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ObituaryRobert Hanssen
Robert Philip Hanssen, double agent, 1944-2023
...It was a very strange set of competing beliefs and behaviours,” said Preston Burton, one of his defence attorneys....
June 10, 2023
Style
Rowing Blazers expands its preppy portfolio with Chipp
...Brooks Brothers filed for bankruptcy in 2020, while J Crew has suffered years of sales declines....
March 25, 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
Books
What to read in 2024
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
December 28, 2023
ReviewFiction
Winchelsea — an 18th-century yarn of piracy, bloodlust and vengeance
...In his afterword, Preston explains that his novel was intended as a “grown-up” take on J Meade Falkner’s classic children’s tale Moonfleet (1898)....
January 28, 2022
HTSIThe Kudos Project
Cult Shop: street style and social impact come together in Houston
...The walls are lined with Dior, Balenciaga, Saint Laurent, Amiri, Acronym and Fear of God, and glass fixtures hold socks by A-Cold-Wall* and Heron Preston....
March 5, 2021
EH Booth & Co Ltd
Supermarket group Booths reports strong Christmas sales growth
...The Preston-based company has 28 stores across north-west England and, like Wm Morrison, manufactures and sells food to Amazon and other wholesale customers....
January 15, 2020
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Lunch with the FTLunch with the FT: top 10 interviews from 2020
Sir Martin Sorrell: ‘What temper? I’m a cuddly teddy bear’
...It was an extraordinary feat for a Kentish company that was manufacturing rodent cages when Sorrell and his erstwhile partner Preston Rabl took a stake in it in 1985....
December 18, 2020
ReviewHistory books
Bluff City by Preston Lauterbach — the secret life of photographer Ernest Withers
...Much of this fear was generated by FBI director J Edgar Hoover, who was so obsessed that he seemed, at times, to prefer chasing red demons to actual organised crime....
February 15, 2019
Letter
EU rules on borrowing won’t suit Corbyn
...T J Scott Director, Hedley & Co Stockbrokers, Preston, Lancs, UK...
July 27, 2017
The FT ViewBrexit
The fallacy of Labour’s hard stand on Brexit
...Letters in response to this editorial: EU rules on borrowing won’t suit Corbyn / From T J Scott, Preston, Lancs, UK Anti-austerity economics unites the Labour left / From John Ure, University of Hong Kong...
July 25, 2017
US & Canadian companies
US anti-bribery law set to remain in place under Trump
...“This generates a tremendous amount of fines,” said attorney Preston Burton of BuckleySandler. “It’s going to remain a robust area of enforcement.”...
December 30, 2016
News in-depthUS politics & policy
Republicans keep door ajar to ‘locking up’ Clinton
...“If there’s anything we’ve learned in the last 24 hours, I dare not predict what might happen,” says Preston Burton, a partner with Buckley Sandler LLP, a law firm....
November 9, 2016
News in-depthBrexit
Wetherspoon chief cuts through Brexit froth
...Mr Martin’s first visit on Thursday is to The Grey Friar, just off a main road in Preston....
June 3, 2016
US presidential election
49 dead in Orlando gay nightclub massacre
...Asked about Mateen’s faith, Willie Preston, who had come to survey the scene with a friend, said: “That’s a touchy subject right there. It’s like they’re trying to start a war.”...
June 13, 2016
UK economy
The crumbling heritage of the industrial revolution
...Mount Street Hospital, Preston, Lancashire (Grade II, 1872, RW Hughes) Once home to the town’s “destitute girls”, the orphanage closed in 1954, and was later converted into a convalescent home....
September 13, 2016
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Life & Arts
How Tate is strengthening the state of the arts
...will have an even wider spread across the UK with a membership that now includes the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh, the MAC in Belfast, the South London Gallery, the Harris Museum and Art Gallery in Preston...
March 25, 2015
Media
Authors to call for Amazon antitrust inquiry
...Authors United, which counts bestselling writers including Malcolm Gladwell, Donna Tartt and Stephen King among its supporters, is soliciting signatures for a letter to William J....
September 24, 2014
FT Magazine
The networker: Martin Sorrell of WPP
...But Martin Sorrell has never quite shed the suspicion that hung around him and his partner Preston Rabl that day, like the odour of the chip shop where they had grabbed lunch....
March 13, 2015
Christopher CaldwellUS & Canadian companies
US must query any Knox extradition plea
...Douglas Preston has written in The Guardian about how Italian prosecutors sometimes cut corners to save face....
March 29, 2013
Life of a Song podcast18 min listen
Margin Call and the financial thriller
...Written and directed by first time feature director J.C.Chandor – and starring Kevin Spacey, Demi Moore and Jeremy Irons – The New Yorker called it “the best Wall Street movie ever made”....
December 16, 2011
Brian GroomUK schools
Boris and Ken: no model for mayors
...Charles Dickens would not have dreamt of renaming the capital, though Coketown in Hard Times was based partly on Preston. This can be disorientating....
April 16, 2012
ReviewLife & Arts
Pick of the crop
...CHILDREN’S BOOKS J Smith, by Fougasse, Walker Books, RRP£10, 152 pages A reproduction of a miniature book made in 1922 by the cartoonist Fougasse for inclusion in the library of Queen Mary’s Lutyens-designed...
June 29, 2012
IPOs
Trouble in store
...Alan’s eldest son, John – now Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover – joined the business in 1950, and became a director in 1958....
December 3, 2009
Q&AUK banks
UK stocks offer income opportunities
...Malcolm, Preston TF: We agree that any weakness on the back of an elected hung parliament is likely to be temporary....
April 26, 2010
Retail & Consumer industry
Family ties no longer a hold on Sainsbury
...If the Qatar Investment Authority mounts a bid for J Sainsbury, then it will pitch itself once more against the descendents of John James and Mary Ann Sainsbury who founded the supermarket chain in 1869....
October 23, 2009

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