WILLIAM D HORTON

November 23, 2023

News updates from April 18: Netflix profits surge; Jurors selected for Trump’s ‘hush money’ trial

What to watch in North America on Thursday

...Other companies: Blackstone, DR Horton and Alaska Air Group will report earnings before the bell....

April 18, 2024

FT Live

Financial Times @COP

FT Live events coinciding with COP

InterviewUK local government finance

Birmingham council leader defends chosen route out of bankruptcy

...“You’d all wish we hadn’t got here. But they are a big authority with lots of resource. They will get out of it,” he said....

May 12, 2024

UK local government finance

Council tax bills across England rise by maximum allowed

...Its analysis found that the average benchmark mean value (or “band D”) property in Greater London will rise by £105.57 to £1,894, while in the North East it will go up by £112.14 to £2,315....

March 21, 2024

Transcript

Transcript: A glow-up for China’s state-owned enterprises

...William Sandlund Well, there’s a lot of different reasons, but I’d say the most compelling one was trying to replace a revenue stream that, you know, as land sales have fallen in China, the government has...

April 17, 2024

InterviewChinese business & finance

Chinese robot maker says protectionism will not stop its march

...Dubbed “little Huawei” in the industry, Inovance was founded by a group of former Huawei engineers, including Zhu himself, and has an employee stock ownership plan and high R&D spend that are similar to...

April 4, 2024

FT Live

Future of Asset Management Europe

New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence

Transcript

Transcript: Who’s behind the Tory plots?

...William Wallis Yeah....

January 26, 2024

On Wall StreetWilliam Cohan

The deals that show how lucrative private equity can be

...In 2014 Burger King, soon to be renamed Restaurant Brands International, bought Canada’s beloved Tim Hortons for nearly $12bn, including $3bn of financing from Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway....

December 16, 2023

HTSIThe HTSI design special

The living sculptures of Jeremy Anderson

...“This is more square footage than I’d have needed,” he admits. “So I wanted to have an area where I could showcase finished work, and have a little kitchenette, as well as the kiln and tools.”...

April 8, 2024

Design

Roman and Williams, luxury’s default designers of atmosphere

...“You’d learn to communicate using ornament, scale, light and so on....

January 10, 2024

Letter

Letter: PM blandishments fail to sway ‘Spycatcher’ publisher

...Derek WyattFormer Director, William HeinemannFormer MP, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, UK...

January 5, 2024

How To Spend It In...

Plum Sykes’s guide to The Cotswolds

...If you want a modern country house, I’d suggest The Find, designed by my architect friend Richard Found....

April 18, 2024

Inside Politics

No speedy solution for UK’s choked-up rail line

...Now try this Much as I’d like to recommend yet another rash of trash TV, for once I won’t. Having said that, my more cultural offerings are currently in the future....

February 14, 2024

News in-depthPhilanthropy

Philanthropy funds community services as UK state support withers

...“I’d have been sat in my room, suffering with a lot of anxiety,” said the 15-year-old, as nearby children scaled the club’s climbing wall and played pool. “This place has opened up my future.”...

December 29, 2023

Inside Politics

March of the mayors Premium

...Devolution revolution With all the talk of elections in 2024 — not only the UK general election, but polls that will see some 2bn people across the planet able to cast their vote — I thought I’d look ahead...

January 4, 2024

FT Live

Investing in America

Foreign companies as drivers of US growth, resilience and competitiveness

On Wall StreetWilliam Cohan

Bitcoin ETFs miss the point

...And then, you step back, give it a thought or two and remember that Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan, said of cryptocurrency, “If I was the government, I’d shut it down.”...

January 6, 2024

ReviewTelevision

Robbie Williams, Netflix — the polished inside story of the megastar

...Occasionally flashes of the trademark impish persona shine through, but Williams is more sedate and serious than you’d expect....

November 10, 2023

Jonathan Derbyshire

Daniel Dennett and the purpose of philosophy

...We’d been invited to debate the question, “Has science killed philosophy?”...

April 25, 2024

Miranda Green

Zen and the art of the zoned-out commute

...I’d be back at home where I can earn my crust with no distractions and no one else’s odours — or videos — to intrude. I used to love the Central Line....

March 31, 2024

Winter sports

Ski industry navigates new terrain to fend off threat of climate change

...I’d bring them back when there’s snow.” Across the US and Europe, climate change is forcing the ski industry to adapt....

February 10, 2024

FirstFT

FirstFT: Iran oil exports hit 6-year high

...Companies: Blackstone, Netflix, Alaska Air Group and DR Horton report results....

April 18, 2024

News in-depthClimate change

A chapter of diplomacy closes as US and Chinese climate envoys say farewell

...“If Kerry and Xie weren’t in office, given all the recent geopolitical kerfuffles, there’s no way we’d be even close to where we’re at,” said Jake Schmidt, a senior director of international climate at think-tank...

January 20, 2024

HTSI

Manderley Press, the publishing house with its own beguiling story

...The charming yellow-brick gabled house was built in south London in 1868 for the Victorian writer William Hale White – with a little interiors help from William Morris, the 19th century’s most celebrated...

May 13, 2024

InterviewTheatre

Robert Icke on directing Ian McKellen as Falstaff: ‘He’s a criminal, not a jolly Santa figure’

...“I guess I’d had this view of [the plays] that Hal was involved in some japes,” says Icke. “It was slightly wild and they were nicking traffic cones or whatever....

March 24, 2024

Transcript

Transcript: Rebellions, reshuffles and Cameron’s return

...George ParkerWell, I’d say that Suella Braverman played a useful purpose for Rishi Sunak....

November 17, 2023

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