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The Weekend Essay
A new road for Russia?
...George W Bush said he could “get a sense of his soul” and found Putin “straightforward and trustworthy”....
July 1, 2023
FT Magazine
The 60-year, 4,000-mile journey home of Lumumba’s tooth
...The then-King Baudouin of Belgium spoke first, saying that the independence was the result of “the genius of King Léopold II”....
January 27, 2023
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
ReviewNon-Fiction
The Aristocracy of Talent — does meritocracy need a refresh?
...George W Bush, US president from 2001-2009, son of a former president, attended elite prep and boarding schools, then Yale and Harvard Business School....
May 26, 2021
FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2020
Best books of 2020: Politics
...He also acted as a vital adviser to George W Bush, during the disputed 2000 presidential election....
November 18, 2020
InterviewLunch with the FT
Sherry Turkle: ‘Why was I asked to make Steve Jobs dinner?’
...They visited Xerox PARC together and entertained Steve Jobs, who had just launched the Apple II computer (Turkle was charged with cooking dinner for Jobs)....
March 26, 2021
Letter
The knowledge commons needs innovation
...Christian W Liedtke Attorney at Law,Newport Beach, CA, US...
November 27, 2019
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
FT Books Essay
Old world order — the rise and fall of the Habsburgs
...In the 18th century, Maria Theresa and her son Joseph II pioneered an influential rationalist fusion of Enlightenment rule and centralised governance....
May 20, 2020
UK business
UK economists’ survey: recovery will be slower than in peer countries
...The most disconcerting aspect of the Brexit process remains the absence of what George H.W....
January 3, 2021
ReviewLife & Arts
Stalin: the definitive biography of a tyrant, foibles and all
...Stalin, Vol II: Waiting for Hitler 1928–1941 , by Stephen Kotkin, Allen Lane, RRP£30/$40, 1,184 pages John Thornhill is a former FT Moscow bureau chief Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe...
October 27, 2017
ReviewLife & Arts
Books to look out for in 2017
...Gathering Blossoms Under Fire, by Alice Walker, W&N, RRP£18.99/Atria, RRP$30 (September) Extracts from 50 years of journals and letters by the author of The Color Purple....
January 9, 2017
US presidential election
Generals caught in US election crossfire
...General Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, has found himself repeatedly pulled into the election debate by being asked to comment on Mr Trump’s more controversial statements, such...
September 9, 2016
Life & Arts
Red October: Russia’s road to revolution
...Lenin on the Train, by Catherine Merridale, Allen Lane, RRP£25, 368 pages Historically Inevitable?...
September 30, 2016
Life & Arts
The best books of 2016
...Catherine Merridale Author of Lenin on the Train (Allen Lane) Second-Hand Time , by Svetlana Alexievich (Fitzcarraldo/Random House), was certainly the year’s most harrowing read....
December 2, 2016
Life & Arts
Books to look forward to in 2016
...The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe, by Joseph Stiglitz, WW Norton, RRP$27.95 / Allen Lane, RRP£25 (June) The Nobel Prize-winning economist outlines his proposals for the eurozone...
December 18, 2015
Life & Arts
Upcoming concerts and festivals
...Ludovic Hunter-Tilney c-h-w.com, 020 7222 8010 Concert in the Gardens, December 31, West Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh Having returned to the stage this year after a break from music, Lily Allen ends...
December 26, 2014
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Arts
London on film is the capital of noir
...In Woody Allen’s Match Point (2005), a callow English go-getter (Jonathan Rhys Myers) moves up the storeys of ambition and perfidy....
September 29, 2014
Life & Arts
Best books of 2014
...But most readers will agree with Joseph Stiglitz, who wrote in his FT review: “Martin Wolf has outdone himself....
November 28, 2014
Life & Arts
The FT’s Summer books 2014
...Barry Forshaw ——————————————- YOUNG ADULT Spook’s: A New Darkness, by Joseph Delaney, Bodley Head, RRP£12.99 The spook is dead, long live the spook!...
June 27, 2014
ReviewLife & Arts
Review: ‘Acts of Union and Disunion’, by Linda Colley
...The many worlds of Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling are here....
January 17, 2014
World
Troubled See takes its toll on Benedict
...Like the closing years of the papacy of John Paul II, his long-serving predecessor, the reign of Pope Benedict XVI was marked, especially in its final phase, by an abiding impression of drift and internal...
February 11, 2013
ReviewLife & Arts
Books of the Year
...JAR Paris Vol II , by Pierre Genet and Joel Arthur Rosenthal, JAR Vol II, RRP$800 In 2003, Rosenthal published the limited edition 10lb-plus JAR Paris....
November 29, 2013
US politics & policy
Obama ‘withholds judgment’ on Petraeus
...The New York Times identified the agent on Wednesday evening as Frederick W. Humphries II....
November 15, 2012
ReviewLife & Arts
Summer books guide
...Lawrence Summers Charles W Eliot professor at Harvard University and a former US Treasury secretary Mark Blyth pulls no punches in Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea (OUP)....
June 28, 2013
Special Report
Full list of 2012 Queen’s Award winners
...W Durston W K Webster & Co Walker Filtration White House Products Whizz Education William Beckett Plastics Winsted...
April 22, 2012
ReviewLife & Arts
Best books of 2012
...His reconstruction of the dispute with King Henry II that led to Becket’s murder is masterful and makes for a compelling read....
December 3, 2012

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