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In the footsteps of . . .
An Antarctic voyage — on the trail of Apsley Cherry-Garrard
...Quite what to read was an easy decision: The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard’s 1922 account of Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s calamitous 1910-13 expedition to reach the South Pole....
December 19, 2023
Letter
Letter: An outpost of Britishness, but much closer to home
...Robert BostonKingshill, Kent, UK...
February 9, 2024
FT Live
Climate Capital Live
The leading global platform for climate science, finance and business
Wednesday, 19 March 2025London, UK & Online
Pilita Clark
The menace of the overblown job title
...We live in a world where bosses have called themselves Captain of Moonshots (Google’s Astro Teller), Chief Underpants Officer (Joe Boxer founder, Nick Graham) and more recently, Technoking of Tesla (Elon...
February 25, 2024
HTSI
The elegant languor of Lamu
...As Captain Smiley hoists the lateen sail, we lean into the northerly trade wind and take off....
April 19, 2024
ReviewDance
Pirates!, Scottish Dance Theatre — larks and laughs on the high seas for tiny buccaneers
...Jessie Roberts-Smith brings natural charisma and a Gentleman Jack swagger to our hero, Captain Sandy Rogers. At two solid hours (one short break), Pirates!...
December 19, 2023
ReviewMusic
Five stars for a powerful and gripping Peter Grimes at La Scala, Milan
...Ólafur Sigurdarson is a strident Captain Balstrode, every syllable of his text audible, and Margaret Plumber’s bawdy, astute Auntie conjures a steamy atmosphere in the village pub....
October 19, 2023
FT Live
Financial Times @COP
FT Live events coinciding with COP
Monday, 11 NovemberBaku, Azerbaijan
Person in the News
The humbling of Casino chief Jean-Charles Naouri
...There he rubbed shoulders with future leaders and captains of industry....
July 21, 2023
Maritime accidents and safety
Rescuers find ‘debris’ in submersible hunt
...Searchers did not know the nature of the underwater sounds that Canadian aircraft had detected in the area in recent days, said captain Jamie Frederick of the US Coast Guard....
June 22, 2023
Maritime accidents and safety
Search for missing submersible focuses on ‘underwater noises’
...At a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, Captain Jamie Frederick of the US Coast Guard said remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) had been “relocated in an attempt to explore the location of the noises”...
June 21, 2023
News in-depthBoeing Co
Boeing chief Dave Calhoun’s leadership under scrutiny after 737 Max crisis
...Whatever Calhoun “was doing, it hasn’t worked”, said Dennis Tajer, an American captain and spokesperson for the Allied Pilots Association....
January 26, 2024
Maritime accidents and safety
Missing Titanic tourist submersible has about 40 hours of oxygen left
...“To date those search efforts have not yielded any results,” Captain Jamie Frederick of the US Coast Guard said on Tuesday afternoon....
June 20, 2023
ReviewTheatre
Stifling new staging of The House of Bernarda Alba stars a magnificent Harriet Walter
...But in fact Osvald has inherited the worst thing of all, a fact that will become plain as the drama spirals towards its bleak conclusion, and the truth about the revered Captain Alving emerges....
November 29, 2023
ReviewAlbums
Orrin Evans: The Red Door — acoustic jazz with a twist
...The rhythm section of bassist Robert Hurst and drummer Marvin “Smitty” Smith is exemplary and the album’s heavyweight cast give acoustic jazz a twist....
June 23, 2023
Boeing Co
‘It ain’t working’: Boeing’s quality pledges in question after Max 9 incident
...“They may have changed the way they’re doing things, but it ain’t working,” said Captain Dennis Tajer, spokesperson for the pilots union for American Airlines....
January 15, 2024
News in-depthUS employment
Union workers score big pay gains as labour action sweeps US
...“Since the economic shutdown of 2020, [workers] have realised the power that they have at the negotiating table,” said Robert Combs, a legal analyst at Bloomberg Law....
October 27, 2023
FT Live
Future of the Car
The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive
Tuesday, 7 MaySancroft, Paternoster Square, London EC4M 7DQ, UK
Travel
Pitcairn: an island on the edge
...Fletcher Christian, his loyalists and their slaves, took almost four months to do the same journey, by which stage supplies and patience with the criminal captain were running low....
February 1, 2024
Travel
James Bond’s ski club celebrates 100 years of racing — and partying
...“In unimportant fixtures Barratt, the captain of the club team, always does well, but loses his nerve for big events.” Barratt, poor chap, duly went on to fall multiple times “for no apparent reason”....
January 13, 2024
The Aesthete
Tod’s Michele Lupi talks taste
...There’s a drawing by Alex Tavoularis, the artistic director on Apocalypse Now – a styling reference for how Captain Willard, played by Martin Sheen, should look in his fatigues....
November 4, 2023
Signa Holding
Signa unravelled: inside René Benko’s debt-laden property empire
...Prominent entrepreneurs and captains of industry have also invested, including Ernst Tanner, chief executive of chocolatier Lindt & Sprüngli; Torsten Toeller, the pet food magnate; Hans Peter Haselsteiner...
December 1, 2023
Nilanjana Roy
Do political insiders have the power to thrill?
...Amnesiac assassins, renegade Soviet submarine captains, swirling conspiracies in the White House or in papal conclaves — like many readers, I love political thrillers that make you feel you’re “in the room...
June 9, 2023
FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
House museums #11: Arthur Rimbaud
...The photograph by Carjat has itself inspired other works of art — you can see portraits by Picasso, Giacometti, Fernand Léger, Sonia Delaunay, and photographers Robert Mapplethorpe and David Wojnarowicz....
April 8, 2023
FT Magazine
Robert Habeck was Germany’s most popular politician. Then he took office
...I’m just proud that I was able to come on board to captain the vessel a bit.” And he stared out at the limitless grey of the North Sea....
January 12, 2023
The Big Read
The science of forecasting ever more extreme weather
...In 1854, Robert FitzRoy, formerly the captain of HMS Beagle, on which Charles Darwin sailed, founded the Met Office....
August 3, 2023
ReviewBiography and memoir
The Captain’s Apprentice — Ralph Vaughan Williams’ creative awakening
...She considers the song’s possible origin in the real-life case of Robert Eastick, a cabin boy apprenticed from a King’s Lynn workhouse who died at sea in murky circumstances in 1856 en route to Ceylon (Sri...
August 18, 2022
ReviewNon-Fiction
Migrants by Sam Miller — rethinking migration
...Robert Fitzroy, captain of the HMS Beagle, which subsequently took Charles Darwin to the southern seas, captured four Yaghan and took them back to London....
February 9, 2023

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