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InterviewBrexit
UK to launch PR blitz to lure scientists back into Horizon programme
...Some parts of Plan B would be retained, she said....
December 4, 2023
Workplace pensions
UK Treasury set for £100mn windfall from nationalised banks’ pension funds
...UKAR has gradually been selling the assets of B&B and Northern Rock to the private sector....
October 21, 2023
FT Live
Inside Politics: who will win the UK general election?
Exclusively for FT subscribers
Wednesday, 8 MayDigital Conference
US equities
From Mongolian football to the ‘Pasta Prince of LA’
...“We intend to buy teams, like a Serie B team, and have the unlocking of value occur for two reasons: one would be eventual advancement and perhaps promotion . . . and two, just getting them inside a public...
March 8, 2024
Gig economy
Deliveroo’s sub clause keeps the wheels turning
...(a) under a contract of employment, or(b) under any other contract whereby he undertakes to do or perform personally any work or services for another party to the contract who is not a professional client...
November 23, 2023
ReviewFiction
Blackouts — an ambitious compendium about queer histories
...The McGuffin that props up the dialogue is “two massive books” comprising a 1940s research study titled Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns....
November 8, 2023
Letter
Letter: Foreign policy is constant, America’s parties waver
...When Democrats were in the White House — starting with Franklin D Roosevelt and then under John F Kennedy, Lyndon B Johnson, Bill Clinton, and even Barack Obama — they favoured internationalist policies,...
January 25, 2024
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Transcript
Transcript: Rebellions, reshuffles and Cameron’s return
...I want to bring George and Stephen in. George, let’s look at the politics of this. The Tory right aren’t buying Sunak’s plan B, are they?...
November 17, 2023
Music
Five stars for Emerson String Quartet’s farewell concerts in New York
...The programme for a quartet late in its style was music of late styles, Beethoven’s Op 130 Quartet in B-flat major, with the Grosse Fuge as the last movement, and after intermission Schubert’s Quintet in...
October 23, 2023
UK politics
Braverman claims Sunak ‘repeatedly failed’ on immigration
...deterrent to others hoping to arrive in the UK irregularly.https://twitter.com/SuellaBraverman/status/1724465401982070914 Braverman accused Sunak of having “failed to prepare any sort of credible ‘plan B’...
November 14, 2023
UK politics
Sunak defends plan to axe northern leg of UK’s HS2 rail line
...Aides have not denied that Sunak will announce his new transport plan on the podium on Wednesday, but officials have been working frantically behind the scenes on a plan B....
October 3, 2023
Inside Politics
Sunak bets on a double whammy to hold on to power
...(George Parker’s story on the prime minister’s thinking and the early battle lines for the election is here.) Is he right? I don’t know. I think it’s unlikely....
January 8, 2024
Oil
Oil jumps above $90 on concerns over escalation in Israel-Hamas war
...It expects demand to increase by 880,000 barrels a day in 2024, compared with a 2.3mn b/d increase in 2023. Additional reporting by Jamie Smyth in New York...
October 13, 2023
Container shipping
US-led coalition to create safe corridor in Red Sea as ship diversions mount
...About 7mn barrels a day of crude oil and refined products flow through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait but the route has become vital for Russia to export to Asia with 4mn b/d heading south, according to Kpler...
December 20, 2023
ReviewMusic
Mostly Mozart festival review — a satisfying new fusion and a phenomenal young bassist
...Foley played in duet with violinist and concertmaster Ruggero Allifranchini in his own For Justice and Peace, and then soloed in Bottesini’s Double Bass Concerto No 2 in B Minor....
August 2, 2023
ReviewBooks
Alphabetical Diaries — a self-revelatory quest with Sheila Heti
...Sentences that begin with A come in the first chapter, arranged in strict alphabetical order, like index entries; sentences that start with B in the second, and so on....
February 5, 2024
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Special ReportWomen in Business
Skims co-founder Emma Grede: ‘I’m trying to create a pathway for people like me’
...With Good American — which is B-Corp certified, meaning it has verified commitments to environmental and social aims — Grede wanted to create jeans for a large range of body shapes....
March 8, 2024
UK immigration
First asylum seekers moved to UK’s Bibby Stockholm barge
...Asked if ministers were preparing a Plan B in the event that the government’s scheme to remove asylum seekers to Rwanda was struck down in the courts, Downing Street said: “We consider all options to stop...
August 7, 2023
News in-depthOil & Gas industry
Oil and gas profits triple under Biden even as industry decries him
...It’s more the fundamentals,” said Bob McNally, president of consultancy Rapidan Energy and a former energy adviser to George W Bush....
February 27, 2024
The Art Market
Here’s your chance to not buy a painting
...Artex aims to raise $55mn via a private placement and use the proceeds to buy Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer, a Francis Bacon triptych described on page 36 of the preliminary offer memorandum...
March 1, 2024
Life & Arts
Kill your darlings — insights into the art of the editing from Oxford’s Bodleian Library
...version, The Madness of King George....
February 16, 2024
Inside Politics
Beneath the Labour tax tussle are both main parties’ ‘brand’ baggage
...These tax policies meant that Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves could say that Labour’s various spending pledges were both a) fully funded and b) wouldn’t involve touching the politically contentious taxes,...
March 8, 2024
Non-Fiction
‘Thrillingly told’ account of Canadian wildfire scoops Baillie Gifford prize
...B, a biography of choreographer George Balanchine. Each wins £5,000....
November 16, 2023
Letter
Letter: Action is needed to let Ukraine use Russia’s frozen assets
...Ambassador to Finland 1998-2001 Amb Michael McFaulDirector, Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, the US Ambassador to Russia 2012-14 David KramerExecutive Director, George...
November 3, 2023
The Henry Mance Interview
Joseph Nye: ‘You can coerce by economic means’
...Biden’s foreign policy merits “a B or a B+”. Nye argues Biden was too old in 2020 and is making “a mistake” by running for re-election....
January 15, 2024
In the footsteps of . . .
Across the Yorkshire Dales in the footsteps of JB Priestley
...He described a tree at the head of Upper Wharfedale, about a half-hour’s walk from Hubberholme’s The George Inn, which was a Priestley favourite....
September 5, 2023

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