Why the #FT #weekend is so excellent (it’s not the colour: apricot)*:
It’s James Blitz on Syria. In “A long week: Putin’s diplomatic gambit” he shows day by day how Russia has outplayed the US over Syria within one week.
It’s John Gapper on Tina Brown. “Tina Brown is still big. It is the media that got small”.
It’s Gilian Tett on former CIA undercover office Valerie Plame and her new book.
It’s Tim Bradshaw, Hannah Kuchler and April Dembosky on Twitter’s coming IPO.
It’s John Authers on five years after Lehman Brothers. “Thus, if anything, moral hazard has grown since then”. (You have to have a subscription to get this one.)**
And that was just the political and economic section. Then comes Life & Arts.
It’s Peter Aspen’s breakfast with the FT with actor/director Mark Rylance.
It’s Clive Cookson on the surprising similarities in Stephen Hawking’s and Richard Dawkins’ autobiographies.
It’s Thomas Jones on Thomas Pynchon’s new novel “Bleeding Edge“.
It’s Simon Kuper with his Opening Shot.
It’s Tim Harford with his tips on mastering emails.
And after all that, you even enjoy around the world tours with Tyler Brûlé.
* In July, I was ask to take part in “an exciting new survey on FT Weekend” as the email announced. For two weeks a group of 40-odd “motivated consumers” (including myself) were talking about our weekend reading habits and views on a new marketing campaign for the Financial Times. After the first rounds I should have told them: Don’t change anything. You are perfect. I love you.
** And no, I don’t get money from the FT.
*** And yes, we live in financial times.