John J O'Shaughnessy

...Orwell’s marriage to Eileen O’Shaughnessy seems to have prompted his best writing....

February 22, 2024

Burma Sahib — Paul Theroux imagines Orwell’s empire days

...Just last year, Anna Funder’s Wifedom reconstructed the life of Orwell’s first wife, Eileen O’Shaughnessy; while Sandra Newman’s novel Julia imagined Nineteen Eighty-Four from the point of view of its chief...

February 23, 2024

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Awards Asia-Pacific

Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region

FT SeriesBest books of the year 2023

Best books of 2023 — Literary non-fiction

...Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life by Anna Funder (Viking/Knopf) Funder, author of Stasiland, her prizewinning account of the East German secret police, takes six letters written by Eileen O’Shaughnessy...

November 16, 2023

Letter

Letter: Patients in clinical trials should get full disclosure

...Lord O’Shaughnessy wants to quadruple the number of NHS patients in clinical trials (“No ‘magic wand’ for financial pressures, Hunt tells pharma groups”, Report, May 26)....

May 31, 2023

ReviewBiography and memoir

Chaplin vs America — red scares, scandal and a star in exile

...Eyman is a veteran film critic whose previous biographical subjects include Mary Pickford, John Ford and Cecil B DeMille....

December 12, 2023

UK immigration

UK businesses urge Sunak to reverse rise in visa fee for skilled workers

...BusinessLDN represents about 175 companies, including some of the UK’s largest employers, including Lloyds Bank, Legal & General, J Sainsbury, Unilever, Deloitte and PwC....

August 6, 2023

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Summit

Guiding business in a new global age

Drug prices

No ‘magic wand’ for financial pressures, Hunt tells pharma groups

...Hunt backed O’Shaughnessy’s goal to quadruple the number of patients in clinical trials by 2027....

May 25, 2023

Confederation of British Industry

Fewer than one-third of CBI members backed overhaul

...The departures dented the lobby group’s finances, forcing it to plan redundancies, while dozens more companies, such as J Sainsbury, publicly paused their ties with the group....

June 13, 2023

Due Diligence

Could the ‘trustbusters’ be making a comeback?

...Yet lawyers and other professionals haven’t been held to the same standard, Bloomberg’s Paul J Davies writes. . . . and punishment However, the new US Corporate Transparency act could help the crackdown...

December 19, 2023

Books

What to read in 2024

...APRIL Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan (Faber)O’Hagan’s take on the era of #MeToo portrays a high-flying art historian whose glittering life comes crashing down, which is played out in front of a bustling...

December 28, 2023

Travel

Northern Ireland: from the Troubles to a tourism hotspot

...But it also hosts concerts and events, and this October “A-Wing”, where Troubles inmates were housed, will open its doors as a working distillery reviving J&J McConnell’s Irish Whisky, founded in 1776....

April 6, 2023

Legal services

Practitioners adapt legal tech for creative answers

...John O’Neil, partner, Kirkland & Ellis When John O’Neil first took over Kirkland & Ellis’s investment funds practice in 2016, it had 100 clients....

December 6, 2022

ObituaryP. J. O'Rourke

PJ O’Rourke, satirist and journalist, 1947-2022

...His conservatism began to truly develop when, after attending Johns Hopkins University for an MA on the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, he got a job as a writer at National Lampoon, a satirical magazine....

February 18, 2022

Summer Books 2022

Best summer books of 2022: Science fiction

...Applianceby J O Morgan, Jonathan Cape £16.99 Elliptical yet precise, Appliance considers how new technology — in this case a device that can transmit matter — has a transformative power on ordinary lives...

June 23, 2022

Moral Money

Corporate Japan faces historic environmental activism Premium

...The J-Power case illustrates a shift in environmental pressure on boardrooms in Japan....

August 10, 2022

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Awards Europe

Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region

HTSIThe HTSI spring arts special

Actor Matthew Broderick’s guide to Broadway

...Nearer home, I am a big fan of Three Lives bookstore in the West Village, because I always need books, and J Mueser is a great men’s clothing store that carries funkier independent labels....

February 25, 2022

Transcript

A sceptic’s guide to ‘quiet quitting’

...Working It is produced by Novel for the Financial Times, thanks to the producer Anna Sinfield, executive producer Joe Wheeler, production assistance from Amalie Sortland and mix from Chris O’Shaughnessy....

September 13, 2022

FT GlobetrotterThe wonder of Wimbledon

The A to Z of tennis

...J Junk balls Those terrible looping shots that your opponent hits and you feel that you should hit for winners?...

June 29, 2022

The Art Market

Warhol’s $195mn Marilyn kicks off epic New York auction season

...Los Angeles artist Kent O’Connor (Matthew Brown gallery)....

May 12, 2022

The Big Read

Pension funds after the gilts crisis: the big asset allocation rethink

...“What that does to asset allocation could be pretty profound,” says John Graham, chief executive of CPP Investments....

November 8, 2022

Transcript

Four days’ work for five days’ pay: does it work?

...Thanks to the producer Flo de Schlichting, executive producer Jo Wheeler, production assistance from Amalie Sortland and mix from Chris O’Shaughnessy....

December 8, 2022

The world in 2023

UK economists’ survey: ‘miserable’ year ahead for households

...Morten O. Ravn: Hopefully not....

January 2, 2023

FT Magazine

Inside the John Lewis nightmare

...says James Bailey, executive director of Waitrose, who joined from rival supermarket J Sainsbury....

October 21, 2021

Transcript

How big a pay rise do you need right now?

...Thanks to the producer Anna Sinfield, executive producer Jo Wheeler, production assistants from Lee Maier and Amalia Swartland and mix from Chris O’Shaughnessy....

August 3, 2022

FT Books Essay

Ulysses at 100: the birth of the modern

...Sir John Maxwell was the military governor in Ireland in 1916 who ordered the execution of the leaders....

January 19, 2022

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