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FT Magazine
Why encountering a beached whale profoundly changes so many people
...Of all the whale mad, Richard Sabin has, by far, done the best job of translating his cetacean problem into a vocation....
March 2, 2024
The Weekend Essay
Simon Schama: can Charles III’s coronation speak to modern Britain?
...Only the intervention of the Groom of Robes came to the rescue....
May 6, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Style
Officiating at a friend’s wedding? It’s the new style challenge
...She looked elegant and did not take away from the bride and groom’s touching moment.”...
June 11, 2022
ReviewFiction
Horse by Geraldine Brooks — broken shackles
...Theo and Jess bond over an anonymous painting he has found in the street and brought to the museum — a 19th-century portrait of a racehorse depicted “with black Jarret, his groom” — and soon fall in love...
June 16, 2022
ReviewHistory books
Frostquake — Britain’s 1960s winter of discontent
...Keith Richard took shots at rats with a revolver kept in a lavatory cistern....
February 16, 2021
FT WealthRhymer Rigby
Rich professionals are scammers’ favourite targets
...“We’ve seen people groom targets for 10-11 months,” Edmonds says. Many wealthier fraud victims do not try to get their money back....
June 22, 2021
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Fashion
Be the best-dressed wedding guest
...Arrive looking too slovenly, and you risk offending the bride and groom; turn up resembling an undertaker, and people will think you’re at the wrong ceremony....
May 15, 2021
#techFT
From Zoom to audio, VR boom
...Richard Waters reports Zoom is responding to this challenge (and a more pressing one from Microsoft’s Teams) by spending $100m on nurturing its ecosystem....
April 19, 2021
Janan Ganesh
In defence of male vanity
...It was the bit where Richard Gere coos over his shirts as he dresses. In the gendered language of the era, leading men were not meant to make such a ladylike fuss of themselves....
April 10, 2020
Lunch with the FT
Mira Nair: ‘We never saw people like us on screen’
...A Suitable Boy — which chronicles a middle-class widow’s hunt for an appropriate groom for her modern-minded 19-year-old daughter — was published in 1993, the year after a Hindu mob descended on the small...
August 21, 2020
Pilita Clark
Why don’t more deputies get a shot at the top job?
...I agree with Richard Hytner, one of the few people to have written a book (Consiglieri) about the under-studied role of the sidekick....
April 15, 2018
News in-depthThe Big Read
Trump-Putin: Will Helsinki prove a turning point for the Republicans?
...“I don’t know which side is the bride and which side is the groom....
July 20, 2018
Brian Groom
City of swagger fights back against hate with ‘spirit of Manchester’
...“There is no more defiant message that we can send to terrorists than carrying on with our everyday lives and the Great City Games will be a powerful symbol of that resilience,” said council leader Sir Richard...
May 25, 2017
FT SeriesWorld Cup 2018
Online gambling: the hidden epidemic
...It is nothing short of pernicious for children as it grooms them to accept gambling as an entirely normal part of life.”...
June 22, 2018
Special Report
When the workforce is the weakest link
...He quotes Richard Feynman, the physics Nobel laureate who examined the root causes of Nasa’s Challenger rocket disaster: “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest...
November 21, 2016
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
Energy Source
Imagine . . . higher oil prices
...To borrow the terminology of Richard Thaler, the latest winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, Opec can nudge the oil market, but not dictate to it....
October 18, 2017
Brexit
Brexit views divided between hope and fear
...On the Remain side were entrepreneurs such as Lord Sugar, presenter of BBC television’s The Apprentice and government “enterprise tsar”, and Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson....
October 3, 2016
French politics
Team Macron: a mix of youthful energy and wise heads
...During four weeks in parliament, he grew close to Richard Ferrand, a Socialist MP from Finistère, western France, who was the bill’s sponsor....
May 8, 2017
FT SeriesFeminism in the 21st century
Sex and the art of radical feminism
...London-based dealer Richard Saltoun, whose Frieze stand will spotlight German artist Renate Bertlmann, says there is a solid market for radical feminists, who make up 60 to 70 per cent of his gallery business...
September 29, 2017
ReviewLife & Arts
The In-Laws — DVD review
...The In-Laws (1979) pairs possible crook Peter Falk with dyspeptic dentist Alan Arkin as fathers of the bride and groom who get embroiled in a murky business of Falk’s making....
August 26, 2016
UK universities
Universities fear loss of billions to north from overseas students
...At Newcastle University, Professor Richard Davies, pro-vice-chancellor, says foreign students bring “a significant income to the university, but it’s much broader than that....
April 15, 2016
Personal & Household Goods
Top ten alternatives to a wedding ring
...Mixing iconographies, they show the figure of Jesus and the Roman custom of the bride and groom uniting right hands....
June 1, 2016
Entrepreneurship
Interview: Richard Steeves, Synergy Health chief executive
...Great entrepreneurs need more than big ideas, says Richard Steeves, who built Synergy Health, the FTSE 250 outsourcer that he founded in 1991, into a global medical hygiene business....
October 5, 2015
Family businesses
Founders’ vision keeps engine running
...Richard Foster, a Yale University management professor, calculates that in the 1920s US companies lasted on the S&P index for about 65 years on average....
November 10, 2015
Entrepreneurship
Friends seize opportunities in borderless world
...Backers include Sir Richard Branson of Virgin and PayPal’s Peter Thiel and Max Levchin....
October 5, 2015

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