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The Big Read
The power of Europe’s rebellious farmers
...The demonstrations may have changed that, says O’Brien of the MCC think-tank, which helped organise a protest in Brussels last month....
February 9, 2024
War in Ukraine
G7 countries back price cap on Russian oil
...James O’Brien, sanctions co-ordinator at the US state department, said: “A price cap . . . makes sure that every country can get the lowest price possible, and that’s good for the world.”...
September 2, 2022
FT Live
US Pharma and Biotech Summit
Strategies for innovation, pricing and access
Thursday, 16 MayNew York, NY, USA
News in-depthUS foreign policy
US drawn further into Middle East conflict with Houthi strikes
...A party lawmaker and former minister, Neil O’Brien, questioned how the UK will “avoid being dragged into something we don’t want”, citing on the social media platform X the “failures” of British interventions...
January 12, 2024
Special ReportLithuania
Lithuania makes push to become Europe’s fintech hub
...country’s fintechs, 147, have now been licensed as electronic money institutions, payment institutions, or specialised banks — a figure that Lithuania boasts is the highest in the EU, with second-placed France...
November 28, 2022
ReviewTheatre
Joyce’s Women — Edna O’Brien’s play offers its heroines visceral freedom
...After the fall of France to the Nazis in 1940, O’Brien’s Lucia even manages to evade the Gestapo and join her parents in Zurich (whereas, in reality, despite her father’s frantic efforts, she languished...
September 24, 2022
War in Ukraine
G7 says Russian oil price cap to be ready ‘in the coming weeks’
...Good technical talks [are] under way on issues of pricing and governance,” O’Brien said. “It’s very simple. It’s just insurance limitation,” O’Brien said....
November 4, 2022
FT Live
Global Pharma and Biotech Summit
Driving life sciences innovation in a disrupted world
Tuesday, 5 NovemberIn-Person & Online Conference
Moral Money
What invasive species have to do with banks Premium content
...From discussion in the Eden Project’s dome-covered ecosystems, O’Brien hopes to distil a manifesto — he calls it a “sentiment” — about how the UK should evolve over the next 30 years....
November 4, 2022
Due Diligence
Can Centerview Partners become the next Goldman Sachs? Premium content
...Elliott Management’s head of investment stewardship Christine O’Brien is leaving the firm, Reuters reports. Barclays has lost three senior investment bankers to Jefferies Group, per Bloomberg....
May 30, 2023
FT Magazine
The melting magic of the perfect cheese toastie — and how to make one
...If anyone ever writes a comprehensive history of modern domestic cooking, they’re going to need a big chapter for the Australians, in particular Bill O’Brien and Harry Norville....
May 13, 2023
Transcript
Who’s winning the war in Ukraine?
...My guest is Phillips O’Brien, professor of strategic studies at St Andrews University....
August 25, 2022
The Future of Money
Investing apps seek a new spin Premium content
...Recommended reading What investors are chasing in the downturn Amy O’Brien in Sifted has a great piece looking at what fintech funding can tell us about investor sentiment. What are the standouts?...
October 10, 2022
InterviewLife & Arts
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘We’re creating in a culture of intolerance’
...And O’Brien has left us, really, this historical and emotional testimony, which is what literature should do....
May 13, 2022
HTSI
The HTSI culture guide to summer 2021
...Jake Tapper, CNN anchor and authorConan O’Brien Needs a Friend, Fresh Air and This American Life. It’s all non-fiction, but more storytelling. If I want real news, I’ll just listen to NPR....
July 28, 2021
ObituaryVicki Wood
Vicki Wood, race car driver, 1919-2020
...Amy O’Brien...
June 19, 2020
US politics & policy
Trump’s national security adviser tests positive for Covid-19
...Mr O’Brien had travelled two weeks earlier to Paris for a three-day meeting with counterparts from the UK, Germany, Italy and France, where the group discussed Covid-19 recovery and China, among other topics...
July 27, 2020
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
Covid-19 vaccines
WHO recommends use of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine for all adults
...Kate O’Brien, head of the WHO’s department of immunisation, vaccines and biologicals, said the jab was “efficacious” and “an important vaccine for the world given the short supply that we have”....
February 10, 2021
Covid-19 vaccines
Can mixing Covid vaccines work?
...The first arm of the study, which gave participants one AstraZeneca shot and one Pfizer shot, will not deliver data until May, so for now, as Kate O'Brien, the World Health Organisation’s head of vaccines...
April 13, 2021
Gideon Rachman
Europe is not immune from America’s political madness
...Neil O’Brien, a Conservative MP who has spent much time battling lockdown sceptics online, warns that dangerous political fantasies, including QAnon, are spreading fast in the UK, fuelled by a “combination...
January 11, 2021
FT Magazine
Treat brain: how the pandemic is rewiring our minds
...As Hettie O’Brien wrote in The Baffler magazine last year, on the flip side the pandemic has triggered a surge in the popularity of a kind of neo-Stoicism....
August 26, 2021
The Big Read
Vaccines versus variants: will the world ever reach herd immunity?
...Dr Kate O’Brien, the World Health Organization’s director of immunisation, vaccines and biologicals, says there has been some hesitancy influenced by the regulatory and policy decisions in Europe, but overall...
May 23, 2021
ReviewBooks
A Swim in a Pond by George Saunders — what makes a short story work?
...No sooner were review copies out than a good-natured debate sprung up among critics about the list: what of masterpieces like “The Student” (Chekhov’s favourite), “The Wife” (Edna O’Brien’s), “Gusev” or...
December 31, 2020
Coronavirus
Coronavirus: Queen tells British people self-isolation ‘right thing to do’ — as it happened
April 5, 2020
News in-depthUK politics
Calls grow for national lockdown as Covid cases rise in England
...“Given that the tiered system can work if done properly, I think the government will want to stick with it,” said Neil O’Brien, Conservative MP for Harborough. “It can be made to work.”...
October 29, 2020
Due Diligence
The GameStop circus heads to Capitol Hill Premium content
...Another Freshfields alum, Barry O’Brien, left the magic circle for Jefferies in 2014....
February 18, 2021
US presidential election 2020
Biden accuses Trump of disparaging fallen soldiers
...“I don’t believe a word of what’s in The Atlantic article,” added Robert O’Brien, who replaced Mr Bolton as Mr Trump’s national security adviser....
September 4, 2020

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