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Chess
England seeded fourth at European teams as former Russian makes his debut
...Hopes of a top-three finish were encouraged by last week’s world seniors gold medals for Michael Adams and John Nunn....
November 13, 2023
Disrupted Times
Big Oil bets big on extended life for fossil fuels
...Acapulco in Mexico was hit by a “nightmare” version — hurricane Otis — on Wednesday, catching authorities unprepared and leading to warnings about flash floods and landslides....
October 28, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ReviewTheatre
Dancing at Lughnasa — a beautiful new staging of Brian Friel’s play at the National Theatre
...Original band member Otis Williams (Sifiso Mazibuko) is our narrator, whisking us through an eventful history and joining the dots between episodes of dramatisation....
April 27, 2023
Live news updates from June 27: G7 to impose new sanctions on Russian arms industry, Property developer Evergrande faces winding-up petition
Larry Culp to become chief of GE aviation business ahead of three-way split
...Current GE Aviation chief executive John Slattery will become its chief commercial officer, GE announced on Monday....
June 27, 2022
Architecture
Going up in the world: beautiful elevators to give your home a lift
...John Ray agrees. “Almost everybody is going with something splashy,” he says....
August 26, 2022
FT MagazineJancis Robinson
Oregon’s alternative Burgundy
...And Roberson of Kensington has been importing the dependable wines of Bergström for at least a decade....
March 26, 2022
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
ReviewFilm
First Cow — a tale of cakes and menace in the Pacific North West
...One half of that equation is Otis Figowitz (John Magaro), a sad-eyed cook we meet stuck with thuggish trappers....
May 26, 2021
Fashion
Sex Education and its eclectic clothes capture the trials of being a teen
...Though it’s set in a bucolic town in England — in fact, shot in Wales — the show has a transatlantic feel, referencing John Hughes movies and incorporating elements of American high school life, such as...
September 17, 2021
FT SeriesFantasy dinner parties
Emma Jacobs’s fantasy dinner party
...Finally Otis Redding, my fifth guest, is persuaded to perform Otis Blue. Perhaps even with new material — his life and career were so short....
October 17, 2020
Bobby Seagull
Strictly Come Dancing: lessons for investors
...John Maynard Keynes, the economist, believed professional money managers were playing an intricate guessing game, and he used a beauty contest analogy....
December 19, 2020
FT MagazineJancis Robinson
Too white wine: Jancis Robinson on the industry’s diversity problem
...Andy Evans works in the rather smart wine department of John Lewis on London’s Oxford Street, a department store that virtually defines middle England....
June 19, 2020
HTSI
How vintage Ikea became a hit for fans of flat-pack chic
...John Black, head of 20th-century decorative arts and design at British auction house Sworders, explains: “Its midcentury pieces had all the clean, modern freshness of the furniture being made by big names...
May 6, 2020
FT Magazine
The shows must go on: inside Netflix’s race to restart filming
...John McVay of Pact, the UK trade body for independent producers, says Netflix is so “hungry for content” it can afford to absorb the risk....
June 18, 2020
FT MagazineJancis Robinson
Jancis Robinson’s best red wines to drink this Christmas
...Mature with marked sweetness. 14.5% Tenuta San Guido, Guidalberto 2017 Toscana £32 Roberson retail, £34.95 Uncorked Sassicaia’s little brother seems particularly successful in 2017 and has more than a...
November 29, 2019
Travel
Race to the bottom: the investor exploring Earth’s deepest places
...William Beebe and Otis Barton, the first into the deep ocean in a bathysphere off Bermuda in the 1930s. Barely a footnote in history.” That balance may be about to change....
August 16, 2019
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Due Diligence
United Technologies chief disrupts the rank and file of the US defence industry Premium content
...(WSJ) Stankey wants scale John Stankey is a man with a plan....
June 11, 2019
FT MagazineJancis Robinson
Napa’s leap into the green
...When John Williams of Frog’s Leap organised the first organic wine growing conference in Napa Valley in 1989, nine people turned up (“and I paid seven of them”, he claims)....
July 6, 2018
Life & Arts
Going down? What the future holds for the department store
...Schocken in Germany, Stockmann in Finland and John Lewis in London were instrumental in introducing modernist design to the public....
August 22, 2018
Life & Arts
The Hollywood cool of the Hotel Del Coronado
...That lift, Otis #61, is still in use now — the oldest working cage elevator in the western US, apparently — staffed 24 hours a day by a uniformed operator....
July 13, 2018
ReviewLife & Arts
Joe Lovano Classic Quartet, Ronnie Scott’s — feisty bop, heartfelt ballads
...Then “Mystic”, a mood-piece from his Wayne Shorter tribute project Sound Prints, segued into John Coltrane’s “Lonnie’s Lament”....
November 8, 2017
Retail & Consumer industry
Shares in breadmaker Arzyta jump after mass executive resignations
...Patrick McEniff, chief financial officer, also resigned as did John Yamin, head of Aryzta Americas, the statement said on Tuesday. Shares in the group jumped as much as 20 per cent at the open....
February 14, 2017
Robin Harding
How Warren Buffett broke American capitalism
...robin.harding@ft.com Letters in response to this column: Buffett’s strategy remains a model for businesses to follow / From Otis Manousakos, London SW8, UK Buffett’s key focus is making good returns /...
September 12, 2017
FT Magazine
Happy valley — Napa wines’ height advantage
...John Shafer arrived in Napa in 1972, and his son Doug joined him in 1983. “When we came out here,” remembers Doug, “there weren’t any hillside vineyards....
August 26, 2016
Life & Arts
The ups and downs of lifts: how they helped transform our cities
...In 1854 Elisha Otis, founder of the elevator company that bears his name, also used theatrics to demonstrate the effectiveness of his new lift....
October 21, 2016
Nicholas LanderNicholas Lander
Noble Rot, London
...This did not affect our main courses — a pleasing Comté tart (£14), fillets of John Dory and generous slices of pork belly....
February 12, 2016

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