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Due Diligence
Man or Machine: Wall Street banks prefer scale Premium content
...It has proposed Richard Anderson, the former chief executive of Amtrak and Delta Air Lines, and Mary Kathryn “Heidi” Heitkamp, a former US senator....
February 27, 2024
Jo Ellison
Chandler Bing and the fiction of forever friends
...The phenomenon was exemplified by the burgeoning brunch culture in which it was fashionable to go and sit on enormous leather sofas, drink Bloody Marys and flop supplements between one’s peers....
November 3, 2023
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
FT SeriesFantasy dinner parties
Melissa Thompson’s fantasy dinner
...Melissa Thompson is a food writer and columnist. “Motherland: A Jamaican Cookbook” is out now (Bloomsbury) Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
October 22, 2022
Illumina Inc
Francis deSouza resigns as Illumina boss after proxy battle with Carl Icahn
...Icahn had called on Illumina’s board to fire deSouza, saying he had masterminded a “Hail Mary” powergrab by acquiring Grail and allowing the core business to deteriorate....
June 11, 2023
Working It
The joy of being a great deputy
...Featuring Mary Barra, chief executive of GM, by the FT’s Rana Foroohar, and author Barbara Kingsolver by fellow writer Ann Patchett. One more thing . . ....
December 6, 2023
FT Wealth
‘All we’re asking is for a level playing field’: black entrepreneurs in the UK
...Having moved from to the UK from Nigeria aged 14, The Humble Penny’s Okoroafor worked as a chartered accountant before switching to his own business which he runs with his wife Mary....
March 24, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
InterviewLunch with the FT
Tom Hanks: ‘I was a pretty lucky guy’
...Emma Thompson, who starred as Mary Poppins author PL Travers opposite Hanks’s Walt Disney in Saving Mr Banks (2013), says that mega-fame “tends to change people....
November 24, 2023
ReviewTheatre
Lenny Henry shines in the wonderful, shocking Windrush drama August in England
...The house is indeed haunted, but by the legacy of Mary’s dead husband rather than any spook....
May 10, 2023
Venice Architecture Biennale 2023
Icônes, Venice review — a powerful collision of ancient and modern themes
...Decade by decade, from Paul Thompson’s middle-aged, spectacled “Dr Mary Walker, the first woman to wear trousers in public” (1911), belonging to Vanity Fair, to Jack Robinson’s nude portrait of black singer...
May 18, 2023
ReviewTheatre
A Dead Body in Taos — a fascinating new play about technology and identity
...But, when we rejoin them some months later, it is Thompson in command, having ridden the tide as it turns against Mary (Brian Vernel is first rate as this slippery, self-serving arriviste)....
November 3, 2022
The Big Read
How Ghana’s economy became a cautionary tale for Africa
...Ordinary people such as Aloko and Mary are on the frontline of Ghana’s economic crisis, and struggling to adapt to record levels of inflation....
May 14, 2023
News in-depthLeveraged loans
US banks use thaw in markets to shift ‘hung loans’ off their books
...One lender called the Tenneco deal “a Hail Mary effort to see if [the banks] could capitalise on recent market strength”. In the end, investor orders came up short....
November 22, 2022
Moral Money
The ‘insane’ state of financial sector climate action Premium content
...“The only way forward is realism for the short term, recognising that there is no way back to cheap energy,” Thompson writes....
August 22, 2022
ReviewTheatre
The RSC’s Richard III is a powerful portrait of savagery
...Set in a comfortable but worn vicarage kitchen in Devon (a pleasingly accurate set from Mark Thompson), this droll new play is hugely enjoyable and perceptive about the state of the nation and the state...
July 7, 2022
ReviewHistory books
Heiresses by Laura Thompson — windfallen women
...Little Mary Davies, on whose inherited tracts of London marshland the canny Grosvenor family would erect the Westminster estate, had herself become a widow and, more controversially, a Catholic supporter...
September 20, 2021
FT Live
Diversity in Finance Awards 2024
Celebrating diversity, inclusion and equality in the financial services sector.
Thursday, 20 June44 Grosvenor Square, London W1K 2HP, UK
HTSI12 extraordinary interiors we loved this year
At home with Just William... and his mum
...It ranges from the obscure – a Vorticist painting by the Benedictine nun Sister Mary Simon Corbett (found in the same Help The Aged charity shop in Highbury Corner as a beloved pair of £10 handmade Lobb...
September 2, 2022
Long Story Short
A selection of the FT’s biggest stories and best reads every Friday
...‘The ancient world is a metaphor for us’ You can take it from me personally: classicist Mary Beard is a hoot....
April 30, 2021
News in-depthUS Capitol attack
How Democrats failed to galvanise voters in year since January 6 riots
...“Democrats, including the current Biden White House, have not been as effective as they must be in communicating and leading this charge,” said Mary Anne Marsh, a Democratic strategist....
January 7, 2022
ReviewBiography and memoir
Tenement Kid by Bobby Gillespie — from Glasgow to Screamadelica
...He formed Primal Scream in 1982 before briefly becoming the drummer for The Jesus and Mary Chain, which he left a few years later....
November 2, 2021
Food & Drink
Supercharged garlic bread with walnuts and ricotta — a Honey & Co recipe
...Berry and Hunter S Thompson drinking on a park bench — makes the idea seem so joyous that we never wanted to eat indoors again....
April 21, 2021
Books
The books to read in 2022
...For Helen Thompson, the pandemic added fuel to the flames of a crisis that had been engulfing western democracies and the established global order for years....
December 29, 2021
Long Story Short
A selection of the FT’s biggest stories and best reads every Friday
...(Vox Recode) We always want to hear your thoughts and feedback, so drop me a line at jennifer.thompson@ft.com or email us at longstoryshort@ft.com — and have a lovely weekend....
July 10, 2020
Uber Technologies Inc
UK ruling on worker recognition threatens to crash Uber model
...“The ripples from this decision will travel far,” predicted Mary Walker, a partner at law firm Gordons....
February 19, 2021
Climate change
Climate leaders protest against lack of women at high levels in UN summit
...The heavyweight signatories — including Paris agreement co-author Laurence Tubiana and the former president of Ireland, Mary Robinson — said it was crucial for successful negotiations and decision-making...
December 10, 2020
ReviewScience fiction books
Genre round-up — the best new science fiction
...His It’s The End of the World (Elliott and Thompson, £14.99) is a fascinating survey of the apocalypse in popular culture, from the Book of Revelation through Mary Shelley’s The Last Man to The Walking Dead...
December 28, 2020

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