JOHN MERVIN EVANS

US 2024 election: The 10 books to read ahead of the ballot in November

...Joe Biden: American Dreamer by Evan OsnosHighly readable and insightful biography of the ageing president now facing the biggest political battle of his almost six-decade political career....

March 19, 2024

ReviewNon-Fiction

3 Shades of Blue — the jazz geniuses of mid-century America

...As James Kaplan writes in his book about trumpeter Miles Davis, saxophonist John Coltrane and pianist Bill Evans — three mid-century geniuses — 1959 brought on “jazz’s future with ruthless speed”....

March 28, 2024

FT Live

Investing in America

Foreign companies as drivers of US growth, resilience and competitiveness

HTSIHTSI holiday special 2023

Artist John Derian talks festive taste

The designer spruces up with pine garlands, charades and 1920s showtunes

November 10, 2023

Russian politics

Putin hints at swapping US reporter Gershkovich for Russian assassin

...And you shouldn’t take at face value anything he has to say,” US National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said earlier on Thursday....

February 9, 2024

Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch

Why family-friendly policies don’t boost birth rates

...john.burn-murdoch@ft.com, @jburnmurdoch...

March 29, 2024

FT MagazineTim Hayward

The Shed, Swansea: brown and brilliant — restaurant review

...Woolway it was who developed the rarebit croquette at St John, Marylebone....

April 11, 2024

FT Live

Business of Art

Market shifts and future growth

Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch

A new global gender divide is emerging

...The answer, in the words of Alice Evans, a visiting fellow at Stanford University and one of the leading researchers on the topic, is that today’s under-thirties are undergoing a great gender divergence,...

January 26, 2024

Letter

Letter: Korea armistice is wrong model to end the war

...John HewkoGeneral Secretary and CEO, Rotary InternationalAdviser to the team that drafted Ukraine’s post-Soviet constitution Evanston, IL....

December 22, 2023

FT MagazineSimon Kuper

The myth of the lone writer

...Davies says that their assistant roadie Mal Evans, who wasn’t even a big Beatles fan, supposedly came up with the name “Sergeant Pepper”....

February 22, 2024

FirstFT

FirstFT: US steel unions urge Joe Biden to investigate Chinese shipbuilding

...“For a Democratic, pro-labour president in an election year, this is a no-brainer,” said Evan Medeiros, a China expert at Georgetown University....

March 12, 2024

UK financial regulation

UK watchdog proposes cap on card fees in blow to Visa and Mastercard

...Alvarez & Marsal director Liam Evans said the proposal was “positive news” for consumers who travel and for businesses....

December 13, 2023

News in-depthMiddle East military briefing

Military briefing: can the US and its allies stop the Houthis?

...The move against the Houthis was “similarly measured and calculated: careful around minimising risk of escalation but balanced with a lot of power to show intent”, said Sam Cranny-Evans, an associate fellow...

January 13, 2024

The Week Ahead

Courtroom politics

...figures US: Conference Board March Consumer Confidence Index Results: 888 Holdings FY, Asos trading update, AG Barr FY, Bellway HY, Fevertree Drinks FY, Flutter Entertainment FY, Forterra FY, GameStop Q4, John...

March 24, 2024

Transcript

Transcript: Who still votes Conservative?

...So hi, John. John Burn-MurdochHello. Thanks for having me....

February 2, 2024

FirstFT

FirstFT: Obama and Clinton back Biden’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza

...Evan Gershkovich: Today marks one year since the Wall Street Journal reporter was arrested by Russia and accused of espionage....

March 29, 2024

FT Live

The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition

FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government

FT CollectionsWar in Ukraine: military strategies

Missiles from Iran and North Korea boost Russia’s onslaught on Ukraine

...“The combined use of hypersonic and subsonic weapons has made it hard for Ukraine to prioritise its air defence targets,” said Sam Cranny-Evans, associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute think-tank...

January 14, 2024

Employment

Millions of workers are caught in a ‘non-compete’ trap

...“Data has kept showing that [non-competes] are harmful to workers and firms,” said Evan Starr, a professor at the University of Maryland who studies the labour market....

April 18, 2024

ReviewVisual Arts

Art for the Millions at Metropolitan Museum — 1930s America through the eyes of its artists

...Walker Evans combed the country, assembling evidence of a society shot through with disarray and stoic promise....

September 19, 2023

News in-depthMiddle East military briefing

The battle for Gaza City

...“It’s part of the overall information battle where every tactical engagement becomes strategically important,” said Samuel Cranny Evans, associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute think-tank...

November 8, 2023

FT Swamp Notes

Joe Biden’s dreams of Benny Gantz Premium

...Don’t miss Evan Osnos’s rich essay on Biden’s last campaign in The New Yorker. It includes a very rare interview with a president who famously avoids them....

March 8, 2024

John Lee

Best of FT Money 2023: My dividends strategy continues to deliver

...Finally, we bought eight small-cap single unit holdings — all committed and consistent dividend payers: Anpario, Chesnara, Duke Royalty, MP Evans, Hollywood Bowl, STV, Workspace and VP....

September 5, 2023

Evan Gershkovich

Evan Gershkovich faces complex path to release from Russian jail

...“The Russians expect a lot in return for a person they consider a spy,” said John Sullivan, a former US ambassador to Russia who has worked on several prisoner exchanges, including Griner’s....

April 11, 2023

FT Magazine

The puzzling afterlife of Britain’s last executioner

...When Timothy Evans was posthumously pardoned in 1966 (after years of campaigning, a High Court judge-led inquiry had concluded that Evans wasn’t responsible for the death of his daughter, the offence he’...

February 9, 2024

News in-depthFederal Reserve

Fed not ready to start talking about rate cuts

...John Roberts, who worked for 35 years at the Fed until his departure in 2021, added: “It’s definitely not time for a victory lap.”...

November 30, 2023

ReviewHistory books

How the World Made the West — a scuttling of civilisational myths

...“The battle of Marathon, even as an event in English history, is more important than the battle of Hastings,” reflected Victorian philosopher John Stuart Mill on the decisive Athenian defeat of the Persians...

February 29, 2024

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