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News updates from December 11: COP28 draft deal drops phaseout of fossil fuels, Zelenskyy implores US not to waver in its support for Kyiv
Manulife announces C$13bn reinsurance deal with KKR’s Global Atlantic
...Manulife chief executive Roy Gori said the buyback would take the amount of capital released by the group to C$10bn since 2018, as part of a simplification of the business....
December 11, 2023
Inside Politics
Theresa May’s 2017 manifesto bungle holds lessons for today
...But the problem with this theory is that c) was not true. (Or at least, not true enough. Given that May was still able to form a government after everything, you could argue that c) held up....
April 2, 2024
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Travel
Cocos Islands: Australia’s little-known tropical idyll
...One morning on West Island my aged pick-up truck from Cocos Autos doesn’t start, so I walk over to the house of the owner, David O’Dowd....
April 6, 2024
Moral Money
How the C-suite can defend democracy Premium content
...And check out the smart read from Roy Swan of the Ford Foundation about why the phrase “patriotic capitalism” is needed today. Happy holidays (for those in America)!...
July 3, 2023
Nilanjana Roy
Enheduana, the woman who wrote before the rest
...Last year the Morgan Library & Museum in New York ran an exhibition titled She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia, c 3400-2000BC, and this spring the writer and translator Sophus Helle has published...
April 28, 2023
Carola Long
Clutch bags are terrible — why do we carry them?
...When cousin Greg brings a girl to media titan Logan Roy’s birthday and she turns up with a giant gauche Burberry handbag, Greg’s boss Tom Wambsgans exclaims, “What’s even in there, huh?...
November 14, 2023
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Special ReportUpskilling
Wanted: skilled workers to combat the rise in cyber crime
...Roy Zur, chief executive of cyber security and digital skills provider ThriveDX, says that in some ways the skills shortage is a “self-inflicted problem” as companies seek applicants with a strict minimum...
September 4, 2023
ReviewFiction
A Dangerous Business — Jane Smiley’s brothel-based sleuths
...Their mutual fondness for the works of Edgar Allan Poe, especially his fictional detective C Auguste Dupin, starts the pair off as amateur sleuths, intent on solving the murders of young women whom nobody...
December 15, 2022
The Big Read
Family business and the succession trap
...It went on to become C&A, the retail chain that is Cofra’s best-known brand....
March 12, 2023
Nilanjana Roy
The joy of short novels
...Nilanjana Roy is a Weekend FT columnist. Follow her on Twitter at @nilanjanaroy Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
October 7, 2022
Working It
Why billionaire succession is so hard
...Meanwhile, the C-suite’s favourite show, Succession, is ramping up towards its feature-length finale, as Logan Roy’s children manoeuvre to be crowned boss of their late father’s media empire....
May 3, 2023
The Oscars 2024: all you need to know
Director Christopher Nolan: ‘Oppenheimer is absolutely a cautionary tale’
...“The industry has been tying itself into knots, all in the pursuit of what Kendall Roy would refer to as a ‘tech valuation’,” he says....
July 21, 2023
FT Swamp Notes
Government by the people Premium content
...Deeply embedded in existing party structures or C.)...
February 20, 2023
HTSI
The robo-cot with a heart
...Annual revenues approach $100mn, and their C round of funding, in 2021, raised $45mn. Many of its high-profile fans have come on board as investors, including Jessica Biel and Scarlett Johansson....
December 8, 2022
Nilanjana Roy
Writers on the front line of Ukraine’s war of words
...setting up bookstores in collaboration with local partners, they ran successful translation projects and printed thousands of copies of American books, including Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women and Arthur C...
March 16, 2022
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
Fani Papageorgiou
‘Succession’ and the Great Resignation
...But what happens if those at the top just give up, in a C-suite version of the “Great Resignation” trend gripping the US and other countries?...
December 15, 2021
Rana Foroohar
Life at the top gets harder for chief executives
...While the Murdoch — oops, I mean Roy — siblings duke it out for dad’s media throne, in the real world Zara heiress Marta Ortega has taken the helm at Inditex, the Spanish fashion conglomerate....
December 5, 2021
Lauren Fedor
Blossom-loving Washingtonians fight for access to Capitol complex
...“This building is iconic all over the world,” Roy Blunt, Republican senator from Missouri, said as he introduced the bill last month....
April 20, 2021
Nilanjana Roy
The ‘Ulysses’ trial still resonates 100 years on
...Almost exactly 100 years ago, in February 1921, Margaret C Anderson and Jane Heap, editors of the New York-based literary magazine The Little Review, lost an obscenity trial....
January 7, 2021
FT CollectionsEuro 2020 football championship
Euro 2020: England expects — the long road back to a Wembley final
...Then came Roy Hodgson, a long-term Englishman émigré who spoke fluent Swedish and Italian....
July 9, 2021
News in-depthGardaWorld
Stephan Crétier: the security boss with his eyes on the G4S prize
...The couple own the Roy Estate vineyard in Napa Valley, which sells wines that go for more than $500 a bottle to those who can get themselves past the waiting list....
September 18, 2020
News in-depthCoronavirus treatment
Remdesivir: the rise and fall of a Covid wonder drug
...“There are two smart groups of people with the same data interpreting it different ways,” said Roy Gulick, chief of infectious diseases at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York....
November 24, 2020
ReviewTheatre
Death of England: Delroy, plus the best theatre to stream
...The four voices in it are assigned only initials (A, B, C and M) and could be any age or ethnicity....
November 6, 2020
SNC-Lavalin Group Inc
SNC-Lavalin pleads guilty to fraud over Libya work
...The settlement, which has been accepted by the Court of Quebec, has the company paying the C$280m fine over five years....
December 18, 2019
ReviewFiction
Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina — freedom in exile
...Lisa C Hayden’s translation sometimes stumbles — words like “floozy” seem out of place, for instance....
May 31, 2019

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