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Travel
Postcard from Ascension Island: breaking down at the world’s most remote airport
...At RAF Ascension Island, one of the world’s most remote runways, it is another thing entirely....
January 4, 2024
Margaret Heffernan
Why more executive careers should start in a parish council
...But it’s on our parish council — or PC as it is affectionately named — that I’ve seen some of the best leadership in my career. Our agenda isn’t world-beating, but that’s the point....
April 15, 2024
FT Live
Business Book of the Year Award 2024
The search for the best business book is under way
Monday, 9 December1 Grosvenor Pl, London SW1X 7HJ, UK
ReviewAlbums
Jane Weaver: Love In Constant Spectacle — psychedelia meets electro-folk meets romantic indie
...Parish is always a steady hand and this feels like an empathetic pairing. Weaver has plenty of space to focus on her expressions....
April 3, 2024
Life & Arts
More TikTok vicar?
...Where the weirdness is perhaps more of an issue is in how a ministry plays off with the parish system: on one level it’s true that any cleric with an area of interest beyond the patterns of parish life necessarily...
April 21, 2024
Letter
Letter: What Mark Twain said about property’s appeal
...There’s a simple explanation for faith in the “ascension of property” (“The festive case for faith-based investing”, Opinion, December 23)....
December 29, 2023
Kering SA
François Pinault’s grandson, 26, replaces him on Christie’s board
...The appointment of a younger member of the Pinault family to a prominent board seat within the family holdings comes at a time of heightened interest about the ascension of a new generation within high profile...
April 4, 2024
FT Live
Bank of the Year Awards 2024
Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
ReviewTheatre
James V: Katherine, Edinburgh — exceptional entry in Rona Munro’s Scottish history series
...Rona Munro’s James Plays have been heralded as Scotland’s answer to Shakespeare’s histories: seven works, six staged so far, spanning two centuries of the house of Stuart, from the ascension of James I in...
April 12, 2024
News
Overheard in the newsroom: reporting on the world’s largest election
...Our favourite pieces • I loved Margaret Heffernan’s thoughtful paean to Britain’s parish councils....
April 20, 2024
Letter
Letter: Four steps to unlock UK social capital potential
...Last month, the FT Big Read reported on the fastest rise in the share of children in absolute poverty in the UK for 30 years — with 3.3mn children now living in households where it is a struggle to meet...
April 5, 2024
FT MagazineSimon Kuper
Sex and dogs and heads will roll
...Neil Parish lost his seat for watching porn in the chamber. (Famously, he said he’d stumbled on the website while searching for tractors.)...
April 25, 2024
Letter
Letter: Rural politicians place too much value on Nimby vote
...There are 41 of these families who would qualify for an affordable home in our parish, yet an offer of free land for 12 affordable homes in the centre of a village was rejected because there was not a proven...
January 17, 2024
Working It
Secrets of perfect panel moderation
...Why more executive careers should start in a parish council: A really lovely column from Margaret Heffernan, chief executive, author — and parish councillor....
April 17, 2024
FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
House museums #45: Brontë Parsonage
...The Parsonage was owned by the local parish church while the Brontës lived there, and remained so in 1861 after the death of their father Patrick Brontë, who outlived all of his children....
December 4, 2023
FT Alphaville
The Alphaville seasonal placeholder
...As the nights draw out and festive cheer fills our stony hearts, here’s FTAV’s customary end-of-year parish newsletter....
December 22, 2023
Jo Ellison
The beauty queens of Croydon
...We were tennis clubs and “good schools” and weird ancient covenants that meant, in our parish, there were no pubs. The late singer Kirsty MacColl, who grew up there, hoped it would “blow up”....
April 6, 2024
FT Live
Future of the Car
The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive
Tuesday, 7 MaySancroft, Paternoster Square, London EC4M 7DQ, UK
ReviewScience fiction books
In Ascension by Martin MacInnes — a far-reaching epic on the planet’s future
...To the handful of recent classics such as Richard Powers’ The Overstory (2018), and Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future (2020) can be added Martin MacInnes’ In Ascension....
March 10, 2023
ReviewFilm
The Miracle Club film review — Maggie Smith brings gritty severity to Lourdes pilgrimage comedy
...Set in Dublin in 1967, it follows a group of Catholic women who win a trip to Lourdes in a parish talent contest....
October 12, 2023
Disrupted Times
Policymakers gather in Washington as Middle East tensions swell
...Could CEOs learn a few tricks from the steady commitment and humble objectives of local parish councillors?...
April 15, 2024
Summer Books 2023
Best summer books of 2023: Science fiction
...Ascension by Nicholas Binge (Harper Voyager/Riverhead) Part techno-thriller, part examination of faith and determinism, Ascension follows a group of scientists as they explore an enormous mountain that...
June 23, 2023
Israel-Hamas war
UK, Germany and France step up calls for Israel to agree Gaza ceasefire
...[This attack] happened inside the parish complex of the Holy Family, where there are no terrorists, but families, children, sick and disabled people, nuns.”...
December 17, 2023
Free LunchMartin Sandbu
Understanding America’s productivity boom Premium content
...Since then, James Mackintosh (formerly of this parish) wrote to me to point out that poorer groups spend more of their money on food and rent, and their costs rose more than overall consumer prices....
February 29, 2024
Stuart Kirk
The festive case for faith-based investing
...No matter how bubbly the metric, the ascension of property is a given....
December 22, 2023
Conservative Party UK
Conservative MP arrested on suspicion of rape
...Last year the Conservatives lost the Tiverton and Honiton seat after the resignation of Tory MP Neil Parish, who admitted watching porn in the House of Commons....
October 26, 2023
Pensions industry
Clara Pensions takes over Sears scheme in first UK ‘superfund’ deal
...“Members will be able to take confidence in the improved financial security of their benefits and the commitment and expertise of Clara,” said Simon True, chief executive of Clara Pensions....
November 6, 2023
FT SeriesBest books of the year 2023
Best books of 2023 — Fiction
...In Ascension by Martin MacInnes (Atlantic) Eyebrows were raised when MacInnes’s third novel failed to progress from the Booker longlist to the final six, and it’s not hard to understand why, at least in...
November 16, 2023

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