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ReviewMusic
Der goldene Hahn at the Komische Oper Berlin, review — what did we just watch?
...Or is this just a power play by an addled despot? To be fair, former Komische Oper intendant Kosky’s staging is not without irony. In fact, there is little else....
January 30, 2024
ReviewFiction
Fairy Tale — Stephen King brings a new twist to age-old grotesquerie
...We meet a truly loathsome man-eating giantess called Hana, while Elden, with his off-green complexion, saggy lips and corpulent frame, is as repugnant a despot as one could hope for, like the love child...
September 14, 2022
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
The Weekend Essay
Simon Schama: can Charles III’s coronation speak to modern Britain?
...This is all the more important in a world full of morally squalid despots all claiming to be the personification of their nation and its religion, and treating those who presume to disagree with torture,...
May 6, 2023
Person in the News
Gustavo Petro: from ‘Comrade Aureliano’ to Colombian president
...One adviser, Daniel García-Peña, quit within months, saying “a despot from the left, just because he is from the left, does not stop being a despot”....
June 24, 2022
James Bosworth
Despots everywhere should lose social media accounts
...Letter in response to this article: Banning despots from social media is tricky / From KM Choy, Singapore...
January 18, 2021
Letter
Letter: Banning despots from social media is tricky
...James Bosworth suggests that “Despots everywhere should lose social media accounts” (Opinion, January 19). The conundrum is, your despot is my hero. Who then should decide who gets gagged?...
January 21, 2021
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Martin Wolf
The American republic’s near-death experience
...James Murdoch recently declared that: “The sacking of the Capitol is proof positive that what we thought was dangerous is indeed very, very much so....
January 19, 2021
Carson Block
The NBA and LeBron James should take a knee for Hong Kong
...Unless US business leaders and entertainers locate their spines quickly, we will find that the west’s four decades of engagement with China have provided an autocratic despot with the understanding and resources...
October 31, 2019
Film
Five decades, 25 films — Nigel Andrews’ favourites
...James Cameron writes and directs, Arnie stars, as cyborg sci-fi finds its Dadaist dream movie....
December 20, 2019
Best of FT Weekend long reads 2019
Simon Schama: who speaks for the people?
...But when the consul turned imperial despot and confirmed his liquidation of republican liberties with two plebiscites in 1802 and 1804, Constant — who saw 69 free journals and newspapers reduced to four...
October 4, 2019
Britain after Brexit
Brexit options: Norway Plus versus a second referendum
...Investors who are here for the long term are looking through Brexit and out the other side,” says James Beckham, managing director at CBRE....
December 6, 2018
ReviewEconomics books
Is the financial system broken?
...As well as writing, Bullough also runs tours of London where visitors can eye the penthouses of despots’ daughters, or mansions owned by oligarchs....
November 9, 2018
Janan Ganesh
When it comes to British humour, the joke is on us
...Immune to the conventional despot, we are susceptible to the insidious jester, smuggling bad ideas under cover of levity....
December 14, 2018
ReviewLife & Arts
Tamburlaine, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon — iambic verse and buckets of blood
...Marlowe’s story follows the 14th-century Asian emperor Timur from his beginnings as a Scythian shepherd-turned-warlord to a despot who (in Boyd’s staging) has literally a wagonload of crowns, on which he...
August 28, 2018
The new age of TV
How Game of Thrones changed television
...The evening I visit the Three Compasses, a slim young man, James, tells me he had resisted Game of Thrones for years but finally crumbled last season....
April 12, 2019
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
ReviewLife & Arts
Farinelli and the King, Belasco Theatre, New York — castrato story lacks something
...As for the music, Iestyn Davies (replaced by James Hall at some performances) sings mellifluous bursts of Handel while standing beside Crane in identical costume....
December 22, 2017
The FT ViewUS foreign policy
A united front with South Korea will help deter Kim
...Defence secretary James Mattis, for example, has stated that “any threat to the United States or its territory . . . will be met with a massive military response”....
September 5, 2017
FT Magazine
Artificial intelligence: can we control it?
...“Is it good to enable potential despots to protect themselves against possible insurrection and conspiracy by making this technology available?” he asks....
July 14, 2016
Asia-Pacific companies
Welcome to Jamshedpur, India’s steel citadel
...Founded in 1907, central Jamshedpur, situated about 200km west of Kolkata, houses around 800,000 people, for whom Tata is a mixture of dominant employer and benevolent despot....
November 10, 2015
Life & Arts
North Korea farce packs US theatres
...Mr Rogen plays Aaron Rapoport, producer of Skylark Tonight, a television interview programme helmed by the shallow and self-assured Dave Skylark, played by James Franco....
December 26, 2014
Andrew McAfee
We’re living through a new industrial revolution
...Then an industrial revolution happened, centered around James Watt’s improved steam engine, and humanity’s trajectory bent sharply and permanently upward....
October 16, 2014
ReviewLife & Arts
Cannes Film Festival: Fresh, healthy fare
...community: an adulterous couple condemned to death by stoning, a girl forced into marriage with an elder, a desert-dwelling farmer punished for killing the fisherman who shoots one of his cattle, a Taliban-ish despot...
May 20, 2014
InterviewLunch with the FT
Lunch with the FT: Anwar Ibrahim
...James Crabtree is the FT’s Mumbai correspondent …………………………………………………………….....
January 27, 2012
Life & Arts
The List: The real winners of ‘The X Factor’
...Simon Cowell Supervising despot and creator Simon Cowell and martyred starlet Cheryl Cole are not on the mentoring panel this year, making it Peter Pan without Captain Hook and Tinkerbell (whichever way...
August 19, 2011
Philip Stephens
A lucrative business in washing reputations
...The private banks and hedge funds in nearby St James are on hand to offer financial advice with discretion assured....
March 7, 2011

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