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Bridge - Card game
Cheap first trick subsequently costs contract
...BiddingDealer: South E/W Game The bidding went well....
April 23, 2024
Bridge - Card game
Bridge: Silence from opponent marks partner with key card
...BiddingDealer: SouthE/W Game East could have raised to 2S — and many would — but, at this vulnerability, it seems a risky option. West led K♠....
March 20, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
US-China relations
CIA chief made secret trip to China in bid to thaw relations
...Paul Haenle, a former top White House China official, said one advantage of sending Burns was that he was respected by Democrats and Republicans and also well known to Chinese officials....
June 2, 2023
Bridge - Card game
Bridge: fine slam relies on controls, long suits and some decent fortune
...Paul Mendelson’s new book, ‘The Joy of Bridge’, is out now...
February 28, 2024
Bridge - Card game
Bridge: excellent lead challenges declarer to think carefully before initial play
...Paul Mendelson’s new book, ‘The Joy of Bridge’, is out now...
February 7, 2024
Travel
White sands and pink dolphins on an Amazon adventure
...The Tupaiú headed upstream, chugging along placidly, a fresh breeze fanning its open-sided decks. Eddies and currents swirled in the depths below....
January 6, 2024
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Bridge - Card game
Deduction from silence reveals position of missing cards
...Paul Mendelson’s new book, ‘The Joy of Bridge’, is out now...
December 6, 2023
HTSI
19 ways to say it with bouclé
...top, €440 Airei wool-mix trousers, £1,045, selfridges.com Pols Potten terry-loop fabric Clover pouf, £255, madeindesign.co.uk The inspiration: Romy Schneider at Coco Chanel’s studio, Paris, c1960 A.W.A.K.E...
January 6, 2024
Bridge - Card game
Recognise suits which offer maximum tricks only if led by opponents
...BiddingDealer: SouthE/W Game West led 2♥; declarer won, and drew the remaining hearts with a second round. Rather than tackling clubs himself, he sought to compel East-West to assist him....
September 13, 2023
ReviewTheatre
‘Cowbois’ has fun subverting the machismo of Hollywood Westerns
...“How very queer,” remark Lucy McCormick’s Jayne and Emma Pallant’s Sally Ann, fanning themselves aggressively in an effort to stir something up, even if it’s only the sultry air....
January 24, 2024
Bridge - Card game
Lacking both entries and confidence, declarer must enlist help of unwilling opponent
...BiddingDealer: NorthE/W Game The singleton A♦ may have put some off from raising no-trumps but, once bid, South is maximum, and must try for game....
August 16, 2023
Global trade
Houthi attacks on vessels in Red Sea sound alarm for global trade
...that the Gaza conflict will expand regionally and threaten oil and gas infrastructure and shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf,” said Bob McNally, founder of Rapidan Energy and a former adviser to the George W...
December 5, 2023
Oren Cass
Republicans are misremembering their record of ‘fiscal discipline’
...George W Bush saw increases of 31 per cent and 36 per cent in his two terms as president. On the one hand, percentage growth may not be the right measure....
November 2, 2023
Bridge - Card game
Unfortunate declarer stymied by key defensive plays not found elsewhere
...Astonishingly, at over 20 other tables, E/W recorded a plus score. Read Paul’s previous Bridge columns at ft.com/bridge-card-game...
May 30, 2023
News in-depthOil & Gas industry
Oil and gas profits triple under Biden even as industry decries him
...It’s more the fundamentals,” said Bob McNally, president of consultancy Rapidan Energy and a former energy adviser to George W Bush....
February 27, 2024
FT Live
Accelerating the Energy Transition in Asia
Industrial strategies and policy drivers for sustainability
Tuesday, 30 JulyMandala Club, 31 Bukit Pasoh Rd, Singapore 089845
Airlines
Airlines rush to avoid cancellations after engine recall
...Paul Geaney, chief commercial officer of lessor Avolon, said aviation’s “fundamental supply and demand imbalance” would last for several years....
August 14, 2023
Special ReportUS Manufacturing
Doubts linger over Biden’s industrial push
...“I certainly think the clean energy stuff is entirely driven by policy,” says Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former official in the George W Bush administration who is now president of the American Action Forum,...
October 18, 2023
ReviewBiography and memoir
The Maverick — George Weidenfeld, publisher to saints and sinners
...Saints or sinners, newsworthy names found a welcoming home between W&N covers....
September 27, 2023
ReviewNon-Fiction
The Money Kings — the profound legacy of America’s Jewish banking dynasties
...Readers are carried through the US civil war and its aftermath, multiple financial panics in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Paul Warburg’s contribution in establishing the Federal Reserve in 1913, the...
December 5, 2023
UnhedgedEthan Wu
Why the term premium is rising Premium content
...The oil embargo that followed ultimately led to the unanchoring of US inflation and forced the Federal Reserve, under Paul Volcker, to crush the economy. Is that antecedent the right one?...
October 9, 2023
Bridge - Card game
Bridge: delay play of crucial suit until distributional information is revealed
...BiddingDealer: SouthE/W Game If clubs divide 3-2, all is easy but, if they break 4-1, you can still capture J♣ and score four tricks: you just have to know which opponent holds the length....
March 9, 2023
FT CollectionsWar in Ukraine: geopolitics
Nato’s dilemma: what to do about Ukraine’s bid to join?
...At an early morning meeting on the second day of the alliance’s summit that year, then secretary-general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer met with US president George W Bush and his French and German counterparts Nicolas...
July 10, 2023
Bridge - Card game
Relative size of card reveals partner’s true intention
...Read Paul’s previous Bridge columns at ft.com/bridge-card-game...
February 15, 2023
The Art Market
Collectors adopt a more cautious approach
...Top-billing is John Singer Sargent’s 1891 “Egyptian Woman (Coin Necklace)”, $1.2mn-$1.8mn, while the collection also includes Frank W Benson’s glamorous portrait of one of his sisters, “Firelight” (1893)...
November 2, 2023
Bridge - Card game
When showing shortage in partner’s suit is essential for reaching slam
...Read Paul’s previous Bridge columns at ft.com/bridge-card-game...
January 31, 2023

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