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ReviewEconomics books
The limits of wealth — calling time on the super-rich
...Some, such as Francis of Assisi and Godric of Finchale, both of great merchant wealth, found they couldn’t and chose to give up their riches....
February 8, 2024
ExplainerMaritime accidents and safety
The Baltimore bridge disaster: what happened and who will pay?
...The Francis Scott Key Bridge was opened to traffic in 1977 and so may not have been built with the size of modern container vessels in mind, experts said....
March 27, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
News updates from March 27: Yen hits 34-year low; Nobel winner Daniel Kahneman dies
Carmakers and insurers brace for Baltimore bridge collapse fallout
...Carmakers are preparing for months of lower sales as they reroute shipments away from Baltimore following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, while insurers have warned of multibillion-dollar claims...
March 27, 2024
HTSI
The fairytale visions of Guglielmo Castelli
...There is something both dreamy, reminiscent of Marc Chagall, and menacing, more like Francis Bacon. For Castelli, inspiration often starts not with art, but with a book....
March 30, 2024
Maritime accidents and safety
Search suspended for missing people in Baltimore bridge collapse
...Video footage showed a section of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsing at about 1.30am local time. The bridge was first opened in 1977....
March 27, 2024
The Art Market
Sotheby’s to sell Chicago trader’s £13mn collection
...The gallery’s name reflects the fact that its founder, Lucca Hue-Williams, is the daughter of Michael Hue-Williams, who ran Albion gallery in London between 2003 and 2010 and now operates an Oxfordshire...
May 9, 2024
FT Live
Financial Times @COP
FT Live events coinciding with COP
Monday, 11 NovemberBaku, Azerbaijan
Maritime accidents and safety
Biden administration warns of lengthy disruption at Baltimore port
...Two container ships could be seen anchored downstream of the crumpled Francis Scott Key Bridge on Wednesday, waiting to enter Baltimore or be redirected to other east coast ports....
March 28, 2024
UK social mobility
UK youth face being worse off than parents, says social mobility chief
...Francis said policymakers did not have a clear enough understanding of how the British economy varied from place to place....
September 11, 2023
The Art Market
Christie’s and Sotheby’s results show market ‘has lost froth’
...Dealer Nick Maclean says that bidding at Christie’s on Francis Bacon’s “Landscape near Malabata, Tangier” (1963) — which went to adviser Francis Outred for a within-estimate £16.8mn (£19.6mn with fees) —...
March 14, 2024
ReviewHistory books
Rites of Passage — death as ceremony in Victorian Britain
...Writing about sepulchres in 1809, Mary Shelley’s father, William Godwin, lamented that tombstones were being shuffled off like stubble, ready for next year’s crop....
February 14, 2024
ReviewArts
The Professor is a shadowy tale of art theft and the Italian underworld — podcast review
...In 2018, officers from the British police and the Italian Carabinieri entered the London home of William Veres, an Anglo-Hungarian art dealer whom they believed to be a leading figure in a pan-European art...
December 4, 2023
ReviewFilm
Brother — brave but frustrating tale from Toronto’s mean streets
...With Ruth often working long night shifts, the brothers — as children Francis is played by Jacob Williams and Michael by Sebastian Nigel Singh — are compelled to look after each other, especially when they...
September 14, 2023
Fashion accessories
Sunglasses get the bejewelled treatment
...Francis de Lara, the jewellery brand established by photographer John-Paul Pietrus in 2018, offers extravagant bejewelled eyewear set with precious gemstones such as rubies and sapphires, each piece requiring...
January 12, 2024
Climate change
Deadly ‘heat dome’ takes toll on US south and Mexico
...“What we’ve been seeing for the last couple of months is an extreme level of waviness,” said Francis....
July 1, 2023
ReviewVisual Arts
Entangled Pasts, Royal Academy review — a triumphant and surprising showcase of black art
...Johann Zoffany’s “The Family of Sir William Young” (1767-68), set on a bucolic English estate, centres on music-making and riding; the black servant is the only allusion to the source of Sir William’s fortune...
February 1, 2024
FT Live
Climate Capital Live
The leading global platform for climate science, finance and business
Wednesday, 19 March 2025London, UK & Online
Climate change
Global warming is supercharging weather events, say scientists
...“Warmer oceans and air boost evaporation, and that additional moisture not only makes for juicier storms, but it also provides more fuel to make them stronger,” said Francis....
July 16, 2023
Climate change
‘One climate disaster after another’: North America’s long hot summer
...“I’ve stopped calling them wildfires because there’s such a human fingerprint in the increase of these fires, that they’re not wild anymore,” said Jennifer Francis, senior scientist at Woodwell Climate Research...
August 19, 2023
FT live news
Live news updates from March 29: UBS names Sergio Ermotti CEO, Pope Francis hospitalised
Jane Owen
A magnolia for every garden
...Williams — great grandson of JC Williams, who bred many renowned spring-flowering trees and shrubs including the original and perennially popular x williamsii camellias back in the 1920s — maintains the...
December 1, 2023
Interiors
The history of the folding screen unfolds in a Milan exhibition
...An early work by Francis Bacon, made when he was still a decorator in the 1920s, shows an eerie combination of ghostly figures and columns....
November 10, 2023
HS2
Latest delays to HS2 forecast to add £366mn to soaring final bill
...Noble Francis, economics director at the Construction Products Association, said that any delays to construction work would “inevitably raise costs significantly as labour will have to be stood down and...
June 21, 2023
ReviewTheatre
The Architect — a powerful immersive drama marks the murder of teenager Stephen Lawrence
...The entire play unrolls on the humble caged pitch that is a haven for 16-year-old Bilal (Kedar Williams-Stirling), Joey (Emeka Sesay) and Omz (Francis Lovehall): the place where they hone their skills and...
September 13, 2023
Martin Wolf
Jeremy Hunt’s search for an elusive growth strategy
...It should also focus on reforms of the institutions of government, such as those put forward by Francis Maude....
November 26, 2023
ReviewNon-Fiction
Pandora’s Box by Peter Biskind — is the golden age of TV at an end?
...Pandora’s Box: The Greed, Lust and Lies That Broke Television by Peter Biskind Allen Lane £25/William Morrow $32.50, 368 pages Christopher Grimes is the FT’s Los Angeles bureau chief Join our online book...
November 7, 2023
Letter
Letter: Action is needed to let Ukraine use Russia’s frozen assets
...John HerbstSenior Director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, the US Ambassador to Ukraine 2003-06 Danylo LubkivskyDirector of the Kyiv Security Forum, Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine in 2014 Francis...
November 3, 2023

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