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InterviewIndian business & finance
India seeks to secure critical mineral resources in race for lithium
...Jeff Townsend, founder of the Critical Minerals Association, a UK trade body, said India had the advantages of huge mineral reserves, an inexpensive, large labour-force of engineers and cheap energy....
April 23, 2024
ReviewNon-Fiction
How Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann found creativity in the countryside
...Woolf required it to reach what she called an “exalted” state of “immunity”, Townsend Warner to write from a place of productive “indifference”, and Lehmann to enter that “detached condition” — the prerequisite...
March 21, 2024
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
News in-depthCommunist Party of China
Chinese Communists shun women as men hoard all the power
...“[There is a] deep-seated male chauvinism, which is systemic in Chinese politics,” said Valarie Tan, an analyst on Chinese elite politics at Mercator Institute for China Studies in Berlin....
October 23, 2022
Exchange traded funds
Crypto ETN providers head for UK but urge rethink on retail ban
...Townsend Lansing, head of product at CoinShares, which runs the next four largest, said: “We look forward to engaging with the LSE about the new listing opportunities and to better understand their requirements...
March 18, 2024
ReviewBiography and memoir
Cloistered — 12 years as a Carmelite nun
...has featured in novels from Antonia White’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age Frost in May (1933) to Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner That Held Them (1948)....
February 19, 2024
Commercial property
UK office leases shorten and vacancies rates soar as workers stay at home
...Townsend said long-term contracts, however, remained a favoured option for the very best office buildings, which were in high demand, while landlords were having to be more flexible with older buildings....
July 6, 2023
FT Live
Climate Capital Live
The leading global platform for climate science, finance and business
Wednesday, 19 March 2025London, UK & Online
FT GlobetrotterThe best new hotels in Rome
Rome’s Palazzo Ripetta: a heavenly stay
...The bathrooms, while unremarkable — marble and glass, all the mod cons — are extremely comfortable, with amenities from Sue Townsend’s Florence-based Ortigia line, renowned for its heady, gorgeous fragrances...
October 16, 2023
FT SeriesBritain’s infrastructure impasse
Budget blowouts and delays: why the UK struggles with infrastructure
...These include an external project manager, the US contractor Jacobs, which works alongside other consultants — Turner and Townsend, Cowi and Arcadis, who also manage the overall scheme....
January 26, 2024
Gresham House PLC
Searchlight Capital buys UK asset manager Gresham for £470mn
...“We are confident that Searchlight will accelerate our international anddomestic growth strategy,” said Anthony Townsend, chair of Gresham House....
July 17, 2023
UK prime property
Hampshire havens in the Test Valley
...Lucy Townsend, owner of the Greyhound on the Test gastropub in Stockbridge, hasn’t seen as many houses for sale there in a long time....
June 21, 2023
Due Diligence
Goldman’s next big growth bet Premium content
...Fast fashion group Shein has enlisted the help of Frances Townsend, a former Activision Blizzard executive, with a six-month consulting contract as a senior adviser, The Wall Street Journal reports....
November 3, 2023
Water scarcity
How Europe’s water supplies turned to ‘gold dust’
...You tap into groundwater and then we use it at a much higher rate than it’s being replenished,” said Geoff Townsend, an industry fellow at water services company Ecolab....
August 27, 2023
Moral Money
Regulators take aim at ‘lobby-tising’ Premium content
...“They are trying to align themselves with something that the public are already very positive about, which is renewables,” Townsend said....
June 9, 2023
Marks & Spencer Group PLC
Marks and Spencer lifts sales as turnround strategy bears fruit
...Interim finance chief Jeremy Townsend said on Wednesday that he expected profit to be £5mn to £10mn below last year’s outcome. Refinitiv data puts the current consensus forecast at £401mn....
May 24, 2023
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran wins ‘Let’s Get It On’ copyright infringement trial
...Lawyers for the plaintiffs, who included the daughter of the late Ed Townsend, who co-wrote Gaye’s hit, played a fan-shot video recording of a Zurich concert in 2014, at which Sheeran mashed up his song...
May 4, 2023
FT Live
Moral Money Summit Americas
Unlocking opportunities for a greener and fairer world
Tuesday, 15 OctoberNew York, USA
FT Moral Money Forum
What does AI mean for a responsible business?
...“AI technologies find those marginal gains — and they find so many of them that the cumulative value is massive,” says Solitaire Townsend, co-founder of sustainability consultancy Futerra....
March 27, 2024
News in-depthUK economy
Car and battery makers to miss out on benefits from Atlantic declaration
...Jeff Townsend, founder of the Critical Minerals Association, said the accord “has the potential to revolutionise the UK’s critical minerals sector”....
June 9, 2023
Helen Thomas
Carmakers’ latest Brexit angst highlights risk of UK falling behind EV battery race
...Jeff Townsend, of the Critical Minerals Association, applauded the government’s newfound if belated appreciation of the issue but memorably added, “without the money to back it up, it’s just words — and...
May 15, 2023
FT Globetrotter
Visual feasts: five of London’s best gallery restaurants
...Townsend (Whitechapel Gallery) 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX Good for: Light, local fare; decent acoustics Not so good for: Large parties....
July 25, 2023
HTSI
The short life and many loves of Stephen Tomlin
...one of the few Bloomsbury luminaries who didn’t fall for the much younger sculptor, who apparently managed to have dalliances with Duncan Grant, Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington, David Garnett, Sylvia Townsend...
June 2, 2023
FT WealthStefan Wagstyl
Gold still adds a little lustre to a very well-diversified portfolio
...Townsend expects the investment winds to shift, slightly, in the new year....
December 2, 2022
Books
What to read in 2024
...Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann by Harriet Baker (Allen Lane)This group biography with a difference looks at the defining impact of the countryside...
December 28, 2023
House & Home
The secret history of the teenager’s bedroom
...This transition was expressed exquisitely in Sue Townsend’s The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾: “Bought two tins of black vinyl silk-finish paint . . ....
September 15, 2023
ReviewFiction
Dr No by Percival Everett — Bond-esque villainy with added verbal trickery
...How else to explain that Wala once tells us his real name is Ralph Townsend — which would make this a sequel to Everett’s 1999 novel Glyph — but never refers to it again?...
March 9, 2023
Sustainability
Demand and dilemmas grow for sustainability consultants
...“And there’s a great deal of science and policy work, a lot of which isn’t intuitive and is difficult to navigate,” says Solitaire Townsend, who co-founded the sustainability consultancy Futerra in 2001....
February 17, 2023

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