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Gardens
Does lunar gardening really work or is it promising the moon?
...If they’d done it in the early stage of the cycle, the plant would bleed and take a lot longer to get over the shock,” says John Harris, author and newly retired head gardener at Tresillian House in Cornwall...
February 16, 2024
FirstFT
FirstFT: Musk promises shareholder vote on Tesla incorporation move
...The PGA Tour has approved a deal for a group of investors led by Liverpool FC and Boston Red Sox owner John Henry to invest in the US golf organisation’s new commercial entity....
February 1, 2024
FT Live
The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition
FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government
Wednesday, 4 DecemberDigital Conference
FT Books Essay
A Life of Picasso Volume IV — matador and minotaur
...A Life of Picasso Volume IV: The Minotaur Years 1933-43 by John Richardson, Jonathan Cape £35, 368 pages Stephen Smith is culture correspondent of the BBC’s ‘Newsnight’ Join our online book group on Facebook...
March 30, 2022
Music
The best summer music festivals worldwide
...And, in what will no doubt go down as a historic gig, Elton John will perform his last ever UK show on the Pyramid Stage on Sunday night....
May 30, 2023
Gun control
Senators agree on modest US gun reforms in wake of shootings
...Democratic senators Chris Murphy of Connecticut and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Republicans John Cornyn of Texas and North Carolina’s Thom Tillis spearheaded the efforts....
June 12, 2022
FirstFT
FirstFT: Leak suggests Roe vs Wade to be swept aside
...It was unclear from the report which side the court’s Chief Justice John Roberts would side with....
May 3, 2022
FT Live
Global Private Banking Awards 2024
Celebrating excellence in wealth management
Thursday, 7 NovemberThe Landmark London, London, UK
FedEx Corp
FedEx founder Fred Smith steps aside as chief after 50 years
...At Yale, Smith had been in the same fraternity as George W Bush, who went on to become US president in 2000, and a close friend of John Kerry, the Democrat who lost the 2004 election to Bush....
March 29, 2022
FirstFT
FirstFT: Nato states agree to supply heavy weapons to Ukraine
...Colby Smith and Kate Duguid assess its prospects for success. America and China — the defining relationship Competitive co-operation or containment?...
April 8, 2022
News in-depthWar in Ukraine
US and allies weigh ‘red lines’ in Putin’s assault on Ukraine
...“Our collective goal . . . is to end this war,” Julianne Smith, US ambassador to Nato, told reporters this week....
March 16, 2022
Federal Reserve succession
‘A dangerous man’: the messy politics of Fed chair nominations
...George W Bush George W Bush came into office in 2001 with Alan Greenspan serving in his fourth term as chair of the Fed....
November 12, 2021
Travel
Gleneagles’ big move to the city
..., Walter Scott, John Napier and the like — stare dourly downward (judging your bar bill, no doubt)....
June 13, 2022
Due Diligence
Ackman says he’s retiring from activist campaigns Premium content
...“[W]e have permanently retired from this line of work,” he said in the firm’s 2021 annual report. And Ackman isn’t the only activist changing his stripes....
March 30, 2022
ReviewNon-Fiction
The Aristocracy of Talent — does meritocracy need a refresh?
...Locke and Adam Smith — with not a peerage among them....
May 26, 2021
Books
The books to read in 2022
...Among biographies to watch for are John Richardson’s A Life of Picasso Volume IV (Jonathan Cape, March), which takes us to the “minotaur years” of the 1930s, the Spanish civil war and surrealist poetry....
December 29, 2021
The Weekend Essay
The enduring lessons of Walter Scott’s tangled finances
...Economist Smith made a distinction between different sorts of bills....
August 6, 2021
FT Live
Outstanding Directors Exchange
Fostering trust for steadfast leadership
Wednesday, 12 JuneHarvard Club of New York City, West 44th Street, New York, NY, USA
FirstFT
FirstFT: Today’s top stories
...(FT) Personalised education for a digital age The pandemic has opened up new opportunities for teachers to experiment, writes John Thornhill....
November 13, 2020
FirstFT
FirstFT: Today’s top stories
...In a brief statement the high court indicated that Chief Justice John Roberts, an appointee of George W Bush, had sided with the liberal justices to create a 4-4 split....
October 20, 2020
FirstFT
FirstFT: Today’s top stories
...John Roberts, the court’s chief justice who was appointed by George W Bush, sided with his four liberal colleagues in the judgment for the third time this month....
June 30, 2020
FirstFT
FirstFT: Today’s top stories
...The decision to force meat-processing plants to remain open came as the number of coronavirus cases in the US topped 1m and the death toll hit almost 58,000, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University...
April 29, 2020
FirstFT
FirstFT: Today’s top stories
...(FT) Libra lead appointed The Facebook-created digital currency Libra has appointed HSBC legal chief and former George W Bush-era terrorism finance tsar Stuart Levey as its first chief executive....
May 7, 2020
FirstFT
FirstFT: Today’s top news
...There are now 532,692 confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University....
March 27, 2020
Equities
Markets not live, Thursday 20th February 2020
...[W]e expect focus on another weak quarter for Other Income and a quarterly run-rate below consensus expectations....
February 20, 2020
ReviewBusiness books
FT business books: September edition
...influential management thinkers such as time-and-motion obsessive Frederick Winslow Taylor and quality guru W Edwards Deming....
September 8, 2020
Equities
Markets Now - Wednesday 24th June 2020
...Charts and words via HSBC: [W]e now estimate 2019 industry output should almost recover by 2022 to -4% versus -10% previously....
June 24, 2020
ReviewScience fiction books
What’s new in sci-fi? The latest titles reviewed
...In the wake of the retitling of the John W Campbell Award (following winner Jeannette Ng’s denouncement of the man after whom it was named as a “fascist”), another science fiction prize has had a makeover...
January 3, 2020

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