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March 1, 2024

The Strange Survival of Liberal Britain — the pre-first world war age of anxiety

...He has an eye for a telling quotation, and in the age of Churchill, Lloyd George and Mrs Pankhurst, is never short of material. Yet the focus of the book is surprisingly narrow....

January 5, 2023

FT Live

Future of Retail

Securing long-term business growth with technology innovation

InterviewLunch with the FT

George Saunders: ‘It’s wonderful how writing never abandons you’

...The conductor’s wife, Mrs U, instructs a Speaker to talk dirty to her at night and through her he learns desire and beauty. Feelings, stripped of familiar surroundings, are brought closer....

November 4, 2022

Fashion

It’s time to reconsider the shirt collar

...Bianca Saunders, a young designer based in London, created Usher’s New York Met Gala look last month....

June 1, 2023

FT SeriesFantasy dinner parties

Diane Purkiss’s fantasy dinner: chefs from history show off in Oxford’s oldest banquet hall

...“We are all here to learn, Mr Burton. Civility requires that you try and taste.” But taste rarely transcends the centuries....

April 8, 2023

News in-depthUK economy

FT economists survey: ‘anaemic’ economy needs ‘investment, investment, investment’

...Michael Saunders: The UK economy will be pretty flat in the near term, with meagre positive growth for 2024 as a whole....

January 2, 2024

FT Live

Business of Luxury Summit

Gathering leaders in luxury for the 20th year

The Art of FashionThe Art of Fashion: the British issue

Meet the new faces of British menswear

...The past two years have been momentous for Saunders....

April 5, 2022

Bank of England

Bank of England divisions on economic outlook revealed by MPC member

...Mr Saunders’ willingness to speak out signals a return to more normal monetary policymaking in the UK....

December 4, 2020

Letter

Letter: A rise in rates will do little for the disadvantaged

...Many of Mr Sharma’s worries, from inflation threats to dollar weakness to muffled growth, have been aired by others before....

January 25, 2021

Dr Martens Clothing Ltd

From skinheads to the stock market: how Dr Martens went mainstream

...“One of the problems with iconic brands is they will go through periods when they are very popular and then slightly less cool,” said Mr Saunders. “That is part of the natural fashion cycle,” he added....

January 17, 2021

Serious MoneyStefan Wagstyl

Can consumers really lead the economy out of recession?

...Mr Saunders was surely right when he said the risks were “tilted on the side of a relatively slow recovery”. None of this precludes bouncebacks in demand among high earners....

December 17, 2020

US retail

US retail sales in November fell by the most in 7 months

...The retail sales figures on Wednesday highlighted a wide divergence within the sector, rather than providing evidence of a broad decline in US consumer spending, Mr Saunders said....

December 16, 2020

US retail

Walmart and Home Depot extend pandemic winning streaks

...The less generous unemployment benefits were having little impact on Home Depot, Mr Saunders said, as lower-income customers “were never particularly big spenders on home improvement”....

November 17, 2020

UK tax

Millions of people face tax return fines due to Covid, body warns

...Sarah Saunders, personal tax manager at RSM, an accountancy firm, said the statistics raised questions about HMRC’s capacity....

January 21, 2021

Coronavirus economic impact

UK’s economic recovery unlikely to last, BoE rate setters warn

...This made it “quite likely that additional monetary easing will be appropriate”, Mr Saunders concluded....

September 4, 2020

FT Live

Future of Asset Management Europe

New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence

UK economy

Vaccine news boosts UK economic outlook, says BoE chief economist

...“It is clear that business investment has been the single missing ingredient from the recovery so far,” Mr Haldane said....

November 23, 2020

On Wall StreetRobert Armstrong

What Wall Street would make of a Biden presidency

...So she likely must stay where she is (so must Bernie Saunders, for similar reasons, keeping another fiery critic of finance out of the cabinet)....

November 7, 2020

Retail sector

Foot traffic drops by half at US stores on ‘Grey Friday’

...of the worrying things for department stores is they don’t do as well at attracting consumers online, so the fact that footfall is very suppressed is really bad news for some of these stores,” said Neil Saunders...

November 28, 2020

Pilita Clark

Dear older people, could you please slow the heck down

...Mr Trump already holds that record: he was 70 when he got to the White House....

November 1, 2020

Bank of England

Bank of England’s Saunders warns growth set to remain weak

...Mr Saunders, who voted for a rate cut at the MPC’s November and December meetings, said his comments on Wednesday should not be taken as a signal of how he would vote on January 30 — leaving himself room...

January 15, 2020

News in-depthLululemon Athletica Inc

Has Lululemon reached its peak?

...Whatever the success of Lululemon’s integration of Mirror, Mr Saunders noted that the company remained part of a wider “wellness economy that has been growing for a very long time”....

July 5, 2020

Alec Russell

A time for big questions: lockdown life and late-stage communism

...George Saunders writes in his latest book A Swim in a Pond in the Rain that literature allows us to ask “big questions” such as “How are we supposed to be living down here?”...

January 29, 2021

News in-depthUS retail

America’s largest shopping mall owner gets a new tenant: itself

...JCPenney would be a bigger and “much more risky” proposition, Mr Saunders added. “It’s going to need a huge amount of investment to turn it round.”...

August 18, 2020

TikTok Inc

Walmart enters race for TikTok US with Microsoft partnership

...Mr Mayer joined TikTok three months ago but is leaving because of the pressure being applied on the company by Mr Trump....

August 27, 2020

US retail

September US retail sales grow at the fastest pace in three months

...Neil Saunders, retail managing director at the GlobalData consultancy, said that fewer coronavirus business restrictions meant more shoppers were out spending money....

October 16, 2020

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