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FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
House museums #49: Monticello
...Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and third president of the US, might also be called the patron saint of the state of Virginia....
January 5, 2024
ExplainerMaritime accidents and safety
The Baltimore bridge disaster: what happened and who will pay?
...“It is likely other larger US east coast ports such as neighbouring New York/New Jersey and Virginia can handle additional container imports if Baltimore is inaccessible, which may limit any impact on ocean...
March 27, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
House museums #48: Lamb House
...The Lamb family sold the house to local banker Francis Bellingham in 1893....
December 29, 2023
Jo Ellison
Help, I’m addicted to wealth porn
...So opens Virginia Woolf’s landmark novel....
March 1, 2024
US presidential election 2024
Republican megadonors wait for their anti-Trump champion
...He told his friends not to back any other candidates until January, by which time he hopes the Virginia governor has changed his mind....
September 12, 2023
South Korea
Scouts gathering in South Korea evacuated ahead of typhoon
...On Sunday, Pope Francis announced that World Youth Day, a global gathering organised by the Catholic Church that regularly attracts millions of young pilgrims, would be held in South Korea in 2027....
August 7, 2023
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
InterviewMusic
Sounds of the unsung suffering that built America’s railroads
...Now they are taking the resulting compositions from east to west themselves, starting with a brief residency at George Mason University in Virginia and then touring eight venues across California....
October 28, 2023
Military technology
Aukus: the industrial challenges of delivering a new defence pact
...“It gives you 25-plus years of visibility,” said Francis Tusa, editor at Defence Analysis....
March 11, 2023
ReviewTheatre
Further than the Furthest Thing, Young Vic review — a volcanic contemporary classic
...The couple in the Swedish playwright’s brutal black comedy, written in 1900, could give Edward Albee’s George and Martha (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)...
March 23, 2023
HTSI
Dior, diamonds and Duncan Grant – the passions of Kim Jones
...Here, a first edition of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. And another. And another. And another. There are seven....
March 1, 2023
InterviewAt Home with the FT
David Herbert: ‘This stuff is a looking glass into another world’
...He began to build his collection in earnest after he and Francis moved permanently from Sydney to London in 2001....
September 16, 2022
FT SeriesFantasy dinner parties
Rebecca Watson’s fantasy dinner party: a boozy affair at Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead
...Virginia: James, James: Virginia. We cheers and knock back our champagne. He lights a cigarette and Wilcox appears with an ashtray....
March 12, 2022
HTSI
Feel the pull of rope furniture
...In an Upper East Side townhouse designed by Virginia Tupker, a tiny powder room’s smart marble sink is playfully paired with a looping rope wall light....
June 17, 2022
FT Swamp Notes
The politicisation of the Supreme Court Premium content
...As political scientist Francis Fukuyama points out, the US is a vetocracy. If this system refuses to bend, it could eventually break. Your feedback And now a word from our Swampians . . ....
April 4, 2022
The Big Read
Low-cost warfare: US military battles with ‘Costco drones’
...At a counter-drone conference held last month in Virginia, a host of companies advertised their wares....
January 5, 2022
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Global InsightEdward Luce
Biden is approaching his moment of truth
...The first is the tiny coterie of centrist Democrats, chiefly Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona....
June 3, 2021
FT Magazine
‘I just feel broken’: doctors, mental health and the pandemic
...says Denise Francis, a district nurse team leader, during the wellness group. “I’m going home to Jamaica!”...
March 25, 2021
Person in the News
Joe Biden: the new president seeks to heal a divided US
...Among the family photographs he brought to the Oval Office was one of himself with Pope Francis....
January 22, 2021
Visual Arts
The spell of the studio — Atelier Picasso at Bastian gallery
...Virginia Woolf stressed how much it mattered for a woman artist or writer to have “a room of one’s own” precisely because it was a rarity....
September 7, 2020
National Archives
Young John Bercow boasted of left-bashing prowess, files reveal
...After working for Mr Aitken, Mr Bercow worked for Virginia Bottomley when she was secretary of state for national heritage....
December 31, 2019
ReviewNon-Fiction
Are we living in a golden age of the literary journal?
...The latter journal, founded in 1803 by Francis Jeffrey, was one of the ornaments of the first golden age of what used to be called the “higher journalism”....
January 3, 2020
The Art Market
London gallerist turns art agent
...Virginia Damtsa, who co-founded Riflemaker London gallery in 2003, has embarked on a new path....
April 12, 2019
Letter
Slocum was the first to sail around the world solo
...Philip Ogram Virginia Beach, VA, US...
February 9, 2018
Life & Arts
Midterms? Amazon steals the show in New York
...This year it was the turn of Ron Chernow, Francis Ford Coppola, Jessye Norman, Claudia Rankine and Elizabeth Strout....
November 9, 2018
FT CollectionsTrump and the polls
Donald Trump suffers a suburban backlash
...“American politics is becoming cities versus the non-cities,” says Francis Fukuyama, a senior fellow at Stanford University....
November 9, 2018

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