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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
Shipping
Somali pirates seize ship as global naval forces focus on Houthi threat
...The vessel is managed by SR Shipping, part of a steelmaking company called the Kabir group. The company did not immediately respond to questions....
March 12, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Unhedged
The appeal of longer bonds Premium content
...Send me your thoughts: robert.armstrong@ft.com Longer bonds At various points in the past year or two, Unhedged has noted the appeal of owning bonds at the short end of the curve....
July 19, 2023
Evercore
How M&A boutique Evercore became ‘Goldman North’
...His father, John Sr, also led the bank. John Weinberg’s cousin Peter Weinberg is a Goldman veteran who founded Perella Weinberg Partners....
March 13, 2024
HTSI
Gilt trip – the best new bags, boots, belts and baubles
...Photographer’s assistants, Karolina Burlikowska and Louise Oates. Stylist’s assistants, Frankie Tyler and Yamine Daaboul. Set design assistant, Johanna Currie. Production, Matt Leonard at CLM...
May 31, 2023
Edward Luce
The paranoid style in American politics
...Fifty-five years later, his son Robert Kennedy Jr is a leading American conspiracy theorist challenging Joe Biden for the presidency. RFK Sr might have gone on to win the White House....
June 7, 2023
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
ReviewTelevision
Sr — Robert Downey Jr.’s documentary is hijacked by its subject
...In Sr, the actor Robert Downey Jr pays tribute to a film-maker little known to today’s general public, and to a father who always seemed a little unknowable to his son....
November 28, 2022
FT Magazine
Inside the world’s oldest lithography store, printer to Giorgio de Chirico and Cy Twombly
...As we leafed through the book, a framed portrait of Romolo Bulla Sr watched over us sternly, high up on the wall. Romolo Sr was, by all accounts, a difficult man....
August 5, 2023
Aerospace & Defence
The UK’s attempt to make hypersonic flight a reality
...The collaboration “picks up on [our] thermal management capability”, said Robert Bond, head of future projects at Reaction Engines....
January 9, 2023
X Corp
Fact-checking some dull bits of Elon Musk’s biography
...Musk Sr tells Isaacson he made roughly $210,000 from black-market sales of emeralds....
September 22, 2023
ReviewBiography and memoir
Morgenthau by Andrew Meier — power, privilege and the making of modern America
...Robert Morgenthau, then midway through a 35-year stint as the city’s lead criminal prosecutor, was on television constantly....
September 29, 2022
ReviewVisual Arts
Theaster Gates transforms the New Museum into an elegiac ‘wunderkammer’ — review
...One freestanding bookshelf holds 4,500 volumes that belonged to the late Slavic studies scholar Robert Bird....
December 14, 2022
FT SeriesFestive food and drink special 2022
How Americans ruined tequila — and the true believers saving it
...González Nieves founded Casa Dragones in 2009 with Robert Pittman, the creator of MTV. It launched with one very high-end tequila called Joven, a rare style that’s a blanco and extra aged blend....
November 17, 2022
The Week Ahead
Watching two sides of Europe unfold
...Whatever the result, this is a remarkable turnaround for a family who were pariahs (albeit very rich ones) when Marcos Sr was ousted in 1986....
May 8, 2022
FT SeriesHow to eat and drink it this Christmas
Our 25 favourite hotel bars
...That’s because the spirit endures, and the bar encapsulates it: high stools, barefoot dress code, strong mojitos, cool breezes, big stories. nihi.com SR...
November 24, 2021
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Employment
How companies recruit and retain staff in a tight labour market
...Simon Roberts, chief executive of UK supermarket group J Sainsbury, says that as a result of “challenging operational moments over the past 18 months, we’ve had to be really agile and adaptable”....
January 30, 2022
FT MagazineRobert Shrimsley
Socialising is back — and I’m already eyeing the couch
...Like Captain Oates, we were just going out and we were going to be some time....
April 9, 2021
Interiors
Sloane arrangers — 40 years of decor and decorum
...Rus in urbe perfectly described SRs in London, with their green Barbours and Puffa jackets....
January 14, 2022
HTSI
Why the ‘body billboard’ tells the story of our times
...The turbulent year we’ve just lived through often feels like a flashback to 1968, a year marked by high-profile murders (of Martin Luther King Jr and Robert Kennedy), racial tensions and protests, a fiercely...
July 9, 2021
Succession: a modern-day media saga
‘Succession’ and the perils of a family business
...Unlike Succession’s Logan, Obama Sr was not visible on every TV screen and every newspaper, but he still shaped his son’s outlook....
October 1, 2021
InterviewLunch with the FT
Cyrus Vance: ‘I have no personal friendship or enemies. It’s law’
...He also fended off a probe by Robert Mueller two years ago. Nevertheless, recent history shows how the long and slow-moving arm of the law can sometimes fell seemingly untouchable figures....
September 24, 2021
Arts
Podcast ‘Hunting Ghislaine’ asks how Maxwell became a monster
...Maxwell Sr was, by all accounts, a nightmare — not for nothing does the presenter compare him to Logan Roy, the fearsome patriarch in the TV series Succession....
November 22, 2020
The Big Read
‘Here is Cyrus Vance’s moment’: Donald Trump’s new legal nemesis
...There is another towering figure in Mr Vance’s life: his father, Cyrus Vance Sr, who served as president Jimmy Carter’s secretary of state from 1977 to 1980, among other top Washington posts....
January 27, 2021
News in-depthWilliam Barr
William Barr’s tenure at DoJ will be defined by Trump-Russia probe
...The Republican lawyer’s tenure will probably be defined by his handling of Robert Mueller’s investigation into links between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign, a probe he is expected to oversee as it comes...
January 14, 2019
FT Swamp Notes
Bush’s greatest virtue was experience
...The two Trump cabinet principals who exude the most competence — and command the most trust — are Robert Lighthizer, his trade representative, and Jim Mattis, his defence secretary....
December 7, 2018

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