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Global Economy
Europe faces ‘competitiveness crisis’ as US widens productivity gap
...Ariane Curtis at the consultancy Capital Economics said US employers were apt to automate faster when workers were scarce, while Europeans had focused “on hiring workers to fill gaps, potentially even if...
March 9, 2024
ReviewDance
Elixir, Sadler’s Wells — festival stars older dancers and a tortoise after a strawberry
...Robed like a sorceress in a flowing black coat and hood, Lecavalier maps the stage with a barefoot demi-pointe bourrée, heels seldom touching the ground....
April 12, 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
Letter
Letter: Ambition to retrofit historic buildings needs a nudge
...The comparison of the UK retrofit market to a jungle safari (Opinion, April 11) is apt, particularly when it comes to historic buildings....
April 18, 2024
InterviewDance
Ballet star Alina Cojocaru on bringing the Pope’s favourite film to the stage
...All the work they have made together has been danced on pointe: “It’s where she carries her centre. She is so at home that bit further forward and she naturally just floats on to the toe.”...
January 10, 2024
ReviewDance
English National Ballet revives Mary Skeaping’s unashamedly old-school Giselle — review
...Khaniukova was a touchingly fragile heroine but last weekend that fragility extended to her footwork: the all-important hops on pointe in Giselle’s act one solo were scarcely attempted....
January 15, 2024
ReviewAlbums
Whistling takes centre stage in Molly Lewis’s On the Lips — album review
...How apt that one of the greatest songs about wasting time, Otis Redding’s “(Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay”, should conclude with a perfectly timed piece of whistling....
February 7, 2024
FT Live
TNW Conference 2024 - The Next Web
Europe’s leading tech event for corporates, startups, investors and governments
Thursday, 20 JuneAmsterdam, Netherlands
HTSI
En pointe! The best ballet flats
...The humble ballet flat staged a return on the spring/summer catwalks....
February 15, 2023
Russian politics
Russia jails activist as Kremlin widens crackdown on critics
...apt....
February 27, 2024
Q&AThe Questionnaire
Leslie Jamison: ‘I’m sustained by late night candy’
...It’s an apt origin story for a creature born to crave elegance and recklessness at once. Who was or still is your mentor?...
February 24, 2024
ReviewTelevision
The threat of catastrophe is assessed in Nuclear Armageddon: How Close Are We? — review
...By apt coincidence, on the same day an organisation called The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will unveil the latest Doomsday Clock, a symbol illustrating how near the world is to the kind of global nuclear...
January 19, 2024
Day 24 of Israel conflict as it happened: Netanyahu says Israel will not agree to a ceasefire
US criticises Putin for not condemning antisemitic riot in Dagestan
...“Some people have compared it to the pogroms of the late 19th and early 20th century and I think that’s probably an apt description,” Kirby said. “We’ve heard crickets from the Kremlin,” he added....
October 30, 2023
Letter
Letter: In an age of greenwashing, appropriate fund names matter
...Hence, “tangible” would seem the more apt usage in both FT articles — as far as modern-day bonds or equities can be so qualified....
September 28, 2023
ReviewAlbums
Sprints: Letter to Self review — the explosive Irish band join a thriving scene
...Their habit of coming to a sudden halt is also apt: most resolutions are abandoned within weeks. Some, however, can be lasting. Sprints, whose name is stylised in capitals, are proof of that....
January 5, 2024
Jemima Kelly
Year in a word: X
...We might consider a homophone of the letter an apt description of what were once the platform’s biggest advertisers: ex....
December 25, 2023
ReviewEconomics books
Markets and Power in Digital Capitalism — Big Tech’s walled gardens
...The book explores what is distinctive about today’s digital capitalist economies, focusing on the extensive reach and power of the Big Tech companies, and looks back in time to find apt comparisons....
March 26, 2024
FT Live
The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition
FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government
Wednesday, 4 DecemberDigital Conference
Letter
Letter: There’s room for rash vows in a successful marriage
...Especially the rich tapestry of family life as I am apt to mention to my own family, when chaos makes its regular appearance!...
November 15, 2023
ReviewFashion shows
Sabato De Sarno injects Gucci with new sex appeal
...It’s the kind of advice you might give to someone young — perhaps apt for the clientele that Gucci appears to be pursuing....
February 23, 2024
FT Swamp Notes
Tyler Cowen: Why we will learn to love AI Premium content
...Then, there’s Amara’s Law: “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate it in the long run.” That seems particularly apt when thinking about AI today....
April 19, 2024
ReviewFiction
Tommy Orange’s Wandering Stars — a polyphonic saga of Native American experience
...When one of the novel’s dozens of characters describes memory as “a centerless map”, it seems an apt characterisation of the book itself....
March 21, 2024
LexUS banks
Brokered deposits: addiction to fickle funds ramps up risks for US regionals Premium content
...That is up from $754bn a year ago and is near the pre-pandemic record high. The problem with these deposits is their volatility. Investors chasing high returns are apt to withdraw their cash....
December 11, 2023
InterviewMusic
Guitarist Paco Peña on flamenco, avoiding the limelight and Jimi Hendrix
...The show takes its title from the fractional blending of sherries whereby different vintages are combined to produce a perfectly balanced result. The metaphor is an apt one....
April 6, 2024
InterviewThe Art Market
Parisian collective aims to put female artists on a firm financial footing
...The way her working environment challenges expectations is apt....
April 8, 2024
FT GlobetrotterCharting London’s museums
Sorted: a first-class ride through British postal history
...“The Royal Mail” is an apt title for the first gallery — Henry VIII set the system up to serve his own needs, and towns were required to provide horses to carry his messages....
April 2, 2024
Letter
Letter: Taking selfies can ruin the enjoyment of gallery goers
...For an art lover, it is a travesty, and “midwittery” is a kind description of the perpetrators. Half-wittery or even witlessness would be more apt....
October 13, 2023
Travel
Rodrigues: the far-flung outpost of Mauritius — with far fewer visitors
...The island is only about 18km by 6km, and a map of it reads like a drive-around feast: there is Rivière Banane, Caverne Patate and Pointe Manioc....
February 28, 2024

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