Joann R. Owens

Dissatisfaction with democracy is corrosive

...[R]eal wages grew by an average of 33 per cent a decade from 1970 to 2007, but this fell to below zero in the 2010s. In mid-2023 wages were back where they were during the financial crisis.”...

February 4, 2024

LexNathalie Thomas

The Lex Newsletter: Sunak should power up UK gigafactory plan Premium

...There is a funding gap between the R&D stage and companies securing sufficient customer agreements and private sector investment to press ahead with a factory, according to AMTE’s boss Alan Hollis....

June 14, 2023

FT Live

Inside Politics: who will win the UK general election?

Exclusively for FT subscribers

Letter

Letter: Between the Remington typewriter and the ink well

...James R Owen Paris, France...

September 9, 2022

ReviewThriller books

Thriller round-up — from the Gulag to Glasgow grit

...There is plenty of menace in White Fox (Bantam, £18.99/Doubleday, $28), the last volume of Owen Matthews’ outstanding trilogy featuring KGB Lt Col Alexander Vasin....

April 3, 2023

Design

Wanted: designers who aim to rethink product design

...The company is backed by private investors and Business Finland, which funds innovation, to the tune of €4.6mn, with further R&D grants from the EU....

February 14, 2023

FT SeriesA summer motoring special

Meet the supercar spotters

...The Nissan GT-R, which can hit 200mph, is less “canon” than some others as it only costs about £90,000. You can car spot anywhere, but Knightsbridge and Mayfair are the meccas....

April 28, 2023

FT Live

Future of Asset Management Europe

New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence

News in-depthUK economy

FT economists survey: ‘anaemic’ economy needs ‘investment, investment, investment’

...We should aim to at least double R&D as a share of GDP (public and private funding together)....

January 2, 2024

Russian business & finance

Vladimir Potanin: the original oligarch snapping up Russian banks

...“The Kremlin had a geopolitically problematic asset [in Tinkoff] and Potanin had a solution,” said Tatiana Stanovaya, founder of political analysis firm R.Politik....

May 12, 2022

UK energy

Whitehall prepares for winter blackouts with carbon-paper copying

...Letters in response to this article: Rees-Mogg promotion is relief for civil servants / From Su Hardman, Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK Between the Remington typewriter and the ink well / From James R Owen,...

September 2, 2022

Transcript

Diesel vs doughnuts

...And he knows very well the influential pro-Trump activist Candace Owens. Clip of Candace Owens and George FarmerAnd introduce you guys to my fiancée, future husband, George Farmer....

September 14, 2021

News in-depthUK economy

Pandemic provides unexpected boost to UK’s productivity prospects

...David Owen, economist at Jefferies, said the notion of the UK as a low productivity growth country could be challenged by the pandemic which had forced “new ways of doing business and innovation”....

May 31, 2021

News in-depthCoronavirus

The UK mental health crisis coming in Covid’s wake

...Owen O’Kane grew up well-acquainted with the psychological damage that bombs and bullets inflict on communities long after their immediate impact, having witnessed first-hand the troubles in Northern Ireland...

February 26, 2021

My garden diary: the battle to tame an overgrown plot

Late-spring garden diary: my fight with a hedge

...Jane Owen is an author and Chelsea Flower Show gold medallist. This is the second instalment in her garden diary — catch up with the first instalment of her diary here....

May 24, 2019

Jane Owen

Old Money: Retirement doesn’t always make you happy

...Jane Owen is an author and FT Weekend’s former deputy editor. Email: oldmoney@ft.com; Twitter: @Jane_Owen...

May 30, 2019

Letter

Looking forward to an update on Jane’s garden

...R Ramdohr Weinheim, Germany...

May 3, 2019

FT Live

Business of Art

Market shifts and future growth

Jane Owen

Old Money: Should ancient people hit the slopes?

...We are paying thousands of pounds per person to indulge in a bit of R & R which risks death, requires helmets, body armour and (in my case) regular moments of heart-palpitating terror....

April 18, 2019

My garden diary: the battle to tame an overgrown plot

Help! My garden is out of control

...Subscribe to FT Life on YouTube for the latest FT Weekend videos Letter in response to this article: Looking forward to an update on Jane’s garden / From R Ramdohr, Weinheim, Germany...

April 19, 2019

Letter

A state-by-state overhaul of the electoral college system

...James R Owen Paris, France...

November 16, 2018

UK business

UK economists’ survey: recovery will be slower than in peer countries

...If Debt/GDP is about 1 now (UK-US levels) you can run a primary deficit of (g-r) — where g is growth rate and r is real cost of borrowing — and keep Debt/GDP constant....

January 3, 2021

FT Magazine

Photographer in the garden: ‘The camera forces us to see nature in a new way’

...Jane Owen is FT Weekend’s deputy editor and author of several garden books....

April 13, 2018

Social Media

Opinion today: Facebook's excessive focus on profits

...The Whole Foods election: letter from James R Owen, Paris, France Edward Luce neglects to mention one possible answer to the question of US electoral overhaul in his Big Read article: namely, the National...

November 19, 2018

Britain after Brexit

A battle between 4 Brexit outcomes

...Letter in response to this briefing: Parliament has already approved Brexit / From D R Myddelton, London, UK...

November 30, 2018

FT CollectionsTrump and the polls

Donald Trump suffers a suburban backlash

...Letters in response to this article: A state-by-state overhaul of the electoral college system / From James R Owen, Paris, France Re-elected to Portsmouth seat 87 days post-mortem / From Chris Huhne, London...

November 9, 2018

ReviewLife & Arts

Wonder — tissue-intensive emotional manipulation

...It’s based on a novel by R.J. Palacio. Don’t buy it for me, please, for Christmas. ★★☆☆☆...

November 29, 2017

UK Budget

Economists warn Budget measures to lift productivity fall short

...David Owen, economist at Jefferies, added: “Looking at the UK in a post-Brexit world, the chancellor could arguably have been more ambitious in his plans to boost long-term UK productivity growth, including...

November 22, 2017

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