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ReviewTheatre
Kenneth Branagh’s King Lear has intelligence but lacks emotional depth
...King Lear Wyndham’s Theatre, London “You are old,” characters keep telling Kenneth Branagh’s King Lear — which feels a bit rough as, at 62, he makes for a pretty sprightly monarch....
November 1, 2023
ReviewDance
Twenty-Seven Perspectives at Sadler’s Wells — a dance to the music of deconstruction
...Founded in 1978, the original LCB was the brainchild of South African-born dancer Harold King, whose energy and limitless personal charm secured funding, ballet world favours and the patronage of Diana,...
October 31, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ReviewEconomics books
The best new books on economics
...He begins with the so-called golden age in the 1950s and 1960s, when the prime minister Harold Macmillan reflected the country’s postwar boom in his “never had it so good” remark....
June 12, 2023
FT Swamp Notes
A not so tearful farewell to Kenneth Starr Premium content
...cut a long story short — and few tales beg as much abbreviation as Starr’s four-year investigation into the Clintons — the report oozed with detailed sex encounters in the bodice-ripping language of a Harold...
September 16, 2022
InterviewVisual Arts
Artist Jann Haworth: ‘Sgt Pepper’s is just a record cover and I don’t think that’s very important’
...By January the next year, she had enrolled at both the Courtauld Institute and the Slade School of Fine Arts, where she found tutor Harold Cohen insightful....
June 5, 2023
Film
Mad About the Boy — Noël Coward’s wit and charm remain undimmed
...Like Harold Pinter (a huge fan), Coward used repetitive, banal-seeming utterances to mask undercurrents of love — or menace....
May 23, 2023
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Theatre
Godot at 70: waiting for Beckett’s classic to evolve
...But Beckett again benefited from the passionate support of influential critics, particularly Harold Hobson and Kenneth Tynan, who both emphasised Beckett’s playful debts to the music hall....
January 5, 2023
National Archives
UK minister urged closer European integration to shore up currency in 1976
...As the IMF negotiations dragged on in the month before the deal, Harold Lever, a key cabinet minister, wrote a paper urging Callaghan to use the expected deal with the fund as a way to join the EEC’s monetary...
December 30, 2020
ReviewNon-Fiction
A Duty of Care by Peter Hennessy — building a better post-Covid UK
...The author admires politicians from across the political divide and writes with approval of Conservative politicians such as Harold Macmillan, Michael Heseltine and Kenneth Baker, as much as he does Labour...
March 1, 2022
Janan Ganesh
Blair, Brown and the treachery of appearances
...As for Brown, he was, at least after his Treasury years, Harold Wilson: academically almost superhuman, but as grounded as a balloon....
October 9, 2021
ReviewBiography and memoir
Tom Stoppard by Hermione Lee — the real thing
...Unlike his friend Harold Pinter, he is a generous and flexible collaborator in the rehearsal room, even after 50 years of validation. As literary criticism, it is frustrating....
October 1, 2020
Janan Ganesh
Harold Bloom’s lessons for left and right
...If it happens, few will deserve more credit for the — let us go with “Renaissance” — than Harold Bloom....
October 18, 2019
Robert Shrimsley
Ignore the hype, Rishi Sunak’s ascent is not assured
...Roy Jenkins, Kenneth Clarke, Michael Portillo, David Miliband and George Osborne are just a few political heirs apparent who never clinched the top job....
July 13, 2020
ReviewNon-Fiction
A taste of sisterhood — Shelagh Delaney and other ‘accidental feminists’
...“At a time when Conservative prime minister Harold Macmillan was claiming people ‘had never had it so good’, reactions to the play exposed a deep social chasm.”...
August 16, 2019
FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2024
If you could only rescue one book, which would it be?
...It is a tribute by the American humorist and writer James Thurber, about working at The New Yorker under Harold Ross, the magazine’s co-founder and editor between 1925 and 1951....
April 10, 2019
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
Paul Johnson
UK chancellor’s Budget choice that promises to define his career
...His Budget did not go down well with the country, the cabinet or, most importantly, with prime minister Harold Macmillan....
October 22, 2018
UK politics
Cold war paranoia laid bare at top of UK government
...Under Harold Wilson, the Labour prime minister, a working group belonging to the “Official Committee on Communism (Home)” met periodically to discuss intelligence....
July 19, 2017
ReviewLife & Arts
Best books of 2016: Economics
...The Curse of Cash, by Kenneth Rogoff, Princeton University Press £22.95/$29.95 Rogoff argues that we have the ability to dispense with physical cash....
December 2, 2016
The Art Market
The Art Market: London hosts Frieze and 1:54 African art fair
...Early sales at the fair included some of Munson’s accompanying photographs ($15,000 each, edition of six)....
October 7, 2016
Nicholas Macpherson
Backstage power struggles in a long-running Whitehall drama
...Harold Wilson tried that with the Department of Economic Affairs but it failed. Subsequent prime ministers, spurred by frustrated advisers, have toyed with clipping the Treasury’s wings....
November 25, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
‘Out of Time: 1966 and the End of Old-Fashioned Britain’, by Peter Chapman
...’s mysterious friend Lord Kagan arrives every weekend in a Jaguar to stay with his mistress, and two men are living together up the road — who turn out to be Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell....
May 27, 2016
US & Canadian companies
Three US shale producers slash capital spending plans
...Oklahoma-based Continental Resources, controlled by its founder Harold Hamm, said it would cut capital spending by 66 per cent this year to $920m, following a 46 per cent reduction last year....
January 27, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
Face of Britain, National Portrait Gallery, London
...So said the art historian Kenneth Clark, and I think Simon Schama would probably agree with him....
September 20, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
The Father, Tricycle Theatre, London — review
...And Kenneth Cranham is quite simply shattering as André. We see this mischievous, crusty, clever, truculent man gradually receding until he’s left, in his pyjamas, weeping, “I’m losing all my leaves.”...
May 13, 2015
US presidential election
Wealthy Republican donors look to Rubio
...Harold and Annette Simmons, whose wealth stems from their ownership of several industrial companies, doled out more than $27m to Republican groups in 2012....
November 1, 2015

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