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UK prime property
Hampshire havens in the Test Valley
...“If I was a valuer now, I’d be taking off the 15-20 per cent Covid bubble increase, back to pre-pandemic pricing.”...
June 21, 2023
Moral Money
Regulators take aim at ‘lobby-tising’ Premium content
...“They are trying to align themselves with something that the public are already very positive about, which is renewables,” Townsend said....
June 9, 2023
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
HTSI
The short life and many loves of Stephen Tomlin
...“But Susan and I agreed that had we known him, we’d have fallen for him like a tonne of bricks!”...
June 2, 2023
ReviewFiction
Dr No by Percival Everett — Bond-esque villainy with added verbal trickery
...“A mathematician is asked if he’d rather have a cold coffee or meet God. He says he’ll have the cold coffee,” reports a character in this novel. Why?...
March 9, 2023
The Starmer Project
Keir Starmer’s ruthless remaking of the Labour party
...“If we’d lost, then Morgan would have been sacked, Matt would have been, Keir probably would have faced a coup.”...
June 7, 2023
Lunch with the FT
Annie Proulx: ‘You’ve got to keep moving!’
...I thought I’d be crashed up in a car or a plane or fallen off a mountain years ago. But I’m still here.”...
December 16, 2022
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ObituaryQueen Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth II: April 21 1926-September 8 2022
...When Princess Margaret fell in love with Group Captain Peter Townsend, a commoner and a divorcee, the Queen — supreme governor of the Church of England — stayed aloof and the princess finally renounced Townsend...
September 8, 2022
News in-depthQueen Elizabeth II13 min
Queen Elizabeth II: a long life of duty and service
...Many thought the Queen had been too harsh about her sister Princess Margaret's relationship with divorcee and commoner Group Captain Peter Townsend....
September 8, 2022
Fashion accessories
How to make a statement with your specs
...He suggests referring back to the most stylish glasses-wearers of that century: Michael Caine, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Le Corbusier, Gloria Steinem....
November 15, 2021
FT Magazine
‘You have to be violent to be heard’: Northern Ireland’s teens take to the streets
...I’d be more scared because I’d be more easily seen.” He believes he would be recognised because “everyone sort of knows each other”, especially with social media....
July 1, 2021
Arts
Goodbye To All This podcast — love, loss and the balancing act of being human
...I realise this description makes it sound gruelling, and possibly the kind of series you’d strive to avoid in the midst of a pandemic....
October 25, 2020
KPMG UK
UK official was set to join KPMG while in talks to lead project that paid firm £1.5m
...KPMG said: “Following the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Chris Townsend was approached about the shielding programme short-term role after he’d agreed to join KPMG....
September 16, 2020
ReviewMusic
LA Opera revives work by neglected black composer Joseph Bologne
...The opera’s official description as a “comédie mélée d’ariettes et de ballets” hardly does it justice....
November 16, 2020
ReviewBiography and memoir
Lady in Waiting — a candid, witty memoir of life with Princess Margaret
...Asked why he married her, he said he knew she’d never give up. He met his match in Princess Margaret....
November 1, 2019
ReviewBooks
2020 visions: the year ahead in books
...Mark Townsend’s No Return (Faber RRP£12.99, April) is the instructive story of five jihadis whose dark trajectory towards Syria could have been prevented....
January 3, 2020
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Markets InsightBen McLannahan
Best way to encourage whistleblowers? Reward them
...“I’d argue it should be commensurate with the profiteering.” ben.mclannahan@ft.com...
March 5, 2019
Oil
BP strikes deal with Iraq to exploit giant Kirkuk field
...“The fields in Kirkuk have a [current] capacity of about 450,000 b/d at the moment but are only producing around 150,000 b/d,” said Alan Mohtadi, head of T&S Consulting Energy and Security, which advises...
January 18, 2018
FT Magazine
Leicester — the city that made the football club
...One of the jokes in Sue Townsend’s fictional diaries of unglamorous teenager Adrian Mole is that he lives here, in Townsend’s unglamorous home town....
April 7, 2016
Life & Arts
House managers: why they remain invaluable to today’s global rich
...Yet not all employers are comfortable with having staff, notes Jacqueline Townsend, senior consultant at Exclusive Household Staff, a recruitment agency in London....
February 16, 2017
Nilanjana Roy
Crossing over: The jewel and the crown
...I will probably continue to watch The Crown, in the way you’d watch a good serial about the Roman or the Mughal empire, but my feelings are mixed....
December 29, 2016
Life & Arts
Hampstead, London: is fall in home sales due to Brexit vote?
...Frank Townsend, director of Savills Hampstead, says buyers are wary of purchasing after the EU referendum....
October 14, 2016
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurs rebuild Christchurch five years after New Zealand earthquake
...“Realistically, there was no way we’d ever have been finished within five years. I’d say we are now about halfway through the rebuild and have spent NZ$13bn-NZ$14bn.”...
June 19, 2016
First Person
‘I skied down a near-vertical drop’
...It was the most visually insane ski line I’d ever laid eyes on....
October 2, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
‘Paradise Lodge’, by Nina Stibbe
...They’d not secured her properly and it looked as though she might tumble out.” This is a humane, moving and very funny novel....
June 24, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
‘The Penguin Book of the British Short Story’, edited by Philip Hensher
...It is a joy to re-encounter stories by Francis King, Georgina Hammick, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Alan Sillitoe and Christine Brooke-Rose....
November 6, 2015

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