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