Wilber D. Allen

Special ReportThe Business of Formula One

Can Max Verstappen’s domination prove bad for F1’s business?

...But there are concerns that, with such recent dominance, Red Bull was able to decide, early in the season, to divert its R&D programme to the design of its 2024 car, rather than develop the 2023 car as its...

November 24, 2023

HTSI

Setchu, Savile Row and the origami suit

...“We don’t normally do this but we really respect and trust Satoshi,” says Allen....

April 3, 2024

FT Live

Business of Entertainment Summit

Capitalizing on Disruption

Letter

Letter: Whoever is new CEO must stay true to BP culture

...Dave Allen Brandpie, London W1, UK...

October 16, 2023

Q&AThe Questionnaire

Physicist Carlo Rovelli: ‘I’d be terrified at the idea of living for eternity’

...I’d be terrified at the idea of surviving for eternity. Eternity is unbelievably long. The boredom would be unbearable....

December 9, 2023

How To Spend It In...

Plum Sykes’s guide to The Cotswolds

...It’s quite groovy; you’ll see people in there like Damien Hirst and Lily Allen but also drystone wallers....

April 18, 2024

Cryptofinance

The crypto lobby’s newest target

...This was never about anything other than profit, and profit doesn’t come without getting the ‘system’ onside,” Allen added....

February 16, 2024

FT Live

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Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life

Jo Ellison

The joy of the flop

...I’d sooner watch 10 films by Roman Polanski than a single Marvel film. (OK, that’s a slight untruth, because I love some Spider-Verse.)...

September 8, 2023

The Trump Organization

Former Trump executive Weisselberg gives up little in latest testimony

...For 50 years, Allen Weisselberg faithfully served the Trump family....

October 10, 2023

Working It podcast16 min listen

What's the point of meetings?

...Got a workplace dilemma you’d like Isabel and Jonathan to help you with? Submit it here: https://telbee.io/channel/ygf7_gly04xgtckcb0g56a/ Want more?...

October 17, 2023

FT MagazineTim Hayward

The Dover, London: ‘Enticed is an inadequate word’

...A room directed by Woody Allen, inspired by Ingmar Bergman and shot by Sven Nykvist. Enticed is an inadequate word....

February 22, 2024

HTSI

The reinvention of Lily Allen

...Or I’d get booed. And it was not like that at all.” Rodrigo was six years old when “Fuck You” was released. A new generation of young women – fans and fellow musicians – has discovered Allen’s music....

June 2, 2023

FT SeriesBest books of the year 2023

Best books of 2023 — History

...The Nobel Family: Swedish Geniuses in Tsarist Russia by Bengt Jangfeldt, translated by Harry D Watson (Bloomsbury Academic) Sweden’s Nobel family, chiefly associated nowadays with the Nobel Prize, were...

November 16, 2023

ObituaryRussell Norman

Russell Norman, restaurateur, 1965-2023

...Norman became maître d’ at the theatre restaurant Joe Allen, then moved up through the London restaurant scene to eventually become operations director of Caprice Holdings, whose portfolio of high-profile...

November 27, 2023

FT SeriesHouse & Home Ski Property Special

Ski-home buyers follow the snow in the face of climate change

...He also feels reassured that Val d’Isère’s snowfall is reliable....

November 17, 2023

News in-depthUK employment

Labour’s worker rights shake-up leaves UK business on edge

...Vicky Wickremeratne, partner at law firm Allen & Overy, said: “The service would need to be resourced to deal with it.”...

February 26, 2024

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Awards Asia-Pacific

Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region

The Big Read

The mysterious rise of the Chinese ecommerce giant behind Temu

...asked Allen of a faux Victoria’s Secret bag, before recoiling from the smell....

March 6, 2024

News in-depthLegal services

Wim Dejonghe: the Belgian rainmaker sealing Allen & Overy’s deal with Shearman

...Morley, who led the firm alongside then-managing partner Dejonghe for eight years to 2016 says: “Wim didn’t wake up yesterday and say: ‘it’d be great to do a merger’…....

May 26, 2023

Travel

In Svalbard, a sailing adventure with a mission

...“The potential of the ship is enormous,” said Allen. “We’ll get a lot more instrumentation on board. Ideally, we’d be able to measure partial pressure of carbon dioxide, possibly pH....

October 24, 2023

Personal Finance

UK hotel owners battle on multiple fronts

...“There’s not the same sense of drive,” says Craig D’allen....

June 16, 2023

Work WatchEmma Jacobs

Is friendship employers’ business?

...Sarah Henchoz, an employment partner at law firm Allen & Overy, says policies on friendships are not widespread, though it is “pretty standard to require employees to disclose conflicts of interest they...

November 15, 2023

HTSI

Introducing the kip-fit system, the bed that’s also a gym

...The Pivot costs from £2,999 for the base model to £5,179 for “The Full Monty” and takes about three hours to put together, a flat-pack operation involving hefty bolts and Allen keys....

November 13, 2023

FT SeriesTen ways to feel good in 2024

The second coming of the shag-pile carpet

...says Salci, who associates fitted carpets with the dynamic designers of the 1960s and 1970s including Gae Aulenti and Piero Manzoni: his designs for this season draw too from the slightly faded floors you’d...

January 3, 2024

Transcript

What’s the point of meetings?

...But with the things that they’d mentioned is that when they like the people in the meeting and when the meeting is short....

October 18, 2023

Undercover EconomistTim Harford

The inconvenient truth about productivity

...David Allen has pointed out that if, by some miracle, you were able to tick off everything on your to-do list tonight, by tomorrow afternoon you’d be fizzing with energy and ideas....

August 4, 2023

InterviewFilm

Director Nicole Holofcener: ‘If you didn’t like my movie, why wouldn’t you lie a little better?’

...“When I was young and had no money, we’d just go to the diner and get eggs for $3,” Holofcener recalls. “The seats were torn — it was just such a New York thing....

July 26, 2023

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