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Life & Arts
FT Weekend Quiz: B52’s, Arthur Miller and Evelyn Waugh
...What was the collective nickname for the group of showbiz friends in the 1950s and 60s, who included Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr and Frank Sinatra?...
June 16, 2023
The Week Ahead
G20 and Asean summits set to go ahead without Xi
...World leaders due to address the gathering of Pacific nations include Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida, Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos Jr and, waving the flag for Global Britain, UK premier Rishi...
September 3, 2023
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
ReviewNon-Fiction
The Dictionary People — a homage to the eclectic lexicographers of the OED
...If you are looking for a deeply scholarly history of the Dictionary, turn to her previous work, 2012’s Words of the World; this new book is truly a people’s history....
September 11, 2023
FT CollectionsWar in Ukraine: military strategies
Military briefing: the advance of Ukraine’s ‘mosquito navy’
...The next day another strike destroyed a state of the art S-400 Triumph air defence system....
October 9, 2023
ReviewBooks
The Dean of Shandong — a westerner’s defence of China’s political system
...The Dean of Shandong: Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University by Daniel Bell Princeton University Press $27.95/£22, 208 pages James Crabtree is executive director of the International...
April 17, 2023
InterviewTheatre
When American ideologies collide: James Graham on his play Best of Enemies
...The plot of Best of Enemies, a typically spiky work by British playwright James Graham that is transferring to London’s West End next week, reads like political science-fiction: an ailing television company...
November 10, 2022
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
News in-depthSemiconductors29 min
The race for semiconductor supremacy | FT Film
...JAMES LEWIS: What if China, in some way, got control of Taiwan?...
September 28, 2023
Books
What to read in 2024
...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
December 28, 2023
Film
Alfred Hitchcock’s influence still looms over 21st-century cinema
...The announcement this year of a mooted remake of Vertigo (with Robert Downey Jr in the role played by James Stewart) provoked spluttering at the temerity rather than outrage that the man behind the original...
July 8, 2023
FT GlobetrotterFT Globetrotter’s month-by-month guide to what’s on in our cities
What’s on in NYC: a month-by-month guide to 2024
...This article is part of FT Globetrotter’s guide to New York It’s called the city that never sleeps for a reason: New York’s cultural calendar is jam-packed this year, so we’ve narrowed down some of 2024’s...
January 30, 2024
The Big Read
China’s plan to reset the economy and win back friends
...Chen Zhiwu, one of several leading economists who expect Beijing to push through a series of pro-growth policies, said he expects 2023’s target will be “6 per cent or higher” — much higher than the IMF’s...
January 10, 2023
Transcript
Has Rishi Sunak’s NI deal silenced Tory Eurosceptics?
...And Ian Paisley, Jr has already said it doesn’t cut the mustard. It’s a very, very delicate balancing act for Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, the DUP leader....
March 3, 2023
Transcript
Who made up the Metaverse?
...The $10bn James Webb Space Telescope has been three decades in the making....
December 23, 2021
Moral Money
Climate risk takes insurance sector by storm Premium content
...That is, if insurers are allowed to raise prices, noted John Iten, an analyst at S&P Global Ratings. California, he pointed out, has regulated limits on insurance pricing....
February 9, 2022
Fashion
A chilling view of fashion’s future — the costumes of Dune
...Forget James Bond and all those predictable tuxes — Dune offers a chic but chilling view of fashion’s future. A headline in GQ asked, “Is Dune set to be the most stylish sci-fi film since The Matrix?”...
October 14, 2021
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Life & Arts
FT Weekend Quiz: Torvill and Dean, Demi Moore and the Anglican Book of Common Prayer
...From January, which Newsnight host will be the main presenter of Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour? Who was the first US president elected after the abolition of slavery?...
December 4, 2020
InterviewFund management
Yale endowment model architect Hunter Lewis calls time on it
...For the period ending June 2019, the S&P 500’s 10-year annualised performance beat buyout funds for the first time in a decade, according to a report from Bain, the consultancy....
April 26, 2021
InterviewMusic
The Jacksons on repolishing a glittering past
...The reissue campaign includes a remix of their 1981 song “Can You Feel It” with sampled speeches by Martin Luther King Jr and Barack Obama....
March 25, 2021
House & Home
In cinema’s good books: the man who curates the shelves in films from Disney to Bond
...Squint closer, though, and you might even spot Birds of the West Indies, written by one James Bond — a book owned by Ian Fleming, and from which he cribbed 007’s name....
January 15, 2021
Equities
European banks lead stocks lower as UK-EU trade concerns mount
...He forecast that the talks would slip past their Sunday deadline and produce a slimmed-down deal that provided a minor improvement to World Trade Organization terms....
December 11, 2020
Chadwick Boseman
Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman dies after a four-year battle with colon cancer
...Boseman originated the Black Panther film role two years earlier in Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War, and reprised the part twice more in 2018’s “Avengers: Infinity War” and 2019’s Avengers: Endgame....
August 29, 2020
Terrorism in UK
Police declare Reading stabbings a terrorism incident
...After Mr Saadallah came to MI5’s attention in mid-2019, he spent time in prison for a minor offence....
June 21, 2020
Crossword
Crossword and Polymath competitions suspended
...Birkett, Brighton Crossword 16,206: Enda Cogan, Dublin Patricia Cairns, Devon; JR Jefferies, Dudley Polymath 1,028: John Clune, Ireland Crossword 16,200: Edward Cooper, Norwich R Winter, Worthing; Kate...
June 5, 2020
ReviewAlbums
The New Abnormal is the Strokes’ most consistent album in years
...Meanwhile, guitarists Albert Hammond Jr and Nick Valensi, bassist Nikolai Fraiture and drummer Fabrizio Moretti resembled the interlocking parts of a machine....
April 10, 2020
Berkshire Hathaway Inc
Stock market slide pushes Berkshire Hathaway to $50bn loss
...Multibillion-dollar mark-to-market losses in the quarter accompanied a 20 per cent drop in the S&P 500....
May 2, 2020

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