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Liontrust
Liontrust directors quit over chair’s 12-year tenure
...Liontrust, Howard Boyd and Price declined to comment. Howard Boyd, who is a former chair of the Environment Agency, joined Liontrust’s board just over a year ago, last January....
March 28, 2023
ReviewBooks
Who Owns This Sentence? — an attack on copyright
...As a group of best-selling authors including John Grisham and Jonathan Franzen sue OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, for “systematic theft” of their work to train its tools, high-stakes turf wars rage again...
January 11, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ReviewFT Books Essay
Spy masters — the hidden lives of Ian Fleming and John le Carré
...From 1939 to 1945, however, the effective deputy to the chief of naval intelligence had acted as what his boss, Admiral John Godfrey, called a “war-winner”....
October 12, 2023
UK property
London leaseholders win rare victory in battle over service charges
...Martin Boyd, chair of the campaign group Leasehold Knowledge Partnership, said the plight of leaseholders at Canary Riverside was widely shared....
January 6, 2023
ReviewBiography and memoir
The Maverick — George Weidenfeld, publisher to saints and sinners
...scandalous, the subversive” with a taste for courting pillars of the postwar western order: presidents, premiers, the Israeli leaders whose approval this fervent Zionist craved; even popes (he published John...
September 27, 2023
ReviewFiction
Caret — disability meets desire in volume 3 of Adam Mars-Jones’s series
...Caret devotes rather more space to sects than sex, even though John riffs on the common Sanskrit root of “spirit” and “spurt”....
August 16, 2023
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
ReviewFiction
The Secret Hours by Mick Herron — scheming and bungling before Slough House
...Herron’s lethally witty prose hits a sweet spot in the centre of a triangle whose points are John le Carré, PG Wodehouse — and, perhaps, Ricky Gervais’s The Office....
September 8, 2023
News in-depthElectric vehicles
US auto salvage industry braced for impending bounty of junk EVs
...Since the bulk of the value of an EV was contained in the battery, it “leads to potential different market dynamics” in recycling them, said John Kett, a former chief executive of IAA....
October 11, 2023
Letter
Letter: Is obesity predestined by ‘the fat controller’?
...Confirmation of this hypothesis would involve detailed studies of very early nutrition, a labour-intensive epidemiological task, akin to John Boyd Orr’s study on undernutrition nearly 80 years ago....
January 12, 2024
Liontrust
Liontrust kicks off hunt for new chair
...Barbour’s tenure on the board of Liontrust was the subject of a row last March, with fellow board members Emma Howard Boyd and Quintin Price resigning with immediate effect....
January 25, 2024
InterviewMusic
Jazz musician Daniel Casimir: ‘I’m not setting out to be an activist but it has become that way’
...Apart from playing with some of London’s prominent jazz musicians, including saxophonist Nubya Garcia, pianist Al MacSween and drummer Moses Boyd, he has so far relied on what he calls his “mum’s test”....
March 26, 2024
Non-Fiction
Can we really live forever?
...Society for Healthier, Longer Lives by Andrew J Scott Basic Books £25/ $32, 336 pages Stephen Cave, director of the Institute for Technology and Humanity at the University of Cambridge, is author with John...
March 26, 2024
News in-depthFund management
How Liontrust’s decade of dealmaking came unstuck
...The London-based money manager was once a darling of the sector, with chief executive John Ions presiding over an increase in assets from £1bn to £36bn in the decade to September 2021....
December 10, 2023
ReviewBiography and memoir
Circus of Dreams — bright young things and booming book sales
...The scattershot of grand writerly personalities throughout John Walsh’s coming-of-literary-age memoir sometimes makes you want to duck for cover....
April 26, 2022
Summer Books 2023
Best summer books of 2023: History
...Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right by Matthew Dallek (Basic Books) Founded in 1958 by businessman Robert Welch, the John Birch Society was so fiercely anticommunist and...
June 24, 2023
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
ReviewFiction
The Romantic by William Boyd — a wild ride across the 19th century
...Canny Boyd-watchers may spot some familiar themes already....
September 29, 2022
Books
What to read in 2024
...Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and the Quest for Immortality by Venki Ramakrishnan (Hodder Press/William Morrow)The science of ageing, death and longevity is explored in this timely book from a Nobel-prize...
December 28, 2023
ReviewBiography and memoir
Nick Drake and Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler — twinned under a musical dark star
...He had supportive parents and an important champion in American record producer Joe Boyd. Reviews were generally warm....
July 14, 2023
The Weekend Essay
Napoleon and the mythmakers
...Borodino in the Soviet-era War and Peace is still the most convincing cinematic representation of what it feels like to be trapped inside a battle, a challenge since the two most salient characteristics, as John...
November 25, 2023
The Weekend Essay
Effective altruism was the favoured creed of Sam Bankman-Fried. Can it survive his fall?
.../ From Jeff Boyd, London E9, UK Imagine Anatole France’s take on effective altruism / From James Meyer, Gurnee, IL, US...
December 29, 2023
FT Magazine
It’s boom times for the ‘Real Fox Mulder’
...(Neither William Morrow nor the History Channel responded to requests for comment.)...
September 15, 2023
FT SeriesBest books of the year 2022
Best books of 2022: Literary non-fiction
...John Donne, the great poet of love, sex and death....
November 23, 2022
Life & Arts
FT Weekend Quiz: Royal Navy, Cat in the Hat and ‘Eggheads’
...Edward Pusey and John Henry Newman were members of which 19th-century religious movement? Click here for the answers...
September 9, 2022
The Art Market
Christie’s gets Gauguin and Joan Mitchell in $50mn collection
...Those in on the hoax at Modern Painters magazine, where Boyd was on the editorial board, included the musician David Bowie, who hosted a launch party while Boyd himself created Tate’s art....
September 22, 2022
ReviewNon-Fiction
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial by Deborah Cohen — when reporters became the news
...In the mid-1930s, American star reporter John Gunther stopped off at a tumbledown village in Lower Austria during a trip that took him from his Vienna office to Prague....
April 19, 2022

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