Margie Ann Bell

Fayne by Ann-Marie MacDonald — wonderfully Gothic

...Charlotte Bell, Ann-Marie MacDonald’s young protagonist, lives an isolated but intellectually stimulating life with her father, Lord Henry, the 17th Baron of Fayne, a sprawling estate “in neither England...

August 11, 2023

Style

The women getting into modelling in their 50s and 60s

...Mouchette Bell, sixties For the Irish-Nigerian stylist Mouchette Bell, who previously worked as a fashion editor for Mademoiselle in New York, and at British Vogue under Anna Wintour, it was a chance invitation...

January 29, 2024

FT Live

Future of Asset Management Europe

New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence

US equities

Handful of tech stocks drive diverging measures of S&P 500 performance

...Riding the AI wave, Nvidia, Microsoft, Alphabet, Apple, Amazon and Meta have added a total of $3.1tn in market cap terms in 2023, data from AJ Bell show....

June 3, 2023

FirstFT

FirstFT: US security officials scrutinise Abu Dhabi’s $3bn Fortress takeover

...Alphabet: Investors will be listening for commentary on advertising revenue, cloud growth and artificial intelligence plans when Google’s parent reports earnings after the bell....

July 25, 2023

ReviewMusic

Royal Opera’s new Rusalka is all about the music — review

...Aleksei Isaev is an eloquent, dignified Vodnik and Emma Bell is in her element as the glamorous Foreign Princess (here named “Duchess”), firing off imperious volleys of sound....

February 22, 2023

Travel

Deep in the Canadian wilderness, ski-touring heaven

...Boulder Hut was built in 1984 by Art Twomey, a mountaineer and film-maker, and his partner Margie Jamieson....

November 30, 2022

FT Live

Business Book of the Year Award 2024

The search for the best business book is under way

ReviewFiction

Beginners’ breakouts — our pick of the best new debut fiction

...The community is split between Bell Village, staunchly Christian and upwardly mobile, and the barracks, where the Hindu workers scratch a subsistence living....

January 2, 2023

Chelsea Flower Show

Will nettles win medals at the Chelsea Flower Show?

...When I made a show garden with Ann-Marie Powell back in 2010 we had two people on leaf-polishing duty who would have passed out if they’d seen the state of some of Massey’s leaves....

May 19, 2023

Live news updates from July 11: Klarna valuation cut to less than $7bn in funding round, Sri Lanka’s president to quit after mass protests

1922 elects executive committee to govern Tory leadership race

...The rest of the 1922’s executive committee is now made up of a dozen Tory MPs: Aaron Bell, Miriam Cates, Jo Gideon, Richard Graham, Chris Green, Robert Halfon, Sally-Ann Hart, Andrew Jones, Tom Randall,...

July 11, 2022

Queen Elizabeth II

‘She’s all we’ve ever known’: UK reacts to life without its Queen

...In Manchester, under a gunmetal grey sky, midday shoppers and dog walkers dodged the downpours to the soundtrack of a muffled, hour-long bell toll....

September 9, 2022

House & Home

What’s behind the success of the ‘cleanfluencers’?

...Ann Russell is one of the trend’s rising stars....

March 17, 2023

Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching

Should I pay off my Help to Buy mortgage?

...Ann Stanyer, partner and specialist in elderly client law at Wedlake Bell, says this is becoming a widespread problem....

November 8, 2022

ReviewTelevision

Scottish crime drama Shetland returns with a fresh murder case to BBC1

...It’s cold blue seas and cold blue stares all round for the sixth series of Shetland, adapted from Ann Cleeves’ detective novels, and up to now I haven’t watched a single one....

October 15, 2021

ReviewFiction

Burntcoat by Sarah Hall — elemental bodies

...For several weeks I watched a corpse decompose [ . . . ] The body is a wound, a bell ringing in emergency — life, life, life.”...

September 30, 2021

News in-depthUK economy

Political uncertainty and Brexit will slow UK recovery in 2022, economists predict

...David Bell, professor at Stirling university, said a living-standards crisis would be “acute” for poorer households, who spent a higher proportion of their income on energy....

January 3, 2022

FT Live

Investing in America

Foreign companies as drivers of US growth, resilience and competitiveness

Gender pay gap

UK companies’ gender pay gap reporting drops

...Any organisation that isn’t looking at that and making changes would ring the alarm bell,” Wilson says....

June 28, 2021

The Weekend Essay

‘Carmen Mola’ and the politics of a pseudonym

...and Acton Bell....

October 22, 2021

News in-depthUS equities

Wall Street investors look warily at gathering tax ‘storm’

...“Everybody is kind of at a picnic right now and you can see the potential for a storm coming in,” said Ann Miletti, head of active equity at Wells Fargo Asset Management....

April 9, 2021

ReviewNon-Fiction

Feminist voices — the endless battle for freedom of choice

...The Italian-American Silvia Federici’s 1975 work Wages against Housework is highlighted here, for example, over British sociologist Ann Oakley’s The Sociology of Housework, from 1974....

March 26, 2021

FT Books Essay

Depression and the long search for cause, cure and meaning

...We’ve all got a fog in the brain, all our days have declined to a uniform grey, we all tend to repeat versions of Sylvia Plath’s bell jar — an image even she does not belabour....

May 5, 2021

UK economy

FT economists’ survey: people to feel worse-off as inflation and tax rises bite in 2022

...David Bell: Its armoury to control supply-side inflation is limited....

January 3, 2022

Coronavirus8 min

Coronavirus webcams: see the world through tourist, traffic and wildlife cameras

...[BUZZING] [CHURCH BELL RINGING] [BIRD CHIRPING] [MID-TEMPO MUSIC] [SCRAPING] [MUSIC ACCELERATES] [TRAFFIC SOUNDS] BRIAN CURY: That was one thing that really struck me was the speed at which the streets...

April 30, 2020

ObituaryPhyllis Lyon

Phyllis Lyon, feminist and gay-rights advocate, 1924-2020

...Phyllis Lyon’s wedding bells were heard around the world....

April 17, 2020

ReviewFiction

Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout — bursts of a life

...Olive is baffled by his choices, dislikes Ann, and is wounded by the rudeness of her grandchildren....

October 25, 2019

World

The biggest events of 2019 — in pictures

...Firefighters managed to save the famous twin bell towers....

December 31, 2019

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