NOTTINGHAM v. AMERICAN STANDARD, INC. et al

...Thanks to such dubious standard-bearers, V-necks have since occupied opposing ends of the sartorial spectrum — denoting a certain slovenly brand of old-school masculinity at one, arch geekery at the other...

April 8, 2024

News updates from March 18: Biden warns Rafah invasion would be ‘a mistake’; Nvidia unveils ‘superchip’

Nottingham Forest docked points for breaching financial rules

...English football club Nottingham Forest has been docked four points by the Premier League for breaching financial rules, becoming the second top tier team to be punished this season for overspending....

March 18, 2024

FT Live

Business of Art

Market shifts and future growth

FT MagazineTim Hayward

Everyday People, Nottingham: ‘I was alone, I was delighted’ — review

...I think I may have come across it in an alleyway in Nottingham....

February 15, 2024

ReviewTheatre

James V: Katherine, Edinburgh review — exceptional entry in Rona Munro’s Scottish history series

...Munro’s play imagines the conversations — between Patrick and Katherine, between Katherine and the court, between Katherine and James V....

April 12, 2024

Chess

Chess: Half a century on, Fischer v Spassky at Reykjavik still echoes

...The most famous chess match of all time Bobby Fischer v Boris Spassky in 1972, still casts its echoes....

March 11, 2024

Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch

Why are American roads so dangerous?

...Instead, an underrated factor seems to be not American cars but American drivers....

April 19, 2024

FT Live

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Instant InsightPeter Spiegel

Coalition government, American style

...The Republican Speaker has sworn fealty to the former president, but Johnson struck at a moment of maximum weakness for the party’s standard bearer, stuck as he is in a dingy Manhattan courtroom for days...

April 20, 2024

Israel-Hamas war

Israel passes bill to shut local Al Jazeera office

...In 2022, Shireen Abu Akleh, a well-known Palestinian-American journalist working for the network, was killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank town of Jenin....

April 1, 2024

Architecture

Tropical Modernism at the V&A — the architects who built a postcolonial future

...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....

March 1, 2024

Visual Arts

Through the Lens — Latif Al Ani’s peerless photographs of ancient Iraq

...“Most visitors were wealthy foreigners, generally North American tourists,” Azara writes, radically abridging Al Ani’s statement into the much terser: “Newcomers came. Pandora’s Box was opened.”...

January 30, 2024

Inside BusinessSujeet Indap

Delaware, Inc agonises about Musk backlash as its lawyers seek changes

...About two-thirds of American companies are incorporated in Delaware, attracted to the small, mid-Atlantic state by its sophisticated legal system....

April 23, 2024

Tefaf Maastricht 2024

Battle to keep sculpture in Britain highlights European museums’ struggles

...However, Britain’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport has placed a temporary export bar on the carving and given the V&A until June 14 to raise £2mn so it can match the price paid by the American institution...

March 2, 2024

ReviewPhotography

Photo City exhibition review — photography and the metropolis in conversation at V&A Dundee

...Photo City: How Images Shape the Urban World at the V&A Dundee is a terrific exploration of the exchanges between the ways cities have been photographed and of how those images have shaped the subsequent...

April 11, 2024

Janan Ganesh

OJ Simpson and the paradox of American power

...In Europe, both the “woke” movement and much of the alt-right reaction against it are American imports. And the US isn’t even trying to do this....

April 20, 2024

Israel-Hamas war

Israel withdraws from al-Shifa hospital in Gaza

...But the raid left much of al-Shifa a burnt-out shell....

April 1, 2024

FT Live

Commodities Global Summit 2025

The pre-eminent gathering of senior commodity executives, traders and financiers

Israel-Hamas war

UN officials call for probe into reports of mass graves at Gaza hospitals

...The IDF did not comment about the situation at al-Shifa hospital....

April 23, 2024

FT Alphaville

FTAV’s further reading

...— The Simpsons’ Cypress Hill London Symphony Orchestra gag comes true (BBC) — Al-Yamamah arms deal report comes to light ending anti-corruption campaigners’ battle (Guardian) — March Madness of NYC Hot...

March 25, 2024

Thames Water

Thames Water crisis prompts jitters over ‘gold standard’ debt model

...“[WBS] was viewed, outside of government debt, as the gold standard of UK fixed income investment,” said Steve Curtis, a finance partner at law firm Latham & Watkins who has advised on a number of water...

April 23, 2024

Letter

Letter: Reducing train services to cut costs lacks ambition

...Martin Howell Director — Transport Markets, Worldline UK&I, Nottingham, UK...

November 24, 2023

Anglo American PLC

De Beers’ diamond output drops after slow recovery triggers production cut

...“Ongoing uncertainty around economic growth prospects has led to a continued cautious purchasing approach” by its customers, Anglo American said....

April 23, 2024

Chess

World No 1 v world champion: Carlsen and Ding to meet this weekend

...Puzzle 2558 Samuel Sevian v Wojciech Przybylski, Titled Tuesday 2021. White to move and win. Click here for solution...

February 5, 2024

News updates from March 5: China targets 5% GDP growth in 2024, Gold and Bitcoin hit record highs

Israel leaves unchanged rules for access to al-Aqsa mosque during Ramadan

...The Israeli government has decided to leave unchanged the rules for access to the al-Aqsa mosque for Muslims during Ramadan, sidestepping pressure from the far-right extremists in Prime Minister Benjamin...

March 5, 2024

FT Magazine

Battle for the American West

...It’s a hope that the American public land is still the American public land and it can’t be controlled.” And Cape, of all things, builds fences for a living....

April 13, 2024

FT Alphaville

The Bank of England is still v v worried about Treasury basis trades

...The Financial Policy Committee — which some American grandees want to copy-paste to the US — includes top officials from the BoE, finance ministry and regulators and meets four times a year to discuss systemic...

December 6, 2023

Venice Biennale 2024

Myths, history and trauma haunt Lebanon’s pavilion

...We had arranged to meet at Al Solh’s studio near Arnhem, south of Amsterdam....

April 13, 2024

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