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ReviewFT Books Essay
Spy masters — the hidden lives of Ian Fleming and John le Carré
...rose from a Dundee slum to vast merchant-banking wealth, Ian grew up in the shadow of the hard-fisted family patriarch, his war-hero father Val — killed in 1917 — and his “offhandedly amazing” brother Peter...
October 12, 2023
ReviewBiography and memoir
Confessions by AN Wilson — a ‘multiple personality’
...In this memoir AN Wilson calls the prolific essayist-biographer Peter Quennell “a charming old throwback to a vanished literary age”....
December 16, 2022
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ReviewBiography and memoir
Circus of Dreams — bright young things and booming book sales
...injection of new life: Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, Timothy Mo, Ben Okri, Hanif Kureishi, Peter Carey....
April 26, 2022
HTSI
The remaster of plaster
...The Jacqui console table features carved cut-out details finished in natural or ivory, while the black Boyd coffee table has a statement round pedestal....
April 19, 2023
The Weekend Essay
Effective altruism was the favoured creed of Sam Bankman-Fried. Can it survive his fall?
...Then came Peter Singer....
December 29, 2023
The Art Market
$35mn Rubens headlines winter Old Masters sales
...The group is topped by Peter Paul Rubens’ suitably gory “Salome presented with the severed head of Saint John the Baptist” (c1609), estimated between $25mn and $35mn....
October 27, 2022
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
The Big Read
Has China become too cosy with private equity?
...But Peter Lu, global head of law firm McDermott Will & Emery’s China practice, who has represented Chinese state-owned funds on their foreign deals, says regulators are increasingly starting to pay attention...
May 31, 2023
The Big Read
Generative AI: how will the new era of machine learning affect you?
...“These models are going to change the way that people interact with computers,” says Eric Boyd, head of AI platforms at Microsoft....
January 25, 2023
ReviewHistory books
Antwerp by Michael Pye — fragile fortunes
...Thomas More’s friendship with the learned town clerk Peter Gillis inspired him to imagine his Utopia. Subversion spread in dockside taverns or merchants’ salons. There were limits....
August 17, 2021
Summer Books 2022
Best summer books of 2022: Critics’ picks
...Kawakami’s novel, translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd, acutely explores the nature of workplace relationships and intimate connections while challenging society’s expectations of what it means to be a...
June 25, 2022
Pollution
Water companies to be probed over sewage discharges into rivers
...However, Emma Howard Boyd, chair of the Environment Agency, noted that it is “only now, just before new monitors are installed, [that] companies [have] reported concerns over potential problems.”...
November 18, 2021
ReviewTelevision
Brian and Domhnall Gleeson star in slow-burn comedy Frank of Ireland
...Her new beau Peter-Brian (those names again) is not just a wealthy medical professional but a proponent of mixed martial arts....
April 9, 2021
HTSI
Check it out: hotel style for your home
...“Though everything we sell is perfectly appropriate in Africa, it isn’t all African-inspired,” explains Kim Peter, general manager of the Singita Boutique & Gallery....
August 8, 2021
Visual Arts
MONA’s decade of daring and Tasmanian devilry
...The result was an exhibition curated by a range of neuroscientists and philosophers — Steven Pinker, Geoffrey Miller, Brian Boyd and Mark Changizi....
January 27, 2021
Flutter Entertainment PLC
Flutter to lift FanDuel stake to 95% in $4bn deal
...The remaining 5 per cent will continue to be held by the casino company Boyd Gaming, whose partnership Flutter needs in order to operate in certain US states....
December 3, 2020
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Crossword
Crossword and Polymath competitions suspended
...Boyd, Wiltshire Crossword 16,117: Mary Aclandhood, London; Rev T K Hole, Sheffield; Robert Smith, Norfolk Polymath 1,013: Bob Walker, Nuneaton Crossword 16,111: Magnus Chisholm, Ross-shire; J Verge ,...
June 5, 2020
FT MagazineSimon Kuper
Is this New Zealand’s chance to become the place to do business?
...The archetype is PayPal’s co-founder Peter Thiel, who quietly acquired Kiwi citizenship in 2011 before buying a 193ha estate on Lake Wanaka. He stands in a long tradition....
April 30, 2020
Books
How Les Misérables became an evergreen blockbuster
...There’s nothing apocryphal, though, about his dependence on the timetable of the mail boats that ferried manuscripts and proofs from St Peter Port in Guernsey via Southampton or Weymouth to his publisher...
December 28, 2018
ReviewFiction
Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants by Mathias Enard — Renaissance redux
...In sculptures, pictures, and above all in the great dome of St Peter’s inspired (according to Enard’s parallel history) by Hagia Sophia, the artist’s later masterworks will “bear the imprint of attitudes...
November 9, 2018
ReviewBiography and memoir
Eric Clapton: the man behind the riff
...“He became the wounded child,” says wife-to-be Pattie Boyd, the most insightful of Norman’s witnesses....
December 14, 2018
Thames Water fined £2m over pollution incident
...Emma Howard Boyd, agency chair, said this year the level was “too high”....
December 22, 2018
ReviewLife & Arts
The 100 Best Novels in Translation by Boyd Tonkin — lost in translation
...Levi) or the Dane Jens Peter Jacobsen’s Flaubertian Niels Lyhne (1880; number 22; Tiina Nunnally)....
June 22, 2018
Sport
Paddy Power dims profit outlook as FanDuel buy weighs
...Paddy Power has been on a US acquisition spree in recent months, following the FanDuel deal with an agreement with casino company Boyd Gaming last week in moves designed to capitalise on a recent Supreme...
August 8, 2018
Undercover EconomistTim Harford
Chaos has its limits even in Donald Trump’s White House
...Boyd, whose admirers included senior Republican Dick Cheney and management guru Tom Peters, argued for rapid, confusing manoeuvres, improvised if need be, with the aim of disorienting the enemy....
March 23, 2018
ReviewLife & Arts
A Legacy of Spies, by John le Carré — called to account
...Its narrator is the long-retired secret agent Peter Guillam, who at this story’s end meets George Smiley himself....
September 8, 2017

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