J. Payge Collins

US presidential election 2024

Tim Scott prepares ad blitz after raking in millions from big donors

...Scott is polling at 9 per cent in Iowa, where the first GOP nomination contest is being held in January, 10 points behind DeSantis and 33 points behind Trump, according to a recent poll by veteran pollster J...

August 29, 2023

Books

What to read in 2024

...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...

December 28, 2023

FT Live

Future of Retail

Securing long-term business growth with technology innovation

ReviewNon-Fiction

Alone on the high seas — two books on the allure of solitary sailing

...Sailing Alone: A History by Richard J King Particular Books, £25, 512 pages Wavewalker: Breaking Free by Suzanne Heywood William Collins, £20, 416 pages Victor Mallet is an FT journalist based in Paris...

September 19, 2023

FT Wealth

The art of portraying power, wealth and entitlement

...Playing Gerri Kellmann in Succession, a role which required “interim CEO energy”, J Smith Cameron called this feat “lowering your internal temperature.”...

July 3, 2023

FT Magazine

At the movies: a photography special

...Excerpted from ‘Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining’ by Lee Unkrich and J W Rinzler, published by Taschen Follow @FTMag to find out about our latest stories first...

August 19, 2023

Mergers & Acquisitions

Mergers destroy value. Without reform, nothing will change

...J Gay Meeks is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge Centre of Development Studies It’s an often-quoted statistic that roughly 70 per cent of mergers fail....

July 20, 2022

FT Live

Business Book of the Year Award 2024

The search for the best business book is under way

Letter

Letter: Dürer echoes Cicero in his search for authenticity

...Charles D Collins Rochester, NY, US...

October 25, 2021

HTSI

Why British rum’s the real deal

...Collin Van Schayk runs J Gow, a tiny distillery on the Orkney island of Lamb Holm....

October 1, 2021

FT Weekend’s best long reads of 2022

In the court of Mar-a-Lago, ‘King’ Trump still reigns supreme

...When I ask how old she is, she says, “Joan Collins once said if a woman will tell you her age, she will tell you anything. So that’s my answer. I have no age.”...

November 24, 2022

Coronavirus

Researchers prepare for human challenge trials of Covid-19 vaccine

...J&J has done human challenge trials with other vaccines, including for the common cold, influenza, and RSV, a respiratory infection that mainly affects premature babies and the elderly....

May 9, 2020

FT Books Essay

Ulysses at 100: the birth of the modern

...James Joyce’s Ulysses was first published in 1922, just over two weeks after the British handed over the keys of Dublin Castle to Michael Collins and his new Irish government....

January 19, 2022

FT Magazine

Reggae’s reckoning: how 1970s stars were deprived of their fair share

...In 1970, Chelsea football club began using Harry J Allstars’ reggae instrumental “Liquidator” as an official club song....

April 17, 2021

John Lewis Partnership PLC

John Lewis unveils further 1,500 job cuts

...Former J Sainsbury executive James Bailey now runs Waitrose while John Lewis is headed by former Co-op executive Pippa Wicks....

November 4, 2020

Waitrose Ltd

John Lewis to name former J Sainsbury executive as Waitrose boss

...John Lewis Partnership will tomorrow name James Bailey, a former executive at J Sainsbury, head of the Waitrose supermarket chain as part of a broader reorganisation of management roles at the employee-owned...

April 28, 2020

How to find happiness – a 7-point plan

‘Design should make people happy’

...In the 20 years since setting up his London studio, he has masterminded some of the city’s most magical and enduring dining scenes – J Sheekey Oyster Bar, Scott’s, Harry’s Bar, the Ivy, and the deliciously...

January 4, 2021

FT Live

Business of Entertainment Summit

Capitalizing on Disruption

John Lewis Partnership PLC

John Lewis’s new chair reverses changes to executive roles

...The company confirmed on Wednesday that former J Sainsbury executive James Bailey would join the group as executive director of Waitrose, the partnership’s supermarket business, and said it was seeking an...

April 29, 2020

FT SeriesSummer Books 2020

Summer books of 2020: Business

...Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, A Global Manhunt, and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History Liam Vaughan, Doubleday, RRP$26.95/William Collins, RRP£20 The extraordinary saga of Navinder Singh Sarao...

June 22, 2020

Artificial intelligence

AI discovers antibiotics to treat drug-resistant diseases

...“We are facing a global crisis, due to increased emergence of resistant bacterial pathogens that are rendering our current antibiotic arsenal ineffective,” said James J Collins, the biological engineer at...

February 20, 2020

Inside LondonNeil Collins

Big financial players reap rewards of Sainsbury’s failure

...A full list of Neil Collins’ financial interests can be found at www.ft.com/collinsportfolio...

May 3, 2019

Inside LondonNeil Collins

Schroders’ family ties will help it retain a long view

...A full list of Neil Collins’ financial interests can be found at www.ft.com/collinsportfolio...

April 26, 2019

Inside LondonNeil Collins

UK infrastructure needs more action and fewer promises

...A full list of Neil Collins’ financial interests can be found at: www.ft.com/collinsportfolio...

May 17, 2019

Inside LondonNeil Collins

GAM’s decline stands as a cautionary tale on liquidity

...A full list of Neil Collins’ financial interests can be found at www.ft.com/collinsportfolio...

March 22, 2019

Inside LondonNeil Collins

Let’s stop the teeth-gnashing over doomed Sainsbury’s deal

...Amid the wailing and gnashing of teeth at J Sainsbury, there was one simple question: did managers really expect to get away with creating a duopoly in Britain’s food supply?...

February 22, 2019

Inside LondonNeil Collins

Wealth-destroying projects explain pedestrian UK growth

...A full list of Neil Collins’ financial interests can be found at ft.com/collinsportfolio...

January 11, 2019

Inside LondonNeil Collins

UK should follow Europe’s example and bar retail merger

...Put like that, barring the proposed merger between J Sainsbury and Asda looks like a simple decision....

February 8, 2019

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