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The shape of the future of AI; the empires of Britain and Russia in a 19th-century cold war; the ‘krautrock’ of Germany’s 1970s music scene; the murky colonialism of England’s landed wealth; Miranda July
May 12, 2024
Anglo American PLC
Anglo American’s South Africa investors open to improved BHP bid
...But David Masondo, South Africa’s deputy finance minister and chair of the Public Investment Corporation, which owns 8.4 per cent of Anglo, said the state-owned entity had yet to take a position based on...
May 9, 2024
FT Live
Business Book of the Year Award 2024
The search for the best business book is under way
Monday, 9 December1 Grosvenor Pl, London SW1X 7HJ, UK
Anglo American PLC
South African watchdog says it will have last word on BHP bid for Anglo American
...notification will be required where any transaction involves the change of control over the business of Anglo in South Africa”....
May 3, 2024
News in-depthAnglo American PLC
Why South Africa is Anglo American’s ‘poison pill’
...For decades, Anglo dominated corporate life, owning a large part of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange until the end of the apartheid era, with its tentacles reaching into sugar, wider industry and even media...
April 26, 2024
HTSI
A glorious time capsule of Tuscan life
...But there are also simple scenes of daily life: young women lazing under the city’s colonnades, men in suits basking in the sun or reading the newspaper at cafés in Piazza della Signoria....
April 26, 2024
News in-depthAnglo American PLC
South Africa ponders ‘corporate sunset’ for Anglo American
...The company started off in 1917 after Ernest Oppenheimer, a German-born diamond trader, raised £1mn to found the Anglo-American Corporation to mine gold around Johannesburg....
May 9, 2024
FT Live
The Impact Of Gen AI On The Legal Sector
How are law firms leveraging technology to transform services and operations?
Tuesday, 11 JuneDigital Conference
Enuma Okoro
Venice and the memory of water
...I immediately think of the waters of life, how clean water nourishes and sustains us....
April 28, 2024
The best books of the week
All Fours — Miranda July on a mid-life reawakening
...The idea of the road trip arises partly from the narrator’s own mid-life questioning; partly because she’s owed time off childcare by her husband....
May 8, 2024
Working from home
The rise of the supercommuter
...The senior director at RBC Wealth Management is one of a growing breed of “supercommuters”, many of whom moved out of town during the pandemic to increase their living space in more affordable regions, and...
March 31, 2024
London
South by Southwest heads to London with week-long tech and arts festival
...South by Southwest, the Texan festival of music and tech that regularly attracts the world’s top entrepreneurs and artists, will come to Europe for the first time with plans for a new campus in east London...
May 8, 2024
HTSI
Serena Sutcliffe, wine’s original XX factor
...She chaired the Institute of the Masters of Wine and became the first British wine professional to receive the Légion d’Honneur. As honorary chairman, she still consults for Sotheby’s wine department....
May 10, 2024
HTSI
Humberto Campana’s circle of life
...The collection was inspired by the story of Noah’s Ark and, as in much of their work, used South American materials. “In November, we had a heatwave in Brazil,” says Humberto. “All the plants burned....
April 12, 2024
The Big Read
The young South Africans rethinking Nelson Mandela’s legacy
...One senior technocrat, and life-long ANC supporter, likens the past 30 years to a football match with a strong performance in the first half and a series of own goals in the second....
April 24, 2024
Janan Ganesh
The myth of the second chance
...But life is path-dependent: each mistake narrows the next round of choices. A big one, or just an early one, can foreclose all hope of the life you wanted....
April 13, 2024
HTSI
How to spot it – on safari with the world’s first smart binoculars
...you to download extra information on the species found in a given region; I installed the South Africa pack of 712 birds.)...
May 8, 2024
FT Live
Future of the Car 2025
The leading gathering for the automotive industry
Tuesday, 13 May 2025Sancroft, Paternoster Square, London EC4M 7DQ, UK
FT Magazine
The life-ruining power of routines
...None of this has allowed me, at 41, to avoid the gradual onset of mid-life melancholy, which I’ve come to believe is a consequence of my overly routinised way of life....
March 8, 2024
South Africa
Burning flag advert divides South Africa ahead of pivotal national vote
...“Under this coalition of corruption, life will only get worse....
May 8, 2024
Mining
BHP says Anglo American deal structure is not a negative reflection of South Africa
...Meanwhile, David Masondo, deputy finance minister and chair of the state-owned Public Investment Corporation that is Anglo’s second-biggest shareholder, said in an interview on Thursday that the decision...
May 2, 2024
Stephen Bush
Comment: Do not overestimate the significance of the Blackpool South by-election
...This is true: the Blackpool South by-election is the least “noisy” of the election results — the local elections are driven by a combination of local factors and the national mood....
May 3, 2024
News updates from February 1: Meta announces first ever dividend, Bank of England holds interest rates
UK Labour party promises to cap corporation tax at 25%
...Rachel Reeves, the UK’s shadow chancellor, has promised no rise in corporation tax from its current rate of 25 per cent under a Labour government if the party wins the general election later this year....
February 1, 2024
Music
Anita Pallenberg — the Rolling Stones muse who blazed a trail of her own
...“The directors found a poignancy and sadness in my mum’s inability to be in control of her life, for a time. She wasn’t a victim or victimiser....
May 11, 2024
Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast24 min listen
Viet Thanh Nguyen on adapting 'The Sympathizer' for TV
...Both the book and the series tell the story of the Captain, a communist mole in South Vietnam who comes to the US as a refugee as the Vietnam war is ending....
May 13, 2024
Travel
In search of South Africa’s ‘Marine Big Five’
...High on a hill just outside the coastal town of Gansbaai, it felt like the Marine Big Five and perhaps all South Africa’s coastal megafauna might be visible....
April 17, 2024
David Pilling
The bullish case for South Africa
...economist at Standard Bank, who also thinks South Africa may surprise on the upside....
March 11, 2024
Bridge - Card game
Success in five-level contract requires determination, awareness and luck
...With neither major suit offering prospects of establishment, and the defenders already trying to disrupt cross-ruffing opportunities, all looked bleak but South remained curiously sanguine....
May 8, 2024

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