William D. Harpold

November 23, 2023

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

FT Live

Financial Times @COP

FT Live events coinciding with COP

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

Transcript

Transcript: Who’s behind the Tory plots?

...William Wallis Yeah....

January 26, 2024

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

FT Live

Inside Politics: who will win the UK general election?

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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

Jonathan Derbyshire

Daniel Dennett and the purpose of philosophy

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

April 25, 2024

Letter

Letter: PM blandishments fail to sway ‘Spycatcher’ publisher

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

January 5, 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

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

HTSI

Olivia Laing’s garden of love

...Ian is decades older than me, and there was no way I’d be living in such a beautiful, enriching place without his generosity and love. During the years of the pandemic I was terrified I’d lose him....

April 23, 2024

FT Live

Commodities Asia Summit

Enabling decarbonisation in a time of disrupted trade flows

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

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

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

ReviewMusic

New York Philharmonic’s Olga Neuwirth premiere — a restless, fascinating new piece

...He sandwiched Neuwirth with Lili Boulanger’s D’un matin de printemps and Prokofiev’s Symphony No 5. Boulanger’s succinct, elegant, colourful impressionistic work opened like a sunrise....

April 22, 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

Jennifer Williams

Chanel decamps to Manchester in search of a bit of northern grit

...jennifer.williams@ft.com...

December 8, 2023

Letter

Letter: The science of wellbeing — an idea whose time has come

...So you disagree with the central belief of the 18th-century Enlightenment and the founders of economics, not to mention the Fabians and William Beveridge....

March 29, 2024

HTSIThe HTSI wedding special 2024

What to drive to your wedding

...It was for a plush affair, but they’d ridden around central London on it throughout their early days as a couple. So simple and so them.”...

April 18, 2024

FT SeriesBritain’s infrastructure impasse

Birmingham pays the price for UK’s infrastructure gap

...“I used to drive and it would take me 45 minutes and I’d spend a tenner on parking. This takes me five minutes right into town.”...

January 25, 2024

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