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Letter
Letter: Buckley’s Boston bombast
..., January 27), it was William F Buckley Jr, the American conservative writer, who quipped: “I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston telephone directory than by the 2,000 people...
February 2, 2024
News updates from January 17: US retail sales beat expectations in December, Lagarde says ECB likely to cut rates this summer
Judge blocks JetBlue’s proposed $3.8bn takeover of Spirit Airlines
...Judge William Young on Tuesday halted the companies from closing the deal after US authorities and states last year sued to halt the transaction because it would reduce competition in the passenger aviation...
January 16, 2024
FT Live
The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition
FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government
Wednesday, 4 DecemberDigital Conference
News updates from January 16: Fed’s Waller says 2% inflation in sight, Senior Tories resign over Rwanda bill
Judge blocks JetBlue’s proposed $3.8bn takeover of Spirit
...Judge William Young on Tuesday permanently enjoined the companies from closing the deal after US authorities and states last year sued to halt the transaction on the basis that it would reduce competition...
January 16, 2024
ReviewAlbums
Julian Perkins: From Handel’s Home: the Keyboards of Handel Hendrix House — original instruments for 18th-century music
...Among the Handel items are the Suite No 2 in F Major, given a lively performance by Julian Perkins, and the Suite in C Minor for Two Keyboards, in which he is joined by Carole Cerasi....
February 14, 2024
Airlines
JetBlue’s $3.8bn bid for rival airline Spirit blocked by US judge
...Judge William Young on Tuesday ruled in their favour, prohibiting the companies from closing the deal....
January 16, 2024
UK immigration
Asylum seekers evacuated from UK barge over legionnaires’ disease fears
...Lee Anderson, the deputy chair of the ruling Conservative party who earlier in the week said migrants could “f*** off back to France” if they did not like the idea of living on the Bibby Stockholm, said...
August 11, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
HTSI
Sci-fi books are taking off again
...“Other notable modern authors to collect are Ursula Le Guin, William Gibson and Dan Simmons.” Unsurprisingly, values are often affected by screen adaptations....
January 11, 2024
UK immigration
UK justice secretary hits out at lawyers ‘parading their politics’
...Lee Anderson, deputy Conservative chair, told the Daily Express: “If they don’t like barges then they should f*** off back to France.”...
August 8, 2023
The Week Ahead
Russian elections and St Patrick’s Day celebrations
...Porsche FY, TP ICAP FY Wednesday FT Climate Capital Live event Russia: February CPI inflation rate data UK: January GDP estimate Results: Adidas FY, Balfour Beatty FY, Dollar Tree Q4, Eni FY, Eon FY, F&...
March 10, 2024
Insider trading
Former Goldman and Blackstone employee charged with insider trading
...When Forlano replied that “Rigatoni” — a nickname for Viggiano — “literally works for” Blackstone, Bleckley responded “F[**]k u should’ve told me f[**]k the feds.”...
September 28, 2023
Non-Fiction
Can we really live forever?
...Similarly, How We Age by Coleen T Murphy, director of Princeton University’s Paul F Glenn Laboratories for Aging Research, provides a lucid and detailed overview of the field for a more advanced readership...
March 26, 2024
Due Diligence
Bob Diamond’s mid-market adventure Premium content
...William Young wrote in his order....
January 17, 2024
Britain after Brexit
How magical thinking links Brexit vote to Rwanda policy Premium content
...Boris Johnson infamously said “F**k business!”; that was an expression of exasperation but more importantly it was an abrogation of responsibility....
December 7, 2023
Janan Ganesh
When politics wasn’t a team sport
...If his 1968 debates with the conservative William Buckley Jr still grip us, it is because of the two men’s underlying oneness, not the superficial Democrat vs Republican framing.Best of Enemies, James Graham...
December 2, 2022
FirstFT
FirstFT: America ‘will not walk away’ from Ukraine
...Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams and Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Loretta Mester also speak at public events today....
October 2, 2023
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
US-China relations
China sharply rebukes US over decision to shoot down ‘spy’ balloon
...Hours after an American F-22 fighter jet shot down the balloon with a Sidewinder missile, Beijing accused Washington of “seriously violating international conventions” and repeated its claim that it was...
February 5, 2023
The Big Read
Formula One’s growing pains
...F 1 has the “duty and obligation” to be creative and to “push for change without being crazy”, says Domenicali....
March 1, 2024
Inside Politics
Ban on Gove’s ‘piggy bank’ risks stalling regional regeneration plans
...‘LGBT business champion’ quits Tories | A leading Conservative business figure has left the party after almost 40 years, citing the party’s alleged “f*** business” attitude and willingness to put vulnerable...
February 13, 2023
ReviewNon-Fiction
Kennan: A Life Between Worlds — lessons for the containment of Russia
...As Frank Costigliola writes in his magisterial new biography Kennan: A Life Between Worlds: “The greatest tragedy in the life of George F Kennan arose from his most famous success.”...
March 16, 2023
Electric vehicles
Electric vehicles defy price war after Ford and Tesla discounts
...Yet Ford has raised the price on the F-150 Lightning, the electric version of its flagship truck, three times. It now starts at $56,000 and has a long waiting list....
February 5, 2023
Moral Money
Opec cartel’s lesson for biodiversity Premium content
...(Patrick Temple-West) Smart Read Kenya’s president William Ruto has laid out a tough task....
August 11, 2023
InterviewTheatre
When American ideologies collide: James Graham on his play Best of Enemies
...But that benign conclusion was never likely to result from the series of encounters between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley Jr during the explosive US political party conventions of 1968, the true story...
November 10, 2022
ReviewNon-Fiction
Once Upon A Time World — revelry and wrong-doing on the French Riviera
...In the early 1960s, William Somerset Maugham received a visit from the local mayor at his villa on the French Riviera....
May 3, 2023
Electric vehicles
Carmakers try to frustrate US push to cut China from EV supply chain
...The Michigan carmaker said in July that CATL, the Chinese battery manufacturer, will supply batteries for the Mustang Mach-E car next year and for the F-150 Lightning truck in 2024....
November 22, 2022
The indictment of Donald Trump
Susan vs Susan: heavyweight lawyers face off over Trump indictment
...Manhattan district attorney’s office from 1992 to 2000 under the legendary Robert Morgenthau, where there was “no getting around doing the grunt work”, according to a contemporary, and where even John F...
April 2, 2023

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