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HTSIHTSI autumn design special 2023
Some people watch 9½ Weeks for the sex. I watch it for the furniture
...Mickey Rourke’s character John Gray inhabits a world of black-and-white modernist furniture, illuminated by bright daylight and striped with sleek black lines – the Venetian blind is omnipresent in each...
October 13, 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
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
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
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
HTSI
At home with Frankel, the racehorse turned super-stud
...“This is very satisfying,” said Juddmonte’s O’Rourke. “Sprinting isn’t anything we’d ever really geared our programme for before.”...
October 4, 2023
Due Diligence
How a music mogul’s royalties bet got funked up
...Rio Tinto has appointed James O’Rourke, chief executive of The Mosaic Company, as a non-executive director....
October 26, 2023
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
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
Film
Movie fathers and daughters — from the cosy to the queasy
...One of the most famous onscreen father-daughter pairings, that of Ryan O’Neal and his nine-year-old daughter Tatum in Peter Bogdanovich’s Paper Moon (1973), made the latter into the youngest-ever Oscar winner...
August 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
ReviewTheatre
Dancing at Lughnasa — a beautiful new staging of Brian Friel’s play at the National Theatre
...Rourke’s production is beautifully pitched: even as the women tease and bicker, and coax music out of their erratic new wireless, there’s a shadow of sadness to it....
April 27, 2023
Women in business
UK executive target for women met three years ahead of schedule
...Several companies, such as retailer John Lewis, construction company Laing O’Rourke and building society Nationwide, had high levels of female representation in senior management positions....
February 28, 2023
ObituaryP. J. O'Rourke
PJ O’Rourke, satirist and journalist, 1947-2022
...To many, O’Rourke represented a bygone genre of American conservative....
February 18, 2022
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
FT SeriesThe HTSI Property issue 2022
John McAslan, master of the architectural intervention, is taking on Penn Station
...The project is being built by Laing O’Rourke with John McAslan + Partners and Sydney-based Woods Baggot. The firm is also part of the estimated $7bn upgrade of New York’s Penn Station....
November 4, 2022
Laing O'Rourke PLC
Construction group Laing O’Rourke brings in new chief to lead listing
...Ray O’Rourke, chief executive and founder of Laing O’Rourke, the UK’s largest privately owned construction group, plans to step down after 45 years, making way for its new head to lead the group to a stock...
November 25, 2021
FT Live
Innovative Lawyers Awards Asia-Pacific
Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region
Thursday, 16 MayHong Kong
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
Executive Pay
UK companies prepare for battle with investors over executive pay
...Sir John Parker, chair of Laing O’Rourke, argued Sunak was “right, given where our economy is positioned, to seek support from all who are privileged to lead. Moderation is called for.”...
December 4, 2022
FT Asset Management
ESG: the next mis-selling scandal?
...Farewell PJ O’Rourke, satirist and journalist who sought out political irony, absurdity and hypocrisy....
February 21, 2022
FirstFT
FirstFT: Red wave fails to materialise
...Texas governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, defeated his Democratic rival Beto O’Rourke and captured his third term in the governor’s mansion....
November 9, 2022
US gun violence
Texas police admit it was ‘wrong decision’ not to enter classroom sooner
...O’Rourke interrupted Abbott and other officials at a press conference in Uvalde on Wednesday, accusing the incumbent governor of “doing nothing” to stop gun violence in Texas....
May 27, 2022
UK infrastructure
Laing O’Rourke plans 2024 listing on back of infrastructure boom
...O’Rourke said it might not do a listing in “the traditional way”, but did not provide details....
August 30, 2021
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 content
...The J-Power case illustrates a shift in environmental pressure on boardrooms in Japan....
August 10, 2022
The Weekend Essay
Bloom or bust: what James Joyce can teach us about economics
...Surveying the street down from O’Rourke’s bar, he muses in the same breath that if the council were to run a tramline up the road, “value would go up like a shot”....
June 10, 2022
FTSE 100
John Parker urges FTSE 100 boards to hit diversity target before review ends
...Parker, who sits on the boards of Laing O’Rourke and Carnival Corporation and previously had a similar position at Pennon Group, was appointed by the UK government to oversee a review of British boardrooms...
January 3, 2022

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