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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
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
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
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
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
FT Live
Diversity in Finance Awards 2024
Celebrating diversity, inclusion and equality in the financial services sector.
Thursday, 20 June44 Grosvenor Square, London W1K 2HP, UK
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
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 Asset Management
Asset Management: Paul Marshall readies Telegraph bid
...“Paul’s passionate about this and I’m happy to support him.”...
October 16, 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
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
FT Live
Future of Asset Management North America
New models for the next age of fund management
Wednesday, 25 SeptemberNew York, NY, USA
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
Bridge - Card game
Every bid, including passes, can contribute key information
...BiddingDealer: EastN/S Game West led 10♥, which ran to East’s J♥. East cashed A♥ and led K♥, which declarer ruffed. What is the best line now? Only one successful minor suit finesse is required....
September 20, 2023
Bridge - Card game
When obvious play is rejected by opponent, question why that might be
...BiddingDealer: SouthN/S Game In a decent-quality teams of four match, this hand proved pivotal. 3NT would have been an interesting contract, but both South players opted for — what seemed to be — a safer...
September 27, 2023
News updates from January 4: US air strike kills Iran-backed militia commander, German inflation rises to 3.8%
Japanese manufacturing activity shrinks on lower demand
...“Demand was . . . lower from key export clients based in China, Europe and North America, and from important sectors like electronics,” said Paul Smith, economics director at S&P Global Market Intelligence...
January 4, 2024
The Long ViewKatie Martin
The fun-free party in stocks
...katie.martin@ft.com Letters in response to this column: FT Weekend helped me complete 2024 stock pick / From Graham Turner, Ipswich, Suffolk, UK One film the Nikkei index probably won’t be copying / From Paul...
January 26, 2024
Moral Money
The climate credit trap Premium content
...S&P Global warned in November of a “poverty trap” in low-income countries hit by climate change....
April 17, 2024
Bridge - Card game
Anticipation of likely course of defence opens mind to alternatives
...BiddingDealer: NorthN/S Game Playing a Strong NT, North rebid 1NT to show 12-15pts. West led 7♣ to East’s A♣; Q♣ returned. South covered with K♣, and West ruffed and switched to 7♠....
September 6, 2023

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