Hints and tips:
...Bitcoin: The recent price surge demonstrates a friendship of convenience between traditional finance and crypto, writes Jemima Kelly....
...Exclusive: Boeing’s financial targets must “take a back seat” as it focuses on safety, warned Aengus Kelly, chief executive of the world’s biggest aircraft leasing company AerCap....
...Rae Maile, a tobacco analyst at Panmure Gordon, said: “BAT was an outlier in having so much brand value capitalised on its balance sheet resulting from the acquisition of Reynolds American....
...Democracy: As we enter a historic year of elections, engaging non-voters is vital to sustaining a healthy political system, writes Jemima Kelly....
...No resolutions: Instead of tedious new year’s resolutions, Jemima Kelly asks us to make a “24 for 2024” list of achievable goals for the coming 12 months....
...‘Celebrification’ of politics: The UK and US do personality politics differently, but neither path is a sign of health, writes Jemima Kelly....
...The reopening of the American mind: Jemima Kelly reports on a new type of “anti-cancel culture” university, whose backers are united in the view that American education is defective....
...Kelly Wearstler Rotganzen Cracked Actor disco bowl, $16,000 Tom Dixon stainless-steel Bell table lamp, £240, harrods.com Los Encajeros linen Valver cocktail napkins, £58 for set of six, modesens.com Veuve...
...Courtney Treut, most recently at Sean Kelly in LA, has been hired as director, while programming for the courtyard will be organised by LA gallerist Hannah Hoffman....
...Trump comedy: Whether we find his humour amusing or offensive, Donald Trump’s good comedic timing makes him a big electoral threat, writes Jemima Kelly....
...Crypto crime: Crypto’s record of illicit activity isn’t a bug — the technology was designed to evade rules governing the financial system, writes Jemima Kelly....
...Kelly Freeman, director at AMP, says that Atlanta “is experiencing an incredible artistic moment that not everybody knows about”....
...Take a break from the news The FT’s six films to watch this week include Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid starring Joaquin Phoenix (pictured above), the Nam June Paik profile Moon Is the Oldest TV and Kelly Fremon...
...Anxious about anxiety: At moderate levels, anxiety is a normal, even healthy human emotion that our very survival as a species has relied upon, writes Jemima Kelly....
...Need to know: Business City stockbrokers Panmure Gordon and Liberum have agreed to merge as a dearth of listings and deals forces the industry to consolidate....
...‘Birdwatch’: The strength of Twitter’s Community Notes fact-checking feature is that it works through consensus, writes Jemima Kelly....
...‘Sensible’ crypto: It’s not the crypto bros we have to fear, writes Jemima Kelly, but the strait-laced, earnest types that are snake-oil salesmen in sensible clothing....
...What’s holding us back is the availability of facilities,” said Gordon....
...Most Labour peers are in the House of Lords because, as one of them once put it to me, Tony Blair or Gordon Brown put them in there for “services to bashing the Trots and not joining the SDP” in the 1980s...
...The metaverse never really began — and yet it’s already over, writes Jemima Kelly. Enthusiasm for a virtual future is draining away, and so is investment....
...Sadly, you would be wrong, writes Jemima Kelly....
...Managing yourself: Jemima Kelly writes on why we should enter the new year with a beginner’s mind....
...The year in crypto: Saying I told you so is not much use, but Jemima Kelly might be able to take a virtual victory lap for calling out “the steaming pile of horse manure that is crypto”. 2....
...Other closely run senate races include Arizona, where incumbent Mark Kelly is leading Republican challenger Blake Masters, while in Wisconsin, the GOP’s Ron Johnson appears to have held off Democrat Mandela...
...But Jemima Kelly warns that brash investors are clashing with mind-altering drug therapy pioneers. ‘Frankenfoods’ or a fix for climate change?...
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