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News in-depthSouth African politics
‘Wrecking ball’ ex-president Jacob Zuma upends South Africa election
...“Jacob Zuma is the wrecking ball of this coming election,” Gayton McKenzie, leader of the Patriotic Alliance, one of a number of political upstarts vying with established parties for votes, said last month...
April 15, 2024
FT Magazine
The irresistible mystery of the beautiful batsman
..., or fall momentarily silent, when one such batsman coaxed the ball to the straight boundary. I felt the urge too, as if I’d mislaid my breath....
April 13, 2024
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Media
Canal+ confident it can overcome regulatory hurdles as it pursues MultiChoice
French group must navigate South African legislation limiting foreign ownership of national broadcasters
April 8, 2024
ReviewVisual Arts
Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism, Musée d’Orsay — the defiant painters who gave us modern art
...The entrance hall to the Musée d’Orsay’s magnificent Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism is smothered in bright red flowers — enlarged versions of the scarlet blots and flecks swarming the long grasses of...
March 29, 2024
FT MagazineSimon Kuper
Mark Rutte will be perfect
...He often said he’d become a teacher after his premiership, but he isn’t ready for life outside politics. He’d rather exchange his everyday Hague freedom for the constant presence of bodyguards....
March 7, 2024
Life & Arts
FT Weekend Quiz: Haydn’s Symphony No 45, Robert Graves and cymbals
...In cricket what kind of run is scored when the batter hasn’t hit the ball — and the ball hasn’t hit him or her? What’s the personal anthem of the US president, often played when he enters a room?...
March 8, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Europe Express
Mark Rutte’s Nato leadership bid marches on Premium content
...“I think at the latest we’d like to see this settled by the Washington summit,” she told reporters. “I think you’re well aware that the US position is that we fully back Mark Rutte.”...
April 3, 2024
HTSI
Why menswear went mad for the builder’s apron
...No “Taskrabbit” is going to splurge on one of Fendi’s denim or leather utility aprons for spring, but if they did, they’d find them fit for purpose....
April 8, 2024
ReviewDance
Frankenstein — dancer Jonathan Goddard is one of the great monsters
...Mark Bruce, who enjoyed an award-winning hit with his Dracula in 2013, has made a string of dark and dirty dance dramas in the meantime but has returned to the horror vault for his Frankenstein, whose brief...
March 25, 2024
Alice Ross
Active managers’ attacks on sustainable passives miss their mark
...In an ideal world, active sustainable funds would be genuinely active: the managers would use their voting rights, they’d engage with all their companies and they’d have strict policies about shunning companies...
February 16, 2024
The Big Read
The young South Africans rethinking Nelson Mandela’s legacy
...Her story was that he negotiated away his people’s future because he was no longer truly a Black person, he’d been turned into somebody else inside prison, whereas she was the embodiment of people’s suffering...
April 24, 2024
Travelista
Classic escapes with contemporary chic
...The roadside pool has been joined by a bocce ball court and a dry sauna....
February 4, 2024
Energy Source
Exxon’s exit marks reversal of fortune for Equatorial Guinea Premium content
...Before the incident, Exxon pumped 45,000 barrels a day out of the country; afterwards it dropped to 15,000 b/d....
March 19, 2024
HTSI
Olivia Laing’s garden of love
...Ian is decades older than me, and there was no way I’d be living in such a beautiful, enriching place without his generosity and love. During the years of the pandemic I was terrified I’d lose him....
April 23, 2024
Letter
Letter: How to end the influence of money in US elections
...Jeffrey D ClementsChief Executive, American PromiseCambridge, MA, US...
March 8, 2024
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Markets InsightMohamed El-Erian
A turning point in central banking
...Undoubtedly, and using a clever distinction I heard years ago from my former Pimco colleague Andrew Balls, last week’s central bank outcomes were correlated rather than co-ordinated....
March 26, 2024
InterviewLunch with the FT
General Mark Milley: ‘Americans have kind of had it with wars’
...I’d have to question their mental stability.”...
March 1, 2024
HTSI
Setchu, Savile Row and the origami suit
...“He was so dedicated and always working, never taking his eye off the ball,” recalls his tutor, Howard Tangye, former head of womenswear there....
April 3, 2024
Life & Arts
FT Weekend Quiz: ‘The Pillar of the Cloud’, iacta alea est and a haircut
...Which post has been held by Alasdair Milne, Michael Checkland and Mark Thompson? In cricket, what’s the collective word for byes, leg byes, wides and no balls?...
February 16, 2024
Scoreboard
Mark Cuban’s Mavericks bet Premium content
...The thing about sports investors is that they rarely have just the ball in their sights....
December 2, 2023
InterviewTheatre
Writer Sanaz Toossi on bringing ‘English’ to Britain: ‘It’s a play born of rage’
...She gives the impression she’d rather not discuss politics at all....
April 24, 2024
Sport
Private equity investor CVC makes its mark on rugby union
...Another said that “little progress” had been made on the key issue of growing the value of the sport’s media rights, with change proving “much harder than they’d realised”....
March 16, 2024
The Body, a photography special
The greatest footballers are masters of space
...(The Catalan writer Jordi Punti has noted the way Messi walks around during matches — “as if he has lost his keys or something” — seeming to chart or mark territory.)...
January 4, 2024
FT MagazineTim Hayward
Donia, London: Fantastic Filipino food in the most soul-sucking part of the city — review
...What Farrow & Ball would probably call “Support Hose Beige” but it was made of puréed chicken livers, vinegar, soy and sugar....
March 28, 2024
FT MagazineRobert Shrimsley
Ask Shrimsley: are centrist dads making a comeback?
...We just pretended we’d gone off Jeremy Clarkson for a while....
April 12, 2024

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