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ReviewFiction
Jon Fosse’s A Shining — light in the darkness
...Fosse is often likened to greats such as Beckett (for his absurdity), Bernhard (for his frenzied repetition), Ibsen (for the banal fact, as Fosse has put it, “we are both Norwegians and there are not very...
October 12, 2023
News in-depthUS interest rates
Powell under pressure to set out plan for US interest rate cuts
...Matthew Raskin, a former senior staffer at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York who is now US head of rates research at Deutsche Bank, said signalling anything more than that could complicate things for...
December 10, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
FT SeriesHouse & Home Countryside Living Special
Call of the countryside: the pleasures (and pressures) of a return to the family home
...Matthew Beckett runs the website Lost Heritage, dedicated to documenting the many significant English country houses which have been demolished or severely reduced....
April 5, 2024
Markets
US bond yields rise as ‘scorcher’ data points to strong economy
...European investors cheered retail-focused stocks, with shares of H&M jumping 18 per cent after the Sweden-based fashion retailer said its second-quarter profits beat estimates even as inflation and high...
June 29, 2023
ReviewTheatre
Further than the Furthest Thing, Young Vic review — a volcanic contemporary classic
...The islanders speak in a ripe, invented dialect — an egg becomes a “h’egg” — and with a rolling accent....
March 23, 2023
Dear JonathanJonathan Black
I want to move out of my tech job but how do I sell my transferable skills?
...Matthew H Options could include joining a VC, a consultancy, a non-profit, or setting up an advisory for start-ups and not charging much since you do not need the money....
May 1, 2023
FT Live
Commodities Asia Summit
Enabling decarbonisation in a time of disrupted trade flows
Wednesday, 6 NovemberSingapore
ReviewTheatre
The Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare’s Globe — daft farce haunted by shadows
...Jordan Metcalfe’s Dromio of Syracuse, meanwhile, beautifully mixes physical knockabout with Beckett-like musings on existence. “Am I Dromio? Am I myself?” he cries as he scales a rope ladder....
June 1, 2023
FT SeriesBest books of the year 2022
Best books of 2022: Business
...The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forwardby Daniel H Pink, Canongate £16.99/Riverhead Books $28 Daniel H Pink memorably describes regret as the “photographic negative” of a good life....
November 21, 2022
ReviewTheatre
Mrs Warren’s Profession review — a stinging satire on family and exploitation
...Loveday Ingram’s staging for b*spoke theatre company echoes Beckett, Stoppard and Magritte as well as the work of the two men themselves The performances are drolly enjoyable....
November 24, 2022
ReviewFiction
Sojourn by Amit Chaudhuri — failure to connect
...The prose is whittled down, showing everything in relief and reminiscent of the stripped-down emotional specificity of the modernist novels of André Breton or Samuel Beckett....
August 18, 2022
ExplainerMarket Questions
Will US consumer price inflation hit another 40-year high?
...Matthew Rocco Did monthly UK GDP growth pick up before Omicron took hold?...
January 9, 2022
Equities
Nasdaq closes down 5% in sharpest fall since 2020
...move lower on Thursday might have been exacerbated by trading in options and futures markets, as banks and brokers raced to hedge themselves as stocks fell, Cantor Fitzgerald’s head of derivatives trading Matthew...
May 5, 2022
War in Ukraine
Denial of denim: Levi’s Russia pullback sparks memories of Soviet era
...H&M, Nike, PVH and Under Armour are among other apparel companies to have pulled back. But Fast Retailing, which owns Uniqlo, took the opposite approach....
March 9, 2022
Harold James
Inflation may pave the way to a new era of globalisation
...Matthew Boulton and James Watt were creating operational steam engines as early as the 1770s. The Autocarrier, usually thought to be the first container ship, was launched in 1931....
April 4, 2022
US inflation
US consumer sentiment hits 10-year low with inflation fears surging
Americans fear White House will be unable to tame rising prices even as record numbers quit jobs
November 12, 2021
FT Live
Business of Luxury Summit
Gathering leaders in luxury for the 20th year
Sunday, 19 MayVenice, Italy
The Art of FashionThe Art of Fashion: jewellery 2022
The jewels in the gown
...Then there are the clothes from Area designers Beckett Fogg and Piotrek Panszczyk that resemble bravado reclamations of Vegas showgirl costumes, with dripping Victor/Victoria wigs of crystal and cupped bras...
June 20, 2022
ReviewNon-Fiction
The battle for American conservatism
...Matthew Continetti’s The Right is a rich and detailed survey from the 1920s to now....
May 4, 2022
Fashion
Clothes that deliver on design — and value
...Windsor previously worked as a designer for Zara and headed up pre-collection design at Matthew Williamson....
July 26, 2022
Matthew Garrahan
Life stuck in the endless loop of English football fandom
...matthew.garrahan@ft.com...
July 13, 2021
Travel
JS Bach’s 18th-century guide to Leipzig
...It was topped by an unpolished brass with only his name, ending with the four letters B-A-C-H, the same letters he had taken as the notes (in German musical nomenclature) to begin his final and unfinished...
March 29, 2022
Energy sector
Can businesses deliver on their climate promises?
...Fast-fashion chain H&M estimates that Scope 3 emissions make up 99.5 per cent of its overall environmental impact....
May 27, 2021
Life & Arts
FT Weekend Quiz solutions
...Round on the Links The link was Line of Duty Hastings Bent Mother of God Steve (Ovett and Cram) H Rider Haggard Corbett (Harry and Matthew) Kiss Me, Kate Pilkington AC/DC 12 Angry Men...
May 28, 2021
Architecture
Calendar houses — the mansions built as mystical puzzles
...This intriguing conceit emerged at the turn of the 17th century in Britain, according to architectural historian Matthew Beckett, author of The Country Seat blog....
June 18, 2021
ReviewTelevision
Lily James brings Nancy Mitford’s heroine to life in The Pursuit of Love
...The cousins take refuge from Matthew’s rages in a linen cupboard the size of a bedsit, convening the “Hons Society” — I always thought the “H” was silent, but never mind....
May 7, 2021
Robin Lane Fox
‘The Pursuit of Love’ — and flowers
...The BBC was correct to aspirate the H in Hons, as the girls pronounced it in that way. We have had a superb year for daffodils, which enjoyed the wet winter. What about the Kroesigs at Planes?...
June 11, 2021

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