Richard W Leitz

April 9, 2024

HTSI15 travel destinations to book now

Untapping the inner beauty of Budapest

...Rooms at the W hotel start from £390 per night...

September 5, 2023

FT Live

The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition

FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government

ExplainerLaw

Are US presidents above the law?

...The first real test came when Richard Nixon was accused of criminal activity amid the Watergate scandal....

February 6, 2024

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

Letter

Letter: Nixon’s translator took the diplomatic approach

...Patrick M Dransfield refers to the often-quoted misunderstanding between Zhou Enlai and Richard Nixon, when the former said that “it was too early to tell” about the influence of the student riots in Paris...

July 6, 2023

Janan Ganesh

Don’t flatter the west’s enemies as an ‘axis’

...(Richard Nixon exploited, but did not invent, the Sino-Soviet split.)...

October 24, 2023

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Awards Asia-Pacific

Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region

Letter

Letter: Action is needed to let Ukraine use Russia’s frozen assets

...Ambassador to Ukraine 1998-2000 Amb Stephen SestanovichSenior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, Professor, Columbia University, the US Ambassador-at-Large for the former Soviet Union 1997-2001 Amb Richard...

November 3, 2023

Style

Menswear embraces dramatic new lengths

...Richard E Grant’s Withnail and I character is inseparable from his, while Richard Gere’s Armani belted camel coat in American Gigolo is routinely name-checked as a pivotal menswear moment....

October 23, 2023

The Trump machine

Inside Donald Trump’s new inner circle

...Richard Grenell, the former US ambassador to Germany, may make a comeback too, while prominent senators such as Marco Rubio of Florida and Bill Hagerty in Tennessee are also contenders....

March 26, 2024

Rugby World Cup’s push for growth Premium

...Dallas FC, the Major League Soccer club, is increasingly a breeding ground for top international talent, boasting Juventus midfielder Weston McKennie and Crystal Palace center back Chris Richards among its...

October 28, 2023

Architecture

Manchester’s skyscrapers: towers of homebuilding ambition or ‘high-rise mania’?

...Live in the W Tower (“the first regional branded living in Britain”) and you are assured that you will be in striking distance of “world class dining”, in the shape of Sexy Fish, Gordon Ramsay’s Lucky Cat...

January 3, 2024

Watches & Jewellery

Brands weigh cost against popularity of watch fairs

...Audemars Piguet, Richard Mille, Breitling and the Swatch Group of brands, which includes Omega and Longines, have stayed away....

January 27, 2023

Bank of England

Megan Greene to join Bank of England rate-setting committee

...“I’m sure Brexit has nothing to do w it, Global Britain and all …” she wrote after the central bank forecast a recession last year, adding a face palm emoji....

April 11, 2023

Special ReportLithuania

Hard line on China rattles Lithuania’s allies

...George W Bush, when US president, said in Vilnius in 2002: “Anyone who would choose Lithuania as an enemy has also made an enemy of the United States of America.”...

November 28, 2022

News in-depthDonald Trump

Trump indictment’s sharp details seen as ‘daunting for the defence’

...Richard Painter, who was the chief White House ethics lawyer in the George W Bush administration, argues that if Trump “did what is described in the indictment, he is going to be guilty of multiple counts...

June 10, 2023

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Summit

Guiding business in a new global age

Trade SecretsAlan Beattie

US Congress shares the blame for its own impotence over trade

...It’s stayed out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), for which the US led negotiations under George W Bush and Barack Obama but then abandoned under Trump....

March 30, 2023

Janan Ganesh

A Republican-led US would not shrink from the world

...Had Richard Nixon not “opened” it, would China be a superpower? What if Pilate had spared Jesus? And so on....

February 7, 2023

News in-depthUS politics & policy

Far-right US Republicans receive millions from new class of debt hardliners

...Other major donors include Tim Dunn, the Midlands Texas oil billionaire whose spending on more conservative candidates has increased considerably since 2018, and John W Childs, the Florida-based private...

March 4, 2023

InterviewClub for Growth

Trump ‘ends up hurting’ Republicans, says head of conservative group

...Private equity billionaire John W Childs, another top-five donor, donated $975,000 to Trump’s re-election campaign together with his late wife....

February 12, 2023

ReviewFT Books Essay

How America picks its battles

...The forces that pulled it by turns towards isolationism and interventionism still live on — witness President George W Bush’s military misadventures in the Middle East and Donald Trump’s America First unilateralism...

January 25, 2023

The Big Read

US Congress: how investment funds became the new insider trading risk

...lawyer for the George W Bush administration and now a professor of corporate law at the University of Minnesota....

May 23, 2023

HTSI

Yabu Pushelberg: ‘We call our work high humble’

...We made it happen, and it was one of the first iconic W hotels.”...

August 23, 2022

Jancis Robinson’s Wine Guide

Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about wine but were too embarrassed to ask

.../ From Richard Kenny, Founder, Hawkwood Biotech Partners, San Francisco, CA, US...

August 24, 2023

News in-depthNikkei Asia

Richard Nixon in China: 50 years on

...On the 30th anniversary of the visit in 2002, then US president George W Bush was in Beijing to mark the moment....

February 20, 2022

FT MagazinePink Snow 2022: a winter sports special

Has Verbier’s après-ski scene finally grown up?

...The arrival, in 2013, of the W hotel confirmed the resort’s spot on the piste map of the global rich....

October 14, 2022

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