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UK economy
Britain’s economic gloom has been overdone, says former UK Treasury official
...Referring to the electoral contest that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is expected to call in the second half of this year, Macpherson said in an interview with Radio 4’s Week in Westminster on Saturday: “It...
March 16, 2024
US politics & policy
China and Russia challenge US claim to mineral-rich stretches of seabed
...Additional reporting by Joe Leahy in Beijing Letter in response to this article: Deep sea mining could learn a bit from Opec / From Professor Paul Hallwood, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, US...
March 25, 2024
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
ReviewFiction
Burma Sahib — Paul Theroux imagines Orwell’s empire days
...Now the novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux has taken the formative years of Orwell’s police service and reimagined them....
February 23, 2024
Life & Arts
FT Weekend Quiz: Jeff Koons statue, Tony Blair and ‘Desert Island Discs’
...Paul Rogers, who later sang with Queen, came to prominence as the lead singer of which band?...
February 9, 2024
Bridge - Card game
Bridge: aggressive auction leads to ambitious contract requiring expert play
...Test yourself: even seeing all four hands, it is a challenge.BiddingDealer East N/S Game At the table, there were several additional rounds of bidding as North searched for a grand slam, but 6C became the...
April 17, 2024
Bridge - Card game
Ambitious slam looks set to fail on 4-0 trump break: perfect timing is required
...BiddingDealer: East N/S Game North’s 3H showed a game-going raise in spades; South’s 4H was a cue-bid....
April 3, 2024
FT Live
Inside Politics: who will win the UK general election?
Exclusively for FT subscribers
Wednesday, 8 MayDigital Conference
Bridge - Card game
Bridge: use fundamental bridge strategy to elicit big penalties
...Paul Mendelson’s new book, ‘The Joy of Bridge’, is out now...
March 13, 2024
Bridge - Card game
Bridge: determined player’s aggressive bid sets challenge to bring home thin contract
...Paul Mendelson’s new book, ‘The Joy of Bridge’, is out now...
March 6, 2024
National Archives
Blair government sought treaty to share Parthenon marbles with Greece
...“The Greek case has become more sophisticated — arguing for a loan rather than restitution of ownership — and contrasts with the [British Museum]’s blinkered intransigence to consider any compromises,” she...
December 29, 2023
ExplainerWar in Ukraine
Tracking Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia in maps
...Based on reporting by Roman Olearchyk, Christopher Miller, Ben Hall, Max Seddon, John Paul Rathbone, John Reed, Guy Chazan, Henry Foy, Mehul Srivastava, Polina Ivanova and Tim Judah....
April 18, 2024
News in-depthPolitical espionage
Case of alleged Russian spy offers a glimpse of shadowy world of intelligence
...C2’s life began to unravel in 2019, when British security services began to question him about his Russia ties....
February 10, 2024
Exchange traded funds
S&P 500 trackers hit a record 27% of 2023 equity ETF flows
...The US equity market accounts for an “astonishing” 60.5 per cent of global stock market capitalisation, according to research by Elroy Dimson of the University of Cambridge and Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton...
April 2, 2024
ReviewFilm
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire — return of the paranormal-zappers offers cold comfort
...Jason Reitman — son of series founding director Ivan Reitman — started again with a family-targeted agenda in 2021’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife, and returns as co-writer with director Gil Kenan on Ghostbusters...
March 21, 2024
InterviewWes Streeting
NHS should ‘seek to use’ private healthcare capacity, Wes Streeting says
...and ex-Number 10 adviser Paul Corrigan....
March 24, 2024
Bridge - Card game
Bridge: classic problem defeats many club players
...Paul Mendelson’s new book, ‘The Joy of Bridge’, is out now...
November 30, 2023
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
Labour Party UK
Keir Starmer’s Labour has ‘a lot to learn’ from Blair, Reeves says
...An incoming Labour government would have “a lot to learn” from Tony Blair’s era in Westminster, but it cannot simply espouse the party’s 1990’s political programme, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has said...
September 2, 2023
Passive Investing
The US equity market is one of the least concentrated in the world
...Magnificent Seven was Katie Martin’s Year in [two] word[s] 2023, and has been mentioned in 211 FT articles over the past twelve months....
March 4, 2024
FT Asset Management
Asset Management: Paul Marshall readies Telegraph bid
...“Paul’s passionate about this and I’m happy to support him.”...
October 16, 2023
InterviewFiction
Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch: ‘Civilisation is a thin veneer. It’s so easily lost’
...His debut, 2013’s Red Sky in Morning, was set among tenant farmers and despotic landlords of 1830s Ireland....
December 1, 2023
Bridge - Card game
Entries evaporate to frustrate declarer
...BiddingDealer: EastN/S Game West led J♥, and declarer assessed one likely loser in each suit. However, if trumps split 2-2, or West holds K♣, all will be well....
October 25, 2023
Transcript
Transcript: The west is losing patience with Israel
...Investors were very, very excited by all this news and the S&P 500 jumped by 1.4 per cent. We’ll get even more monetary policy news soon....
December 14, 2023
ReviewMusic
McCartney: A Life in Lyrics podcast is another hit for the ex-Beatle — review
...The new podcast McCartney: A Life in Lyrics is drawn from hours of conversations between Paul McCartney and the Irish poet Paul Muldoon, originally conducted for the book The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present....
October 9, 2023
Special ReportNorth America Innovative Lawyers
Law firms feel chill from affirmative action ruling
...Co-chaired by Jeh Johnson, a partner at Paul Weiss, and Brad Karp, the firm’s chair, it will provide guidance on the implications of the Supreme Court ruling for colleges, law firms, and other organisations...
December 5, 2023
Bridge - Card game
Bridge: Assess from which side of the table a lead may hurt more — then ‘right-side’ your contract
...BiddingDealer: NorthN/S Game North’s 2H bid here indicated that she would have re-bid at least 2NT, but that she only holds one poor — or even just a half — heart stopper....
November 8, 2023
ReviewVisual Arts
Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism, Musée d’Orsay — the defiant painters who gave us modern art
...As for Cézanne, his landscapes were already based on cubes and triangles as in the cottage on a tilting path in 1873’s “House of the Hanged Man”; “Modern Olympia” was an ungainly nude revealed in the violent...
March 29, 2024

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