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ReviewFiction
Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead — back on the mean streets
...It’s 1971 and, still married to Elizabeth, he’s now the father of teenage children and happily ensconced as the proprietor of Carney’s Furniture on 125th Street, no longer a fencing operation but a successful...
July 13, 2023
Private equity
Dealmakers warn of US court ruling’s chilling effect on buyouts
...consequences, said Ryan Preston Dahl, a partner at Ropes & Gray....
December 15, 2020
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
FTWeekend Live Q&A
What to read in isolation: FT readers’ favourite books
...— Marusemi City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert, Bloomsbury Publishing, £6.99 This is a joyful easy read....
March 27, 2020
ReviewLife & Arts
The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth by William Boyd — ‘brilliant and bewitching’
...It does feel, though, that a couple of recent successes have given the sub-genre a particular currency, such as Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge (2009) and Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad...
November 17, 2017
FT Books Essay
How the financial crisis changed our reading habits
...These include Sebastian Faulks’s A Week in December , whose main character was a hedge fund manager, or Alex Preston’s This Bleeding City , also set in the world of the deal, and garlanded with plenty of...
August 22, 2018
The Art of PersuasionSam Leith
Trump’s State of the Union speech lifted only by stagecraft
...So, a return to one of the president’s obsessions — the NFL players protesting by “taking a knee” at the national anthem — was prefaced by the story of Preston Sharp, a 12-year-old “who noticed that veterans...
January 31, 2018
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
UK economy
Four architect firms shortlisted for Palace of Westminster renovation
...The Lords would be housed in the Queen Elizabeth conference centre, though if there was a need for additional space they could be moved to a part of the Treasury’s building that is at present occupied by...
November 11, 2016
UK general election
Tories heading to best night at the polls since 1992
...Ben Wallace, Conservative MP for Wyre & Preston, told the Financial Times he was not surprised by the exit poll given that Labour supporters he had canvassed in recent weeks had seemed unconvinced by Mr...
May 8, 2015
UK energy
UK fracking boom hits northern setback
...Additional reporting by Elizabeth Rigby...
June 29, 2015
World
David Cameron battles to persuade communities to accept fracking
...Ben Wallace, Tory MP for Wyre and Preston North, said the offer of extra business rates was “pathetic, insulting. “The Treasury should take a little less and we could have a little bit more....
January 13, 2014
Life & Arts
The impact of ladies’ ankles on the rise and fall of English ceilings
...Today, the firm’s richly decorated, lavishly gilded style finds a ready audience among Russian and Middle Eastern clients. www.qftarchitects.com Geoffrey Preston is one of the finest hand-plasterers working...
September 13, 2013
NotebookScottish independence
Salmond’s path gets more tricky
...Charles Dickens modelled Coketown in Hard Times on Preston after visiting during a strike by cotton workers....
September 3, 2012
Life & Arts
The oldest new house in Britain
...www.nationaltrustcottages.co.uk The Irishman’s Tower, Lancashire Rebuilt in 1565, Hoghton Tower is a fortified manor house between Preston and Blackburn, with a mile-long driveway and views of Lancashire...
June 29, 2012
UK coalition government
Plans to probe regional pay rile unions
...Reporting by: Chris Tighe, Andy Bounds, John Murray Brown, Brian Groom, Elizabeth Rigby, Jamie Symth...
November 29, 2011
Brian GroomUK schools
Boris and Ken: no model for mayors
...London, though, is rarely given a fictional name. Charles Dickens would not have dreamt of renaming the capital, though Coketown in Hard Times was based partly on Preston. This can be disorientating....
April 16, 2012
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
FT Magazine
The Christmas challenge
...28 Rank Marilyn Monroe’s dress (28a), the first Superman comic (28b) and Elizabeth Taylor’s La Peregrina necklace (28c) in order of the prices they fetched at auction this year. 29 Name the Nobel Prize...
December 23, 2011
Life & Arts
Me, Myself & I, Playwrights Horizons, New York
...OTTO tells Mother, played with full-throttle gusto by Elizabeth Ashley, that he’s leaving home to become Chinese an d that his lower-case brother no longer exists. Mother is not pleased....
September 13, 2010
World
Fans heartened by England triumph
...But in Port Elizabeth, the fans did not mind. A win is a win....
June 23, 2010
ReviewLife & Arts
Stories: All-New Tales
...Elizabeth Hand’s “The Maiden Flight of Macauley’s Bellerophon” is possibly the best piece in the collection....
July 12, 2010
Life & Arts
Edward Albee on his new play
...The story here is about a character named Mother (Elizabeth Ashley) who calls her twin sons OTTO (Zachary Booth) and otto (Preston Sadleir)....
September 3, 2010
UK retail results
John Lewis to open smaller stores
...It has nine stores in the pipeline – Oxford, Leeds, Preston, Sheffield, Dublin, Sprucefield, Northern Ireland, Crawley and Portsmouth – but does not know when they will go ahead....
May 6, 2009
Life & Arts
Looking to the future
...Justin and Elizabeth Dee moved to the area from Bristol in early December, buying a 1920s family house....
December 27, 2008
UK retail results
Blow to John Lewis expansion
...John Lewis said it did not know when developments in Oxford, Leeds, Preston, Sheffield, Dublin, Sprucefield, Northern Ireland, Crawley and Portsmouth would go ahead....
February 2, 2009
UK economy
Asda sparked price-fixing probe
...The supermarket chain, owned by Wal-Mart, the US retail group, will as a result expect immunity from a fine of up to 10 per cent of its revenues should the OFT conclude that a cartel has been operating....
May 5, 2008
World
Peter Vernon: A strategy of aristocratic adaptation
...Grosvenor’s next developments in Crawley and Preston will not be completed until 2015 at the earliest, and Mr Vernon has confidence in the success of a large residential tower it plans to build in Southwark...
September 12, 2008

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