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Nilanjana Roy
You’re never alone with a book
...“Like the dope fiend who cannot move from place to place without taking with him a plentiful supply of his deadly balm, I never venture far without a sufficiency of reading matter,” W Somerset Maugham wrote...
July 26, 2023
Summer Books 2023
Best summer books of 2023: Critics’ picks
...If you haven’t yet read Time Shelter (W&N/Liveright) by Georgi Gospodinov, winner of this year’s International Booker Prize, a treat awaits: it’s a brilliant, elegiac and darkly humorous story of memory...
June 23, 2023
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-depthUS politics & policy
‘Faith in the Speaker’: McCarthy defies critics with US debt ceiling win
...“No matter what happens, there is going to be a reckoning,” Chip Roy, a Texas Republican, warned at the event....
June 1, 2023
FT Magazine
At the movies: a photography special
...Stanley Kubrick UK Stanley Kubrick enlisted his Barry Lyndon production designer Roy Walker to work on the sets for The Shining....
August 19, 2023
News in-depthUS politics & policy
Far-right US Republicans receive millions from new class of debt hardliners
...Roy Bailey, a Texas fundraiser who served as national co-chair of Trump’s joint fundraising operation with the RNC, said it was “literally hard to keep with” the number of new donors from his state....
March 4, 2023
News in-depthNational Rifle Association
NRA puts its political power on show in Texas after school shooting
...Roy Blunt, the Republican senator from Missouri who has received $4.6mn of NRA spending over his career, last week warned Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senate leader, that rushing ahead with gun legislation...
May 28, 2022
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ReviewEconomics books
The best new books on economics
...Glenn Hubbard was chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers under George W Bush from 2001 to 2003. He has impeccable pro-free-market credentials....
April 11, 2022
The Big Read
How Disney lost Florida
...Morrell is a registered Republican and, although he worked for the Obama administration, he started at the Pentagon under Robert Gates, George W Bush’s defence secretary....
June 19, 2022
US politics & policy
‘An inherent conflict of interest’: US officials under pressure over trading
...That is an inherent conflict of interest,” said Richard Painter, a former White House ethics lawyer in the George W Bush administration....
January 14, 2022
#techFT
Ted Lasso gives Apple human touch
...It is full of f-bombs courtesy of its “hard man” player Roy Kent (UK readers will spot the likeness to real-life Roy Keane) and has storylines so corny and simple that they would make Love Actually’s Richard...
September 20, 2021
ReviewTelevision
Ted Lasso — sweaty, sweary football comedy returns to Apple TV Plus
...Lasso, the genial transplant from the Midwest to leafy south-west London, is undaunted by the team’s seven consecutive ties: “We gon’ get a W soon!”...
July 23, 2021
ReviewFiction
Fact and fiction in the execution of Ethel Rosenberg
...Roy Cohn, the corrupt and unscrupulous assistant prosecutor who in real life secured Ethel’s death sentence (and later acted as an attorney for Donald Trump) also features, dripping with lust for Esther/...
August 19, 2021
FT SeriesSummer books 2021
Summer Books 2021: critics’ picks
...Nilanjana Roy FT columnist I’ve been burnt too often by the “book everyone’s talking about”, so I approached Zakiya Dalila Harris’s The Other Black Girl with scepticism — The Devil Wears Prada meets Get...
June 26, 2021
FT Swamp Notes
Trump, McCarthyism and the demise of demagogues Premium content
...And then there’s Roy Cohn, McCarthy’s closest congressional aide, who became a mentor to a young New York developer named Donald Trump. Old demagogues may never die, or even fade away....
July 16, 2021
Equities
Markets Now - Tuesday 14th July 2020
...Some recent data from managed pubs indicated that 42% of pubs and bars opened on the 4th July w/e; of those that opened, trade was -45% vs prior year w/e. US - strong off-trade....
July 14, 2020
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
News in-depthThe Big Read
Time to make some money: the business career of Rudy Giuliani
...An early backer was Roy W Bailey, a Dallas insurance executive and prominent member of the state Republican party....
December 17, 2019
Lunch with the FT
Lloyd Blankfein: ‘I might find it harder to vote for Bernie than for Trump’
...Hank Paulson did the same job in George W Bush’s administration. Gary Cohn was economic adviser to Donald Trump....
February 21, 2020
Global InsightEdward Luce
Brett Kavanaugh and the Republicans’ patriarchal bubble
...Mr Kavanaugh was also part of the George W Bush legal team that contested the 2000 Florida election tally. Its success clinched the presidency for Mr Bush over Al Gore....
September 20, 2018
ReviewLife & Arts
Download: A Fanatic Heart: Bob Geldof on WB Yeats — ‘unmissable’
...Helping Geldof along are the thoughtful insights of Yeats’s biographer (and the film’s co-writer) Roy Foster and 70-plus readings of the poems by an impressive roll-call of members of the musical and literary...
March 30, 2018
US politics & policy
Storm Florence aftermath puts Trump on defensive
...In 2005 George W Bush was blasted for his administration’s slow response to Hurricane Katrina, which killed about 1,500 people, and the praise he infamously lavished on FEMA’s then director, Michael Brown...
September 17, 2018
US politics & policy
Trump disputes death toll from Puerto Rico hurricane
...George W Bush’s political credibility was severely hit that year when he said “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job” about Michael Brown, then head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency as his team...
September 13, 2018
Nilanjana Roy
The problem with taking people at face value
...Nilanjana Roy is the author of ‘The Wildings’ and ‘The Hundred Names of Darkness’ and lives in Delhi. @nilanjanaroy...
July 18, 2017
US tax
US tax code revamp hits Republican turbulence
...Their task has already been complicated by sexual misconduct allegations against Roy Moore, who is bidding to be elected as Alabama’s next Republican senator in December....
November 16, 2017
US politics & policy
Sessions moves to quell furore over Clinton Foundation probe
...“This is an abuse of power to go after political opponents,” Richard Painter, who served as the chief White House ethics lawyer during the presidency of George W Bush, said on Twitter....
November 14, 2017
US politics & policy
Trump turns trusted ally Bob Corker into chief tormentor
...“You can't go around lighting people up in the party you purport to lead,” says Jamil Jaffer, an alumnus of George W Bush’s White House who worked with Mr Corker on the Senate foreign relations committee...
October 13, 2017

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