Melissa R Ward

How I Won a Nobel Prize — cancel culture in the crosshairs

...Melissa’s plight is entirely, well, academic....

February 20, 2024

Test case looms for companies seeking US bankruptcy protection

...Its chief judge David R Jones resigned in October after admitting an undisclosed, long-standing romantic relationship with a lawyer who appeared frequently in cases he oversaw....

February 26, 2024

FT Live

Future of Asset Management Europe

New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence

News in-depthCoronavirus treatment

Scientists grapple with long Covid puzzle as millions fall sick

...“We are not expecting a simple cure, a silver bullet, because we know from other complex illnesses that that’s rarely achieved,” said Melissa Heightman, who opened one of the first specialist long Covid...

February 15, 2024

ReviewMusic

Fans in raptures as the church of Hozier arrives in London

...“Jackie and Wilson”, a “mid-youth crisis” paean to both unrequited love and the 1950s R&B/soul singer of the title, sounded even more haunting a decade after its release....

December 18, 2023

Nicholas Mulder

The west would harm itself with rash seizures of frozen Russian assets

...Helping Kyiv ward off Russian aggression defends national sovereignty and territorial integrity....

January 4, 2024

ReviewTheatre

A Strange Loop is a dazzlingly clever multi-layered musical — review

...We first meet Tambo (Rhashan Stone) and Bones (Daniel Ward) trapped in a minstrel show....

July 5, 2023

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Awards Asia-Pacific

Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region

The Weekend Essay

Who was the real Amy Winehouse?

...“All the time,” says a bar staff member called Melissa who has worked there for four years. “But we don’t make it, we never have. We would never make it.”...

September 9, 2023

ReviewTelevision

Conversations with Friends review — earnest Sally Rooney adaptation is no Normal People

...There are enough pregnant pauses here to fill a maternity ward. Curiously for a series titled Conversations with Friends, the non-verbal interactions stand out more than the dialogue....

May 10, 2022

UK Budget 2024

UK Budget 2024: the chancellor’s speech in full

...Doctors, nurses and ward staff spend hours every day filling out forms when they could be looking after patients....

March 6, 2024

News in-depthSpace industry

‘We really want to be first’: UK fights to lead new space race

...The EU-funded Centre for Space Technologies, which includes collaboration and R&D facilities, has been filled five years earlier than expected....

November 18, 2022

FTX Trading Ltd

Crypto creditors anonymous? updated

...Ward Benson, an attorney with the Tax Division of the US Department of Justice. We checked that he does in fact exist, and is listed as counsel on other cases....

December 8, 2022

Private investing

Looking for alternatives: the investment trust route

...“I’ve known quite a lot of fund managers who thought risk was spelt R.E.W.A.R.D,” says Arthur Copple, chair of Temple Bar investment trust....

November 11, 2022

Law

The lawyers battling to redress systemic racial inequalities

...Speaking about the White House’s decision to override the bureau’s judgment, lawyer Melissa Arbus Sherry says: “What was really striking was to see all of that expertise just thrown to the side.”...

December 10, 2021

FirstFT

FirstFT: Hedge funds that bet on volatility make comeback

...“There are three R words right now: It’s Russia, it’s recession and it’s [interest] rates,” said Citigroup chief Jane Fraser....

May 25, 2022

Drugs research

HIV treatments advance but vaccine remains ‘a long way off’

...Behind the door, hidden from public view, was the Aids ward....

September 27, 2021

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Summit

Guiding business in a new global age

Banco Central do Brazil

Inflation fears prompt Brazil to lift rates for first time in 6 years

...to R$375 ($26-$66)....

March 17, 2021

News in-depthCoronavirus

‘There is a tolerance for death’: Brazil battles fresh Covid storm

...Brazil’s Senate on Thursday voted to support a fresh aid package worth R$44bn ($7bn)....

March 8, 2021

Due Diligence

Friends in high places: Buffett’s banker buys into Brunswick Premium

...Squire Patton Boggs has hired Steven Ward as a partner in London, where he will lead the development of a new funds practice. He joins from Paul Hastings....

June 24, 2021

InterviewLunch with the FT

NHS chief Simon Stevens: ‘You’ve got to make the weather’

...There was one Etch A Sketch on the ward and the day I was sent home was the day that it was my turn to get the bloody Etch A Sketch!”...

July 23, 2021

Arts

The best podcasts of 2020

...Presented by Vann R Newkirk II, it tells an epic story of environmental catastrophe, government ineptitude, misinformation and institutional racism....

December 18, 2020

Europe

European nations plan cautious easing of lockdowns for Christmas

...“For us to have a nice Christmas we need to extend the lockdown and tighten it too,” he said, noting that even though the shutdown had led to a stabilisation in new infections, German intensive care wards...

November 22, 2020

Coronavirus

Extra coronavirus restrictions introduced in West Midlands

...Ian Ward, leader of Birmingham city council, said: “I understand that it may be frustrating that you can go to the pub but not see your family, but the data we have shows that the infection rate has risen...

September 11, 2020

Coronavirus

Parts of north-west England face tougher coronavirus restrictions

...It is intended to allow councils to focus resources on the worst-affected wards....

August 21, 2020

UK economy

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

...Melissa Davis: This is unlikely....

January 3, 2022

HTSI

The future of the beauty business

...“So not only will they smell good, they’ll also ward off unwanted germs.”...

July 7, 2020

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