Hints and tips:
...‘F-111’, 1964–5, by James Rosenquist (Room 418) Rosenquist’s eruption of joyous vulgarity is tinged with an oddly bright and shiny form of pessimism....
...Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang, read by Helen Laser (The Borough Press, 8hrs 38mins) This utterly diverting thriller of literary and cultural appropriation is a cautionary tale: if you witness the freak...
...My all-time favourite in this genre is Bad Blood (2018), the story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos (that one did win the award)....
...Robert F Kennedy Jr, who is running for the Democratic nomination, said in April that “CBDCs grease the slippery slope to financial slavery and political tyranny”....
...The “weak link”, as Jefferies puts it, is Refinitiv’s “desktop franchise”, ie Eikon, ie the Bloomberg terminal competitor that is often invoked in the sentence “stupid f---ing Eikon”....
...‘Good on paper, bad in practice’ The CBI scandal has exposed gaps in UK whistleblowing rules, the FT’s Helen Thomas writes....
...In that Letterman appearance, the awkward pauses and F-bombs have a neat comic timing....
...Its meltdown was wryly analysed by the FT’s Helen Thomas and Bryce Elder. In fairness to WANdisco, fraudsters do not have a big “F” tattooed on their foreheads....
...“We had a plan A, B, C . . . and F.” She shed some of her 118 staff and furloughed others in an attempt to keep ahead of the crisis....
...US media reported Akram arrived at New York’s John F Kennedy airport about two weeks before the hostage incident....
...“Banks at Glasgow saw the alliance as a kind of ethereal thing on climate change without ever mentioning the F-word: fossil fuels,” said Beau O’Sullivan, from the Sunrise Project, a network of NGOs....
...The lesser-known Portrait Monument, depicting key players in the women’s suffragist movement, is the focus of Rise by Kamala Sankaram and AM Holmes, and that is followed by it all falls down, written by...
...Ford doubles production target for electric truck Ford has almost doubled the production target for the F-150 Lightning, the electric version of its bestselling pick-up truck, to 150,000 a year, an announcement...
...But underlying issues with take-off and landing slots are coming to the fore as carriers are forced to curb summer schedules, writes Helen Thomas....
...Helen wafts this away as typical childish thoughtlessness but Theresa is not so sure. Fraser Holmes as Ben alternates uncannily between truculent innocence and sly secrecy....
...According to Greek mythology, Poseidon created Snake Island as a haven where the Trojan War hero, Achilles and Helen, could settle....
...Sometimes his tag is spelt out, 1-0-F-O-O-T; sometimes it’s rendered visually as a foot outline next to a numerical one, with a toe doubling as the zero....
...Helen Thomas has bad news for you....
...Helen Barrett’s article “NFTs transform the art market for young novice buyers” (Special Reports, FT Wealth, September 2) on fractional ownership of physical art was published the day after the fractionalisation...
...Helen Barrett attended the 11-day extravaganza for the Financial Times....
...Helen Barrett is the deputy editor of FT Wealth magazine Follow @financialtimesfashion on Instagram to find out about our latest stories first...
...For all its macho bravado, F&F has always been a series unafraid to veer into melodrama, but this time, with returning director Justin Lin at the wheel, the frequent lurches in tone are harder to stomach...
...Defence insiders said they did not expect a major announcement on the final number of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft the UK would order....
...In Greek mythology, who was the father of Helen of Troy (above)? What is the American-English word for a courgette?...
...The two companies plan to build three plants to supply batteries and vehicles, employing almost 11,000 workers to produce battery-powered versions of Ford’s popular F-series trucks....
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