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UK housebuilding
Two-thirds of £4.2bn UK housebuilding fund unspent despite homes crisis
...The FOI request, made by local government researcher Jack Shaw, found the bulk of that sum had been spent in 2021 and 2022....
January 3, 2024
COP28
UN climate talks have focused on renewable energy for too long says Exxon chief
...In Dubai, a group of countries are pushing for a global agreement to phase out fossil fuels to achieve the Paris accord goal of ideally limiting the global temperature rise to no more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial...
December 2, 2023
UK politics
Third of funds in Sunak’s maths scheme unspent in first year
...Nine out of 10 local authorities returned at least some of their money after the first year, according to Freedom of Information responses obtained by local government researcher Jack Shaw....
October 3, 2023
Special ReportHealth at Work
UK employee health has barely improved since pandemic
...Productive time lost averaged 27.9 days a year for C-suite top managers and executives, rising to 51.5 days among non-managerial employees....
January 23, 2024
ReviewTheatre
Love’s Labour’s Lost, RSC review — Shakespeare updated with lashings of White Lotus
...But it’s Jack Bardoe as the goofy Spanish braggart Don Armado (in wincingly tight shorts) and Nathan Foad as the dim-witted but ever game Costard who run away with every scene they’re in, together with notable...
April 19, 2024
Special ReportOnline MBA 2024
Online MBAs move beyond isolated, independent study
...Similar congestion problems in Miami have helped support what William Hardin, dean at Florida International University’s College of Business, says is a rich range of MBA options: not just in-person, online...
March 10, 2024
UK local government finance
UK government refuses public inquiry into bankrupt Essex council
...Local government researcher Jack Shaw said the case for a public inquiry into what went wrong was strong because residents of Thurrock and other places sharing its fate, were paying directly for state failure...
April 2, 2024
US society
Glitch leaves US university students in the dark about cost of studies
...Nearly 400 schools — including high-profile state universities such as UCLA, Wisconsin and William & Mary — have been forced to delay their traditional May 1 deadline for students to accept places for the...
February 25, 2024
Harvard University
Bill Ackman backs outsider candidates for Harvard board
...Leslie told the FT that Ackman, an acquaintance of his fellow candidate Williams, had “been a sounding board” and was helping fund the campaign. “The whole governance at Harvard is very untransparent....
January 10, 2024
UK local government finance
Cash-strapped English councils to get extra £600mn
...Spread across the county council and unitary council network according to a relative needs formula, the social care funds will on average add £2mn-£3mn per council, according to Jack Shaw, an expert in local...
January 24, 2024
Biotech
UK biotech signs $1bn deal to develop liver disease drugs
...The approval of Madrigal’s drug should help other treatments to pass regulatory hurdles, according to analysts at investment bank William Blair....
April 22, 2024
ReviewMusic
New works by James MacMillan and Daniel Kidane make their UK debuts — review
...On either side there was Mozart, culminating in a performance of the C Minor Mass with pure-voiced Hera Hyesang Park leading the solo quartet....
March 18, 2024
COP28
COP28 draft agreement drops phaseout of fossil fuels
...That is why in every room our negotiators have been pushing tirelessly for decisions that align with staying under 1.5[C] degrees,” Schuster said....
December 11, 2023
US interest rates
Top Fed officials try to damp expectations of imminent rate cuts
...And you had some evidence for that from Williams today,” he said. “We think a cut is more likely in late spring or early summer....
December 15, 2023
UK regional policy
UK allocates £1bn in ‘levelling up’ funding
...Local government researcher Jack Shaw said it was “welcome” that councils had not had to use scarce resources bidding for money....
November 20, 2023
ReviewAlbums
Julian Perkins: From Handel’s Home: the Keyboards of Handel Hendrix House — original instruments for 18th-century music
...Among the Handel items are the Suite No 2 in F Major, given a lively performance by Julian Perkins, and the Suite in C Minor for Two Keyboards, in which he is joined by Carole Cerasi....
February 14, 2024
ReviewTheatre
Five stars for Stranger Things: The First Shadow — sinister and thrilling trip to the Upside Down
...But the stage show at the Phoenix Theatre, conceived by Jack Thorne, Kate Trefry and the Duffer Brothers, also takes the postwar trauma and cold war paranoia of the time and works them into a gothic tale...
December 18, 2023
Photography
John Waters on Peter Hujar’s ‘original, sexy’ photography
...Who doesn’t smoke pot when it’s William Burroughs offering?...
April 13, 2024
FT Wealth
Top US universities under pressure over legacy admissions
...widespread, not only in the historic eight Ivy League colleges including Harvard, Yale and Princeton but in dozens of other private and some publicly funded universities, from Northwestern in Illinois to William...
October 23, 2023
Climate change
New York climate march sets tone for week of UN talks
...This is distinct from a long-term rise in average temperatures of 1.5°C that was set as a goal in the Paris climate accord in 2015. On this basis, the world has already warmed by 1.1°C....
September 17, 2023
Chinese business & finance
Alibaba chief takes direct control of Chinese ecommerce business
...This move should unify things,” said Duncan Clark, founder of the Beijing-based BDA China consultancy and author of Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built....
December 20, 2023
InterviewAt Home with the FT
Simon Costin: ‘I can look out of the window and see another country’
...Jeffrey’s tartan stretches along the back of a House of Hackney sofa covered in a William Morris textile, in front of a wall full of antique Punch and Judy puppets, which give the room its name....
November 5, 2023
Education
Florida triggers school confusion over limits on teaching sexuality
...Arthur C....
August 6, 2023
ReviewNon-Fiction
No Way Out — Tim Shipman on Brexit, Theresa May and the death of a premiership
...A minister who resigns is called the “Godzilla of c*nts”. Crucial legal advice of the attorney-general, baritone barrister Geoffrey Cox, becomes known as “Cox’s codpiece”. And so on....
April 23, 2024
National Archives
Blair ignored warnings from senior colleagues about ID card scheme
...Foreign secretary Jack Straw said in September 2003 that he was “unpersuaded” and cautioned that announcing the policy without explaining how the scheme would work “would not carry credibility”....
December 29, 2023

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