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Robin Lane Fox
A tree is for life, so choose carefully what to plant
...The current editors are John Hillier and Roy Lancaster, as expert as anyone could wish....
November 17, 2023
FT GlobetrotterFT Globetrotter’s month-by-month guide to what’s on in our cities
Melbourne in 2024: FT Globetrotter’s month-by-month guide to what’s happening
...; further information here soon Performance ‘The Magic Flute’, Geelong Arts Centre A Sydney Opera House production of Mozart’s opera comes to Geelong in Victoria November under the direction of Kate Gaul...
February 5, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Robin Lane Fox
I did it my Appian Way
...If a treacherous Gaul had appeared on the hillside, threatening the local estate owners, I would have ridden him down and kept my Trinity of stars safe....
November 18, 2022
ObituaryAlbert Uderzo
Albert Uderzo, cartoonist and co-creator of Asterix, 1927-2020
...The first Asterix album, Asterix the Gaul, published in 1961, was followed by a stream of other adventures....
March 27, 2020
Letter
Letter: The Romans knew all about upstart chancellors
...In 286 Carausius, the commander of the English Channel fleet, declared independence from Rome and himself Emperor in Britain and Northern Gaul....
July 10, 2020
FT MagazineThe River Thames: a photography special
The river: a liquid history
...Since the dawn of history, rivers have been worshipped as gods and spirits — including the Thames in ancient Britain and the Seine in Roman Gaul....
August 21, 2020
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
ReviewLife & Arts
The Queen’s Embroiderer by Joan DeJean — the Gaul of it
...This chaos was mainly due to the naive optimism of Louis XIV’s successor as regent, Philippe d’Orléans, who made the disastrous mistake of inviting John Law, an Edinburgh lawyer who had a reputation as a...
August 24, 2018
ReviewFT Books Essay
The invention of Scotland
...Burns was, in certain moods, a literary Jacobite; but when Napoleonic France threatened invasion, he responded with the poem “Does Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat?”...
February 8, 2018
Life & Arts
How a cobbler’s son became the father of art history
...The Capitoline’s picture galleries house many paintings beloved by Winckelmann: Titian’s pastoral idyll “The Baptism of Christ”, Caravaggio’s flirty boy cradling a ram “St John the Baptist”, Guido Reni’s...
January 12, 2018
Authers' NoteJohn Authers
Authers’ Note: MEGA — Make Europe Great Again Premium content
...I have heard more than one reference to Asterix the Gaul today....
March 21, 2017
ReviewLife & Arts
Norma/Opening Concert, Edinburgh International Festival — review
...Bellini’s opera of ancient Gaul under Roman domination has been updated to occupied France during the second world war....
August 7, 2016
Life & Arts
Britain and Europe: the ties that bind
...John of Gaunt’s famous speech from Shakespeare’s great history play Richard II has been much quoted recently....
July 8, 2016
News in-depthUK politics
Boris Johnson and Zac Goldsmith invoke London to drum up wider support
...At the Conservative party conference on Tuesday, two mercurial Tories took the stage, an Asterix and an Obelix, indomitable Gauls resisting occupation of Caesars Osborne and Cameron....
October 6, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
Celts: Art and Identity, British Museum, London — review
...Herodotus mentions “Celts” as living far to the north and west of Greece; the Romans referred similarly to “Gauls”....
October 14, 2015
World
Mystic chords of memory binding all Italians
...Sir, John Lloyd struck a surprisingly balanced tone in reviewing John Hooper’s The Italians (“Italy uncovered”, Life & Arts, January 10)....
January 23, 2015
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Life & Arts
The FT’s best books of 2015
...antiquarian and author of Brief Lives, John Aubrey....
November 27, 2015
UK economy
Art and leisure: A walk through the ages and a plethora of skills
...St Andrews, consecrated in 1907, was largely funded by John Priestman, a wealthy local shipyard owner. In 1939, he opened the Priestman Building, in central Sunderland....
October 30, 2012
ReviewLife & Arts
Books of the Year
...Asterix and the Picts , by Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad, translated by Anthea Bell, Orion, RRP£10.99/$14.95 With the blessing of Albert Uderzo, surviving co-creator of the indomitable Gaul, Ferri and...
November 29, 2013
Life & Arts
New looks, new books
...The Ivy Look: An Illustrated Pocket Guide to Classic American Clothing, by Graham Marsh and JP Gaul, Frances Lincoln Limited RRP £12.99 What?...
August 27, 2010
Living guide: A host of places to get your kicks
...Situated in a converted three-storey town house in John Street, it caters for the more discerning shopper, with brands such as Aquascutum, Hugo Boss, John Smedley, Paul by Paul Smith and McQ by Alexander...
October 18, 2010
UK politics
Prescott’s resignation letter
...Yours John Prescott MP....
May 10, 2007
News in-depthThe Big Read
Why France may find its social model exacts too high a price
...France is inhabited by indomitable Gauls forever railing at the hegemonic power of the day, be it Roman imperialism or Anglo-Saxon capitalism. Asterix is the country’s guiding spirit....
April 15, 2007
World
Feat on clay can lay greatness at Federer’s feet
...For Bjorn Borg it was the US Open, for Ivan Lendl Wimbledon, and for John McEnroe, Pete Sampras and Federer, it’s Paris....
May 19, 2006
Life & Arts
Lunch with the FT: Asterix and the national treasure
...Gaul is entirely occupied by the Romans. Well, not entirely . . . One small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the invaders.”...
December 23, 2005
Life & Arts
Lunch with the FT: Robert Kagan
...Because the neocons gave perfidious Gaul such a joyful bashing over its opposition to military action in Iraq, I naturally chose a French restaurant for lunch....
October 7, 2004

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