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Universal Music Group
What’s a new Taylor Swift album worth?
...Swift is biggest on vinyl and, even if these sales are treated as a bonus that has no effect on streaming volumes, group margins per sale still suffer....
April 23, 2024
News in-depthUK general election
Rishi Sunak looks back to 1992 with latest election strategy pivot
...One minister admitted that this was now the essence of Sunak’s strategy, citing poet Hilaire Belloc’s lines: “Always keep a-hold of nurse for fear of finding something worse.”...
January 8, 2024
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Letter
Letter: Guterres has no excuse for delays helping Syrian quake victims
...provides yet another demonstration of the UN’s deference towards Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad who, with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, has weaponised aid deliveries and degraded all infrastructure in the region, even...
February 20, 2023
European prime property
Escape to northern France — wild beauty and historic charm
...But, at the lower end of the market, even as low as €50,000 buyers can find a “nice, habitable house”, according to Greene, who adds that a renovation project could still cost as little as €30,000....
June 16, 2023
Life & Arts
Simon Schama: Balfour and the birth of Israel
...In 1914, the Aliens Restriction Act had made those controls even tighter....
November 2, 2017
Inside BusinessJonathan Ford
A bad Brexit deal for City is worse than none at all
...Among Hilaire Belloc’s Cautionary Tales for Children is one about a boy named Jim, who runs away from his bothersome nanny at the zoo only to be devoured immediately by a lion....
April 16, 2017
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Miranda Green
UK election countdown: fear but not loathing
...The last push is best summed up by Hilaire Belloc’s cautionary tale of a child eaten by a lion: “Always keep a hold on nurse, for fear of finding something worse.”...
June 2, 2017
Small Talk - CompaniesKate Burgess
Torotrak suffers as focus switches to electric cars
...*With apologies to Hilaire Belloc kate.burgess@ft.com...
February 5, 2017
FT Magazine
One man and his pub
...Before him, the prolific writer and historian Hilaire Belloc was similarly troubled by the pub’s fate....
November 18, 2016
David Tang
London taxi drivers — and what to buy someone who has everything
...Fleming à la Bond is always good or an anthology of Hilaire Belloc who always makes anyone smile....
May 29, 2015
The Diary
The Diary: AN Wilson
...” … Some years ago I wrote a biography of poet and polemicist Hilaire Belloc....
June 13, 2014
Inside LondonEquities
Miliband attack won’t prick property bubble
...An even more outrageous suggestion would be for all western central banks to follow suit, with strange and magical effects on national finances....
December 20, 2013
ReviewLife & Arts
The Fateful Year: England 1914, by Mark Bostridge
...One month later, Hilaire Belloc, from his yacht in Devon, noted a fleet of Royal Navy ships moving to Scapa Flow, “a procession of great forms, all in line, hastening eastwards”....
December 27, 2013
John Kay
Given a choice voters opt for safety
...Always keep a hold of nurse, for fear of finding something worse, wrote Hilaire Belloc. It is not a bad maxim: and an influential one when voters consider constitutional issues. johnkay@johnkay.com...
January 29, 2013
FT Magazine
The end of colonial nostalgia?
...For a long time, the colonials didn’t even bother to deny it....
March 29, 2013
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
LombardEnergy sector
Who should prune the hedges?
...They should have heeded the advice of Hilaire Belloc: “Always keep ahold of nurse, for fear of finding something worse.”...
May 30, 2012
FTfmJohn Plender
It all worked better in the early days of capital investment
...The country did not even establish a central bank to act as lender of last resort until 1935....
July 24, 2011
Life & Arts
A hung verdict on the jury system
...Hilaire Belloc defined a jury as “12 persons summoned at random to decide which party has the better lawyer” and even those who believe in the system have qualms about its workings....
November 11, 2011
Luxury goods
Live: Osborne’s Autumn Statement
...The editorial concludes by pushing Osborne to be even tougher and “commit to a more robust and urgent plan for putting the public finances back on a sustainable footing”....
December 5, 2012
Life & Arts
The amusing mayor who wants more
...But the mayor’s showbiz can tickle parts of the electorate that policy wonks can’t even name. As the Tories gather for their conference, many activists still see him as a leader-in-waiting....
October 2, 2011
Life & Arts
The Diary: Sarah Sands
...Only one of our team challenged him, murmuring that he thought it might be Hilaire Belloc. Naturally, we went for Wilde. The answer was Belloc....
August 12, 2011
ReviewLife & Arts
The experience of writing a biography
...AN Wilson says: “The one who really got to me was Belloc [Hilaire Belloc: A Biography (1984)]....
June 6, 2009
Life & Arts
The Diary: Sarah Sands
...I also caught the wonderfully nasty production of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea at Battersea Arts Centre, a series of Hilaire Belloc-style scenes of deranged gingerbread men and innocently murderous...
January 3, 2009
Life & Arts
How to beat the lunch crunch
...keeping one particular dish on his menu, a fillet of line-caught sea bass with spinach and a beurre blanc mixed with lavabread, that I remember enjoying and writing about 18 years ago when he was cooking at Hilaire...
January 13, 2009
The World blogWorld
Storming the Red Mosque
...Some western analysts think the situation is actually even worse than that....
July 10, 2007

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