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ObituaryBooks
Carmen Callil, publisher, 1938-2022
...In 1960 she arrived in England, one of a group of Australian migrants which included Germaine Greer, Robert Hughes, Barry Humphries and Clive James....
October 21, 2022
Lunch with the FT
Satirist Craig Brown: ‘You have to have some prickle in you to get going’
...I think of Brown’s dissections of Germaine Greer (“Why am I the only person in the world who eats rice?”)...
December 24, 2020
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
InterviewLunch with the FT
Carmen Callil: ‘You have to be difficult if you want to change the world’
...The nuns’ teachings became moot almost as soon as Callil arrived in Britain in 1960, one of a wave of brilliant young Australians, among them Germaine Greer — who was in the year below her at school — Clive...
July 17, 2020
Life & Arts
Louis de Bernières: why I believe in Brexit
...De Bernières’ views on how the EU works are peculiarly British / From Sir Philip Lowe, Former Director-General of Competition and of Energy, European Commission Defining Englishness as a separate identity...
January 24, 2020
News in-depthPersonal Finance
Your money under a Boris Johnson government
...Jon Greer, head of retirement policy at Quilter, points out that increasing tax thresholds would have unintended consequences....
July 26, 2019
ReviewLife & Arts
The Female Persuasion By Meg Wolitzer — the balance of power
...There was scrutiny of male cultural gatekeepers and fresh critiques of the depiction of women by male literary lions, the likes of the late Philip Roth and John Updike....
June 8, 2018
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Books of the Year 2018
Best books of 2018: Fiction
...Greer and Cory are high-school sweethearts, until college gets in the way; there, Greer falls under the spell of a glamorous second-wave feminist who provides her with meaning and a tumultuous career path...
November 23, 2018
FT SeriesSummer books 2018
Summer books of 2018: Fiction
...Rather, Meg Wolitzer deftly weaves the political with the personal to tell the story of bright student Greer, who gets embroiled with older feminist Faith, but then moves on to navigate the bumpy road of...
June 29, 2018
Private investing
Budget 2017: private investors face dividend tax increase
...The surprise policy, announced by Philip Hammond in his Spring Budget, will more than halve the tax-free allowance enjoyed by investors in stocks and shares from £5,000 to £2,000 a year by 2018....
March 8, 2017
Life & Arts
Nostalgia, poetry and the spirit of England
...Philip Larkin called him “the poet of unhappiness”. Certainly Housman’s poetry, with its homoerotic subtext, is fatalistic about love: it’s as if sex and death are, for him, inextricable....
August 19, 2016
FT MagazineSimon Kuper
The soulmate revolution
...Philip Larkin’s lines must be the most quoted in postwar British poetry, but who can resist?...
December 12, 2013
European companies
Regal Petroleum to double second half production
...“Now we need to see if the reservoir will give up the gas molecules we know to be there,” Mr Greer said....
September 16, 2009
Life & Arts
Fiction
...Indignation By Philip Roth Jonathan Cape £16.99, 233 pages Stepping back from his recent novels of rage against age, the grand old man of American literature takes his readers back to campus life in the...
November 29, 2008
Oil
Stocks prove worth with superior gains
...Philip Collins, who runs the Phoenix Multi-Asset fund for Newton Investment Management, has the freedom to invest across a wide range of asset classes....
May 4, 2008
Life & Arts
‘I think I’ve had all my arguments’
...He was at Hull when Philip Larkin was university librarian. “He was a presence, a forbidding presence,” says Paulin....
January 12, 2008
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
News in-depthOil
Shell?s Sakhalin shows an industry its daunting future
...says Mr Greer. ?There is a huge machine that you have to work with.? Shell makes clear it is not complaining, however....
January 8, 2006

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