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FT Magazine
Maïwenn on the nuances of playing Jeanne du Barry to Johnny Depp’s Louis XV
...The film, which is surprisingly humorous, captures the hothouse intrigue of the court, while presenting du Barry as more than a schemer....
April 6, 2024
ReviewFiction
The Secret Hours by Mick Herron — scheming and bungling before Slough House
...Though marketed as a “standalone” book, The Secret Hours delivers a backstory, or prequel, to some of Herron’s senior crew: a sort of Star Wars: Episode 1 for the schemers and bunglers of “Regent’s Park”...
September 8, 2023
FT Live
Global Private Banking Awards 2024
Celebrating excellence in wealth management
Thursday, 7 NovemberThe Landmark London, London, UK
ReviewVisual Arts
Vertigo of Color, Metropolitan Museum review — Matisse and Derain’s fruitful Fauve summer
...He could be Mezzetino, the wily and flirtatious schemer of the comic stage. Derain returned the favour, painting Matisse as a vigorous labourer-sage. Thick slabs of green (again!)...
November 29, 2023
Anjana Ahuja
We need rules before we let the genome-editing genie out of the bottle
...The writer is a science commentator Every emerging technology has its dreamers and schemers....
March 7, 2023
ReviewBooks
The North Will Rise Again by Alex Niven — phoenix rising
...A proposed regional assembly for the north-east was not quashed by London-based New Labour schemers but by voters in a 2004 referendum....
February 2, 2023
Transcript
The billionaire charged with insider trading
...So for the schemers out there in the audience, just don’t do it. We’ll be back in a moment with Long/Short. [MUSIC PLAYING] Welcome back....
July 27, 2023
FT Live
Global Wealth Management Summit
Recalibrating business for multi-generational private clients
Wednesday, 6 November222 Marylebone Road, London NW1 6JQ, United Kingdom
ReviewTheatre
Shakespeare’s Henry VI at Stratford — chattering and battering
...She’s a rag-bag of dramatic types rather than a character, moving from giddy bride through disgruntled wife, villainous schemer, lover, madwoman, harridan, warrior queen and finally figure of abject pity...
April 25, 2022
ReviewTelevision
Connie Nielsen stars in tense Channel 4 drama Close to Me
...When it comes to TV thrillers, Occam’s razor proves to be something of a useless tool — surely a six-episode arc won’t boil down to Rob being as much of a shifty schemer as we currently see him through Jo...
November 5, 2021
FT Swamp Notes
America’s imperial farewell to Madeleine Albright Premium content
...My colleague, Jemima Kelly, wrote a deliciously caustic takedown of cryptocurrency proselytisers, whom she lampoons as Ponzi schemers: “Aside from the environmental harm, and the billions lost in outright...
April 29, 2022
Financial fraud
Why we trust fraudsters
...Their US counterparts ignored the urging of Harry Markopolos to investigate the Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff, a former chairman of the Nasdaq whose imaginary $65bn fund sent out account statements run off...
June 16, 2022
Due Diligence
Bad blood as Holmes takes stand in Theranos trial Premium content
...It’s not an easy bar to clear, and emails like the one Holmes sent to Murdoch help the prosecution depict her as a schemer who was fully in control of the company....
December 2, 2021
Janan Ganesh
Joe Biden must choose between unity and change
...Their picture of the liberal elite as schemers against the people is wrong and dangerous....
January 26, 2021
Leo Lewis
A hit TV drama poses questions for corporate Japan
...The situations he confronts involve companies (faltering regional manufacturers, ambitious start-ups, perilously indebted hotels) and workplace stereotypes (schemers, bullies, bloodhound-faced patriarchs...
August 12, 2020
ReviewFilm
On digital: Parasite / The Lighthouse
...In Bong Joon-ho’s superlative social satire, a family of working-class Korean schemers insinuate themselves into the sleek modernist home of a wealthy family, only to have their carefully constructed ruse...
May 29, 2020
ReviewAlbums
The Chicks confront painful separations in Gaslighter
...The target is an emotionally manipulative schemer who insists on moving to Hollywood to further his dreams at the expense of his wife’s. Infidelity and breakdown ensue....
July 17, 2020
FT Live
Bank of the Year Awards 2024
Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
Due Diligence
Nikola/Tesla: voltage variance Premium content
...(FT) Bike schemers The economics of government-supported cycle share schemes seem to work well for everyone except retailers....
September 22, 2020
ReviewFiction
The Anointed by Michael Arditti — a David less divine
...Yet the biblical narrative itself paints a far more ambiguous portrait of a ruthless schemer and brutal coloniser, a man capable of killing his own children and most loyal allies when they stood in his way...
May 8, 2020
Europe Express
Europe faces down cosmic chaos
...Long a realm for dreamers and schemers, the final frontier is now a battleground of great power stratagems, new communications technologies and commercial ambitions....
January 22, 2020
LombardMatthew Vincent
HSBC’s 10,000 job cuts are logical answer in CEO interview
...Pension schemers Among the legislation in the Queen’s Speech is a Pension Schemes Bill that, according to the prime minister’s office, will allow action to be taken against those who “recklessly risk” people...
October 14, 2019
Instant InsightRobert Shrimsley
Gavin Williamson sunk by leak that could not pass unpunished
...Ever since House of Cards, the stereotype of the government chief whip has been of a brilliantly manipulative but amoral political schemer....
May 1, 2019
Theatre to watch in London and beyond
An acting masterclass from Gillian Anderson in All About Eve at the Noël Coward Theatre, London
...Where Bette Davis was corrosive as Margo, Anderson is magnificently glacial until the ice shatters; where Anne Baxter’s Eve was quietly calculating, James shows a little more of the schemer, with a faint...
February 13, 2019
ReviewMusic
Usher, Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin — a thrilling new opera built from Debussy’s fragments
...Debussy built up the character of the Doctor, making him both a Machiavellian schemer and a romantic rival for Madeline’s affection....
October 16, 2018
Cryptocurrencies
The rise and fall of Ethereum
...During the 2017 boom, entrepreneurs and get-rich-quick schemers rushed to create hundreds of their own tokens via so-called “initial coin offerings”, a barely regulated way of tapping retail investors for...
October 19, 2018
Special ReportFT Transform
What next after cryptocurrency bubble bursts?
...coin offerings” (ICOs), barely regulated fundraising vehicles that unlocked pools of money mostly held by retail investors — an attractive proposition for both early stage entrepreneurs and get rich quick schemers...
August 20, 2018
FT SeriesThe Debt Machine
The Debt Machine: the best of your comments
...Ponzi finance requires more loans or asset price rises just to pay interest, and in a Ponzi scheme the schemer has stolen the funds and is using new funds to delay his/her comeuppance by tricking investors...
February 13, 2019

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