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Undercover EconomistTim Harford
Why we’re all a bit like Jasmin Paris
...A quarter of a century ago, the behavioural economist George Loewenstein addressed that question....
April 5, 2024
Undercover EconomistTim Harford
Why the UK’s biscuit tax leaves a bad taste in the mouth
...It says a lot that George Osborne, the UK’s chancellor from 2010 to 2016, attempted to remake the relationship between citizen and state, but is equally remembered for trying and failing to introduce VAT...
March 29, 2024
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Undercover EconomistTim Harford
What makes a good prophecy?
...Tim Harford’s new book for children, ‘The Truth Detective’ (Wren & Rook), is now available Follow @FTMag to find out about our latest stories first...
December 8, 2023
The Starmer Project
Reeves embraces ‘Bidenomics’ as blueprint for a Labour government
...“It’s like we are a rook up on move 30,” she added. “But we’re playing an opponent who usually beats us.”...
May 23, 2023
Undercover EconomistTim Harford
What an amusement park can teach us about central banks
...It was founded 180 years ago, and its creator George Carstensen secured the land by petitioning King Christian VIII, arguing, “When the people are amusing themselves, they do not think about politics.”...
June 9, 2023
In the footsteps of . . .
Across the Yorkshire Dales in the footsteps of JB Priestley
...Rooks had already roosted, leaving us with the call of a single cuckoo, and the drone of a motorbike climbing up the valley....
September 5, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Undercover EconomistTim Harford
The never-ending brilliance of board games
...Tim Harford’s children’s book, “The Truth Detective” (Wren & Rook), is now available Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
April 21, 2023
FT SeriesBest books of the year 2022
Best books of 2022: Technology
...Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate Our Mindsby Susie Alegre, Atlantic Books £20/$29.95 George Orwell warned us about a future dystopia where “thought crimes” would be punished....
November 22, 2022
FT Globetrotter
Brutal luxury: London’s new Standard hotel
...It would sit opposite Sir George Gilbert Scott’s neo-gothic behemoth, the Midland Grand, now the St Pancras Renaissance hotel....
May 31, 2019
FT Investigations
How chess became a pawn in the Kremlin’s power game
...Nine centuries after the craftsmen of Trondheim depicted rooks as wide-eyed berserkers biting their shields to unnerve their enemies, Soviet parapsychologists would sit, unblinking, in a hall in Reykjavik...
April 4, 2019
Property sector
Top business figures call for London airports decision
...Ian Durant, Chairman, Capital & Counties Properties Chris Grigg, Chief Executive, British Land Martin Gilbert, Chief Executive, Aberdeen Asset Management Rebecca Kane, General Manager, The O2 James Rook...
November 12, 2014
FT Magazine
Will Self: Gin Lane revisited
...yards north-northeast as the rook flies), and then by the concrete-and-glass plaid of Centre Point itself....
July 26, 2013
FT Magazine
‘I will transmit this to Vladimir’
...Evoking French revolutionary Georges Danton, standing before the guillotine, Surkov wryly observed: “Stabilisation has eaten its young.”...
May 4, 2012
FT Magazine
Welcome to the firm
...“The ceremony was heaven,” gushed the paper’s star writer Jean Rook on pages 2 and 3. “Carnival for the Fairy Princess,” drooled the headline across pages 4 and 5....
April 22, 2011
World
Property: From blackboard to drawing-board
...RICS north-east housing market spokesman Richard Sayer, a director at Rook Matthews Sayer, says he and others have seen buyer inquiries pick up strongly since mid-January, with more viewings and offers....
February 26, 2009
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Life & Arts
Pleasures of walking in the Berkshire hills
...Out in the fields rooks strutted the stubble rows, their fat feathery thighs making them roll like drunken sailors....
December 20, 2008
Life & Arts
Cheque, mate
...Not overlooked here is a backgammon counter of the late 17th century, depicting William III on one side and St George on the other (£300-£400)....
May 5, 2008
FT MagazineMatthew Engel
Long divisions
...A mural glorifying the Protestant paramilitary Billy Wright has been scrubbed, to be replaced by one devoted to the footballer George Best....
April 5, 2008
Life & Arts
Wild beauty, tamed prices
...Bolam & Son, tel: +44 (0)1669620 314; www.bolams.co.uk Rook Matthews Sayer, tel: +44 (0)1670511 711; www.rookmatthewssayer.co.uk George F. White, tel: +44 (0)1665603 231; www.georgefwhite.co.uk...
December 1, 2007
Life & Arts
Bold commissions
...He recently bought painter Greg Rook’s entire show, and a room installation by Tracey Snelling. Anita and Poju Zabludovicz are a London-based art couple....
August 17, 2007
Life & Arts
A tropical taste for conservation
...“Then they won’t dare not to protect the forest,” says Rooks....
November 25, 2005

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