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ReviewFiction
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward — to hell and back
...His guide, Virgil, declares, “let us descend”. Given the setting of acclaimed American novelist Jesmyn Ward’s latest, it is no surprise she found her title here....
October 19, 2023
European Central Bank
ECB to firm up plans to ward off bond market stress
...Additional reporting by Adam Samson Letter in response to this article: ECB has no mandate to be fiscal redistribution agent / From Paul Mortimer-Lee, Fellow, National Institute of Economic and Social...
June 6, 2022
FT Live
Business of Luxury Summit
Gathering leaders in luxury for the 20th year
Sunday, 19 MayVenice, Italy
Letter
Letter: Berlin’s funding disarray is a chance to modernise
...Lindner and other European finance ministers can seize the moment to remove overly restrictive fiscal limits on green investments and give themselves the leeway they need to fast-forward Europe...
November 17, 2023
OutlookChristian Davies
The upside-down world of North Korean elections
...Lee notes that under Kim’s father, the Workers’ Party of Korea had withered as it came to revolve around the whims of the leader....
November 30, 2023
House & Home
Atlanta Design Festival reflects a city in transition
...The festival’s Creative Futures Conference is taking place in the Old Fourth Ward, a historic neighbourhood that was once a settlement for previously enslaved African-Americans, and was home to Martin Luther...
October 13, 2023
ReviewTheatre
A Mirror at the Almeida Theatre, London — ingenious drama explores art in a police state
...In scenes with this vastly more experienced actor, newcomer Micheal Ward more than holds his own as Adem, stubbornly sticking to his creative groove....
August 30, 2023
FT Live
Inside Politics: who will win the UK general election?
Exclusively for FT subscribers
Wednesday, 8 MayDigital Conference
Gender politics
Tory focus on trans and gender issues sparks unease within the party
...The move, which will be put to consultation later this year, is expected to involve a ban on transgender women in female-only hospital wards....
October 3, 2023
Education
High exposure to lead hits children’s ability to learn, says report
...Lee Crawfurd, lead author of the CGD paper, said children who have high levels of lead in their blood can have much lower IQ scores and test results than their healthier counterparts....
July 30, 2023
HTSIBig spring energy – an HTSI style special
How Tory Burch found her edge
...The following morning, when the bright orange lacquer front doors had yet to arrive, Burch placed space heaters by the entrance to ward off the winter chill. She was nervous....
February 7, 2024
ReviewCrime books
Crime round-up — return of a Nordic noir master
...As it is generally felt that James Ellroy and James Lee Burke are no longer producing their best work, two names jostle for pole position: Dennis Lehane and Don Winslow....
March 13, 2023
Fashion
The year in fashion — controversies, acquisitions and new creative directions
...All change at the top brands Bottega Veneta, Bally, Missoni, Salvatore Ferragamo, Etro and Off-White c/o Virgil Abloh all came under new creative direction this year, with Bottega Veneta’s Matthieu Blazy...
December 23, 2022
ReviewVisual Arts
Theaster Gates transforms the New Museum into an elegiac ‘wunderkammer’ — review
...to the artist’s private pantheon, which includes his father Theaster Gates Sr, a roofer and builder; the painter Sam Gilliam; curator Okwui Enwezor; activist and scholar bell hooks; and ceramicist Marva Lee...
December 14, 2022
ReviewFiction
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow — game for life
...A nurse notices her, “one of the many neglected siblings of sick kids” he sees around the place, and sends her to the games room on the children’s ward, where she encounters another 11-year-old, a boy in...
August 17, 2022
UK agriculture
UK cucumber and pepper crops face energy and labour crunch
...“The net result of all of this is that we have just shrunk our productive capacity,” Ward said....
June 3, 2022
ReviewTelevision
My Name Is Leon, BBC2 review — an uplifting tale of foster care
...Sylvia isn’t the expected wicked aunt and she even shares a couple of affecting moments with her new ward....
June 3, 2022
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
FT Magazine
What if San Francisco never pulls out of its ‘doom loop’?
...Violent attacks in wealthy neighbourhoods, including the fatal stabbing of Cash App founder Bob Lee and a burglary at the home of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi which left her husband in hospital with...
May 18, 2023
Nilanjana Roy
In praise of the ‘holiday read’
...As Lee Erickson notes in The Economy of Novel Reading: Jane Austen and the Circulating Library: “People were quite willing to rent a novel they were unwilling to buy.”...
June 9, 2022
News in-depthNational Health Service
Northumbria shows how new health levy can help reduce NHS waiting lists
...The 80-year-old, who has spent three weeks on a geriatric ward after a fall, will be accompanied by a community nurse and an occupational therapist....
April 3, 2022
The Big Read
Lex in-depth: does Uber deserve its $91bn valuation?
...In April, the company announced that it would need to spend another $250m on incentives to ward off a driver shortage. Prices are a delicate calculation. Too high and passengers will cancel....
October 17, 2021
House & Home
Sleepless in Singapore: the challenges facing Hong Kong expats
...Reports earlier this year of parents being separated from their children in hospital wards brought China’s crackdown particularly close to home, pushing many families to pack their bags....
June 10, 2022
HTSI
Breakfast, lunch and dinner… Why Tiffany’s is hungry for more
...At Rimowa, Arnault persuaded some of the design world’s most notable figures – including Kim Jones and the late Virgil Abloh – to work on collaborations that would popularise the suitcase....
March 31, 2022
The Art Market
Tim Berners-Lee puts the web’s beginnings for sale as an NFT
...If anyone understands the power of technology it is Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web....
June 17, 2021
DoorDash
DoorDash shakes up fees in search for profit
...He denied that DoorDash had introduced the lowest tier option to ward off scrutiny from legislators, and said: “A blanket, one-size-fits-all policy for pricing is not what these merchants want or need....
April 27, 2021
FT Magazine
The secret life of fungi is weirder and wilder than you can imagine
...No, it’s just one of the less bizarre facts that sprung up as my friend and producer Richard Ward researched a documentary for BBC Radio 4 on the strange world of fungi....
April 8, 2022
North Korea
Kim Jong Un sounds alarm over North Korean food shortages
...Rachel Lee, a former US government North Korea analyst who is now with 38 North at the Stimson Center, a Washington-based think-tank, said Kim might also be acknowledging food shortages to “crack the whip...
June 16, 2021

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