Financial Times - 10.10.2026

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全球报刊态势与全景学术研判总览 — 2026-10-09

🌐 第一部分:全球宏观战略态势报告(SITREP)

今日综述:本日共全量采集并深度研判来自全球各大主流语系与核心地缘区域的 1 份权威报刊与学术特刊。

📡 今日全球主要报道要闻速览

英国及英联邦 (United Kingdom & Commonwealth) - 《Financial Times - 10.10.2026.pdf》航空公司面临燃油价格危机:燃油价格高企导致航空公司削减航班并延迟租赁款支付,易捷航空与汉莎航空已缩减运力。达美航空预计中东冲突将增加60亿美元成本,行业破产风险增加。 - 《Financial Times - 10.10.2026.pdf》安德鲁·蒙巴顿-温莎终止皇家小屋租赁:安德鲁王子净支付150万英镑终止温莎皇家小屋租赁协议,资金由查尔斯国王提供。该款项用于抵消180万英镑的房屋损毁赔偿,扣除30.2万英镑补偿金后得出。 - 《Financial Times - 10.10.2026.pdf》乌克兰袭击俄罗斯Yandex数据中心:乌克兰无人机袭击了Yandex在卡卢加和梁赞的两个数据中心,旨在报复俄方对乌IT设施的攻击。袭击导致部分模块被摧毁,Yandex股价下跌约4%。

💡 各大报刊的报道脉络呈现出高度多维的地缘博弈、制度转型、社会痛感与前沿科学突破。读者可通过下方【今日跨报思想雷达总矩阵】快速把握各报最具穿透力的思想理论对话与生活世界痛感切入点,或在【全景报刊分卷】中按区域细读每份大报的具体文章精要、制度权力批判与理性情感辩证。


🧭 第二部分:今日跨报思想文化与批判深思雷达总矩阵

本矩阵自动系统汇编当日全球报刊最具穿透力的 【思想与文化深思切入点】 与 【生活世界痛感切入点】,为学者提供一站式理论对话与现象学经验索引:

  • (本日暂未提取到独立的跨报思想雷达条目)

📚 第三部分:全景报刊分卷学术档案与精粹汇编

📍 英国及英联邦 (United Kingdom & Commonwealth)

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航空公司面临燃油价格危机

  • Business / Aviation / 航空公司面临燃油价格危机:燃油价格高企导致航空公司削减航班并延迟租赁款支付,易捷航空与汉莎航空已缩减运力。达美航空预计中东冲突将增加60亿美元成本,行业破产风险增加。
  • News / Royal Family / 安德鲁·蒙巴顿-温莎终止皇家小屋租赁:安德鲁王子净支付150万英镑终止温莎皇家小屋租赁协议,资金由查尔斯国王提供。该款项用于抵消180万英镑的房屋损毁赔偿,扣除30.2万英镑补偿金后得出。
  • World / Ukraine-Russia Conflict / 乌克兰袭击俄罗斯Yandex数据中心:乌克兰无人机袭击了Yandex在卡卢加和梁赞的两个数据中心,旨在报复俄方对乌IT设施的攻击。袭击导致部分模块被摧毁,Yandex股价下跌约4%。
  • World / Spain / 西班牙右翼民粹主义兴起:说唱歌手安吉·科林成为Vox党等右翼势力的文化符号,反映出公众对总理桑切斯执政八年后的愤怒。Vox党有望在提前大选中与人民党组成执政联盟。
  • Obituaries / 杰弗里·阿彻讣告:畅销小说家及保守党政治家杰弗里·阿彻以86岁去世,其作品在100多个国家售出超3亿册。其公众形象由巨大的出版成功与多次个人丑闻共同定义。
  • World / Germany / 德国前情报局长涉嫌叛国被捕:前BND局长奥古斯特·汉宁因涉嫌叛国被捕,被指控在2010至2022年间通过前幕僚长获取约2,000份机密文件并获利。
  • Business / Industry / 韩日推进“智能船厂”应对中国竞争:面对中国占据63%船舶订单的压力,韩日两国加大机器人部署以解决劳动力短缺。专家指出中国在焊接机器人等自动化领域部署速度更激进。
  • Business / Finance / 美国SEC限制资产管理公司协作:SEC调查贝莱德等公司在罢免埃克森美孚董事中的角色,警告资产管理公司不得通过协作影响公司政策。此举旨在削弱股东对上市公司的影响力。
  • Business / Crypto / 加密货币公司陷入1.41亿美元法律纠纷:DWF Maas等公司起诉BitGo违反锁定期协议提前出售代币,导致价格下跌。此案揭露了加密行业中依赖信任的“场外交易”协议风险。
  • Opinion / 关于政治判断与事实的思考:探讨在极化时代与观点不合者建立友谊的重要性,认为事实虽能定义现状,但无法决定应对方案。政治的核心在于与不同视角的人共同构建世界。
  • Technology / AI / 强化学习与AI超级智能:西尔弗认为现代LLM依赖人类数据,而强化学习(如AlphaZero)能让机器通过自身经验学习。这种无需人类干预的学习方式是实现超级智能的关键。
  • Life & Arts / Design / Cubitts眼镜品牌推进全定制生产:眼镜品牌Cubitts在伦敦开设新总部The Yard,旨在将量身定制产能提高十倍。品牌通过详尽测量为客户打造适应面部不对称性的独一无二镜框。
  • Travel / 吉尔吉斯斯坦天山骑行之旅:作者在亚历山德拉·托尔斯泰带领下进行180公里骑马之旅,穿越海拔4,000米的天山群峰。行程涵盖世界游牧运动会及偏远村庄露营。
  • World / Germany / 德国重新武装引发的历史担忧:历史学家莉安娜·菲克斯警告,德国在应对俄美威胁而大幅增加军费(预定超7500亿欧元)时,不应忘记其军事力量曾给欧洲带来的梦魇。
  • Books / Technology / 人工智能亲密关系的代价:谢里·特克尔在书中警告,将生成式AI用于治疗和陪伴会削弱人类的依恋能力。这种“人工智能亲密关系”可能给个人成长和公民生活带来沉重代价。
  • Life & Arts / Film / 纪录片《NAZA》揭露军事语言非人性化:导演尤瓦尔·亚伯拉罕通过电影揭示以色列军方使用“附带损害”缩写NAZA来掩盖大规模杀戮。影片探讨自由派精英如何通过语言脱敏参与战争。
  • Life & Arts / Theatre / 导演卢克·谢泼德激活商业剧场:谢泼德通过《出租公寓》复排版及《帕丁顿》音乐剧等作品,将商业计算转化为大众吸引力。其作品在不依赖巨星的情况下实现了艺术与商业的双赢。
  • Life & Arts / Music / Troye Sivan新专辑《She's the Best》评述:评述Troye Sivan的第四张专辑,认为其音乐温暖感性,延续了其将专辑作为人生日记的风格。专辑在处理明星客串时表现得举重若轻。
  • Media / 新闻行话的演变:探讨从“跑腿新闻”等传统印刷术语到“计算新闻学”等数字化术语的演变。反映了新闻业在保留传统编辑室文化的同时向数据驱动转型。
  • Advice / Law / 关于子女监护权的法律咨询:律师指出,即使在遗嘱中指定监护人,若另一方父母拥有法律上的“父母责任”,通常仍拥有决定权。建议通过协议或法院命令明确抚养问题。
  • Business / Fashion / 时尚品牌通过爆款实现营收增长:该品牌凭借豹纹系列爆款及全球批发扩张,2024年营业额从600万英镑增长至1900万英镑。品牌强调有机面料与伦理工作方式在封锁期间引起共鸣。
  • Life & Arts / Society / 精英住家保姆的高要求与高回报:顶尖保姆需精通多语种、礼仪及体育,且优先考虑名校学位。由于需求远超供应,保姆在面对苛刻工作要求的同时也能提出高薪等条件。
  • Life & Arts / Art / 艺术家格奥尔格·巴塞利兹回顾展:回顾已故艺术家巴塞利兹的创作,特别是其早期被厌恶但后被公认为伟大的“反英雄”系列。其作品以粗犷厚涂和阴郁色调描绘孤独的失败者。

暂无制度批判分析。

暂无情感辩证分析。

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2026年10月10日星期六 / 10月11日星期日

航空公司就成本危机发出警报

——能源冲击侵蚀利润 ——航班削减且开支被砍 ——承运商担忧生存

彼得·坎贝尔 —— 布鲁塞尔 西尔维娅·普费弗 —— 伦敦

行业高管警告称,由于燃油价格持续高企,迫使航空公司削减航班、砍掉成本并延迟支付飞机租赁款,航空公司在未来几个月将面临日益严重的危机。

随着行业进入伊朗战争引发能源冲击并导致利润下降后的第一个冬季,高管们正发出警报。

欧洲最大的航空公司之一易捷航空(EasyJet)和德国汉莎航空(Lufthansa)是那些为了应对冬季运营季而缩减运力的公司之一。为了表明压力日益增加,达美航空(Delta Air Lines)昨日下调了年度利润预期,称中东冲突引发的燃油价格上涨将使其今年增加 60亿美元 的成本。

“这是一场全面的危机,”瑞安航空(Ryanair)老板迈克尔·奥利里表示。“明年每个人都会感到痛苦……我们只是在尽可能地精简规模。”

行业领导者、分析师和金融人士告诉《金融时报》,航空公司在运行至3月下旬的冬季运营季期间破产的可能性高于往年。

任何破产事件都将发生在5月美国承运商精灵航空(Spirit Airlines)和上个月波罗的海航空(airBaltic)倒闭之后。

“这个冬天……我们将看到中小型公司陷入苦战,它们将难以生存,”英国航空所有者国际航空集团(IAG)首席执行官路易斯·加列戈表示。他指出,欧洲休闲旅游市场的受损程度高于其他市场,而高端需求则具有“韧性”。

易捷航空表示,明年夏季的预订情况较弱,但更多客户在最后一刻才进行预订。

奥利里表示,他预计燃油价格的飙升将持续到至少 2028 年。

分析师和高管表示,随着燃油套期保值合约到期,欧洲和国际承运商因油价上涨而面临的痛苦正在增加,这使得航空公司必须在购买新套保、锁定更高成本或冒着在公开市场支付更高价格的风险之间做出选择。

迈克尔·奥利里:“明年每个人都会感到痛苦……我们只是在尽可能地精简规模”

“即使你提前六个月购买燃油,现在的价格仍然在 $1,200, $1,300, 这高得惊人,”易捷航空首席执行官肯顿·贾维斯表示,而行业常态约为每吨 $700。

数据机构 Cirium 表示,该行业已在今年剩余时间的服务中削减了 600 万个座位,即 1 per cent 的运力。

“看来这将是一个艰难的冬天,即使是对那些有套保的航空公司来说也是如此,”航空分析师约翰·斯特里克兰表示。“我们将看到大规模的航班取消,这甚至让一些公司的生存受到质疑。” 达美航空下调预期 第 15 页

法国课堂 学生施压

昨日,法国西部南特的学生参加了大规模抗议活动,这是针对法国学校制度的全国性示威活动的一部分。

在过去的两周里,学生们封锁了数百所学校的入口,抱怨教师短缺、课表过载以及教室破旧。已有 7,000 多人被拘留,数百名警察、学生和学校工作人员受伤。

在埃马纽埃尔·马克龙总统的少数派政府试图强推紧缩预算之际,这场危机正给政府带来巨大压力。 马克龙的考验 第 4 页

以色列动议使绿党的团结受到审视

尽管在本周的补选中失利,但绿党在下次选举中仍可能是决定胜负的关键力量。然而,扎克·波兰斯基(Zack Polanski)与其副手莫辛·阿里(Mothin Ali)就一项“犹太复国主义即种族主义”动议产生的分歧,威胁要将该党撕裂。一些绿党成员担心,该党有演变成一个对普通选民而言过于极端的巴勒斯坦竞选团体的危险。安迪·伯纳姆(Andy Burnham)尚未排除组建联合政府的可能性,但工党高层认为,除非该动议被撤销,否则这不可行。党魂之战 ▶ 第 3 页

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被推向 60% 税率“悬崖边缘”的纳税人数在四年内翻倍

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根据《金融时报》通过信息自由请求获得的英国税务海关总署(HMRC)数据,在 2025-26 年度,约有 727,000 人的调整后净收入在 10 万英镑 和 125,140 英镑 之间。这显示出,自 2021-22 年度个人免税额被冻结在 12,570 英镑 以来,该人数增长了 85%。

陷入这种 10 万英镑 “税收陷阱”的人数在四年内几乎翻了一番,在上一财年,有超过 700,000 人被推入 60% 的有效边际税率。

这一发现正值关于是否应提高税收起征点的辩论之中,因为工资上涨正将更多人推向更高税率。对于那些如果收入仅超过 £1 就会失去数千英镑育儿补贴的父母来说,这一点尤为显著。

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Rathbones 的财务规划部门负责人奥利·程 (Olly Cheng) 表示,该起征点已成为“系统中惩罚最严重的‘税收悬崖’之一”。

在超过 10 万英镑 起征点的每增加 £2 收入,免税额就会被扣除 £1,导致在赚取的收入有效税率达到 60%。

“六位数的薪水曾被广泛视为‘成功’的标志。而如今,许多收入在 10 万英镑 或更多的人发现,更高的收入并不总是能转化为更大的财务自由,”他补充道。

自 2010 年以来,收入超过 10 万英镑 的个人其个人免税额将逐步递减,直到完全取消;目前,当收入超过 125,140 英镑 时,免税额将被完全取消。

根据财政研究学会 (Institute for Fiscal Studies) 的数据,一名在伦敦拥有两名托儿所孩子的父母需要赚取超过 14.9 万英镑 才能弥补每周 30 小时免费育儿服务的损失。这种“悬崖边缘”效应已促使一些高收入者减少工作时间、拒绝晋升或增加养老金缴款,以将收入维持在起征点以下。

保守党在本周的党代会上公布了解决 10 万英镑 税收陷阱的计划,旨在赢回传统保守党选民的支持。

财政部表示:“削减个人免税额……是为了确保支持重点放在最需要的地方,包括为公共服务提供资金。”

在 10 万英镑 和 125,140 英镑 之间。收入超过 10 万英镑 收入起征点的父母将失去获得政府资助的育儿支持的资格。

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工作合同

伯纳姆誓言终止竞业禁止协议

首相称其计划为创新领域的“博斯曼裁决”

詹妮弗·威廉姆斯 —— 曼彻斯特 吉姆·皮克德 与 基兰·史密斯 伦敦

安迪·伯纳姆(Andy Burnham)已承诺终止在雇佣合同中使用竞业禁止条款,他表示这些条款是“创新的拖累”。

昨日在曼彻斯特举行的一次创新峰会上,这位首相表示,政府决心打击竞业禁止协议。科技公司和金融服务公司通常利用此类协议限制员工为竞争对手工作或创办竞争企业的能力。他说:“我们将通过立法确保竞业禁止条款不再成为我们最具潜力的初创公司和规模化企业的招聘障碍。”

他将此举与 20 世纪 90 年代一项彻底改变足球转会规则的法院裁决相类比,并补充道:“如果你愿意,可以将其称为创新领域的‘博斯曼裁决’(Bosman ruling),但我认为这是非常必要且早已迟到的。”

此次打击行动还可能影响针对员工的限制性通知期。

一名白厅高级官员将这一公告描述为“政府内部亲商业势力的重大胜利”。

组织此次峰会的前工党首相戈登·布朗(Gordon Brown)赞扬了政府将重点放在规划、住房和基础设施以促进增长的做法。但他补充道:“我认为有一个因素被低估且被忽视了,那就是创新驱动经济未来的力量。”

他说,即使是最优秀的思想者也有“盲点”。

伯纳姆回应道:“我认为创新有时是这个国家的盲点,或者说,创新如何引导重大投资进入各地区,这无疑是一个盲点。我们让太多机会流向海外,这就是一个盲点。”

上个月,一些英国领先科技初创公司的创始人呼吁部长们限制竞业禁止条款和延长通知期的使用,认为这阻碍了英国企业与硅谷竞争的能力。

这封信由 20 多位初创公司的创始人、高管和投资者签署,其中包括 Recursive Superintelligence、Synthesia 和 Fuse Energy 等公司。

在一些 Google DeepMind 的员工离开公司伦敦总部并创办竞争性 AI 企业后,对科技人才的争夺成为了一个极具争议的问题。

英国约有 500 万名员工在包含竞业禁止条款的合同下工作——其期限通常约为六个月。许多公司,尤其是金融服务业,长期以来一直使用竞业禁止协议来保护其人才和知识产权。

基尔·斯塔默爵士(Sir Keir Starmer)去年启动了一项关于竞业禁止协议的审查,提出了从完全禁止到设定时间限制(例如三个月)等多种方案。

Enterprise Britain 在最近的一项调查中发现,87% 的“规模化企业领导者”认为竞业禁止条款是招聘时的障碍。该商业游说团体共同主席布伦特·霍伯曼(Brent Hoberman)表示:“竞业禁止条款阻碍了英国增长最快的公司进行招聘,同时迫使员工错过工作机会或在数月内没有收入 . . . 在一定程度上,正是因为禁止了竞业禁止协议,才成就了今天的硅谷。”

废除竞业禁止协议可能不会受到所有企业领导者的欢迎:商业游说团体 CBI 表示,尚未看到证据表明这些条款是对创新的重大拖累。

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安迪·沃霍尔的《四个玛丽莲》将公开拍卖

昨日,在伦敦苏富比拍卖行,工作人员正在处理安迪·沃霍尔的《四个玛丽莲(反转系列)》。

这幅创作于1979-86年并有签名的丝网印刷画,预计将在下周四的苏富比 Frieze 周拍卖会上拍出高达 280万英镑(£2.8mn)的价格。该拍卖行表示:“在《反转系列》中重新审视梦露的形象时,沃霍尔将这张熟悉的面孔转化为某种全新的、幽灵般的且诡谲的形态。通过四次负片色彩的重复,《四个玛丽莲》既强调了梦露名声的持久影响力,也凸显了沃霍尔自身艺术神话的象征分量。”

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首相顾问敦促希利:预算案中“切勿造成损害”

经济学家称,与其通过提高税收打击企业,不如削减“缓冲空间”

乔治·帕克 —— 政治编辑

具有影响力的经济学家吉姆·奥尼尔勋爵(Lord Jim O’Neill)认为,财政大臣约翰·希利(John Healey)应避免在预算案中通过提高税收损害企业,而应接受一项“紧急”的财政缓冲削减,以应对伊朗战争带来的后果。

曾担任首相安迪·伯纳姆(Andy Burnham)顾问的奥尼尔表示,希利在本月的预算案中不应通过提高企业和富人的税收来填补估计近 £120 亿的财政缺口,从而对经济“造成任何损害”。

他在接受《金融时报》采访时声称,在英国即将回归健康增长之际,大幅提高税收将削弱信心。

奥尼尔表示,如果希利提高资本利得税(CGT)税率,他将感到“非常失望”,并担心财政大臣可能会针对银行,采取他认为徒劳的增税措施。“我可以想象,如果他们需要筹集一点钱,这可能是最不糟糕且最诱人的选择,但我实在看不出这样做有什么意义,”他说道。

奥尼尔认为,希利如果允许其所谓的预算“缓冲空间”(3月份为 £236 亿)缩减 £100 亿,将是“明智的”,且市场会对此表示理解。

他表示,这远比通过提高税收来填补财政缺口并冒着打击经济信心的风险要好。根据《金融时报》的估计,由于借贷成本上升,伊朗战争在英国公共财政中造成了近 £120 亿的缺口。

这位前高盛首席经济学家认为,英国可能正处于年增长率 2% 或更高的边缘,这一数值高于近年来水平,因此希利的预算案应有一个简单的目标:“切勿造成损害。”

作为首相的非正式顾问,奥尼尔表示,希利应特别避免提高资本利得税(部分工党议员主张这样做),他认为这将是“极其愚蠢的”,并会加深人们认为英国不再是财富创造者聚集地的印象。“我最失望的将是资本利得税,”他说,“这将进一步助长这样一种观念,即每个富人都计划搬到 X 地。”

第一国务大臣路易丝·海格(Louise Haigh)和国防大臣韦斯·斯特里廷(Wes Streeting)是主张将资本利得税与所得税税率统一的人员之一,但奥尼尔表示,这忽略了

吉姆·奥尼尔认为大幅增税将损害对英国的信心

资本利得税率较低是因为投资具有“风险”。

奥尼尔认为,自伯纳姆和希利于 7 月入主唐宁街以来,债券市场已得到安抚,并认为在近期的暴跌中,英国受到的影响比其他 G7 国家要小。

在提到伯纳姆近期承诺维持财政纪律以及结束昂贵的养老金“三重锁”的长期计划时,奥尼尔说:“这比他是否将缓冲空间降低 £100 亿要重要得多。”

根据市场参与者向《金融时报》提供的八项估计值的平均数,财政缓冲空间可以下降到约 £140 亿而不会引发国债抛售。

奥尼尔说:“拥有一个在紧急情况下使用的缓冲空间是非常合理的。考虑到海湾地区的情况和债券收益率,它就是这个作用。我认为这不仅是合理的,而且是明智的。”

他表示,他不明白为什么人们对英国的经济前景不够乐观,因为今年上半年英国经济增长了 1.1%,是 G7 国家中增长最快的。

他补充说,生产力数据看起来很积极。“如果你能维持 2% 的增长并使其成为常态,我认为人们会对生活感到快乐得多。没多少人在讨论这件事,这很奇怪。也许是我在幻想,但我们可能已经开始看到初步迹象。”

奥尼尔是“北方经济强区”(Northern Powerhouse)计划的架构师之一,也是伯纳姆担任大曼彻斯特市长期间的长期顾问。他表示,他预计希利的预算案将重点关注权力下放,包括下放更多关于地方税收的权力。

不过他表示,优先考虑具有快速增长强能力的地区至关重要,其中就包括关注首都。“你必须采取一些措施,以阻止伦敦像现在这样疲软地增长,”他说。

奥尼尔表示,他尚未收到关于预算案的简报,但他认为:“我认为他们希望这件事低调处理。”

大学

部长计划将限制学生贷款获取资格

克里斯·史密斯 (CHRIS SMYTH)

根据政府正在考虑的新计划,大学学生将被要求达到最低入学标准才能获得政府贷款。

由于政府试图解决关于低质量课程中不合格学生激增的担忧,部长们将很快公布限制学生贷款获取资格的计划。

重点将放在英语语言能力上,部长们正考虑将英语 GCSE 合格作为获得学生贷款的最低要求。然而,知情人士表示,他们还将就较低的标准进行磋商,以允许其他替代性的英语语言资格证明。

英国一些更资深的大学越来越强烈地呼吁限制贷款获取资格,以释放资金,缓解财政紧张的高等教育系统。他们认为,学习 A-level 需要五个 GCSE 成绩,而开始攻读学位要求的门槛却更低,这是不合逻辑的。

伯明翰大学副校长亚当·蒂克尔 (Adam Tickell) 表示,“确保学生具备与其课程相匹配的资格至关重要”。

他补充道:“认为每个人都应该有权获得学位资助的天真想法对任何人都没有好处。学生在没有提高生活机会的情况下积累债务,学生贷款账本失控增长,公众对我们优秀的大学价值的质疑也随之增加。”

根据《金融时报》对官方数据的分析,去年开始全日制课程的本科生中,每 12 人中就有 1 人没有正式资格证明,而十年前这一比例为 62 分之一;此外,有六所大学承认其大多数本土学生在入学时没有 A-level、GCSE 或同等学历。

这一增长在很大程度上是由营利性特许经营供应商的兴起驱动的,这些供应商主要从缺乏正式资格证明的移民和少数群体中招募学生。

这些公司可能会以限制获取资格将剥夺弱势群体机会为由,游说反对该计划。

然而,研究密集型大学联盟——罗素集团 (Russell Group) 的首席执行官利比·哈克特 (Libby Hackett) 表示,有必要考虑最低入学标准,“以确保大学教育能为学生和纳税人双方提供物有所值的回报”。

她补充说,这可能有助于解决高等教育成本“相对于政府资助而言,不成比例地落在个人身上”的问题。

在现行的学生贷款制度下,政府预先支付学费和生活费,随后由毕业生使用其部分薪水偿还。该制度适用于所有被合格课程录取且具有英国居留权的学生。

但随着学生人数的增加,部长们将更多成本转嫁给了毕业生,从而引发了对还款条款的强烈抵制。

去年约有 50,000 名没有资格证明的学生开始就读课程。虽然依赖未来贷款偿还的节省金额具有高度不确定性,但如果所有这些人都被纳入新政策范围,每年将节省约 £750mn。

教育部确认将研究“一系列方案”。

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前王子安德鲁支付 £1.5mn 终止皇家小屋租赁

罗伯特·赖特 (ROBERT WRIGHT)

安德鲁·蒙巴顿-温莎 (Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor) 已向英国皇冠地产 (Crown Estate) 净支付 £1.5mn,以终止其在温莎一座豪华庄园的租赁协议。这笔资金由其兄长查尔斯国王提供。

拥有这座拥有 30 个房间的皇家小屋 (Royal Lodge) 的皇冠地产昨日表示,其评估的蒙巴顿-温莎在“房屋损毁”——即对物业造成的损坏——方面的赔偿责任为 £1.8mn。与此同时,该地产需向蒙巴顿-温莎支付 30.2 万英镑 作为提前终止租赁的补偿金,这意味着这位前王子净支付了 £1.5mn。

一名知情人士指出,国王从其私人收入中向其兄弟蒙巴顿-温莎提供了一笔贷款,用于支付这笔款项。

此次付款结束了围绕蒙巴顿-温莎在 2003. 获得的一份为期 75 年的巨额物业租赁条款的争议。虽然蒙巴顿-温莎在接手租赁时支付了 £1mn 的预付款,并承担了 £7.5mn 的翻新和维修费用,但他无需支付年租金,且有权出租小屋 grounds 内的三处房产。包括前下议院公共账目委员会主席玛格丽特·霍奇男爵夫人 (Baroness Margaret Hodge) 在内的批评人士认为,该交易过于慷慨。

根据租赁协议,如果蒙巴顿-温莎在最初的 25 年内搬离该物业,他有权就其预付款获得部分补偿,这使得他有可能在搬出时获得款项。

去年10月,这位前王子在压力下放弃了租赁权。此前,美国司法部 (DOJ) 公布了与被定罪的儿童色情犯杰弗里·爱泼斯坦 (Jeffrey Epstein) 相关的档案,揭露了前王子的行为,而爱泼斯坦是前王子的密友。此后,王室致力于与其保持距离。今年2月,他搬到了国王私人拥有的桑德灵厄姆庄园 (Sandringham Estate) 内的一栋小屋中。

该知情人士表示,国王提供贷款是为了确保皇冠地产能够“恰当且及时”地获得维修费用的偿还。

在爱泼斯坦档案披露后,警方调查蒙巴顿-温莎可能涉嫌的公职渎职行为,于2月对皇家小屋和桑德灵厄姆小屋均进行了搜查。搜查始于蒙巴顿-温莎作为调查的一部分被逮捕当天。去年被国王剥夺头衔的蒙巴顿-温莎否认有任何不当行为。

拥有 30 个房间的皇家小屋曾是安德鲁·蒙巴顿-温莎及其家人的官方乡村住所 Tuiga Akmen / 这位前王子在周四的一场法律挑战中胜诉,法院认定搜查令的合法性存在问题。

皇冠地产表示,其目前专注于确定该物业未来的潜在用途,以履行其维持温莎庄园作为皇家公园和森林特性的法定职责。该机构表示:“在完成此次审查后,该物业将由两家国家认可的代理机构根据拟定的未来用途进行市场推广。”

国家审计署 (National Audit Office) 今年的一份报告显示,这位前王子从皇家小屋相邻的房产中获得了租金收入,但报告称尚未查明这些房产产生了多少租金。

蒙巴顿-温莎的办公室未立即回应置评请求。

皇冠地产表示:“皇家小屋的租赁已结束,我们现在的重点坚定地放在其未来用途,以及通过其提前回归为国家创造额外财务价值的机会上。”

* 由于选区边界变更, 2024 之前的结果为名义数值;Reform 包括 2019 的脱欧党 来源:Rallings & Thrasher; PA Media; FT research

绿党领袖与共同副手就党内方向展开博弈

民调失利凸显波兰斯基与阿里在犹太复国主义动议上的分歧

大卫·谢泼德(DAVID SHEPPARD)

一名工党议员表示:“无论绿党是在扎克还是阿里的领导下,是否值得接触仍是个问题。”

2023年10月7日,当哈马斯武装分子仍在以色列南部进行血腥袭击时,莫辛·阿里(Mothin Ali)在社交媒体上表达了他的观点:“白人至上主义的欧洲定居者殖民主义必须结束”。

三年后,阿里已从一名兼职拍摄YouTube园艺视频的会计师,转变为绿党共同副党魁。在本周霍本和圣潘克拉斯(Holborn and St Pancras)补选中,该党领袖在面对工党时失利,阿里被视为扎克·波兰斯基(Zack Polanski)的潜在挑战者。

波兰斯基与阿里在一项极具争议的“犹太复国主义即种族主义”动议上可能产生冲突。阿里支持该动议,而波兰斯基则承诺对其进行修改,以避免该动议在含蓄地否认以色列的生存权。

犹太绿党领袖薇薇安·利希滕斯坦(Vivien Lichtenstein)昨日告诉时代广播电台(Times Radio),波兰斯基应该因为

有人担心该党面临成为一个过于极端而缺乏广泛吸引力的巴勒斯坦游说团体的风险

未能在上周末于布赖顿举行的党代会上否决该动议。

高层人士担心,该党面临演变成一个过于极端而缺乏广泛吸引力的巴勒斯坦游说团体的风险。

这场争端产生的影响远超绿党内部。

在今年的某个阶段,该党看起来像是工党的挑战者,利用了左翼选民的不满情绪。尽管在民调中有所下滑,但它在下次大选中仍是一个潜在的“造王者”。

首相安迪·伯纳姆(Andy Burnham)本周表示,呼吁建立单一巴勒斯坦国家的“犹太复国主义即种族主义”动议是“判断极其糟糕”的一个例子,并呼吁绿党撤回该动议。但尽管受到部分议员的压力,他仍未排除与绿党组建联合政府的可能性。

由于大选预计要到2029年才会举行,伯纳姆可能会谨慎对待那些可能导致他无法将奈杰尔·法拉奇(Nigel Farage)的改革英国党(Reform UK)排除在权力之外的选择。

但工党高层表示,除非撤回“犹太复国主义即种族主义”动议,否则很难想象工党如何能与绿党组建联合政府。

“我不认为与一个……”

分歧:绿党共同副党魁莫辛·阿里(Mothin Ali)支持该动议

批评者担心,阿里的迅速崛起标志着绿党内部最激进的亲巴勒斯坦支持者正在接管该党,这可能会将该党带入选举的死胡同。

布赖顿帕维利恩(Brighton Pavilion)的绿党议员希安·贝里(Sian Berry)昨天就党内高层因补选活动而未能更强力地反对该动议表示道歉,并称“提案者组织得非常严密”。

自从成为副党魁以来,阿里在很大程度上一直忠于波兰斯基(Polanski)——这位由犹太裔同性恋演员转型的政治人物,并在本周波兰斯基竞选议员失败的过程中支持了他。

工党的萨加尔·阿卜迪-瓦利(Sagal Abdi-Wali)以45%的得票率赢得了基尔·斯塔默(Keir Starmer)之前的霍本和圣潘克拉斯(Holborn and St Pancras)选区席位,而绿党得票率为33%。

阿里本周表示,他“热爱扎克(Zack)”,认为他是一位“出色的领导者”,并得到了他的“全力支持”。波兰斯基则表示他不会辞职。

阿里昨天未能就此发表评论,一名绿党官员称他因竞选活动而感到疲惫。

该官员表示,假设阿里在未来对“犹太复国主义即种族主义”动议的任何修正案持何种立场是不正确的,并且为了党内团结,“继续成为巴勒斯坦人权利的强有力且有效的倡导者对我们至关重要”。

波兰斯基表示,虽然他大致支持该动议的目标,但一个西方政党去规定巴勒斯坦人民最终解决方案的形式将是“帝国主义”行为。

他提出的修正案将为绿党支持一个包含独立以色列国和巴勒斯坦国的“两国方案”留有余地,只要这是巴勒斯坦人的意愿。

如果阿里拒绝支持波兰斯基的修正案,他可能会得到许多新加入绿党成员的支持,这些成员在过去一年中帮助该党规模扩大了三倍,人数达150,000人。

波兰斯基将在明年夏天面临绿党成员的领导层投票,因为该党每两年举行一次领导人选举。许多杰里米·科尔宾(Jeremy Corbyn)的支持者已经加入了绿党,科尔宾是前工党左翼领导人,因涉嫌反犹主义被斯塔默暂停党籍。

前绿党党魁卡罗琳·卢卡斯(Caroline Lucas)本周拒绝全力支持波兰斯基,她在昨天承认他“改变了该党”。但她补充说,波兰斯基现在必须发挥“同样的领导力,以帮助解决我们面临的重大问题并改造我们的内部结构”。

绿党议员埃莉·乔恩斯(Ellie Chowns)认为,大多数新成员支持该党在环境和社会正义方面的目标,但她表示,他们必须考虑修订成员的投票方式。

“有一小部分人将争取巴勒斯坦权利的运动视为其主要驱动力,”乔恩斯表示。“我担心的是,这可能会削弱我们未来在倡导巴勒斯坦权利时的发声能力。”

挑战失败

自由民主党议员在政变企图后集结支持戴维

吉姆·皮克德 (JIM PICKARD) 政治副编辑

在一名前台议员辞职试图引发政变后,自由民主党的高级议员们集结起来支持其领导人埃德·戴维爵士 (Sir Ed Davey)。

并希望戴维继续担任领导人。

牛津郡议员查理·梅纳德 (Charlie Maynard) 昨日辞去了财政部发言人的职务,此前他因该中左翼政党缺乏势头而感到数月沮丧。

梅纳德已请求其他议员在针对领导人的信任投票中支持他,尽管据了解他本人并不追求领导权。

前领导人蒂姆·法伦爵士 (Sir Tim Farron) 在谈到这次政变企图时表示:“如果认为这种垃圾行为对我们有帮助,那你得抽那种连我们都不主张合法化的东西。”

副领导人黛西·库珀 (Daisy Cooper) 告诉《金融时报》,绝大多数自由民主党议员对“这次干扰感到愤怒”。

戴维领导该党已有六年时间,并在 2024 年大选中赢得了该党历史上最多的议员席位。他因未能摆脱通过花哨噱头博关注的模式而受到批评,该党在民意调查中的排名已跌至第五位,落后于绿党。

梅纳德昨日拒绝置评。这位威特尼 (Witney) 的议员因其反对泰晤士水务公司 (Thames Water) 管理层的活动而成为知名人物。

要罢免戴维,该党 71 名议员中的一半需要支持不信任动议。这将触发一次成员投票,其他挑战者也可以参与其中。

梅纳德的辞职发生在另一名自由民主党前台议员艾莉森·本内特 (Alison Bennett) 卸任护理与护理人员发言人职务几天之后。

与议员人数更少的绿党和改革英国党(Reform UK)相比,自由民主党在争取关注方面陷入苦战。

工党副领导人露西·鲍威尔(左)与补选获胜者萨加尔·阿卜迪-瓦利 (Sagal Abdi-Wali) —— Dan Kinwood / Getty Images

英国政府

随着工党反弹,绿党在民调中下滑

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世界 本周回顾

伊朗攻击霍尔木兹海峡以外的油轮以限制出口

伊朗已将其攻击范围从霍尔木兹海峡扩大到波斯湾,试图维持其对这一关键水道的影响力,并防止波斯湾石油出口增加。

在周三和昨天分别对两艘油轮(一艘在卡塔尔附近,一艘在阿拉伯联合酋长国阿尔贾齐拉海岸附近)发动攻击后,伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队 (IRGC) 坚称其掌控着霍尔木兹海峡。

革命卫队海军昨日表示,针对“不合规”船只和公司的行动将不限于该海峡,并誓言将打击“任何通过未经授权通道的船只”。

过去 10 天是战争爆发以来油轮运营商面临的最致命时期之一。

挪威率先提议在公共场所禁止使用AI眼镜

由于对可穿戴技术的隐私担忧日益增加,挪威已成为第一个提议在选定公共场所临时禁止使用AI眼镜的主要国家。

中左翼政府表示,将向议会提交一项法律,以限制在公园、海滩、学校和幼儿园中使用此类眼镜。政府还将成立一个专家组来拟定永久性规则。数字化部长托尔盖尔·米凯尔森(Torgeir Micaelsen)表示,他担心人们在不知情的情况下被拍照或录像的风险。

Meta、谷歌(Google)和OpenAI等美国科技公司认为,包括智能眼镜在内的可穿戴技术有潜力取代手机,成为进入AI的主要入口。

博尔索纳罗赢得首轮选举,在巴西总统竞选中占据领先地位

弗拉维奥·博尔索纳罗(Flávio Bolsonaro)打破民调预测,赢得了巴西总统选举的第一轮投票。上图为博尔索纳罗及其妻子费尔南达(Fernanda),他获得了47%的选票,而左翼人士路易斯·伊纳西奥·卢拉·达席尔瓦(Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva)获得45.2%,双方将在10月25日进行决选。博尔索纳罗承诺将尝试营救其父亲雅伊尔(Jair),后者因策划政变以推翻2022年选举失败而被监禁。详见第13页“新闻人物”栏目。

特朗普办公厅主任之女在塞族共和国游说机构工作

唐纳德·特朗普的办公厅主任苏西·威尔斯(Susie Wiles)的女儿目前就职于一家美国游说公司,该公司签署了一份每月3.5万加元的合同,代表塞族共和国(Republika Srpska)进行游说。该巴尔干实体目前正处于白宫内部一场关于利益冲突的新争端中心。

凯蒂·威尔斯(Katie Wiles)是Continental Strategy公司的合伙人,该公司于2月份签约成为这个波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那自治实体的游说者。该公司表示,她并未代表该飞地向美国官员进行游说。根据齐尔卡·茨维亚诺维奇(Željka Cvijanović)的社交媒体账号,苏西·威尔斯在9月会见了波黑三方总统团中的塞族成员茨维亚诺维奇。美国官员表示,此次会面是由Continental Strategy合伙人亚历克斯·加西亚(Alex Garcia)请求安排的。

国际

贸易谈判

欧盟与中国就混合动力汽车达成协议

塞夫乔维奇称协议表明谈判已取得“成果”,北京同意削减出口

乔·利希(JOE LEAHY)——北京 爱德华·怀特(EDWARD WHITE)——上海 安迪·邦兹(ANDY BOUNDS)——布鲁塞尔

欧盟贸易委员在北京举行的高规格贸易谈判后宣布,中国已同意限制向欧盟出口混合动力汽车。

在为期两天的谈判后(此次谈判被视为避免全面贸易冲突的最后努力),贸易委员马罗什·塞夫乔维奇(Maroš Šefčović)昨日表示,北京接受欧盟的一项核心要求,证明了对话是有效的。

塞夫乔维奇表示,中国已同意将其向欧盟的混合动力汽车出口量限制在欧盟目前预测的未来四年水平的一半或更低,他称这一承诺将防止“数百万辆”汽车被运往欧盟。然而,这仍允许实际出口量在该期间内有所增加。

在欧盟对中国纯电动汽车征收高关税后,欧盟的混合动力车进口量激增。《金融时报》此前报道,中国曾拒绝欧盟限制插电式混合动力电动汽车出口量约为市场15%的请求。

中国尚未立即确认协议细节,但一份联合声明称,双方已就“以符合[世界贸易组织]规则的方式进行混合动力汽车贸易达成理解”。

声明还指出,塞夫乔维奇与中国经济主管、副总理何立峰以及商务部长王文涛之间的谈判还在其他15个领域达成了共识。

“贸易逆差对欧盟来说是一座巨大的挑战,每个成员国都能感受到”——欧盟委员马罗斯·谢夫乔维奇

谢夫乔维奇表示,中国已同意取消部分产品的关税,包括汽车零部件和橄榄油。这涵盖了针对 40亿欧元 年度出口额所征收的 €225mn 税款。2025 年,中国对欧盟的贸易顺差为 3700亿欧元。“这一方案证明了谈判……能带来结果,”谢夫乔维奇说,“贸易逆差对欧盟来说是一座巨大的挑战,每个成员国都能感受到。这种情况是不可持续的,需要一条可靠的路径来实现重新平衡。”

谢夫乔维奇声称,欧洲公司将更容易获得中国的稀土(高科技制造业中使用的关键材料),但联合声明仅提到将继续实施一项“快速通道”许可计划。

欧盟为减少中国贸易顺差设定了本月截止日期,谢夫乔维奇表示,成员国和欧盟委员会主席乌尔苏拉·冯德莱恩将决定该协议是否足以防止采取更严厉的贸易防御措施。

7 月份,中国出口到欧盟的混合动力汽车达到 50,000 辆,是去年同月 19,000 辆的两倍多。欧洲汽车制造商协会昨日表示,此次公告是“缓解贸易紧张局势的积极一步”。

联合声明称,双方“重申其承诺……在世贸组织(WTO)规则框架内妥善处理分歧,并继续稳定和平衡双边贸易与经济关系”。

本周,法国和德国建议引入一种最后手段的贸易工具,以应对强制性措施(如对关键材料的限制),该工具可以切断中国进入欧盟单一市场的渠道。

教育。冲突

法国学生骚乱成为马克龙的考验

本周,示威者聚集在巴黎的共和国广场 —— Dimitar Dikoff / 在紧缩预算即将出台之际,抗议者呼吁对学校系统进行广泛改革

艾德里安娜·克拉萨(ADRIENNE KLASA)与莱拉·阿布德(LEILA ABBOUD)发自巴黎

本周,催泪瓦斯云雾随着水炮的弧线射入巴黎市中心的人群中。学生罢课导致数百所学校关闭并引发数千人被捕,最终演变为全副武装的警察与抗议者之间的冲突。

“打倒警察、国家和法西斯!”周四,由年轻人为主的人群高喊着口号。一名戴着紫色头巾的年轻女子举着一块牌子,上面写着:“太年轻而无人倾听,但已足够大到被催泪瓦斯攻击。”

法国学生正在反抗他们认为令其失望的学校系统,而此时法国在经历了多年的挥霍性福利支出后,正面临财政清算。学生们要求增加教师数量、改善设施、缩小班级规模,并彻底改革大学录取学生的方式,他们认为现行方式压力巨大且不公正。

这场危机给总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙的少数派政府增加了压力,因为该政府正试图推行一项紧缩预算,而投资者则日益担心法国无法降低公共赤字。这意味着政府无法采取以往平息抗议的惯用手段——开支支票。

示威活动已蔓延至大学,而工会也纷纷表示支持,这表明该运动可能会进一步扩大。

由于在一些案例中,数周的抗议活动演变为暴力冲突,对警方执法过度的愤怒——这是法国的一个长期问题,尤其是在左翼和贫困社区——也成为了焦点。

暴徒焚烧了学校和应急服务车辆。在北部城镇朗斯(Lens)一名 15 岁少年的手被炸飞后,警方在余下的起义期间暂停使用震眩弹。

据内政部称,自示威开始以来,已有 7,000 多人被拘留。数百名执法人员受伤,学生和学校工作人员也同样受伤。

在巴黎北部的工人阶级移民郊区圣但尼(Saint-Denis),保罗·艾吕雅高中(Lycée Paul-Éluard)外的学生批评环境恶化,称这让他们难以学习。

Zohra, 16, 表示,学校里有老鼠和蟑螂,而且夏季没有空调的教室里热浪滚滚,导致一些学生晕倒。“冬天我们冻僵,夏天我们被煮熟。”

圣但尼位于法国本土最贫困的省份,该郊区近四成居民生活在贫困线以下,是全国平均水平的两倍多,因此成为了示威活动的焦点。这里很难招募到经验丰富的教师,人员流动率远高于其他地区。

据教育部称,在全国范围内,约 10 per cent 的计划课堂时间未能授课,主要是因为缺勤教师没有被替代,这一问题已成为示威者的导火索。

“教育系统中没有平等。总是我们 93 省的人被坑,不像巴黎那些高档社区,”Jamal, 15, 说道,他使用了圣但尼的省份代码。

在今年经合组织(OECD)的 PISA 跨国研究中,法国的数学和读写能力得分大幅下降,这加剧了人们认为公共教育系统已经崩溃的感觉。

Salomé, 16, 在巴黎富裕的第九区抗议学校时间过长而学习效果差。她说:“增加课时不会让我们变得更聪明。”

“法国面临的巨大挑战在于,这些结果与年轻人花在学校的时间完全不成正比。你们的学校日时间非常长,但结果依然低迷,”Pisa研究的架构师安德烈亚斯·施莱歇尔(Andreas Schleicher)表示。

他表示,法国每百名学生拥有的教师数量从未像今天这么多。“我认为这更多是一个资源利用方式的问题。”

他指出,在这样一个强调师生等级制度和死记硬背论据的体系中,法国学生的批判性思维能力下降最为令人担忧。Pisa得出结论,贫富学生之间的不平等在很大程度上决定了教育结果——圣但尼的经历便反映了这一点。

教育部门是少数几个未被列入明年预算削减计划的部门之一,政府提议将预算增加€1.2bn至640亿欧元,直至2027.。教育部长爱德华·热弗雷(Édouard Geffray)周四宣布,为了响应学生的诉求,未来几天将部署3,000名额外的代课教师。

总体而言,从学前教育到大学的教育支出有所增加,尽管分布不均。根据统计机构Insee的数据,经通胀调整后,教育支出在2010和2024,之间增长了近14 per cent,从€173.3bn增加到1971亿欧元。

在同一时期,collèges(初中)和lycées(高中)等中学的人均学生支出下降了2 per cent。中层教师的收入仍低于经合组织(OECD)的平均水平,而教育支出占GDP,的比例从2010年的7 cent下降到2024年的6.8 cent。

根据Insee的数据,历届法国政府都未能解决该国最大的公共支出项目:巨额的养老金账单,这占据了其GDP的近14 cent。

智库IPP去年的一项研究显示,法国国家公共教育预算中约有13 cent用于支付教师丰厚的养老金。该研究称,在剔除这部分支出后,法国在小学人均学生支出方面处于经合组织国家的后四分之一水平。

在马克龙的第二个任期内,政府曾试图将退休年龄提高到64以管理系统成本,但这引发了包括年轻人在内的全国性抗议,该法律随后被暂停。教育部的数据显示,去年国家教育预算的几乎所有增长都被通货膨胀抵消了。

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德国情报机构因“叛国”丑闻面临压力

萨姆·琼斯 (SAM JONES) —— 柏林

负责监督德国情报机构的立法者警告称,随着盟友情报机构就该国数十年来最大的间谍丑闻提出严厉质询,德国情报部门将面临“激烈且动荡的日子”。

周二,德国安全机构因奥古斯特·汉宁(August Hanning)被捕而震惊。汉宁在 1998 年至 2005 年期间担任联邦情报局(BND)局长,此次被指控犯有叛国罪和间谍罪。

德国议会监督委员会(Kontrollgremium)——该委员会拥有监督国家情报机构的特殊权力——主席马克·亨里希曼(Marc Henrichmann)告诉《金融时报》:“我们需要彻查相关情况,并确保此类事件不再发生。”

该委员会周四下令对联邦情报局(BND)就此次事件进行专项审计。

汉宁被指控在离职后的十多年里,安排联邦情报局将数千份机密文件泄露给他,以辅助其作为私人安全顾问的工作。“在这个行业中,信任是最硬的通货,”亨里希曼表示。现任联邦情报局局长马丁·耶格尔(Martin Jäger)“一直在忙于与国际合作伙伴讨论此事……我现在绝不想处于他的位置。对他来说,这些日子非常激烈且动荡。”

在汉宁私人持有的机密资料中,包括了一些仅限德国政治领导人审阅的敏感文件。

安全官员告诉《金融时报》,合作伙伴机构(如英国的 MIG 和美国的中央情报局 CIA)已寻求保证,确认其机密情报未因此次泄密而遭到泄露。

汉宁的律师周四表示,其当事人承认非法持有这些文件,但否认更严重的叛国指控。联邦检察官指称,汉宁在两次实例中与外国情报人员有过接触,并可能向其传递了机密信息。

亨里希曼承诺,专项审计之后将进行一场“严厉”的议会辩论,并可能修改关于政府前雇员离职后行为准则的规定。这还可能使政府拟议的赋予联邦情报局广泛新权限的立法进程复杂化,该法案目前仅在议会通过了一读。

“委婉地说,这肯定没有帮助,”亨里希曼说。“有一件事已变得绝对确定……加强对情报机构的监督[同样]至关重要。我们在这一点上绝不能妥协,这将是绝对关键的。”

这位 50 岁的国会议员是总理弗里德里希·梅尔茨(Friedrich Merz)领导的基督教

卡尔斯鲁厄法院,汉宁案的听证会计划在此举行

民主党(CDU)成员,他表示尽管如此,他完全相信联邦情报局的领导层能够采取适当行动。

在去年被任命的耶格尔及其前任布鲁诺·卡尔(Bruno Kahl)的领导下,面对迅速恶化的国际安全局势,联邦情报局在竞相实现现代化的过程中,已经启动了一系列广泛的改革。

“新任局长在国际上享有极高的声誉,”亨里希曼说。“他是一个卓越的选择。”

该议员表示,联邦情报局的“前几代人”一直“生活在一种……自满的文化中”。

他说:“显然,过去从未有人想到[要]尽一切可能防止此类内部威胁,这恰恰表明了我们的现状。这是一个心态问题,我们需要一次彻底的、全面的心态转变。我们正以惊人的速度,呃,伴随着一声巨响惊醒,并意识到世界已经改变了。”

他补充说,因此,通过新的联邦情报局法案比以往任何时候都更加重要。“ [变革]始于政治。” 见评论版

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乌克兰袭击俄罗斯科技巨头 Yandex 数据中心

安娜斯塔西娅·斯托格内(ANASTASIA STOGNEI)——柏林 克里斯托弗·米勒(CHRISTOPHER MILLER)——基辅

本周,乌克兰袭击了俄罗斯科技巨头 Yandex 的两个数据中心,以报复莫斯科对其自身 IT 设施的攻击。随着空战范围扩大,两国经济赖以生存的支撑系统已成为攻击目标。

被誉为“俄罗斯谷歌”的 确认,昨日凌晨其位于俄罗斯中部卡卢加(Kaluga)地区的最大的数据中心遭到无人机袭击。 表示,前一天晚上,位于俄罗斯中部的另一个数据中心(位于梁赞地区)也遭到了袭击。

表示,卡卢加的袭击“完全摧毁了数据中心的几个模块”。袭击发生后,该公司在莫斯科交易所的股价下跌了约 4%。

在俄罗斯对其数字基础设施进行数周攻击后,乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基誓言要进行报复。他周四表示:“他们一直在攻击,并且正在攻击我们的数据中心……我们总是以同样的方式回应。”

此次袭击扩大了乌克兰在俄罗斯境内的行动范围,此前其目标包括炼油厂以及该国最大在线零售商的仓库。

是俄罗斯的关键科技公司,提供从搜索引擎、电子邮件、互联网浏览器、云服务和人工智能,到出租车应用、食品配送和智能家居设备的各项服务。

在梁赞数据中心遭到袭击后,使用其云基础设施的公司网站出现了中断,其中包括俄罗斯国家铁路垄断企业、电信运营商 MegaFon 以及几家俄罗斯媒体机构。该中心还托管了 用于开发其 AI 模型的超级计算机。

表示,目前尚不清楚这些中心何时能恢复运行。

该公司补充道:“在现阶段,很难说数据中心的设备何时能完全恢复运行。”

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以色列在美方斡旋的停火协议一年后在加沙开展“焦土”行动

随着军方继续夺取领土,该飞地居民生活在对空袭或流弹的恐惧之中

赫巴·萨莱赫(HEBA SALEH)——开罗

詹姆斯·肖特(JAMES SHOTTER)——耶路撒冷

在人们熟睡之时,一次以色列的袭击摧毁了里马尔(Rimal)的一栋公寓楼,在曾经相对高端的加沙城社区中又留下了一堆冒烟的废墟。

根据以色列军方的说法,目标是哈马斯领导人阿里·艾哈迈德·阿尔-阿穆迪(Ali Ahmed Al-Amoudi),军方将其描述为该组织 7 2023年10月7, 袭击行动的决策者之一。但当救援人员到达时,他们发现当天遇难的几名巴勒斯坦人中,包括 55, 岁的迈萨·阿布·达乌德(Maisa Abu Dawoud)和她 56 岁的女儿玛丽·哈菲兹(Mary Hafez)。关于阿穆迪的下落尚不明确。

虽然此类场景在 10月7日 之后蹂躏加沙的两年战争中反复出现,但里马尔的这次空袭发生在上周六——距离美国斡旋的停火协议名义上结束冲突已近一年。

以色列并未停止战斗,而是在这段时间内在该被摧毁的飞地中继续进行残酷的军事行动。其部队多次进行空袭、拆除建筑,并向他们认为对部署在日益扩大的以色列占领区周围士兵构成威胁的巴勒斯坦人开火,该占领区目前涵盖了加沙 60% 以上的地区。

根据巴勒斯坦卫生部的说法,自去年 10月10日 停火协议生效以来,共有 1,400 多人被杀,相当于每天约 4 人。该部门表示,遇难者中至少包括 300 名儿童和 120 多名妇女。

以色列对此的描述各异,称其为针对武装分子、警察、武装人员的袭击,或者——通常情况下——根本不给出任何解释。

国际危机组织(International Crisis Group)以色列和巴勒斯坦高级分析师阿姆贾德·伊拉克(Amjad Iraqi)表示:“很明显,以色列将停火视为一种推进其目标的掩护,而不是真正需要遵守的协议。这是将停火协议武器化,以巩固占领。”

去年达成协议时,美国总统唐纳德·特朗普将其吹捧为他的标志性成就之一。根据这项 20 点计划的条款,哈马斯将解除武装,以色列军队将逐步从加沙撤出,并开始重建。

虽然停火为更多援助进入加沙铺平了道路,并结束了以色列两年攻势中最激烈的战斗——期间有近 73,000 名巴勒斯坦人被杀——但进展很快陷入停滞。

特朗普在 7 月宣布,该武装组织已同意一项在以色列分阶段撤军的同时解除武装的路线图。以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡拒绝了该计划,称在哈马斯完全解除武装之前,以色列不会撤军。

对于加沙 2.1mn 人口而言,其中大多数人生活在再次由哈马斯控制的飞地部分地区破旧的帐篷或废墟建筑中,死于流弹或空袭仍然是每日的恐惧。

上周六遇难的迈萨·阿布·达乌德和玛丽·哈菲兹是加沙日益萎缩的基督教社区的一员,在冲突的大部分时间里,她们在加沙城的圣家教堂(Holy Family Church)避难,而该教堂本身在去年的以色列袭击中遭到打击。

玛丽 14 岁的儿子富阿德(Fouad)说,她们今年离开了教堂,搬进了里马尔的公寓。“我母亲厌倦了睡在地板上的床垫上,所以她们找到了这套公寓,”他说。“在她被杀的前一天,她打电话说:‘我想你了,来和我一起吃午饭吧,我会做你最喜欢的通心粉。’”

“但到了那时,她和我的祖母已经殉难了。”

针对相关质询,以色列国防军表示,其正在“采取行动消除威胁,包括对军事目标进行打击”,并指责哈马斯拒绝缴械并“重建其军事基础设施”。以色列国防军将上周六的袭击描述为一次旨在消灭阿穆迪(Amoudi)的“尝试”,并声称“已采取措施减轻对平民的伤害,包括使用精确弹药”。

以色列在停火协议期间继续使用武力,反映了分析人士所认为的该国在10月7日之后的新安全准则:在这种准则下,以色列会对被认为的威胁发起其所谓的“先发制人”攻击;从邻国夺取领土,以便在边界沿线创建无人居住的“缓冲区”;并部署持续的武力。

在加沙,以色列继续摧毁

8月加沙城一次以色列空袭后,爆炸现场烟雾升起 Omar Ashtawy / Getty Images

其控制区域内的基础设施,并通过移动分隔以色列控制区与哈马斯控制区的所谓“黄线”,积极夺取更多土地。危机组织(Crisis Group)的一位伊拉克人表示:“他们正在执行焦土政策。他们基本上是在抹除整个村庄和城镇,并尽可能地使之人口减少,从而增加人们返回的难度。”

巴勒斯坦人经常因为在黄线附近活动而处于

“显而易见,以色列将停火视为实现其目标的某种掩护”

最危险。30多岁的农业工人巴哈·阿布·阿金(Bahaa Abu Ajeen)描述了他在6月看到以色列士兵从临时边界附近的一栋建筑中出现后,抱起三岁的儿子拉扬(Rayan)试图逃离的情况。

“以色列人向我身后的地面开了一枪,于是我停了下来。但随后他们再次开火,子弹击中了拉扬的头部,”阿布·阿金说。他补充道,另一颗子弹击碎了他的腿,使他倒在地上。他说,随后他被以色列军队拘留了几个小时。

以色列国防军(IDF)表示,它“不对平民采取行动,也不会仅仅因为个人靠近”黄线就对其开火。

内塔尼亚胡已明确表示,在加沙的打击行动将继续。他将此次行动描述为对10月7日袭击的报复——在那次袭击中,哈马斯杀害了1,200人,其中包括家庭成员和参加音乐节的年轻人,并绑架了另外250名人质——并誓言要暗杀任何与此次袭击相关的人。

“我们正在不懈地追捕那些以令人震惊的残酷手段袭击我们的‘人类野兽’,”这位总理在本周一次纪念袭击遇难者的仪式上说道。“我们正在将他们一个个清除。”

尽管哈马斯已失去对加沙大部分地区的控制,但该武装组织在加沙地带西部人口较稠密的地区维持着一个简陋的行政机构,征收部分税款,控制警察,并开具出生和死亡证明。

加沙的许多人正在准备迎接另一个冬天。联合国表示,当地公共卫生状况处于“危急”状态,传染病正在蔓延。“我们需要全面的停火,”九岁女孩雷塔吉(Retaj)的父亲阿卜杜勒·劳夫·里汉(Abdel Raouf Rihan)说道,雷塔吉在4月被一颗流弹击死。“每天都有流弹导致人们死亡或受伤。”

以色列对加沙的空袭和无人机袭击在停火期间仍在继续

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机场袭击威胁沙特峰会

克洛伊·科尼什 (CHLOE CORNISH) 与 尼古拉斯·帕拉西 (NICOLAS PARASIE) 迪拜

艾哈迈德·奥姆兰 (AHMED AL OMRAN) —— 吉达

本周该国机场遭到袭击导致六人死亡,随后的一波胡塞武装袭击威胁到沙特阿拉伯的旗舰活动“沙漠达沃斯”以及在利雅得举行的一场能源会议。

在英国发布旅行警告且多家航空公司暂停飞往利雅得的航班后,企业高管们正紧急确认他们是否能够前往这些活动——这些活动通常会吸引全球最大公司和投资银行的首席执行官参加。

最新一轮胡塞导弹于周四击中了利雅得国际机场,导致包括一名飞行员在内的三名沙特公民死亡,并击中了一架属于国家航空公司沙特阿拉伯航空 (Saudia) 的飞机。

此次袭击发生在世界石油议会 (World Petroleum Council) 能源大会召开前几天,以及沙特阿拉伯的旗舰峰会、被昵称为“沙漠达沃斯”的未来投资倡议 (FII) 会议召开前两周。

罗马方面昨日表示,意大利能源部长已决定不参加下周的能源部长会议,而将改为通过视频连线发言。

“我们完全不知道发生了什么,”一名计划参加 FII 的企业高管表示,“他们想继续进行这场表演。但让我们看看会发生什么。这是一个非常危险的局面。”

最新的袭击为沙特阿拉伯的“2030愿景”经济转型计划带来了新的障碍。该计划旨在吸引外国投资和游客的涌入,但在近年来一直受到低油价和巨型项目过度支出的考验。

根据组织者的议程,今年的 FII 计划邀请的演讲者包括贝莱德 (BlackRock) 首席执行官拉里·芬克 (Larry Fink)、摩根大通 (JPMorgan) 首席执行官杰米·戴蒙 (Jamie Dimon) 以及桥水 (Bridgewater) 创始人雷·达里奥 (Ray Dalio)。

利雅得正与也门受伊朗支持的胡塞武装陷入新一轮冲突,这些袭击干扰了飞往该国的管理顾问的商务旅行。

一名顾问表示,在航班被取消后,他们周四不得不从利雅得开车近 12 小时前往迪拜。另一名顾问表示,其公司已于昨日起取消前往沙特阿拉伯的行程。英国周四建议除必要旅行外,不要前往包括利雅得在内的沙特阿拉伯部分地区。

几位外国能源高管表示,他们仍计划参加下周的世界石油议会 (WPC) 会议,并补充说,他们意识到“沙特人记得在困难时期谁是他们的朋友”。

FII 和能源部未立即回应置评请求。

“慈善事业提供了关键资金,使有前景的发现能够向前推进,解锁进一步投资,并最终为患有癌症的儿童和青少年提供更好的治疗方案。”

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特朗普启动对美联储理事的调查

最高法院驳回解雇库克尝试后,相关调查随即展开

彼得·威尔斯 (PETER WELLS) —— 纽约 艾拉·李 (ELLA LEE) 与 克莱尔·琼斯 (CLAIRE JONES) 华盛顿

唐纳德·特朗普启动了一个委员会来调查丽莎·库克 (Lisa Cook),就在几个月前,最高法院驳回了总统试图解雇这位美联储理事的尝试。

该委员会将调查关于库克在“一项或多项抵押贷款工具方面做出虚假陈述”的指控,并将于 11 月 5. 日举行面对面听证会处理此事。特朗普此举是在最高法院 6 月以 5 比 4 的多数票裁定库克可以留任之后做出的,理由是特朗普未能让她有机会对其被解雇的尝试提出适当申辩。

库克否认了针对她的指控,且尚未被判定有任何违规行为。

该备忘录指示库克亲自出席委员会的质询,并在听证会前后提交书面陈述。在收到她的最终书面陈述后,该小组将向总统提交调查结果,并建议库克是否应当被免职。

“作为总统,我的职责是确保法律得到忠实执行,包括解雇那些不能被信任地讲述真相并遵守法律的下属,”特朗普在 10 月 7 日的一份声明中表示,该声明由白宫于昨日发布。

特朗普任命的委员会成员均为政治任命官员,包括总统经济政策助理凯文·哈塞特 (Kevin Hassett)、美国平等就业机会委员会主席安德里亚·卢卡斯 (Andrea Lucas) 以及美国政府伦理办公室代理主任基思·桑德林 (Keith Sonderling)。

库克的律师表示,他们已与白宫接触,以评估特朗普拟议的程序“是否有可能是真实的,而不仅仅是一个走形式的流程”。

“鉴于总统多次声明他已经决定解雇库克理事——无论事实和证据如何——我们严重怀疑这次‘听证会’是否是一个符合法律的合法程序,”律师阿比·洛威尔 (Abbe Lowell) 和诺姆·艾森 (Norm Eisen) 表示。

特朗普启动这项新调查的决定,将再次引发人们对美联储在设定利率时能否免受政治压力、保持独立性的担忧。

自重返白宫以来,特朗普一直向利率制定者施压要求削减借贷成本,政府官员也攻击了美联储董事会的几名成员。

特朗普还要求前美联储主席杰伊·鲍威尔 (Jay Powell) 辞职,理由是他处理美联储总部 25亿美元 的翻修工程时存在失职。

在共和党议员阻止任命新任美联储主席凯文·沃什 (Kevin Warsh)(除非政府改变方向)之后,司法部撤销了该调查。随后,美联储监察长监管机构的一项调查证明鲍威尔不存在任何刑事违规行为。

针对库克的指控源于联邦住房主管比尔·普尔特 (Bill Pulte) 去年提交的一项刑事移交,他声称库克在密歇根州和佐治亚州的房产上同时主张主要居住地身份。

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海湾开发者看好埃及的“邪恶海岸”

阿布扎比和卡塔尔财富基金正向该国北部的度假区投入数十亿美元

HEBA SALEH — 阿拉梅因(AL ALAMEIN)

几十年前,一名从埃及地中海沿岸的亚历山大港向西行驶的旅行者,将穿过被青绿色大海环绕的沙漠,偶尔可见贝都因人的石屋以及纪念第二次世界大战中阵亡的英国、意大利和德国士兵的纪念碑——然后才能到达 260 公里外的第一个城镇马尔萨马特鲁(Marsa Matruh)。

此后,该海岸线成为了富裕埃及人喜爱的夏季度假胜地,这里分布着许多封闭式社区,其高昂的价格使其昂贵的西部地段被冠以“邪恶海岸”的绰号。

但该地区现在正处于开发商(主要来自海湾地区)所希望的更大规模转型之边缘——这次转型将使其从一个季节性窗口短暂的国内目的地,转变为一个吸引外国房产买家和游客的国际枢纽。

来自阿布扎比和卡塔尔的主权财富基金,以及总部位于迪拜的开发商 Emaar,都在向提供酒店、游艇码头、购物中心、学校和医疗服务的巨型项目投入数十亿美元。埃及政府也投资建设了道路、机场以及旨在实现全年居住的新阿拉梅因(New Alamein)。

“海湾开发商的到来可能会改变游戏规则,”埃及投资银行家兼 Zilla Capital 管理合伙人奥马尔·埃尔-谢内蒂(Omar El-Shenety)表示。这些开发商“在海湾公民中是非常熟悉的名字,他们信任这些公司。因此,我预计他们将成为规模巨大的买家。”

经济学家普遍认为,阿布扎比和卡塔尔的投资是旨在支撑负债累累的埃及财政的救助资金。

2024 年,阿布扎比支付了 350 亿美元购买拉斯海克马(Ras el-Hekma)40,600 英亩土地的开发权,这是埃及历史上最大规模的外资投资。主开发商 Modon Holding 表示,该地块将包括旅游设施、码头、机场、投资区和自由贸易区,以及 310,000 套住房,最终预计人口将达到 200 万。

由卡塔尔主权财富基金拥有的房地产开发商 Qatari Diar 随后在 2025 年启动了一个 300 亿美元的项目,旨在将 Alam al-Roum 打造为一个全年的奢华目的地。

一张 Alam al-Roum 开发项目的计算机生成图像,卡塔尔主权财富基金在该项目中投资了 300 亿美元。

埃及最大的开发商 Talaat Moustafa Group 与政府合作开展了 210 亿美元的 SouthMED 开发项目,该项目于 2024 年启动,并由演员西尔维斯特·史泰龙(Sylvester Stallone)领衔开展英文广告宣传。TMG 将该地块宣传为“在地中海崛起的新全球目的地”。

这三个巨型项目的初始阶段建设和期房销售均在进行中,但风险在于如此庞大的城市项目可能无法按计划进行。“这里始终会对该地区的经济和地缘政治风险具有一定的脆弱性,”谢内蒂说道。

“我会将北海岸描述为一个处于转型中的目的地,而不是一个完全成熟的国际度假市场,”在北海岸拥有九家酒店的旅游公司 Travco Holidays 总经理莫塔兹·塞德基(Moataz Sedky)表示。

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虽然红海边的沙姆沙伊赫(Sharm el-Sheikh)和南部的卢克索(Luxor)等埃及目的地长期以来深受外国游客欢迎,但地中海沿岸几乎仅服务于埃及人。

但塞德基表示,该地区“开始看到两个额外市场的出现:来自海湾地区的访客以及国际休闲游客,尤其是欧洲人”。

分析人士表示,现在的希望是这些巨型开发项目能够改变目前围绕短暂夏季季节构建的经济模式。

该地区的潜力在 Emaar 开发的高端海滨度假胜地 Marassi 中可见一斑。这个景观精心打造、棕榈树林立的社区拥有 6.5 公里的海岸线、8,000 套住宅和 12 家豪华酒店,在夏季高峰期,每晚的住宿费用可能超过 $1,000。在 8 月的一个夜晚,这里挤满了衣着考究的人群,其中许多是来自海湾地区的游客。这里的氛围与其说像埃及,不如说更像迪拜,而且没有那种令人窒息的酷热。

Emaar 的创始人兼董事总经理穆罕默德·阿拉巴尔(Mohamed Alabbar)表示,8 月下旬 Marassi 的酒店入住率中,非埃及籍游客占 65%,且几乎全部来自海湾国家。

“海湾开发商的到来可能会改变游戏规则” —— 埃及投资银行家 Omar El-Shenety

“这就是我们六年前所希望看到的,因为他们通常消费能力强且停留时间长。”

但只有 10 到 15% 的住房单位售给了海湾国家公民。“我们才刚刚开始,因为这里(北海岸)尚未被发掘。即使是对我们海湾地区的人来说,也是在过去 10 年里才了解到这里惊人的美景和气候。”

咨询公司 The Board Consulting 的董事总经理艾哈迈德·扎基(Ahmed Zaki)表示,去年北海岸的房产销售额超过 $104 亿,使其成为该国仅次于开罗东部的第二大房产投资目的地。

塞德基(Sedky)表示,为了在海滩季节之外维持游客流量,需要更多的酒店、全年计划航班、餐厅、会议中心和体育设施。

“如果国际需求继续以目前的速度增长,酒店容量仍将是一个主要制约因素,”他说道,并补充说冬季的部分时间将适合体育、会议和文化旅游。“如果认为一个全年目的地在 1 月份必须销售与 7 月份相同的产品,那就错了。”

阿拉巴尔指出,访问该海岸的游客距离埃及更传统的景点并不远。“你可以在这里度过三四天,然后开车南下参观金字塔,再返回这里。”

污染

雾霾笼罩新加坡,大奖赛准备就绪

欧文·沃克(OWEN WALKER)——新加坡

随着数十万名观众抵达参加本周末的一级方程式(Formula 1)大奖赛,新加坡正在储备口罩并准备医疗服务。此次赛事预计将在多年来最严重的有毒霾害中进行。

根据空气质量监测公司 IQAir 的数据,来自印度尼西亚森林火灾的烟雾笼罩了这个城市国家,使新加坡成为本周全球污染最严重的城市。同样受到霾害影响的邻近城市吉隆坡排名 2。

空气污染在新加坡是一项年度风险。在霾害严重的季节,户外活动会被缩减,医院接诊呼吸道疾病患者的人数也会激增。

本周末的雾霾为这个城市国家在国际舞台上的亮相蒙上了一层阴影,并威胁到包括 The Killers、珍妮·杰克逊(Janet Jackson)和拉娜·德雷(Lana Del Rey)在内的露天演唱会等庆祝活动。

预计至少有 300,000 名粉丝将参加大奖赛,其中一些人花费了数千加元;此外,还将有数万人从屋顶酒吧和阳台观看。

在赛事筹备期间,新加坡还举办了包括 Token2049(全球最大的加密货币活动)在内的企业活动。霾害成为了讨论最激烈的话题。

“这件事发生的时间不能更糟糕了,”从墨尔本赶来观看比赛的玛格丽特·格里夫(Margaret Grieve)说道。

“我们在家乡习惯了丛林火灾,但对于这里居住的人来说,这一定非常糟糕,”她的丈夫杰森(Jason)补充道。

新加坡的雾霾通常是从印度尼西亚飘来的。在苏门答腊和婆罗洲岛上的加里曼丹,大片土地被焚烧用于造纸和棕榈油生产。

今年,一种名为“超级”厄尔尼诺(El Niño)的自然天气模式(太平洋海水温度升高)使其成为了至少七年以来最糟糕的季节。

该城市国家的监测系统显示,近几日的空气质量持续处于不健康水平——在这种水平下,政府建议新加坡的 600 万居民避免长时间或剧烈的户外体力活动。

新加坡旅游局表示,将向赛车观众通报空气质量恶化的风险。该局还在储备口罩,并准备为有需要的人提供医疗援助。

旅游局告诉《金融时报》:“相关机构将与新加坡大奖赛组委会密切合作,在就活动做出任何集体决定之前评估形势。”

F1 补充道:“此次活动绝对没有风险,且环境条件……并未达到任何令人担忧的水平。”

由于严格执行对汽车和工厂排放的控制,新加坡在一年中的大部分时间里,空气质量优于许多亚洲城市。

然而,在最近几周,学校旅行被取消,孩子们被告知在室内玩耍,而一些医疗诊所报告称,与雾霾相关的病例患者增加了高达 30%。

2015 年,当厄尔尼诺现象短暂地将当地污染标准指数推至被视为危险的水平时,新加坡被迫采取了类似措施。2019 年,七次 F1 冠军刘易斯·汉密尔顿(Lewis Hamilton)表示,他在赛前被建议不要在户外跑步。

欧洲

意大利酒庄遭窃,被盗酒瓶价值 €5mn

艾米·卡兹明 (AMY KAZMIN) —— 罗马

意大利最大的家族经营酒庄 Marchesi Antinori 表示,专业窃贼从其位于托斯卡纳的存储设施中盗走了 30,000 瓶葡萄酒,价值约 €5mn。该酒庄将其描述为近代史上规模最大的葡萄酒盗窃案之一。

这是意大利近期发生的一系列葡萄酒抢劫案中的最新一起。这些犯罪分子的选酒极其考究,反映出他们具备葡萄酒鉴赏能力以及对目标的内部了解。

总部位于佛罗伦萨的 Antinori 酒庄可追溯至 1385, 告诉《金融时报》,窃贼在上周末袭击了其位于托斯卡纳科尔托纳 (Cortona) 的仓库,而当时酒庄正准备向海外客户运送一批包含其部分最昂贵酒瓶在内的大宗货物。

周六晚上,七名蒙面男子禁用了报警系统,用两辆大卡车盗走了数千箱该酒庄著名的 Tignanello、Solaia 和 Guado al Tasso 托斯卡纳红葡萄酒。

被盗酒瓶的零售价通常在每瓶 €150 至 €500 之间。此次盗窃直到周一早上才被发现。酒庄拥有此次盗窃的大量监控录像。

警方正在调查,但尚未逮捕任何人。

Antinori 的首席执行官伦佐·科塔雷拉 (Renzo Cotarella) 表示,该公司去年的营收为 €263mn 且出口

“这些葡萄酒价值极高,我不知道他们如何在不被发现的情况下卖掉所有这些酒……”

至 170 个国家。公司目前正在发出警报,希望葡萄酒爱好者能帮助他们追踪失踪的酒瓶。

“我们仍然希望能够找回这些酒……两辆卡车不可能就这样凭空消失,”科塔雷拉说。“这些葡萄酒价值极高,我不知道他们如何在不被发现的情况下,在世界各地卖掉所有这些酒。”

他表示,Antinori 还希望通过提醒潜在买家,警惕那些来自异常渠道或价格低廉的酒瓶可能是赃物,从而“保护市场”。

葡萄酒盗窃在意大利并不罕见,但窃贼通常将目标锁定在拥有丰富酒窖的米其林星级餐厅,盗走少数每瓶价值数万欧元的极高价值酒瓶。

今年夏天,两名身穿工人服装、戴着安全帽和高可见度背心的男子,成功在米兰著名的 Affinatore 餐厅的防碎玻璃上开了孔,抢走了几瓶珍贵的罗曼尼-康帝 (Romanée-Conti) 葡萄酒,总价值 €280,000。

酒瓶在运输过程中偶尔也会被盗。Banfi di Montalcino 今年夏天在皮埃蒙特仓库中被窃贼“精心挑选”并盗走了 3,000 瓶其最好的 Alta Langa 葡萄酒。

上个月,窃贼在皮埃蒙特的 Conterno Fantino 酒庄,在叉车的帮助下,用不到三小时的时间抢走了 3,000 瓶巴罗洛 (Barolo) 葡萄酒。

南美洲

委内瑞拉流亡人士马查多呼吁在7月前举行选举

乔·丹尼尔斯 —— 巴拿马城 安娜·罗德里格斯·布拉松 —— 加拉加斯 杰夫·戴尔 —— 伦敦

委内瑞拉流亡反对派领导人玛丽亚·科里纳·马查多(María Corina Machado)呼吁明年举行总统选举,尽管她承认在民主转型的时间表上与美国存在“分歧”,而委内瑞拉拥有全球最大的石油储备之一。

去年诺贝尔和平奖得主马查多在接受《金融时报》采访时表示,准备在7月前举行选举有“足够的时间”。

她还呼吁在管理委内瑞拉石油销售收益方面保持“透明度”,目前这些收益由华盛顿监管。

马查多表示:“美国政府和委内瑞拉人民都同意,使之可持续且成为真正胜利的唯一途径,就是将委内瑞拉变成一个稳定的民主国家。”

目前居住在巴拿马的马查多自去年12月前往奥斯陆领取诺贝尔和平奖后,尚未返回委内瑞拉。1月初,美国特种部队在一次戏剧性的夜间行动中逮捕了委内瑞拉独裁前总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗(Nicolás Maduro)。

唐纳德·特朗普政府表示希望看到政治转型,但尚未制定选举时间表。马查多是委内瑞拉最受欢迎的政治人物,但华盛顿支持马杜罗的副手德尔西·罗德里格斯(Delcy Rodríguez),后者现为代理总统。

马查多说:“我认为在评估上存在分歧的地方在于节奏和时机。我想说的是,我相信我们可以向前推进,而且我们已经准备好了。”

玛丽亚·科里纳·马查多表示,石油销售应具有“透明度”

马杜罗及其妻子西莉亚·弗洛雷斯(Cilia Flores)仍被关押在纽约监狱中,等待毒品走私指控的审判,两人对此予以否认。美国当局本周增加了酷刑共谋指控。他们的审判预计将于明年开始。

委内瑞拉反对派的部分成员对美国采取的方式感到日益沮丧,包括最近一项将该国庞大石油储备的部分控制权移交给一家由五角大楼支持的私营公司的协议。

华盛顿自1月以来一直在管理委内瑞拉石油销售的收益,但特朗普政府尚未披露其收缴或拨付的金额。

马查多的团队表示,她在最近几个月中至少尝试了七次返回,但均未成功。她否认了华盛顿阻碍其返回的说法。她说:“国务卿(马可·鲁比奥)已经说过……我有绝对的权利返回。”

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民粹主义。选举

西班牙说唱歌手为右翼对桑切斯的仇恨发声

Corine 体现了针对这位为生存而战的总理而升级的激烈敌意

巴尼·乔普森(BARNEY JOPSON)——马德里

安吉·科林(Angie Corine)是一位红发说唱歌手,她手臂上布满纹身,牙齿镶嵌着闪亮的饰品,热衷于拥抱国旗,她是西班牙新兴民粹主义右翼的新面孔。

处于这一浪潮前沿的是 Vox 党。在本周佩德罗·桑切斯(Pedro Sánchez)宣布提前举行大选后,该党有机会与保守的人民党(PP)组成执政联盟——对于这位为政治生存而战的总理来说,这是一场高风险的赌博。

科林以其活泼的、受 Vox 启发地讽刺风格所体现的,是公众在左翼总理执政八年后对他产生的愤怒。

“我不需要你们的施舍,你们的礼物或救济金,”科林在其中一首歌中唱道,“我只想要一个不是疯子的总理。”

上个月,马拉加的抗议者在塞乌塔出现大规模移民涌入后,举起横幅称总理为叛徒。下图:歌手安吉·科林和 Vox 党党魁圣地亚哥·阿巴斯卡尔(Santiago Abascal)。(图片来源:Jorge Guerrero 和 Thomas Coex / )

不仅有越来越多的年轻人开始接纳科林将其转化为音乐的右翼主张,而且针对这位社会党领导人的个人攻击也达到了惊人的新高度。

这位说唱歌手曾称桑切斯为“边境柯利犬,一只聪明的杂种”,这暗指了一个利用 Pedro 和 perro(狗)谐音的冒犯性绰号。她还将他称为“精神病患者”,因为在西班牙非洲飞地塞乌塔因超过 70,000 名移民非法抵达而陷入混乱时,他仍在 Instagram 上推广他的夏季播放列表。

深刻的分歧在西方民主国家普遍存在,但西班牙是学术界所谓的“情感”极化的典型例子,在这种极化中,裂痕并非根植于政策,而是根植于不信任和蔑视的基本情绪。

庞培法布拉大学(Pompeu Fabra University)的政治学教授马里亚诺·托卡尔(Mariano Torcal)指责 Vox 和人民党通过侮辱和“非人化”桑切斯来蓄意煽动敌意。他表示,反对派的策略“主要基于诋毁领导人并指责他犯下可怕的错误,比如称在桑切斯领导下西班牙是一个独裁国家”。

本周,保守派电视台 Telemadrid 的一名评论员形容这位总理“长了一张想让人揍的脸”。在一次生日派对上,《金融时报》目击到五岁的孩子用棍子击打皮纳塔(piñata),而一名父亲则敦促他们“像打佩德罗·桑切斯那样狠狠地打”。

当敌人被视为道德败坏或对社会构成威胁时,情感极化往往更加剧烈。对于桑切斯的敌人来说,他同时符合这两点。

他被卷入了针对其亲近之人的腐败指控中,其中包括他的妻子贝戈尼亚·戈麦斯(Begoña Gómez)。她否认有不当行为,而桑切斯则表示自己是政治化法官发动“法律战”的受害者。他还被指责将他的“亲信”安置在曾经非政治化的机构中,例如西班牙银行、国家民调机构和电信公司 Telefónica。

撰写过关于西班牙书籍的作者威廉·奇斯莱特(William Chislett)表示,桑切斯在原则问题上违背了他的诺言。他曾表示绝不会与极左翼共同执政,也不会与加泰罗尼亚独立派以及与已解散的恐怖组织 Eta 有联系的巴斯克政党达成议会协议。

Ground Truth 图像显示一条单一的实线水平线,这是一个风格化或背景元素(如纸上的分隔线)。根据 Rule 2,此类线条必须在 OCR 结果中被忽略。提供的 OCR 内容为 "",不包含任何字符。由于 OCR 输出正确忽略了风格线,因此符合 Rule 2。因此,OCR 结果与 Ground Truth 一致。2, 2.

他最终采取了所有这些手段,以维持其少数派政府的权力。“即便我们知道那些‘正确的谎言’,这种不诚实也会加剧整体的愤怒,”奇斯莱特(Chislett)说道。

桑切斯本周表示,他已使西班牙成为“和平、女权主义和繁荣的全球参考点”。他也是最后一位公开欢迎移民的欧盟领导人,而移民已帮助该国成为发达国家中经济增长最快的国家之一。对此,Vox党领导人圣地亚哥·阿巴斯卡尔(Santiago Abascal)指责总理在“推动移民入侵……以取代那些不喜欢他的西班牙人民”。

Vox是一个成立于2013年的激烈反移民政党,在昨天公布的一项40dB民意调查中支持率为19%。在移民问题上立场较为温和的人民党(PP)支持率为32%,而桑切斯的社会党则为28%。

在YouTube上拥有超过100万粉丝的科琳(Corine)曾演唱关于“没有西班牙孩子”的学校的歌曲。在一次播客采访中,她否认自己是排外主义者,因为她出生在美国,且认同自己是“半美国、半波兰”人。在其中一首歌中,她提到自己在马拉加(Málaga)成长期间被“西班牙化”了。这位说唱歌手没有回应《金融时报》的采访请求。

根据一项分析,桑切斯引发如此仇恨,是因为他重新揭开了西班牙1936-39年内战以及弗朗西斯科·佛朗哥(Francisco Franco)法西斯独裁统治的伤口。根据一项由总理支持的2022年法律,该国建立了佛朗哥受害者登记册,挖掘坟墓,并试图确认数万名“失踪者”的遗骸。

前西班牙中间派欧洲议会议员路易斯·加里卡诺(Luis Garicano)拒绝接受西班牙人因内战而分裂的观点。“我快60岁了,我在一个充满希望的西班牙长大,那个国家正在走向团结。那时并不是‘红党’与‘蓝党’的对抗。现在的这种情况是相对较新的现象,”他说道。

他将这种尖锐的对立追溯到2004年,当时人民党政府错误地将基地组织(al-Qaeda)安置的致命火车炸弹归咎于埃塔(Eta)。随后是一个处理房地产泡沫失当的社会党政府,以及一个由欧元区债务危机和紧缩政策定义的人民党任期。

加里卡诺(现为伦敦政治经济学院公共政策教授)表示,接下来的桑切斯也并非一个无辜的受害者。“桑切斯从一开始就想让Vox成为主要反对党,并在他的选民与右翼之间挖掘一条战壕,”他说。“他想通过这种方式阻止人们从左翼转向右翼,他说:‘看,如果你转向右翼,你本质上是在为代表佛朗哥及其所有那一套的极端分子投票。’”

然而,他是在玩火。桑切斯谴责阿巴斯卡尔散布仇恨。“你们称我为独裁者、暴君,”总理上个月在议会中表示。“他们甚至叫我狗。”

科琳同样遭受着侮辱。“前几天有人在我家门口对我大喊‘该死的法西斯’,”她在TikTok上说道。“但我才是那个激进的人?”这位说唱歌手最近找到了信仰,佩戴起十字架,并表示自己在一定程度上缓和了强硬的棱角。“我祝愿每个人都好,”她在另一段视频中说,“除了佩德罗·桑切斯。”

由卡门·穆埃拉(Carmen Muela)参与报道

全球洞察

美洲

爱德华·卢斯(Edward Luce)

美国公开处决的病态噱头加剧了衰败感

1936年,20,000名喧闹的群众聚集在肯塔基州欧文斯伯勒,观看对22岁被定罪的强奸犯雷尼·贝西亚(Rainey Bethea)的绞刑。当时媒体的疯狂炒作和嘉年华式的氛围引发了人们的厌恶,导致美国禁止公开处决,这一禁令已维持了90年。本周,美国自封的“战争部长”皮特·海格塞斯(Pete Hegseth)打破了这一禁忌,他表示五角大楼将直播对尼达尔·马利克·哈桑(Nidal Malik Hasan)的处决,后者是一名枪杀13名战友的军方精神科医生。“人们需要明白,这类行为会带来严重的后果,”海格塞斯说道。作为一项公共服务,哈桑被执行枪决的过程将向所有人开放。

18世纪的历史学家爱德华·吉本(Edward Gibbon)将罗马的衰落归结为“野蛮与宗教的胜利”,他可能会对此感到一种似曾相识的刺痛。海格塞斯在五角大楼任职期间,一直致力于重建一种“致命性”文化。这包括将睾酮推崇为战士的终极品质,以及将女性和少数群体从军队的高级管理层中清除。上周,他创建了五角大楼的“宗教事务办公室”,旨在将精神健康提升到与身体健康同等的高度。

目前尚不清楚海格塞斯的这种病态噱头是一次性的,还是将开启美国充满波折的犯罪与惩罚历史的新篇章。预计哈桑的律师将主张,此举等同于宪法禁止的“残酷且不寻常的惩罚”。如果该计划得以实施,美国将与伊朗、阿富汗和朝鲜一起,加入到那个少数国家行列中。

朝鲜等少数实施公开处决的国家之列。大多数民主国家早已禁止死刑。英国最后一次执行死刑是在1964年。

民调显示,包括美国盟友在内的大多数国家对中国的看法更为正面

赫格塞斯和特朗普不太可能被此类顾虑所动摇。

如果公众的厌恶情绪占据上风,特朗普可能会推翻赫格塞斯的决定。即将离任的共和党参议员汤姆·蒂利斯(Thom Tillis)称此举“令人作呕”。但特朗普对电视奇观的痴迷根深蒂固。在今年6月的80岁生日期间,他在白宫草坪上举办了一场UFC终极格斗赛,观众人数达3400万。

虽然没有迹象表明赫格塞斯会为哈桑的处决设立付费观看计划,但特朗普无疑会密切关注收视率。他一生都是死刑的拥趸。在就职的第一天,特朗普就取消了联邦死刑的暂停执行,并表示死刑应自动适用于被定罪的谋杀非法移民以及任何杀害执法人员的人。他还将枪决、电刑和氮气窒息法添加到除注射死刑之外的允许选项清单中。哈桑将成为自1945年以来第一个被美国军队枪决的人。

哈桑的公开处决会对美国的软实力产生什么影响?最近的民调显示,包括美国盟友在内的大多数国家,现在对中国的看法比对美国更正面。美国长期以来作为一个具有平等主义气质、欢迎所有人的社会的形象正在迅速消退。世界已经习惯了看到戴面具的美国移民与海关执法局(ICE)官员从日托中心强行带走母亲的画面。他们看到一名美国总统发布了一段将巴拉克·奥巴马和米歇尔·奥巴马描绘成猴子的虚假AI视频。

除了民意调查,很难用量化指标来衡量美国声誉受损的程度。而这也不太可能影响特朗普或赫格塞斯。后者将自己的职业生涯押注在硬实力的动态展示以及对软实力的蔑视之上。但一位当代的吉本(Gibbon)肯定会尝试评估这种损害。这位历史学家认为,罗马内部的道德沦丧比外部蛮族的威胁更为关键。他观察到,一个失去公民美德的社会会浪费其生命之根基。“面包与马戏”让罗马人感到娱乐,但它们却榨干了共和国所有高尚的东西。

edward.luce@ft.com

南非律师

人权先驱皮莱获诺贝尔和平奖

理查德·米尔恩 —— 奥斯陆 莫妮卡·马克 —— 约翰内斯堡

诺贝尔和平奖已授予南非人权律师及法学家纳维·皮莱(Navi Pillay),此举是对国际法在承受“巨大压力”之际其重要性的认可。

诺贝尔委员会昨日表示,现年 85 岁的皮莱曾任职于卢旺达国际刑事法庭和国际刑事法院,是一位“律师和法律先驱”。

委员会称,今年的奖项授予之际,“国际法体系正承受着巨大压力,其机构正遭受攻击”。该奖项可能被视为是对许多独裁者,乃至像美国总统唐纳德·特朗普和以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡等民主选举产生的领导人的警告。

特朗普曾对国际刑事法院(ICC)实施制裁,而该法院已就俄罗斯对乌克兰的全面入侵对俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京以及内塔尼亚胡发出了逮捕令。

去年,皮莱主持了一个联合国委员会,该委员会认定以色列在加沙地带犯有种族灭绝罪,以色列对此指控予以强烈否认。

诺贝尔委员会表示,从早年作为律师的工作(包括为纳尔逊·曼德拉辩护)开始,皮莱已成为“我们时代最受尊敬的国际法学家之一”。

委员会补充道:“她卓越的职业生涯提醒我们,需要支持、加强

纳维·皮莱:被描述为“我们时代最受尊敬的国际法学家之一”

并扩展全球法治。”

皮莱 1941 年出生于南非德班,出身于一个印度泰米尔裔家庭。她的父亲是一名巴士司机,而她的母亲在种族隔离制度下被剥夺了受教育权。“仅仅因为我的肤色,我就被像垃圾一样对待,”她在 2023 年告诉南非《公民报》(The Citizen),回忆起即便在后来获得法律资格后,也无法让她免受歧视。但她说她“学会了不向此屈服”。

由于南非没有任何一家白人律师事务所愿意雇用印度裔女性,皮莱于 1967 年开设了自己的法律事务所,并随后为罗本岛上的反种族隔离活动人士进行辩护。

但她随后在卢旺达的工作重塑了国际刑法。

作为卢旺达国际刑事法庭的主席,皮莱共同起草了一份具有开创性的 1998 年判决,认定大规模强奸和性暴力构成种族灭绝行为。

诺贝尔委员会表示,她的工作直面了“深层的结构性歧视、隔离和排斥”。

以色列对选择皮莱表示愤怒。其外交部称该奖项是“将奖项荒诞地武器化,以使反以色列的仇恨和偏见合法化”。

该奖项标志着诺贝尔委员会意在强调在日益动荡的地缘政治环境下法治的重要性。

挪威诺贝尔委员会主席约根·瓦特内·弗吕德内斯(Jørgen Watne Frydnes)表示:“维护国际法的机构正承受着巨大的压力、制裁和攻击。”

国际刑事法院

白宫宣布制裁以“终结”国际刑事法院

苏齐·林(SUZI RING)——伦敦 安迪·邦兹(ANDY BOUNDS)——布鲁塞尔

美国宣布对整个国际刑事法院(ICC)实施制裁,试图削弱其运作能力,此举升级了唐纳德·特朗普总统旨在拆除其口中所谓的“反美法庭”的行动。

根据昨日公布的制裁令,相关公司有 180 天的时间停止与这家总部位于海牙的战争法庭进行贸易。国务卿马可·鲁比奥表示,美国仍希望寻求一个能够解决美国“关切”的“外交解决方案”,但未具体说明这将涉及哪些内容。

“共和党人和民主党人都拒绝承认国际刑事法院有权起诉美国公民、军职人员或政治领导人,”鲁比奥说。“美国从未加入该法院。我们不需要它,也不想要它。”

“要么国际刑事法院停止其威胁,要么我们将终结国际刑事法院。我们期望我们的盟友——其中许多是国际刑事法院的成员,且在国防方面依赖美国军职人员——去约束该法院。”

国际刑事法院表示,这些制裁是“企图阻碍司法进程,并防止法院履行其创建之初的职责”。

“这是对法治以及国际法律秩序基石的攻击,它冲击了一个简单的原则,即没有任何人凌驾于法律之上。”

“要么国际刑事法院停止其威胁,要么我们将终结国际刑事法院。我们期望我们的盟友去约束该法院”

在过去两年中,特朗普政府已经对 13 名法院官员实施了制裁,其中包括该法庭 18 名法官中的一半。

特朗普上个月在联合国大会上表示,国际刑事法院已经“失控”,且是一个“邪恶的小团体”。

尽管美国不是该法院的成员,但长期以来一直批评国际刑事法院权力过度扩张。

当国际刑事法院在 2020 年开始对阿富汗冲突进行全面调查(包括美国人员是否在该地犯有战争罪)时,紧张局势进一步升级。

在法院决定就涉嫌战争罪对内塔尼亚胡和前国防部长约亚夫·加兰特(Yoay Gallant)发出逮捕令后,这种情况在特朗普的第二个任期内进一步加剧。以色列否认这些指控。

国际刑事法院已采取措施保护自己免受美国制裁的影响。上个月,副检察官纳扎特·沙米姆·汗(Nazhat Shameem Khan)告诉《金融时报》,法院已针对此类措施采取了隔离保护措施。

应对方案包括将其办公软件从微软迁移到德国的 openDesk,以及切断与健康保险供应商安盛(Axa)的联系。

荷兰外交部长汤姆·贝伦森(Tom Berendsen)表示,荷兰将“尽一切努力确保法院能够有效运作”。

欧盟立法者长期以来一直敦促布鲁塞尔启用其“阻断条例”,禁止欧洲公司执行美国的制裁。

欧盟委员会表示:“欧盟准备采取任何必要措施,以使法院能够开展工作。”

食品公司正竞相利用营养热潮获利,将曾经低价值的副产品转化为珍贵的原料。但消费者对多样性的追求能否持久?作者:Susannah Savage 和 Michael Peel

正如奶酪经常与火腿搭配一样,奶酪制作长期以来一直与养猪相辅相成。奶酪制作商保留凝乳,而猪则获得乳清。

欧洲一些最著名的奶酪和腌制肉类之所以在地理分布上如此一致,正是得益于这种实用的安排。在意大利,用于制作帕尔马火腿的猪被喂食制作帕马森奶酪后剩余的乳清,这赋予了肉类一种坚果般的甜味。

如今,蛋白质热潮为奶酪制作商提供了一个更具盈利能力的消费出口。

例如,荷兰乳业合作社 Friesland-Campina 不再将乳清蛋白作为动物饲料出售。相反,它打算将更多奶酪制作后剩余的乳清转化为用于人类营养的浓缩蛋白。

几个世纪以来,乳清一直被视为奶酪制作的副产品。而现在,该合作社的全球营销与产品战略总监 Guus Aerts 表示,“在某种程度上,奶酪已经变成了乳清的副产品。”

这种转变反映了正在重塑食品工业的蛋白质繁荣。从乳业合作社到肉类加工商,公司正从曾经廉价出售的原材料中提取更有价值的成分,而食品制造商则在竞争以确保供应。对蛋白质的需求正驱动着数十亿美元的工厂投资和收购。

农业综合企业贷款机构 CoBank 的首席动物蛋白经济学家 Brian Earnest 表示:“蛋白质正日益[决定]食品公司的生产内容、资本投资方向,以及他们如何实现差异化和增长。”

然而,这种商业热情基于一个营养科学家们持怀疑态度的命题:即摄入更多蛋白质必然意味着饮食更健康。研究人员表示,虽然某些群体可能受益于增加摄入量,但在美国等国家,蛋白质缺乏的情况很少见。他们警告说,过度追求某种必需营养素可能会挤占人们饮食中其他营养成分的空间。

公司还必须区分饮食习惯的持久改变与对特定产品的短暂热情。随着他们投资建设新的加工厂和供应链,客户是否会对蛋白质强化爆米花这种新鲜感感到厌倦,进而转向其他产品?

Aerts 认为蛋白质狂热将长期存在。他说:“我们看到的只是它对整个食品工业影响的一小部分。这将是一次颠覆,而不仅仅是一次趋势。”

对蛋白质的需求已经积累了数十年,但在过去几年中得到了极大的加速。

经纪公司 StoneX 的欧洲、中东和非洲地区乳制品与食品咨询主管 John Lancaster 表示:“我认为这分为三个阶段。”

他说,第一阶段出现在 2000 年代,当时健身文化兴起,乳清蛋白和蛋白奶昔开始流行。“那是一个增长市场,但还没有引起轰动。”

随后出现了“真正的分水岭时刻”,他说:减肥药的出现,研究表明这些药物在减少脂肪的同时会导致肌肉量下降。“人们在大幅减轻体重的同时,需要摄入额外的蛋白质,以尽量减少肌肉流失。”最后,“流行文化接管了一切。每个人都觉得他们需要更多蛋白质,于是产生了这种光环效应。”

蛋白质如何占领世界

美国政府放大了这一信息。卫生部长罗伯特·F·肯尼迪(Robert F Kennedy Jr)和农业部长布鲁克·罗林斯(Brooke Rollins)在1月份公布的饮食指南中,敦促美国人在每餐中优先考虑蛋白质,设定了

食品制造商通过更改配方以利用蛋白质热潮获利 —— 金融时报蒙太奇图

“我们目前看到的仅是这对整个食品行业意味着什么的冰山一角。这将是一场颠覆,而不仅仅是一次趋势”

每日每公斤体重 1.2-1.6 克的摄入目标,这比长期以来建议的 0.8g 每日膳食推荐量高出 50-100%。

肯尼迪本人已成为“纯肉饮食”(carnivore diet)的代言人,这种饮食几乎完全由肉类、鸡蛋和发酵食品组成。他将自己的体重和脂肪减轻归功于此。

蛋白质热潮为肉类和乳制品提供了新的卖点。根据美国国家牛奶生产商联合会(National Milk Producers Federation)的数据,曾经不被看好的饮食主食——茅屋芝士(cottage cheese)在美国的销量在 2024 和 2025, 年实现了两位数增长。

食品制造商通过更改配方以利用这一热潮获利。美国消费者可以买到“PowerMac”芝士通心粉和 Pop-Tarts 蛋白质点心,而英国人则可以享用浆果味蛋白质胶原蛋白果冻或白巧克力蛋白质抹茶拿铁。

根据消费者情报公司 NIQ 的数据,在截至 3 月 28, 的一年里,标榜高蛋白的零食在美国的单位销量增长了 9.6%,而整体零食的增长率仅为 0.9%。

食品公司正在从曾经的副产品中挖掘新的价值。

全球最大的肉类加工商 JBS 的新业务部门总裁里卡多·格莱因(Ricardo Gelain)表示,公司正在发展其胶原蛋白和明胶业务,旨在“将副产品转化为超级产品”。这些产品正被用于蛋白质水、芝士抹酱和无酒精啤酒。

在乳制品领域,乳清的重要性已足以影响公司是否以及在何处投资奶酪制造。对乳清的需求已开始超过供应。StoneX 的兰开斯特(Lancaster)表示,价格在过去 18 个月里“简直呈爆炸式增长”。

随着乳清价格上涨,公司正在测试浓缩牛奶蛋白、大豆和豌豆成分。供应商也在扩大可供选择的范围。农业食品巨头 Archer Daniels Midland 在 5 月推出了 8 种大豆和豌豆成分,其中包括旨在能顺畅混入饮料中的蛋白质。

但替代品也带来了自身的问题:有些溶解度较低,风味较强,或口感较差。

对于食品行业而言,最关键的问题不是消费者是否会尝试更多蛋白质。而是这种口味的改变是否能持续足够长的时间,从而证明现在为了供应蛋白质而建设的工厂是合理的。

FrieslandCampina 的 Aerts 等人押注于下一波客户尚未到来。他表示,GLP-1 减肥药的普及将创造远超现有市场的蛋白质产品需求,包括在印度和中国。

但北卡罗来纳大学的营养研究员林赛·史密斯·泰利(Lindsey Smith Taillie)表示,服用 GLP-1 药物的人并不一定需要增加整体蛋白质摄入量。相反,因为他们摄入的热量减少,如果想要获得足够的蛋白质,蛋白质必须在他们饮食中所占的比例更高。

她承认蛋白质可以帮助重建在快速减重期间流失的肌肉。“然而,我认为这不能证明蛋白质强化超加工食品的泛滥是合理的。”她补充道,豆类、鸡蛋、鱼类、瘦禽肉和乳制品等低加工食品是更好的来源。

除了有特殊营养需求的人群外,广泛增加蛋白质摄入的理由并不像商业热情所暗示的那样明确。

根据在政府修改食品指南之前开展的营养调查,美国很少出现蛋白质缺乏的情况。虽然增加蛋白质摄入可能对某些特定群体(如老年人,其蛋白质处理效率低于年轻人)有所帮助,但这远非全民性的需求。

一些研究人员指出,每公斤体重摄入超过2克蛋白质可能会导致肾脏损伤等健康问题,尽管这一观点仍有争议。而较少引起争议的是这样一种警告:摄入更多高蛋白食品可能会导致饮食中水果和蔬菜的减少,从而使人们缺乏其他至关重要的营养素,如维生素、矿物质和纤维。如果额外的蛋白质主要来自肉类和乳制品,还可能增加饱和脂肪的摄入量。

一些寻求增加蛋白质的人同时也试图减少超加工食品的摄入——对于那些在薯片、谷类食品和糖果中添加这种营养素的公司来说,这是一个尴尬的组合。泰利(Taillie)认为,蛋白质声明的激增在一定程度上是食品公司应对人们对加工食品担忧的一种尝试。“他们真的在努力思考如何让这些食品看起来健康,”她说。

批评也来自健身界。常驻加拿大的健身教练丹·戈(Dan Go)批评了一些高热量、缺乏其他营养且充斥着甜味剂和添加剂的能量棒。他表示,这些产品通常是“伪装成昂贵糖果的产品,与那些含糖量高的邻近产品相比,几乎没有营养优势”。

咨询公司哈特曼集团(Hartman Group)的消费者研究员梅丽莎·艾博特(Melissa Abbott)表示,该行业已经达到了一个蛋白质与超加工食品交汇的不确定点。“最重要的是,口味仍然是最关键的因素。”

对于制造商而言,这意味着要制造人们想要食用的产品,而不仅仅是在包装正面标一个数字。菲仕兰坎皮纳(Friesland-Campina)正在投资研究口味、质地以及不同类型的蛋白质在不同食品中的表现。

艾尔茨(Aerts)表示,对于蛋白质棒来说,“嚼一块砖头”与吃一种“尝起来几乎像糖果棒”的东西之间存在实质性的区别。如果制造商希望触达那些非核心的运动营养消费者,这种区别就更为重要。

“有时只要有售就足够了,”他说,“但我们认为未来情况将不再如此。”

农业巨头嘉吉(Cargill)的消费者洞察专家露西·伍兹(Lucy Woods)表示,得益于社交媒体,消费者对蛋白质的认知正在迅速增长,随之而来的是他们期望值的提高。她说,美国人可能正从单纯地想要“更多”转向想要“更多样化”,并开始询问“这款意面或这款披萨里含的是哪种蛋白质?”

伍兹表示,随着蛋白质含量越来越多地出现在食品包装和餐厅菜单上,且消费者更加关注营养,他们可能会开始问一个不同的问题:“我摄入的蛋白质是否过多?我应该摄入多少蛋白质?”

讣告:一位由成功与丑闻共同定义的国会议员兼作家

杰弗里·阿彻 (Jeffrey Archer) 小说家、政治家 1940-2026

杰弗里·阿彻的公众生活由那些抢占头条的丑闻、时而出现的彻头彻尾的江湖骗术,以及近乎滑稽的巨大出版成功所定义。

他的性格——一部分像个傲慢且热爱板球的学童,一部分像个大吼大叫的少将——被他坚定的妻子玛丽总结得最恰当。在阿彻再次陷入麻烦后,她承认丈夫“拥有一种写不准确摘要的天赋”。

阿彻享年 86 岁去世。他曾作为一名保守党政治家,以及过去半个世纪最畅销的小说家之一,过着极其忙碌的生活。他声称自己的书籍在 100 多个国家售出超过 3 亿册。

他深爱的玛格丽特·撒切尔在 20 世纪 80 年代和 90 年代将他视为一种现代政治宫廷小丑,为她提供娱乐,并称他为“外向者中的外向者”。林戈·斯塔尔在 20 世纪 60 年代遇到早期的阿彻时,将其描述为“那种会把你的尿装进瓶子里拿去卖的家伙”。

阿彻 1940 年出生于伦敦北部。他后来对他父亲威廉的职业给出了误导性的描述。正如他儿子多次声称的那样,他父亲曾是英国领事,还是一个“经历了新加坡陷落”的陆军军官,亦或是 1914 年萨默塞特轻步兵团的一名中士?

都不是。后来披露,威廉·阿彻是一名被定罪的诈骗犯和重婚者。阿彻的母亲罗拉是一名记者,在阿彻成长地韦斯顿-超级马尔(Weston-super-Mare)的当地报纸上撰写每周专栏。

由于身材矮小,阿彻在学校时遭到欺负,于是他将自己锻炼成一名运动员。被其他男孩嘲讽地称为“普内”(The Pune)的他,后来成为了代表英格兰和英国参加短跑比赛的牛津大学蓝队成员。

一份“不准确的摘要”为阿彻进入一个隶属于布雷诺斯学院(Brasenose College)的教师培训课程铺平了道路:据称他为了进入牛津大学而伪造了学术资格。

1998 年,在反思其出身的神秘性质时,阿彻写道:“是的,我也曾年轻过,而且是的,我在生活中犯过很多错误。我既不是天才,也不是圣人。”他承认他的父亲并没有获得卓越行为奖章,他的祖父也从未担任过布里斯托尔市长。

在作为学生筹款人获得成功并于 1966 年与玛丽结婚后,阿彻于 1967 年在大伦敦议会获得席位,进入政坛。到 20 世纪 60 年代末,他代表林肯郡的劳斯(Louth)加入保守党,成为英国第四年轻的国会议员。

1974 年,由于投资一家名为 Aquablast 的加拿大公司失败被宣布破产,他辞去了议员职务。

面对 427,727 英镑 的透支额,阿彻决定将自己重塑为一名文人。他的第一部小说《不多一便士,不少一便士》(Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less)于 1976 年出版。随后的作品如《凯恩与阿贝尔》(Kane and Abel)和《克利夫顿编年史》(The Clifton Chronicles)也成为了畅销书。阿彻的房产包括一套面向泰晤士河的顶层公寓,一座曾由鲁珀特·布鲁克拥有的 18 世纪牧师住宅,以及一座位于马略卡岛悬崖上的写作之巢。

阿彻通过自身努力重新回到公众视野的上升轨迹,使他在 20 世纪 80 年代初成为了撒切尔主义的代言人,是保守党自力更生理想的活生生体现。

尽管其副手威利·怀特劳警告说他是一个“等待发生的意外”,但撒切尔仍在 1985 年任命阿彻为保守党副主席。13 个月后,他辞职了,因为当时有报道称他向一名性工作者莫妮卡·科格伦(Monica Coghlan)支付了 2,000 英镑 以封口。阿彻于 1987 年通过法院洗清了姓名。

他在1992年被约翰·梅杰授予爵位。在那个时期,能收到参加阿彻的香槟与牧羊人派圣诞派对的邀请,是伦敦最令人向往的事情之一。

但在2001年,阿彻被判定在1987年的审判中犯有伪证罪和妨碍司法公正罪,这实际上终结了他的政治生涯——而此前,他正试图通过竞选伦敦市长来让其政治生命再次重生。

他被判处两年监禁。包括撒切尔在内的忠实朋友在他2003年出狱后帮助他恢复名誉。

阿彻一生中引发的怀疑与他赢得的忠诚一样多,尽管在晚年,他的公众形象有所软化。2023年,他停止举办圣诞派对。

在周日接受BBC采访时,作为一系列密集宣传活动的一部分,他将自己的最新小说《亚当与夏娃》描述为“我写过的最好的书”。阿彻的最后时光花在了他最擅长的事情上:宣传。 威尔·劳埃德(Will Lloyd)

金融时报 “无畏无偏”

全球经济惊人的韧性

增长与贸易出人意料的强劲,但基础并不稳固

全球经济的大环境看起来并不乐观。尽管美国法院遏制了唐纳德·特朗普总统大部分的保护主义议程,但这个全球最大经济体的实际关税率仍处于数十年来的最高水平。与此同时,伊朗战争给石油市场带来了自20世纪70年代以来最大的冲击,而俄罗斯与乌克兰的冲突则继续使全球食品、化肥和燃料供应承压。最近,对高额债务堆积和利率上升的担忧引发了债券市场的剧烈抛售。然而,经济增长似乎依然保持得相当之好。

根据摩根大通(JPMorgan)的综合采购经理人指数,上个月全球商业活动达到了40个月以来的最高点。预计未来几年全球商品贸易也将增长得更快。总的来说,全球经济预计在今年和明年将维持在3%左右的体面年增长率。随着政策制定者下周在曼谷聚集参加国际货币基金组织(IMF)和世界银行会议,理解是什么支撑了全球经济扩张,与评估未来的风险同样重要。

政府发挥了重要作用。长期以来支持绿色转型以及建立并释放油气储备的努力,提供了宝贵的缓冲。而且在世界范围内,各类支持方案吸收了消费者面临的部分成本压力。

很大一部分功劳归于灵活的私营部门。面对关税和地缘政治动荡,企业迅速找到了新供应商,转移了生产并重新规划了贸易路线。随着通过霍尔木兹海峡的石油、天然气和化学品流量受阻,从加拿大到哈萨克斯坦的生产商增加了出口。

人工智能(AI)热潮提供了进一步的推动。对芯片、服务器和电路板需求的激增提升了整个亚洲以及欧洲专业设备供应商的出口。在美国,尽管该国进口关税高企,但对数据中心及相关基础设施的巨额支出推动了工业产出。投资狂热还推动了股市上涨,产生了有助于维持消费支出的财富效应。

运气也起到了作用。AI的建设时机恰到好处,抵消了地缘政治冲击。加元走弱帮助缓冲了发展中经济体的压力,而法律挑战则削弱了特朗普更激进的关税计划。

尽管如此,目前没有自满的空间。债券投资者对债务沉重的政府失去了耐心,而民粹主义政治家则威胁要让财政约束变得更加困难。

加元走弱帮助缓冲了发展中经济体的压力,而法律挑战则削弱了特朗普更激进的关税计划

伊朗战争持续时间越长,现有的缓冲空间就越会被耗尽。而且,由于现在有如此多的贸易和投资押注在AI上,任何对该技术的误用、事故或对其商业回报的失望,都将在全球经济中产生回响。

不过,在已奏效的措施中可以获得宝贵的教训。拥有一定的财政空间使政府能够缓冲冲击。但这个空间正在消失,通过可靠的整合来重建空间至关重要,以免债券市场成为下一次冲击的源头。同样重要的是支持企业的适应能力。消除招聘、投资和扩张的障碍有助于私营部门做出更快反应,而更深层的贸易联系以及更好的交通和能源基础设施,则在供应链中断时为公司提供更多选择。到目前为止,世界经济证明了自己具有惊人的资源调动能力。要保持这种状态,仅靠好运是不够的。

观点 健康

不要对瘟疫感到恐慌

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大卫·罗伯特·格里姆斯 (David Robert Grimes)

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俄罗斯瘟疫研究员达莉亚·希皮洛娃 (Daria Shipilova) 的去世,引发了关于其死亡情况的激烈猜测,以及对可能爆发流行病的集体担忧。虽然该事件的细节仍然匮乏且相互矛盾,但历史为我们提供了一些重要的背景参考。

面对一种如此令人厌恶以至于被冠以“瘟疫”之名的病原体,恐惧是一种可以理解的初步反应。鼠疫杆菌 (Yersinia pestis) 导致了人类历史上两次最致命的流行病:查士丁尼瘟疫(公元541-549年)和黑死病。在14世纪中叶其恐怖统治结束时,黑死病杀死了欧洲 30% 到 60% 的人口。

感染可以采取多种形式,具体取决于疾病如何

对员工及密切接触者进行隔离似乎是合理的预防措施,而非不祥之兆

如今,那个曾经残酷的杀手可以通过抗生素相对容易地治疗,其致命的遗产通常被视为古代的遗迹。但鼠疫耶尔森菌(Y pestis)在世界部分地区仍然流行。在 2019 和 2025 年之间,世界卫生组织(WHO)在全球记录了 3,847 例疑似病例和 423 例死亡。虽然大多数病例源自刚果民主共和国和马达加斯加,但美国和中国也出现了病例。俄罗斯最后一次报告野生病例是在 2018 年。由于鼠疫在许多地区仍是活跃威胁,鼠疫耶尔森菌在世界范围内仍被研究。鼠疫在西伯利亚已流行数千年,它影响身体的方式多种多样。最常见的是腺鼠疫,其特征是淋巴结肿胀发黑,这也是中世纪这场瘟疫得名的原因。败血性鼠疫是由细菌进入血液循环引起的,而吸入细菌则会导致肺鼠疫。虽然严重程度和预后截然不同,但所有形式的鼠疫均由同一种病原体引起。

— 希皮洛娃工作的伊尔库茨克研究所成立于 1934 年。

与所有研究一样,风险始终存在。病原体研究在世界各地的众多大学和医院中进行,实验室获得性感染(LAIs)和病原体从实验室环境意外泄漏(APELs)是周期性发生的事件。

历史上发生的实验室感染事件涵盖了从脊髓灰质炎病毒到埃博拉病毒的所有内容。《柳叶刀-微生物》(Lancet Microbe)杂志的一项回顾研究指出,在 2000 和 2021 年之间,全球共发生了 309 起 LAIs 和 16 起 APELs。在此期间的 8 例 LAI 死亡病例中,鼠疫暴露占了两例。然而,至关重要的一点是,即使是面对高致病性病原体,由于存在多层遏制和风险缓解措施,LAIs 和 APELs 通常都不会导致进一步的传播链。

即便如此,俄罗斯在医疗危害方面长期缺乏透明度的历史,使得澄清事实比本应更加困难。虽然莫斯科有义务在 24 小时内报告此类事件,但该事件在当地媒体和社交媒体上出现矛盾说法之后,才引起世界卫生组织的注意。一种说法坚持认为,希皮洛娃在打破试管后接触到了病原体,但她隐瞒了事故,导致关键的救命措施被致命地延迟。另一种说法则断言她在一次实地考察期间接触到了病原体。俄罗斯卫生当局则完全淡化了鼠疫的影响,称希皮洛娃死于“原因不明的肺炎”,并称“未发现与其职业活动相关的微生物”。

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不可避免地,这一事件唤起了人们对生物武器的恐惧。1300 年代的中国和欧洲记录详细描述了交战各方试图将鼠疫武器化的尝试。最臭名昭著的是 1546 年的卡法围城战,当时蒙古进攻者用投石机将感染者的尸体投进城内。更近的时间,苏联和帝国主义日本在第二次世界大战期间实验过武器化的鼠疫。但尽管这些描述令人心惊,并没有证据表明希皮洛娃的死亡源于如此阴险的行为。

无论她悲剧性死亡的原因是什么,对员工成员和密切接触者进行隔离似乎是合理的谨慎,而非本质上的不祥之兆。肺鼠疫总是令人担忧,因为它可以通过感染液滴在人与人之间传播。然而,未经治疗的患者会极快地陷入重病,从而极大地限制了传播潜力。虽然实验室事故会发生,但进一步传播的可能性仍然微乎其微。触发流行病的概率几乎为零,尤其是考虑到现在的感染已可轻易治疗。

虽然我们仍不清楚俄罗斯究竟发生了什么,但这次事件深刻地提醒我们,透明度对于减轻此类事件带来的危害至关重要。面对微观世界的威胁,我们绝不能掉以轻心。

作者是一位健康科学家,以及《非理性的猿:为什么我们容易陷入虚假信息、阴谋论和宣传》('The Irrational Ape: Why We Fall for Disinformation, Conspiracy Theory and Propaganda')一书的作者。

为灭绝风险定价是一项不可能的任务

一只携带向日葵种子的阿根廷蚁(Linepithema humile)—— Alarm

理查德·沃特斯(Richard Waters)一篇题为《为什么 Anthropic 的 IPO 感觉如此诡异?》(《金融时报》周末版,10月3日)的评论文章引发了一个令人不安的思考:人类的生存何时变成了 IPO 认购者需要定价的一种风险?

对于给定的损失情景,预期损失等于概率乘以后果。但这是谁的预期损失?股东的财务损失可以用投资资本来衡量。而人类的损失则将包括每一个人的生命以及每一个未来的

想象一下,如果你的清洁工把比特犬带到工作场所

在《谁把狗放出来的?请把它们关回去》(评论,10月3日)一文中,艾玛·雅各布斯(Emma Jacobs)令人耳目一新地探讨了“人类休闲活动的犬类化”——这是一个禁忌话题,需要更多的讨论,以便从宠物主人的暴政中夺回餐厅、电影院和工作场所等空间。

这篇文章勇敢地逆流而上,反对那种不仅允许而且积极欢迎狗进入不恰当空间的趋势。现在人们普遍认为,我们其他人必须容忍这一点。但其目的是什么?餐厅服务员询问你是否想要一个在“非狗狗区域”的桌位?与小狗共用游泳池?图书馆里出现实验室犬?

如果你认为这是夸张或滑坡谬误,那就出去数数“欢迎狗狗”的标志与“仅限导盲犬”的标志,看看现在的趋势与十年前相比如何。

雅各布斯敏锐地意识到,“工作场所养狗”的时尚是一场权力游戏。大多数员工并不享有这种特权;这是高级管理人员可以带狗进来,而不是初级员工。试想一下,如果晚班清洁工在推着亨利真空吸尘器的同时,把他们的比特犬带进办公室,你会怎么想。 詹姆斯·麦克唐纳(James McDonald)

英国西萨塞克斯郡沃辛

为什么“鸡肉,鸡油菌”不是高级餐饮的标志

你们在初次关注 The Horses 酒吧时(“酒吧集团通过修复的维多利亚时代旅店挖掘过去”,报道,《金融时报》环球旅行者,9月18日),将一道名为“鸡肉,鸡油菌”的菜肴视为“高级餐饮的缩写”。

如果真是这样,位于伦敦圣约翰街的 St John 餐厅创始人费格斯·亨德森(Fergus Henderson)自 1994 年以来一直在经营一家高级餐饮餐厅而毫无察觉。St John 的“墨鱼与洋葱”以及“烤骨髓配欧芹沙拉”教会了一代伦敦厨师那样编写菜单,而酒吧们随后效仿。

斯坦福大学的丹·朱拉夫斯基(Dan Jurafsky)是《食物的语言》(The Language of Food)一书的作者,他阅读了 650,000 个菜单项,这样我们其他人就不必这么做了。他发现,昂贵餐厅标注食材来源农场的可能性高出 15 倍,而且菜单词汇中每增加一个字母,价格大约会增加 18 美分。

高级餐饮的标志更接近于“手工潜水捕捞的奥克尼扇贝,发酵苤蓝,褐色黄油”。

另一方面,一家将菜品描述为“鸡肉,鸡油菌”的酒吧,仅仅是在暗示它预期你知道什么是鸡油菌。在诺丁山,这是一个相当稳妥的假设。 爱德华·里奇(Edward Rich)

英国伦敦 W11

世代。后果不需要在字面上是无限的,就能让一个令人安心的低概率变得极其令人不安。

大语言模型 Claude 的开发商 Anthropic 因其坦诚而值得赞赏。但在招股说明书中加入“灭绝”并不能将其转化为一种可接受的商业风险,披露并不等同于缓解。受影响的人群包括数十亿从未持有过股份的人。

问题不在于是否

关于“三重锁”的论战不能不予回应

克莱尔·巴雷特(Claer Barrett)就英国国家养老金价值的“三重锁”(triple lock)保障提出质疑的论战,不能允许其在没有回应的情况下结束(见《是时候废除三重锁了》,评论版,《金融时报》周末版,9月12日)。

她的立场基于这样一个假设:该机制最终无论如何都会被废除。因此,现在的年轻人不太可能支持它,因为他们无法从中受益。我希望她是错的。

国家养老金是一种高效的方式,能够提供在其他渠道可能无法获得且有保障的支持。(看看个人养老金或年金的管理成本就知道了)

要获得年轻人的支持,难道不应该是争取政治承诺以维持现有安排吗?这样,通过“三重锁”的运作,国家养老金最终将能为所有老年人提供充足的收入。

值得注意的是,国家养老金与国民保险(NI)缴费挂钩的方式。国库获得的国民保险收入仍然远高于国家养老金的成本。

如果对目前不仅不缴纳国民保险而且还领取国家养老金的超过法定退休年龄的劳动者征收国民保险,那么增加国民保险收入将是公平的。取消这一奇怪的豁免将带来数十亿资金。

巴雷特谈到了年轻人对税收的愤怒咆哮,并以年轻毕业生面临 71% 的边际税率为例。诚然,针对极高收入者逐步取消个人免税额从而产生这种边际税率的做法似乎是不公平的。

然而,我估计,如果在不大幅减税的情况下(而这根本不在考虑之列)取消了由“三重锁”保障的国家养老金这一强有力的安全网,那么产生的反应将不仅仅是咆哮。

保罗·布朗(Paul Brown) 英国,苏格兰,格拉斯哥

投资者已经收到警告,但谁有权代表人类承担这一风险。

IPO 可以为一家公司确定价格,但它不能确定人类的风险承受能力。投资者被给予了选择权;而我们其余的人则被强加了风险敞口。

佩曼·梅斯奇安(Peyman Mestchian) AI 市场小组(AIMG)主席 风险管理学院院士,英国,赫特福德郡,哈德利伍德

利他主义:英国人显然还保留着的一种特质

威尔·劳埃德(Will Lloyd)在 September 26 的周末随笔《英国的韧性如何?》中,以令人钦佩的详尽程度列举了该国的脆弱性,无论是食品、药品、电缆还是工程师。

然而,他最终认定的优势——“利他的人们”——直到最后几段才出现,仿佛是英国在橱柜里偶然发现的一项储备。

这种排布揭示了问题所在。人类并非某种剩余库存。他们是所有其他系统运行所依赖的基础设施。管道无法自行发现泄漏,供应链也不会自行重新规划路线。与任何基础设施一样,这一人类层面既可以被加强,也可以被任其衰败。

它同样是可以衡量的。30年来,我和我的同事一直在研究我所称的“韧性能动性”(resilient agency):即人们在面对意外时通过学习寻找出路的能力。已有超过100,000人完成了我们的“韧性能动性学习力”评估。

在澳大利亚的一家水务公司 Hunter Water,通过对其员工、合作伙伴和客户的适应能力(即所谓的学习力)进行持续投资,该公司的网络泄漏量在三年内下降了三分之一。在 2019-20, 年度,该地区还记录了该国住宅用水量最大幅度的下降。

劳埃德正确地以社会学家乌尔里希·贝克(Ulrich Beck)关于转型的呼吁作为结尾。但转型无法通过命令来实现,就像不能命令植物生长一样。国家可以告诉公民把手电筒放在哪里,但不能命令他们变得有韧性。不过,国家可以创造条件,让人们学会成为自己生活中的韧性能动者。

疫情表明人们会做正确的事。问题在于,我们是否会将这种能力视为基础设施并有意识地去构建它。 露丝·克里克(Ruth Crick)教授 WILD Learning Sciences 创始人 英国,布里斯托

蚂蚁的监管准则堪称简约之杰作

为卡米拉·卡文迪什(Camilla Cavendish)喝彩——她在 September 19 的评论文章中指出,监管正处于一个自我生成的复杂化循环之中,这可谓一针见血。但她的补救措施看起来更像是通过微调监管条例,以便更好地监管监管者。

我最近读到的关于阿根廷蚁的资料提供了一个答案。它们要求种群绝对一致,由此似乎征服了世界。任何古怪的行为都会被消除。它们的监管准则是一件本能的、无需反思的简约杰作,这里没有好战的、自我中心的暴君,也没有亿万富翁般的怪胎来误导它们。它们的惩罚与任何罪行都契合得天衣无缝。

不过,也许我们应该继续沉溺于那些浪费时间的文书工作中,并庆幸这些工作很快会被换成另一种不同的东西。至少在目前,它提供了稳定的就业。 大卫·布勒(David Boorer) 英国,威尔士,卡马森郡,兰多弗里

我的第一张国库券就像一张放大版的绿背纸币

布伦丹·格里利(Brendan Greeley)在 October 3 的《长远观察》专栏中讨论国债应被视为现金还是债券,这让我想起20世纪70年代初,在 digital era. 之前,我购买的第一张国债。那张5个月期的国库券是通过邮寄送达的,是一张不记名无记名债券,使用与货币相同的纸张和油墨印刷,但尺寸大约是货币的两倍。也许,债券与现金之间的模糊界限一直是有意为之。 罗兰·德拉克勒(Roland Draxler) 美国,马里兰州,波托马克

医生,医生

我想在关于健身追踪器的社论(October 3 的《金融时报观点》)中增加一个个人轶事。在一次年度体检中,我的心脏科医生询问是否有任何想要进一步讨论的事项,我提到过夜间心率较低。当他问我是如何知道这一点时,我向他展示了我的智能手表。“噢,好吧,”他说,“我们刚刚花费了大量的时间和金钱,而如果花30秒看看你过去一年的手表数据,本可以避免这一切。每个50岁以上的人都应该戴一只。”

托尼·帕拉克(Tony Parrack) 英国,伦敦 SW20

更正

- 上周末的《How To Spend It》(HTSI) 栏目中出现了几处错误。照片说明中错误地将 Papa Bear 椅子标注为皮埃尔·让内雷(Pierre Jeanneret)设计,实际上该椅子是由汉斯·韦格纳(Hans Wegner)设计的。一张法拉利 308 GTS 的照片被误称为 Testarossa。黑森林被描述为位于德国巴伐利亚州,而实际上它位于巴登-符腾堡州。此外,The White Company 报告的 2025 年营业额为 £290mn,而非其母公司 Bectin。

- 上周末报纸的一篇“生活与艺术”随笔中错误地提到巴拿马运河仍有中国股东,事实并非如此。

FT.COM 观点 死亡螺旋金融:山寨币版 布莱斯·埃尔德(Bryce Elder)写道,CHAD 是一种永续优先股,其形象代言人像是克里斯蒂亚诺·罗纳尔多与 Jedward 的混合体

前总统之子有望在10月25日的决选中击败卢拉。作者:Geoff Dyer 和 Michael Pooler

在竞选总统的初期,弗拉维奥·博索纳罗(Flávio Bolsonaro)在父亲曾经使用过的同一个巴西利亚办公室工作。房间里最醒目的是一幅雅伊尔·博索纳罗(Jair Bolsonaro)的画像。

一幅是雅伊尔·博索纳罗佩戴总统绶带的画像,另一幅则是他向上帝祈祷、双手伸向天空的画像。

弗拉维奥在沙发和椅子上接见访客,但他不愿坐在父亲旧有的办公桌前。“博索纳罗总统是一个无与伦比的人,”他今年早些时候告诉《金融时报》,“他将永远是我的北极星。”

现在,这位45,岁的小博索纳罗很有可能入驻另一个曾由其父亲占据的办公室,而这一次是在总统府。在周日的第一轮投票中领先之后,他成为了在10月25日决选中击败现任总统路易斯·伊纳西奥·卢拉·达席尔瓦(Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva)的热门人选——尽管接下来的两周仍将进行激烈的竞选活动。

虽然分析人士并不排除卢拉反弹的可能性,并注意到博索纳罗阵营中存在某种过早庆祝的倾向,但他们同时也表示,博索纳罗拥有明显优势。作为家族事业的继承人,他已经证明了“博索纳罗主义”(Bolsonarismo)作为一个政治运动的持久力,这是“MAGA”(Maga)在热带地区的对应物。

当他的父亲在2018,年当选时,有些人将其归结为他那种粗鲁、非自由主义的个人魅力在特定时刻吸引了选民,而当时的丑闻使大部分精英失去了信誉。但这次选举表明,该运动有着更深厚的根基。

正如唐纳德·特朗普在美国所做的那样,博索纳罗家族围绕其极右翼本能重塑了巴西政治。这些本能结合了带有福音派基督教色彩的保守社会观点、针对贩毒帮派的强硬政策,以及倾向于企业家的修辞风格,而这一切都被包裹在一种对进步主义者充满蔑视的反体制话语之中。

而且,正如特朗普在2024,年所做的那样,他们可能会导演一次惊人的回归。就在一年前,在雅伊尔·博索纳罗因策划在2022年大选失利后发动政变而被判处27年监禁后,这个政治王朝的未来似乎已然绝望。但随着该家族似乎即将重返权力之巅,目前尚不清楚这次谁将掌握主导权。弗拉维奥意识到自己的姓氏是其核心政治资产,因此他竭力赞美父亲,且在其职业生涯中几乎没有表现出走独立道路的迹象。

总统特赦将面临法律挑战的风险。但甚至在第二轮投票举行之前,盟友们已经在公开讨论其他方法,试图在1月5日就职典礼前推翻雅伊尔的定罪,以便父子俩能与家族其他成员一起走上普拉纳尔托宫(Planalto Palace)的坡道。

关于雅伊尔·博索纳罗的书籍《Tormenta》的作者塔伊斯·奥亚马(Thaís Oyama)表示,弗拉维奥的性格决定了他在发生分歧时不太可能反抗父亲。虽然雅伊尔“充满了确定性、执念和固执”,但弗拉维奥“则不同,他愿意倾听”。

人物速写 / 弗拉维奥·博索纳罗

巴西政治王朝后裔觊觎胜利

“这可能是一件好事,也可能是一件非常糟糕的事,”她说,“他不是一个非常坚定的人,很容易被影响。”

弗拉维奥(Flávio)是五个孩子中最大的一个,出生于里约热内卢,成年后的生活大部分时间都在从事政治,最初在里约州议会任职,自2019年起担任参议员。他是一名律师,在私营部门的主要经验是作为里约一家购物中心内知名巧克力连锁店 Kopenhagen 特许经营店的共同所有者。

2019年,里约检察官指控他从州议会办公室挪用资金,并利用巧克力店洗钱。在最高法院裁定大部分证据不可采信后,该案最终于2022年被驳回。弗拉维奥始终否认这些指控,并称其具有政治动机。

作为一名福音派信徒,他曾多次受洗,其中一次是在以色列的约旦河中。与他的父亲——一位在任职期间周围环绕着退役将军的前陆军上尉不同,

弗拉维奥与军方没有直接联系。

如果他获胜,他的继母米歇尔(Michelle)和兄弟卡洛斯(Carlos)(目前两人均在参议院)将与他在巴西利亚汇合,而兄弟雅伊尔·雷南(Jair Renan)和一名叔伯将进入众议院。

从性格上看,弗拉维奥是博索纳罗家族中最

“他不具备其父亲的冲动,但他绝对是核心博索纳罗主义的一部分”

温和的人。参议院的同事们表示,他具有调解能力,这对于一位必须与国会协商复杂协议的总统来说是一项关键技能。

他已将削减开支作为早期的优先事项,并希望这能促使利率下降。市场对他潜在的胜利反应积极,部分原因是他在国会拥有强大的基础。他还承诺将与特朗普政府更紧密地合作。

第一轮投票已经提升了弗拉维奥在全国的地位,如果他能制定出一套连贯的经济计划,将有助于确立其领导地位。但如果他看起来是在听从父亲的指示,他的公信力仍可能受到严重损害。

“主要问题在于弗拉维奥·博索纳罗政府将在多大程度上具有意识形态色彩,”欧山(Oyama)表示,“他不具备其父亲的热忱或冲动,但他绝对是核心博索纳罗主义(Bolsonarismo)的一部分。”

总部位于迈阿密的金融人士杰拉尔德·布兰特(Gerald Brant)认识弗拉维奥已有十多年,他表示,雅伊尔·博索纳罗将成为一名“关键顾问”,但不会“想要抢走弗拉维奥的风头”。不过,他补充道:“弗拉维奥当然意识到雅伊尔才是该运动的领袖。”

geoff.dyer@ft.com michael.pooler@ft.com

一场典型的德国间谍丑闻

欧洲

Constanze Stelzenmüller

你可以说我浪漫,但我更喜欢那些带有魅力或至少有一丝放荡气息的间谍丑闻;比如那种出现一个名叫谢尔盖、穿着羊绒高领毛衣、脚穿麂皮乐福鞋且不穿袜子的富有魅力的陌生人的故事。

但由于这里是德国,该国最近的一起此类事件涉及一名 80 岁的退休间谍首脑和一名潜伏在其对外情报机构内部的内线。后者申请并获得了该机构的官方许可,允许其从事有偿的外部活动,随后据称他在十多年时间里将机密文件出售给了这位前间谍首脑。

奥古斯特·汉宁(August Hanning)于周二因涉嫌叛国罪被捕,他曾在 1998 年至 2005. 期间担任德国对外情报局(BND)局长。随后,他担任内政部国务秘书直至 2009, 一个涉及对国内情报局监督的职位。

警方还逮捕了他的前幕僚长,身份被确认为曼弗雷德·D(Manfred D)。据检察官称,据指控,他在 2010 年至 2022. 期间,在担任 BND 幕僚长期间,“以换取报酬”的方式向汉宁传递了“大约 2,000 份文件”,其中包括为总理和内阁级官员准备的机密执行情报简报。

事后看来,似乎已经出现了一些过度自负、判断力缺失以及异常财务需求的迹象,这些本应让德国当局警觉。精力充沛的汉宁在任职期间就非常高调。离职后,他成了媒体和会议圈的常客。他针对广泛的话题发表见解,从伊斯兰恐怖主义、移民、美国情报机构和俄罗斯入侵乌克兰,到赋予 BND 更多权力的紧迫性。

与此同时,尽管享有丰厚的国家养老金(每月超过 €10,000),汉宁还是开设了一家安全咨询公司。他还加入了一家由俄罗斯寡头拥有的拉脱维亚银行的董事会。2019, 该银行破产,汉宁被起诉要求赔偿,其养老金的三分之二被扣押。一家报纸冷淡地指出,“柏林政界对此心知肚明,且偶尔会被讨论”。

然而,涉嫌泄密的事件直到 2025 年 9 月才被揭露,当时警方搜查了汉宁的住所并发现了政府文件。此次搜查与一名牛排馆继承人的调查有关,该女子因涉嫌在与父亲的监护权之争中策划绑架自己的孩子而在汉堡受审。当地检察官指控汉宁将她介绍给了一家以色列安全公司,该公司安排了绑架

FT.com / opinion 热门阅读

英国汽车市场的竞争目前仍处于开放状态 苏迈亚·凯恩斯(Soumaya Keynes)写道,随着欧洲和中国展开角逐,各种贸易壁垒正若隐若现,2023年除夕的孩子们。

关于汉宁究竟如何处理被盗资料的问题,检察官的声明闭口不谈。声明仅指称他与两家未具名的外国情报机构雇员有过接触或向其传递了信息。(据匿名官员称,俄罗斯并非其中之一。)汉宁的律师承认其当事人持有这些文件,但否认他将其传递给他人或为此收取报酬。

《镜报》(Der Spiegel)推测,线索可能会指向阿塞拜疆或中国;这两个国家的威权政权数十年来一直勤于培养并监视德国的政治影响力人物,导致其中一些涉案人员被判处重刑。巴库当局对这种“恶意虚假信息”表示厌恶。

两名嫌疑人目前仍处于审前羁押状态,这受到严格法律条件的约束。这有力地表明,未来可能还会有更多内幕披露。

与此同时,这次惊人的情报泄露——是自1974年东德间谍君特·吉拉姆(Günter Guillaume)被捕导致时任总理威利·勃兰特(Willy Brandt)被迫辞职以来最严重的一次——对于联邦情报局(BND)以及弗里德里希·梅尔茨(Friedrich Merz)总理陷入困境的执政联盟来说,发生的时间简直不能更糟糕。

联邦情报局的声誉在近年来已经遭受了一些打击。其技术侦察负责人卡斯滕·L(Carsten L)的审判仍在进行中,他于

这次惊人的情报泄露对于联邦情报局来说,发生的时间简直不能更糟糕

2022年因涉嫌向莫斯科出售秘密而被捕;他面临可能的终身监禁。但汉宁及其幕僚长涉嫌在十多年间能够窃取并出售机密文件,这表明监管方面出现了令人震惊的失败,需要进行严谨的调查和清理。

与合作伙伴机构的信息交换对联邦情报局至关重要,且可能已被包含在提交给总理府的简报材料中。军情六处(MI6)、美国中央情报局(CIA)等机构现在必须面对这样一个现实:他们的评估和情报来源可能已经泄露多年。

联邦情报局现任负责人马丁·耶格尔(Martin Jäger)希望将其从一个主要局限于情报收集和分析的机构,转变为一个能够进行进攻性行动(如针对对手进行网络“反击”)的机构。随着俄罗斯在欧洲升级其鲁莽的影子战争,这已成为一项紧迫的必要措施。但最新的争议可能会毁掉为该改革铺平道路的法律草案。

看来,汉宁在极度危险的时刻背叛了他的职业、同事、同行以及他的国家。这既不浪漫,也不好笑。

作者负责布鲁金斯学会(Brookings Institution)美国与欧洲研究中心

我们需要一场关于美国债务的对话。共和党人会参与吗?布伦丹·博伊尔(Brendan Boyle)写道,通过大量借贷来资助减税使我们变得脆弱

观点

保守党通往权力的狭窄路径

我们即将目睹一场右翼内部的生死之战——而保守党仍有可能在其中落败

BRITAIN

卡米拉·卡文迪什 (Camilla Cavendish)

首先,得有人愿意倾听。自从保守党在 2024 年大选中失利以来,民粹主义者吸走了大部分关注度。对于该党来说,这是一个残酷的觉醒,目前他们在民调中徘徊在第三位,且仍面临被彻底毁灭的可能。他们此前的一些基调过于尖锐,缺乏吸引力。但保守党领袖凯米·巴德诺克 (Kemi Badenoch) 现在开辟了一条可能的回归权力之路。

本周标志着保守党在三个方面地进行了重大战略转移。巴德诺克对改革英国党(Reform UK)领导层发起的直率且真实的攻击,断然排除了任何未来的协议——至关重要的是,她成功地带动了党内成员和活动人士。我们即将目睹一场右翼内部的生死之战,而保守党仍有可能在其中落败。这是保守党的一次豪赌——尽管存在加密货币方面的勾当,但奈杰尔·法拉奇 (Nigel Farage) 的核心支持基础依然稳固,且保守党在今年四次补选中有两次失去了押金。但这一举动仍让许多保守党议员感到宽慰,因为他们早已厌倦了追随一个他们所厌恶的人。而工党的口号“投保守党,得法拉奇”也不再站得住脚。

谈到工党,政府向左转的趋势已经开启了一个

巴德诺克结束了内斗,但该党必须选择实用主义而非意识形态

关于经济、企业和国家规模的论点显而易见。首相安迪·伯纳姆对商业似乎反应冷淡,且除了权力下放之外,没有关于增长的理论。即将到来的预算案对任何财政大臣来说都将是一项挑战,但本届政府推迟做出艰难决定的倾向并未给人带来信心。

对我而言,更令人震惊的是保守党的自我反省。在本周党代会上发布的一份长达100页的文件《正确之路》(The Right Way)中,详细阐述了原则和政策。它还清晰地承认了过去的失败。巴德诺克在序言中宣布:“我们承诺降低移民人数,却没有任何实现这一目标的战略。在还没有经济可行路径的情况下,我们就为净零排放立法。我们在离开欧盟时,缺乏本应随之配套的经济计划。”能够传达这样的信息确实需要一位非常强有力的领导者。我不认同任何经济计划都能让脱欧获得成功这一观点。但这表明该党正在向前迈进。

英国需要结束政治闹剧,需要能力。巴德诺克结束了她党内的内斗。但如果保守党想要重新获得信任,他们还必须选择实用主义而非意识形态。例如,在水务国有化问题上纠结是不正确的,因为水务是自然垄断,根本不应该被私有化。而且,他们取消遗产税的承诺,缺乏像国民保险和印花税等其他税收承诺那样与增长的明确联系。

如果保守党足够聪明,他们会小心不要掉入对手的陷阱。伯纳姆在自己的党代会上选择关注选举制度改革和可能的欧盟关系缓和,这是在向自由民主党发出明确信号,并诱导右翼通过表现得歇斯底里来做出回应。改革英国党(Reform UK)已经对靠近欧洲的想法大声抗议。但伯纳姆含糊的承诺属于那种“关于谈判的谈判”类型。

相反,保守党应该就政府目前的行为追究其责任:增加雇佣人员的难度、未能控制福利开支,以及计划废除在过去20年里显著改善教育成果的改革。此外,未来的任何保守党政府似乎都不太可能撤回英欧关系的改善,甚至不太可能撤回伯纳姆对“三重锁”机制(triple-lock ratchet)的限制。更好的做法是保留实力,专注于你们想要讨论的问题。

这仍然将是一场艰苦的战斗,尤其是当获得媒体曝光的最佳机会就是大声叫嚷的时候。我继续假设伯纳姆可能会在右翼分裂时于明年举行选举。但他已承诺不会这样做,而且数据并不理想:根据 More in Common 的最新分析,劳工党将失去其多数席位。虽然它仍将是最大的政党,但即使有自由民主党的支持,也不足以集结足够的票数来执政。这意味着需要引入苏格兰民族党(SNP)、绿党和威尔士党(Plaid Cymru)或某种组合。

巴德诺克通往权力的道路更为狭窄,没有明显的联盟选择。但情况变得复杂的是,几乎一半的议会席位都处于岌岌可危的状态。在改革英国党的102个摇摆席位中,保守党在63个席位中排名第二;而改革英国党在保守党的80个摇摆席位中,有49个排名第二。More in Common 指出,只要有 1% 的选票从改革英国党转向保守党,局面就可能发生剧变。因此,巴德诺克或许能够在无需恢复到保守党以往全国支持率水平的情况下,赢回阵地。

伯纳姆显然正在统一左翼。但在右翼方面,保守党不能仅仅等待改革英国党(Reform UK)自行崩溃。问题在于,除了领导人之外,他们能否开始展现出像一个候任政府的样子。他们的基调往往尖锐得令人不安。在环境问题上,《正确之路》(The Right Way)指出,“对净零排放的质疑并非对气候变化的质疑”,并且“只要人们认为这两者是同一回事,这种论点就很难被认可”。但该党仅仅表现出反环境的姿态,这对自己毫无帮助。

英国需要一个有能力的反对党。选民需要一个支持企业的政党作为选项。如果公众愿意重新开始倾听,保守党就有机会重返赛场。

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习惯多党政治吧,它将长期存在

艾伦·伦威克 (Alan Renwick)

本周在霍尔本和圣潘克拉斯(Holborn and St Pancras)举行的补选为我们带来了一个选举统计学上的首次:在之前的任何一次补选中,从未出现过工党和绿党共同占据前两名的情况。这或许是一项微小的记录,可能只有政治发烧友才会关注。但这是自大选以来的第七次议会补选,且出现了第七种不同的前两名组合。我们还见证了改革英国党(Reform UK)与工党的激烈交锋、绿党与改革英国党的对决、苏格兰民族党(SNP)对抗保守党、保守党击败苏格兰民族党、工党击败改革英国党的挑战者,以及著名的奈杰尔·法拉奇与一个垃圾桶的“对峙”。

所有这些多样性都表明,英国已坚定地进入了多党政治时代。两大主要政党主导局面的日子已经一去不复返了——事实上,自2024年以来,我们尚未看到一种组合,即工党与保守党之间的直接对决。

安迪·伯纳姆(Andy Burnham)向这种万花筒般的局面投下了一枚震撼弹。他是第一位主张在威斯敏斯特选举中废除“领先者当选”(first-past-the-post)投票制度的现代首相。在上个月的工党会议上,他承诺在经过审查后,该党的下一份竞选宣言将包含一项关于选举改革的承诺。

这是一个重大步骤。选举是我们民主制度的核心。考虑到新的多党竞争,如果首相兑现他的承诺,情况会发生多大改变?

伯纳姆对该事业的承诺似乎是真诚的。他希望改变规则中的两个特征,并认为政治的两个方面将随之转变。他认为选民应该能够表达多种偏好,而不仅仅是选择一名候选人或一个政党,并主张这将使政治更具协作性。此外,他希望支持率与赢得的席位之间具有一定程度的比例关系,这样一个政党——他是否在考虑改革英国党?——就不能在得票率不足三分之一的情况下获得权力。多年来,他一直坚持这一分析。

但变革并非必然。我们目前的制度有利于最大的政党——如果工党议员近期在民调中的反弹势头增强,他们还会支持改革吗?对于许多选民来说,这并不是优先事项,那么伯纳姆真的会耗费政治资本去追求它吗?

一种可能的结果是一个更加限

这是 2024 年以来的第七次补选,且产生了第七组不同的前两名组合

[...OMITTED...] 改革的程度可能比热心支持者所希望的要有限。在保守党于 2022. 年废除后,劳工党已经为市长选举恢复了一种形式的优先投票制——补充投票制(supplementary vote)。它允许选民表达第一和第二志愿,这将是针对大选最简单的改动。更进一步的做法是采用替代投票制(alternative vote),选民可以根据喜好对任意数量的候选人进行排序。

我们早在 2011 年就就此举行过全民公投——该提案被全面否决。

这两种方案都将巩固近期向多党政治转变的趋势,但这种趋势将结构化为左右两大阵营。在领先者当选制(FPTP)下,这种模式需要选民进行巧妙的策略性投票。而在优先投票制下,这将变得简单得多。

但无论是补充投票制(SV)还是替代投票制(AV),都无法满足伯纳姆对比例代表制的渴望。它们仍会将全国结果视为 650 个选区竞争的随机产物,而比例代表制则旨在使赢得的席位(至少大致上)与各政党的得票分布相匹配。

一个既能实现比例代表制又能满足伯纳姆对优先投票制渴望的完整方案是单记可转移票制(single transferable vote)。一个多世纪以来,这一制度深受改革拥趸的喜爱,它将创建每个选区可能选出五名国会议员的选区。选民对候选人进行排序,结果将反映民意的分布——该制度已用于北爱尔兰和苏格兰的部分选举。

或者,伯纳姆可以追求一个中间方案:引入比例代表元素,但每个选区仍维持一名国会议员。上一次对投票制度的重大审查——由托尼·布莱尔在 1997 年设立的詹金斯委员会(Jenkins commission)——提出了正是这样一个解决方案,被称为“AV+”。

单记可转移票制(STV)确实会改变我们的政治。联合政府可能会成为常态——批评者称,这是政府不稳定和问责制薄弱的药方。支持者则反驳说,这将带来更好的政策制定和更广泛的代表性。而 AV+ 则会让我们处于这个新世界与现状之间。

未来将如何发展仍具有高度不确定性。在下次选举后,由劳工党领导的联合政府最有可能推动重大改革。这次补选可能有助于重新确立劳工党作为政治进步派阵营的主要载体,但获得绝对多数席位看起来仍然不太可能。即使投票制度不发生变化,我们也已经进入了政党政治的新时代。

作者是伦敦大学学院(University College London)民主政治教授兼宪法单位主任。

我们对 20 世纪 90 年代的怀旧过于美化了

沙希达·巴里 (Shahidha Bari)

在泰特不列颠美术馆 (Tate Britain) 最新的展览《90 年代:艺术与时尚》中,没有电子宠物 (Tamagotchis)。没有穿着艳俗乳胶衣的布洛比先生 (Mr Blobbys) 准备从凯特·摩丝 (Kate Moss) 撅嘴的巨幅照片后面跳出来。没有任何东西能暗示 20 世纪 90 年代文化中那种深厚且持久的庸俗感;而那些经历过那个时代的人,可能会相当懊悔地记得这一切。但怀旧——嗯——已经不再是以前那样了。

如果靴型牛仔裤的盛行和英伦摇滚 (Britpop) 的复兴能说明任何问题的话,那么“90 年代”已经回归一段时间了。人们对《理智与情感》和即将上映的《傲慢与偏见》新电影改编版的反应不一,这似乎更可能促使人们匆匆回到 1995 年的 BBC 剧集以及同年艾玛·汤普森 (Emma Thompson) 获得奥斯卡奖的剧本中,而不是回到原著书籍中。对此,我们可以惊恐地捂住帽子,或者询问为什么 90 年代现在被塑造成为我们文化生活中新的黄金时代。

怀旧具有传染性。它几乎是一种疾病。这个词——源自希腊语 nostos(回家)和 algos(痛苦或疼痛)——并不总是与美化回忆同义。1688 年,瑞士医学生约翰内斯·霍费尔 (Johannes Hofer) 用这个词来描述远在他乡服役的士兵所感受到的渴望,这种忧郁如此令人衰弱且剧烈,以至于会导致疲劳、食欲不振和发烧等症状。后来的浪漫主义者将其作为一种美学而沉溺其中,开启了一个忧郁诗人凝视废墟的梦幻时代。

几乎令人感到荒诞且振奋的是,由前《英国版 Vogue》编辑爱德华·恩宁富尔 (Edward Enninful) 策划的泰特美术馆展览,竟然如此坚定地充满了时尚之物:悬浮在甲醛中的小鲨鱼——其牙齿与背后的奥兹瓦尔德·博滕 (Ozwald Boateng) 西装一样锋利,以及那些打破常规的《i-D》杂志版本,它们

相信你的那一代人能如此毫不费力地酷起来,这确实令人受宠若惊。剧透预警:我们大多数人都不是

前卫的孩子们保持着纯真,一顶菲利普·特雷西(Philip Treacy)的帽子上若无其事地架着一艘装有绳索的盖伦船。相信你的那一代人能如此毫不费力地酷起来,这确实令人受宠若惊。剧透预警:我们大多数人都不是。如果像我一样,'90s(90年代)是你青年时代的塑造期,那么对那个十年的怀旧也同样令人困惑。而且,要弄清楚什么应该被传承下去,是一件复杂的事情。

当在 1825 年,散文家威廉·哈兹利特(William Hazlitt)试图捕捉他那个时代的“精神”时,他选择了拜伦、边沁和斯科特的作品来衡量那个时代的知识风气。但我们与 '90s 距离太近,无法自信地举起一部扎迪·史密斯(Zadie Smith)的小说来定义那个十年,或者声称辣妹组合(The Spice Girls)将“zig-ah-zig-ahhh”注入了时代精神。不过,我们或许会对年轻英国艺术家运动(YBAs)中女性的作品更有信心——包括莎拉·卢卡斯(Sarah Lucas)、吉莉安·韦林(Gillian Wearing)、特雷西·艾敏(Tracey Emin)等人。这次展览提醒我们,她们的作品依然经得起推敲,她们对性暴力世界中性自由之危险的关注,在 30 年后的今天依然是我们的关注点。

人们很容易假装 '90s 是一个更简单的时代。我们是“酷不列颠”(Cool Britannia)大军(尽管我们会对这个标签感到愤慨),处于柏林墙倒塌之后、pre-9 / 11(9 / 11事件之前),在等待互联网腾飞的过程中闲逛。确实,在见证数字时代雏形时,有一种与社交媒体出现之前的纯真相关联;我们生活在Ask Jeeves和谷歌(Google)之间那个奇怪的过渡期。

但同样无法忘记的是,'90s 如何被巴尔干战争、卢旺达大屠杀以及艾滋病危机投下的长久阴影所伤痕累累。哈马德·巴特(Hamad Butt)的《熟人》(Familiars)——一个令人惊叹的 1992 年雕塑系列,将碘悬浮在玻璃中——是泰特美术馆展览中唯一一件卓越的作品。他在 1994 年因艾滋病相关并发症去世,年仅 32 岁。值得记住的是,当《熟人》于 1995 年在泰特美术馆首次展出时,装置发生了破裂,美术馆不得不进行疏散。也许从中可以得到某种启示。我们对 '90s 的回忆是美丽的,但同样危险地脆弱。

作者是一位学者、评论家和广播员

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公司与市场

软银寻求海湾支持者提供$100bn以扩大AI押注

  • 该日本集团负责人正在阿联酋进行谈判
  • 该计划出台之际,市场正处于关键节点

大卫·基恩 (DAVID KEOHANE) 和 莱奥·刘易斯 (LEO LEWIS) —— 东京

软银创始人孙正义正寻求从海湾投资者那里筹集高达$100bn的资金,旨在寻找新的财务火力,以扩大一项巨大的AI押注,而这项押注已使他成为该技术领域最大的支持者之一。

据多位知情人士透露,孙正义近几周与包括阿拉伯联合酋长国在内的资深人士就可能的融资事宜进行了讨论。

此次融资努力是这位敢于冒险的日本亿万富翁一系列重大AI押注中的最新举措,其中包括向ChatGPT开发商OpenAI投资650亿美元。

与此同时,由于OpenAI长期预期的首次公开募股(IPO)被推迟,且投资者担心软银在AI热潮中的风险敞口规模,导致部分投资者开始重新评估孙正义在这一被他赞誉为革命性技术领域继续投入资金的能力。

知情人士表示,作为海湾融资计划的一部分,软银创始人将利用这笔资金设立一个基金用于收购公司,然后利用AI和其他技术来改善这些公司的运营。孙正义希望以高估值上市的软银机器人与物理AI业务 Roze,预计将在这一过程中发挥关键作用。

知情人士补充称,与海湾投资者的谈判并不保证一定会成功。

近年来,海湾国家已将其庞大财富的一部分投入AI领域,以实现其依赖能源的经济多元化。

尤其是阿布扎比,通过专注于AI的基金 MGX 和 AI控股公司 G42 等机构,已成为全球在AI领域支出最多的地区之一。这些公司的代表未回应置评请求。

软银拒绝置评。

孙正义仍然是技术领域最具争议的投资者之一,其投资策略被一些人认为等同于赌博。这种方法偶尔会导致令人瞩目的失败,例如在2023年底申请破产的 WeWork。

然而,他也获得过惊人的成功,最显著的是对阿里巴巴的投资,并且多次重塑软银——首先将其转变为电信集团,现在则将其转变为AI最大的支持者之一。

孙正义此前曾寻求海湾投资者开出巨额支票以支持其雄心。阿联酋主权财富基金之一的 Mubadala 和沙特阿拉伯公共投资基金在2017年投资了软银首个$100bn愿景基金(Vision Fund)。

自成立以来,截至6月底,首个愿景基金已产生约$29bn的累计投资收益。而较新的、主要由软银支持且持有OpenAI股份的愿景基金 2,(Vision Fund 2)则产生了205亿美元。

孙正义结合了融资和借贷(部分由软银持有的芯片制造商 Arm 股份及其自有资源提供担保)来为其投资提供资金。

上个月,软银完成了记录在案的最大规模垃圾债券发行,向投资者支付高达 9.75 per cent 的收益率,以筹集超过110亿美元。

任何来自财力雄厚的海湾投资者的承诺也将出现在一个

OpenAI 估值下跌可能带来问题,因为软银的大量投资与其挂钩

这是 AI 热潮的一个关键时刻,这场热潮将华尔街股票推至历史高点,并引发了投资狂潮。

Claude 的开发商、OpenAI 的死对头 Anthropic 预计将在未来几周内启动一次可能打破纪录的 IPO,尽管人们对该技术安全性的担忧已然加剧。

孙正义对该技术的怀疑论者不屑一顾,他在 7 月表示,“那些谴责 AI 的人是在‘往上吐口水’”。最近他承认,如果 被“恶意”行为者利用,可能会“变得超级危险”。

OpenAI 决定推迟 IPO——该公司及其竞争对手均表示这是由于 开发相关的风险所致——这可能会损害软银的新 投资计划。

软银的股价今年上涨了 25%,但自 6 月份(当时它曾短暂成为日本市值最高的公司)以来已下跌超过 30%。

在《金融时报》报道称 OpenAI 的年化收入比该公司此前暗示的低约 200 亿加元后,该股昨日下跌了 5%。

软银筹集债务的能力与其资产负债表上的现有估值挂钩,截至 6 月底,其净资产价值为 72.3 万亿日元。

截至 6 月底,其贷款价值比(LTV)为 13%,远低于正常运营期间设定的 25% 上限。

软银高层表示,OpenAI 或其他大型投资组合公司的短期估值波动不会影响投资计划。

分析师及其他接近该公司的人士表示,OpenAI 估值的下跌可能会带来问题,因为软银的大量投资要么直接与这家 ChatGPT 制造商挂钩,要么与更广泛的 领域挂钩。“传染效应……可能会在很短时间内变得相当糟糕,”一名驻亚洲的分析师表示。 迪拜的 Nicolas Parasie 和伦敦的 Arash Massoudi 参与了此次报道。 深度观察 第 24 页

软银创始人孙正义多次重塑软银,首先将其打造为电信集团,现在则将其打造为顶尖 投资者之一 —— Rodrigo Reyes Mariny/

Pimco警告:国债收益率面临26年高点风险

哈丽埃特·克拉费尔特(HARRIET CLARFELT)——纽约

Pimco警告称,由于对高油价、通货膨胀以及美国巨额公共债务的担忧扰乱了全球最重要的债券市场,美国基准借贷成本面临在26年来首次触及6%的风险。

债券巨头Pimco的首席投资官丹·伊瓦辛(Dan Ivascyn)表示,在规模达32万亿加元的市场经历数周的大规模抛售之后,对冲基金等投资者被迫放弃其亏损的债券头寸,因此10年期国债收益率从目前的5.29%进一步大幅上升是“可行的”。

伊瓦辛告诉《金融时报》:“从短期交易的角度来看,这当然是有可能的,因为我们在过去几周看到的一些活动与某些负面技术因素有关,包括平台对冲基金和其他杠杆投资者的止损活动。收益率确实有可能达到那个水平。”

投资者在近几周警告称,国债市场正陷入一个“恶性循环”,因为一波波的抛售将收益率推高至触发房地产投资信托等其他市场参与者抛售债券的水平。

美国10年期国债收益率是全球数万亿加元资产的基准,目前的交易水平在千禧年之交才出现过。投资者担心伊朗战争引发的通货膨胀、AI公司的大规模借贷狂潮以及对强劲经济增长的预期。通货膨胀对提供固定收入流的债券来说是有毒的。

在期中选举前几周,收益率的上升给美国住户增加了压力。周四的数据显示,美国抵押贷款利率已触及2023年以来的最高水平,截至10月8日,30年期固定利率平均为7.4%,比前一周上涨0.12个百分点。

伊瓦辛表示,国债收益率的进一步上升还可能给股票和公司债券等风险资产带来打击。他说,如果10年期国债收益率触及5.5%或更高,“你将在风险市场(包括信用市场和股票市场)看到相当程度的疲软”。

虽然美国股指接近

Pimco的丹·伊瓦辛表示,收益率的进一步上升还可能打击股票和公司债券

尽管处于历史高点,但有迹象表明高收益率正给部分美国公司带来压力。信用评级最低的公司债券借贷成本在本月触及17%,为2020年5月以来的最高水平。

除了公开市场风险板块的压力外,伊瓦辛预测,更高的国债收益率将给包括商业房地产在内的部分私募市场带来“慢动作”式的问题,因为那里存在“大量依然脆弱的资本结构和基本面弱点”。

伊瓦辛指出,收益率的升高最终会促使投资者将更多投资组合转向国债,以锁定高回报。

这将成为“收益率从目前水平能上涨到多少的限制因素”。

航空公司

燃油价格因伊朗局势上涨,达美航空下调利润预期

克里斯蒂安·戴维斯 —— 堪萨斯城

尽管第三季度营收创下历史新高,但达美航空(Delta Air Lines)仍下调了其利润预测,因为该公司预计,伊朗冲突导致的航空燃油价格飙升将使其今年增加 60亿美元 的成本。

截至 9 月底的营收同比增长 16%,达到 176亿美元,因为财力雄厚的消费者和商务旅客对机票价格上涨并不在意,并继续寻求包括休息室和高端座位在内的特权服务。

但由于燃油支出增长了 69%,这家美国航空公司的净利润在同期下降了近一半。周四,美国航空燃油价格触及每加仑 $4.71 —— 为 4 月以来的最高点,与此同时,霍尔木兹海峡航运业短暂复苏的迹象正在消退。

因此,达美航空将其全年利润预测下调了近四分之一,每股收益区间调整为 $5.10-$5.60, 而三个月前的指导预期为 $6.50-$7.50。

达美航空首席财务官埃里克·斯内尔(Erik Snell)表示,下调预测完全是因为燃油价格高于 7 月份的市场预期,并且有“理由相信 [价格] 在一段时间内将维持在较高水平”。

达美航空预测,今年第四季度的平均航空燃油价格将为每加仑 $4.25。相比之下,在 2 月底美国和以色列对伊朗发起军事打击之前,价格约为每加仑 $2.50。与欧洲航空公司不同,美国航空公司不对航空燃油进行套期保值,这使得它们更容易受到价格飙升的影响。

斯内尔表示,由于拥有一家炼油厂,减少了对公开市场的依赖,达美航空今年已将燃油成本降低了约 $700mn。该公司还通过削减运力、提高票价和扩大高端产品供应来减少损失。

他说:“在燃油账单增加 60% 的情况下,还能维持与去年相同的收益,这简直不可思议。”

在昨天的早盘交易中,达美航空股价下跌 1.5%。彼得·坎贝尔(Peter Campbell)参与报道。

工业。自动化

造船巨头日韩部署机器人,挑战中国领先地位

美国盟友投资“智能船厂”,而北京采取更激进的方式

宋正雅(SONG JUNG-A)——首尔 哈里·登普西(HARRY DEMPSEY)——东京 威廉·兰利(WILLIAM LANGLEY)——广州

随着中国在造船业的主导地位引起华盛顿及其盟友的警觉,韩国和日本正在加大力度在船厂部署机器人。

由于首尔和东京正面临劳动力短缺、订单积压以及来自低成本中国竞争对手的压力,推动“智能船厂”建设已变得至关重要。根据克拉克森(Clarksons)的数据,中国去年获得了 63% 的船舶订单。

对于美国而言,这两个东亚国家在减少商业和海军造船对中国的依赖方面至关重要。截至去年,这两个仅次于中国的造船大国占据了全球船舶产量的 40%,并在液化天然气运输船、潜艇和船舶发动机方面拥有关键的技术专长。

但他们面临着艰巨的任务,一些专家表示,在这样一个难以实现自动化的行业中,中国船厂在开发和部署焊接机器人及智能系统方面已经超越了他们。

首尔大学造船海洋工程教授禹钟勋(Woo Jong-hun)表示:“中国在造船业采用机器人的力度比另外两国更激进,速度也更快。”

造船业难以实现自动化,是因为每艘船的设计和结构都不同,不像汽车等标准化产品。此外,船厂是复杂且危险的户外工作环境,拥有类似于建筑工地的狭窄且不规则的空间。因此,该行业仍然严重依赖于一个日益老龄化的熟练工人群体。

韩国顶级造船商旗下子公司 HD 现代三号(HD Hyundai Samho)副总裁柳相勋(Ryu Sang-hun)表示:“我们未来的竞争力和长期生存取决于能否利用 AI 和自主技术开发出多功能机器人。机器人能帮我们弥补劳动力短缺并保证产品质量。”

虽然熟练工人完成单项工作的速度可能更快,但机器人在维持一致的质量和产量方面表现卓越。根据 HD 现代三号的数据,一名工人一天最多能完成 30 个焊接单元,而机器人可以将这一数字提高到 50 个。该公司估计,这项技术可以帮助将船舶交付时间缩短数日。

全球最大的工业机器人制造商发那科(Fanuc)已经生产出首批两款专为造船商定制的焊接和喷漆机器。其目标是在拥有 75,000 名工人的日本造船业中部署与人数相当的机器人,以实现夜间作业。

发那科高级执行董事安倍健一郎(Kenichiro Abe)表示:“造船商现在认为自动化迫在眉睫,试验已经正式开始。”

在 HD 现代位于蔚山的船厂,机器人利用设计数据识别焊接位置,在船块之间移动并执行简单的焊接,而工人则通过计算机系统监督操作。竞争对手韩华海洋(Hanwha Ocean)表示,一名人类操作员最多可以管理 10 台执行标准化焊接工作的机器人。

一台 HD 现代重工的机器人正在进行焊接工作

专家们对于中国在自动化方面是否比造船业更成熟的韩日两国更领先持有分歧。

香港理工大学智能制造教授黄乔治(George Q Huang)估计,韩国和日本船厂在采用机器人方面可能领先五年,但中国在这一时间框架内“应该大致能够赶上”。

黄教授正在珠海的一家小型船厂开展引入机器人的项目,他表示,与韩国和日本一样,人口下降的中国在推广机器人方面也是由劳动力短缺驱动的。

“环境恶劣,[工作] 非常辛苦,所以年轻人不再喜欢进入这个行业。”

该行业的最终目标是打造几乎完全依赖机器人的“黑灯工厂”。HD现代(HD Hyundai)旨在利用人工智能、大数据和“数字孪生”——即能够实时更新以实现自动化制造流程安全测试的物理世界副本——在2030年之前实现部分生产线的全面自动化,并建立一座小型黑灯工厂。

韩华海洋(Hanwha Ocean)在过去两年中向智能船厂投资了1600亿韩元($120mn),并希望到2030年实现70%的生产自动化。该集团还计划将其美国业务引入自动化。

但首尔国立大学的Woo表示,在未来五年内很难将许多造船工艺完全自动化,“因为复杂的工作仍然需要人类双手的灵巧度”。

HD现代三湖(HD Hyundai Samho)的Ryu表示,机器人可以完成90%以上的简单焊接任务,但在处理更复杂的工作时较为吃力。

作为韩国三大造船商之一的三星重工(Samsung Heavy Industries)承认,自动化在技术上具有挑战性且成本高昂。

韩国进出口银行的研究员Yang Jong-seo表示,中国政府的支持意味着其产业能够更好地吸收风险。

他说:“由于当地工人日益避讳在相对较低的工资水平下从事艰苦且危险的工作,韩国和日本迫切需要机器人来更好地与中国竞争。但他们必须仔细权衡成本与收益,因为自动化需要巨额投资,而由政府支持的中国造船商则能够承担试错成本。”

印度摩托车大亨掌握塔塔权力之争的关键

Venu Srinivasan TVS集团 名誉主席

这场关于 2650亿美元 塔塔集团(Tata Group)控制权的争夺战,取决于一张关键选票——而这张票既不属于创始家族,也不属于其强大的领导层。

亿万富翁 Venu Srinivasan 作为塔塔信托(Tata Trusts)的两名代表之一,在塔塔之子(Tata Sons)的董事会中占有一席之地。塔塔信托是拥有这家庞大企业集团控股权的慈善机构。

他的立场至关重要,因为塔塔信托主席诺埃尔·塔塔(Noel Tata)与塔塔之子主席 N·钱德拉塞卡兰(N Chandrasekaran,简称 Chandra)正就集团的未来产生分歧。印度央行已命令该集团将其股票上市,以遵守有关影子银行的规定。诺埃尔·塔塔试图抵制这一命令,而 Chandra 则支持该计划。

Srinivasan 支持上市计划以及重新任命 Chandra 为集团主席以执行该计划。在这一场令印度企业界着迷并吸引了新德里关注的斗争中,他投下了关键的一票。

Srinivasan 所拥有的影响力揭示了塔塔集团复杂的治理结构,在这里,每一项重要决定都取决于所有权信托机构的支持。

实际上,这场现代印度最大规模的企业斗争之一——其潜在影响涵盖塔塔咨询服务公司(Tata Consultancy Services)、印度航空(Air India)和捷豹路虎(Jaguar Land Rover)等公司——正由该国一些最大的慈善机构塑造。

独立公司治理顾问 Sharmila Gopinath 表示,关键问题是:“这些信托机构实际上想要什么?”

“Srinivasan 是一个黑马,”Gopinath 说,“我们不知道他在想什么,也不知道他为什么这么做。”

慈善事业是塔塔集团精神的核心,该集团在全球范围内以涵盖航空、钢铁和服务等各领域而闻名。集团的大部分利润都被投入到慈善事业中,这曾是创始家族对公司愿景中不可或缺的一部分。

在 20 世纪初去世时,创始人贾姆谢特吉·塔塔(Jamsetji Tata)已将其一半的财富捐给了教育慈善机构。他的子女也参与了慈善活动,如今 14 个信托基金资助着所有项目

“Srinivasan 是一个黑马。我们不知道他在想什么,也不知道他为什么这么做”

从癌症医院到社区水净化厂。在 2024-25, 14 个信托基金为慈善事业发放了约 90 亿卢比($93mn)。

按照惯例,信托机构由创始家族成员监督。诺埃尔·塔塔担任塔塔信托主席,并持有塔塔之子 1 per cent 的股份。

一名了解其运作情况的人士表示:“只要获得大多数受托人的支持,任何人都可以管理信托。”受托人由一致投票任命,直到最近,其中许多人仍持有终身职位。

至关重要的是,在董事会斗争方面,塔塔信托被允许在任何时间占据塔塔之子董事会三分之一的席位。

由于董事会仅有六名成员,这意味着信托机构拥有两名提名人——诺埃尔和 Srinivasan。两人在首次公开募股(IPO)、Chandra 的重新任命或其他战略问题上无法达成一致。由于董事会中的信托提名人必须以多数票同意任何战略决定,这导致了僵局。

Srinivasan 今年 73, 岁,本身是一位成功的商人,他是市值超过 200亿美元 的摩托车制造商 TVS 集团的名誉主席,该集团还拥有诺顿摩托车(Norton Motorcycles)。

Srinivasan 并不持有塔塔之子的任何股份,但他明确表示支持 IPO。

他在 4 月份告诉印度《经济时报》(Economic Times):“公开上市不仅将为少数股东释放价值——包括为 Shapoorji Pallonji 集团提供退出路径——还将为塔塔之子提供维持其增长轨迹的资本。”

他在新德里的关系进一步增强了他的影响力。他在家乡泰米尔纳德邦经营慈善信托基金,并且是该地区寺庙修复工作的大额捐赠者。

这使他与国民志愿服务团(Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh)建立了密切联系,该组织是印度民族主义志愿者运动,也是总理纳伦德拉·莫迪所属政党的意识形态支柱。

莫迪政府曾因其对贸易和工业的贡献,在2020.年授予他印度第三高平民荣誉——莲花奖(Padma Bhushan)。鉴于塔塔集团对印度的重要性,新德里的观点对于任何关于IPO的最终决定都至关重要。

关键人物:在印度市值$265bn的塔塔集团(Tata Group)激烈的IPO之争中,韦努·斯里尼瓦桑(Venu Srinivasan,图中居中)的立场至关重要。下方为塔塔汽车的Harrier EV车型——诺顿摩托车:Indrail Mulherjee / AFP via Getty Images

诺埃尔的同父异母兄弟、塔塔集团前领导人拉坦·塔塔在2016,年将斯里尼瓦桑引入塔塔之子(Tata Sons)的董事会,将其增补为受托人,随后任命他为塔塔信托(Tata Trusts)的副主席。

一名接近斯里尼瓦桑的人士表示,拉坦在两次选择主席时都忽略了诺埃尔,“并不太看好诺埃尔”,而这种看法“在一定程度上产生了影响”。在拉坦于2024,年去世后,斯里尼瓦桑成为了诺埃尔不情愿的支持者。他还阻止了诺埃尔的儿子内维尔(Neville)成为其中一个最大信托基金的受托人。

两名熟悉议程的人士表示,诺埃尔曾在4月的一次信托会议上试图将斯里尼瓦桑从塔塔之子的董事会中除名,此举本将使诺埃尔获得“绝对控制权”。

但斯里尼瓦桑进行了反击,向信托监管机构投诉其中一个最大信托基金的管理问题。随后,监管机构禁止持有塔塔之子23.56%股份的Sir Ratan Tata Trust(SRTT)举行任何会议。如果没有SRTT的出席,塔塔之子无法召开股东大会。

他针对SRTT的投诉使该信托陷入了内部人士所称的“昏迷”状态。超过$3mn的款项正等待批准拨付。最近几周,斯里尼瓦桑又对第二个主要信托基金提起投诉,对诺埃尔作为主席的地位以及更广泛的治理问题提出了质疑。

斯里尼瓦桑拒绝了多次采访请求。

一名接近部分受托人的人士表示:“诺埃尔能否获胜并让信托基金走出昏迷状态?”

“如果他做到了,并召开股东大会,将会发生两件事:斯里尼瓦桑将被除名,而钱德拉(Chandra)的董事任期将不会获得续任。”

“但在他能将斯里尼瓦桑赶走之前,什么都不会发生。”克里什·考希克(Krish Kaushik)和克里斯·凯(Chris Kay)发自孟买;迈克尔·斯托特(Michael Stott)在新德里提供追加报道。

科技

中国智能相机竞争对手在 GoPro 衰落后争夺主导地位

威廉·兰利(WILLIAM LANGLEY)——深圳

运动相机先驱 GoPro 上个月被买家救起,其衰落使得两家中国竞争对手迅速主导了市场,与此同时,中国的消费技术品牌正将其竞争推向全球。

根据咨询公司 IDC 的数据,总部均位于中国南部技术中心深圳的 DJI(大疆)和 Insta360 目前占据了全球手持智能相机销售额的 90% 以上——该类别包括运动相机、全景设备和云台相机。

根据咨询公司 Frost & Sullivan 的数据,在取代了直到 2023, 年仍是营收最高销售商的 GoPro 之后,这两家公司目前正陷入一场激烈的竞争,旨在成为全球顶尖的智能相机制造商。

它们的主导地位表明,中国消费电子产品制造商正日益将其技术——以及内部的残酷竞争——带到美国和欧洲等市场。

咨询公司 iMpact 的创始人克里斯·佩雷拉(Chris Pereira)表示,DJI 和 Insta360 正在输出深圳的“内战”,指的是该市初创公司之间激烈的竞争。

“类似的情况也发生在扫地机器人身上,”佩雷拉说道,他指出中国公司是如何接管由 Roomba 制造商 iRobot 创建的市场,而 iRobot 已于去年申请破产。“深圳当地市场的激烈竞争……正在产生极其高效的……公司,而这些公司现在正走向海外。”

DJI 和 Insta360 的表现与 GoPro 形成鲜明对比。GoPro 在 21 世纪初首次将运动相机商业化,曾被视为美国技术的冠军。随着中国竞争对手创新速度更快,其销售额大幅下降。到今年第二季度,GoPro 仅占据 3% 的市场份额。

在多年与债务作斗争(上个月债务总额为 $92mn)之后,它同意被一家美国光学硬件集团以 $285mn 收购,这远低于其在 2014 年接近 120亿美元 的峰值估值。

“近年来,GoPro 的产品迭代缓慢,”IDC 研究经理 Jacky Xue 表示。“与此同时,Insta360 和 DJI 等中国供应商抓住了市场机会。他们都希望寻找新的增长点。”

为了寻求这种增长,这两家公——

大局观:总部位于深圳的 Insta360 表示,希望成为美国顶尖的智能相机品牌

司正日益侵占彼此的领地。

主导全球无人机市场的 DJI 积极扩大其产品线,去年推出了一款名为 Osmo 360 的全景相机。

与此同时,其全景相机在极限运动爱好者和 vlog 博主中广受欢迎的 Insta360 则推出了一个无人机品牌。

到今年第二季度,DJI 占据了全球智能相机市场 73% 的份额,而 Insta360 占据了 20%,尽管后者在全景相机等细分领域占据主导地位。

这两家公司在美国互起诉对方,指控一系列相机相关产品侵犯专利。

DJI 表示,公司正在投资研究相机、配件和编辑软件。上个月在纽约开设首家美国旗舰店的 Insta360 告诉《金融时报》,希望成为该国顶尖的智能相机品牌。

商业

本周回顾

塔可谈话

  • 领先的咖啡店连锁品牌星巴克(Starbucks)探讨了收购 Chipotle Mexican Grill 的方案。这家卷饼连锁店的估值为 410亿美元,该交易将使美国两个最知名品牌合并,并将成为餐饮业历史上规模最大的合并案。

  • 根据与投资者分享的财务文件,OpenAI 的年化收入比该公司此前暗示的低约 200亿美元,这一巨大差距可能会削弱人们对 AI 需求增长的乐观情绪。

  • 大卫·埃利森(David Ellison)终于敲定了 1110亿美元 的交易,将 Paramount Skydance 与华纳兄弟探索(Warner Bros Discovery)合并为好莱坞巨头。

  • 捷豹(Jaguar)正凭借一款以大胆设计而“脱颖而出”的车型进入豪华电动汽车市场。与此同时,这个经过品牌重塑的标志警告称,如果电动汽车看起来都相似,它们将变成一种“大宗商品”。

三星电子(Samsung Electronics)预计,在 AI 公司对内存芯片需求的推动下,其第三季度营业利润激增近九倍,达到 107.4 万亿韩元(802亿美元)。

  • 高盛(Goldman Sachs)最高级别的管理人员有望从一项五年激励计划中获得超过 $500mn 的特别奖金,这将是这家华尔街银行历史上最大规模的派息之一。

谷歌正与工具开发商 Unity 合作推出一个平台,允许用户通过简单的文本提示创建视频游戏

全球营收最高的律师事务所 Kirkland & Ellis 将停止向该行业旗舰级的利润和营收排名机构提供其财务数据。

  • 香港的实际中央银行就汇丰银行(HSBC)为何将其新的 AI 中心设在新加坡而非中国领土一事向其提出质询。

  • 沙特阿美(Saudi Aramco)首席执行官阿明·纳赛尔(Amin Nasser)警告称,全球石油库存目前“薄得惊人”,且重建被伊朗战争耗尽的库存可能需要长达两年的时间。

  • 科技巨头谷歌正与游戏工具开发商 Unity 合作推出一个平台,允许用户通过简单的文本提示创建视频游戏。

  • 塞恩斯伯里(Sainsbury's)今年与由私募股权持有的竞争对手莫里森斯(Morrisons)就英国竞争激烈的超市行业中一项潜在的数十亿英镑交易进行了谈判。

13 万英镑 捷豹新款设计大胆的豪华电动汽车价格 800亿美元 内存芯片需求激增背景下三星电子的利润

  • BT 在进入拍卖环节的最后阶段几天后,通过预包装行政接管(pre-pack administration)收购了负债累累的英国宽带供应商 TalkTalk。

汇丰银行(HSBC)计划对其英国财富管理业务进行大规模裁员,作为利用 AI 服务客户举措的一部分,包括将其财务顾问人数削减近 70%。

  • 汇款应用 Wise 正试图与英国税务海关总署(HMRC)协商达成和解,此前软件故障导致 4,000 名英国用户在四年期间缴纳了错误的税款。

  • 高盛财富管理部门的客户以及在英国上市的对冲基金 Man Group 的客户,均在四大 accounting 事务所之一安永(EY)的一次重大数据泄露事件中成为受害者。

对冲基金的杠杆使用率攀升 总资产价值除以净资产价值

自 2020 年以来对冲基金借款激增

公司与市场

对冲基金万亿美元借贷热潮助推华尔街利润激增

大行交易业务正处于繁荣期,但危机后的监管规则意味着下注的主体已不再是银行

COSTAS MOURSELAS 和 ORTENCA ALIAJ —— 伦敦 JOSHUA FRANKLIN —— 纽约

今年2月,高盛邀请顶尖对冲基金高管前往伦敦郊外一个占地500英亩的度假村。这家华尔街银行传达了一个明确的信息:你们不再是我们的竞争对手,而是我们最珍视的客户之一。

这次会议强调了华尔街一个已成定局的现实:美国银行正创造创纪录的交易利润,但进行交易的却不再是银行本身。

诸如 Jane Street 和 Citadel 等公司已强势扩张至银行的传统领地,主导了做市这一核心业务,并对市场走势进行大规模押注。然而,为了增强这些交易的杠杆,它们对融资的渴求极其旺盛,这使其成为了贷款机构无法拒绝的客户,并成为了利润增长的强大引擎。

巴克莱银行全球流动性融资主管迈克尔·韦伯(Mike Webb)表示,在做市方面,“银行正难以竞争”,但“融资是银行擅长的事情,且在这方面拥有巨大的护城河”。

这条护城河建立在贷款机构向交易巨头提供的信用额度之上,其规模高达数万亿美元。自2020年以来,对冲基金向银行的借款额增长了两倍,而融资带来的收入已使主经纪业务

[主经纪商业务]一直在不断增长。它是否已经变得规模过大?

成为了华尔街增长最快的业务之一。

根据行业数据提供商 Coalition Greenwich 的分析,股票和固定收益主经纪业务(银行向对冲基金贷款的两种主要方式)的收入预计今年将达到 479亿美元。

然而,随着银行全力投入交易热潮,它们已将其命运与最大的客户紧紧绑定在一起——这些客户包括 Citadel、Millennium Management 和 Point72 等巨型多策略对冲基金,以及 Jane Street 和 Hudson River Trading 等自营交易公司。

风险敞口的巨大规模引起了监管机构的警觉。英国央行在 7 月表示,主经纪业务余额在过去一年中增长了约 40 per cent。一名监管人员表示:“它一直在不断增长。”它是否已经变得规模过大?“当你看到一张持续上升的图表时,你自然会问自己这个问题。”

主经纪业务长期以来被视为银行业中一个枯燥且低调的部分,其功能类似于后台支持。2008 年金融危机及随后的监管改革改变了这一局面,改革限制了银行利用自身资产负债表承担风险的能力。

过去在银行自营交易台进行的许多投机交易迁移到了对冲基金行业,而风险较低的做市活动则成为了高频交易公司以及随后的专业做市商的领域。

危机后监管的结果是——

顶部:主经纪业务是华尔街增长最快的业务之一。右图:比尔·黄(Bill Hwang) Spencer Platt / Gelty Images

主经纪业务 最大的 崩盘事件

主经纪业务已成为一项利润丰厚的业务,但同时也充满了风险。

当客户的损失如此之大,以至于耗尽了银行要求的现金缓冲(即“保证金”)时,主经纪商就会亏损。如果客户在遭受损失后未能满足追加保证金通知(margin call),主经纪商将接管底层头寸并进行强制平仓,以抵消风险。

最著名的崩盘事件可能是 1998, 长期资本管理公司(Long-Term Capital Management)的崩溃,这是一家由前所罗门兄弟债券交易员约翰·梅里韦瑟(John Meriwether)创立的对冲基金。

LTCM 协商的条款意味着,在启动某些交易时,它向其主经纪商贝尔斯登(Bear Stearns)支付的初始保证金为零。

1997 年,该公司的资本基数不足 50亿美元,但其表外衍生品名义风险敞口却高达 $1.3tn——在美联储干预后,次年获得了商业银行 36亿美元 的救助。

最近的一次事件是 2021 年比尔·黄(Bill Hwang)的家族办公室 Archegos Capital 的违约。

Archegos 与其主经纪商签署了高杠杆的衍生品协议,押注包括 ViacomCBS 和百度在内的公司。

他的公司利用其作为客户的吸引力,与每家银行协商高杠杆,同时拒绝披露其在所有主经纪商处持有类似头寸的规模详情。作为 Archegos 的主经纪商之一,瑞士信贷遭受了 55亿美元 的损失,这导致市场对该贷款机构失去信心,最终导致其被竞争对手瑞银(UBS)收购。

今年,当专注于 AI 的对冲基金 Situational Awareness 在行情反转后陷入困境时,主经纪商们勉强避免了另一场灾难。银行曾向该基金 24 岁的创始人出借数十亿加元,并面临这些交易残酷平仓的风险——直到 Citadel 出面收购其公开股票组合,才化解了尴尬。

结果出人意料。虽然政策制定者成功地将大部分风险承担行为移出了银行体系,但华尔街的贷款机构逐渐变得比以前更加依赖与此类交易活动相关的收入。

为对冲基金和交易公司提供服务的核心吸引力在于经常性收入。投资银行家可能需要花费数年时间去争取像埃隆·马斯克这样的高管,以确保获得一次性的首次公开募股(IPO)咨询费用。但三位顶级投行的高管表示,担任 Citadel、Millennium 或 Jane Street 的主经纪商(prime broker)则能提供稳定的收入流,在扣除交易成本后,每年可产生高达 2 亿加元的收入。

金融稳定委员会(Financial Stability Board)副秘书长马丁·莫洛尼(Martin Moloney)表示:“如果有人认为只要确保银行拥有充足的资本,就能让问题消失……那将是一种天真的看法。”

根据 Coalition Greenwich 的数据,主经纪服务收入已从 2005 年占银行股票业务收入的 10% 跃升至今年的约 38%——且这些数字还不包括银行提供的庞大衍生品服务。

他补充道:“人们越来越意识到,当非银行机构建仓时,实际上是在利用银行的协助来完成。”

对冲基金高管表示,高盛和摩根士丹利是该业务的最大参与者,摩根大通排名第三。但随着主经纪业务收入的爆发式增长,他们面临着来自华尔街竞争对手花旗集团和美国银行,以及包括法国巴黎银行、巴克莱银行和荷兰银行(ABN Amro)在内的欧洲挑战者的更激烈竞争。

除了对冲基金行业的单纯扩张之外,增长的最大驱动力之一是少数巨型对冲基金和交易公司的崛起。高盛的数据显示,尽管大型多策略管理公司(multi-managers)管理的资产不足行业总额的十分之一,但去年它们贡献了该行业超过三分之一的交易活动。

由于这些管理公司是成熟的玩家,在各种资产类别中拥有数百人的交易团队,因此它们具备内在的多元化能力和风险管理水平,这使得银行能够证明提高贷款额度的合理性。

巴克莱银行的韦伯(Webb)表示:“机构级的对冲基金或资产管理公司是一个成熟的组织,拥有直接向创始人汇报的流动性管理职能。”

客户数量更少且规模更大也更易于管理。韦伯补充道:“更深入地了解一小组客户会更容易一些。”

规模对银行同样有帮助。交易流量越大,就越容易将一个客户的多头头寸与另一个客户的空头头寸进行匹配——这种关键的平衡行为被称为“内部化”(internalisation)。

这意味着银行可以为交易的双边提供融资,而无需在公开市场借款或寻找股票,从而消除了该业务中成本最高的部分之一,并提升了利润率。

但据熟悉行业惯例的人士透露,行业顶端少数客户规模的增长也改变了权力平衡,客户正在争取更有利的贷款条款。

锁定条款(Lock-up terms),即主经纪商在撤回信用额度前承诺提供融资的时长,已逐渐延长。承诺。

“竞争压力可能会削弱风险控制,对此必须极其谨慎”

原本通常持续两周的锁定条款已延长至 30 天,随后延长至三个月,而近期对于行业内一些最受追捧的客户,这一期限甚至延长到了半年。

这意味着,银行在未提供日益漫长的通知期之前,不能削减融资或要求高于合同开始时约定保证金的额度。

一些监管机构认为,激烈的竞争正在稳步削弱在出现问题时所采取的保障措施,尤其是因为银行对其客户更广泛的活动和真实风险状况的透明度往往有限。

大型交易公司和对冲基金通常对其与竞争对手(其他主经纪商)的关系披露极少,他们称这是为了保护其知识产权并防止泄密。

据一位大行资深人士称,大型交易对手通常会提供其在多家主经纪商业务中的总杠杆数值,但银行并不清楚这些杠杆是如何分布的,也不清楚其头寸的集中程度。

主经纪商坚称,近年来标准已经收紧,对杠杆的审查更加严格,风险控制也更加稳健。

但一些监管机构在银行是否已从之前的崩盘事件中充分吸取关于流动性的更广泛教训这一点上持有异议。

金融稳定委员会(Financial Stability Board)的莫洛尼(Moloney)表示:“我承认,许多主要参与者会说我们拥有非常稳健的抵押品和风险管理系统,只要这种情况能维持下去,那就是好事。”

“但竞争压力可能会削弱这些风险控制,对此必须极其谨慎,因为其影响可能是跨境的,并且可能引发整个金融体系更广泛的问题。” Martin Arnold 参与报道

金融服务。监管

美国证券交易委员会(SEC)警告资产管理公司不得在激进主义活动中协作

贝莱德、先锋领航和道富在罢免埃克森董事会成员中的角色受调查

哈丽特·克拉费尔特 (HARRIET CLARFELT)、布鲁克·马斯特斯 (BROOKE MASTERS) 和 苏吉特·因达普 (SUJEET INDAP) —— 纽约

在美国证券监管机构调查贝莱德 (BlackRock)、先锋领航 (Vanguard) 和道富 (State Street) 在 2021 年罢免埃克森美孚 (ExxonMobil) 董事会成员中所扮演的角色后,该机构已采取行动,防止资产管理公司通过协作来影响公司政策。

美国证券交易委员会 (SEC) 虽然没有采取强制执行措施,但表示对参与“气候行动 100+”联盟 (CA100+) 的部分基金管理人的“行为深感担忧”。

该委员会表示,资产管理公司在未来应警惕类似的协作行为,否则可能面临适用于激进投资者的更严格规则。

此举是特朗普政府和 SEC 主席保罗·阿特金斯 (Paul Atkins) 为削弱股东对上市公司的影响力而采取的最新行动,其中包括削弱代理顾问以及贝莱德和先锋领航等大型被动管理公司的影响力。

阿特金斯还试图放宽公司的报告要求,包括将财务业绩的报告频率从季度改为半年度。上个月,SEC 提议取消其对股东提案的监督,将监督投资者向董事会提交建议的权力移交给各州。

自从这三大基金管理公司在一次埃克森股东大会上投票支持激进对冲基金 Engine No. 1 替换三个董事会席位以来,共和党和商业团体就一直将他们视为目标。在受到共和党控制的州政府调查或抵制(这些州政府反对在投资中使用环境、社会和治理因素)后,这三家公司均已退出或削减了在气候组织中的参与度。

在唐纳德·特朗普赢得总统选举并更换领导层后,SEC 于去年启动了此次调查。其目的是确定包括贝莱德和道富投资管理部门(两者均为 CA100+ 成员)以及先锋领航在内的资产管理公司是否在组建“团体”并协调其投票。

与协作接管或影响公司的激进投资者相比,被动投资者受到的监管要宽松得多。特别是,他们使用简版 13G 表格报告持仓,而非更为繁琐的 13D 表格。

2025 年,SEC 试图推动在 ESG 事项上与公司接触的资产管理公司提交 13D 表格,这最初促使一些基金缩减

“在我们看来,[埃克森案]中的相关参与者几乎不再处于被动状态”

与公司的闭门会议。上个月,美国证券交易委员会(SEC)明确表示,与公司的常规接触不会触发 2025 年的指导方针。

在埃克森案中,一名 SEC 官员表示:“在我们看来,相关参与者几乎不再处于被动状态——而不再是符合通过 13G 表格报告其持股资格的状态。”

埃克森拒绝置评。

该官员补充说,SEC 选择不再花费更多时间进行调查,而是在 2027 年代理人会议季准备工作开始前发布了该报告,届时许多大型上市公司将举行年度会议并进行股东投票。他将本周发布的这份“概括了我们一年研究结果”的报告描述为“面向市场的指导性指南”。

贝莱德(BlackRock)和道富(State Street)拒绝置评。先锋领航(Vanguard)未回应置评请求。

协助管理 CA100+ 的 Ceres 机构总法律顾问迈克尔·布德特(Michael Boudett)表示,该机构“一直在美国证券法框架内运行。它支持投资者评估并应对气候变化给其投资公司带来的财务风险。每位参与‘气候行动 100+’(Climate Action 100+)的投资者需自行做出决定,包括如何行使投票权。”

埃克森和其他公司声称,持有极少量股份的社会活动人士劫持了提案流程,以追求与股东价值几乎无关的议程。

“讽刺的是,这家 SEC 一方面以公司治理应交给各州处理为由,提议撤销股东提案规则;另一方面却在联邦层面动用官僚主义的繁文缛节,”科罗拉多大学法学教授安·利普顿(Ann Lipton)表示。

利普顿说:“将活动人士规则应用于[资产管理公司]的行为,并不能向公众提供任何额外信息;它仅仅是利用文书工作的威胁来抑制股东的参与。”

公司与市场

体育。监管审查

曼城丑闻让 BDO 及审计制度成为关注焦点

该俱乐部与会计师事务所长达 19 年的合作关系,引发了人们对整个行业监管的质疑

ELLESHEVA KISSIN 和 JOSH NOBLE 伦敦

在去年伦敦举行的一场奢华活动上,BDO 的员工与众多审计师一起观看了一部培训电影,讲述了一群勇敢的会计师如何揭露一家虚构足球俱乐部内部错综复杂的欺诈交易网。

而现在,BDO 因其为一家真实俱乐部提供的工作而面临严厉审查。英超联赛上周透露,一个独立委员会发现,曼彻斯特城在成为英格兰足球主导力量的九年间,人为地将其财务状况夸大了 £900mn 以上。

曼城否认这些调查结果,并已提起上诉。

独立委员会的报告称,该俱乐部不仅利用“虚假”的商业交易来夸大收入,还“提交了错误陈述的账目,并向其审计师和足球监管机构隐瞒了真实的财务状况”。

这些审计师正是 BDO。它是英国第五大会计师事务所,自称是足球领域的“市场领导者”,并表示其在交易、审计和税务咨询方面与英超及英冠俱乐部的合作数量超过任何竞争对手。

一名四大审计资深人士表示,BDO 将在多个战线上迎接“战场”,且需要“做好最坏的打算”,并称该公司需要控制“品牌损害”。

“这可是相当劲爆的料……而且一旦事情涉及到政治,一切都成了攻击的目标,”该人士补充道,指的是监管机构可能会感受到采取行动的压力。

尽管委员会发现曼城向 BDO 隐瞒了真实财务状况,但监管机构现在将考虑该公司在审查其所见交易时是否尽职,以及是否行使了其应有的专业怀疑态度。

但这场丑闻也暴露了一个关于英国审计制度的更广泛问题。即使是像曼城这样规模和知名度的足球俱乐部,也不被归类为“公众利益实体”(public interest entities)。如果拥有这一认定,其审计将受到与上市公司、银行和保险公司相同的更严格监管。

据一名熟悉其监管部门的人士透露,英格兰及威尔士特许会计师协会负责监管大多数足球俱乐部的审计,在行业内对“创意会计”的担忧促使其从 2023 年起对几家俱乐部的审计进行调查,随后该协会制作了上述电影。

两名来自竞争对手事务所的高级审计师表示,委员会认定曼城向 BDO 隐瞒了真实财务状况,这使得监管机构对该公司为该俱乐部开展的工作进行调查的可能性降低。

财务报告理事会(Financial Reporting Council)有权对作为审计方的 BDO 进行调查。只要编制曼城财务报表的会计师是认可的专业机构成员(曼城的多名高级财务主管即是),该理事会也可以对其进行审查。据熟悉其立场的人士称,该理事会尚未对两者启动调查,目前正在审查其管辖范围。

BDO 以审计行业的法律和专业保密要求为由,拒绝发表评论。

在该期间生效的标准要求审计师获得“合理保证”,确保财务报表

“这可是相当劲爆的料,而且一旦事情涉及到政治,一切都成了攻击的目标”

没有因欺诈而产生重大错报。标准承认,复杂的欺骗审计师的方案可能会未被察觉,特别是如果向审计师提供了“蓄意误导”的信息。

在系列审计失败引发改革压力后,2021 年引入的强化标准规定,被欺骗的可能性“并不减轻审计师”执行可靠审计的责任。因此,任何监管审查都需要评估 BDO 是否充分独立地测试了曼城的交易,以及是否行使了足够的专业怀疑态度。

商业与贸易遴选委员会主席利亚姆·拜恩(Liam Byrne)已敦促财务报告理事会(FRC)对该事件展开调查。他将此案与英国最大的审计丑闻之一——Carillion公司的倒闭相类比,并质疑道:“既有的审计和监管审查体系,怎么可能在九年时间里未能发现如此规模的涉嫌虚报行为?”

足球界高层则质疑,为什么发现曼城账目问题的事情被留给了英超联赛(PL)来处理。“英超联赛在审计师、律师和英国税务海关总署(HMRC)面前扮演的是次要角色,”一名足球高管表示,“我们必须假设这些人是在履行职责。”

BDO还审计了阿斯顿维拉、伯恩利、女王公园巡游者、南安普顿、凯尔特人、布伦特福德和卡迪夫城,这些俱乐部在截至2025年的财政年度中合计支付了42.8 万英镑的费用。此外,这些俱乐部还为税务咨询等额外工作支付了数十万英镑。

相对于BDO的总审计收入,这些金额虽然较小,但此类工作有助于该公司提升在体育领域的知名度,并有可能带来更丰厚的委任,例如交易咨询。

从2014年起,BDO每年为城市足球集团(City Football Group)提供的审计和税务工作获得约20 万英镑的报酬,而仅曼城俱乐部在涉事的九年间就支付了83 万英镑。

到目前为止,BDO仍将曼城作为客户。该俱乐部的最新账目预计将于今年冬季公布,但如果BDO认为需要审查前几年账目的稳健性,公布时间可能会推迟。

BDO的整体审计质量一直受到持续审查,FRC已连续六年对其工作提出严厉批评。

BDO在毕马威(KPMG)于2007年辞任后赢得了曼城的审计合同。在涉事期间,第一位签署曼城账目的BDO合伙人是足球专家朱利安·赖(Julien Rye),他从2014年起在公司由12人组成的合伙人委员会(该公司的最高管理机构)中任职十年。赖于2023年从BDO合伙人退休,但根据其LinkedIn个人资料,他仍以合同工身份在公司担任“业务质量审查员”。

斯图尔特·伍德(Stuart Wood)在成为审计合伙人仅几个月后的2017年接手了曼城的审计工作,并直到2024年仍在签署该俱乐部的账目。他目前是BDO英格兰西北地区的审计主管。

就在英超联赛披露委员会调查结果的几个月前,伍德还参与编写了一份由BDO出具的关于英国足球财务脆弱性的报告。

该报告强调,俱乐部与与其所有者相关方之间的交易是需要特别审查的领域。

BDO将曼城列为多俱乐部所有权趋势的一个例子——其由阿布扎比控制的所有者城市足球集团在几个大洲拥有或持有俱乐部的股份——并表示此类“关联方交易”需要“仔细考虑”,且通常需要独立审查。

报告称,随着足球运动转向更严格的“所有权审查、财务

手感火热:曼城前锋埃尔林·哈兰德上赛季在对阵布伦特福德的比赛中进球,助力球队再次夺得英超冠军。该俱乐部自2007年起由BDO审计,见下方 Daiman Staples / Alamy StockPhoto

风险管理[及]治理报告”的标准,俱乐部必须证明其财务韧性和治理稳健性,“不仅在原则上,而且要通过可审计的证据”来证明。

然而,曼城审计的监管框架并不像适用于被指定为公共利益实体(PIE)的集团那样繁重。由于曼城不是公共利益实体,其审计安排既不受限于也不符合更严格的FRC规则,这些规则要求至少每10年进行一次审计招标,每五年轮换一次关键审计合伙人,并限制非审计费用。

关于公共利益实体(PIE)的界限划定长期以来一直困扰着英国的审计行业。对于哪些公司应纳入更严格的监管体制的分歧,是导致政府今年长期承诺的审计改革计划受挫的原因之一。

据知情人士透露,四大会计师事务所(德勤、安永、KPMG和普华永道)中的几家正准备敦促政府重新审视

企业报告改革法案。

他们计划主张,City出现的问题进一步证明了将更多大型私营公司纳入PIE监管体制的必要性。

然而,其中一名知情人士指出,这对这些事务所来说是一个在商业上较为有利的立场,因为PIE审计所需的额外工作可以让它们收取更高的费用。

City的非PIE身份意味着监督其审计质量的责任不在于英国财务报告理事会(FRC),而在于英格兰及威尔士特许会计师协会(ICAEW)——即去年制作该培训视频的机构。ICAEW表示,其影片起用了《东区》和《权力的游戏》的演员,故事情节取材于“我们在监督和执法工作中看到的案例,其中一些审计师仍然在犯错”。

据一名熟悉监管机构立场的人士透露,FRC目前正在评估是否应接手ICAEW处理的此案。

根据《中华人民共和国企业年金计划管理办法》(以下简称《企业年金计划》)和《中华人民共和国企业年金计划管理办法》(以下简称《企业年金计划》),公司于2017年3月25日召开的2017年度股东大会审议通过了《关于使用部分闲置募集资金暂时补充流动资金的议案》,同意公司使用不超过人民币4,000万元的闲置募集资金暂时补充流动资金,使用期限自董事会审议通过之日起不超过三年。

财务状况

前德意志银行交易员定罪被推翻

艾利斯泰尔·格雷 (ALISTAIR GRAY) —— 伦敦

前德意志银行明星交易员克里斯蒂安·比特尔 (Christian Bittar) 因操纵关键利率基准而被定罪,尽管他此前已认罪,但该定罪现已被推翻。这使得针对伦敦金融城交易员涉嫌操纵利率的刑事追诉面临近乎全面的崩溃。

上诉法院此次罕见地撤销了一项刑事认罪判决,这是严重欺诈办公室 (SFO) 遭遇的最新挫折,此前 SFO 一直坚持比特尔的定罪应当维持。

本周,五名前巴克莱银行交易员的操纵利率定罪也被撤销。不过,虽然检察官在巴克莱案件中未作抵抗便予以让步,但 SFO 因比特尔曾认罪而为其划定了底线。

这标志着对那些被指控操纵利率基准的交易员的起诉出现了严重的瓦解。在金融危机之后,利率基准操纵成为了公众对银行愤怒的导火索。

比特尔曾被一名法官描述为该领域“可能是世界上最优秀的人”,他在 2000 年代中期在伦敦为德意志银行工作期间赚取了数千万英镑。

这位衍生品专家在 2018 年于南华克刑事法院 (Southwark Crown Court) 承认共谋操纵欧元银行间同业拆借利率 (Euribor) 后,被判入狱近两年。

在昨天的听证会上,代表比特尔的御用大律师 (KC) 艾德里安·达比希尔 (Adrian Darbishire) 表示,维持其定罪将是“极其不公正的”。达比希尔称,比特尔之所以认罪,是因为当时的法院裁决让他没有可行的辩护手段。

像 Euribor 这样的基准利率支撑着数万亿美元的金融合约,且每天由大型银行提交的数据决定。

在操纵利率案件中,法官曾告知陪审团,根据法律,任何受商业私利影响的提交数据自动被视为虚假。最高法院去年在推翻另外两名交易员汤姆·海耶斯 (Tom Hayes) 和卡洛·帕隆博 (Carlo Palombo) 的定罪时,认定这些指示是错误的。

达比希尔强调,虽然比特尔认罪,但该交易员并未承认提交的利率在事实上是虚假或不诚实的。

代表 SFO 的御用大律师詹姆斯·沃丁顿 (James Waddington) 敦促由三名高级法官组成的合议庭不要推翻比特尔的定罪。他认为认罪就是“有罪的证明,而比特尔向其律师申诉清白这一点并不重要”。沃丁顿告诉法院:“针对比特尔的证据是压倒性的。”

埃迪斯大法官 (Lord Justice Edis)、古斯法官 (Mr Justice Goose) 和穆迪法官 (Mr Justice Moody) 表示,比特尔的定罪应当被撤销,具体理由将于稍后提供。

“为了这一天,我等待了非常、非常久的时间,”比特尔昨天说道。“终于,我和其他人所遭受的不公正得到了认可。我非常感谢那些在这次磨难中支持我的人,以及那些为了纠正这一错误而孜孜不倦工作的人。”

他的律师、来自 Hickman & Rose 律所的本·罗斯 (Ben Rose) 补充道:“SFO 一直未能履行其确保审判公正的职责,这简直是一桩丑闻。在它承认错误之前,很难想象它能从这场闹剧中吸取必要的教训。”

SFO 欺诈与腐败部门负责人杰森·威廉姆斯 (Jason Williams) 表示:“我们主张不同的结果,但尊重法院的决定。”

金融服务。A7 网络

克里姆林宫支持的洗钱者利用伦敦金融科技公司进行支付

Wooshpay 在英国注册,但在中国被列为由一名中国国民控制

克里斯·库克 (CHRIS COOK)

一家英国金融科技公司被 A7(一个由克里姆林宫支持的洗钱网络)列为支付工具,而该公司同时持有英国金融行为监管局(FCA)的注册许可。

《金融时报》看到的一份来自大规模泄密文件的文档显示,A7 试图为其与 Wooshpay 的关系编造掩护故事,通过伪造发票暗示该公司在向其供应“羊绒缝纫面料”。

上周,美国财政部将 A7 指定为“跨国犯罪组织”。就在此前不久,《金融时报》披露该网络利用数百家壳公司和大规模的文件伪造行动,通过传统银行转移了 69亿美元。该网络的核心目的是在俄罗斯全面入侵乌克兰并遭到金融制裁后,允许俄罗斯进口商在海外进行支付。

泄密文件中的进一步资料显示,A7 将 列在可用作支付的实体名单中, 持有作为小型支付机构的 FCA 授权。

在英国监管机构注册要求该公司(注册名称为 Swooshtransfer)不仅要识别并核实客户及其受益所有人,还要了解业务关系的目的并监控交易。

A7 为员工准备的一份内部笔记将 描述为持有“广泛许可”。该公司被列为人民币和美元两种货币下,可能的“通往中国大陆和香港的支付路径”。

的官方网站将其宣传为“提供一系列支付产品和订阅计费工具,帮助 AI 公司快速启动并规模化其业务”。

虽然 A7 使用的许多壳公司由该网络控制,但 A7 的笔记将 称为“租赁”的资金库,这意味着它是一家独立企业,在从事其他业务的同时为该网络提供服务。

A7 的文件注明了可通过 进行支付的条件。文中称:“每日支付限额不超过 50 thousand USD。达成支付协议需要提供海关申报单(不得含俄语)。”《金融时报》在该路径上发现的一笔支付——金额为 189,000 Rmb ($26,000) ——被 A7 记录了一个参考号,该号码表明 正在为该网络进行后续支付,而不仅仅是接收方。

落网:A7 已被美国财政部指定为“跨国犯罪组织” Aleksandr Zholatow/ Roscongress

虽然 在英国注册,但其被列为最终由一名居住在中国的中国国民控制,而另一名董事在公司注册处(Companies House)被列为英国居民。

这两个人均未回应置评请求,也未接听其 FCA 登记信息中提供的电话。

A7 的支付记录显示,资金被发送至浙江稠州商业银行的一个账户。尽管该银行规模较小,但 A7 向其进行了大量支付。

根据银行支付交易对手情报公司 BankCheck 的数据,浙江稠州商业银行按资产负债表计算是中国第 98 大银行。然而,在 A7 的缓存数据中,它是交易量第四大的中国银行。在 2024 年底至 2025 年 8 月期间,其客户从 A7 接收了约 $170mn 的款项。

泄密文件中提到的 268 个实体在该银行开有账户。其中 120 个是非居民账户,表明它们与 一样,并非本地公司。

是泄密文件中四个在英国注册且拥有浙江稠州银行账户的实体之一。其中另一个实体 Albi International 也被向客户推荐为潜在的支付前台。

该公司注册于伦敦市中心的一家信箱租赁服务公司,报告称其在 2024-25 年的营业额超过 £100mn —— 而税单金额为 27.4 万英镑。

英国金融行为监管局(FCA)拒绝置评。浙江稠州商业银行、Wooshpay、Albi 和 A7 未回应置评请求。

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加密货币。监管

新加坡与“危险产品”保持距离

厌恶风险与丑闻的城市国家不鼓励使用 Hyperliquid 热门的“永续合约”

欧文·沃克 (OWEN WALKER) —— 新加坡

一家提供被消费者权益倡导者称为“加密货币领域最危险产品”的公司,已成为该行业最炙手可热的名字之一。

但 Hyperliquid Labs 也在新加坡引发了关注。这个城市国家厌恶风险与丑闻,而该公司将其设在此地。

Hyperliquid 的创始人兼首席执行官杰夫·严 (Jeff Yan) 周三在 Token2049 上担任主讲嘉宾。这场在新加坡举办的会议被誉为“全球最大的加密货币盛会”。

该公司以其高风险的永续期货(perpetual futures),即“永续合约”(perps)而闻名。

这种基于加密货币的衍生品允许交易者对从石油、加密货币到原本无法进入市场的股票等各种资产的价格进行投机,而无需实际交付或接收资产。

永续合约没有到期日,并采用一种将其锚定在所追踪资产现货价格的机制。在伊朗战争开始时,由于交易者利用它们在非交易时段对动荡的能源市场进行押注,永续合约引起了主流关注。

但消费者权益倡导者称其为“加密货币领域最危险的产品”,因为它们通常具有高杠杆且无期限的结构。

Hyperliquid Labs 在该城市国家的存在给新加坡金融管理局(MAS)带来了难题。该局负责监管该行业,并谨慎地接纳了加密货币。

监管机构热衷于在机构之间推广数字资产创新,但认为加密货币对普通公众而言风险过高。

它已采取措施不鼓励使用此类产品,并在 6 月警告投资者,其并不监管 Hyperliquid 的永续合约。

新加坡金融管理局(MAS)告诉《金融时报》:“我们并不知晓 Hyperliquid 在任何主要司法管辖区受到监管。”

熟悉监管机构想法的人士表示,MAS 认为由于 Hyperliquid 的“去中心化性质”,它并非总部位于新加坡,因此不应在其管辖范围内。

然而,Hyperliquid Labs 向《金融时报》确认其总部位于该城市国家。

就在上周发布的招聘广告中,还询问申请人是否能够“在新加坡办公室工作”,且《金融时报》看到的公司文件显示新加坡为其注册总部。

该公司表示,未受监管的 Hyperliquid “并非,且从未声称获得 MAS 的许可或授权”,并补充说它尊重监管机构的角色,并“致力于与他们进行建设性的接触”。

MAS 的警惕源于新加坡与加密货币之间波折的历史。

这个城市国家曾被称为“加密天堂”,凭借其作为安全且创新金融中心的声誉,多年来一直是交易所设立总部的热门目的地。

但几家企业的崩溃损害了这一声誉。

Terraform Labs 在 2022, 年 TerraUSD 数字代币 400亿美元 崩盘中欺诈投资者,该公司在新加坡注册;而加密货币对冲基金 Three Arrows Capital 最初在新加坡注册为基金管理公司,随后在美国申请破产。

去年,MAS 通过宣布在新加坡运营的无牌加密货币交易所必须在几周内关闭或迁往海外,让该行业措手不及。

分析师表示,如此短的时间期限是监管机构清除这个曾引起尴尬的行业中不受欢迎参与者的一种方式。

动物磁力:下图为 Hyperliquid Labs 的猫咪吉祥物 Hypurr。该公司由创始人兼首席执行官杰夫·严 (Jeff Yan) 领导,销售备受争议的“永续合约”产品。 Christophus Visiae

“我们并不知晓 Hyperliquid 在任何主要司法管辖区受到监管”

“监管工作……在一定程度上是对那些案例的回应,”区块链数据提供商 Chainalysis 的全球政策负责人乔丹·韦恩(Jordan Wain)表示。“他们经历了一段艰难时期,受到了警示,并且其反应速度比全球大多数司法管辖区都要快得多。”

尽管采取了打击措施,但根据 Chainalysis 的数据,新加坡的加密货币行业继续繁荣,资产在去年增长了 55%。

其他监管机构对永续合约(perps)持不同态度。英国金融行为监管局(FCA)已警告投资者,其并不监管 Hyperliquid,而美国则在今年允许零售投资者交易永续合约。

唐纳德·特朗普总统在 8 月表示,商品期货交易委员会(CFTC)正“致力于以完全合规且合法的方式将 Hyperliquid 引入美国”。

Hyperliquid Labs 并非唯一一家提供永续合约的新加坡机构。

当地交易所 SGX 正朝着成为首家向美国机构提供永续合约的传统交易所迈进,该交易所去年已在新加坡推出了相关产品。

新加坡金融管理局(MAS)表示,SGX 和 Hyperliquid “在监管地位上有着根本的不同”,且 SGX 的产品是为机构投资者设计的。

“加密货币交易具有高度风险,不适合普通大众,”该局表示。“MAS 已采取措施,以遏制零售投资者的加密货币投机行为。”

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SpaceX 争夺频谱导致美国电信公司股价下跌

彼得·韦尔斯 (PETER WELLS) —— 纽约

SpaceX 在向美国消费者推出 Starlink 移动服务方面迈出了重要一步,宣布收购一项低带宽频谱组合,导致美国最大几家电信集团的合计市值蒸发约 450亿美元。

该公司在周四的一份声明中表示,正在购买 800MHz 频段中高达 14 兆赫兹 (MHz) 的配对频谱许可。

在 发布公告后,美国移动运营商的股价在昨日华尔街开盘后不久随即下跌。拥有全美最多移动用户的 Verizon Communications 下跌 6.9%。AT&T 大跌 8.4%,T-Mobile US 下跌 9.6%。

进军零售合同将标志着 自推出 Starlink 以来最重大的商业扩张之一。目前,Starlink 已通过该集团的卫星星座在 160 多个国家提供了高速互联网连接。

“一件大事,” 首席执行官埃隆·马斯克在 X 的一篇帖子中写道。其这家涵盖从 AI 到火箭的集团股价昨日上涨 1.4%,使公司估值增加了约 300亿美元。

移动网络基础设施运营商的股价则出现上涨。Crown Castle 上涨 10.2%,American

该集团正在购买 800MHz 频段中高达 14MHz 的配对频谱许可

Tower 上涨 7.1%,SBA Communications 上涨 6%。

在 6 月份打破纪录的首次公开募股 (IPO) 之前, 的高管曾告诉投资者,公司正在考虑推出 Starlink 零售产品。

去年已为在美国扩展服务奠定了部分基础,当时该公司同意支付 170亿美元 从运营商 EchoStar 手中购买无线频谱许可。

此前已在美国提供较为有限的直接面向消费者 (direct-to-consumer) 的服务。它已允许 T-Mobile 等电信公司访问其卫星,以便这些公司增强其在农村地区的现有网络覆盖。

但此次收购低频段频谱以及随后推出的直接面向消费者的移动产品,将使 能够进入一个比单纯的卫星宽带大得多的市场,并可能导致其减少对电信合作伙伴的依赖。

表示,在获得负责销售频谱许可的美国联邦通信委员会 (FCC) 的最终批准后,它将把其卫星到移动的服务与一个能够“在任何地方连接设备”的地面网络相结合。

低频段频谱将提供一个“覆盖层”,使 Starlink Mobile 信号能够穿透墙壁等障碍物,从而允许客户在建筑物内部使用其设备。

加密货币

数字资产初创公司就代币销售陷入 $141mn 法律纠纷

尼库·阿斯加里(NIKOU ASGARI)——伦敦

两家与特朗普家族支持的公司 World Liberty Financial 有关联的加密货币公司正陷入一场 $141mn 的法律之争,此案揭露了数字资产领域盛行的具有争议的“场外交易”协议。

总部位于英属维尔京群岛的 DWF Maas 及其位于巴拿马的姐妹公司 Falcon Digital 已起诉 BitGo,称其在约定的锁定期届满前出售数字代币,违反了合同,导致代币价格下跌。DWF Maas 和 Falcon 均隶属于总部位于迪拜的市场做市商兼投资机构 Labs。

在向伦敦高等法院提交的诉状中, 和 Falcon 声称,双方曾达成协议,以折扣价向 BitGo 出售 Falcon Finance 代币,该代币随后需遵守为期三个月的锁定期,以及进一步的归属锁定期。

诉状称, 和 还就用于电子竞技和游戏的 ESPORTS 代币签署了具有相同锁定结构的协议。

私下的“场外交易”代币销售协议在加密行业很常见,这是代币创始人的一种融资方式,旨在避免将资产大量倾销至市场从而压低币价。作为回报,交易者可以获得折扣代币,并在锁定期届满后将其出售。

然而,这类协议依赖于双方之间的信任,且其不透明性使其充满争议,尤其是在散户投资者眼中,因为他们在代币归属期届满后可能会面临被倾销的风险。

声称 在锁定期届满前就出售了其持有的 Falcon Finance 和 ESPORTS 代币,违反了合同。该公司表示,其“FF 代币的出售突然且出乎意料”,且“充斥在流动性极低且高度集中的”市场中,因此“导致”了代币价格的下跌。

WLF 由唐纳德·特朗普的儿子埃里克(左)和小唐纳德·特朗普支持。

拒绝置评。 表示:“ 获得的折扣是以代币保持锁定为条件的,但这些代币在首次解锁前约两个月就被转移到了交易所。我们在 4 月和 5 月就此事与 沟通,但在未获得任何承诺的情况下,采取法律行动变得必要。我们仍然希望并愿意寻求解决方案。”

诉状中提到,两种代币设置锁定期是为了确保 能在“锁定期内积极构建并推出一系列产品”,从而“实质性地提高”资产的流动性。

根据 CoinMarketCap 的数据,Falcon Finance 代币的价格从 3 月初达成首次锁定协议时的 $0.08 下跌至 4 月下旬的约 $0.07。

ESPORTS 代币的价格从 3 月中旬的约 $0.28 下跌至 6 月初的 $0.07,而 声称 出售代币的时间就在此前后。

正在寻求 $141mn 的损害赔偿,称 的代币销售由于导致其仍持有的代币价值下跌,从而给公司造成了“直接损失”。 在诉状中表示,“ 转让或出售代币的行为没有任何合同或法律上的理由”。

去年购买了价值 $25mn 的代币,这些代币由唐纳德·特朗普及其儿子支持的加密风险项目 WLF 创建。 为 World Liberty 的稳定币提供发行和托管服务。其首席执行官个人向特朗普 2024 presidential campaign 捐赠了 $50,000 的比特币,并为其举办了一场筹款活动。

成立于 2013,是最大的加密托管机构之一。其首席执行官迈克·贝尔舍(Mike Belshe)曾出席白宫的加密货币活动,并赞扬了政府对待数字资产的方式。

该公司在今年年初于纽约上市,但此后其股价已暴跌约 60 per cent。

于 2022, 创立 的安德烈·格拉切夫(Andrei Grachev)此前曾在莫斯科工作,担任加密货币交易所火币(Huobi)俄罗斯业务负责人,并在俄罗斯加密产业与区块链协会任职。

在DWF去年购买了$25mn的WLF代币后,美国参议院国土安全委员会的一名民主党成员致信WLF,对其与外国国民的交易表示担忧,并称DWF的管理层“此前管理过被指控协助俄罗斯银行规避制裁的俄罗斯公司”。

DWF表示:“该参议员的指控毫无根据。”

监管

欧盟将集中监管关键金融基础设施

帕奥拉·塔玛(PAOLA TAMMA)——卢森堡

根据昨日达成的一项旨在深化欧盟资本市场一体化的改革方案,大多数欧洲主要证券交易所及结算所等其他金融市场基础设施的监管将被集中到欧盟层面。

此次改革是布鲁塞尔一项更广泛努力的一部分,旨在通过确保公司能够在本地筹集充足资金并实现规模增长,而非跨越大西洋寻求融资,从而增强欧盟相对于美国日益下滑的竞争力。

欧盟委员会认为,目前的体制由 27 个国家监管机构监督 35 个以上的不同证券交易所,以及 17 个独立的结算中央对手方和 28 个交易结算中央证券存管机构,这降低了流动性并增加了公司的融资成本。

根据欧盟财长昨日达成的一项协议,总部位于巴黎的欧洲证券及市场管理局(Esma)将直接监管关键金融实体,包括八个交易场所、交易后基础设施以及部分加密货币交易平台——不过德国已为德意志交易所(Deutsche Börse)争取到了豁免。

据知情人士透露,符合 Esma 直接监管条件的交易场所包括泛欧交易所(Euronext)、纳斯达克(Nasdaq)、Cboe、Tradeweb 以及伦敦证券交易所集团的欧洲子公司。

德国争取到的豁免(在德意志交易所达到特定市场份额阈值前将其排除在外)激怒了包括卢森堡和比利时在内的小国,这些国家反过来试图从 Esma 手中夺回对其本国运营机构的控制权。

根据《金融时报》看到的一份折中方案草案,新的监管体系将包含一些保障措施:九个国家监管机构共同行动即可对 Esma 的一项拟议约束性决定提出异议,但后者仍可否决国家层面的反对意见。

一些国家对这些保障措施持批评态度,认为它们为原本旨在模仿美国证券交易委员会(SEC)而设计的简化且高效的市场监管增加了繁文缛节和成本。

华尔街:预测市场或许能揭示群体智慧

迈克尔·莫布辛 (Michael Mauboussin)

1932年,在华尔街发家的金融家伯纳德·巴鲁克 (Bernard Baruch) 为查尔斯·麦凯 (Charles Mackay) 经典著作 1852 年版的重印本撰写了前言。

这部经典著作名为《非凡的流行幻想与群体的疯狂》(Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds)。

他引用了德国剧作家弗里德里希·席勒 (Friedrich Schiller) 的一段话:“任何一个人作为个体时,通常是相当理智且合理的——但一旦成为群体的一员,他立刻就变成了个笨蛋。”

任何关于股票市场的理论都必须解释,为什么价格通常是理性的,但周期性地会变得疯狂。

在巴鲁克提出这一观点约 70 年后,记者詹姆斯·苏罗维茨基 (James Surowiecki) 写了一本书,名为《群体的智慧》(The Wisdom of Crowds)。他证明,当某些条件得到满足时,群体在反映客观价值方面可以极其准确;但当其中一个或多个条件被违背时,则会极其不准确。

苏罗维茨基提供了一个统一的框架来解释这种“相当理智”与“笨蛋”状态的共存。

苏罗维茨基提出的条件(经微调后)包括:认知多样性、聚合机制和激励机制。认知多样性意味着具有不同观点的人参与到过程中。

聚合机制提供了一种将信息整合为价格的手段。而激励机制则反映了预测正确时的奖励和预测错误时的惩罚。参与成本以及纠正定价错误所需的成本也会影响结果。

我将这一框架应用于预测市场和股票市场。在预测市场中,参与者买卖的合约通常基于二元结果进行赔付。例如,如果一名候选人获胜,选举合约赔付 $1,若失败则赔付 $0。70 美分的价格意味着获胜概率约为 70%。

从隐含概率与实际结果之间的关系来看,预测市场的校准程度非常高。

但进一步观察发现,对于高价合约,胜率略高于平均水平;而对于低价合约,胜率则略低于平均水平。这就是“热门-冷门偏差”(favourite-longshot bias),即低估高概率投注的胜率,而高估低概率投注的胜率。

对二元结果的投注可为商业人士及其投资者提供有价值的线索

高度的校准意味着,从整体上看,合约价格是关于未来事件发生概率的可靠信息源。相比之下,股票市场的价格则无法提供如此清晰的信号。

这在情理之中。预测市场预测的是一个通常在相对较短时间内就会揭晓的确定结果。而股票通常缺乏类似的结算机制,这使得叙事和羊群效应得以出现并持续存在。

基于同样的原因,预测市场中的价格操纵难以维持。研究这一现象的经济学家得出结论,“投机性攻击最初会推动价格变动,但这些变化很快会被抵消”。

预测市场是零和的,这意味着在考虑参与成本之前,总收益与总损失相等。此外,极少数参与者赚取了绝大部分利润。

股票市场则是“正和”的。股票代表了对企业的部分所有权,而企业通常通过增加利润来创造财富。投资仅在相对意义上是零和的。例如,如果市场上涨 10 per cent,一些投资者的表现会优于大盘,而另一些则低于大盘。但表现低于大盘并不一定意味着亏钱。

尽管增长迅速,但预测市场在世界许多地区仍然是非法的,且美国在体育相关合约的监管审查方面仍存在法律争议。此外,还出现过内幕交易事件。批评者指出,很大比例的参与者在亏钱。

然而,这些市场也提供了重要的益处。其一是巨大的信息价值,随着目前预测准确度已可媲美顶尖人类预测者的 AI 代理的参与,这一价值可能会继续提升。预测市场可能为商业人士和投资者提供有价值的线索。

另一个益处是,这些市场允许参与者对冲风险。例如,纽约市的一家酒吧老板承诺,如果尼克斯队赢得 2026 年 NBA 总决赛的 Game 1 比赛,将提供最高 $100 的免费消费。他投注了 $5,000 在尼克斯队身上,赔付金覆盖了酒吧的消费账单。通过这种方式,零和合约可以用于风险管理。

对于股票市场投资者而言,教训是寻找由认知多样性崩溃而产生的机会。当独立观点让位于模仿时,价格可能会走向极端的牛市或熊市。当投资者表现得像巴鲁克(Baruch)所说的“笨蛋”时,群体的智慧便让位于疯狂。

迈克尔·莫布辛(Michael Mauboussin)是摩根士丹利投资管理公司 Counterpoint Global 的综合研究主管。

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市场日报

关键要点

  • 华尔街、欧洲及亚洲股市在美股财报季到来前上涨
  • 美国国债收益率攀升,维持在本周早些时候创下的 2007 年以来高点附近
  • 油价波动不大,布伦特原油在每桶 \$104.30 附近波动

随着交易员准备迎接下周开始的华尔街财报季,全球股市昨日上涨。

纽约时间午盘时分,蓝筹股标普 500 指数上涨 0.5%,科技股为主的纳斯达克 100 指数上涨 0.3%。这两个指数均在历史高点附近交易,且在本周早些时候触及过高点。

尽管美国政府债券进一步走弱推高了收益率,但股市依然上涨。

10 年期美国国债收益率上升 0.02 个百分点至 5.26%,仍处于本周早些时候触及的 2007 年以来最高水平附近。

投资者警告称,政府债券的进一步抛售可能会对股票产生更显著的影响——例如,鉴于收益率上升,投资者可能会选择将资金从股票重新配置到债券。

巴克莱欧洲股票策略主管 Emmanuel Cau 表示:“股市的背景不再像今年年初那样简单……盈利能力将需要发挥更大的支撑作用。”

昨日美国债券收益率的上升,是在密歇根大学消费者信心指数跌幅略超预期,触及该调查历史最低值之后出现的,这表明高物价给消费者带来了压力。

由美伊冲突以及霍尔木兹海峡交通放缓引起的高通胀正开始渗透到全球经济中。

与利率预期变化联系更紧密的两年期美国国债收益率上升 0.05 个百分点至 4.8。

在大西洋彼岸,近期欧洲政府债券的抛售压力有所缓解。

在法国,由于对政府赤字和即将到来的总统选举的担忧在近几周引发了剧烈抛售,借贷成本现已缓解。

10 年期法国政府债券收益率下降 0.04 个百分点至 4.86%。在英国,10 年期国债收益率同样下降 0.04 个百分点至 5.45%。

欧洲股市同样上涨。区域性的 Stoxx Europe 600 指数上涨 1,伦敦富时 100 基准指数上涨 1.1。

在东京,东证指数(Topix)上涨 0.3。香港恒生指数上涨 1.8,中国内地沪深 300 指数上涨 0.2。

油价与前一日相比变动不大,布伦特原油在每桶 \$104.30 附近波动。Emily Herbert

市场更新

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技术

英伟达支持的澳大利亚数据中心运营商撤回 plans for 50亿美元 IPO

加文·黄(GAVIN HUANG)、威廉·桑德伦(WILLIAM SANDLUND)和阿尔君·尼尔·阿里姆(ARJUN NEIL ALIM)——香港

一家由英伟达(Nvidia)支持的数据中心运营商已放弃其上市计划,该计划原本将成为今年全球规模最大的上市案例之一,这表明投资者对人工智能(AI)估值的警惕情绪日益增加。

Firmus 原计划以 300亿美元 的估值筹集 50亿美元,该公司昨日表示,鉴于“近期的市场波动和普遍的市场状况”,已撤回在悉尼的上市申请。

该公司补充道:“董事会认定,此次发行可能推进的条款无法恰当地反映公司业务的实力及其长期增长前景。”

Firmus 难以说服投资者以其目标价格认购首次公开募股(IPO),这凸显了市场对雄心勃勃的 AI 融资以及估值是否与行业前景相符的担忧。

此次上市原本将成为澳大利亚自 1997 年电信运营商 Telstra 以 100亿美元 首次亮相以来规模最大的一次。

一名熟悉该交易的人士表示,该公司将转而寻求通过私募轮筹集资金。

资产管理公司 Ten Cap 的创始人刘俊北(Jun Bei Liu)表示:“ 可能是我就见过最具争议的 IPO 之一。如果他们能建成所承诺的设施,两年后可能会提供更廉价的收益,但这具有投机性。”

“我们认为 确实有一个吸引人的故事,但它没有一个吸引人的估值”

成立于 2019 年,最初是澳大利亚的一家比特币矿企,随后转型为数据中心服务。该公司雄心勃勃地计划利用英伟达的芯片建设“AI 工厂”。英伟达参与了 8 月份的一轮融资,在该轮融资中, 的估值超过 105亿美元。

该公司还得到了包括 Jane Street 以及黑石(Blackstone)管理基金在内的全球投资者的支持。

尽管 已签署了超过 900 兆瓦容量的合同,但在澳大利亚和新加坡的两处设施中,目前仅有 46 兆瓦在运行。另有五个数据中心正在建设中,目标是在未来两年内开始运营。

澳大利亚养老基金 UniSuper 的首席投资官约翰·皮尔斯(John Pearce)在 撤回 IPO 前于周四发布的一份投资更新中表示:“我们认为 确实有一个吸引人的故事,但它没有一个吸引人的估值。”

他补充道:“必须有太多环节进展顺利才能证明该估值的合理性。此外,我们非常担心 将不得不继续向市场寻求大量更多债务和股权,以资助其扩张计划。”

近几个月来,AI 公司已就该技术的风险发出警告并呼吁放缓速度。在全球范围内,人们对数据中心及其运行所需的资源也存在不满。尼克·菲尔德斯(Nic Fildes)在墨尔本提供了额外报道。

生效日期:07.11.2025 过去 30 天的股市走势,并以相同货币的富时全球指数(FTSE All-World)作为对比

全球市场概览

前一交易日涨跌幅 (%)

FTSE EuroFirst

0.97%

Sep 09 - Oct 09< / td>< / tr><><>S&P 500< / ><>纽约< / >< / ><><>Index< / ><>全球< / >< / ><><>7636.36< / ><>7808.69< / >< / table>

<><>当日 ▲ 0.56%< / ><>当月 ▲ 2.14%< / ><>当年 ▲ 15.80%< / >< / ><>< colspan="2">纳斯达克综合指数< / ><>纽约< / >< / table>

当日 ▶ 0.75% 当月 ▶ 1.73% 当年 ▶ 11.04%

<><>国家< / ><>指数< / ><>最新< / ><>前值< / >< / ><><>澳大利亚< / ><>All Ordinaries< / ><>8871.70< / ><>8823.20< / >< / ><><>澳大利亚< / ><>S&P 500< / ><>6718.80< / ><>9680.90< / >< / ><><>澳大利亚< / ><>S&P 500 S&P 500s< / ><>7671.60< / ><>7672.40< / >< / ><><>奥地利< / ><>ATX< / ><>6543.45< / ><>6560.57< / >< / ><><>比利时< / ><>BEL 25< / ><>5454.74< / ><>5389.40< / >< / ><><>比利时< / ><>BEL Mid< / ><>6408.45< / ><>6552.98< / >< / ><><>巴西< / ><>Bovespa< / ><>208577.66< / ><>206231.24< / >< / ><><>加拿大< / ><>S&P 100 60< / ><>2092.70< / ><>2070.76< / >< / ><><>加拿大< / ><>S&P 100 Mid Cap< / ><>35569.44< / ><>30145.38< / >< / ><><>智利< / ><>SS&PCOLX NIPA GEN< / ><>58620.52< / >< / ><><>中国< / ><>China FUT2 4200< / ><>10884.90< / ><>10894.94< / >< / ><><>< / ><>上海 A< / ><>1088.45< / ><>1099.51< / >< / ><><>< / ><>上海 B< / ><>311.68< / ><>311.75< / >< / ><><>< / ><>上海综合< / ><>3813.78< / ><>3811.90< / >< / ><><>< / ><>深圳 A< / ><>2479.39< / ><>2474.95< / >< / ><><>< / ><>深圳 B< / ><>1161.30< / ><>1154.28< / >< / ><><>克罗地亚< / ><>CROBEX< / ><>4492.97< / ><>4480.61< / >< / ><><>塞浦路斯< / ><>CS2 M&P 50N< / ><>307.76< / ><>305.30< / >< / table>

<><>< / ><>当日< / ><>当月< / ><>当年< / >< / ><>< rowspan="2" colspan="3">Bovespa< / >< rowspan="2">圣保罗< / >< / ><>< / ><><>< / ><>18562904< / ><>20852756< / ><>< / >< / table>

<><>国家< / ><>指数< / ><>最新< / ><>前值< / >< / ><><>捷克共和国< / ><>Czech Republic Pk< / ><>2576.77< / ><>2545.21< / >< / ><><>丹麦< / ><>OMXC Copenhagen 20< / ><>1518.17< / ><>1495.16< / >< / ><><>埃及< / ><>EGX 30< / ><>50265.20< / >< / ><><>爱沙尼亚< / ><>OMX Federation< / ><>2232.88< / ><>2228.71< / >< / ><><>芬兰< / ><>OMX International General< / ><>13504.35< / ><>13495.25< / >< / ><><>法国< / ><>France (CACD)< / ><>7803.33< / ><>7729.69< / >< / ><><>希腊< / ><>SIF 120< / ><>5819.23< / ><>5800.44< / >< / ><><>德国< / ><>MX-AX< / ><>25995.90< / ><>25908.83< / >< / ><><>德国< / ><>Yoc Class< / ><>3878.41< / ><>3965.53< / >< / ><><>德国< / ><>XETRA Dus< / ><>25007.27< / ><>24956.97< / >< / ><><>希腊< / ><>Athens< / ><>2556.18< / ><>2568.85< / >< / ><><>希腊< / ><>FTSE / ASEA< / ><>6547.03< / ><>6577.49< / >< / ><><>香港< / ><>恒生< / ><>74211.25< / ><>23785.78< / >< / ><><>香港< / ><>恒生 (欧洲)< / ><>9147.61< / ><>8319.03< / >< / ><><>香港< / ><>HSCC 红筹股< / ><>42466.95< / ><>4028.81< / >< / ><><>匈牙利< / ><>Bak< / ><>141571.80< / ><>127185.79< / >< / ><><>印度< / ><>BSI Sensex< / ><>72472.20< / ><>71593.24< / >< / ><><>印度尼西亚< / ><>Jakarta Comp< / ><>6883.76< / ><>6931.28< / >< / table>

Nikkei

日 > 0.95% 月 > -2.00% 年 > -2.96%

国家< / td><>指数< / ><>最新< / ><>前值< / >< / tr><><>爱尔兰< / ><>IBG2 Overall< / ><>1399.81< / ><>1450.78< / >< / ><><>以色列< / ><>特拉维夫 125< / ><>2625.78< / ><>2634.01< / >< / ><><>意大利< / ><>富时意大利全股指数< / ><>52207.08< / ><>51818.10< / >< / ><><>意大利< / ><>富时意大利中盘股指数< / ><>50778.63< / ><>50077.62< / >< / ><><>意大利< / ><>富时 200< / ><>45476.31< / ><>49257.80< / >< / ><><>日本< / ><>日经 225< / ><>68030.92< / ><>68042.11< / >< / ><><>日本< / ><>Yenji< / ><>4104.81< / ><>4261.46< / >< / ><><>科威特< / ><>KAI 市场指数< / ><>9860.03< / ><>9880.03< / >< / ><><>拉脱维亚< / ><>OMX Large< / ><>980.42< / ><>977.86< / >< / ><><>卢森堡< / ><>OMX Invesco< / ><>1534.36< / ><>1536.11< / >< / ><><>卢森堡< / ><>Luxil< / ><>1774.12< / ><>1748.55< / >< / ><><>墨西哥< / ><>墨西哥城 IPC< / ><>85854.01< / ><>84886.91< / >< / ><><>马来西亚< / ><>富时布尔萨 KGD< / ><>1638.45< / ><>1601.01< / >< / ><><>摩洛哥< / ><>MASI< / ><>16797.10< / ><>16749.18< / >< / ><><>荷兰< / ><>AEA< / ><>1130.96< / ><>1121.20< / >< / ><><>荷兰< / ><>AEK 全股指数< / ><>1534.11< / ><>1538.83< / >< / ><><>新西兰< / ><>NZX 50< / ><>12749.35< / ><>13991.85< / >< / ><><>尼日利亚< / ><>SC 全股指数< / ><>249593.55< / ><>249542.50< / >< / table>

日 > 0.91% 月 > -4.10% 年 > 16.25%

<><>国家< / ><>指数< / ><>最新< / ><>前值< / >< / ><><>挪威< / ><>每日全股指数< / ><>3485.48< / ><>2432.58< / >< / ><><>巴基斯坦< / ><>KSE 100< / ><>167098.27< / ><>187441.91< / >< / ><><>菲律宾< / ><>Markit Corp< / ><>5730.99< / ><>5910.39< / >< / ><><>波兰< / ><>Wig< / ><>157001.42< / ><>157678.56< / >< / ><><>葡萄牙< / ><>PSI 20< / ><>8307.50< / ><>8347.58< / >< / ><><>葡萄牙< / ><>PSI General< / ><>6306.79< / ><>6354.43< / >< / ><><>罗马尼亚< / ><>Performance A&T 指数< / ><>32430.45< / ><>33007.90< / >< / ><><>俄罗斯< / ><>俄罗斯交易指数(美元)< / ><>988.10< / ><>986.10< / >< / ><><>沙特阿拉伯< / ><>TADAMG 全股指数< / ><>10319.28< / ><>10376.88< / >< / ><><>新加坡< / ><>富时 Divers Times< / ><>5401.88< / ><>5412.96< / >< / ><><>斯洛伐克< / ><>OMX< / ><>311.85< / ><>301.00< / >< / ><><>斯洛文尼亚< / ><>SRX TOP< / ><>3108.87< / ><>3104.21< / >< / ><><>南非< / ><>富时 GSE 全股指数< / ><>108529.77< / ><>107100.29< / >< / ><><>南非< / ><>富时 GSE Res< / ><>65680.55< / ><>64800.65< / >< / ><><>南非< / ><>富时 GSE Top 40< / ><>100764.33< / ><>99490.91< / >< / ><><>韩国< / ><>Kuwait< / ><>6625.93< / ><>6825.93< / >< / ><><>韩国< / ><>Kuwait 200< / ><>1044.52< / >< / ><><>西班牙< / ><>西班牙 REXR 35< / ><>18833.10< / ><>18659.90< / >< / table>

$ per £ ¥ per $ 0.1264

日 0.05% 月 -3.49% 年 -3.05%

国家< / td><>指数< / ><>最新< / ><>前值< / >< / tr><><>瑞典< / ><>OMX斯德哥尔摩30< / ><>52616.14< / ><>3032.48< / >< / ><><>瑞典< / ><>OMX斯德哥尔摩AS< / ><>1122.11< / ><>1104.05< / >< / ><><>瑞士< / ><>SNI指数< / ><>15707.40< / ><>13657.00< / >< / ><><>台湾< / ><>加权股价指数< / ><>49313.44< / ><>48313.44< / >< / ><><>泰国< / ><>曼谷SET< / ><>1577.65< / ><>1570.81< / >< / ><><>土耳其< / ><>BIST 100< / ><>12265.98< / ><>12213.59< / >< / ><><>英国< / ><>富时100< / ><>10092.05< / ><>10441.60< / >< / ><><>英国< / ><>富时全股英国指数< / ><>9190.43< / ><>9068.32< / >< / ><><>英国< / ><>富时全股英镑指数< / ><>18693.96< / ><>9654.04< / >< / ><><>英国< / ><>富时非市场100< / ><>9872.57< / ><>9433.03< / >< / ><><>美国< / ><>道琼斯综合指数< / ><>16118.05< / ><>16038.28< / >< / ><><>美国< / ><>道琼斯工业指数< / ><>51618.02< / ><>51251.61< / >< / ><><>美国< / ><>道琼斯运输指数< / ><>10073.68< / ><>9808.07< / >< / ><><>美国< / ><>道琼斯公用事业指数< / ><>408.41< / ><>406.63< / >< / ><><>美国< / ><>纳斯达克100< / ><>30835.01< / ><>30775.81< / >< / ><><>美国< / ><>纳斯达克综合指数< / ><>27255.93< / ><>27150.34< / >< / ><><>美国< / ><>纽约证交所综合指数< / ><>20112.82< / ><>20170.60< / >< / ><><>美国< / ><>SSIF 100< / ><>7808.69< / ><>7765.30< / >< / table>

英国市场涨跌幅榜

FT.COM / MARKETSDATA

英镑 / 欧元

股市:最大涨跌幅

当日 > 1.23% 月度 > -3.07% 年度 > -11.80%

国家 / 地区< / td><>指数< / ><>最新< / ><>前值< / >< / tr><><>Worovia< / ><>IBC< / ><>8172.64< / ><>8400.73< / >< / ><><>越南< / ><>Viet Men Index< / ><>1735.09< / ><>1738.97< / >< / ><><>跨境< / ><>欧洲斯托克 50 (Eur)< / ><>6173.37< / ><>6126.73< / >< / ><><>荷兰< / ><>Euronext 100 ID< / ><>1859.81< / ><>1849.30< / >< / ><><>跨境< / ><>富时 40 及全球 ($)< / ><>21288.16< / ><>21179.81< / >< / ><><>跨境< / ><>富时全球指数 ($)< / ><>754.60< / ><>756.08< / >< / ><><>跨境< / ><>富时 5300< / ><>2523.06< / ><>2498.60< / >< / ><><>跨境< / ><>富时欧洲顶级 100< / ><>4676.74< / ><>4829.01< / >< / ><><>跨境< / ><>富时全球 100 ($)< / ><>5907.96< / ><>5874.02< / >< / ><><>跨境< / ><>富时黄金矿业 ($)< / ><>5400.55< / ><>5450.55< / >< / ><><>跨境< / ><>富时 Latibex Top (Eu)< / ><>7284.90< / ><>7156.60< / >< / ><><>跨境< / ><>富时世界指数 ($)< / ><>1413.81< / ><>1405.82< / >< / ><><>跨境< / ><>富时欧洲第一 100 (Eur)< / ><>7001.08< / ><>6841.84< / >< / ><><>跨境< / ><>富时欧洲第一 80 (Eu)< / ><>9416.62< / ><>8362.32< / >< / table>

欧元市场

<>< colspan="4">美洲< / >< / ><><>活跃股票< / ><>成交量 m / s< / ><>收盘价< / ><>当日涨跌< / >< / ><><>英伟达 (Nvidia)< / ><>42.22< / ><>258.48< / ><>-1.08< / >< / ><><>英特尔 (Intel)< / ><>38.17< / ><>106.57< / ><>-1.51< / >< / ><><>特斯拉 (Tesla)< / ><>26.50< / ><>382.63< / ><>7.93< / >< / ><><>苹果 (Apple)< / ><>33.26< / ><>334.84< / ><>-5.76< / >< / ><><>Palantir< / ><>18.25< / ><>305.79< / ><>7.01< / >< / ><><>亚马逊 (Amazon.com)< / ><>17.02< / ><>261.27< / ><>7.21< / >< / ><><>超微电脑 (Super Micro Computer)< / ><>16.48< / ><>41.13< / ><>< / >< / ><><>莫德纳 (Moderna)< / ><>16.21< / ><>217.14< / ><>< / >< / ><><>网飞 (Netflix)< / ><>12.57< / ><>70.85< / ><>-0.72< / >< / ><><>康卡斯特 (Comcast)< / ><>11.63< / ><>20.57< / ><>-0.64< / >< / table>

<><>活跃股票< / ><>成交量 m's< / ><>收盘价< / ><>当日涨跌< / >< / ><><>劳埃德 (Lloyds Big 1p)< / ><>99.87< / ><>1.02< / ><>0.01< / >< / ><><>Habtec< / ><>76.73< / ><>3.49< / ><>0.05< / >< / ><><>罗尔斯-罗伊斯 (Rolls-Royce)< / ><>62.77< / ><>13.85< / ><>0.18< / >< / ><><>沃达丰 (Vodafone)< / ><>49.22< / ><>1.18< / ><>-0.06< / >< / ><><>英国石油 (BP)< / ><>30.87< / ><>5.85< / ><>0.01< / >< / ><><>Temo< / ><>38.17< / ><>5.04< / ><>0.03< / >< / ><><>泰勒·温佩 (Taylor Wimpey)< / ><>26.50< / ><>9.73< / ><>-0.01< / >< / ><><>巴克莱 (Barclays)< / ><>24.42< / ><>4.30< / ><>0.04< / >< / ><><>嘉能可 (Glencore)< / ><>23.54< / ><>5.85< / ><>0.18< / >< / ><><>英国电信 (BT Group)< / ><>21.94< / ><>1.93< / ><>-0.05< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="4">最大涨跌幅< / >< / ><><>< / ><>收盘价< / ><>当日涨跌< / ><>当日涨跌%< / >< / ><>< colspan="4">上涨< / >< / ><><>Crown Castle Int< / ><>77.91< / ><>9.02< / ><>13.08< / >< / ><><>Huntsora< / ><>435.88< / ><>48.58< / ><>12.54< / >< / ><><>美国塔塔 (Amer Tower)< / ><>178.75< / ><>13.02< / ><>7.91< / >< / ><><>甲骨文 (Oracle)< / ><>141.97< / ><>6.28< / ><>4.63< / >< / ><><>Constellation Energy< / ><>288.25< / ><>13.18< / ><>4.62< / >< / ><>< colspan="4">下跌< / >< / ><><>T-Mobile< / ><>150.01< / ><>-21.30< / ><>-12.43< / >< / ><><>AT&T< / ><>22.16< / ><>-2.71< / ><>-10.80< / >< / ><><>威瑞森通信 (Verizon Comm)< / ><>41.33< / ><>-5.02< / ><>-10.83< / >< / ><><>惠普 (HP Inc)< / ><>30.28< / ><>-2.18< / ><>-6.68< / >< / ><><>FMC

Corp< / td> 8.38< / ><>-0.54< / ><>-6.05< / >< / tr>< / table>

<>活跃股票< / ><>成交量 m / s< / ><>收盘价< / ><>当日涨跌< / >< / ><><>Intesa Sanpaolo< / ><>50.75< / ><>6.12< / ><>0.08< / >< / ><><>Steurolis< / ><>33.99< / ><>4.00< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>桑坦德银行 (Banco Santander)< / ><>23.01< / ><>13.02< / ><>0.11< / >< / ><><>西班牙电信 (Telefónica)< / ><>21.74< / ><>3.25< / ><>-0.16< / >< / ><><>Enel< / ><>17.11< / ><>8.87< / ><>0.11< / >< / ><><>Banco De Saba#el< / ><>14.43< / ><>3.49< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>Royal KPM< / ><>13.79< / ><>3.88< / ><>-0.07< / >< / ><><>Talia Co< / ><>11.32< / ><>43.40< / ><>-1.69< / >< / ><><>Iberdrola< / ><>10.82< / ><>21.26< / ><>0.15< / >< / ><><>比尔巴鄂比斯开亚阿根廷银行 (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentina)< / ><>9.50< / ><>23.11< / ><>0.09< / >< / table>

<><>涨跌幅最大< / ><>收盘价< / ><>当日涨跌< / ><>当日涨跌%< / >< / ><>< colspan="4">上涨< / >< / ><><>Morgan Advanced Materials< / ><>2.90< / ><>0.25< / ><>8.43< / >< / ><><>Oxford Nanopore Technologies< / ><>2.13< / ><>0.13< / ><>8.27< / >< / ><><>Truophilot Group< / ><>2.48< / ><>0.14< / ><>6.16< / >< / ><><>RHI Magnosora< / ><>28.70< / ><>1.85< / ><>6.10< / >< / ><><>Barric Classifieds Group< / ><>1.99< / ><>0.11< / ><>5.84< / >< / ><>< colspan="4">下跌< / >< / ><><>Airtel Africa< / ><>2.90< / ><>-0.19< / ><>-8.27< / >< / ><><>沃达丰 (Vodafone)< / ><>1.19< / ><>-0.06< / ><>-4.86< / >< / ><><>SSP Group< / ><>1.80< / ><>-0.08< / ><>-4.10< / >< / ><><>France

Group< / ><>3.57< / ><>-0.14< / ><>-3.77< / >< / ><><>Rightmove< / ><>4.31< / ><>-0.12< / ><>-2.41< / >< / table>

货币

<><>活跃股票< / ><>成交量 m / s< / ><>收盘价< / ><>当日涨跌< / >< / ><><>日本电信电话 (Nappon Tel & Tel)< / ><>152.03< / ><>172.90< / ><>0.80< / >< / ><><>东京海上控股 (Tokio Marine Hldgs)< / ><>94.68< / ><>525.70< / ><>7.80< / >< / ><><>EarthBank Corp< / ><>72.26< / ><>5883.00< / ><>-237.00< / >< / ><><>软银公司 (SoftBank Corp)< / ><>69.65< / ><>242.00< / ><>0.70< / >< / ><><>Metalsbury UFJ< / ><>34.40< / ><>3462.00< / ><>-43.00< / >< / ><><>日产汽车 (Nissan Motor Co)< / ><>33.02< / ><>284.00< / ><>1.00< / >< / ><><>富士通 (Fujitsu)< / ><>29.91< / ><>5413.00< / ><>-99.00< / >< / ><><>日本制铁 (Nappon Steel)< / ><>26.20< / ><>629.40< / ><>-1.90< / >< / ><><>东京电力 (Tokyo Electric Power)< / ><>26.18< / ><>520.80< / ><>6.20< / >< / ><><>东京电电 (Tokyo Yuden)< / ><>22.46< / ><>1135.00< / ><>168.00< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="4">涨跌幅最大< / >< / ><><>< / ><>收盘价< / ><>当日涨跌< / ><>当日涨跌%< / >< / ><>< colspan="4">上涨< / >< / ><><>Arcelor Metal< / ><>57.28< / ><>3.08< / ><>5.64< / >< / ><><>Wolters Kluwer CIA< / ><>75.00< / ><>3.22< / ><>4.49< / >< / ><><>Capgemini< / ><>115.05< / ><>4.20< / ><>3.75< / >< / ><><>SAP< / ><>191.46< / ><>6.84< / ><>3.70< / >< / ><><>Sonora Holding< / ><>264.60< / ><>9.20< / ><>3.60< / >< / ><>< colspan="4">下跌< / >< / ><><>德国电信 (Deutsche Telekom)< / ><>24.70< / ><>-2.13< / ><>-7.94< / >< / ><><>西班牙电信 (Telefonica)< / ><>3.25< / ><>-0.18< / ><>-4.61< / >< / ><><>Telia

Co< / ><>43.40< / ><>-1.69< / ><>-3.75< / >< / ><><>意法半导体 (STMicroelectronics)< / ><>48.55< / ><>-1.44< / ><>-3.00< / >< / ><><>CMV< / ><>71.95< / ><>-2.15< / ><>-2.00< / >< / table>

富时 100 (FTSE 100)< / td><>pre估值< / ><>周涨跌幅%< / ><>年初至今涨跌幅%< / ><>P< / >< / tr><>< colspan="5">上涨榜< / >< / ><><>Experian< / ><>26.82< / ><>9.16< / ><>-33.25< / ><>A< / >< / ><><>Imperial Brands< / ><>26.62< / ><>8.98< / ><>-14.65< / ><>B< / >< / ><><>The Sage Grp< / ><>10.71< / ><>8.98< / ><>-1.06< / ><>C< / >< / ><><>RELX< / ><>27.20< / ><>7.58< / ><>-9.93< / ><>B< / >< / ><><>伦敦证券交易所 (Lon Stock Ex.)< / ><>88.34< / ><>7.47< / ><>-2.98< / ><>R< / >< / ><><>特易购 (Tesco)< / ><>5.04< / ><>7.42< / ><>14.03< / ><>N< / >< / ><><>Halace< / ><>3.49< / ><>6.37< / ><>-6.82< / ><>L< / >< / ><><>JD Sports Fashion< / ><>8.84< / ><>6.08< / ><>0.05< / ><>C< / >< / ><><>英美烟草 (Brit. Amer. Tobacco)< / ><>41.34< / ><>5.51< / ><>-0.47< / ><>V< / >< / ><><>Alicolor Group< / ><>4.89< / ><>5.85< / ><>-16.66< / ><>C< / >< / table>

<><>最大涨跌幅< / ><>收盘价< / ><>当日涨跌< / ><>当日涨跌幅%< / >< / ><>< colspan="4">上涨< / >< / ><><>Natmax Research Inc< / ><>5813.00< / ><>272.00< / ><>5.09< / >< / ><><>Trent Mills< / ><>7587.00< / ><>355.00< / ><>4.81< / >< / ><><>Socor Holdings< / ><>16548.00< / ><>635.00< / ><>3.99< / >< / ><><>日本烟草 (Japan Tobacco)< / ><>1230.00< / ><>270.00< / ><>3.84< / >< / ><><>任天堂 (Nintendo)< / ><>8146.00< / ><>295.00< / ><>3.76< / >< / ><>< colspan="4">下跌< / >< / ><><>迅销 (First Retailing Co)< / ><>71760.00< / ><>-3020.00< / ><>-4.04< / >< / ><><>Riversas Elec< / ><>3800.00< / ><>-150.00< / ><>-4.00< / >< / ><><>旭化成 (Asahi Kashi)< / ><>1585.50< / ><>-85.00< / ><>-3.94< / >< / ><><>软银集团 (SoftBank Grp Corp)< / ><>5803.00< / ><>-237.00< / ><>-3.92< / >< / ><><>村田制作所 (Murata Manufacturing Co)< / ><>7070.00< / ><>-297.00< / ><>-3.59< / >< / table>

<><>富时 250 (FTSE 250)< / ><>价格(£)< / ><>周涨跌幅%< / ><>年初至今涨跌幅%< / >< / ><>< colspan="4">上涨榜< / >< / ><><>Avon Technologies< / ><>23.30< / ><>23.80< / ><>26.45< / >< / ><><>Bridgepoint Group< / ><>4.02< / ><>21.17< / ><>41.58< / >< / ><><>Cusco < / ><>2.97< / ><>14.86< / ><>25.68< / >< / ><><>Beltic Classifieds < / ><>1.99< / ><>13.75< / ><>-1.92< / >< / ><><>Rightmove< / ><>4.91< / ><>8.40< / ><>-5.60< / >< / ><><>Merry < / ><>1.96< / ><>7.64< / ><>1.14< / >< / ><><>Footstart < / ><>2.48< / ><>1.63< / ><>50.97< / >< / ><><>Claricon< / ><>54.05< / ><>1.46< / ><>41.58< / >< / ><><>Wilmington (LC)< / ><>9.82< / ><>7.38< / ><>33.22< / >< / ><><>CMC Market< / ><>6.78< / ><>1.28< / ><>126.78< / >< / table>

<><>行业板块< / ><>价格(£)< / ><>周涨跌幅%< / ><>年度涨跌幅%< / >< / ><>< colspan="4">上涨榜< / >< / ><><>金融与信贷服务< / ><>1396.13< / ><>7.08< / ><>-3.77< / >< / ><><>消费者数字服务< / ><>178.30< / ><>7.03< / ><>-6.73< / >< / ><><>软件与计算机服务< / ><>1934.50< / ><>7.01< / ><>-5.26< / >< / ><><>技术< / ><>1894.47< / ><>6.90< / ><>-4.94< / >< / ><><>烟草< / ><>45880.06< / ><>6.47< / ><>-3.42< / >< / ><><>石油、天然气与煤炭< / ><>11926.86< / ><>5.35< / ><>37.22< / >< / ><><>能源< / ><>12539.40< / ><>5.31< / ><>37.26< / >< / ><><>房地产投资与服务< / ><>1972.88< / ><>5.23< / ><>-7.88< / >< / ><><>消费者服务< / ><>4138.45< / ><>5.13< / ><>-0.21< / >< / ><><>个人护理、药品与杂货< / ><>4630.42< / ><>4.66< / ><>-1.90< / >< / table>

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FUSE 小盘股价格 (£)周涨跌幅 %年初至今涨跌幅 %
上涨榜
Yellow Oil3.1135.3874.55
Kernando Resources2.2523.48-8.70
Aston Martin Llegenda3.4719.74-25.48
Blackrock Latin American Inv Tgt4.7314.2517.08
Capita2.359.61-42.05
ASA International2.450.4129.29
US Property Services2.846.480.38
Focus3.286.11-41.27
EnQuest3.285.97167.53
Utica Emerging Mkts2.964.9810.04
下跌榜下跌榜下跌榜
Barson Retchow2.90-6.74-33.80Pennan Group3.57-22.18-32.33The Smart Water Stock Company0.63-21.2583.80Alternative Energy39.37-11.48
Vodafone1.18-6.8819.69Taylor Wimpey0.73-8.78-31.68Hootchkurt Group0.89-11.08-28.80Tech Hardware & Equip134.12-7.26
Lion Finance123.80-6.6433.13Vistry Group2.19-8.44-65.89Ginger Country0.50-9.09-18.67World Goods & Home Care7816.78-6.42
Berkshire Equity8.76-6.5623.21Unity Group4.23-8.33-34.36The Beauty Tech Group4.32-6.0848.97Aerospace & Defense23872.47-5.04
Rolls-Royce13.85-6.2320.45Dellkey19.46-7.4120.01Noblemark1.59-7.40-12.90Industrial Serv. Food Services328.68-4.78
3i Group24.02-5.99-35.38Raspberry Holdings0.64-7.26121.25Spence Hldg0.14-6.07-44.72Telecommunications3574.86-4.70
Jard Caro Airlines4.16-5.730.38Inchcape8.67-7.17-10.73ASOS4.86-6.43-84.37Leisure Goods38597.31-4.64
Aristal Africa2.93-5.66-18.30Hill & Smith30.50-6.7342.52Baker Road Resources Ltd.1.31-6.4369.03Construction & Materials15791.35-3.68
Mindsor Ind4.45-5.43-24.46Texas Partners5.50-6.67-13.52Sandfield0.37-5.6239.72Banks8662.29-3.11
Games Works103.93-4.65-13.37Metro Bank1.56-5.8529.52Boutok3.77-5.57-44.70Industrials11378.04-2.31

10月09日< / td>< colspan="3">美元< / >< colspan="3">欧元< / >< colspan="3">英镑< / >< / tr><><>收盘中价< / ><>当日涨跌< / ><>周涨跌< / > < / ><><>阿根廷比索< / ><>1515.7844< / ><>-3.4514< / ><>-9.1043< / ><>1907.6543< / ><>-5.8308< / ><>-22.8468< / ><>2084.6785< / ><>-4.7245< / ><>-15.5480< / >< / ><><>澳大利亚元< / ><>1.4337< / ><>-0.3026< / ><>-0.0011< / ><>1.8052< / ><>-0.0046< / ><>-0.0131< / ><>1.9841< / ><>-0.0035< / ><>-0.0044< / >< / ><><>巴林第纳尔< / ><>8.3776< / ><>0.0004< / ><>0.0008< / ><>8.4228< / ><>-< / ><>-0.0025< / ><>8.4985< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>玻利维亚比索< / ><>11.8930< / ><>-< / ><>0.0000< / ><>13.2673< / ><>-0.0142< / ><>-0.1547< / ><>15.6723< / ><>-0.0072< / ><>-0.0054< / >< / ><><>巴西雷亚尔< / ><>4.9888< / ><>-0.8252< / ><>0.2451< / ><>5.5852< / ><>-0.0042< / ><>-0.3176< / ><>9.5953< / ><>-0.0338< / ><>-0.3362< / >< / ><><>加拿大元< / ><>1.4275< / ><>0.0046< / ><>0.6561< / ><>1.9862< / ><>0.0001< / ><>-0.6872< / ><>1.8679< / ><>0.0058< / ><>0.0021< / >< / ><><>智利比索< / ><>876.358< / ><>-3.4558< / ><>-1.2898< / ><>1051.3078< / ><>-3.9831< / ><>-16.4556< / ><>13.8309< / ><>-3.1396< / ><>-12.9969< / >< / ><><>人民币< / ><>6.9922< / ><>-0.0093< / ><>-0.0171< / ><>7.4872< / ><>-0.0164< / ><>-0.0704< / ><>8.8588< / ><>-0.0128< / ><>-0.0328< / >< / ><><>哥伦比亚比索< / ><>3152.0400< / ><>-32.8688< / ><>-74.1908< / ><>3573.9081< / ><>-46.6598< / ><>-110.1306< / ><>5221.0227< / ><>-43.7816< / ><>-105.5293< / >< / ><><>哥斯达黎加科朗< / ><>454.0000< / ><>-2.5000< / ><>3.5800< / ><>588.2997< / ><>-3.3467< / ><>-7.7156< / ><>808.4384< / ><>-3.3519< / ><>-5.6910< / >< / ><><>捷克克朗< / ><>21.7730< / ><>0.0202< / ><>0.1878< / ><>24.3770< / ><>0.0036< / ><>-0.0990< / ><>26.7858< / ><>0.0245< / ><>0.0029< / >< / ><><>丹麦克朗< / ><>6.5761< / ><>0.0066< / ><>0.0491< / ><>7.4745< / ><>-0.0004< / ><>-< / ><>8.2264< / ><>0.0083< / ><>0.0486< / >< / ><><>埃及镑< / ><>72.4379< / ><>-0.6388< / ><>0.0603< / ><>10.6393< / ><>-0.0965< / ><>-0.3470< / ><>13.7819< / ><>-0.9449< / ><>-0.6388< / >< / ><><>香港元< / ><>7.8479< / ><>-0.0004< / ><>0.0005< / ><>8.7868< / ><>-0.0098< / ><>-0.0648< / ><>13.3795< / ><>-0.0013< / ><>-0.0174< / >< / ><><>匈牙利福林< / ><>328.5675< / ><>0.1712< / ><>0.2308< / ><>365.6256< / ><>-0.2006< / ><>-2.4508< / ><>431.8018< / ><>3.1038< / ><>-0.4450< / >< / ><><>印度比索< / ><>96.7313< / ><>-0.5559< / ><>0.4368< / ><>138.5903< / ><>-0.1778< / ><>-0.7432< / ><>127.8293< / ><>-0.8824< / ><>0.3560< / >< / table>

FTSE 精算师股票指数

<>< rowspan="2" colspan="2">Rolles< / >< colspan="3">美元< / >< colspan="3">欧元< / >< colspan="3">英镑< / >< / ><><>收盘中价< / ><>当日涨跌< / ><>周涨跌< / > < / ><><>15400< / ><>印尼卢比< / ><>17869.0000< / ><>15.0000< / ><>7.0000< / ><>2018.4488< / ><>-38.2893< / ><>-140.5090< / ><>25447.1950< / ><>-21.6280< / ><>-31.8500< / >< / ><><>30440< / ><>以色列谢克尔< / ><>3.0634< / ><>-0.0002< / ><>0.0101< / ><>3.4297< / ><>-0.0039< / ><>-0.0140< / ><>4.0515< / ><>-0.0005< / ><>0.0064< / >< / ><><>30540< / ><>Jupiahara< / >

日元< / td> 158.4150< / ><>0.2000< / ><>0.7400< / ><>177.3614< / ><>0.0241< / ><>-0.4002< / ><>209.5318< / ><>0.2406< / ><>0.6160< / >< / tr> <>30540< / ><>Kanyan Shilling< / ><>129.7000< / ><>-0.1500< / ><>-0.0500< / ><>143.2122< / ><>-0.0337< / ><>-1.1329< / ><>171.5404< / ><>0.2114< / ><>-0.3645< / >< / ><><>3362< / ><>Kuwait Shar< / ><>0.3111< / ><>0.0001< / ><>0.0222< / ><>0.3463< / ><>-0.0002< / ><>-0.0001< / ><>0.4114< / ><>0.0001< / ><>0.0022< / >< / ><><>3302< / ><>Malaysian Pongo< / ><>4.0650< / ><>-0.0005< / ><>0.0000< / ><>4.5136< / ><>-0.0121< / ><>-0.0333< / ><>5.4205< / ><>-0.0090< / ><>-0.0089< / >< / ><><>3302< / ><>Peru

Gren< / ><>16.3805< / ><>-0.0005< / ><>0.2355< / ><>25.5298< / ><>-0.1413< / ><>0.1111< / ><>24.3001< / ><>0.5119< / ><>0.2630< / >< / ><><>3329< / ><>New Zealand Dollar< / ><>1.7630< / ><>-0.0009< / ><>0.0552< / ><>1.9971< / ><>-0.0032< / ><>-0.0088< / ><>2.2592< / ><>-0.0014< / ><>0.0029< / >< / ><><>3329< / ><>Nagasaki Pizza< / ><>1330.7000< / ><>-0.3000< / ><>0.0000< / ><>1489.6518< / ><>-2.0239< / ><>-0.9559< / ><>1759.9176< / ><>-0.6357< / ><>-1.6264< / >< / ><><>6913< / ><>Norwegian Krone< / ><>9.5177< / ><>0.0009< / ><>-0.1636< / ><>10.7165< / ><>-0.0015< / ><>-0.1200< / ><>12.8591< / ><>0.0109< / ><>-0.0686< / >< / ><><>2929< / ><>Pakistan

Rupee< / ><>276.9250< / ><>-< / ><>-0.0500< / ><>310.0453< / ><>-0.2023< / ><>-2.3549< / ><>366.2471< / ><>-0.0277< / ><>-0.7032< / >< / ><><>4588< / ><>Paraguay New Sol< / ><>4.5450< / ><>0.0143< / ><>0.0181< / ><>3.8891< / ><>-0.0119< / ><>-0.0082< / ><>4.5705< / ><>0.0786< / ><>-0.1931< / >< / ><><>3489< / ><>Russian Tobacco< / ><>52.8978< / ><>0.0983< / ><>0.2369< / ><>70.2516< / ><>-0.1782< / ><>-0.2276< / ><>80.8527< / ><>-0.1252< / ><>0.2908< / >< / ><><>3174< / ><>Polish duty< / ><>3.9186< / ><>0.0102< / ><>0.0368< / ><>4.3872< / ><>-0.0068< / ><>0.0088< / ><>5.1825< / ><>-0.0131< / ><>0.0395< / >< / ><><>4561< / ><>Romanian

Lira< / ><>4.7710< / ><>0.0010< / ><>0.0274< / ><>3.2417< / ><>-0.0046< / ><>-0.0097< / ><>6.3100< / ><>0.0008< / ><>0.0253< / >< / ><><>3562< / ><>Russian Ruble< / ><>94.7300< / ><>-0.3000< / ><>1.0000< / ><>94.8862< / ><>-0.4279< / ><>-0.4245< / ><>112.0863< / ><>-0.4052< / ><>1.1300< / >< / table>

富时行业指数:领涨与领跌

英国近期配股发行

公司名称 Petra Diamonds Ltd

基础百分比变化项目< / td>< / tr><><>技术硬件与设备< / ><>121.38< / >< / ><><>替代能源< / ><>79.06< / >< / ><><>能源< / ><>37.28< / >< / ><><>石油、天然气与煤炭< / ><>37.22< / >< / ><><>工业金属与采矿< / ><>35.23< / >< / ><><>医疗保健提供商< / ><>27.85< / >< / ><><>非寿险< / ><>27.64< / >< / ><><>基础监测设备< / ><>25.29< / >< / ><><>工业运输< / ><>18.82< / >< / ><><>化学品< / ><>16.13< / >< / ><><>电子与电气设备< / ><>16.32< / >< / ><><>建筑与材料< / ><>15.25< / >< / ><><>航空航天及其他< / ><>12.61< / >< / ><><>通用工业< / ><>12.92< / >< / ><><>电信私人提供商< / ><>12.87< / >< / ><><>电信< / ><>12.87< / >< / ><><>Cloud Dot 投资< / ><>11.64< / >< / ><><>半导体< / ><>9.31< / >< / ><><>电力< / ><>9.13< / >< / table>

<>< rowspan="2">10月09日< / >< colspan="4">美元< / >< colspan="3">欧元< / >< colspan="2">英镑< / >< / ><><>收盘中价< / ><>当日涨跌< / ><>当周涨跌< / > < / ><><>沙特里亚尔< / ><>3.7558< / ><>0.0004< / ><>0.0013< / ><>4.2959< / ><>-0.0029< / ><>-0.0297< / ><>4.9972< / ><>0.0014< / ><>-0.0070< / >< / ><><>新加坡元< / ><>1.2812< / ><>-0.0003< / ><>0.0034< / ><>1.4346< / ><>-0.0011< / ><>-0.0097< / ><>1.6946< / ><>0.0003< / ><>0.0016< / >< / ><><>南非兰特< / ><>16.5375< / ><>-0.0081< / ><>-0.0006< / ><>18.5154< / ><>-0.1157< / ><>-0.2356< / ><>21.8779< / ><>-0.1195< / ><>-0.1581< / >< / ><><>韩国韩元< / ><>17.4300< / ><>-0.2600< / ><>-0.0006< / ><>19.9233< / ><>0.3444< / ><>-19.6667< / ><>21.7525< / ><>-0.4100< / ><>-13.3555< / >< / ><><>瑞典克朗< / ><>18.9026< / ><>0.0165< / ><>-0.0118< / ><>21.1000< / ><>0.6885< / ><>-0.1130< / ><>23.2362< / ><>0.0232< / ><>-0.0441< / >< / ><><>瑞士法郎< / ><>0.0014< / ><>-0.0015< / ><>0.0029< / ><>0.9307< / ><>-0.0027< / ><>-0.0038< / ><>1.0995< / ><>-0.0021< / ><>0.0018< / >< / ><><>台湾第纳尔< / ><>31.8305< / ><>< / ><>0.0095< / ><>35.7494< / ><>-0.0083< / ><>-0.2118< / ><>42.2286< / ><>-0.0032< / ><>-0.0044< / >< / ><><>泰铢< / ><>33.3356< / ><>-0.1500< / ><>-0.0025< / ><>37.5497< / ><>-0.0064< / ><>-0.3151< / ><>44.3517< / ><>-0.0017< / ><>-0.1332< / >< / ><><>Taleon 爱尔兰< / ><>3.8503< / ><>0.0000< / ><>0.0147< / ><>3.9447< / ><>-0.0028< / ><>-0.0068< / ><>4.9742< / ><>0.0009< / ><>0.0174< / >< / ><><>土耳其里拉< / ><>49.3423< / ><>0.1275< / ><>0.1075< / ><>55.2436< / ><>0.0837< / ><>-0.1698< / ><>65.2576< / ><>0.1837< / ><>0.1482< / >< / ><><>阿联酋迪拉姆< / ><>3.6730< / ><>0.0002< / ><>0.0003< / ><>4.1123< / ><>-0.0042< / ><>-0.0302< / ><>4.8578< / ><>< / ><>-0.0080< / >< / ><><>英镑< / ><>0.7801< / ><>0.0001< / ><>0.0013< / ><>0.8488< / ><>-0.0008< / ><>-0.0048< / ><>1.0836< / ><>< / >< / ><><>英国美元< / ><>1.8888< / ><>< / ><>2.1198< / ><>-0.0012< / ><>-0.0062< / ><>3.2225< / ><>-0.0001< / ><>-0.0023< / >< / ><><>委内瑞拉< / >

第纳尔< / td> 25881.0000< / ><>-18.5000< / ><>-104.5000< / ><>28076.3670< / ><>-51.749< / ><>-332.6706< / ><>34228.8170< / ><>-27.0590< / ><>-187.9130< / >< / tr> <>欧元< / ><>0.8832< / ><>-0.0010< / ><>0.8006< / ><>1.0000< / ><>< / ><>1.1812< / ><>-0.0011< / ><>0.0068< / >< / table>

富时全球指数 (FTSE GLOBAL INDICES)

事件 配股:每 17 股配 10 股,年利率 16.5p,须在 11 月 21 日(或 07.11.25)前全额支付。

<><>10 月 09 日区域与国家< / ><>股票数量< / ><>美元指数< / ><>当日 % 变化< / ><>当月 % 变化< / ><>年初至今 % 变化< / ><>美元总回报< / ><>年初至今 % 总回报< / ><>总股息率< / >< / ><>< colspan="9">富时全球指数< / >< / ><><>全球< / ><>10218< / ><>1253.18< / ><>-0.65< / ><>-1.34< / ><>11.89< / ><>2168.07< / ><>13.47< / ><>1.61< / >< / ><><>全球大盘股< / ><>1742< / ><>1183.99< / ><>-0.89< / ><>-0.65< / ><>12.50< / ><>2107.62< / ><>14.02< / ><>1.48< / >< / ><><>全球中盘股< / ><>2461< / ><>1404.62< / ><>0.16< / ><>-2.73< / ><>11.09< / ><>2305.05< / ><>12.88< / ><>2.03< / >< / ><><>全球小盘股< / ><>6915< / ><>1397.40< / ><>-0.20< / ><>-4.15< / ><>8.84< / ><>2172.98< / ><>10.46< / ><>1.85< / >< / ><><>全球除

欧元区< / ><>9613< / ><>1335.12< / ><>-0.64< / ><>-0.81< / ><>12.71< / ><>2250.62< / ><>14.40< / ><>1.52< / >< / ><><>全球除中国< / ><>7902< / ><>4238.43< / ><>-0.63< / ><>-1.22< / ><>12.82< / ><>7025.10< / ><>14.40< / ><>1.59< / >< / ><><>全球除美国< / ><>8673< / ><>797.85< / ><>-1.04< / ><>-4.77< / ><>9.71< / ><>1590.97< / ><>12.17< / ><>2.50< / >< / ><><>全球除英国< / ><>9996< / ><>1330.97< / ><>-0.66< / ><>-1.18< / ><>12.19< / ><>2253.28< / ><>13.72< / ><>1.56< / >< / ><><>全球除日本< / ><>8988< / ><>1308.56< / ><>-0.59< / ><>-1.32< / ><>11.50< / ><>2281.06< / ><>13.03< / ><>1.58< / >< / ><>< colspan="9">富时区域

指数< / >< / ><><>美洲< / ><>1987< / ><>1769.91< / ><>-0.37< / ><>0.53< / ><>13.02< / ><>2740.43< / ><>14.10< / ><>1.19< / >< / ><><>亚太地区< / ><>6431< / ><>916.99< / ><>-1.63< / ><>-2.96< / ><>17.76< / ><>1653.64< / ><>19.98< / ><>2.04< / >< / ><><>亚太地区除日本< / ><>5081< / ><>1147.02< / ><>-1.67< / ><>-3.59< / ><>17.44< / ><>2338.78< / ><>19.55< / ><>2.05< / >< / ><><>欧洲< / ><>1434< / ><>663.13< / ><>-0.63< / ><>-7.26< / ><>1.05< / ><>1428.59< / ><>3.76< / ><>2.94< / >< / ><><>欧洲除

英国< / ><>1212< / ><>763.45< / ><>-0.78< / ><>-7.72< / ><>0.41< / ><>1587.99< / ><>3.11< / ><>2.87< / >< / ><><>欧生 (Eurolife)< / ><>805< / ><>688.63< / ><>-0.76< / ><>-8.03< / ><>1.03< / ><>1468.64< / ><>2.64< / ><>2.85< / >< / ><><>航空传感 (Aerosen)< / ><>402< / ><>722.55< / ><>-2.29< / ><>-7.22< / ><>2.38< / ><>1611.18< / ><>6.35< / ><>4.72< / >< / ><>< colspan="9">富时发达市场指数< / >< / ><><>发达市场< / ><>5370< / ><>1301.67< / ><>-0.57< / ><>-1.16< / ><>12.26< / ><>2225.32< / ><>13.76< / ><>1.52< / >< / ><><>发达市场除北美< / ><>3838< / ><>747.32< / ><>-1.11< / ><>-5.41< / ><>10.49< / ><>1910.86< / ><>13.14< / ><>2.57< / >< / ><><>季度 季度< / ><>股票数量< / ><>美元指数< / ><>当日 % 变化< / ><>当月 % 变化< / ><>年初至今 % 变化< / ><>美元总回报< / ><>年初至今 % 总

回报< / ><>总股息率< / >< / table>

工业< / td><>8.78< / ><>烟草< / ><>-3.42< / >< / tr><><>媒体< / ><>6.46< / ><>贵金属与采矿< / ><>-3.84< / >< / ><><>饮料< / ><>6.13< / ><>金融与信贷服务< / ><>-3.77< / >< / ><><>金融< / ><>6.13< / ><>< / >< / ><><>金融(含公司)< / ><>5.62< / ><>技术< / ><>-4.94< / >< / ><><>服务< / ><>4.98< / ><>软件与计算机产品< / ><>-5.26< / >< / ><><>公用事业< / ><>3.40< / ><>人寿保险< / ><>-5.63< / >< / ><><>工业工程< / ><>3.27< / ><>< / >< / ><><>生物技术< / ><>3.01< / ><>消费者数字服务< / ><>-6.73< / >< / ><><>旅游与休闲< / ><>2.82< / ><>投资银行与经纪< / ><>-7.42< / >< / ><><>食品< / ><>1.47< / ><>个人用品< / ><>-7.81< / >< / ><><>燃气、水与多城市< / ><>1.43< / ><>房地产投资与产品< / ><>-7.88< / >< / ><><>消费者服务< / ><>-0.21< / ><>制药与生物技术< / ><>-10.05< / >< / ><><>消费者必需品< / ><>-0.80< / ><>< / >< / ><><>房地产投资信托< / ><>-1.24< / ><>医疗保健< / ><>-10.16< / >< / ><><>消费者可选消费< / ><>1.26< / ><>休闲用品< / ><>-14.01< / >< / ><><>个人护理、药物与手术< / ><>-1.50< / ><>医疗设备与产品< / ><>-14.96< / >< / ><><>房地产< / ><>-2.20< / ><>< / >< / ><><>工业支持服务< / ><>2.87< / ><>利润产品与家居护理< / ><>-28.83< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="9">数字信息服务< / >< / ><><>软件与计算机服务< / ><>527< / ><>3711.94< / ><>-0.83< / ><>5.20< / ><>3.39< / ><>4519.56< / ><>3.88< / ><>0.54< / >< / ><><>媒体< / ><>153< / ><>790.32< / ><>1.94< / ><>-2.23< / ><>-13.19< / ><>1137.39< / ><>-12.52< / ><>1.06< / >< / ><>< colspan="9">技术< / >< / ><><>半导体< / ><>300< / ><>950.41< / ><>-3.11< / ><>3.14< / ><>52.36< / ><>1041.04< / ><>53.04< / ><>0.54< / >< / ><><>技术硬件与设备< / ><>766< / ><>7350.10< / ><>-2.60< / ><>4.04< / ><>51.27< / ><>10595.16< / ><>51.97< / ><>0.53< / >< / ><><>技术< / ><>1293< / ><>5171.25< / ><>-1.51< / ><>4.47< / ><>28.95< / ><>6783.30< / ><>29.56< / ><>0.53< / >< / ><><>生物技术< / ><>216< / ><>119.88< / ><>-2.42< / ><>-4.14< / ><>12.79< / ><>122.22< / ><>13.14< / ><>0.28< / >< / ><><>电信设备< / ><>112< / ><>576.92< / ><>2.44< / ><>1.50< / ><>72.57< / ><>867.71< / ><>73.99< / ><>0.77< / >< / ><><>电信< / ><>257< / ><>549.38< / ><>-1.61< / ><>-2.58< / ><>32.97< / ><>1357.28< / ><>35.44< / ><>1.96< / >< / ><><>电信服务提供商 145< / ><>435< / ><>435.85< / ><>-0.44< / ><>-6.85< / ><>-0.00< / ><>975.59< / ><>2.46< / ><>3.62< / >< / ><><>电子与电气设备< / ><>361< / ><>2087.75< / ><>-1.20< / ><>-1.18< / ><>22.91< / ><>3026.73< / ><>24.05< / ><>0.94< / >< / ><>< colspan="9">金融< / >< / ><><>金融与信贷服务< / ><>111< / ><>834.84< / ><>0.87< / ><>-8.90< / ><>-16.75< / ><>1309.97< / ><>-14.64< / ><>1.07< / >< / ><><>金融< / ><>11603< / ><>685.65< / ><>-0.39< / ><>-7.18< / ><>3.76< / ><>1454.40< / ><>6.44< / ><>2.91< / >< / ><><>人寿保险< / ><>71< / ><>634.73< / ><>-0.28< / ><>-5.64< / ><>8.74< / ><>1351.89< / ><>10.20< / ><>3.46< / >< / ><><>银行< / ><>497< / ><>524.06< / ><>-1.01< / ><>-8.00< / ><>8.06< / ><>117.82< / ><>11.24< / ><>3.45< / >< / ><><>抵押房地产投资< / >

Tots< / td> < / ><>80.17< / ><>1.77< / ><>-18.62< / ><>-22.90< / ><>1177.82< / ><>-17.82< / ><>1.74< / >< / tr> <>房地产投资者< / ><>125< / ><>1034.63< / ><>1.03< / ><>-4.55< / ><>9.10< / ><>1871.71< / ><>3.25< / ><>2.78< / >< / ><><>投资银行与经纪服务< / ><>349< / ><>1187.49< / ><>0.02< / ><>-6.72< / ><>-0.39< / ><>1912.92< / ><>1.08< / ><>1.74< / >< / ><><>交易处理服务< / ><>55< / ><>144.54< / ><>0.85< / ><>-1.32< / ><>-3.10< / ><>151.69< / ><>-2.44< / ><>0.86< / >< / ><>< colspan="9">房地产< / >< / ><><>房地产< / ><>642< / ><>674.44< / ><>0.23< / ><>-6.94< / ><>-4.18< / ><>1073.76< / ><>-1.28< / ><>4.02< / >< / ><><>房地产投资与服务< / ><>319< / ><>321.90< / ><>0.05< / ><>-7.44< / ><>-15.14< / ><>883.64< / ><>-13.12< / ><>2.94< / >< / ><><>房地产投资总计< / ><>323< / ><>520.30< / ><>0.28< / ><>-6.78< / ><>-0.09< / ><>1435.74< / ><>3.15< / ><>4.36< / >< / ><>< colspan="9">消费品与服务< / >< / ><><>消费者数字服务< / ><>94< / ><>336.29< / ><>-0.72< / ><>5.10< / ><>3.57< / ><>347.14< / ><>3.85< / ><>0.32< / >< / ><><>消费者杂货< / ><>1486< / ><>1185.50< / ><>-0.12< / ><>-2.73< / ><>-6.96< / ><>1845.55< / ><>-6.69< / ><>1.26< / >< / ><><>消费者服务< / ><>70< / ><>1344.48< / ><>1.44< / ><>-2.06< / ><>-7.43< / ><>1835.35< / ><>-6.77< / ><>0.90< / >< / ><><>消费者必需品< / ><>612< / ><>810.61< / ><>1.47< / ><>-2.26< / ><>2.45< / ><>1744.25< / ><>5.02< / ><>3.12< / >< / ><><>零售商< / ><>263< / ><>1913.14< / ><>-0.41< / ><>-1.05< / ><>-0.81< / ><>2630.95< / ><>1.46< / ><>0.83< / >< / ><><>宠物护理、药品与杂货服务< / ><>196< / ><>553.84< / ><>1.20< / ><>-1.00< / ><>-0.52< / ><>826.65< / ><>1.60< / ><>2.58< / >< / ><><>个人用品< / ><>138< / ><>725.04< / ><>-0.70< / ><>-8.11< / ><>-2.19< / ><>181.19< / ><>-0.98< / ><>2.29< / >< / ><><>休闲用品< / ><>153< / ><>627.14< / ><>-1.01< / ><>-2.67< / ><>-3.23< / ><>900.58< / ><>-1.95< / ><>1.50< / >< / ><><>旅游与休闲< / ><>293< / ><>1586.04< / ><>0.92< / ><>-5.14< / ><>-8.21< / ><>1622.56< / ><>-8.05< / ><>1.73< / >< / table>

<><>10月08日< / ><>地区与国家< / ><>股票数量< / ><>美元指数< / ><>当日%变化< / ><>月%变化< / ><>年初至今%变化< / ><>美元总回报< / ><>年初至今%总回报< / ><>% 变化< / ><>股息率< / >< / ><><>发达国家(含加拿大)< / ><>5153< / ><>1308.82< / ><>-0.61< / ><>-1.00< / ><>12.45< / ><>2231.49< / ><>13.94< / ><>1.50< / ><>< / >< / ><><>发达国家(除欧洲)< / ><>4158< / ><>1538.18< / ><>-0.57< / ><>-0.08< / ><>14.41< / ><>2441.10< / ><>15.65< / ><>1.28< / ><>< / >< / ><><>发达国家(除欧元区)< / ><>4765< / ><>1401.65< / ><>-0.56< / ><>13.30< / ><>2324.78< / ><>14.69< / ><>1.41< / ><>< / >< / ><><>发达国家(除

美国< / td><>3825< / ><>776.64< / ><>-0.94< / ><>-5.44< / ><>10.08< / ><>1558.65< / ><>12.63< / ><>2.52< / ><>< / >< / tr> <>发达国家(除英国)< / ><>5149< / ><>1382.23< / ><>-0.18< / ><>12.66< / ><>2231.49< / ><>14.74< / ><>1.40< / ><>< / >< / ><><>发达国家(除日本)< / ><>4923< / ><>1370.41< / ><>-0.50< / ><>-1.13< / ><>11.85< / ><>2360.00< / ><>13.28< / ><>1.48< / ><>< / >< / ><><>发达国家亚太地区< / ><>2303< / ><>849.76< / ><>-1.72< / ><>-3.22< / ><>24.70< / ><>1532.17< / ><>27.23< / ><>2.14< / ><>< / >< / ><><>发达国家亚太地区(除日本)< / ><>2853< / ><>1108.97< / ><>-1.92< / ><>-5.17< / ><>33.42< / ><>2430.32< / ><>36.06< / ><>2.28< / ><>< / >< / ><><>发达国家(除日本)< / ><>2712< / ><>619.80< / ><>-0.82< / ><>-0.74< / ><>0.90< / ><>1648.95< / ><>3.00< / ><>2.08< / ><>< / >< / ><><>发达国家(除美国)< / ><>990< / ><>793.98< / ><>-0.78< / ><>-7.57< / ><>0.30< / ><>1648.95< / ><>3.01< / ><>2.86< / ><>< / >< / ><><>发达国家欧元区< / ><>605< / ><>684.08< / ><>-0.76< / ><>-8.02< / ><>0.82< / ><>1456.76< / ><>3.43< / ><>2.65< / ><>< / >< / ><><>发达国家欧亚太平洋地区< / ><>2515< / ><>749.09< / ><>-1.13< / ><>-5.29< / ><>10.48< / ><>1515.37< / ><>13.14< / ><>2.57< / ><>< / >< / ><>< colspan="11">富时新兴市场排放指数< / >< / ><><>新兴市场< / ><>4848< / ><>1079.72< / ><>-1.29< / ><>-2.92< / ><>8.70< / ><>2102.08< / ><>10.92< / ><>2.43< / ><>< / >< / ><><>新兴市场亚太地区< / ><>4128< / ><>1212.40< / ><>-1.52< / ><>-2.61< / ><>9.52< / ><>2219.96< / ><>11.40< / ><>1.91< / ><>< / >< / ><><>新兴市场欧洲< / ><>222< / ><>315.59< / ><>-0.71< / ><>-10.37< / ><>2.07< / ><>718.37< / ><>4.70< / ><>3.07< / ><>< / >< / ><><>新兴市场(含韩国)< / ><>5295< / ><>4301.61< / ><>-1.52< / ><>-3.09< / ><>18.00< / ><>7925.18< / ><>20.12< / ><>2.13< / ><>< / >< / ><><>新兴市场发达国家及重述 PV250 / pc< / ><>5278.68< / ><>-1.58< / ><>-1.52< / ><>-2.57< / ><>30.13< / ><>7447.24< / ><>14.89< / ><>2.43< / ><>< / >< / ><><>高级新兴市场< / ><>1198< / ><>1581.31< / ><>-1.02< / ><>0.86< / ><>45.13< / ><>3447.24< / ><>48.26< / ><>2.43< / ><>< / >< / ><><>次级新兴市场< / ><>3650< / ><>947.36< / ><>-1.58< / ><>-6.50< / ><>-14.30< / ><>1980.00< / ><>-12.63< / ><>2.43< / ><>< / >< / table>

<><>Oct 08< / ><>股票数量< / ><>美元指数< / ><>当日%变化< / ><>当月%变化< / ><>年初至今%变化< / ><>美元总回报< / ><>年初至今%总回报< / ><>总股息率< / >< / ><><>行业< / ><>< / >< / ><>< colspan="9">医疗保健< / >< / ><><>医疗保健< / ><>843< / ><>1154.31< / ><>-1.02< / ><>-1.17< / ><>4.05< / ><>1828.22< / ><>5.56< / ><>1.62< / >< / ><><>医疗保健服务提供商< / ><>114< / ><>1768.74< / ><>-0.81< / ><>-2.95< / ><>8.43< / ><>2213.50< / ><>9.80< / ><>1.58< / >< / ><><>医疗与生物技术< / ><>531< / ><>1071.51< / ><>1.33< / ><>-1.72< / ><>8.71< / ><>1772.66< / ><>10.55< / ><>1.63< / >< / ><><>医疗设备与< / >

服务< / td><>198< / ><>1649.46< / ><>-0.26< / ><>1.26< / ><>-9.30< / ><>2021.29< / ><>-8.54< / ><>1.01< / >< / tr> < colspan="9">农业食品与饮料< / >< / ><><>食品生产商< / ><>300< / ><>613.09< / ><>0.81< / ><>-6.20< / ><>-2.84< / ><>1102.93< / ><>0.14< / ><>3.36< / >< / ><><>饮料< / ><>103< / ><>640.25< / ><>1.89< / ><>-3.01< / ><>6.12< / ><>1513.21< / ><>8.42< / ><>2.99< / >< / ><>< colspan="9">能源< / >< / ><><>能源< / ><>376< / ><>716.35< / ><>2.30< / ><>-0.55< / ><>33.89< / ><>1556.88< / ><>37.21< / ><>2.94< / >< / ><><>电力< / ><>252< / ><>643.04< / ><>-0.33< / ><>-4.32< / ><>-0.82< / ><>1518.80< / ><>1.38< / ><>2.97< / >< / ><><>替代能源< / ><>90< / ><>96.50< / ><>0.03< / ><>-4.53< / ><>4.40< / ><>120.54< / ><>6.68< / ><>3.58< / >< / ><><>制药< / ><>69< / ><>363.55< / ><>-0.98< / ><>-4.03< / ><>-2.33< / ><>129.29< / ><>-2.41< / ><>4.41< / >< / ><><>石油与天然气< / ><>307< / ><>749.59< / ><>2.45< / ><>-0.96< / ><>36.22< / ><>1689.73< / ><>39.78< / ><>3.05< / >< / ><><>天然气、水及综合公用事业< / ><>119< / ><>681.35< / ><>0.27< / ><>-4.62< / ><>0.24< / ><>1723.63< / ><>3.08< / ><>3.69< / >< / ><><>公用事业< / ><>412< / ><>669.93< / ><>-0.12< / ><>-4.33< / ><>-0.61< / ><>1004.71< / ><>1.70< / ><>3.06< / >< / ><>< colspan="9">交通运输< / >< / ><><>汽车零部件< / ><>300< / ><>1039.18< / ><>-0.95< / ><>-3.07< / ><>14.53< / ><>1713.27< / ><>-13.35< / ><>1.56< / >< / ><><>工业运输< / ><>364< / ><>1351.29< / ><>0.44< / ><>-5.24< / ><>7.85< / ><>2395.03< / ><>10.00< / ><>2.39< / >< / ><>< colspan="9">工业< / >< / ><><>航空航天与国防< / ><>105< / ><>2691.82< / ><>-0.06< / ><>-8.26< / ><>-5.44< / ><>4100.81< / ><>-4.72< / ><>1.23< / >< / ><><>工业设备< / ><>347< / ><>2286.15< / ><>-1.94< / ><>-4.01< / ><>17.61< / ><>3648.68< / ><>18.54< / ><>1.41< / >< / ><><>工业材料< / ><>92< / ><>271.44< / ><>-0.34< / ><>-5.64< / ><>-2.42< / ><>539.32< / ><>-0.53< / ><>2.97< / >< / ><><>工业金属与采矿< / ><>386< / ><>1048.56< / ><>-1.39< / ><>-9.76< / ><>15.39< / ><>2097.77< / ><>17.63< / ><>2.40< / >< / ><><>工业支持服务< / ><>232< / ><>1268.38< / ><>1.01< / ><>-1.28< / ><>-1.46< / ><>1860.73< / ><>-0.32< / ><>1.33< / >< / ><><>工业< / ><>2102< / ><>1513.16< / ><>-0.37< / ><>-4.03< / ><>5.56< / ><>2422.32< / ><>8.88< / ><>1.50< / >< / ><><>通用工业< / ><>300< / ><>933.69< / ><>-0.81< / ><>-2.57< / ><>14.03< / ><>1677.26< / ><>15.69< / ><>1.63< / >< / ><>< colspan="9">资源与材料< / >< / ><><>基础材料< / ><>1035< / ><>1015.49< / ><>-0.58< / ><>-7.99< / ><>10.77< / ><>1887.93< / ><>12.84< / ><>2.20< / >< / ><><>化学品< / ><>453< / ><>1071.19< / ><>-0.90< / ><>-1.75< / ><>15.62< / ><>1929.66< / ><>18.04< / ><>2.11< / >< / ><><>建筑与材料< / ><>471< / ><>1343.85< / ><>-0.67< / ><>-6.54< / ><>-4.97< / ><>2144.63< / ><>-3.04< / ><>2.41< / >< / ><><>废物与处置服务< / ><>419< / ><>404.15< / ><>0.23< / ><>-3.25< / ><>-1.80< / ><>446.78< / ><>-0.73< / ><>1.32< / >< / ><><>贵金属与采矿< / ><>98< / ><>1407.93< / ><>0.62< / ><>-13.37< / ><>-0.91< / ><>2507.60< / ><>0.65< / ><>1.85< / >< / table>

富时100指数摘要

英国公司业绩

公司< / td><>营业额(E)< / >< / tr><><>Ashokia India Equity Inv Trust< / ><>Fin - (-)< / >< / ><><>Fidelity Emerging Markets S< / ><>Fin - (-)< / >< / ><><>JPMorgan Global Growth & Income< / ><>Fin - (-)< / >< / ><><>Netcall< / ><>Fin 57.7m (48.0m)< / >< / ><><>Next 15 Group< / ><>Int 299.4m (318.1m)< / >< / ><><>Prestine Capital< / ><>Int - (-)< / >< / ><><>Scansoll< / ><>Int - (-4.7m)< / >< / ><><>Schroder Japan Trust< / ><>Fin - (-)< / >< / ><><>Tesco< / ><>Int 374亿 (360亿)< / >< / ><><>Voluation Grp*< / ><>Fin 484.8m (419.1m)< / >< / table>

英国近期新增股票

<><>< / ><>收盘价 (p)< / ><>%涨跌< / ><>< / ><>收盘价 (p)< / ><>%涨跌< / >< / ><><>INT Oil & Gas< / ><>9.80< / ><>-< / ><>Ferron Financial< / ><>145.00< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>Aimia< / ><>141.00< / ><>-< / ><>Marshall Helium< / ><>3.90< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>ARC Music Corp< / ><>167.50< / ><>-< / ><>Mondar Mining< / ><>123.50< / ><>1.23< / >< / ><><>Braze Resources< / ><>164.50< / ><>-< / ><>Falcons Power< / ><>25.50< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>Chelair Holdings< / ><>69.00< / ><>-< / ><>Rith Helium< / ><>6.40< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>Coastal Africa Group< / ><>200.00< / ><>-< / ><>Samal Resources< / ><>30.50< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>Consol Metals< / ><>104.50< / ><>8.48< / ><>Santana Energy< / ><>21.00< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>Duch Corp< / ><>426.00< / ><>-0.47< / ><>Sunbelt Rentals< / ><>5642.00< / ><>0.32< / >< / ><><>EDX Medical Group< / ><>8.00< / ><>6.57< / ><>Super Holdings< / ><>48.50< / ><>10.23< / >< / ><><>Halo Minerals< / ><>8.25< / ><>-< / ><>The Smarter Well Co< / ><>63.00< / ><>3.81< / >< / table>

<><>BHP Group< / ><>61.18< / ><>-1.25< / ><>68.77< / ><>40.17< / ><>3.95< / ><>31.61< / ><>311.10< / >< / ><><>Commonwealth Bank< / ><>148.12< / ><>-2.25< / ><>185.58< / ><>146.98< / ><>3.41< / ><>22.70< / ><>247.87< / >< / ><><>CSL Ltd< / ><>101.46< / ><>-0.53< / ><>222.47< / ><>90.00< / ><>2.23< / ><>28.22< / ><>87.08< / >< / ><><>Moulinian Group< / ><>246.79< / ><>-1.98< / ><>267.90< / ><>167.31< / ><>3.25< / ><>25.21< / ><>94.68< / >< / ><><>National Australia Bank< / ><>37.80< / ><>-0.60< / ><>49.45< / ><>35.48< / ><>4.53< / ><>17.10< / ><>117.84< / >< / ><><>Western banks< / ><>76.04< / ><>-0.26< / ><>94.70< / ><>70.80< / ><>2.92< / ><>30.01< / ><>88.33< / >< / ><><>Westpac Banking< / ><>33.71< / ><>-0.53< / ><>43.32< / ><>33.48< / ><>4.57< / ><>16.78< / ><>115.30< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">保加利亚 (EUR)< / >< / ><><>Austron Biddle-Heft< / ><>68.44< / ><>1.10< / ><>76.18< / ><>50.10< / ><>1.16< / ><>25.03< / ><>123.00< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">巴西 (BRIL)< / >< / ><><>Itau Obenhance Holdings< / ><>53.50< / ><>0.35< / ><>95.43< / ><>32.50< / ><>0.00< / ><>300.55< / >< / ><><>Itau Obenhance Holding Pte.< / ><>49.35< / ><>0.24< / ><>50.85< / ><>36.98< / ><>0.00< / ><>286.94< / >< / ><><>Petrobras Bank plc< / ><>61.93< / ><>1.08< / ><>62.00< / ><>30.96< / ><>0.00< / ><>54.89< / ><>460.90< / >< / ><><>Petrobras Bank < / >< / table>

plc< / td> 55.40< / ><>1.15< / ><>56.75< / ><>29.31< / ><>0.00< / ><>302.17< / >< / tr> <>Vale< / ><>67.94< / ><>-1.11< / ><>91.62< / ><>58.67< / ><>0.00< / ><>76.21< / ><>287.66< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">加拿大 (CAD)< / >< / ><><>Argent Eagle Mines< / ><>261.47< / ><>4.26< / ><>348.94< / ><>188.48< / ><>0.99< / ><>22.31< / ><>133.21< / >< / ><><>Ameristar Canada Trust< / ><>77.97< / ><>0.70< / ><>95.15< / ><>68.30< / ><>1.10< / ><>26.78< / ><>71.48< / >< / ><><>Bank of Montreal< / ><>238.43< / ><>-2.30< / ><>259.20< / ><>168.82< / ><>2.98< / ><>25.89< / ><>156.71< / >< / ><><>Bank of Nova Scotia< / ><>124.43< / ><>0.14< / ><>134.50< / ><>88.23< / ><>3.66< / ><>25.60< / ><>153.23< / >< / ><><>Brookfield< / ><>52.27< / ><>-0.21< / ><>95.76< / ><>58.76< / ><>0.78< / ><>59.34< / ><>118.68< / >< / ><><>Brookfield Asset Mgmt A< / ><>64.71< / ><>0.70< / ><>95.98< / ><>53.08< / ><>4.45< / ><>36.84< / ><>118.68< / >< / ><><>Canadian Imperial Bank< / ><>152.68< / ><>-0.89< / ><>172.81< / ><>111.45< / ><>2.79< / ><>20.52< / ><>139.53< / >< / ><><>Canadian National Railway< / ><>106.23< / ><>1.24< / ><>105.25< / ><>128.05< / ><>-2.20< / ><>29.27< / ><>100.42< / >< / ><><>Canadian Natural< / ><>69.84< / ><>2.04< / ><>72.35< / ><>41.67< / ><>3.59< / ><>17.03< / ><>143.98< / >< / ><><>Canadian Pacific Kanssen< / ><>120.00< / ><>0.82< / ><>133.38< / ><>96.50< / ><>0.83< / ><>38.10< / ><>105.49< / >< / ><><>Construction Software< / ><>2912.00< / ><>10.02< / ><>4081.71< / ><>2198.00< / ><>0.20< / ><>980.47< / ><>61.71< / >< / ><><>Enbridge< / ><>66.14< / ><>0.71< / ><>80.85< / ><>62.42< / ><>5.87< / ><>34.63< / ><>149.99< / >< / ><><>Manulife Financial< / ><>59.89< / ><>0.38< / ><>63.58< / ><>44.16< / ><>3.24< / ><>22.25< / ><>99.37< / >< / ><><>Royal Bank of Canada< / ><>270.87< / ><>-1.95< / ><>306.38< / ><>200.82< / ><>2.60< / ><>24.60< / ><>576.45< / >< / ><><>Shopify Inc.< / ><>234.19< / ><>-2.40< / ><>253.10< / ><>129.01< / ><>0.00< / ><>157.17< / ><>283.04< / >< / ><><>Suncor Energy< / ><>100.89< / ><>3.63< / ><>100.24< / ><>53.02< / ><>2.38< / ><>26.34< / ><>118.00< / >< / ><><>TC Energy< / ><>85.36< / ><>1.36< / ><>100.18< / ><>69.41< / ><>4.11< / ><>34.14< / ><>85.36< / >< / ><><>The Dominion-Domestic Bank< / ><>162.23< / ><>-0.20< / ><>175.33< / ><>109.50< / ><>2.71< / ><>19.64< / ><>274.69< / >< / ><><>Werner Connections< / ><>220.02< / ><>-1.25< / ><>251.45< / ><>203.46< / ><>0.91< / ><>53.02< / ><>55.46< / >< / table>

<><>Nasparo IN< / ><>701.77< / ><>-7.14< / ><>1255.72< / ><>660.05< / ><>0.72< / ><>83.19< / ><>522.77< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">西班牙 (EUR)< / >< / ><><>Banco Santander< / ><>11.91< / ><>-0.35< / ><>13.12< / ><>8.10< / ><>1.71< / ><>13.09< / ><>173.37< / >< / ><><>BMW Spain< / ><>23.02< / ><>-0.41< / ><>25.57< / ><>15.38< / ><>3.41< / ><>88.54< / ><>126.86< / >< / ><><>Casabank< / ><>11.88< / ><>-0.04< / ><>13.55< / ><>8.57< / ><>3.41< / ><>34.96< / ><>82.91< / >< / ><><>Iberdrola SA< / ><>21.11< / ><>0.18< / ><>22.08< / ><>18.35< / ><>2.61< / ><>38.24< / ><>140.67< / >< / ><><>Inditex< / ><>52.84< / ><>-0.50< / ><>58.42< / ><>48.07< / ><>2.68< / ><>119.82< / ><>164.68< / >< / table>

FT GLOBAL 500:全球最大公司 (THE WORLD'S LARGEST COMPANIES)

股票< / td>< rowspan="2">价格< / >< rowspan="2">+ / -涨跌< / >< colspan="5">52周< / >< / tr><><>最高< / ><>最低< / ><>收益率< / ><>市盈率< / ><>市值 (十亿英镑)< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">澳大利亚 (AUD)< / >< / ><><>AIA Group Holdings< / ><>37.36< / ><>-0.59< / ><>41.00< / ><>33.36< / ><>5.82< / ><>19.19< / ><>112.67< / >< / ><><>BHP Group< / ><>61.18< / ><>-1.26< / ><>68.77< / ><>40.17< / ><>3.95< / ><>31.61< / ><>311.10< / >< / ><><>Commonwealth Bank< / ><>148.12< / ><>-2.25< / ><>185.58< / ><>146.98< / ><>3.41< / ><>22.70< / ><>247.87< / >< / ><><>CSL Ltd< / ><>181.46< / ><>-0.53< / ><>222.47< / ><>80.00< / ><>2.23< / ><>26.22< / ><>87.08< / >< / ><><>Moulin Group< / ><>246.79< / ><>-1.98< / ><>267.90< / ><>187.31< / ><>3.26< / ><>25.21< / ><>94.68< / >< / ><><>National Australia Bank< / ><>37.80< / ><>-0.60< / ><>49.45< / ><>35.48< / ><>4.93< / ><>17.10< / ><>117.64< / >< / ><><>Western< / ><>76.04< / ><>-0.26< / ><>94.70< / ><>70.80< / ><>2.92< / ><>30.01< / ><>88.33< / >< / ><><>Wilmington Banking< / ><>33.71< / ><>-0.53< / ><>43.32< / ><>33.48< / ><>4.57< / ><>16.78< / ><>115.30< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">比利时 (EUR)< / >< / ><><>Admiral Bank AG< / ><>69.44< / ><>1.12< / ><>76.18< / ><>59.15< / ><>1.18< / ><>28.83< / ><>123.00< / >< / table>

<>< rowspan="2">股票< / >< colspan="6">52周< / >< / ><><>价格< / ><>+ / -涨跌< / ><>最高< / ><>最低< / ><>收益率< / ><>市盈率< / >< / ><>< colspan="7">芬兰 (EUR)< / >< / ><><>Nord Monaco & Am.< / ><>16.69< / ><>-0.14< / ><>18.11< / ><>13.76< / ><>0.00< / ><>12.01< / >< / ><>< colspan="7">法国 (EUR)< / >< / ><><>Air Liquide< / ><>167.94< / ><>-0.69< / ><>189.80< / ><>154.86< / ><>2.00< / ><>32.18< / >< / ><><>Airbus< / ><>167.26< / ><>-0.18< / ><>221.30< / ><>157.42< / ><>1.71< / ><>34.94< / >< / ><><>AAA< / ><>41.42< / ><>-0.61< / ><>45.66< / ><>36.55< / ><>5.93< / ><>11.54< / >< / ><><>BNP Paribas A< / ><>89.20< / ><>-2.20< / ><>113.82< / ><>95.12< / ><>6.93< / ><>9.32< / >< / ><><>Compensation de Santeil Gains< / ><>64.76< / ><>< / ><>91.58< / ><>64.50< / ><>3.55< / ><>9.67< / >< / ><><>Credit Agricole< / ><>16.21< / ><>-0.31< / ><>20.40< / ><>15.37< / ><>0.00< / ><>7.44< / >< / ><><>Esterne< / ><>99.28< / ><>0.93< / ><>80.14< / ><>57.26< / ><>3.80< / ><>22.69< / >< / ><><>Dassault Schumtes< / ><>21.59< / ><>-0.02< / ><>30.36< / ><>15.82< / ><>1.35< / ><>23.99< / >< / ><><>ENGL< / ><>22.71< / ><>-0.03< / ><>29.88< / ><>18.45< / ><>4.54< / ><>14.94< / >< / ><><>Essential Industria< / ><>143.80< / ><>-3.65< / ><>333.80< / ><>138.50< / ><>2.86< / ><>27.53< / >< / ><><>Hermes International< / ><>1262.50< / ><>-17.50< / ><>2300.00< / ><>1255.00< / ><>1.43< / ><>26.74< / >< / ><><>L'Indust< / ><>374.05< / ><>-0.35< / ><>456.80< / ><>338.85< / ><>1.92< / ><>29.43< / >< / ><><>LM&T Motor Efficiency< / ><>380.80< / ><>-7.55< / ><>654.70< / ><>376.00< / ><>3.41< / ><>17.42< / >< / ><><>Safran< / ><>310.80< / ><>-6.60< / ><>366.50< / ><>262.60< / ><>1.09< / ><>40.89< / >< / ><><>Sonofi< / ><>70.83< / ><>-0.88< / ><>91.15< / ><>69.75< / ><>5.81< / ><>9.06< / >< / ><><>Schneider Electric< / ><>261.10< / ><>6.55< / ><>312.30< / ><>220.40< / ><>1.01< / ><>30.40< / >< / ><><>Total Equipen< / ><>77.58< / ><>2.16< / ><>81.34< / ><>49.24< / ><>4.51< / ><>11.26< / >< / ><><>VMCI< / ><>106.95< / ><>-1.05< / ><>143.15< / ><>104.25< / ><>4.72< / ><>12.36< / >< / table>

公司 (欧元)< / td>< / tr><><>abirds AG< / ><>140.50< / ><>-0.25< / ><>196.40< / ><>129.95< / ><>1.91< / ><>15.04< / >< / ><><>安联保险 (Allianz)< / ><>413.40< / ><>-3.90< / ><>454.60< / ><>338.80< / ><>4.14< / ><>14.45< / >< / ><><>巴斯夫 (BASF)< / ><>51.77< / ><>0.59< / ><>55.05< / ><>41.48< / ><>4.35< / ><>28.45< / >< / ><><>宝马 (BMW)< / ><>52.18< / ><>-1.48< / ><>87.92< / ><>52.36< / ><>0.43< / ><>4.39< / >< / ><><>德意志银行 (Deutsche Bank)< / ><>29.66< / ><>-0.20< / ><>35.84< / ><>23.82< / ><>3.37< / ><>9.38< / >< / ><><>德意志交易所 (Deutsche Borse)< / ><>282.90< / ><>0.40< / ><>298.60< / ><>200.10< / ><>1.44< / ><>44.40< / >< / ><><>德意志芬兰股份公司 (Deutsche Finland AG)< / ><>36.83< / ><>-0.16< / ><>34.36< / ><>23.53< / ><>2.73< / ><>13.82< / >< / ><><>德意志股份公司 (Deutsche AG)< / ><>54.60< / ><>-0.62< / ><>68.86< / ><>43.40< / ><>3.46< / ><>17.78< / >< / ><><>Inmetron Technologies< / ><>58.90< / ><>-2.05< / ><>88.83< / ><>31.27< / ><>0.59< / ><>76.49< / >< / ><><>梅赛德斯-奔驰集团 (Mercedes-Benz Grp)< / ><>39.02< / ><>-0.81< / ><>62.34< / ><>38.91< / ><>0.97< / ><>3.83< / >< / ><><>默克 (Merck)< / ><>135.70< / ><>-4.45< / ><>148.80< / ><>100.70< / ><>1.02< / ><>21.24< / >< / ><><>Munderwerk 银行 (Munderwerk Bank)< / ><>519.00< / ><>2.40< / ><>575.60< / ><>457.40< / ><>4.62< / ><>24.79< / >< / ><><>保时捷 (Porsche)< / ><>40.96< / ><>-1.71< / ><>50.66< / ><>35.62< / ><>2.47< / ><>10.37< / >< / ><><>Rivemontal< / ><>934.90< / ><>8.70< / ><>1066.00< / ><>900.00< / ><>1.23< / ><>56.63< / >< / ><><>SAP< / ><>184.62< / ><>-3.00< / ><>244.30< / ><>127.00< / ><>1.35< / ><>38.07< / >< / ><><>西门子 (Siemens)< / ><>254.25< / ><>-6.95< / ><>291.70< / ><>188.00< / ><>2.02< / ><>25.09< / >< / ><><>西门子能源 (Siemens Energy)< / ><>142.50< / ><>-1.10< / ><>191.66< / ><>94.40< / ><>0.49< / ><>226.19< / >< / ><><>西门子医疗系统 (Siemens Healthsystem)< / ><>38.26< / ><>0.30< / ><>48.71< / ><>32.81< / ><>2.01< / ><>20.03< / >< / ><><>大众 (Volkswagen)< / ><>166.90< / ><>-3.15< / ><>118.20< / ><>67.50< / ><>7.77< / ><>5.03< / >< / ><><>大众菲亚特 (Volkswagen Fiat)< / ><>166.60< / ><>-3.14< / ><>109.15< / ><>67.02< / ><>7.90< / ><>5.01< / >< / table>

<><>中国农业银行 A 股< / ><>7.02< / ><>0.05< / ><>8.68< / ><>5.79< / ><>3.70< / ><>9.00< / ><>22.41< / >< / ><><>中国银行 A 股< / ><>5.81< / ><>0.08< / ><>6.78< / ><>5.13< / ><>3.46< / ><>9.20< / ><>18.25< / >< / ><><>交通银行 A 股< / ><>7.83< / ><>0.08< / ><>7.71< / ><>6.37< / ><>4.30< / ><>7.25< / ><>453.40< / >< / ><><>中国建设银行 A 股< / ><>11.15< / ><>0.09< / ><>11.23< / ><>8.50< / ><>3.62< / ><>8.56< / ><>238.19< / >< / ><><>中国人寿 A 股< / ><>35.94< / ><>-0.76< / ><>51.92< / ><>32.32< / ><>2.72< / ><>5.55< / ><>748.40< / >< / ><><>招商银行 A 股< / ><>41.71< / ><>0.45< / ><>43.79< / ><>35.28< / ><>4.83< / ><>7.32< / ><>680.43< / >< / ><><>中国石油化工 A 股< / ><>5.48< / ><>0.20< / ><>8.11< / ><>4.43< / ><>3.56< / ><>20.92< / ><>531.77< / >< / ><><>中国神华能源 A 股< / ><>47.48< / ><>-0.31< / ><>51.18< / ><>38.27< / ><>4.23< / ><>17.85< / ><>889.63< / >< / ><><>长江电力 A 股< / ><>26.90< / ><>0.35< / ><>29.57< / ><>25.38< / ><>3.46< / ><>20.50< / ><>707.13< / >< / ><><>OTC 证券 A 股< / ><>25.40< / ><>-0.46< / ><>30.63< / ><>23.77< / ><>3.30< / ><>12.96< / ><>309.88< / >< / ><><>东安拓普科技 A 股< / ><>206.75< / ><>-4.36< / ><>488.75< / ><>285.74< / ><>1.25< / ><>17.77< / ><>1284.27< / >< / ><><>东方财富信息 A 股< / ><>17.28< / ><>-0.51< / ><>27.08< / ><>17.02< / ><>12.94< / ><>22.59< / ><>373.41< / >< / ><><>Foresian Int'l Med< / >[...OMITTED...]

A< / td> 55.69< / ><>-2.51< / ><>84.95< / ><>47.35< / ><>1.76< / ><>31.25< / ><>1105.12< / >< / tr> <>IGE A< / ><>8.31< / ><>0.03< / ><>8.40< / ><>6.85< / ><>3.85< / ><>8.31< / ><>2.24< / >< / ><><>工业银行 A< / ><>18.24< / ><>0.19< / ><>21.90< / ><>16.44< / ><>5.84< / ><>5.27< / ><>386.01< / >< / ><><>江苏恒普药业 A< / ><>10.00< / ><>-0.01< / ><>10.67< / ><>8.88< / ><>0.40< / ><>39.50< / ><>259.88< / >< / ><><>贵州银行 A< / ><>1255.79< / ><>-1.78< / ><>1998.88< / ><>1151.74< / ><>-4.14< / ><>24.13< / ><>1566.99< / >< / ><><>辽宁金融集团 A< / ><>46.43< / ><>-1.00< / ><>81.78< / ><>44.57< / ><>0.51< / ><>21.73< / ><>786.79< / >< / ><><>美的集团

A< / ><>81.74< / ><>1.64< / ><>89.50< / ><>71.02< / ><>5.26< / ><>14.09< / ><>569.12< / >< / ><><>FeryChina A< / ><>11.59< / ><>0.38< / ><>13.89< / ><>8.04< / ><>4.40< / ><>12.46< / ><>7.48< / >< / ><><>丰铁保险集团 A< / ><>52.67< / ><>-0.62< / ><>74.88< / ><>46.90< / ><>5.18< / ><>6.86< / ><>581.47< / >< / ><><>中国邮政储蓄银行 A< / ><>5.49< / ><>0.03< / ><>6.13< / ><>4.76< / ><>4.16< / ><>1.52< / ><>5.50< / >< / ><><>深圳美特金 A Med A< / ><>157.60< / ><>-3.72< / ><>248.98< / ><>130.66< / ><>2.69< / ><>23.47< / ><>190.96< / >< / ><><>五粮液 Yen A< / ><>70.14< / ><>0.08< / ><>122.96< / ><>88.88< / ><>7.35< / ><>30.41< / ><>272.26< / >< / ><><>紫金矿业集团

A< / ><>35.37< / ><>-0.42< / ><>44.94< / ><>24.42< / ><>2.72< / ><>15.06< / ><>605.07< / >< / table>

<><>BoNTechHong Kong (HKD)< / ><>92.06< / ><>-3.19< / ><>124.00< / ><>79.52< / ><>0.00< / ><>44.05< / ><>23.28< / >< / ><><>NA Group< / ><>83.25< / ><>0.45< / ><>92.15< / ><>68.00< / ><>2.86< / ><>117.17< / ><>716.51< / >< / ><><>HKD< / ><>375.00< / ><>-4.00< / ><>460.20< / ><>360.00< / ><>3.72< / ><>25.60< / ><>475.44< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="8">墨西哥 (MXN)< / >< / ><><>Americas Mobil E< / ><>20.20< / ><>0.05< / ><>24.49< / ><>17.48< / ><>2.67< / ><>0.00< / ><>1256.14< / >< / ><><>Mobil Aero de Mexico< / ><>47.25< / ><>0.49< / ><>63.97< / ><>44.60< / ><>2.46< / ><>0.00< / ><>824.34< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">荷兰 (EUR)< / >< / ><><>Apturn< / ><>881.80< / ><>-5.00< / ><>1600.80< / ><>772.40< / ><>0.00< / ><>47.31< / ><>27.31< / >< / ><><>AGML Holding< / ><>1630.60< / ><>20.40< / ><>1741.00< / ><>812.60< / ><>0.48< / ><>81.90< / ><>632.91< / >< / ><><>海尼根 (Heineken)< / ><>70.78< / ><>0.32< / ><>66.44< / ><>63.90< / ><>2.71< / ><>15.19< / ><>40.02< / >< / ><><>ING Groep< / ><>29.43< / ><>-0.81< / ><>32.40< / ><>20.25< / ><>3.86< / ><>14.86< / ><>64.55< / >< / ><><>Petrox

M< / ><>34.85< / ><>-0.45< / ><>63.94< / ><>34.48< / ><>0.80< / ><>6.59< / ><>76.21< / >< / ><><>The Magnum Ice Cream Co< / ><>15.45< / ><>0.24< / ><>17.68< / ><>11.00< / ><>0.00< / ><>32.19< / ><>9.46< / >< / ><><>环球音乐集团 NV (Universal Music Group NV)< / ><>14.68< / ><>0.33< / ><>24.22< / ><>13.92< / ><>3.54< / ><>34.14< / ><>26.89< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">挪威 (NOK)< / >< / table>

Equinor< / td><>410.70< / ><>7.20< / ><>426.00< / ><>226.40< / ><>3.50< / ><>211.70< / ><>981.88< / >< / tr><>< colspan="8">韩国 (KRW)< / >< / ><><>US Energy Solution< / ><>401000.00< / ><>10000.00< / ><>527000.00< / ><>206000.00< / ><>0.00< / ><>67.46< / ><>9364.00< / >< / ><><>SAMSUNG BIOLOGIES< / ><>1219000.00< / ><>58000.00< / ><>1967000.00< / ><>1003000.00< / ><>0.00< / ><>53.94< / ><>56429.57< / >< / ><><>Samsung Electronics< / ><>303000.00< / ><>4500.00< / ><>314500.00< / ><>90200.00< / ><>0.64< / ><>39.67< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>Samsung Electronics Prof< / ><>194000.00< / ><>4000.00< / ><>243000.00< / ><>70400.00< / ><>0.67< / ><>103.43< / ><>155683.01< / >< / ><><>Samsung Equip< / ><>345500.00< / ><>29500.00< / ><>173000.00< / ><>324000.00< / ><>0.00< / ><>269.90< / ><>8412.58< / >< / ><><>SK Hynix< / ><>1681000.00< / ><>42000.00< / ><>2067000.00< / ><>403000.00< / ><>0.16< / ><>27.09< / ><>0.00< / >< / table>

<>< rowspan="2">股票< / >< rowspan="2">价格< / >< ="2">+ / -涨跌< / >< colspan="3">52周< / >< ="2">市盈率< / >< ="2">市值< / >< / ><><>最高< / ><>最低< / ><>收益率< / >< / ><><>Sino-Etica Chemical< / ><>617.00< / ><>-113.00< / ><>700.00< / ><>436.00< / ><>2.22< / ><>24.22< / ><>12701.9< / >< / ><><>SoftBank< / ><>241.30< / ><>0.00< / ><>252.80< / ><>202.80< / ><>3.65< / ><>21.25< / ><>11594.75< / >< / ><><>SoftBank Group< / ><>604.00< / ><>-370.00< / ><>719.00< / ><>336.00< / ><>0.18< / ><>-9.81< / ><>34459.56< / >< / ><><>Sony Financial Group< / ><>148.50< / ><>-2.20< / ><>180.40< / ><>128.50< / ><>5.48< / ><>18.40< / ><>991.86< / >< / ><><>Sony Group< / ><>377.00< / ><>-37.00< / ><>477.00< / ><>304.00< / ><>0.94< / ><>47.75< / ><>22127.46< / >< / ><><>Summeira Minai Financial< / ><>207.00< / ><>-75.00< / ><>720.00< / ><>308.00< / ><>2.73< / ><>16.81< / ><>20644.52< / >< / ><><>Tokio Pharmaceutical< / ><>5818.00< / ><>50.00< / ><>6033.00< / ><>4130.00< / ><>3.51< / ><>63.11< / ><>8318.05< / >< / ><><>Tokio Marine Holdings< / ><>518.10< / ><>2.10< / ><>848.00< / ><>581.00< / ><>3.15< / ><>37.82< / ><>15830.08< / >< / ><><>Tokyo Electron< / ><>6118.00< / ><>-163.00< / ><>8178.00< / ><>11720.00< / ><>1.30< / ><>48.58< / ><>28252.68< / >< / ><><>Toyota Motor< / ><>2502.00< / ><>1.50< / ><>4000.00< / ><>2698.00< / ><>3.45< / ><>9.83< / ><>42554.68< / >< / ><><>科威特 (KWD)< / ><>< / >< / table>

<><>HKEY< / ><>375.00< / ><>-4.00< / ><>460.00< / ><>390.00< / ><>3.72< / ><>25.69< / ><>415.44< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">Influent (INR)< / >< / ><><>Bayer Finance< / ><>954.00< / ><>-10.10< / ><>1177.60< / ><>788.40< / ><>0.63< / ><>50.07< / ><>509.556< / >< / ><><>Bank's Arts Unit< / ><>1796.35< / ><>-36.65< / ><>2174.70< / ><>1726.05< / ><>1.34< / ><>137.23< / ><>1210.12< / >< / ><><>HCI Technologies< / ><>1180.75< / ><>0.05< / ><>1770.00< / ><>1030.00< / ><>5.09< / ><>18.40< / ><>2034.16< / >< / ><><>HDFC Bank< / ><>892.60< / ><>-11.20< / ><>1020.35< / ><>882.00< / ><>1.88< / ><>13.99< / ><>10678.92< / >< / ><><>Investment Universe< / ><>1842.20< / ><>-25.80< / ><>2686.57< / ><>1827.10< / ><>2.23< / ><>42.12< / ><>4208.42< / >< / ><><>ICICI

Bank< / td> 1354.00< / ><>-0.00< / ><>1479.90< / ><>1187.55< / ><>0.99< / ><>21.43< / ><>9720.02< / >< / tr> <>Infosys< / ><>994.15< / ><>2.05< / ><>1727.85< / ><>980.30< / ><>4.83< / ><>15.41< / ><>4034.54< / >< / ><><>ITC Ltd< / ><>254.05< / ><>-11.25< / ><>426.50< / ><>254.75< / ><>5.71< / ><>9.14< / ><>3183.38< / >< / ><><>Avalon Media Bank< / ><>438.70< / ><>-2.10< / ><>441.60< / ><>345.40< / ><>0.15< / ><>3.94< / ><>4364.14< / >< / ><><>Larsen & Toyota< / ><>2630.50< / ><>-76.50< / ><>4440.00< / ><>2038.65< / ><>1.05< / ><>30.96< / ><>4981.43< / >< / ><><>Ulu Insurance Corp< / ><>379.50< / ><>-6.60< / ><>3036.60< / ><>382.65< / ><>2.64< / ><>13.34< / ><>4800.67< / >< / ><><>Maruti Social

Index< / ><>11222.20< / ><>-267.65< / ><>17371.60< / ><>11043.30< / ><>1.25< / ><>24.04< / ><>3526.29< / >< / ><><>Reliance Industries< / ><>1177.30< / ><>-29.35< / ><>1611.20< / ><>1181.00< / ><>0.51< / ><>22.87< / ><>55931.06< / >< / ><><>State Bank of Virginia< / ><>940.85< / ><>-12.15< / ><>1334.80< / ><>857.20< / ><>1.84< / ><>10.82< / ><>9682.92< / >< / ><><>Sun Pharmaceutical Inc.< / ><>1752.50< / ><>-30.75< / ><>2047.50< / ><>1563.60< / ><>0.91< / ><>36.43< / ><>4034.74< / >< / ><><>Total Consultancy Group< / ><>2075.25< / ><>-8.75< / ><>3538.70< / ><>1970.00< / ><>3.18< / ><>15.46< / ><>7538.44< / >< / table>

<><>ACWA Power< / ><>164.90< / ><>-6.20< / ><>252.60< / ><>154.50< / ><>0.38< / ><>66.76< / ><>126.39< / >< / ><><>AVRajib Bank< / ><>62.30< / ><>-0.90< / ><>110.00< / ><>62.00< / ><>4.83< / ><>15.97< / ><>373.80< / >< / ><><>South Arabian Mining< / ><>62.40< / ><>-0.60< / ><>78.90< / ><>54.90< / ><>0.00< / ><>32.67< / ><>242.66< / >< / ><><>South Arabian Oil< / ><>25.74< / ><>-0.10< / ><>27.96< / ><>23.29< / ><>5.27< / ><>17.88< / ><>62.29< / >< / ><><>South basic Industries< / ><>45.80< / ><>-0.76< / ><>62.50< / ><>45.70< / ><>5.88< / ><>5.33< / ><>137.40< / >< / ><><>South National Bank< / ><>37.86< / ><>-1.22< / ><>45.24< / ><>36.00< / ><>6.08< / ><>9.37< / ><>227.16< / >< / ><><>STC

Co.< / ><>42.60< / ><>-0.40< / ><>45.38< / ><>41.14< / ><>5.16< / ><>14.34< / ><>213.00< / >< / table>

<><>Agricultural Bank Chs 1< / ><>6.59< / ><>0.01< / ><>6.71< / ><>5.05< / ><>4.62< / ><>8.45< / ><>202.57< / >< / ><><>Alibaba Group Holding< / ><>104.30< / ><>-1.10< / ><>179.00< / ><>89.65< / ><>0.99< / ><>125.66< / ><>2075.77< / >< / ><><>Bank of China 1< / ><>6.03< / ><>0.04< / ><>6.14< / ><>4.11< / ><>4.58< / ><>8.15< / ><>504.24< / >< / ><><>Bank of Communications 1< / ><>8.35< / ><>0.14< / ><>8.38< / ><>6.33< / ><>4.72< / ><>7.73< / ><>292.35< / >< / ><><>BVD 1< / ><>72.90< / ><>-1.65< / ><>113.40< / ><>71.40< / ><>0.56< / ><>20.36< / ><>268.52< / >< / ><><>China CITIC Bank 1< / ><>8.31< / ><>0.05< / ><>8.70< / ><>6.50< / ><>5.59< / ><>6.92< / ><>123.67< / >< / ><><>China Construction Bank

1< / td> 9.66< / ><>0.04< / ><>9.90< / ><>7.18< / ><>4.89< / ><>7.43< / ><>23.24< / >< / tr> <>中国人寿 1< / ><>26.76< / ><>-0.50< / ><>36.16< / ><>20.90< / ><>4.21< / ><>4.91< / ><>199.13< / >< / ><><>招商银行 1< / ><>51.65< / ><>0.70< / ><>53.70< / ><>43.34< / ><>4.40< / ><>9.06< / ><>237.12< / >< / ><><>中国石化 1< / ><>4.54< / ><>0.12< / ><>5.70< / ><>3.88< / ><>5.54< / ><>17.31< / ><>107.37< / >< / ><><>中国神华能源 1< / ><>43.42< / ><>0.18< / ><>49.62< / ><>37.54< / ><>5.35< / ><>15.91< / ><>146.65< / >< / ><><>UTC Securities 1< / ><>23.54< / ><>-0.46< / ><>32.50< / ><>23.24< / ><>4.16< / ><>12.01< / ><>89.60< / >< / ><><>IDIC

1< / ><>7.57< / ><>-0.01< / ><>7.77< / ><>5.56< / ><>4.95< / ><>7.57< / ><>656.60< / >< / ><><>JU Lien A< / ><>105.20< / ><>0.30< / ><>137.20< / ><>95.80< / ><>3.72< / ><>15.27< / ><>262.63< / >< / ><><>Metsoil B< / ><>69.40< / ><>-0.75< / ><>108.00< / ><>63.65< / ><>0.00< / ><>18.07< / ><>388.38< / >< / ><><>美的集团 1< / ><>92.80< / ><>2.35< / ><>101.70< / ><>77.65< / ><>5.43< / ><>16.00< / ><>80.40< / >< / ><><>网易< / ><>186.50< / ><>-2.00< / ><>244.80< / ><>168.80< / ><>2.47< / ><>17.61< / ><>569.05< / >< / ><><>Marigta Spring 1< / ><>40.44< / ><>0.68< / ><>56.25< / ><>37.90< / ><>2.79< / ><>29.88< / ><>203.80< / >< / ><><>中国石油 1< / ><>9.83< / ><>0.24< / ><>12.22< / ><>7.05< / ><>5.98< / ><>11.43< / ><>207.40< / >< / ><><>中国平安保险集团

1< / ><>51.30< / ><>-0.20< / ><>74.70< / ><>50.00< / ><>6.13< / ><>6.88< / ><>382.06< / >< / ><><>Fleetar Savings Bank China 1< / ><>5.36< / ><>-0.01< / ><>5.78< / ><>4.48< / ><>4.98< / ><>7.34< / ><>106.43< / >< / ><><>腾讯控股 1< / ><>411.40< / ><>-5.20< / ><>681.00< / ><>411.00< / ><>1.25< / ><>16.62< / ><>3740.70< / >< / ><><>Xincai Corp 1< / ><>23.99< / ><>-0.29< / ><>54.70< / ><>21.30< / ><>0.00< / ><>14.60< / ><>5265.51< / >< / ><><>紫金矿业集团 1< / ><>31.28< / ><>-1.08< / ><>46.88< / ><>26.56< / ><>2.94< / ><>16.04< / ><>187.34< / >< / table>

<><>Bank Central Asia< / ><>6000.00< / ><>-50.00< / ><>8750.00< / ><>4620.00< / ><>0.00< / ><>12.65< / ><>7396.50< / >< / ><><>PJT Brazil Permanitária< / ><>2860.00< / ><>190.00< / ><>10725.00< / ><>2300.00< / ><>0.15< / ><>0.00< / ><>558.71< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">意大利 (欧元)< / >< / ><><>Aççamentaria Generali< / ><>41.02< / ><>-0.60< / ><>46.24< / ><>31.76< / ><>4.00< / ><>16.88< / ><>62.95< / >< / ><><>Enel< / ><>8.76< / ><>0.03< / ><>10.31< / ><>8.18< / ><>5.59< / ><>23.67< / ><>87.03< / >< / ><><>埃尼 (Eni)< / ><>24.88< / ><>0.65< / ><>25.02< / ><>14.54< / ><>4.42< / ><>17.65< / ><>75.34< / >< / ><><>法拉利 (Ferrari)< / ><>342.80< / ><>-2.35< / ><>422.40< / ><>269.00< / ><>0.67< / ><>49.61< / ><>60.77< / >< / ><><>Intesa

Bampaolo< / ><>6.06< / ><>-0.18< / ><>6.94< / ><>4.61< / ><>6.20< / ><>26.35< / ><>107.16< / >< / ><><>SãoVento< / ><>4.00< / ><>-0.12< / ><>10.49< / ><>3.61< / ><>0.00< / ><>5.36< / ><>11.59< / >< / ><><>联合信贷银行 (UniCredit SpA)< / ><>75.33< / ><>-2.39< / ><>86.42< / ><>57.36< / ><>4.18< / ><>14.76< / ><>117.64< / >< / table>

瑞典 (SEK)< / td>< / tr><><>Atlas Copco A< / ><>205.70< / ><>-1.00< / ><>214.10< / ><>149.45< / ><>1.46< / ><>37.88< / ><>690.05< / >< / ><><>Atlas Copco B< / ><>179.70< / ><>-0.60< / ><>186.05< / ><>134.00< / ><>1.67< / ><>33.03< / ><>280.49< / >< / ><><>EOT< / ><>276.00< / ><>-3.50< / ><>383.00< / ><>258.00< / ><>1.81< / ><>445.88< / ><>360.72< / >< / ><><>Investor B< / ><>406.55< / ><>-0.95< / ><>426.80< / ><>301.50< / ><>1.38< / ><>7.91< / ><>740.71< / >< / ><><>Volvo B< / ><>309.50< / ><>-2.90< / ><>374.50< / ><>244.80< / ><>4.20< / ><>18.27< / ><>492.94< / >< / table>

<><>Centrix< / ><>4635.00< / ><>16.00< / ><>-5000.00< / ><>3987.00< / ><>3.45< / ><>15.98< / ><>8181.98< / >< / ><><>东莞医药 (Dongguan Pharmaceutical)< / ><>6107.00< / ><>6.00< / ><>-5100.00< / ><>5874.00< / ><>2.16< / ><>23.16< / ><>10242.91< / >< / ><><>Daikin's Skelly< / ><>3953.50< / ><>-49.00< / ><>4178.00< / ><>2398.00< / ><>3.77< / ><>11.55< / ><>4952.19< / >< / ><><>FAST REACHUNG< / ><>74800.00< / ><>20.00< / ><>68860.00< / ><>46488.00< / ><>1.26< / ><>42.31< / ><>23802.93< / >< / ><><>日立 (Hitachi)< / ><>5597.00< / ><>-52.00< / ><>6030.00< / ><>4223.00< / ><>1.08< / ><>41.82< / ><>25385.53< / >< / ><><>本田 (Honda)

17021.33< / >< / ><><>三菱重工 (Mitsubishi Heavy)< / ><>3680.00< / ><>-13.00< / ><>5528.00< / ><>3494.00< / ><>0.78< / ><>37.22< / ><>12415.02< / >< / ><><>三菱英国集团指数 (Mitsubishi U.K. Grf Index)< / ><>3504.00< / ><>-118.00< / ><>3813.00< / ><>22350.00< / ><>2.74< / ><>16.44< / ><>45549.46< / >< / ><><>Mitau & Co< / ><>4759.00< / ><>-143.00< / ><>16575.00< / ><>26240.00< / ><>2.94< / ><>16.38< / ><>13647.27< / >< / ><><>Michafo金融集团 (Michafo Financial Group)< / ><>8350.00< / ><>-254.00< / ><>6963.00< / ><>4568.00< / ><>1.80< / ><>16.08< / ><>20301.65< / >< / ><><>任天堂 (Nintendo)< / ><>7851.00< / ><>70.00< / ><>14630.00< / ><>6544.00< / ><>2.86< / ><>21.54< / ><>11030.28< / >< / ><><>NTT< / ><>172.10< / ><>160.10< / ><>140.10< / ><>143.60< / ><>3.14< / ><>13.65< / ><>15583.71< / >< / ><><>利洁时纽

Holdings< / ><>17200.00< / ><>200.00< / ><>16210.00< / ><>6848.00< / ><>0.15< / ><>49.17< / ><>25327.07< / >< / table>

<><>ABB< / ><>78.80< / ><>-1.08< / ><>69.14< / ><>53.78< / ><>1.19< / ><>30.42< / ><>143.66< / >< / ><><>阿尔斯通 (Alstom)< / ><>52.20< / ><>-0.53< / ><>68.34< / ><>47.80< / ><>0.54< / ><>59.19< / ><>26.00< / >< / ><><>Cui Financieren Richemont< / ><>168.40< / ><>-4.20< / ><>202.20< / ><>127.20< / ><>1.96< / ><>35.91< / ><>50.53< / >< / ><><>Gran Germany< / ><>3409.00< / ><>-9.00< / ><>3562.00< / ><>2596.00< / ><>2.11< / ><>38.29< / ><>31.48< / >< / ><><>Helcor< / ><>62.84< / ><>-0.84< / ><>62.54< / ><>60.10< / ><>2.71< / ><>19.52< / ><>35.62< / >< / ><><>Larsa

Group< / td> 563.40< / ><>-13.80< / ><>507.80< / ><>454.60< / ><>0.89< / ><>63.03< / ><>39.57< / >< / tr> <>Nucile< / ><>76.00< / ><>0.44< / ><>67.00< / ><>70.29< / ><>4.08< / ><>21.65< / ><>195.82< / >< / ><><>Novartis< / ><>117.72< / ><>-2.30< / ><>132.68< / ><>97.05< / ><>3.14< / ><>38.60< / ><>239.54< / >< / ><><>Roche Holding< / ><>361.00< / ><>-7.90< / ><>383.00< / ><>270.80< / ><>2.71< / ><>22.31< / ><>38.52< / >< / ><><>Roche Holding Perf.< / ><>352.70< / ><>-7.30< / ><>375.90< / ><>291.00< / ><>2.78< / ><>21.80< / ><>247.79< / >< / ><><>Sika< / ><>170.86< / ><>-2.90< / ><>197.60< / ><>120.35< / ><>2.17< / ><>26.28< / ><>27.42< / >< / ><><>Swiss Re< / ><>142.30< / ><>-1.45< / ><>153.85< / ><>114.05< / ><>-4.43< / ><>10.93< / ><>42.51< / >< / ><><>UBS

Group< / ><>38.83< / ><>-0.50< / ><>45.04< / ><>28.25< / ><>2.21< / ><>19.81< / ><>127.28< / >< / ><><>Zurich Insurance Group< / ><>572.80< / ><>-0.20< / ><>628.00< / ><>521.00< / ><>5.24< / ><>17.91< / ><>86.02< / >< / table>

<><>Hem Rial Precision< / ><>249.00< / ><>-3.00< / ><>214.00< / ><>167.50< / ><>2.88< / ><>18.30< / ><>3504.98< / >< / ><><>MediaTek< / ><>4680.00< / ><>-145.00< / ><>5480.00< / ><>1130.00< / ><>1.14< / ><>70.89< / ><>7527.23< / >< / ><><>Taiwan Servicos Mfg< / ><>2560.00< / ><>-35.00< / ><>2560.00< / ><>1375.00< / ><>1.02< / ><>38.48< / ><>66127.54< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">阿拉伯联合酋长国 (AED)< / >< / table>

<><>Fall Truck Alliance< / ><>8.33< / ><>-0.02< / ><>13.50< / ><>7.46< / ><>2.77< / ><>277.67< / ><>155.36< / >< / ><><>Fatu Holdings A< / ><>108.76< / ><>-0.92< / ><>202.53< / ><>80.50< / ><>2.34< / ><>10.41< / ><>83.31< / >< / ><><>POD Holdings A< / ><>76.26< / ><>-0.24< / ><>139.41< / ><>71.94< / ><>0.00< / ><>31.30< / ><>444.41< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">丹麦 (DKK)< / >< / ><><>DVV A / S< / ><>1153.00< / ><>15.50< / ><>1913.50< / ><>1137.50< / ><>0.61< / ><>33.62< / ><>277.23< / >< / ><><>Novo Nordisk B< / ><>249.90< / ><>4.00< / ><>409.95< / ><>224.25< / ><>4.68< / ><>10.84< / ><>847.19< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="8">英国 (GBP)< / >< / ><><>< / ><>3.25< / ><>4.03< / ><>4.70< / ><>5.10< / ><>5.31< / ><>49.21< / ><>249.51< / >< / ><><>First Bank Debt Bank< / ><>18.66< / ><>-0.44< / ><>20.74< / ><>15.70< / ><>4.29< / ><>10.09< / ><>206.15< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">拜耳集团 (Bayer Group)< / >< / ><><>3 Group Plc< / ><>24.02< / ><>0.50< / ><>44.97< / ><>18.25< / ><>3.52< / ><>4.45< / ><>24.57< / >< / ><><>AstraZeneca< / ><>119.98< / ><>1.00< / ><>157.32< / ><>98.90< / ><>1.99< / ><>24.04< / ><>186.09< / >< / ><><>BAS

Systems< / ><>18.00< / ><>0.23< / ><>23.60< / ><>15.29< / ><>2.03< / ><>27.03< / ><>55.81< / >< / ><><>Barclays< / ><>4.30< / ><>0.04< / ><>5.54< / ><>3.54< / ><>2.68< / ><>9.81< / ><>57.43< / >< / ><><>BP< / ><>5.86< / ><>0.01< / ><>6.09< / ><>3.99< / ><>4.28< / ><>< / ><>92.00< / >< / ><><>British American Tobacco< / ><>41.94< / ><>0.33< / ><>50.26< / ><>36.77< / ><>5.84< / ><>11.95< / ><>90.47< / >< / ><><>Compass

Group< / ><>23.58< / ><>0.34< / ><>25.81< / ><>20.00< / ><>2.15< / ><>28.34< / ><>40.12< / >< / ><><>Diageo< / ><>16.38< / ><>0.16< / ><>19.04< / ><>12.96< / ><>2.31< / ><>27.74< / ><>36.48< / >< / ><><>Experian< / ><>28.92< / ><>1.08< / ><>37.07< / ><>22.00< / ><>1.93< / ><>21.56< / ><>23.59< / >< / ><><>Glencore< / ><>5.85< / ><>0.16< / ><>7.07< / ><>3.32< / ><>2.20< / ><>< / ><>58.58< / >< / table>

股票< / td>< rowspan="2">价格< / >< rowspan="2">+ / -涨跌< / >< colspan="5">52周< / >< / tr><><>最高< / ><>最低< / ><>收益率< / ><>市盈率< / ><>市值< / >< / ><><>GSK< / ><>17.50< / ><>0.14< / ><>22.82< / ><>15.92< / ><>4.00< / ><>12.40< / ><>75.54< / >< / ><><>Huron< / ><>3.49< / ><>0.05< / ><>4.16< / ><>3.19< / ><>2.09< / ><>18.77< / ><>30.72< / >< / ><><>汇丰控股 (HSBC Holdings)< / ><>13.06< / ><>0.15< / ><>16.10< / ><>9.59< / ><>3.99< / ><>15.25< / ><>239.17< / >< / ><><>Ubiquity Banking Group< / ><>1.02< / ><>0.18< / ><>1.08< / ><>0.92< / ><>3.80< / ><>14.51< / ><>13.18< / >< / ><><>伦敦证券交易所集团 (London Stock Exchange Grp)< / ><>86.94< / ><>2.24< / ><>101.43< / ><>66.04< / ><>4.95< / ><>30.47< / ><>41.82< / >< / ><><>国家电网 (National Grid)< / ><>11.47< / ><>-0.06< / ><>14.29< / ><>13.06< / ><>4.23< / ><>17.51< / ><>57.66< / >< / ><><>NorthWest Group< / ><>8.43< / ><>0.03< / ><>7.26< / ><>5.04< / ><>5.45< / ><>12.01< / ><>50.98< / >< / ><><>Red Hat Financial Group< / ><>51.32< / ><>0.60< / ><>65.23< / ><>36.64< / ><>4.22< / ><>10.96< / ><>32.53< / >< / ><><>RELX< / ><>27.20< / ><>1.25< / ><>35.39< / ><>19.91< / ><>2.53< / ><>24.10< / ><>47.41< / >< / ><><>Fiat Times< / ><>71.26< / ><>1.04< / ><>91.17< / ><>49.70< / ><>4.89< / ><>15.36< / ><>86.44< / >< / ><><>罗尔斯-罗伊斯控股 (Rolls-Royce Holdings)< / ><>13.85< / ><>0.18< / ><>15.86< / ><>9.90< / ><>0.78< / ><>19.95< / ><>114.89< / >< / ><><>壳牌 (Shell)< / ><>37.94< / ><>0.13< / ><>38.06< / ><>25.54< / ><>2.97< / ><>16.56< / ><>217.00< / >< / ><><>联合利华 (Unilever)< / ><>46.73< / ><>0.47< / ><>55.42< / ><>36.44< / ><>3.53< / ><>12.75< / ><>100.68< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="5">官方利率< / >< / ><><>< / ><>利率类型< / ><>当前< / ><>生效日期< / ><>上次< / >< / ><><>美国< / ><>联邦基金利率< / ><>3.75-4.00< / ><>16-09-2026< / ><>3.50-3.75< / >< / ><><>美国< / ><>最优惠利率< / ><>7.00< / ><>16-09-2026< / ><>8.75< / >< / ><><>美国< / ><>贴现率< / ><>4.00< / ><>16-09-2026< / ><>3.75< / >< / ><><>欧元< / ><>回购利率< / ><>2.65< / ><>16-09-2026< / ><>2.40< / >< / ><><>英国< / ><>回购利率< / ><>3.75< / ><>18-12-2025< / ><>4.00< / >< / ><><>日本< / ><>隔夜拆借利率< / ><>1.25< / ><>18-09-2026< / ><>1.00< / >< / ><><>瑞士< / ><>SMB< / ><>0.00< / ><>19-06-2025< / ><>0.25< / >< / table>

债券:十年期政府债券利差 利率固定于英国时间上午11点。

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< / td> 4.75< / ><>1.28< / ><>0.50< / ><>瑞典< / ><>3.12< / ><>0.35< / ><>2.13< / >< / tr> <>德国< / ><>3.47< / ><>0.00< / ><>1.78< / ><>英国< / ><>5.38< / ><>1.91< / ><>0.13< / >< / ><><>爱尔兰< / ><>3.50< / ><>0.03< / ><>1.75< / ><>美国< / ><>5.25< / ><>1.78< / ><>0.00< / >< / table>

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<><>Aren Holdings< / ><>275.29< / ><>19.08< / ><>452.70< / ><>100.02< / ><>0.00< / ><>323.69< / ><>282.31< / >< / ><><>United States (USD)< / ><>< / >< / ><><>SM Co< / ><>163.58< / ><>1.46< / ><>104.90< / ><>139.34< / ><>1.91< / ><>28.85< / ><>84.36< / >< / ><><>Abbott Laboratories< / ><>38.49< / ><>0.24< / ><>135.12< / ><>61.97< / ><>2.56< / ><>31.77< / ><>170.43< / >< / ><><>AbbVie< / ><>272.42< / ><>1.08< / ><>274.94< / ><>190.75< / ><>2.54< / ><>76.95< / ><>461.40< / >< / ><><>Accenture Plc

A< / ><>298.36< / ><>11.72< / ><>291.69< / ><>118.15< / ><>3.28< / ><>16.50< / ><>127.50< / >< / ><><>Adobe< / ><>341.00< / ><>2.00< / ><>363.70< / ><>146.00< / ><>2.80< / ><>10.00< / ><>100.00< / >< / ><><>Aflac< / ><>114.94< / ><>2.26< / ><>138.22< / ><>105.43< / ><>2.12< / ><>12.35< / ><>57.62< / >< / ><><>Air Products & Chemicals< / ><>278.38< / ><>0.26< / ><>314.87< / ><>229.11< / ><>2.60< / ><>29.33< / ><>61.39< / >< / ><><>Archrock< / ><>163.23< / ><>2.60< / ><>193.45< / ><>110.81< / ><>0.00< / ><>43.53< / ><>68.48< / >< / ><><>Alphabet A< / ><>348.29< / ><>2.21< / ><>406.61< / ><>235.84< / ><>0.25< / ><>17.28< / ><>2043.77< / >< / ><><>Alphabet

C< / ><>344.66< / ><>2.51< / ><>404.47< / ><>236.69< / ><>0.26< / ><>17.11< / ><>1096.04< / >< / ><><>Altia Group< / ><>71.42< / ><>2.04< / ><>77.06< / ><>54.70< / ><>6.22< / ><>14.91< / ><>119.25< / >< / ><><>Amazon.com< / ><>254.06< / ><>5.88< / ><>297.20< / ><>196.00< / ><>0.00< / ><>20.15< / ><>2740.37< / >< / ><><>AMD< / ><>602.68< / ><>35.19< / ><>656.52< / ><>188.22< / ><>0.00< / ><>156.34< / ><>1013.24< / >< / ><><>American Electric Power< / ><>122.32< / ><>0.24< / ><>140.58< / ><>112.53< / ><>3.11< / ><>21.02< / ><>66.59< / >< / ><><>American Express< / ><>308.10< / ><>3.85< / ><>367.49< / ><>250.97< / ><>1.23< / ><>19.99< / ><>208.06< / >< / ><><>American

International< / td> 77.05< / ><>1.39< / ><>87.29< / ><>71.25< / ><>2.60< / ><>13.93< / ><>40.29< / >< / tr> <>美国塔塔公司 (American Tower)< / ><>166.73< / ><>0.55< / ><>196.08< / ><>160.05< / ><>4.24< / ><>22.87< / ><>77.69< / >< / ><><>美国金融 (American Financial)< / ><>498.08< / ><>8.52< / ><>572.56< / ><>422.37< / ><>1.36< / ><>11.89< / ><>44.09< / >< / ><><>AMETek Inc.< / ><>247.52< / ><>-1.10< / ><>261.16< / ><>170.24< / ><>0.55< / ><>36.08< / ><>56.75< / >< / ><><>Anglo< / ><>407.44< / ><>-5.64< / ><>447.03< / ><>288.00< / ><>2.47< / ><>25.12< / ><>220.28< / >< / ><><>Aspenol A< / ><>85.32< / ><>-2.23< / ><>178.52< / ><>76.74< / ><>0.59< / ><>40.63< / ><>210.40< / >< / ><><>亚德诺半导体 (Analog Devices)< / ><>405.93< / ><>-4.15< / ><>445.91< / ><>223.47< / ><>1.08< / ><>47.93< / ><>190.70< / >< / ><><>Ami Plc A< / ><>277.12< / ><>0.85< / ><>302.34< / ><>206.33< / ><>1.18< / ><>15.21< / ><>59.70< / >< / ><><>阿波罗全球管理 (Apollo Global Mgmt)< / ><>115.30< / ><>-0.25< / ><>153.29< / ><>99.56< / ><>1.85< / ><>40.60< / ><>69.09< / >< / ><><>苹果 (Apple)< / ><>340.42< / ><>3.75< / ><>345.34< / ><>243.42< / ><>0.32< / ><>30.86< / ><>486.58< / >< / ><><>应用材料公司 (Applied Materials Inc)< / ><>509.57< / ><>-11.08< / ><>738.67< / ><>203.40< / ><>0.42< / ><>43.63< / ><>404.39< / >< / ><><>苹果公司 A (Apple Inc A)< / ><>296.17< / ><>-1.85< / ><>378.40< / ><>216.47< / ><>0.47< / ><>34.53< / ><>108.87< / >< / ><><>应用管理 (Applied Management)< / ><>116.26< / ><>0.51< / ><>181.19< / ><>95.80< / ><>4.64< / ><>53.33< / ><>25.04< / >< / ><><>Arista Networks< / ><>210.97< / ><>-4.86< / ><>217.32< / ><>114.52< / ><>0.00< / ><>65.52< / ><>266.08< / >< / ><><>Arthur J. Gallagher< / ><>234.05< / ><>6.95< / ><>310.35< / ><>190.75< / ><>1.20< / ><>38.37< / ><>59.99< / >< / ><><>AT&T< / ><>24.07< / ><>0.40< / ><>29.43< / ><>19.89< / ><>4.48< / ><>8.21< / ><>170.42< / >< / ><><>Atlassian Corp A< / ><>203.57< / ><>7.78< / ><>220.00< / ><>56.01< / ><>0.00< / ><>989.38< / ><>32.37< / >< / ><><>欧特克 (Autodesk)< / ><>233.60< / ><>-1.45< / ><>320.00< / ><>185.50< / ><>0.00< / ><>30.08< / ><>49.82< / >< / ><><>自动数据处理 (Auto Data Processing)< / ><>270.73< / ><>0.73< / ><>292.60< / ><>188.16< / ><>2.51< / ><>24.69< / ><>107.28< / >< / ><><>AuroraZone< / ><>2910.54< / ><>84.27< / ><>4146.42< / ><>2730.65< / ><>0.00< / ><>19.52< / ><>47.52< / >< / ><><>贝克休斯 A (Baker Hughes A)< / ><>56.30< / ><>0.89< / ><>70.41< / ><>43.92< / ><>1.63< / ><>17.87< / ><>55.89< / >< / ><><>纽约梅隆银行 (Bank of New York Mellon)< / ><>143.61< / ><>0.89< / ><>165.04< / ><>103.11< / ><>1.75< / ><>16.58< / ><>97.44< / >< / ><><>碧康迪金森 (Becton Dickinson)< / ><>182.75< / ><>2.58< / ><>213.08< / ><>140.11< / ><>2.30< / ><>31.51< / ><>49.78< / >< / ><><>伯克希尔·哈撒韦 A (Berkshire Hathaway A)< / ><>66891.81< / ><>691.87< / ><>66832.81< / ><>688000.00< / ><>0.00< / ><>8.14< / ><>38.81< / >< / ><><>伯克希尔·哈撒韦 B (Berkshire Hathaway B)< / ><>511.05< / ><>4.80< / ><>537.74< / ><>464.00< / ><>0.00< / ><>13.70< / ><>714.61< / >< / ><><>贝莱德金融 (BlackRock Finance)< / ><>1085.35< / ><>-4.28< / ><>1218.94< / ><>917.38< / ><>2.15< / ><>25.14< / ><>164.99< / >< / ><><>黑石 (Blackstone)< / ><>112.68< / ><>0.85< / ><>106.39< / ><>101.73< / ><>2.94< / ><>25.21< / ><>64.58< / >< / ><><>Black, A< / ><>75.23< / ><>-0.84< / ><>86.92< / ><>48.21< / ><>0.00< / ><>129.71< / ><>40.89< / >< / ><><>波音公司 (Boeing Co)< / ><>187.75< / ><>0.57< / ><>254.35< / ><>176.77< / ><>0.00< / ><>87.29< / ><>149.39< / >< / ><><>Berkitt Corp< / ><>53.61< / ><>0.09< / ><>65.22< / ><>46.12< / ><>2.39< / ><>12.18< / ><>374.88< / >< / ><><>Booking

Holdings< / td> 159.97< / ><>-4.10< / ><>1503.10< / ><>150.14< / ><>1.03< / ><>17.68< / ><>123.20< / >< / tr> <>Boston Scientific< / ><>42.04< / ><>0.46< / ><>105.65< / ><>41.50< / ><>0.00< / ><>16.89< / ><>69.93< / >< / ><><>Bristol Myers Squibb< / ><>56.56< / ><>-0.84< / ><>619.62< / ><>475.52< / ><>1.73< / ><>13.07< / ><>117.70< / >< / ><><>Becton Communications< / ><>360.14< / ><>-16.37< / ><>495.00< / ><>289.63< / ><>1.86< / ><>20.37< / ><>108.53< / >< / ><><>Caledonia Design Systems< / ><>348.84< / ><>-7.28< / ><>416.69< / ><>262.75< / ><>0.00< / ><>68.54< / ><>98.07< / >< / ><><>Capital One Financial< / ><>199.40< / ><>3.49< / ><>259.63< / ><>174.24< / ><>1.80< / ><>10.95< / ><>122.33< / >< / ><><>Carrier

Global< / ><>55.83< / ><>0.83< / ><>76.76< / ><>50.24< / ><>1.72< / ><>29.32< / ><>46.02< / >< / ><><>Carvana A< / ><>63.20< / ><>0.44< / ><>486.69< / ><>56.12< / ><>0.00< / ><>28.34< / ><>45.50< / >< / ><><>Campbellar< / ><>798.18< / ><>-17.85< / ><>1073.46< / ><>489.34< / ><>0.82< / ><>34.11< / ><>395.98< / >< / ><><>CME Group A< / ><>131.08< / ><>3.52< / ><>174.27< / ><>121.69< / ><>0.00< / ><>33.78< / ><>37.98< / >< / ><><>Cencora< / ><>321.35< / ><>4.10< / ><>377.54< / ><>244.82< / ><>0.75< / ><>23.75< / ><>61.32< / >< / ><><>Charter Colors A< / ><>109.67< / ><>2.71< / ><>276.10< / ><>104.91< / ><>0.00< / ><>2.82< / ><>12.57< / >< / ><><>Chevron

Energy< / ><>277.68< / ><>5.68< / ><>300.89< / ><>186.20< / ><>0.80< / ><>20.99< / ><>57.39< / >< / ><><>Chevron< / ><>211.55< / ><>6.40< / ><>217.78< / ><>146.49< / ><>3.37< / ><>20.30< / ><>417.97< / >< / ><><>Chipotle Mexican Grill< / ><>32.68< / ><>1.91< / ><>42.81< / ><>26.04< / ><>0.00< / ><>29.98< / ><>41.35< / >< / ><><>Chubb< / ><>343.78< / ><>9.08< / ><>365.91< / ><>205.30< / ><>1.19< / ><>86.30< / ><>122.63< / >< / ><><>Cintas< / ><>201.12< / ><>3.83< / ><>216.16< / ><>161.16< / ><>1.03< / ><>38.20< / ><>75.86< / >< / ><><>Cross Systems< / ><>114.89< / ><>-2.50< / ><>130.37< / ><>66.81< / ><>1.46< / ><>34.19< / ><>452.96< / >< / ><><>Citigroup< / ><>128.08< / ><>0.76< / ><>147.96< / ><>93.09< / ><>2.09< / ><>18.01< / ><>214.85< / >< / ><><>Cloudflare

Inc A< / ><>341.69< / ><>-1.08< / ><>370.35< / ><>158.83< / ><>0.00< / ><>589.47< / ><>110.30< / >< / ><><>CME Group A< / ><>276.44< / ><>6.17< / ><>328.16< / ><>218.31< / ><>4.09< / ><>33.33< / ><>99.40< / >< / ><><>Cognizant Tech G Ltd A< / ><>80.01< / ><>2.94< / ><>87.03< / ><>37.08< / ><>2.20< / ><>12.82< / ><>27.03< / >< / ><><>Colgate Global A< / ><>172.00< / ><>-0.45< / ><>402.16< / ><>139.11< / ><>0.00< / ><>44.44< / ><>38.32< / >< / ><><>Colgate Petroleum< / ><>88.10< / ><>1.89< / ><>95.53< / ><>74.55< / ><>2.41< / ><>34.69< / ><>70.23< / >< / ><><>Comcast Corp A< / ><>21.23< / ><>-0.77< / ><>22.95< / ><>26.69< / ><>6.23< / ><>17.47< / ><>147.54< / >< / ><><>Comcast

Phillips< / td> 134.19< / ><>4.35< / ><>141.62< / ><>65.57< / ><>2.50< / ><>17.75< / ><>161.21< / >< / tr> <>Constellation Energy< / ><>285.07< / ><>-14.52< / ><>412.70< / ><>228.63< / ><>0.60< / ><>27.84< / ><>101.00< / >< / ><><>Copart< / ><>27.46< / ><>0.86< / ><>45.89< / ><>26.39< / ><>1.00< / ><>17.62< / ><>25.46< / >< / ><><>Corning< / ><>152.63< / ><>-10.42< / ><>217.78< / ><>77.39< / ><>0.73< / ><>88.84< / ><>131.85< / >< / ><><>Coteva< / ><>13.75< / ><>-0.70< / ><>90.97< / ><>11.74< / ><>5.24< / ><>8.33< / ><>9.18< / >< / ><><>Costa Wholesale< / ><>947.92< / ><>5.67< / ><>1066.50< / ><>844.06< / ><>0.62< / ><>45.62< / ><>420.05< / >< / ><><>Coupang

A< / ><>15.41< / ><>0.60< / ><>32.70< / ><>13.35< / ><>0.00< / ><>35.84< / ><>25.27< / >< / ><><>CRH< / ><>81.68< / ><>0.42< / ><>131.55< / ><>86.13< / ><>1.91< / ><>16.15< / ><>54.47< / >< / ><><>CrowdStrike Holdings A< / ><>263.01< / ><>-2.43< / ><>786.00< / ><>174.14< / ><>0.00< / ><>659.75< / ><>269.31< / >< / table>

<><>能源< / ><>价格< / ><>涨跌< / >< / ><><>布伦特原油< / ><>104.67< / ><>-1.07< / >< / ><><>天然气< / ><>3.20< / ><>0.04< / >< / ><><>轻质原油< / ><>92.00< / ><>0.51< / >< / ><><>3.5号燃料油< / ><>580.54< / ><>10.23< / >< / ><><>欧洲石脑油< / ><>898.62< / ><>31.45< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="3">基本金属< / >< / ><><>铝< / ><>3057.00< / ><>6.50< / >< / ><><>铜< / ><>14539.00< / ><>230.00< / >< / ><><>铅< / ><>1888.00< / ><>28.00< / >< / ><><>镍< / ><>15670.00< / ><>117.00< / >< / ><><>锡< / ><>52905.00< / ><>1458.00< / >< / ><><>锌< / ><>3809.00< / ><>90.50< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="3">贵金属< / >< / ><><>黄金< / ><>4188.82< / ><>77.36< / >< / ><><>白银 ($)< / ><>60.90< / ><>1.74< / >< / ><><>铂金< / ><>1686.90< / ><>46.55< / >< / ><><>钯金< / ><>1151.39< / ><>27.06< / >< / ><><>铁矿石< / ><>90.85< / ><>0.39< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="3">大宗商品< / >< / ><><>波罗的海干散货指数< / ><>2917.00< / ><>-56.00< / >< / ><><>Richards ICE 期货< / ><>127.75< / ><>0.65< / >< / table>

<><>农产品< / ><>价格< / ><>涨跌< / >< / ><><>玉米< / ><>502.25< / ><>2.00< / >< / ><><>小麦< / ><>206.50< / ><>-2.00< / >< / ><><>油菜籽< / ><>501.00< / ><>-11.25< / >< / ><><>向日葵籽< / ><>10265.00< / ><>35.00< / >< / ><><>大豆< / ><>1293.75< / ><>6.25< / >< / ><><>豆粕< / ><>388.00< / ><>5.30< / >< / ><><>可可 (ICE Life)< / ><>4233.00< / ><>59.00< / >< / ><><>可可 (ICE US)< / ><>5658.00< / ><>-7.00< / >< / ><><>咖啡 (罗布斯塔)< / ><>3378.00< / ><>-77.00< / >< / ><><>咖啡 (阿拉比卡)< / ><>354.40< / ><>-1.40< / >< / ><><>白糖< / ><>541.10< / ><>-14.60< / >< / ><><>11号糖< / ><>20.30< / ><>0.15< / >< / ><><>棉花< / ><>81.36< / ><>1.42< / >< / ><><>橙汁< / ><>146.85< / ><>-3.10< / >< / ><><>枫叶< / ><>4165.51< / ><>54.74< / >< / ><><>活牛< / ><>222.90< / ><>1.03< / >< / ><><>育肥牛< / ><>339.38< / ><>1.35< / >< / ><><>精瘦猪< / ><>75.28< / ><>-0.55< / >< / ><><>棕榈油 (马来西亚)< / ><>1136.00< / ><>-11.50< / >< / table>

数据来源:能源:NYMEX;基本金属:LME / 伦敦金属交易所。玉米、小麦、大豆:CBOT;活牛、育肥牛、精瘦猪:CME。

债券:全球投资级

股票< / td>< rowspan="2">价格< / >< rowspan="2">涨跌幅< / >< colspan="6">52周< / >< / tr><><>最高< / ><>最低< / ><>收益率< / ><>市盈率< / ><>月股息< / ><>< / >< / ><><>ONEOK< / ><>90.29< / ><>2.24< / ><>90.95< / ><>87.16< / ><>4.14< / ><>15.54< / ><>56.92< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Oracle< / ><>135.99< / ><>-7.67< / ><>132.54< / ><>114.50< / ><>1.47< / ><>20.04< / ><>410.29< / ><>< / >< / ><><>O'Reilly Automotive< / ><>86.01< / ><>1.40< / ><>104.06< / ><>82.59< / ><>0.00< / ><>27.22< / ><>69.56< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Old Worldwide< / ><>166.11< / ><>0.37< / ><>94.58< / ><>63.58< / ><>2.66< / ><>18.78< / ><>25.17< / ><>< / >< / ><><>PBG< / ><>150.59< / ><>2.77< / ><>167.25< / ><>137.62< / ><>2.99< / ><>22.31< / ><>349.77< / ><>< / >< / ><><>PNCAM< / ><>105.66< / ><>3.08< / ><>139.24< / ><>92.25< / ><>1.20< / ><>23.04< / ><>57.72< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Procter & Gamble< / ><>190.76< / ><>1.06< / ><>207.54< / ><>180.00< / ><>1.50< / ><>158.52< / ><>108.52< / ><>< / >< / ><><>rho Alto Networks< / ><>398.50< / ><>-7.03< / ><>432.22< / ><>336.57< / ><>0.00< / ><>571.95< / ><>325.57< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Parker Hannifin< / ><>946.96< / ><>-5.60< / ><>1099.94< / ><>715.37< / ><>0.84< / ><>32.78< / ><>119.42< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Paychex< / ><>104.46< / ><>2.81< / ><>128.24< / ><>85.45< / ><>4.56< / ><>20.73< / ><>37.19< / ><>< / >< / ><><>PayPal Holdings< / ><>155.02< / ><>0.07< / ><>79.22< / ><>38.46< / ><>0.02< / ><>10.32< / ><>47.07< / ><>< / >< / ><><>PepsiCo< / ><>128.34< / ><>4.61< / ><>171.48< / ><>123.47< / ><>4.67< / ><>15.60< / ><>175.17< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Pfizer< / ><>27.82< / ><>-0.18< / ><>29.21< / ><>23.62< / ><>6.18< / ><>36.13< / ><>158.56< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Philip Morris Int'l< / ><>200.50< / ><>7.81< / ><>207.76< / ><>142.11< / ><>3.19< / ><>28.61< / ><>312.50< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Phillips 88< / ><>281.60< / ><>0.98< / ><>277.12< / ><>126.74< / ><>1.80< / ><>16.02< / ><>112.26< / ><>< / >< / ><><>PNC Financial Services Sp< / ><>219.68< / ><>1.96< / ><>258.98< / ><>176.88< / ><>3.64< / ><>12.08< / ><>87.64< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Progressive< / ><>218.73< / ><>4.61< / ><>245.64< / ><>189.20< / ><>0.18< / ><>10.95< / ><>127.10< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Prologis Inc< / ><>129.29< / ><>1.99< / ><>153.35< / ><>111.03< / ><>3.31< / ><>28.60< / ><>122.87< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Prudential Financial< / ><>113.53< / ><>1.17< / ><>127.72< / ><>91.89< / ><>4.93< / ><>10.24< / ><>39.17< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Public Storage< / ><>285.52< / ><>3.53< / ><>335.55< / ><>256.54< / ><>4.20< / ><>27.14< / ><>53.35< / ><>< / >< / ><><>QUALCOMM< / ><>176.01< / ><>-1.11< / ><>258.92< / ><>121.99< / ><>0.89< / ><>19.93< / ><>187.95< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Realty Income< / ><>54.17< / ><>0.82< / ><>67.94< / ><>53.32< / ><>6.01< / ><>39.54< / ><>51.26< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Regeneron Primes< / ><>739.57< / ><>-2.55< / ><>858.34< / ><>541.00< / ><>0.51< / ><>17.66< / ><>74.80< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Republic Services< / ><>216.84< / ><>0.66< / ><>233.42< / ><>196.41< / ><>1.24< / ><>30.71< / ><>66.40< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Robertson Markets A< / ><>107.01< / ><>-2.50< / ><>153.56< / ><>83.52< / ><>0.00< / ><>46.32< / ><>84.61< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Reblox < / >< / table>

A< / td><>45.52< / ><>0.89< / ><>141.95< / ><>33.88< / ><>0.00< / ><>32.28< / ><>30.50< / ><>< / >< / tr> <>Roper Technologies< / ><>364.23< / ><>5.68< / ><>321.28< / ><>305.96< / ><>1.00< / ><>15.11< / ><>36.02< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Ross Stores< / ><>225.20< / ><>-0.33< / ><>257.00< / ><>147.49< / ><>0.78< / ><>27.03< / ><>71.94< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Royal Caribbean Trust< / ><>281.41< / ><>0.91< / ><>356.29< / ><>222.22< / ><>1.95< / ><>104.61< / ><>75.47< / ><>< / >< / ><><>KTA< / ><>184.32< / ><>4.06< / ><>226.88< / ><>155.64< / ><>1.58< / ><>32.06< / ><>246.42< / ><>< / >< / ><><>S&P Global< / ><>402.73< / ><>7.55< / ><>592.25< / ><>381.61< / ><>0.96< / ><>24.50< / ><>118.72< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Salesforce< / ><>227.80< / ><>3.24< / ><>269.11< / ><>146.32< / ><>0.77< / ><>20.82< / ><>187.48< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Schlumberger< / ><>48.98< / ><>1.02< / ><>60.46< / ><>31.64< / ><>2.41< / ><>10.86< / ><>72.69< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Sempra< / ><>80.08< / ><>0.58< / ><>101.04< / ><>76.21< / ><>3.28< / ><>23.21< / ><>53.36< / ><>< / >< / ><><>ServiceNow< / ><>129.75< / ><>-0.25< / ><>164.44< / ><>103.74< / ><>0.00< / ><>62.60< / ><>108.00< / ><>< / >< / ><><>SimonProp< / ><>199.62< / ><>2.02< / ><>239.50< / ><>172.83< / ><>1.41< / ><>14.59< / ><>64.58< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Snowflake A< / ><>343.40< / ><>10.95< / ><>384.58< / ><>119.30< / ><>0.00< / ><>111.49< / ><>121.15< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Solidsco Advanced< / ><>60.23< / ><>-0.13< / ><>90.80< / ><>40.43< / ><>0.50< / ><>51.48< / ><>9.57< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Southern Co< / ><>86.15< / ><>0.71< / ><>100.83< / ><>81.69< / ><>3.53< / ><>20.66< / ><>89.10< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Southern Copper< / ><>198.66< / ><>-1.91< / ><>223.88< / ><>119.25< / ><>1.99< / ><>29.63< / ><>167.74< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Spotify Technology< / ><>526.42< / ><>13.50< / ><>700.12< / ><>405.00< / ><>0.00< / ><>236.05< / ><>108.36< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Starbucks Corp< / ><>93.21< / ><>-0.37< / ><>110.51< / ><>77.79< / ><>2.70< / ><>53.88< / ><>106.26< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Stratoga A< / ><>151.47< / ><>-1.90< / ><>336.36< / ><>81.81< / ><>0.00< / ><>1.53< / ><>60.96< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Stryker< / ><>270.97< / ><>1.57< / ><>392.55< / ><>267.00< / ><>1.27< / ><>28.47< / ><>108.24< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Synopsys< / ><>497.75< / ><>-4.92< / ><>539.48< / ><>352.55< / ><>0.00< / ><>86.27< / ><>95.38< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Targa Resources< / ><>288.49< / ><>4.53< / ><>307.94< / ><>144.14< / ><>1.73< / ><>27.50< / ><>81.88< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Target< / ><>154.76< / ><>3.64< / ><>170.75< / ><>83.44< / ><>3.00< / ><>15.99< / ><>70.31< / ><>< / >< / ><><>TE Connectivity< / ><>214.31< / ><>-1.52< / ><>252.56< / ><>195.27< / ><>1.40< / ><>20.65< / ><>62.65< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Tesla< / ><>375.00< / ><>-2.61< / ><>498.83< / ><>297.38< / ><>0.00< / ><>317.60< / ><>1481.06< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Texas Instruments< / ><>288.20< / ><>-0.78< / ><>334.03< / ><>152.73< / ><>2.11< / ><>43.60< / ><>263.20< / ><>< / >< / ><><>The Alcatia< / ><>230.63< / ><>6.68< / ><>277.22< / ><>188.08< / ><>1.67< / ><>4.56< / ><>58.32< / ><>< / >< / ><><>The Charles Schwab< / ><>95.87< / ><>1.29< / ><>114.53< / ><>83.96< / ><>1.32< / ><>17.55< / ><>167.52< / ><>< / >< / ><><>The Copix Group< / ><>381.03< / ><>2.52< / ><>312.18< / ><>239.51< / ><>2.22< / ><>11.63< / ><>74.26< / ><>< / >< / ><><>The

Coca-Cola< / td> 67.77< / ><>1.95< / ><>92.49< / ><>60.00< / ><>2.42< / ><>26.36< / ><>377.63< / ><>< / >< / tr> <>The Kroger< / ><>61.41< / ><>2.16< / ><>70.58< / ><>54.15< / ><>2.54< / ><>33.19< / ><>36.27< / ><>< / >< / ><><>The SherwinWilliams< / ><>321.03< / ><>6.03< / ><>377.77< / ><>289.86< / ><>0.00< / ><>19.34< / ><>77.93< / ><>< / >< / ><><>The TCR Cos< / ><>136.75< / ><>-0.05< / ><>170.00< / ><>122.78< / ><>1.38< / ><>25.37< / ><>152.82< / ><>< / >< / ><><>The Williams Cos< / ><>72.34< / ><>0.68< / ><>80.08< / ><>56.19< / ><>2.90< / ><>28.62< / ><>88.48< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Thermo Fisher Scientific< / ><>651.98< / ><>-10.08< / ><>694.33< / ><>435.27< / ><>0.29< / ><>35.03< / ><>241.07< / ><>< / >< / ><><>T-Mobile

US< / ><>171.31< / ><>3.66< / ><>231.02< / ><>160.81< / ><>2.47< / ><>17.68< / ><>183.76< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Timeva Technologies< / ><>469.94< / ><>2.67< / ><>505.67< / ><>348.06< / ><>0.89< / ><>35.63< / ><>103.40< / ><>< / >< / ><><>UnitedGroup Inc< / ><>1088.30< / ><>-6.91< / ><>1463.03< / ><>1071.25< / ><>0.00< / ><>33.04< / ><>66.21< / ><>< / >< / ><><>UnitedHealth Care< / ><>210.70< / ><>-0.44< / ><>288.88< / ><>205.00< / ><>0.00< / ><>18.95< / ><>108.55< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Trust Financial< / ><>46.19< / ><>0.69< / ><>56.20< / ><>43.78< / ><>4.50< / ><>10.47< / ><>58.41< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Uber Technologies< / ><>70.24< / ><>1.76< / ><>100.35< / ><>65.41< / ><>0.00< / ><>15.20< / ><>143.47< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Union

Pacific< / ><>278.20< / ><>3.52< / ><>315.98< / ><>215.53< / ><>2.04< / ><>23.18< / ><>165.27< / ><>< / >< / ><><>United Parcel Service III< / ><>94.13< / ><>1.84< / ><>122.41< / ><>82.00< / ><>6.97< / ><>17.50< / ><>70.54< / ><>< / >< / ><><>United Rentals< / ><>1050.15< / ><>12.71< / ><>1179.18< / ><>701.59< / ><>0.73< / ><>25.20< / ><>85.06< / ><>< / >< / ><><>UnitedHealth Group< / ><>370.85< / ><>-5.03< / ><>461.62< / ><>259.87< / ><>2.50< / ><>23.78< / ><>332.96< / ><>< / >< / ><><>US Bancorp< / ><>57.03< / ><>0.66< / ><>66.08< / ><>45.02< / ><>3.79< / ><>11.38< / ><>88.66< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Volvo Energy< / ><>443.80< / ><>19.70< / ><>428.98< / ><>193.29< / ><>1.88< / ><>18.50< / ><>127.78< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Vermilion

Communications< / ><>46.35< / ><>0.58< / ><>51.68< / ><>10.60< / ><>6.11< / ><>12.07< / ><>192.57< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Verant Media Group A< / ><>21.77< / ><>0.33< / ><>59.00< / ><>27.17< / ><>4.72< / ><>0.00< / ><>4.41< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Vertex Pharmaceuticals< / ><>933.25< / ><>-2.39< / ><>560.25< / ><>402.58< / ><>0.00< / ><>29.07< / ><>127.55< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Visa A< / ><>375.10< / ><>3.00< / ><>365.57< / ><>253.99< / ><>0.71< / ><>31.87< / ><>839.21< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Visteo< / ><>156.14< / ><>-10.58< / ><>217.10< / ><>132.98< / ><>0.59< / ><>28.02< / ><>52.41< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Walmart< / ><>110.56< / ><>2.40< / ><>135.16< / ><>98.88< / ><>0.90< / ><>39.51< / ><>677.15< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Welt

Disney< / td> 107.02< / ><>2.27< / ><>117.08< / ><>92.19< / ><>1.40< / ><>21.58< / ><>164.78< / ><>< / >< / tr> <>Waste Management< / ><>210.10< / ><>1.16< / ><>248.13< / ><>194.11< / ><>1.80< / ><>29.68< / ><>83.98< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Wells Fargo< / ><>82.03< / ><>1.77< / ><>97.76< / ><>72.76< / ><>2.44< / ><>11.70< / ><>249.06< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Welltower< / ><>223.04< / ><>1.92< / ><>255.20< / ><>163.75< / ><>1.52< / ><>98.97< / ><>160.75< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Workday A< / ><>187.81< / ><>3.55< / ><>247.40< / ><>110.36< / ><>0.00< / ><>38.17< / ><>36.61< / ><>< / >< / ><><>WW Grainger< / ><>1268.67< / ><>5.16< / ><>1418.91< / ><>906.52< / ><>0.79< / ><>32.29< / ><>58.76< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Yum

Brands< / ><>143.00< / ><>2.65< / ><>170.14< / ><>134.26< / ><>2.10< / ><>17.90< / ><>39.02< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Zscaler A< / ><>73.09< / ><>1.53< / ><>148.30< / ><>68.77< / ><>2.90< / ><>11.92< / ><>30.20< / ><>< / >< / table>

波动率指数

<><>< / ><>赎回日期< / ><>票面利率< / ><>买入价< / ><>买入收益率< / ><>当日< / ><>每周< / >< / ><>< colspan="7">美元< / >< / ><><>摩根士丹利< / ><>30 / 01< / ><>4.00< / ><>97.62< / ><>4.57< / ><>0.13< / ><>0.17< / >< / ><><>Trust Finl Corp< / ><>28 / 06< / ><>4.12< / ><>99.43< / ><>5.12< / ><>0.00< / ><>0.09< / >< / ><><>National Rural< / ><>32 / 11< / ><>4.02< / ><>92.03< / ><>5.27< / ><>0.54< / ><>0.21< / >< / ><><>Washington Gaslight Co< / ><>36 / 03< / ><>5.78< / ><>97.97< / ><>5.02< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>Northern States Power< / ><>28 / 03< / ><>8.13< / ><>100.66< / ><>5.05< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>Oklahoma Gas & Elec< / ><>28 / 04< / ><>6.50< / ><>101.05< / ><>4.58< / ><>-0.07< / ><>-0.99< / >< / ><><

colspan="7">欧元< / >< / ><><>德国< / ><>25 / 08< / ><>2.22< / ><>88.65< / ><>3.19< / ><>0.00< / ><>-0.07< / >< / ><><>西班牙< / ><>46 / 10< / ><>2.88< / ><>79.29< / ><>4.47< / ><>0.34< / ><>-0.13< / >< / ><><>比利时< / ><>47 / 06< / ><>1.50< / ><>57.86< / ><>4.90< / ><>0.20< / ><>-0.23< / >< / ><><>法国< / ><>48 / 05< / ><>2.00< / ><>58.05< / ><>5.30< / ><>0.18< / ><>0.13< / >< / ><>< colspan="7">英镑< / >< / ><><>英国< / ><>46 / 12< / ><>4.25< / ><>80.63< / ><>5.91< / ><>0.42< / >< / ><><>英国< / ><>47 / 07< / ><>1.50< / ><>47.26< / ><>5.96< / ><>0.31< / >< / table>

债券:基准政府债券

<><>< / ><>10月09日< / ><>当日变动< / ><>前值< / ><>52周最高< / ><>52周最低< / >< / ><><>VIX< / ><>14.93< / ><>-0.48< / ><>15.41< / ><>35.30< / ><>13.38< / >< / ><><>VXD< / ><>15.34< / ><>-0.11< / ><>15.45< / ><>42.71< / ><>2.43< / >< / ><><>VDAX< / ><>18.08< / ><>-1.26< / ><>19.34< / ><>35.58< / ><>13.53< / >< / table>

<><>< / ><>赎回日期< / ><>票面利率< / ><>买入价< / ><>买入收益率< / ><>当日收益率变动< / ><>每周收益率变动< / ><>每月收益率变动< / ><>年度收益率变动< / >< / ><>< rowspan="2">澳大利亚< / ><>06 / 54< / ><>4.75< / ><>85.38< / ><>5.82< / ><>-0.06< / ><>0.00< / ><>0.13< / ><>0.57< / >< / ><><>04 / 27< / ><>4.75< / ><>99.95< / ><>4.84< / ><>-0.01< / ><>0.01< / ><>0.05< / ><>1.47< / >< / ><>< rowspan="2">奥地利< / ><>02 / 33< / ><>2.88< / ><>96.33< / ><>3.55< / ><>0.00< / ><>0.06< / ><>0.13< / ><>0.67< / >< / ><><>10 / 53< / ><>3.13< / ><>84.60< / ><>4.10< / ><>0.01< / ><>0.05< / ><>0.01< / ><>0.27< / >< / ><><>比利时< / ><>06 / 54< / ><>3.25< / ><>74.98< / ><>4.98< / ><>0.00< / ><>0.04< / ><>0.19< / ><>0.70< / >< / ><><

rowspan="2">加拿大< / td> 06 / 27< / ><>1.00< / ><>99.01< / ><>2.82< / ><>0.00< / ><>0.03< / ><>-0.18< / >< / tr> <>12 / 55< / ><>2.75< / ><>74.98< / ><>3.93< / ><>0.00< / ><>0.03< / ><>0.13< / ><>0.15< / >< / ><>< rowspan="2">丹麦< / ><>11 / 33< / ><>2.25< / ><>94.07< / ><>2.78< / ><>0.00< / ><>0.20< / >< / ><><>11 / 39< / ><>4.50< / ><>111.10< / ><>3.43< / ><>-0.01< / ><>0.03< / ><>0.06< / ><>0.50< / >< / ><>< rowspan="2">芬兰< / ><>09 / 27< / ><>0.50< / ><>97.75< / ><>2.99< / ><>0.03< / ><>0.02< / ><>0.06< / ><>0.86< / >< / ><><>09 / 30< / ><>3.00< / ><>95.95< / ><>3.66< / ><>-0.01< / ><>0.02< / ><>0.14< / ><>0.68< / >< / ><><

rowspan="2">法国< / ><>05 / 54< / ><>3.00< / ><>66.46< / ><>5.35< / ><>-0.03< / ><>-0.02< / ><>0.32< / ><>0.90< / >< / ><><>11 / 33< / ><>3.50< / ><>93.94< / ><>4.51< / ><>-0.03< / ><>-0.02< / ><>-0.96< / ><>-0.30< / >< / ><>< rowspan="2">德国< / ><>08 / 33< / ><>2.60< / ><>95.50< / ><>3.34< / ><>-0.01< / ><>0.03< / ><>0.05< / ><>0.64< / >< / ><><>08 / 53< / ><>1.75< / ><>65.76< / ><>3.87< / ><>-0.02< / ><>0.04< / ><>-0.01< / ><>0.38< / >< / ><><

rowspan="2">希腊< / ><>06 / 28< / ><>3.88< / ><>100.87< / ><>3.32< / ><>0.02< / ><>-0.10< / ><>0.02< / ><>0.88< / >< / ><><>06 / 33< / ><>4.25< / ><>100.31< / ><>4.19< / ><>-0.03< / ><>0.77< / ><>0.29< / ><>0.91< / >< / ><><>爱尔兰< / ><>10 / 32< / ><>0.35< / ><>82.75< / ><>3.59< / ><>-0.44< / ><>-0.14< / ><>0.61< / ><>0.86< / >< / ><>< rowspan="2">意大利< / ><>12 / 27< / ><>2.63< / ><>99.33< / ><>3.27< / ><>0.01< / ><>-0.06< / ><>0.17< / ><>1.02< / >< / ><><>03 / 34< / ><>4.13< / ><>99.41< / ><>4.33< / ><>-0.03< / ><>0.29< / ><>1.02< / >< / ><><

rowspan="2">荷兰< / ><>01 / 54< / ><>2.00< / ><>88.87< / ><>3.86< / ><>-0.01< / ><>0.03< / ><>-0.02< / ><>0.28< / >< / ><><>07 / 33< / ><>2.50< / ><>94.47< / ><>3.43< / ><>-0.03< / ><>0.00< / ><>0.06< / ><>0.63< / >< / ><>< rowspan="2">波兰< / ><>04 / 28< / ><>2.75< / ><>97.36< / ><>4.56< / ><>-0.04< / ><>-0.02< / ><>0.12< / ><>0.72< / >< / ><><>10 / 33< / ><>6.00< / ><>99.47< / ><>6.08< / ><>0.00< / ><>0.01< / ><>0.18< / ><>1.16< / >< / ><><>葡萄牙< / ><>07 / 32< / ><>1.63< / ><>89.89< / ><>3.60< / ><>-0.02< / ><>0.19< / ><>0.82< / >< / ><><

rowspan="2">西班牙< / ><>10 / 52< / ><>1.88< / ><>59.92< / ><>4.55< / ><>-0.03< / ><>-0.01< / ><>0.10< / ><>0.75< / >< / ><><>10 / 33< / ><>3.50< / ><>98.38< / ><>3.81< / ><>-0.02< / ><>0.00< / ><>0.20< / ><>0.76< / >< / ><><>瑞典< / ><>11 / 33< / ><>1.75< / ><>96.30< / ><>2.50< / ><>0.00< / ><>-0.14< / >< / ><><>瑞士< / ><>03 / 06< / ><>2.50< / ><>117.77< / ><>0.32< / ><>0.00< / ><>-0.02< / ><>-0.22< / ><>-0.49< / >< / ><>< rowspan="2">英国< / ><>06 / 28< / ><>0.00< / ><>92.62< / ><>4.75< / ><>0.00< / ><>0.06< / ><>0.17< / ><>0.98< / >< / ><><>10 / 53< / ><>3.75< / ><>70.40< / ><>5.97< / ><>-0.05< / ><>0.06< / ><>0.08< / ><>0.75< / >< / ><>< rowspan="2">美国< / ><>11 / 33< / ><>4.50< / ><>96.12< / ><>5.16< / ><>-0.03< / ><>-0.01< / ><>0.42< / ><>1.19< / >< / ><><>11 / 53< / ><>4.75< / ><>87.51< / ><>5.66< / ><>-0.05< / ><>-0.01< / ><>0.32< / ><>0.83< / >< / table>

英国国债:英国现金市场

10月09日< / td><>价格< / ><>收益率< / ><>赎回收益率< / ><>当日< / ><>当周< / ><>最高< / ><>最低< / >< / tr><><> 1.25pc '27< / ><>97.63< / ><>1.28< / ><>4.42< / ><>0.03< / ><>-0.00< / ><>97.71< / ><>95.53< / >< / ><><> 0.875pc '28< / ><>88.94< / ><>0.98< / ><>4.85< / ><>0.06< / ><>-0.19< / ><>91.00< / ><>0.01< / >< / ><><> 1pc '32< / ><>81.36< / ><>1.23< / ><>5.05< / ><>0.10< / ><>-0.28< / ><>85.07< / ><>81.01< / >< / ><><> 4.25pc '36< / ><>91.60< / ><>4.64< / ><>5.40< / ><>0.19< / ><>-0.57< / ><>99.39< / ><>91.15< / >< / ><><> 4.5pc '42< / ><>86.40< / ><>5.21< / ><>5.81< / ><>0.28< / ><>-0.81< / ><>96.45< / ><>85.71< / >< / ><><> 3.75pc '52< / ><>71.15< / ><>5.27< / ><>5.95< / ><>0.33< / ><>-0.75< / ><>81.50< / ><>70.51< / >< / ><><> 4pc '60< / ><>72.34< / ><>5.53< / ><>5.91< / ><>0.34< / ><>-0.82< / ><>83.52< / ><>71.62< / >< / table>

收盘价、最高价和最低价以交易货币计价。市值以当地货币计价。最高价和最低价基于滚动52周周期。

英国国债:英国富时精算师指数 (UK FTSE ACTUARIES INDICES)

<><>价格指数(固定票息)< / ><>10月9日< / ><>当日涨跌 %< / ><>总回报< / ><>月回报< / ><>年回报< / ><>收益率< / >< / ><><>5年期及以下< / ><>84.47< / ><>0.07< / ><>2652.46< / ><>-0.04< / ><>0.90< / ><>4.83< / >< / ><><>5-10年期< / ><>141.27< / ><>0.23< / ><>3344.55< / ><>-0.87< / ><>-2.09< / ><>5.26< / >< / ><><>10-15年期< / ><>138.95< / ><>0.37< / ><>3652.78< / ><>-1.20< / ><>-3.95< / ><>5.64< / >< / ><><>5-15年期< / ><>138.97< / ><>0.27< / ><>3408.49< / ><>-0.97< / ><>-2.67< / ><>5.41< / >< / ><><>15年期以上< / ><>161.54< / ><>0.59< / ><>3224.23< / ><>-0.93< / ><>-7.33< / ><>5.90< / >< / ><><>所有债券< / ><>123.66< / ><>0.27< / ><>3098.36< / ><>-0.60< / ><>-2.49< / ><>5.59< / >< / table>

<><>指数挂钩< / ><>10月9日< / ><>当日涨跌 %< / ><>月涨跌 %< / ><>年涨跌 %< / ><>总回报< / ><>1个月< / ><>1年回报< / >< / ><><>5年期及以下< / ><>365.32< / ><>0.05< / ><>0.31< / ><>2.84< / ><>3188.09< / ><>0.32< / ><>3.67< / >< / ><><>5年期以上< / ><>464.95< / ><>0.49< / ><>-0.45< / ><>-2.78< / ><>3645.81< / ><>-0.27< / ><>-2.17< / >< / ><><>5-15年期< / ><>455.55< / ><>0.30< / ><>-0.62< / ><>0.59< / ><>3828.25< / ><>-0.41< / ><>1.35< / >< / ><><>15年期以上< / ><>462.46< / ><>0.69< / ><>-0.27< / ><>-5.99< / ><>3493.35< / ><>-0.11< / ><>-5.52< / >< / ><><>所有债券< / ><>464.06< / ><>0.39< / ><>-0.28< / ><>-1.64< / ><>3713.98< / ><>-0.13< / ><>-0.99< / >< / table>

<><>收益率指数< / ><>10月9日< / ><>10月8日< / ><>一年前< / >< / ><><>5年期< / ><>5.02< / ><>5.04< / ><>4.26< / >< / ><><>10年期< / ><>5.44< / ><>5.47< / ><>4.59< / >< / ><><>15年期< / ><>5.73< / ><>5.76< / ><>4.88< / >< / ><><>20年期< / ><>5.87< / ><>5.91< / ><>5.02< / >< / ><><>45年期< / ><>5.71< / ><>5.75< / ><>4.91< / >< / table>

<><>实际收益率(0%通胀)< / ><>10月9日< / ><>久期(年)< / ><>前值< / ><>一年前< / >< / ><><>5年期及以下< / ><>1.03< / ><>2.59< / ><>1.04< / ><>0.73< / >< / ><><>5年期以上< / ><>2.39< / ><>16.12< / ><>2.42< / ><>1.90< / >< / ><><>5-15年期< / ><>2.11< / ><>9.42< / ><>2.14< / ><>1.61< / >< / ><><>15年期以上< / ><>2.51< / ><>22.90< / ><>2.54< / ><>2.01< / >< / ><><>所有债券< / ><>2.33< / ><>13.22< / ><>2.36< / ><>1.86< / >< / table>

实际收益率 5% 通胀< / td><>10月 9 日< / ><>久期(年)< / ><>前值< / ><>一年前< / >< / tr><><>5 年及以下< / ><>0.81< / ><>2.59< / ><>0.81< / ><>0.43< / >< / ><><>5 年以上< / ><>2.37< / ><>16.12< / ><>2.40< / ><>1.88< / >< / ><><>5-15 年< / ><>2.06< / ><>9.42< / ><>2.09< / ><>1.54< / >< / ><><>15 年以上< / ><>2.50< / ><>22.90< / ><>2.53< / ><>2.00< / >< / ><><>所有股票< / ><>2.30< / ><>13.22< / ><>2.33< / ><>1.87< / >< / table>

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化学品< / td>< / tr><><>Elements< / ><>182.20< / ><>3.40< / ><>195.40< / ><>136.00< / ><>1.83< / ><>-30.89< / ><>801.26< / >< / ><><>Johnson Matthey< / ><>2468.00< / ><>22.00< / ><>3245.25< / ><>2192.00< / ><>4.16< / ><>-32.36< / ><>263.46< / >< / ><><>Victrex< / ><>942.00< / ><>18.00< / ><>1024.00< / ><>515.00< / ><>3.18< / ><>29.44< / ><>109.55< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">建筑与材料< / >< / ><><>Galliford Try Hldgs< / ><>684.00< / ><>2.00< / ><>726.81< / ><>468.00< / ><>3.44< / ><>16.40< / ><>79.42< / >< / ><><>Morgan Sindal•< / ><>4086.00< / ><>18.00< / ><>5730.00< / ><>3938.00< / ><>3.99< / ><>10.98< / ><>138.16< / >< / table>

主市场

< / td>< rowspan="2">价格< / >< ="2">+ / - 数量变化< / >< colspan="2">52周< / >< ="2">收益率< / >< ="2">市盈率< / >< ="2">成交量(千股)< / >< / tr><><>最高< / ><>最低< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">航空航天与国防< / >< / ><><>BAE Systemic< / ><>1860.00< / ><>23.50< / ><>2380.00< / ><>1529.00< / ><>2.03< / ><>27.03< / ><>2231.57< / >< / ><><>Chemring Group< / ><>511.00< / ><>12.00< / ><>650.75< / ><>446.52< / ><>1.58< / ><>28.71< / ><>1588.64< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">汽车与零部件< / >< / table>

<><>Ford Motors< / ><>922.46< / ><>-3.71< / ><>1319.04< / ><>841.76< / ><>4.92< / ><>-5.13< / ><>< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">银行< / >< / ><><>ANZ Group< / ><>1960.87< / ><>-5.81< / ><>2126.50< / ><>1753.25< / ><>5.85< / ><>19.10< / ><>3531.59< / >< / ><><>Banco Santander< / ><>1020.00< / ><>8.00< / ><>1122.00< / ><>709.00< / ><>1.69< / ><>13.24< / ><>140.69< / >< / ><><>Bank of Nova Scotia< / ><>6653.07< / ><>41.31< / ><>7185.88< / ><>4733.33< / ><>3.63< / ><>< / ><>745.98< / >< / ><><>Barclays< / ><>429.65< / ><>3.50< / ><>554.10< / ><>353.55< / ><>2.68< / ><>9.81< / ><>24422.67< / >< / ><><>Canadian Imperial< / ><>8225.23< / ><>58.23< / ><>9198.88< / ><>5989.15< / ><>2.76< / ><>< / ><>269.41< / >< / ><><>HSBCs< / ><>1395.00< / ><>15.20< / ><>1610.00< / ><>959.29< / ><>3.99< / ><>15.26< / ><>18164.00< / >< / ><><>Lion Finance Gp< / ><>12380.00< / ><>10.00< / ><>14820.00< / ><>7320.00< / ><>2.56< / ><>8.44< / ><>108.21< / >< / ><><>Lloyds Bnkg Gp#< / ><>101.60< / ><>1.00< / ><>117.90< / ><>81.82< / ><>3.95< / ><>14.51< / ><>39871.69< / >< / ><><>NatWest Group< / ><>542.60< / ><>2.00< / ><>726.00< / ><>504.41< / ><>5.45< / ><>12.01< / ><>10651.57< / >< / ><><>OSB Group< / ><>486.60< / ><>13.00< / ><>647.50< / ><>472.00< / ><>7.38< / ><>6.44< / ><>878.66< / >< / ><><>Perm TSB Group< / ><>253.97< / ><>4.41< / ><>291.66< / ><>182.42< / ><>0.61< / ><>6.61< / ><>84.00< / >< / ><><>Royal Bank of CA< / ><>14466.20< / ><>73.15< / ><>16187.03< / ><>10784.89< / ><>2.58< / ><>< / ><>516.51< / >< / ><><>Stand Chart< / ><>2119.00< / ><>11.00< / ><>2364.00< / ><>1351.50< / ><>2.43< / ><>14.34< / ><>2812.32< / >< / ><><>...3.73%PI< / ><>107.50< / ><>< / ><>128.84< / ><>102.00< / ><>6.86< / ><>< / ><>38.67< / >< / ><><>...8.25%PI< / ><>118.75< / ><>< / ><>143.80< / ><>114.25< / ><>6.95< / ><>< / ><>42.17< / >< / ><><>Toronto-Dominion< / ><>8654.02< / ><>33.71< / ><>9256.88< / ><>5890.82< / ><>2.69< / ><>< / ><>1882.28< / >< / ><><>Westpark< / ><>1778.38< / ><>3.85< / ><>2275.38< / ><>1755.74< / ><>4.57< / ><>16.78< / ><>4907.84< / >< / table>

<><>Garoline Ry Hlgs< / ><>584.00< / ><>2.00< / ><>726.81< / ><>486.00< / ><>3.44< / ><>18.40< / ><>79.42< / >< / ><><>Morgan Sindall< / ><>4086.00< / ><>18.00< / ><>5730.00< / ><>3938.00< / ><>3.99< / ><>10.98< / ><>138.16< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">电子与电气设备< / >< / ><><>discoverie Grp< / ><>874.00< / ><>26.00< / ><>900.00< / ><>505.00< / ><>1.49< / ><>28.94< / ><>660.71< / >< / ><><>Halma< / ><>3528.00< / ><>29.00< / ><>4902.00< / ><>3268.00< / ><>0.70< / ><>35.79< / ><>484.39< / >< / ><><>Morgan Adv Mat< / ><>290.00< / ><>25.00< / ><>294.50< / ><>179.80< / ><>4.21< / ><>38.67< / ><>2678.87< / >< / ><><>Oxford

Instruments< / td> 2958.00< / ><>32.00< / ><>3318.00< / ><>1682.00< / ><>0.80< / ><>34.96< / ><>106.67< / >< / tr> <>Renishaw< / ><>5735.00< / ><>85.00< / ><>6030.00< / ><>3280.00< / ><>1.43< / ><>35.08< / ><>144.07< / >< / ><><>TT Electronics< / ><>181.00< / ><>2.00< / ><>197.80< / ><>93.00< / ><>-< / ><>-8.25< / ><>213.06< / >< / ><><>XP Power< / ><>1950.00< / ><>4.00< / ><>2160.00< / ><>849.23< / ><>-< / ><>-46.43< / ><>52.29< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="8">金融综合 (Financial General)< / >< / ><><>3i Group< / ><>2402.00< / ><>90.00< / ><>4497.00< / ><>1825.00< / ><>3.52< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>Aberdeen Group< / ><>243.00< / ><>6.00< / ><>265.00< / ><>179.60< / ><>6.01< / ><>11.25< / ><>2748.78< / >< / ><><>Bridgepoint Group< / ><>401.80< / ><>18.20< / ><>402.60< / ><>212.00< / ><>2.44< / ><>80.36< / ><>2534.71< / >< / ><><>City of London Inv< / ><>522.00< / ><>4.00< / ><>540.00< / ><>349.00< / ><>6.51< / ><>14.15< / ><>65.42< / >< / ><><>Close

Bros< / ><>305.40< / ><>1.20< / ><>556.15< / ><>318.40< / ><>-< / ><>-6.75< / ><>501.63< / >< / ><><>ICG< / ><>1808.00< / ><>73.00< / ><>2214.00< / ><>1424.87< / ><>4.81< / ><>10.84< / ><>1518.99< / >< / ><><>Investec< / ><>583.00< / ><>4.50< / ><>690.00< / ><>499.38< / ><>6.49< / ><>7.69< / ><>1645.51< / >< / ><><>Jupiter< / ><>173.60< / ><>3.20< / ><>214.50< / ><>137.20< / ><>3.46< / ><>9.04< / ><>950.43< / >< / ><><>Liontrust< / ><>301.50< / ><>5.00< / ><>358.00< / ><>223.00< / ><>6.30< / ><>19.58< / ><>136.46< / >< / ><><>London Stock Exa< / ><>8694.00< / ><>224.00< / ><>10140.00< / ><>6884.00< / ><>1.82< / ><>36.47< / ><>1334.89< / >< / ><><>Rathbones

Group< / ><>1540.00< / ><>22.00< / ><>2500.00< / ><>1490.00< / ><>6.49< / ><>14.27< / ><>106.16< / >< / ><><>S & U*< / ><>1880.00< / ><>30.00< / ><>2458.50< / ><>1620.00< / ><>6.17< / ><>9.63< / ><>4.24< / >< / ><><>St James's Place< / ><>1037.50< / ><>17.50< / ><>1575.50< / ><>1011.50< / ><>1.73< / ><>10.39< / ><>1388.07< / >< / table>

<>< rowspan="2">< / >< rowspan="2">价格< / >< rowspan="2">+ / - 日变动< / >< colspan="4">52周< / >< rowspan="2">成交量 (千股)< / >< / ><><>最高< / ><>最低< / ><>收益率< / ><>市盈率< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">航空航天与国防 (Aerospace & Defence)< / >< / ><><>Cohort< / ><>1208.00< / ><>16.00< / ><>1538.00< / ><>881.10< / ><>1.48< / ><>23.13< / ><>415.80< / >< / ><><>Velocity Composites< / ><>18.25< / ><>-< / ><>24.00< / ><>12.00< / ><>-< / ><>-8.12< / ><>163.82< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">基础资源(不含采矿) (Basic Resources (Ex Mining))< / >< / ><><>Cropper J< / ><>680.00< / ><>10.00< / ><>710.00< / ><>250.00< / ><>-< / ><>22.08< / ><>16.35< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">建筑与材料 (Construction & Materials)< / >< / ><><>Acsys Tech< / ><>55.40< / ><>-0.20< / ><>79.84< / ><>54.60< / ><>-< / ><>24.51< / ><>78.32< / >< / ><><

colspan="8">电子与电气设备 (Electronic & Electrical Equip)< / >< / ><><>Checkit< / ><>16.00< / ><>-< / ><>27.00< / ><>12.35< / ><>-< / ><>-6.15< / ><>422.68< / >< / ><><>LPA< / ><>82.00< / ><>-0.50< / ><>92.00< / ><>34.00< / ><>-< / ><>-31.06< / ><>16.63< / >< / ><><>Thorpe FW< / ><>250.00< / ><>-5.00< / ><>320.00< / ><>240.00< / ><>2.94< / ><>10.54< / ><>51.56< / >< / table>

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< / td>< rowspan="2">价格< / >< ="2">+ / - 日变动< / >< colspan="2">52周< / >< ="2">收益率< / >< ="2">资产净值 (NAV)< / >< ="2">股息 / 计划< / >< / tr><><>最高< / ><>最低< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">常规(不含私募股权)< / >< / ><><>3i Infra< / ><>388.00< / ><>3.00< / ><>389.50< / ><>325.00< / ><>3.47< / ><>405.58< / ><>-5.31< / >< / ><><>Abf GVIT< / ><>91.00< / ><>-1.00< / ><>96.77< / ><>76.00< / ><>6.70< / ><>103.23< / ><>-12.04< / >< / ><><>Abf Sml< / ><>1826.00< / ><>32.00< / ><>1835.00< / ><>1408.07< / ><>2.62< / ><>2005.63< / ><>-10.47< / >< / ><><>Aberdeen Asia Foc< / ><>470.00< / ><>2.00< / ><>478.00< / ><>348.00< / ><>1.37< / ><>515.73< / ><>-8.60< / >< / ><><>Aberdeen Asian Inc Fund< / ><>321.00< / ><>1.00< / ><>357.00< / ><>246.00< / ><>5.85< / ><>344.34< / ><>-7.01< / >< / ><><>Aberdeen Eq Inc.< / ><>448.00< / ><>5.00< / ><>473.00< / ><>359.25< / ><>5.16< / ><>446.32< / ><>1.37< / >< / ><><>Aberdeen UK Smll< / ><>533.00< / ><>6.00< / ><>544.00< / ><>441.50< / ><>2.63< / ><>565.55< / ><>-6.90< / >< / ><><>Alliance Witan< / ><>1403.00< / ><>6.00< / ><>1409.00< / ><>1178.00< / ><>2.09< / ><>1467.58< / ><>-4.95< / >< / ><><>Allianz Tech< / ><>764.00< / ><>-10.00< / ><>789.00< / ><>480.75< / ><>—< / ><>828.82< / ><>-8.31< / >< / ><><>Artemis UK Future Lead< / ><>389.50< / ><>1.50< / ><>405.00< / ><>321.00< / ><>3.96< / ><>443.55< / ><>-13.17< / >< / ><><>Aurora UK Alpha< / ><>248.00< / ><>3.00< / ><>279.00< / ><>222.09< / ><>1.90< / ><>275.96< / ><>-13.42< / >< / ><><>AVI Japan< / ><>179.50< / ><>0.50< / ><>194.00< / ><>154.50< / ><>1.23< / ><>186.01< / ><>-2.99< / >< / ><><>BG China Growth< / ><>286.00< / ><>3.00< / ><>331.04< / ><>283.00< / ><>0.87< / ><>293.95< / ><>-4.79< / >< / ><><>BG Euro< / ><>121.50< / ><>0.50< / ><>133.00< / ><>91.40< / ><>0.59< / ><>134.80< / ><>-8.76< / >< / ><><>BG Japan< / ><>1076.00< / ><>10.00< / ><>1114.00< / ><>811.10< / ><>0.93< / ><>1197.07< / ><>-9.17< / >< / ><><>BG Shin< / ><>179.00< / ><>3.20< / ><>182.00< / ><>123.05< / ><>0.39< / ><>198.77< / ><>-9.31< / >< / ><><>BG US Growth< / ><>389.50< / ><>-1.00< / ><>398.00< / ><>261.00< / ><>—< / ><>401.86< / ><>-2.47< / >< / ><><>Battile Gifford UK< / ><>218.00< / ><>3.00< / ><>231.00< / ><>180.12< / ><>2.84< / ><>237.76< / ><>-9.84< / >< / ><><>Bankers IT< / ><>155.20< / ><>0.40< / ><>157.80< / ><>125.20< / ><>1.82< / ><>168.68< / ><>-8.45< / >< / ><><>Biotech Growth< / ><>1400.00< / ><>36.00< / ><>1786.00< / ><>1050.00< / ><>—< / ><>1493.00< / ><>-6.19< / >< / ><><>BidR Amar Sml< / ><>283.00< / ><>2.00< / ><>289.56< / ><>208.85< / ><>5.26< / ><>276.92< / ><>0.94< / >< / ><><>BidR Energy & Res< / ><>178.00< / ><>4.00< / ><>205.00< / ><>135.50< / ><>3.48< / ><>181.96< / ><>-4.70< / >< / ><><>BidR Front< / ><>189.00< / ><>2.00< / ><>206.00< / ><>164.50< / ><>4.03< / ><>188.33< / ><>-1.45< / >< / ><><>BidR< / >< / table>

Gfrur< / td><>573.00< / ><>4.00< / ><>625.00< / ><>506.95< / ><>1.25< / ><>614.13< / ><>-7.23< / >< / tr> <>BidR I&G< / ><>234.00< / ><>-4.00< / ><>240.00< / ><>208.00< / ><>3.29< / ><>250.86< / ><>-6.85< / >< / ><><>BidR Smrl< / ><>265.50< / ><>3.00< / ><>288.40< / ><>230.80< / ><>2.98< / ><>305.34< / ><>-14.41< / >< / ><><>BidR World Mining< / ><>948.00< / ><>25.00< / ><>1076.00< / ><>628.00< / ><>2.53< / ><>956.06< / ><>-3.09< / >< / ><><>Brunner< / ><>1560.00< / ><>10.00< / ><>1612.00< / ><>1236.00< / ><>1.73< / ><>1723.26< / ><>-9.67< / >< / ><><>Caledonia Inv< / ><>386.00< / ><>4.00< / ><>402.00< / ><>312.00< / ><>1.99< / ><>603.89< / ><>-35.14< / >< / ><><>CanGen

Cls< / ><>2701.49< / ><>32.45< / ><>2958.28< / ><>2358.19< / ><>2.43< / ><>80.44< / ><>-41.45< / >< / ><><>City of Lon< / ><>571.00< / ><>6.00< / ><>599.00< / ><>498.00< / ><>3.93< / ><>556.28< / ><>2.04< / >< / ><><>City Natural Res G&I< / ><>413.00< / ><>9.00< / ><>467.00< / ><>258.01< / ><>6.85< / ><>387.62< / ><>4.17< / >< / ><><>CT Healthcare< / ><>122.00< / ><>—< / ><>152.40< / ><>118.80< / ><>4.32< / ><>128.37< / ><>-2.94< / >< / ><><>CT MgtI< / ><>131.00< / ><>—< / ><>135.00< / ><>115.00< / ><>6.11< / ><>127.92< / ><>1.49< / >< / ><><>CT MgtS< / ><>328.00< / ><>1.00< / ><>330.00< / ><>280.26< / ><>—< / ><>335.78< / ><>-3.16< / >< / ><><>CT Cp&I< / ><>339.00< / ><>3.00< / ><>373.00< / ><>320.00< / ><>3.97< / ><>351.78< / ><>-4.48< / >< / ><><>CT UK

HIT B< / ><>107.00< / ><>—< / ><>120.00< / ><>92.00< / ><>5.57< / ><>112.40< / ><>-5.04< / >< / ><><>CT UK HIT Ord< / ><>104.50< / ><>-1.50< / ><>126.00< / ><>97.00< / ><>5.70< / ><>112.63< / ><>-5.48< / >< / ><><>Dunedin Inc< / ><>308.00< / ><>3.00< / ><>323.00< / ><>275.00< / ><>6.58< / ><>329.59< / ><>-7.84< / >< / ><><>Edinburgh Inv< / ><>833.00< / ><>14.00< / ><>867.00< / ><>737.60< / ><>3.84< / ><>891.04< / ><>-7.99< / >< / ><><>Edin Worldwide< / ><>280.50< / ><>3.00< / ><>294.50< / ><>194.20< / ><>—< / ><>296.78< / ><>-6.89< / >< / ><><>The Euro SmCo< / ><>227.50< / ><>1.50< / ><>247.21< / ><>193.80< / ><>5.56< / ><>244.71< / ><>-8.24< / >< / ><><>F&C Inv

Trust< / ><>350.60< / ><>2.20< / ><>1332.00< / ><>325.80< / ><>1.21< / ><>380.68< / ><>-8.99< / >< / ><><>Fidelity Asian< / ><>610.00< / ><>4.00< / ><>672.00< / ><>546.06< / ><>3.36< / ><>637.56< / ><>-5.08< / >< / ><><>Fidelity China< / ><>245.50< / ><>2.00< / ><>328.00< / ><>239.50< / ><>3.87< / ><>260.70< / ><>-6.82< / >< / table>

<>< rowspan="2">< / >< rowspan="2">价格< / >< ="2">+ / -< / >< ="2">股息< / >< colspan="2">52周< / >< ="2">收益率< / >< ="2">市盈率< / >< ="2">成交量 (千股)< / >< / ><><>最高< / ><>最低< / >< / ><><>TP ICAP Group●< / ><>328.60< / ><>6.60< / ><>< / ><>355.00< / ><>235.50< / ><>5.23< / ><>13.04< / ><>1677.10< / >< / ><><>Vanquis Banking Gp< / ><>69.70< / ><>1.00< / ><>< / ><>132.00< / ><>67.00< / ><>-< / ><>21.78< / ><>600.85< / >< / ><>< colspan="9">食品与饮料< / >< / ><><>AEP Plantations< / ><>196.40< / ><>-0.40< / ><>< / ><>229.00< / ><>124.00< / ><>3.10< / ><>11.22< / ><>246.19< / >< / ><><>Assoc. Brit Foods< / ><>1935.00< / ><>1.00< / ><>< / ><>2359.00< / ><>1729.45< / ><>3.43< / ><>12.96< / ><>642.11< / >< / ><><>Bar

(AR)●< / td> 552.00< / ><>3.00< / ><>< / ><>715.32< / ><>538.00< / ><>3.46< / ><>13.06< / ><>341.05< / >< / tr> <>Fevera< / ><>147.00< / ><>1.00< / ><>< / ><>152.00< / ><>114.50< / ><>1.63< / ><>6.36< / ><>12.38< / >< / ><><>可口可乐 HBC (Coca-Cola HBC)< / ><>4282.00< / ><>29.00< / ><>< / ><>5185.00< / ><>3326.00< / ><>2.37< / ><>19.54< / ><>299.62< / >< / ><><>Cronswick< / ><>4385.00< / ><>-45.00< / ><>< / ><>5810.00< / ><>4775.00< / ><>2.26< / ><>16.85< / ><>243.61< / >< / ><><>帝亚吉欧 (Diageo)●< / ><>1838.00< / ><>16.00< / ><>< / ><>1903.91< / ><>1295.50< / ><>2.31< / ><>27.74< / ><>2822.61< / >< / ><><>Greencore< / ><>255.40< / ><>3.20< / ><>< / ><>307.50< / ><>191.10< / ><>1.02< / ><>19.35< / ><>2553.74< / >< / ><><>凯瑞集团 (Kerry Group)●< / ><>7348.15< / ><>111.48< / ><>< / ><>7648.35< / ><>5567.81< / ><>1.86< / ><>21.69< / ><>122.74< / >< / ><><>泰特与莱尔 (Tate & Lyle)< / ><>559.00< / ><>-0.50< / ><>< / ><>580.00< / ><>319.40< / ><>3.54< / ><>25.41< / ><>1980.65< / >< / ><><>联合利华 (Unilever)●< / ><>4673.50< / ><>47.50< / ><>< / ><>5542.11< / ><>3644.00< / ><>3.53< / ><>12.75< / ><>3531.74< / >< / table>

<><>ON Store Nord< / ><>1221.49< / ><>34.00< / ><>1429.97< / ><>984.75< / ><>-< / ><>15.88< / ><>390.27< / >< / ><><>Smith&Neph+< / ><>1020.50< / ><>17.00< / ><>1426.59< / ><>980.40< / ><>2.94< / ><>18.72< / ><>1675.36< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">家居、休闲与个人用品< / >< / ><><>Barratt Redrow+< / ><>290.40< / ><>-1.00< / ><>410.29< / ><>235.40< / ><>2.07< / ><>21.35< / ><>6445.50< / >< / ><><>Bellway< / ><>1948.00< / ><>-17.00< / ><>2890.00< / ><>1715.00< / ><>3.70< / ><>14.67< / ><>627.79< / >< / ><><>Berkeley< / ><>3170.00< / ><>-6.00< / ><>4442.00< / ><>2798.00< / ><>-< / ><>9.56< / ><>404.21< / >< / ><><>博柏利集团 (Burberry Group)< / ><>1024.50< / ><>17.50< / ><>1376.50< / ><>953.40< / ><>-< / ><>955.36< / >< / ><><>Cairn Homes+< / ><>221.00< / ><>-2.00< / ><>251.00< / ><>161.00< / ><>3.98< / ><>12.26< / ><>298.64< / >< / ><><>Games Workshop< / ><>10390.00< / ><>40.00< / ><>23540.00< / ><>14300.00< / ><>3.42< / ><>26.27< / ><>153.94< / >< / ><><>Gleeson (MJ)< / ><>272.00< / ><>1.50< / ><>435.00< / ><>221.00< / ><>1.84< / ><>-81.93< / ><>-33.34< / >< / ><><>McBride< / ><>176.20< / ><>2.25< / ><>214.10< / ><>107.60< / ><>1.76< / ><>9.95< / ><>268.35< / >< / ><><>飞利浦 (Philips)< / ><>1843.81< / ><>23.63< / ><>2413.42< / ><>1790.38< / ><>3.90< / ><>-43.56< / ><>1951.30< / >< / ><><>PZ Cassiers< / ><>96.50< / ><>1.10< / ><>114.00< / ><>85.09< / ><>3.83< / ><>20.53< / ><>339.13< / >< / ><><>Vistry Group< / ><>218.80< / ><>1.60< / ><>746.40< / ><>216.00< / ><>-< / ><>5.18< / ><>1941.70< / >< / table>

54.00< / ><>1.58< / ><>27.61< / ><>1052.60< / >< / table>

<><>Coats Group< / ><>85.10< / ><>3.40< / ><>98.10< / ><>73.15< / ><>2.96< / ><>19.04< / ><>3079.74< / >< / ><><>Mactarlane< / ><>84.90< / ><>1.90< / ><>93.80< / ><>58.80< / ><>4.31< / ><>21.28< / ><>174.34< / >< / ><><>Smiths< / ><>2730.00< / ><>20.00< / ><>2885.00< / ><>2088.00< / ><>1.78< / ><>4.34< / ><>6201.40< / >< / table>

Braemar< / td><>237.00< / ><>2.00< / ><>249.00< / ><>203.11< / ><>2.95< / ><>32.73< / ><>75.02< / >< / tr><><>Fisher (J)< / ><>426.00< / ><>8.00< / ><>554.00< / ><>358.00< / ><>-< / ><>48.97< / ><>74.44< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">保险< / >< / ><><>Admiral Group< / ><>3824.00< / ><>-< / ><>4128.00< / ><>2824.00< / ><>3.95< / ><>14.71< / ><>411.93< / >< / ><><>Aviva+< / ><>677.00< / ><>4.40< / ><>740.60< / ><>590.60< / ><>5.94< / ><>25.17< / ><>3919.40< / >< / ><><>Chesnara+< / ><>322.00< / ><>4.00< / ><>378.00< / ><>265.00< / ><>7.13< / ><>43.76< / ><>421.56< / >< / ><><>Ecclesiastical Insurance< / ><>130.25< / ><>-< / ><>155.00< / ><>125.50< / ><>6.62< / ><>-< / ><>41.29< / >< / ><><>Hansard Global+< / ><>54.00< / ><>0.25< / ><>60.80< / ><>43.20< / ><>8.24< / ><>11.49< / ><>11.46< / >< / ><><>Hiscox< / ><>1847.00< / ><>25.00< / ><>1952.00< / ><>1288.00< / ><>2.12< / ><>13.52< / ><>1584.49< / >< / ><><>Lancashire Hldgs< / ><>646.50< / ><>11.50< / ><>695.00< / ><>549.00< / ><>2.60< / ><>7.07< / ><>245.81< / >< / ><><>Legal & General< / ><>287.00< / ><>1.50< / ><>318.10< / ><>217.20< / ><>7.63< / ><>28.73< / ><>14545.73< / >< / table>

<>< rowspan="2">< / >< rowspan="2">价格< / >< rowspan="2">+ / - 变动< / >< colspan="5">52周< / >< / ><><>最高< / ><>最低< / ><>收益率< / ><>市盈率< / ><>成交量(千)< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">综合金融< / >< / ><><>Arbuthnot Banking< / ><>800.00< / ><>10.00< / ><>955.00< / ><>755.00< / ><>6.88< / ><>7.33< / ><>5.14< / >< / ><><>BP Marsh< / ><>655.00< / ><>-< / ><>710.00< / ><>613.00< / ><>5.54< / ><>4.94< / ><>10.37< / >< / ><><>Burlont Capital< / ><>266.00< / ><>16.80< / ><>880.50< / ><>249.20< / ><>3.59< / ><>12.13< / ><>165.27< / >< / ><><>Premier Miton Group< / ><>34.75< / ><>-< / ><>64.00< / ><>34.50< / ><>8.63< / ><>44.55< / ><>37.89< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">食品与饮料< / >< / ><><>Cometia< / ><>5600.00< / ><>-125.00< / ><>6300.00< / ><>4800.00< / ><>4.64< / ><>-29.99< / ><>0.24< / >< / ><><>Feverbee Drinks●< / ><>858.50< / ><>13.50< / ><>973.00< / ><>711.00< / ><>2.03< / ><>45.71< / ><>2383.49< / >< / ><><>Nichols< / ><>1085.00< / ><>-5.00< / ><>1200.00< / ><>880.00< / ><>3.59< / ><>18.49< / ><>13.85< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">家居、休闲与个人用品< / >< / ><><>Churchill●< / ><>355.00< / ><>-< / ><>460.00< / ><>271.00< / ><>5.92< / ><>8.94< / ><>6.46< / >< / ><><>Frontier Div●< / ><>905.00< / ><>29.00< / ><>640.00< / ><>302.00< / ><>-< / ><>8.11< / ><>92.19< / >< / ><><>Portmeison< / ><>47.50< / ><>-< / ><>118.00< / ><>46.60< / ><>-< / ><>-1.05< / ><>0.50< / >< / ><><>Sanderson Design Grp< / ><>77.00< / ><>2.50< / ><>90.00< / ><>40.00< / ><>1.95< / ><>25.84< / ><>142.35< / >< / table>

<>< rowspan="2">< / >< rowspan="2">价格< / >< rowspan="2">+ / - 变动< / >< colspan="4">52周< / ><>S&P 500< / >< / ><><>最高< / ><>最低< / ><>收益率< / ><>资产净值(NAV)< / ><>折价 / 溢价< / >< / ><><>Fidelity Emer Mkts< / ><>1522.00< / ><>18.00< / ><>1574.00< / ><>897.34< / ><>1.64< / ><>1660.32< / ><>-8.90< / >< / ><><>Fidelity Euro< / ><>413.00< / ><>2.50< / ><>447.50< / ><>367.50< / ><>2.47< / ><>433.76< / ><>-5.03< / >< / ><><>Fidelity Spec< / ><>463.50< / ><>4.50< / ><>479.50< / ><>384.77< / ><>2.23< / ><>459.22< / ><>-0.34< / >< / ><><>Finzbury G&I< / ><>792.00< / ><>16.00< / ><>875.00< / ><>706.25< / ><>2.65< / ><>836.85< / ><>-5.87< / >< / ><><>The Gbl Small

190.40< / td><>1.00< / ><>198.60< / ><>162.72< / ><>1.65< / ><>199.11< / ><>-4.91< / >< / tr> <>GRT(susp)< / ><>1.25< / ><>—< / ><>1.25< / ><>—< / ><>14.40< / ><>-91.32< / >< / ><><>Hansa< / ><>332.00< / ><>2.00< / ><>346.00< / ><>250.00< / ><>1.33< / ><>558.38< / ><>-40.25< / >< / ><><>Hansa A< / ><>334.00< / ><>-1.00< / ><>340.00< / ><>244.00< / ><>1.32< / ><>558.38< / ><>-40.07< / >< / ><><>Hon FaEs< / ><>268.50< / ><>1.00< / ><>281.50< / ><>229.00< / ><>9.33< / ><>253.56< / ><>6.65< / >< / ><><>Hon High Inc< / ><>200.00< / ><>2.00< / ><>214.00< / ><>173.25< / ><>5.56< / ><>208.20< / ><>-4.71< / >< / ><><>Hon

Smir< / ><>958.00< / ><>13.00< / ><>998.00< / ><>769.00< / ><>3.03< / ><>1044.43< / ><>-9.11< / >< / ><><>Herald< / ><>2930.00< / ><>-5.00< / ><>3290.73< / ><>2285.00< / ><>—< / ><>3399.01< / ><>-13.82< / >< / ><><>HCL Infra< / ><>130.60< / ><>-0.40< / ><>141.00< / ><>107.20< / ><>6.51< / ><>160.43< / ><>-18.33< / >< / ><><>Impax Env< / ><>451.00< / ><>-3.00< / ><>494.76< / ><>379.00< / ><>1.15< / ><>502.01< / ><>-10.42< / >< / ><><>IntBiotech< / ><>1050.00< / ><>20.00< / ><>1235.00< / ><>798.00< / ><>2.98< / ><>1060.66< / ><>-1.61< / >< / ><><>Indl PP< / ><>135.40< / ><>0.40< / ><>145.90< / ><>115.60< / ><>6.49< / ><>153.74< / ><>-11.78< / >< / ><><>Inv Asia Dragon

Tst< / ><>493.00< / ><>—< / ><>520.00< / ><>395.00< / ><>3.89< / ><>533.58< / ><>-6.93< / >< / ><><>Inv Bond Inc< / ><>187.50< / ><>-0.50< / ><>178.50< / ><>150.11< / ><>7.31< / ><>165.67< / ><>1.80< / >< / ><><>JPM Amer IT< / ><>1250.00< / ><>4.00< / ><>1258.00< / ><>1041.00< / ><>0.92< / ><>1290.19< / ><>-4.20< / >< / ><><>JPM Asia G&I< / ><>580.00< / ><>2.00< / ><>652.00< / ><>426.00< / ><>5.69< / ><>581.84< / ><>1.41< / >< / ><><>JPM China G&I< / ><>250.00< / ><>-0.50< / ><>313.00< / ><>250.00< / ><>4.56< / ><>266.62< / ><>-8.33< / >< / ><><>JPM Claw< / ><>928.00< / ><>4.00< / ><>986.00< / ><>799.98< / ><>3.93< / ><>951.38< / ><>-3.11< / >< / ><><>JPM Emg

EMEA< / ><>234.50< / ><>5.50< / ><>310.00< / ><>196.00< / ><>0.26< / ><>68.72< / ><>228.60< / >< / ><><>JPM Emg< / ><>169.00< / ><>0.80< / ><>181.20< / ><>126.20< / ><>4.45< / ><>183.21< / ><>-6.96< / >< / ><><>JPM Eur Disc< / ><>606.00< / ><>7.00< / ><>666.00< / ><>548.00< / ><>2.64< / ><>652.82< / ><>-8.44< / >< / ><><>JPM Eur G&I< / ><>135.00< / ><>-0.20< / ><>153.00< / ><>124.50< / ><>4.03< / ><>140.58< / ><>-2.85< / >< / ><><>JPM Em Mk Div< / ><>214.00< / ><>—< / ><>222.00< / ><>155.50< / ><>2.80< / ><>232.64< / ><>-8.00< / >< / ><><>JPM Gbl G&I< / ><>612.50< / ><>-0.50< / ><>641.00< / ><>529.60< / ><>4.05< / ><>630.85< / ><>-3.44< / >< / ><><>JPM India Gwth

Inc< / ><>836.00< / ><>18.00< / ><>1038.00< / ><>799.00< / ><>5.07< / ><>911.62< / ><>-8.65< / >< / ><><>JPM Japan< / ><>833.00< / ><>3.00< / ><>867.00< / ><>668.00< / ><>1.04< / ><>913.55< / ><>-8.51< / >< / ><><>JPM UK Sm< / ><>350.00< / ><>1.00< / ><>368.00< / ><>287.92< / ><>4.26< / ><>374.62< / ><>-7.81< / >< / ><><>JPM US Smi< / ><>416.00< / ><>6.00< / ><>463.00< / ><>365.00< / ><>0.77< / ><>456.88< / ><>-9.33< / >< / ><><>Law Deb< / ><>1206.00< / ><>14.00< / ><>1290.00< / ><>991.00< / ><>3.03< / ><>1185.04< / ><>2.23< / >< / ><><>Lindell Train< / ><>580.00< / ><>6.00< / ><>750.00< / ><>529.50< / ><>4.83< / ><>6.52< / ><>-11.92< / >< / ><><>Lowland< / ><>184.50< / ><>2.50< / ><>191.50< / ><>148.00< / ><>3.73< / ><>199.10< / ><>-7.97< / >< / ><><>Marwyn

Val< / td> 141.00< / ><>—< / ><>142.00< / ><>141.00< / ><>6.43< / ><>284.24< / ><>-46.63< / >< / tr> <>Mercantile< / ><>272.50< / ><>4.50< / ><>290.50< / ><>234.31< / ><>3.05< / ><>298.68< / ><>-9.92< / >< / ><><>March, Tst< / ><>656.00< / ><>8.00< / ><>691.00< / ><>536.25< / ><>4.56< / ><>677.50< / ><>-3.24< / >< / ><><>Mid Wynd< / ><>805.00< / ><>9.00< / ><>814.00< / ><>682.00< / ><>1.07< / ><>817.30< / ><>-2.37< / >< / ><><>Monks IT< / ><>1682.00< / ><>8.00< / ><>1696.00< / ><>1366.00< / ><>0.05< / ><>1755.56< / ><>-5.31< / >< / ><><>Montanaro Eur< / ><>176.50< / ><>2.00< / ><>189.00< / ><>142.00< / ><>0.88< / ><>192.11< / ><>-9.81< / >< / ><><>Murray Inc< / ><>966.00< / ><>14.00< / ><>1036.00< / ><>854.66< / ><>4.24< / ><>1020.39< / ><>-6.39< / >< / ><><>Murray

Intl< / ><>356.50< / ><>3.50< / ><>376.00< / ><>296.50< / ><>3.59< / ><>354.67< / ><>0.95< / >< / ><><>New Star IT< / ><>138.00< / ><>—< / ><>148.00< / ><>111.00< / ><>2.57< / ><>202.72< / ><>-31.92< / >< / ><><>N. Atl Smk IT< / ><>418.00< / ><>—< / ><>434.00< / ><>328.00< / ><>1.67< / ><>649.96< / ><>-34.15< / >< / ><><>Pac Holiz< / ><>1124.00< / ><>10.00< / ><>1262.00< / ><>718.00< / ><>—< / ><>1209.72< / ><>-7.75< / >< / table>

<>< rowspan="2">< / >< rowspan="2">价格< / >< ="2">+ / - 日变动< / >< colspan="2">52周< / >< ="2">收益率< / >< ="2">市盈率< / >< ="2">成交量(千股)< / >< / ><><>最高< / ><>最低< / >< / ><><>Old Mutual•< / ><>60.20< / ><>1.00< / ><>78.80< / ><>55.40< / ><>7.22< / ><>6.68< / ><>130.24< / >< / ><><>Prudential•< / ><>898.40< / ><>10.80< / ><>1238.00< / ><>867.40< / ><>2.34< / ><>7.71< / ><>7628.42< / >< / ><><>Standard Life•< / ><>848.50< / ><>10.00< / ><>950.00< / ><>633.50< / ><>8.61< / ><>-180.15< / ><>9476.22< / >< / table>

<>2899.58< / >< / ><><>Rightmove< / ><>490.50< / ><>-12.10< / ><>700.00< / ><>391.40< / ><>2.19< / ><>17.46< / ><>4320.03< / >< / ><><>STV Group< / ><>100.00< / ><>-1.00< / ><>124.50< / ><>95.60< / ><>-< / ><>-9.26< / ><>21.80< / >< / table>

<>< ="2">< / >< colspan="6">52周< / >< ="2">变动(千股)< / >< / ><><>价格+ / -< / ><>股息< / ><>最高< / ><>最低< / ><>收益率< / ><>市盈率< / >< / ><><>Sirius Real Estate< / ><>88.40< / ><>-0.35< / ><>113.00< / ><>85.85< / ><>6.13< / ><>6.89< / ><>3972.58< / >< / ><><>Smart UJ< / ><>115.00< / ><>-< / ><>140.00< / ><>106.00< / ><>2.83< / ><>8.80< / ><>15.00< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">零售商< / >< / ><><>Cafryns< / ><>500.00< / ><>-< / ><>550.00< / ><>350.00< / ><>2.00< / ><>-12.29< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>Dunelm Group< / ><>799.50< / ><>11.50< / ><>1174.00< / ><>707.00< / ><>8.82< / ><>10.38< / ><>381.69< / >< / ><><>Halfords

Group< / ><>262.00< / ><>3.50< / ><>276.10< / ><>123.80< / ><>3.44< / ><>17.24< / ><>1071.31< / >< / ><><>Inchcape< / ><>686.50< / ><>29.50< / ><>895.00< / ><>627.87< / ><>4.89< / ><>9.47< / ><>1568.46< / >< / ><><>JD Sports< / ><>84.50< / ><>0.48< / ><>102.60< / ><>63.98< / ><>1.50< / ><>9.79< / ><>9939.49< / >< / ><><>Kingfisher+< / ><>318.00< / ><>-4.40< / ><>372.30< / ><>286.40< / ><>3.90< / ><>22.71< / ><>6787.00< / >< / ><><>Marks & Spencer< / ><>397.00< / ><>0.90< / ><>418.33< / ><>301.10< / ><>1.06< / ><>31.26< / ><>8478.08< / >< / ><><>Saga< / ><>765.00< / ><>10.00< / ><>799.00< / ><>234.50< / ><>-< / ><>194.94< / >< / ><><>Sainsbury

335.60< / td><>3.20< / ><>380.30< / ><>293.70< / ><>4.08< / ><>19.40< / ><>15621.19< / >< / tr> <>Tesco< / ><>503.80< / ><>3.40< / ><>516.20< / ><>411.70< / ><>2.93< / ><>18.32< / ><>38109.98< / >< / table>

<>6< / ><>4.68< / ><>11.89< / ><>1585.95< / >< / ><><>Rio Tintos< / ><>7126.00< / ><>104.00< / ><>9117.00< / ><>4970.50< / ><>4.89< / ><>15.36< / ><>1525.56< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="8">石油与天然气< / >< / ><><>BP< / ><>586.30< / ><>1.50< / ><>609.40< / ><>399.35< / ><>4.28< / ><>-< / ><>38870.65< / >< / ><><>Capricorn< / ><>428.00< / ><>-1.00< / ><>450.00< / ><>181.80< / ><>-< / ><>20.22< / ><>7.33< / >< / ><><>ExxonMobil Hldgs< / ><>12828.00< / ><>-< / ><>12875.90< / ><>12709.50< / ><>2.43< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>GeoPark< / ><>867.26< / ><>-< / ><>876.34< / ><>861.21< / ><>0.80< / ><>13.99< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>Hellenic Energy< / ><>1565.29< / ><>-< / ><>1565.29< / ><>1521.27< / ><>3.25< / ><>6.35< / ><>454.10< / >< / ><><>帝国石油 (Imperial Oil) CS< / ><>9388.46< / ><>103.41< / ><>10397.16< / ><>6229.98< / ><>1.96< / ><>-< / ><>167.32< / >< / ><><>TC Energy Corp< / ><>4534.79< / ><>-< / ><>4564.45< / ><>4510.42< / ><>4.10< / ><>-23.99< / ><>573.42< / >< / table>

<>-17.65< / ><>2781.64< / >< / ><><>Howden Joinery< / ><>762.50< / ><>14.50< / ><>981.00< / ><>713.00< / ><>2.89< / ><>15.50< / ><>1423.13< / >< / ><><>Intertek< / ><>5890.00< / ><>-< / ><>5900.00< / ><>3519.42< / ><>2.80< / ><>27.01< / ><>2314.48< / >< / ><><>Johnson Service●< / ><>137.90< / ><>2.30< / ><>172.10< / ><>123.80< / ><>3.63< / ><>14.83< / ><>875.83< / >< / ><><>MITE Group< / ><>210.40< / ><>0.20< / ><>214.00< / ><>135.20< / ><>2.14< / ><>31.88< / ><>2690.08< / >< / ><><>RS Group< / ><>792.00< / ><>42.00< / ><>798.00< / ><>536.90< / ><>2.89< / ><>22.89< / ><>887.55< / >< / ><><>Vp< / ><>512.00< / ><>-20.00< / ><>608.00< / ><>420.00< / ><>7.71< / ><>-37.10< / ><>16.93< / >< / table>

<><>AstraZeneca< / ><>11998.00< / ><>100.00< / ><>15732.00< / ><>9892.00< / ><>1.99< / ><>24.04< / ><>4458.56< / >< / ><><>Chemical Works< / ><>2805.50< / ><>-< / ><>2805.50< / ><>5.41< / ><>14.51< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>GlaxoSmKlinea< / ><>1750.00< / ><>14.50< / ><>2282.00< / ><>1592.00< / ><>4.00< / ><>12.40< / ><>6931.38< / >< / ><><>Hoka Pharm< / ><>1612.00< / ><>5.00< / ><>1865.00< / ><>1187.00< / ><>4.03< / ><>11.71< / ><>267.49< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="8">科技 - 软件与服务< / >< / ><><>Computacenter•< / ><>5550.00< / ><>85.00< / ><>6045.00< / ><>2579.00< / ><>1.41< / ><>37.88< / ><>180.77< / >< / ><><>NCC Group•< / ><>151.60< / ><>2.50< / ><>161.60< / ><>107.20< / ><>3.07< / ><>27.07< / ><>1316.62< / >< / ><><>The Sage Grp< / ><>1071.50< / ><>44.00< / ><>1181.00< / ><>771.66< / ><>2.10< / ><>28.39< / ><>1956.37< / >< / ><><>Triad Group< / ><>380.00< / ><>-< / ><>430.00< / ><>236.00< / ><>2.37< / ><>38.31< / ><>0.12< / >< / table>

房地产投资信托基金 (REITs)< / td>< / tr><><>British Land< / ><>388.80< / ><>3.80< / ><>451.60< / ><>335.40< / ><>5.95< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>Derwent London< / ><>1763.00< / ><>14.00< / ><>2198.00< / ><>1469.33< / ><>4.65< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>Great Portland Est< / ><>303.20< / ><>2.40< / ><>377.00< / ><>270.00< / ><>2.70< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>Land Securities< / ><>604.00< / ><>3.00< / ><>726.00< / ><>525.00< / ><>6.82< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>LondonMetric Prop< / ><>172.20< / ><>0.20< / ><>216.20< / ><>170.20< / ><>7.29< / ><>-< / ><>-19.67< / >< / ><><>Primary Health Prop< / ><>89.40< / ><>0.15< / ><>109.60< / ><>87.40< / ><>8.17< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>Segro< / ><>919.20< / ><>11.20< / ><>997.40< / ><>632.20< / ><>3.43< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>Shaftesbury Capital< / ><>135.30< / ><>1.20< / ><>155.10< / ><>124.10< / ><>3.18< / ><>7.24< / ><>2013.76< / >< / ><><>Tritax Big Box< / ><>139.70< / ><>0.80< / ><>175.00< / ><>138.50< / ><>5.91< / ><>-< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="8">电信< / >< / ><><>Airtel Africa< / ><>290.20< / ><>-19.40< / ><>436.20< / ><>219.00< / ><>1.85< / ><>20.63< / ><>3593.50< / >< / ><><>BT Group< / ><>192.75< / ><>-4.70< / ><>242.09< / ><>173.00< / ><>4.32< / ><>17.52< / ><>21944.81< / >< / ><><>Telecom Plus< / ><>(652.00)< / ><>13.00< / ><>1896.00< / ><>638.00< / ><>5.87< / ><>8.42< / ><>166.49< / >< / ><><>Vodafone< / ><>118.35< / ><>-6.05< / ><>132.07< / ><>83.40< / ><>3.35< / ><>-84.73< / ><>49223.14< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="8">房地产投资与服务< / >< / ><><>Grainger< / ><>162.00< / ><>2.10< / ><>202.79< / ><>149.44< / ><>5.19< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>Hanworth Group●< / ><>187.00< / ><>-< / ><>195.00< / ><>116.80< / ><>0.98< / ><>64.48< / ><>1074.46< / >< / ><><>Helical< / ><>177.00< / ><>2.00< / ><>236.25< / ><>170.50< / ><>1.48< / ><>36.65< / ><>142.12< / >< / ><><>Mountview Estates< / ><>8700.00< / ><>200.00< / ><>10200.00< / ><>8350.00< / ><>6.03< / ><>16.66< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>Savills< / ><>973.00< / ><>16.00< / ><>1142.00< / ><>791.46< / ><>2.42< / ><>18.71< / ><>398.82< / >< / table>

<>< rowspan="2">< / >< rowspan="2" colspan="2">价格 + / - 日变动< / >< colspan="2">52周< / >< ="2">收益率< / >< ="2">市盈率< / >< ="2">成交量(千股)< / >< / ><><>最高< / ><>最低< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">工业工程< / >< / ><><>MS Intl< / ><>1540.00< / ><>-25.00< / ><>1800.00< / ><>1120.00< / ><>1.68< / ><>22.85< / ><>9.08< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">媒体< / >< / ><><>Mission Group< / ><>25.00< / ><>-0.50< / ><>29.00< / ><>12.00< / ><>-< / ><>-1.17< / ><>241.90< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">采矿< / >< / ><><>Central Asia Metals♦< / ><>153.80< / ><>2.00< / ><>244.00< / ><>125.27< / ><>10.08< / ><>-4.78< / ><>535.49< / >< / ><><>Crism Therapeutics< / ><>9.00< / ><>-0.25< / ><>18.50< / ><>8.00< / ><>-< / ><>-1.76< / ><>158.60< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">石油与天然气< / >< / ><><>BarrSitrPet< / ><>8.12< / ><>-0.04< / ><>14.00< / ><>7.28< / ><>-< / ><>-67.12< / ><>3507.42< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">制药与生物技术< / >< / ><><>Sareum Holdings‡< / ><>27.50< / ><>-< / ><>40.00< / ><>9.50< / ><>-< / ><>-11.46< / ><>-< / >< / table>

< / td>< rowspan="2">价格< / >< ="2">+ / -< / >< colspan="2">52周< / >< ="2">收益率< / >< ="2">资产净值 (NAV)< / >< ="2">分红-溢价< / >< / tr><><>最高< / ><>最低< / >< / ><><>Pers. Assets< / ><>545.00< / ><>4.00< / ><>558.00< / ><>515.00< / ><>1.03< / ><>547.92< / ><>-0.99< / >< / ><><>Polar Health< / ><>429.00< / ><>11.50< / ><>460.50< / ><>352.11< / ><>0.51< / ><>417.92< / ><>1.99< / >< / ><><>Polar Fin.< / ><>237.00< / ><>0.50< / ><>260.50< / ><>199.16< / ><>—< / ><>245.71< / ><>-3.15< / >< / ><><>Polar Tech.< / ><>702.00< / ><>3.50< / ><>743.50< / ><>420.00< / ><>—< / ><>769.63< / ><>-9.53< / >< / ><><>Rights & Iss IT< / ><>2510.00< / ><>30.00< / ><>2520.00< / ><>1995.13< / ><>1.80< / ><>3005.13< / ><>-19.48< / >< / ><><>RIT

Cap.< / ><>2490.00< / ><>40.00< / ><>2645.00< / ><>1985.25< / ><>1.81< / ><>3198.50< / ><>-22.93< / >< / ><><>Ruffer Inv Pt< / ><>290.50< / ><>-1.00< / ><>319.00< / ><>281.28< / ><>2.12< / ><>301.52< / ><>-2.86< / >< / ><><>Schr. AsiaPac< / ><>838.00< / ><>6.00< / ><>892.00< / ><>641.35< / ><>1.55< / ><>922.66< / ><>-8.44< / >< / ><><>Schr. AsiaTotal< / ><>707.00< / ><>7.00< / ><>746.00< / ><>530.00< / ><>1.63< / ><>739.94< / ><>-4.18< / >< / ><><>Schroder Inc< / ><>353.00< / ><>1.00< / ><>380.00< / ><>314.00< / ><>4.33< / ><>371.97< / ><>-6.11< / >< / ><><>Schr. Japan< / ><>388.00< / ><>3.00< / ><>402.53< / ><>276.00< / ><>3.44< / ><>423.28< / ><>-8.09< / >< / ><><>Schr.

Orient.< / ><>453.00< / ><>2.00< / ><>478.00< / ><>317.00< / ><>2.91< / ><>474.61< / ><>-3.83< / >< / ><><>Schr. UK Mid< / ><>754.00< / ><>4.00< / ><>790.00< / ><>652.00< / ><>3.00< / ><>794.01< / ><>-6.05< / >< / ><><>Scot American< / ><>555.00< / ><>3.00< / ><>572.00< / ><>480.10< / ><>2.95< / ><>598.93< / ><>-7.36< / >< / ><><>Scot Mortgage< / ><>1636.50< / ><>13.50< / ><>1651.50< / ><>1015.74< / ><>0.28< / ><>1765.27< / ><>-9.01< / >< / ><><>Scot Oriental< / ><>281.00< / ><>2.00< / ><>295.00< / ><>240.00< / ><>1.21< / ><>308.03< / ><>-9.83< / >< / ><><>Strategic Eq.< / ><>401.50< / ><>1.50< / ><>415.00< / ><>330.00< / ><>1.12< / ><>446.35< / ><>-10.98< / >< / ><><>Temple

Bar< / ><>413.00< / ><>3.00< / ><>429.50< / ><>345.25< / ><>3.78< / ><>411.33< / ><>-0.22< / >< / ><><>Tetragon< / ><>1107.71< / ><>0.09< / ><>1476.82< / ><>892.96< / ><>3.21< / ><>—< / ><>< / >< / ><><>TRIG< / ><>76.10< / ><>0.70< / ><>80.50< / ><>63.20< / ><>9.92< / ><>101.39< / ><>-25.31< / >< / ><><>UK< / ><>211.00< / ><>—< / ><>211.90< / ><>3.79< / ><>287.42< / ><>-26.98< / >< / ><><>Utilico Emer Mkts< / ><>296.00< / ><>1.00< / ><>302.00< / ><>243.00< / ><>3.27< / ><>335.36< / ><>-8.61< / >< / ><><>Worldwide Hlth< / ><>368.00< / ><>10.00< / ><>401.50< / ><>322.52< / ><>0.65< / ><>388.70< / ><>-5.94< / >< / table>

烟草< / td>< / tr><><>英美烟草•< / ><>4194.00< / ><>33.00< / ><>5326.00< / ><>3677.00< / ><>5.84< / ><>11.95< / ><>2780.53< / >< / ><><>帝国品牌< / ><>2652.00< / ><>40.00< / ><>3632.04< / ><>2408.00< / ><>6.25< / ><>10.60< / ><>8833.83< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">旅游与休闲< / >< / ><><>易捷航空< / ><>680.00< / ><>-1.00< / ><>683.80< / ><>332.60< / ><>1.94< / ><>10.33< / ><>2498.05< / >< / ><><>第一集团< / ><>190.80< / ><>3.00< / ><>222.60< / ><>152.10< / ><>3.77< / ><>8.92< / ><>1803.82< / >< / ><><>fullers 'A'< / ><>716.00< / ><>8.00< / ><>780.00< / ><>572.00< / ><>2.96< / ><>18.26< / ><>11.13< / >< / ><><>洲际酒店< / ><>12026.00< / ><>118.09< / ><>13305.06< / ><>8762.00< / ><>1.17< / ><>32.40< / ><>310.50< / >< / ><><>国际航空< / ><>415.90< / ><>-4.10< / ><>492.90< / ><>332.70< / ><>1.82< / ><>6.89< / ><>11470.34< / >< / ><><>惠特布雷德< / ><>2478.00< / ><>33.00< / ><>3278.00< / ><>2098.00< / ><>3.91< / ><>20.10< / ><>386.82< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="8">公司< / >< / ><><>Drax Group*< / ><>785.50< / ><>5.00< / ><>937.50< / ><>695.50< / ><>3.86< / ><>37.95< / ><>407.80< / >< / ><><>国家电网< / ><>1147.00< / ><>-5.50< / ><>1428.50< / ><>1086.25< / ><>4.23< / ><>17.51< / ><>10713.20< / >< / ><><>Pennon< / ><>357.00< / ><>-14.00< / ><>606.00< / ><>340.00< / ><>8.20< / ><>18.40< / ><>6716.39< / >< / ><><>Severn Trent< / ><>3094.00< / ><>-2.00< / ><>3335.00< / ><>2381.00< / ><>4.07< / ><>25.05< / ><>426.19< / >< / ><><>SSE< / ><>2454.00< / ><>17.00< / ><>2767.50< / ><>1786.50< / ><>2.80< / ><>23.26< / ><>1014.52< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="8">常规 - 私募股权< / >< / ><><>CT PrivEq< / ><>468.00< / ><>14.00< / ><>592.00< / ><>439.84< / ><>8.05< / ><>689.16< / ><>-33.39< / >< / ><><>HICapital< / ><>366.00< / ><>0.50< / ><>512.00< / ><>318.64< / ><>1.37< / ><>530.16< / ><>-29.64< / >< / ><><>HVPE< / ><>3245.00< / ><>40.00< / ><>3500.00< / ><>2807.59< / ><>—< / ><>4518.00< / ><>-28.40< / >< / ><><>ICG Ent< / ><>1390.00< / ><>10.00< / ><>1611.42< / ><>1288.31< / ><>3.02< / ><>2089.50< / ><>-33.95< / >< / ><><>Pantheon Int< / ><>384.00< / ><>4.50< / ><>409.00< / ><>339.05< / ><>—< / ><>534.80< / ><>-28.64< / >< / ><><>Partners PE €< / ><>580.74< / ><>-10.74< / ><>945.52< / ><>568.45< / ><>10.20< / ><>11.58< / ><>-39.55< / >< / table>

<>< rowspan="2">< / >< rowspan="2">价格< / >< rowspan="2">+ / - 涨跌< / >< colspan="5">12周< / >< / ><><>最高< / ><>最低< / ><>收益率< / ><>市盈率< / ><>成交量(千)< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">零售商< / >< / ><><>Boohoo Group< / ><>24.50< / ><>-0.10< / ><>29.50< / ><>10.30< / ><>—< / ><>-3.17< / ><>1268.55< / >< / ><><>CVS Group< / ><>1173.00< / ><>39.00< / ><>1648.00< / ><>1062.00< / ><>0.77< / ><>48.07< / ><>144.32< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">支持< / >< / table>

服务< / td>< / tr> Christie●< / ><>186.00< / ><>—< / ><>199.60< / ><>90.00< / ><>2.22< / ><>35.43< / ><>0.36< / >< / ><><>LonSec< / ><>3750.00< / ><>—< / ><>3900.00< / ><>2100.00< / ><>2.59< / ><>19.33< / ><>—< / >< / ><><>NWF< / ><>158.00< / ><>-2.00< / ><>187.50< / ><>110.00< / ><>5.51< / ><>8.49< / ><>80.41< / >< / ><><>Pertards< / ><>8.50< / ><>—< / ><>12.50< / ><>7.00< / ><>—< / ><>-12.69< / ><>1.08< / >< / ><><>Renew< / ><>947.00< / ><>1.00< / ><>1016.00< / ><>821.00< / ><>2.15< / ><>15.36< / ><>66.04< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">科技 - 软件与服务< / >< / ><><>Oxford Metrics< / ><>32.70< / ><>-2.20< / ><>60.40< / ><>27.50< / ><>9.94< / ><>-59.45< / ><>3519.93< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">旅游与休闲< / >< / ><><>Gaming

Realms< / ><>30.60< / ><>-1.20< / ><>47.20< / ><>29.00< / ><>—< / ><>15.07< / ><>62.07< / >< / ><><>Jet2●< / ><>1407.00< / ><>-7.00< / ><>1612.00< / ><>980.00< / ><>1.20< / ><>6.66< / ><>450.76< / >< / table>

<><>AEW UK REIT< / ><>98.50< / ><>1.20< / ><>113.20< / ><>95.90< / ><>8.12< / ><>106.95< / ><>-7.03< / >< / ><><> Prop< / ><>289.50< / ><>1.00< / ><>364.50< / ><>267.50< / ><>5.97< / ><>300.55< / ><>-11.05< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">风险资本信托 (VCTs)< / >< / ><><>Bred 2nd VT< / ><>44.40< / ><>-1.00< / ><>54.00< / ><>39.50< / ><>9.01< / ><>46.55< / ><>-4.62< / >< / ><><>Nthn 2 VCT< / ><>53.00< / ><>—< / ><>56.50< / ><>47.00< / ><>5.86< / ><>55.40< / ><>-4.33< / >< / ><><>Nthn 3 VCT< / ><>82.00< / ><>—< / ><>86.50< / ><>79.50< / ><>5.49< / ><>86.00< / ><>-4.65< / >< / ><><>Nthn Venture< / ><>56.00< / ><>—< / ><>59.50< / ><>53.00< / ><>5.54< / ><>58.60< / ><>-4.44< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">零股息优先股< / >< / ><><>Aberforth

GV< / ><>118.00< / ><>—< / ><>121.36< / ><>111.00< / ><>—< / ><>116.63< / ><>1.19< / >< / table>

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所有数据均截至前一个营业日收盘。公司分类基于富时指数(FTSE)采用的 ICR 系统,FTSE 100 成份股以粗体显示。除非另有说明,收盘价均以价格显示。最高价和最低价基于滚动 52 周期间的日内交易。市盈率(P / E)基于最新的年度报告和账目,并根据中期数据进行更新。市盈率使用公司的持续经营稀释收益计算。收益率基于收盘价以及上一财年支付的股息,并根据中期数据进行更新。收益率以净额显示;英国公司的股息扣除 10% 的税款,非英国公司则为税前总额。最高价、最低价、收益率和市盈率在适当情况下已根据资本变动进行了调整。交易量为日终累计总量,四舍五入至最接近的 1,000 股。每股净资产值(NAV)和拆分分析仅作为参考。折价和溢价使用最新的含权公允净资产值预估值和收盘价计算。折价、溢价、总赎回收益率(GRY)以及相对于股价(SP)的门槛率(HR)和抹除门槛率(IWI)以百分比显示,NAV 以便士计价。

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交易放缓是股市的红色警示信号

可以将其视为一个没有牛角的牛市。本周早些时候,标准普尔 500 指数创下历史新高,在通常情况下,这种情况会伴随着并购、收购和公开上市的热潮。毕竟,价格上涨通常会带动动物精神的提升。但在经历了看似健康的 2026, 开局后,企业交易活动却显得异常冷清。

几项备受关注的上市计划已被推迟,例如 OpenAI、健身追踪器 Oura(见图)以及软银旗下的绿地数据中心建设商 SB Energy。原因各异:SB Energy 仍在等待监管机构的批准。但除了上涨的股价外,其他条件并不太友好。影响公司资本成本的利率正在上升。消费者信心受到了物价上涨、抵押贷款利率提高以及招聘趋势疲软的影响。

而且,标准普尔 500 指数未必是衡量情绪的最佳指标。科技股占该指数的 40 per cent,其表现远超更具广泛代表性的罗素 2000. 指数。然而,该指数中的巨头们并非仅仅在押注 AI。例如,Alphabet 和 Meta Platforms 拥有庞大的广告业务,已经能产生巨额现金流。这使它们与像 SB Energy 这样处于亏损状态的纯 AI 公司截然不同。

今年第三季度,全球并购规模跌破了具有心理重要意义的 $1tn 水平。依赖交易费用的精品投资银行已经感受到了寒意。在这些专业机构中规模最大的 Evercore,其股价今年下跌了近四分之一。据媒体报道,Perella Weinberg 已接近将其自身出售给一家多元化的竞争对手。

大型银行的情况稍好,因为波动性有利于交易。纽约州最近披露,经纪交易商在今年上半年记录了 460亿美元 的创纪录利润,比 2025. 增长了 50 per cent。高盛对其能力感到相当满意,以至于向其高管发放了另外 $500mn 的特别奖金。根据 LSEG 的数据,分析师预计其全年的整体投资银行费用将增长 30 per cent,增速快于 2025 年。

并购活动的放缓并不反映公司通过合作可能获益程度的任何显著变化。改变的是管理层对风险的胃口,而这受到了收益率上升和 AI 焦虑的影响。股市繁荣与交易量萎缩之间的分歧最终将会弥合——尽管最可能的情况是通过股市下跌来实现。

为什么星巴克和 Chipotle 真的不适合在一起

重新组建团队无疑是一种极佳的感受,但作为一项公司战略则值得怀疑。《金融时报》周四报道称,星巴克首席执行官布莱恩·尼科尔(Brian Niccol)曾考虑与他的竞争对手——也是前雇主——市值 410亿美元 的 Chipotle 进行合并。尽管从高管办公室的角度来看,这次匹配似乎很完美,但对于股东来说几乎没有意义。

尼科尔非常了解 。在 2024 年跳槽到当时陷入混乱的全球最大咖啡连锁店之前,他执掌这家墨西哥主题连锁店 6 年之久。这两家公司所做的事情略有相似,都是为匆忙的顾客提供食品。

此外,它们之间的差异似乎提供了机遇。 的资产负债表没有债务;稍微增加杠杆可能会带来轻易可得的收益。而且,虽然星巴克拥有全球网络,但 的国际门店仅寥寥数家。

但它们真的适合在一起吗?其实并不。首先,两者的重叠部分可能不足以支撑收购溢价。Lex 认为,假设尼科尔能将 的食品、饮料和包装成本削减 10%,并将一般管理费用减半,根据加拿大皇家银行(Royal Bank of Canada)的预测,每年将节省 $770mn,其税后投资回报率仅为 6%。任何低于 10% 的回报率都应该让投资者感到不安。

更重要的是,尼科尔还没有完成对他现任雇主的修复工作。星巴克的股价一直处于横盘状态,盈利能力尚未恢复到以往水平。最新季度 8% 的同店销售增长表明公司已走出困境,但这一数字仍受到去年下滑基数的支撑。

的情况则更糟。但如果尼科尔主张他能做得更好,可能会产生问题,因为 首席执行官斯科特·博特赖特(Scott Boatwright)曾在他手下工作了 6 年。相反,如果保持品牌独立并维持其领导层不变——这位星巴克老板曾在多品牌集团 Yum Brands 工作了十多年——将进一步削减潜在的成本节省。

或许尼科尔需要更多的动力。他在 2024, 获得的一份与股价挂钩的 $100mn-plus 薪酬方案,大部分未能兑现。更糟糕的是,他在阳光明媚的加利福尼亚州开始这份工作,而现在则在阴雨绵绵的西雅图度过大量时间。星巴克应该希望让尼科尔保持投入,但收购 的代价太高了。

加勒比海邮轮价格下跌,运营商股价亦随之走低

谁不想在北半球转凉之时,去加勒比海度冬呢?但由于从事该航线的邮轮数量过剩,导致这些热门目的地的票价出现了一轮大幅削减。

加勒比海的小岛吸引了约五分之二的邮轮乘客,因此在至关重要的1月和2月旺季,打折航线的出现使得三大巨头——皇家加勒比(Royal Caribbean)、嘉年华(Carnival)和挪威邮轮(Norwegian Cruise Line)的股价正朝着疫情以来最糟糕的一年演进。

低价假期反映出运力增长已远超需求。挪威邮轮增加了高达40%的空间,而竞争对手也重新部署了原计划用于中东地区的船舶。高盛分析师估计,今年该地区的总运力将增长12%,为十多年来最高水平。

对加勒比海假期的强劲需求曾是该行业疫情后复苏的驱动力,因此不难看出,产能过剩的迹象为何导致投资者对其敬而远之。此外,运营商在陆地上的巨额投资也未能缓解压力:嘉年华花费$600mn在大巴哈马岛开发私人度假村,而挪威邮轮上个月在其自有私人岛屿上开设了一个水上乐园。嘉年华负责人约书亚·温斯坦(Joshua Weinstein)上周承认,该地区运力持平将“让我的生活更轻松”。

与酒店类似,邮轮的高额固定成本使其在需求下降时陷入困境。挪威邮轮已将其今年的盈利预测下调了三分之一以上。嘉年华的盈利预计将基本持平。

尽管如此,邮轮公司并非像其他休闲运营商那样风险极高。如果它们未能预测到市场的“风暴”,可以将船只转移到更有利的地点。例如,嘉年华对欧洲市场感到兴奋,那里的一系列夏季热浪激发了人们对北欧航线的浓厚兴趣。

与此同时,该行业受益于长期趋势。瑞银(UBS)表示,今年在全球范围内航行的约40mn名乘客中,约有三分之一是首次体验者。皇家加勒比负责人杰森·利伯蒂(Jason Liberty)表示,研究显示邮轮乘客有很高的回头率——且回头客的消费通常比初次体验者高出约四分之一。

这股强劲的上涨潮流应当能让大多数船只受益。

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大西洋飓风季今年因伊赛亚斯(Isaias)的到来而推迟开始:演变为飓风的大西洋风暴

飓风伊赛亚斯成为今年首个演变为飓风的热带风暴,标志着自1905年以来,一个季度中首个大西洋飓风的到来时间最晚。

由于太平洋目前正处于强厄尔尼诺现象期间,其深远影响可能会降低大西洋的活动程度。

这种变暖现象会导致垂直风切变增加,使得雷暴很难组织成飓风。

相反,厄尔尼诺会增加东太平洋的飓风活动,因为更温暖的海水提供了更多能量,且大气条件变得更有利于风暴形成。

订阅 The Climate Graphic: Explained 通讯 ft.com / climate

投资组合目前惊人地集中在单一交易上——AI

凯蒂·马丁:长远观察

AI 曾经是一个热门的新投资主题——对于愿意将资本投入到一项变革性技术中的各种规模的基金经理来说,这是一个光彩夺目的机会。

它在某种程度上仍然如此,如果你能忽略关于机器人末日的警告、那些看起来更像功能而非漏洞的破坏性“流氓”黑客代理,以及围绕着 AI 实验室的法律风险。(“哎呀,我们的代理又干了好事”这种借口已经越来越苍白了。)尽管如此,没有人能合理地怀疑这个从芯片到数据中心的生态系统所具备的、一代仅一次的赚钱能力,而这正是专业投资者受雇思考的部分。

但 AI 交易已不再新鲜,也不再是“一个”主题。相反,它已经演变成了“那个”主题——一个覆盖在全球金融系统之上的巨大且令人窒息的团块,剥夺了其他所有领域的氧气,扭曲了市场反应,并使得各地每一个投资组合都惊人地依赖于仅仅一项赌注的成败。

股票、房地产、基础设施、能源、新兴市场,以及某些年份的私募股权……在很大程度上,它们其实都是同一笔交易。

这件事对全球股市的绝对主导地位在本周得到了有力地证明。油价继续在 $100 或左右每桶徘徊,交易员们再次发出警告,称霍尔木兹海峡的物流限制极有可能将油价推高至 $200。债券价格陷入了数十年来最深的低谷,10 年期基准美国国债收益率稳稳地维持在 5 per cent 以上。通常情况下,其中一项或两项因素都会导致股市下跌。

但事实并非如此。相反,美国股市的 S&P 500 指数创下新高,科技股权重较高的纳斯达克指数亦然。我们现在都已经习惯了某种程度的市场失调,但这起码是非常古怪的。

为了迎合某种叙事而以奇怪的方式拆分指数是一种作弊行为。但为了理解现状,我们必须这样做。所以,没错,S&P 指数处于历史高点。但如果你将 AI 成分从该指数中剔除,剩余的部分自 8 月底以来已下跌 7 per cent。如果你观察等权重 S&P 指数,也会得到类似的结论,这有助于平滑巨型科技股带来的过大影响。

顶端权重过高的典型指数与其更均衡的“表亲”之间的差距并非新鲜事,但目前已达到近 24 年来的最高点。三。

AI热潮不仅成为美国股市的主要支撑,也成为了加元的支撑

标普500指数中四分之三的股票在上个月下跌——科技股以及反映数据中心建设情况的能源股确实承担了所有的上涨工作。

谁在乎呢?很多人并不在乎,只要指数曲线在上升就好。问题在于,投资者们正苦于研究如何进行合理的多元化配置,以及在出现问题时如何保护自己——而这正是他们管理他人资金任务中的关键部分。许多人被一系列理应多样化的资产类别之间表现出的高度相关性所惊吓。

目前,全世界都全仓买入。在过去十年中,非加元资金以惊人的速度涌入加元计价资产,而且越来越多地不再对冲汇率风险。

换句话说,AI热潮几乎在无意中不仅成为了美国股市的主要支撑,也成为了加元的支撑。

毫无疑问,美国企业的盈利(不仅是科技行业,尤其是科技行业)证明了这种兴奋情绪是有道理的。如果非要说的话,目前的美国股票相当便宜——股价并未跟上极其迅速的盈利增长,部分原因似乎是被上升的债券收益率所压制。

但就整体而言,我们对AI将如何发展仍缺乏深刻的认知。在某种程度上,每个人都在猜测,但私募股权公司贝恩(Bain)在最近的一份报告中表示,到2031.,AI基础设施的年度支出可能达到$1.5tn。这简直令人惊叹。

更令人惊叹的是,贝恩补充道,“维持这一投资水平将需要一个年规模接近$6tn的AI市场”。真的吗?一个每年价值相当于英国全年经济产出1.5倍的行业?这很难通过常识性的逻辑验证。

政策制定者似乎同样不确定自己面对的是什么。美国联邦储备委员会主席凯文·沃什(Kevin Warsh)认为,使用AI带来的生产力将相当迅速地降低通胀。但央行的其他成员,包括最近的玛丽·戴利(Mary Daly)和丽莎·库克(Lisa Cook),则倾向于相反的观点,认为这种建设在未来几个月将给通胀带来上行风险。

因此,我们面对的是一个极其明显的“两速”美国股市,它深受全球几乎每一位投资者的喜爱,并由一场在实际操作中几乎无法对冲或回避的AI建设浪潮所主导。

我们并不真正理解其长期的经济影响,但其底层的商业假设似乎过于乐观。而我们所有人,无论是有意还是无意,都将自己的命运与“一切都会顺利发展”这个想法绑定在了一起。我们最好是对的。

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在当时,这位年薪 $6mn 的国际足联主席似乎坚不可摧,正朝着明年第三次连续无竞争连任迈进。但在 7 月下旬,他陷入了一场危机,当时他出售世界杯股份的计划被泄露。球迷们对此感到厌恶。欧洲、亚洲以及北美和中美洲足联呼吁将其撤职。前瑞士足球运动员拉蒙·维加本周表示,他将在 3 月的主席选举中与因凡蒂诺竞争。预计会有更强有力的候选人在 11 月 18 日的截止日期前宣布参选。

然而,因凡蒂诺可能会幸存下来。事实上,他可能恰恰是世界上大多数足球协会想要的国际足联主席。

因凡蒂诺 1970 年出生在瑞士阿尔卑斯山的布里格。据他自己讲述,他婴儿时期患有黄疸,需要输血才能生存。在红十字会搜遍欧洲寻找两个匹配的

每个成员协会,无论规模大小,在四年周期内均有权获得最高 $9.2mn 的资金

捐赠者,一架直升机将救命的血液送到了布里格的医院。因凡蒂诺说,这个故事登上了瑞士小报《Blick》的头版。

这就是他的自我形象:天生的战士。他无疑是一个白手起家的人。布里格位于瓦莱州,紧邻意大利边境,他的父母是贫穷的意大利移民。文琴佐和玛丽亚曾在不同时期在布里格车站经营报刊亭,吉安尼有时也会跟着他们。2022, 在卡塔尔世界杯前发表的那场臭名昭著的“今天我觉得……”演讲中,因凡蒂诺说他能感受到卡塔尔人、非洲人、农民工、同性恋者、女性等人的感受,“因为我知道被歧视意味着什么……在学校里,我因为红头发和雀斑而受到欺负……再加上我是意大利人,所以你可以想象。”

他热爱足球,并为布里格的意大利人组建了一支球队,但球技很差。他的姐姐丹妮拉回忆道:“他曾说自己有两只左脚。”他唯一的资产就是头脑和野心。他在学校表现优异,即使按瑞士标准来看也是一名极具天赋的语言学家,并学习了法律。

他于 2000. 开始在欧洲足球协会联盟(Uefa)工作。Uefa 和国际足联(Fifa)的总部都设在瑞士,且都从一群勤奋、高效、精通多种语言的瑞士官僚阶层中招募人员。因凡蒂诺一路晋升为 Uefa 的秘书长——在足球界,这个传统角色是指在总统(在本例中是法国人米歇尔·普拉蒂尼)与名流们社交时负责具体工作的人。另一位来自瓦莱州的工作狂塞普·布拉特在 1998 就任总统之前,曾担任 Fifa 的秘书长。

瑞士新闻杂志《Republik》采访了 84 位认识因凡蒂诺的人,并报道称:“我们一直听到的一件事是……因凡蒂诺出于一种社会报复的心理,将自己推向前台,这就是为什么他寻求与富有且知名的人亲近。”米格尔·马杜罗于 2016 被因凡蒂诺聘请为 治理委员会主席,但随着总统的改革热情减退,他很快与其他伦理官员一起被解雇,他认为因凡蒂诺“聪明,但如此渴望给人留下深刻印象,以至于我察觉到某种程度的不安全感”。

2015 年,布拉特的统治在腐败丑闻和 FBI 突击搜查中崩溃,普拉蒂尼准备接手。随后,丑闻也将他击倒。绝望的 Uefa 推举因凡蒂诺作为其候选人。一如既往,他被低估了。但在 2016, 关键的 代表大会上,他在演讲中切换使用六种语言,承诺对这个腐败的组织进行改革,并说出了那句制胜之词:“ 的钱就是你们的钱!这不是 总统的钱。这是你们的钱。”来自世界各地的代表们向他报以热烈的掌声。

国际足联的“礼宾之王”

因凡蒂诺明白国际足联(Fifa)的一个核心事实:这是一个赞助体系。

tions,尤其是蒙特塞拉特在国际足联理事会中拥有一票,与印度一样。

自从因凡蒂诺那个旨在出售股份的失败计划以来,他一直受到攻击

世界杯。然而,西蒙·库珀(Simon Kuper)写道,赞助制度继续支撑着他的权力。

图自上而下:上周在香港举行的国际足联东盟挑战杯决赛颁奖礼后,詹尼·因凡蒂诺离开球场;2018年莫斯科世界杯期间的弗拉基米尔·普京与沙特王储穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼 —— Zulu Lo / Nexpher Images / Zuma Press / Reuters Connect, AP Photo / Hassan Animal

国际足联几乎所有的收入都来自一个来源:由国际足联在1930.年创办的男子世界杯。这笔收入在211个国家足球协会之间进行分配。无论规模大小,每个成员协会在截至2026年的四年周期内,都有权获得最高$9.2mn的资金。

这一制度让足球最具增长空间的国家——印度受损,却给加勒比海岛国蒙特塞拉特(人口4,300人)提供了过多的资金。活动团体FairSquare的主管尼古拉斯·麦基汉(Nicholas McGeehan)表示:“我与几位从事发展工作的人聊过,告诉他们这个模式,他们根本不相信这就是其运作方式。”作为发展足球的一种方式,这个模式毫无意义。但作为国际足联现任主席讨好贫穷足协的方式,它则完全合理。

大多数国家足协依靠国际足联的资金生存。因凡蒂诺在为上届世界杯前所未有的票价辩护时表示:“如果没有国际足联,150个国家将没有足球。”一些足协主席使用国际足联的资金来维护球场或培训裁判。另一些人则将钱据为己有。

因凡蒂诺领导下的国际足联有时会惩治腐败。例如,上个月它对蒙特塞拉特足协的长期主席文森特·卡塞尔(Vincent Cassell)处以终身禁赛,理由是“滥用职权、系统性利益冲突”以及挪用国际足联资金。当时的国际足联伦理委员会早在2011年就对他提起过诉讼。

马杜罗(Maduro)表示,问题在于这种惩罚具有选择性且不透明。伦理委员会有时会在不给出解释的情况下掩盖案件。在自己国家陷入法律麻烦的足协主席通常不会受到国际足联的制裁。由于伦理委员会没有义务披露其行为,人们通常不知道国际足联是否对其进行了调查。马杜罗说:“规则并非平等执行。这是一个有规则但没有法治的体系。”

针对球员的纪律案件也是如此。克里斯蒂亚诺·罗纳尔多在预选赛中被红牌罚下后,最初被禁赛葡萄牙队在世界杯的前两场比赛。国际足联随后撤销了禁令。众所周知,在特朗普致电因凡蒂诺提出请求后,国际足联对美国前锋福拉林·巴洛根(Folarin Balogun)也采取了同样的操作。

简而言之,因凡蒂诺的运作方式像一个典型的21世纪独裁者:利用本应是公共服务职位的身份发财,在连续的选举中无人竞争地获胜,并且几乎独裁统治。了解国际足联政策的最佳方式是关注他的个人Instagram账号。亚历克斯·菲利普斯(Alex Phillips)表示,国际足联的代表大会通常只是对他决定的橡皮图章,大多数投票几乎是一致通过的。他曾长期担任国际足联、欧足联(Uefa)的官员,直到最近仍担任职业球员工会Fifpro的秘书长。“而那四个投反对票的,通常是因为他们在电子投票机上按错了按钮。”

因凡蒂诺在 2023 年至 2026 年期间没有举行过任何新闻发布会,并且最近在回应一名记者的事实查询时,发送了一条短信:“滚蛋,伙计”。与其他独裁者一样,他也在延长任期限制。国际足联主席原本只能担任三届,但他现在显然在竞选第四届。他表示,他从 2016 年开始的第一任期不应计算在内,因为他当时是在完成布拉特被截断的最后一任期。

难怪他在强权人物之间显得最快乐。因凡蒂诺时代一个持久的画面,就是他在莫斯科的一间 VIP 包厢里,在俄罗斯对阵沙特阿拉伯的比赛中,与弗拉基米尔·普京和沙特王储穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼一起开玩笑。

亲切、精通多语且不带意识形态,“门房”总是记得客人的名字

2018年世界杯的揭幕战。一年后,当普京授予他俄罗斯友谊勋章时,因凡蒂诺称其为“一项令人难以置信、不可思议的荣誉”。

因凡蒂诺和他前任一样,是典型的瑞士式人物:像酒店礼宾员,德语称作“der Portier”(门房),亲切、精通多语且不带意识形态。他总是记得客人的名字。最重要的是,生活在一个资金流转之国的他,这位“门房”深知谁能付得起酒店账单:19世纪是英国人,后来是美国人,接着是俄罗斯人,而目前则是海湾阿拉伯人。只要他们的钱还没花完,无论这些钱从何而来,“门房”都会给予他们尊重。

在卡塔尔举办2022年世界杯期间,因凡蒂诺不遗余力地为其辩护,随后又操纵了将2034年赛事授予沙特阿拉伯这一充满争议的决定。名义上选择主办国的各国足协主席通过视频链接参会。当沙特阿拉伯在没有竞争对手的情况下中标时,他们通过在关闭麦克风的情况下鼓掌来批准这一决定。挪威足协主席、因凡蒂诺在足球界最直言不讳的反对者莉丝·克拉文内斯(Lise Klaveness)指出:“我们没有鼓掌。”

生活

汉娜·阿伦特能教会我们关于友谊的什么

罗杰·伯科维茨(Roger Berkowitz)表示,在一个日益极化的时代,这位政治理论家关于公民情谊的概念至关重要

1946, 年1月,汉娜·阿伦特收到了一封来自她在耶路撒冷的朋友格肖姆·肖勒姆(Gershom Scholem)的愤怒信函。阿伦特发表了一篇论文,认为推动建立一个纯犹太民族国家会威胁到犹太人的安全和民主理想。肖勒姆将其视为对民族的背叛——这篇论文写于大屠杀的阴影之下,且作者本人曾逃离盖世太保。他要求她撤回言论。

阿伦特逐条为自己的论点辩护。但让她的回复在 80 年后仍值得阅读的原因在于其结尾。结尾并非争论,而是一次恳求。她恳请肖勒姆不要成为一个“真理的狂热者”,不要让一场“真理讲述的狂欢”瓦解一段在流亡与战争中幸存下来的友谊。“一个人,”她写道,“远比他的观点更有价值。”

对于一位致力于追求真理(她将其称为我们立足之基)的思想家来说,这是一个令人震惊的句子。它回答了一个我们大多数人现在正身处其中的问题:那个认为堕胎是谋杀的叔叔,那个不停发布关于加沙动态的老友(或者那个不停发布关于

我们将政治判断呈现得仿佛事实已经决定了结果。但情况几乎绝非如此

(哈马斯)。你过去会争论,或者至少同意在分歧上保持沉默。而现在,你们大多选择避而远之。你能与一个观点令你感到尴尬的人成为朋友吗?阿伦特的答案是肯定的——而且她的理由比我们通常宣扬的礼貌要苛刻得多。

与观点不合的人建立友谊,既是人之为人的核心,也是任何有意义的政治的核心。我们忽视了阿伦特的警告,即不要将对真理的认同置于友谊之上。真理很重要。事实很重要;没有事实,愤世嫉俗将腐蚀共同世界,宣传将填补真空。我们必须坚持事实。但事实只能告诉我们现状是什么;它们不能告诉我们应当如何,或者是什么让我们的集体生活具有意义。

地球正在变暖,且人类活动在很大程度上对此负责,这是一个事实。这些事实限制并引导着任何诚实的应对方案。但事实本身无法告诉我们该如何应对全球变暖——我们应该行动得有多快,应该承担哪些风险,或者应对的负担应如何分配。这些问题需要政治判断,并且会根据个人的利益和视角而给出不同的答案。

然而,对事实的需求往往演变成一种主张,即认为我对事实的解读是正确的,而实际上这仅仅是我的观点。我们将政治判断呈现得仿佛事实已经决定了结果。但情况几乎绝非如此。政治真正的斗争不在于就真理达成一致;而是在于与那些看待共同世界与我们不同的人,共同构建一个共享的世界。

将一个与我们意见不一——甚至是根本分歧——的同胞视为人类之敌,这并非道德上的严肃。这正是共享世界如何被撕裂的方式。

亚里士多德率先意识到,在多元民主制度中构建共享世界,更多地依赖于友谊而非真理。柏拉图梦想一座由哲学王之知识统一的城市;而亚里士多德则坚持认为,政体是不同的人围绕共同生活而聚集在一起。他们之间的纽带是公民友谊:即通过与那些你并不认同、但仍承认其为同胞的人交谈并逐渐产生尊重的生活体验。

汉娜·阿伦特在个人生活和政治思考中都践行了亚里士多德的友谊观。她的朋友汉斯·约纳斯说她拥有“友谊的天赋”。1963年,当肖莱姆和阿伦特因她的著作《耶路撒冷的艾希曼》发生冲突时,肖莱姆指责她缺乏 Ahavath Israel——对犹太民族的爱。阿伦特承认这一点。她在回信中写道,她永远不会否认或为自己是犹太人而道歉,但她无法爱任何“民族或集体”。她写道:“我只爱我的朋友。”

对于阿伦特来说,友谊基于朋友之间直接、诚实且持续的交谈。与朋友在一起,我们谈论日落、难民的困境、即将到来的选举、尼克斯队夺冠的喜悦,以及乌克兰、以色列、加沙和伊朗战争的恐怖。我们分享孩子们暑假的照片,庆祝对他们幸福的希望,并倾诉对他们未来的担忧。在这样的

'一个人远比他的观点更有价值' —— 汉娜·阿伦特,1944年 —— Fred Stein Archive / Archive Photos / Getty Images

友谊中,我们将不可理喻和陌生之物转化为一个适合人类居住的世界,一个我们可以去爱的共享世界。

这种构建世界的能力,正是为何公民友谊而非达成一致,才是政治团结的基础。当我们与那些在根本上持有异见的人交谈时,我们会惊讶地发现,我们之间的共同点比想象中要多。我们可能在堕胎问题上意见不一,但我们都希望以尊严对待他人,并让世界变得更好。这种共识正是我们开始建立和重建有意义的政治的起点,一个我们真正共享的世界,一个持有不同政治观点和信仰的人可以相互尊重、平等生活的世界。

然而,共享的世界也有其锋利的边缘。如果友谊是人们之间的纽带,那么是否有些人根本不属于其中——那些我们无法成为朋友,或者甚至无法尊重的人?我们是否应该阅读纳粹法学家卡尔·施米特,或是那个拒不悔改的反犹主义者塞林?在构建共享世界的同时,我们也需要界限。

当喜剧演员比尔·马赫在晚餐期间将唐纳德·特朗普总统描述为“优雅且克制”时,拉里·大卫以一篇讽刺文章《我与阿道夫的晚餐》作为回应。大卫是在划定界限。在他的挑衅之下隐藏着一个严肃的问题:将一个危险的政治人物视为朋友,是有助于维护一个共同的世界,还是会让一个威胁该世界的人变得常态化?是否有些人已经超出了对话、友谊甚至尊重的范围?

二战后,阿伦特面临着这个问题的一个更为极端的版本。她永久地切断了与那些成为狂热纳粹的朋友的联系——但她却为她的旧老师马丁·海德格尔辩护,后者在1933年加入了该党,并担任弗赖堡大学校长直到1934年。尽管海德格尔仍是党员,但阿伦特认为他从未越线去支持谋杀或灭绝机器。最重要的是,她将他私下的忏悔铭记在心,即他试图与纳粹合作是“我一生中最大的愚蠢”。

阿伦特的答案——以及我们今天应当采取的实践——是友谊并非无限的宽容。她得出结论认为阿道夫·艾希曼应该被绞死,因为不能指望任何人类成员能与他共享地球。然而,她是在做出极大的努力去理解他之后才做出这一判断的。对于阿伦特来说,理解并不意味着原谅。理解是使判断成为可能的前提。

但艾希曼标志着一个极端的界限。友谊的极限并非分歧,无论分歧多么激烈;而是那些剥夺他人在共同世界中位置的行为——基于种族的集体谋杀、宗教迫害,或参与非人化的机器。这样的人确实存在,但他们比我们的正义感所暗示的要罕见得多。大多数与我们持有异见的人——即使是那些可能违法或伤害他人的人——仍然是我们能够与之交谈的人,在构建对共同世界更细致理解的过程中,我们尝试说服他们,或允许他们说服我们。

在1964年的一次采访中,阿伦特表示,希特勒崛起的真正冲击力不在于独裁者能赢得民主选举。而是一种个人层面的冲击:当她自己的朋友们开始“协调”,步调一致,并为这个新

将那些令我们厌恶的人排除在外的诱惑,感觉像是道德上的清醒。但更多时候,这是一种对理解的逃避

政权。她写道:“问题不在于我们的敌人做了什么,而在于我们的朋友做了什么。”她说,在她周围,出现了一片空白。

正是这片空白,让我们走错了方向。我们开始将普通的对手——那个签署愤怒信函的同事,或是那个摆放着错误标牌的邻居——视为那些已经无法通过友谊来触及的人。但事实并非如此。

那么,投票给错误候选人的朋友该怎么办?甚至是一个犯了罪、接受审判并服刑的人呢?将那些观点和行为令我们厌恶的人排除在外的诱惑,感觉像是道德上的清醒。但更多时候,这是一种对理解的逃避,是对人格的简化,以及对政治的拒绝。它基于这样一种幻想:只要除掉所有看待世界方式不同的人,这个共同世界就能被净化。

友谊并不意味着免于审判。我们可以且应当审判我们的朋友。但友谊要求我们在理解的基础上进行审判,无论我们是否同意,都要从对方的角度考虑其行为和观点。它并不承诺和解。它依然对这样一种可能性持开放态度:尽管我们存在真实的、有时甚至是愤怒的分歧,但我们共同生活在这个世界上依然是有价值的。

友谊要求比“道德清醒”更困难的事情:它要求我们在审判时,不要假装我们的审判就涵盖了一个人的全部。一个人的价值高于他的观点,因为我们共享的世界取决于我们将他作为一个完整的人来对待。

罗杰·伯科维茨(Roger Berkowitz)是《我们共享的世界:汉娜·阿伦特与破碎世界中的友谊力量》(耶鲁大学出版社)一书的作者。

国际足联的“礼宾之王”

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在因凡蒂诺虚构了一个“国际足联和平奖”并在去年的世界杯抽签仪式上将其授予特朗普后,显然违反了该组织政治中立的职责,挪威支持了 Fair-Square 向国际足联伦理委员会提出的调查请求。克拉文内斯表示,委员会的即时回复是:“我们不会向您提供任何信息。”在一个选择性正义的体系中,领导者可以打破规则。

尽管如此,到7月中旬,约 200 个国家协会已支持因凡蒂诺连任。在个人化统治下,每个人都寻求领导者的青睐,希望他能给予好处(例如举办赛事的权利)。他对权力的掌控似乎是绝对的。

当有消息称他计划将赛事的 20 per cent 股份以 42亿美元 的价格出售给由约书亚·库什纳(特朗普女婿贾里德的兄弟)领导的投资者时,一切都改变了。因凡蒂诺仅给了国家协会 53 天的时间做出决定,并承诺如果他们接受,每家协会将获得 $20mn 的甜头。这几乎相当于蒙特塞拉特 GDP. 的四分之一。

足球界内部的愤怒是四方面的。首先,许多人认为世界杯是一项神圣的赛事,应当高于商业。其次,因凡蒂诺似乎没有征求任何其他人的意见,也没有寻求竞争报价。第三,国际足联作为一个拥有 60亿美元 现金储备的非营利组织,并不需要这笔钱。最后,价格似乎低得惊人。拟议的出售方案将这项最受欢迎的体育赛事估值为 200亿美元 – 仅比上一个世界杯周期的收入高出 50亿美元。

因凡蒂诺做得过火了。最终,他的对手们敢于采取行动。欧足联带头冲锋,宣布:“世界杯是不卖的。”欧洲各协会表示,在因凡蒂诺撤回该计划之前,他们将抵制国际足联的赛事。他几乎立即撤回了计划。从情感上讲,这感觉像是全球足球界期待已久的革命。然而,这位“国王”预计将生存下来。

这可能会让球迷感到惊讶,尤其是那些来自富裕欧洲足球经济体的球迷。但球迷在国际足联理事会中没有代表。球员、教练或裁判也没有。要理解因凡蒂诺的支持基础,必须从绝大多数

国际足联主席与前巴西前锋罗纳尔多和前意大利门将吉安路易吉·布冯在 2017 年瑞士布里格的一场“传奇”足球赛上——Keystone SOA

国际足联选民的角度来看:他们是那些几乎没有足球经济地区的足球协会主席。他们中的许多人认为他工作出色。

2025 年,因凡蒂诺在 MetLife 体育场协助唐纳德·特朗普就座 – AP

首先,在这种决策者通常依赖家庭或政治关系获得职位的运动中,他的精力是罕见的。他是一位像秘书长一样工作的主席。布拉特曾在总统办公室旁放一张床;因凡蒂诺将其换成了健身器材。他围绕世界杯四处飞行的行为在球迷看来可能是傲慢,但在足球官员看来,这显得充满活力。

他扩大了全球足球的规模,利用沙特资金扩建了世俱杯,以及男足和女足世界杯。西方国家尤其反对男足赛事从 32 支球队扩军至 48. 支。但今年夏天的赛事取得了成功,2030 年世界杯可能会有 64 支球队参加。这意味着更多的收入,以及给小国更多的名额。因凡蒂诺还精明地增加了国际足联内部委员会的数量。担任委员会职务的协会主席享有丰厚的日津贴、豪华酒店、与前足球巨星合影的机会,以及监督例如在塞舌尔举行的沙滩足球世界杯的机会,而实际工作则由秘书长和志愿者完成。

球迷们厌恶世界杯的高昂票价,以及为了让电视广播商能播放更多广告而中断比赛的“补水休息时间”。但各足球协会则很看重这些额外的资金。因凡蒂诺最大的批评者往往是那些资金充足的国家——尤其是英格兰、德国和北欧国家。

他们的批评中也带着一种特权感和虚伪。以欧足联(Uefa)反对库什纳交易的那篇辞藻华丽的声明为例:“世界杯不能被当作一种投资产品……足球的未来不能由那些首要职责是实现财务回报最大化的人的预期来决定。”然而,大多数欧洲大型足球俱乐部都被当作投资产品,被那些希望

“如果你现在参加选举,然后对蒙特塞拉特或任何人说,‘我不想给你任何钱’,他们为什么要投票给你?”

最大化财务回报。欧足联(Uefa)冷酷地将其冠军联赛货币化。那么,为什么世界杯不能给贫穷国家提供一些财务回报呢?

欧足联也不能轻易地将因凡蒂诺描绘成一个不受监督的独裁者,因为该联合会自己的主席亚历山大·切费林(Aleksander Čeferin)——他喜欢被称作“切费林主席”——其任期限制也被取消了。至于英国人,好吧,英超联赛现在正陷入自己的丑闻之中,因为在过去 15 年中占据主导地位的球队曼城被发现通过人为夸大收入超过 9 亿英镑来规避财务规则。

许多西方人认为,俄罗斯、卡塔尔和沙特阿拉伯等独裁国家不应该举办世界杯。但全球南方(global south)的许多人认为,这是因为西方仍然觉得它拥有这项赛事。因凡蒂诺虽然本身是欧洲人,但他一直在参与这场反欧洲的文化战争。他在卡塔尔世界杯之前搬到了卡塔尔,并为君主制辩护,反击西方的批评:“我认为,对于我们欧洲人在全球范围内 3,000 年来所做的一切,我们应该在接下来的 3,000 年里道歉。”他甚至获得了一点阿拉伯身份,通过妻子莉娜(Lina)取得了黎巴嫩国籍。

欧洲、亚洲以及北美和中美洲联合会官方反对因凡蒂诺,但其中一些成员已公开脱离阵营。例如,墨西哥就在支持他。诚然,他的支持者是反复无常的。菲利普斯(Phillips)说:“他们并不特别喜欢因凡蒂诺这个人。我在(4月的)大会期间在温哥华,当时他说,‘我明年将作为候选人参选’,期待全场的人能一致起立。有个国际足联(Fifa)的人在告诉前排的(前足球运动员)‘传奇人物’起立。但我环顾大厅的其他地方,大约只有 15 个人站了起来。他显然震惊了。”

卡塔尔和沙特阿拉伯仍然站在他这一边。两国都资助了数十个贫穷的足协,并影响其投票。在丑闻爆发后,卡塔尔几乎立即表示支持他,而由沙特王子

阿卜杜勒-阿齐兹·本·图尔基·法伊萨尔(Abdulaziz bin Turki al-Faisal)领导的拥有 22 个成员的阿拉伯足球协会联盟,上周“再次确认”了对因凡蒂诺的支持。

即使他失败了,很少有人相信他的继任者会改革国际足联延续数十年的分赃体系。挪威本周向国际足联的两个委员会提交了关于因凡蒂诺行为的投诉。但克拉文内斯(Klaveness)表示:“如果你现在参加选举,然后对蒙特塞拉特或任何人说,‘我不想给你任何钱’,他们为什么要投票给你?我认为任何新任主席的逻辑都会是,你必须平等地分配。”欧足联表示,每个足协应立即从国际足联的储备金中获得 \$10mn。因凡蒂诺巧妙地采纳了这一提议。

一些国际足联的批评者希望改革的压力来自欧洲国家。他们是足球界的巨头,在过去六届世界杯中赢得了五届。因凡蒂诺指出,欧洲贡献了全球足球经济的 70 %。在他放弃库什纳计划后,欧洲人放弃了抵制国际足联赛事的威胁。然而,如果欧洲协会拒绝参加这些比赛,直到他离职或国际足联完成改革,世界其他地区将不得不倾听。

但欧洲人不会退出。国际足联的腐败至少已有 50 年历史,而“欧洲假设”自 2000 年代初就已摆在桌面,但欧洲从未抵制过任何一项赛事。即使几个欧洲国家建立竞争性的男女“世界杯”,这些赛事也永远无法拥有原赛事的地位。其主要影响将是损害足球界最高水平的竞争。

因凡蒂诺正乘坐卡塔尔航空提供的私人飞机在全球飞行,游说各足球协会主席并宣传国际足联(Fifa)的治理改革。他是一个令人畏惧的斗士。菲利普斯表示:“他可能是全世界最渴望成为国际足联主席的人。”

作为 Google DeepMind 的技术核心,他凭借 AlphaGo 突破了人工智能的一个关键前沿。在伦敦的一顿黎凡特美食晚餐中,这位计算机科学家向 Madhumita Murgia 讲述了他与 Demis Hassabis 的友谊,他的新初创公司如何挑战当今的大语言模型(LLMs),以及为什么他认为自己有道德义务去构建人工智能。

在伦敦国王十字区(King's Cross)的一张室外桌旁,我坐在 Google DeepMind 的阴影之下。这家先驱人工智能实验室在当地的运河和水道周边孕育了一批快速增长的 AI 和科技公司。

我正在等待大卫·西尔弗(David Silver),他被誉为这家谷歌旗下实验室的技术核心,也是 AlphaGo 的架构师——AlphaGo 是第一个在围棋(一种极其复杂的中国棋类游戏)中击败人类世界冠军的计算机程序。在与老友 Demis Hassabis 爵士共事十多年后,这位温文尔雅的科学家决定独立创业。今年 2 月,他宣布成立其 50亿美元 初创公司 Ineffable Intelligence。到目前为止,他对其计划和动机透露极少。

西尔弗在 Bubala 餐厅与我汇合,这家餐厅供应黎凡特料理。尽管前雇主的办公地就在附近,但这个地方对他而言代表了一个全新的开始:这里是 Ineffable 团队在成立第一天一起吃午餐的地方。

Ineffable 的命名源于西尔弗希望创造的东西。他说,这是一种能够对世界做出发现的技术,而这些发现将“如此深奥,以至于我们用现在的语言甚至无法表达”。

这是我们自 2016, 年以来的首次会面。当时我在首尔,在四季酒店的宴会厅观看西尔弗的团队挑战围棋大师李世石——这十年间,西尔弗参与促成了一次范式转移。当李世石向计算机认输时,在场的所有人都成为了历史的见证者。与国际象棋计算机“深蓝”(Deep Blue)的暴力计算不同,AlphaGo 将技术能力与出人意料的灵巧性相结合,从而攻克了这一前沿。

现年 50, 岁的西尔弗依然谦逊,尽管周围的世界已然改变。在整个午餐过程中,我唯一能从他口中套出的个人细节就是他玩极限飞盘,对此我没什么好回应的。然而,他设想要构建人类最大胆、最雄心勃勃的发明:一种超越人类的涌现智能。

“没有 AI 我们将走向何方?”

“我们还远未达到一个能够独立发现一切的系统,”他说。“在计算机模拟(in silico)中,我们可以构建出……最终运行速度比人类大脑快好几个数量级的[机器]。”

西尔弗认为,我们尚未实现“超级智能”的原因在于,像 ChatGPT 或 Claude 这样的现代 AI 系统根植于人类知识。训练这类被称为大语言模型的软件,需要向系统喂入来自互联网的海量人类生成数据。随后,人们会对聊天机器人的回答提供反馈,对其质量进行评分,并编写示例供其吸收。“在这个过程中,许多、许多层级都需要人类的输入,”他说。

相比之下,西尔弗一直痴迷于强化学习:即机器可以通过在任务中成功或失败的自身经验,学习人类无法教会它们的新事物。在 AlphaGo 取得成功后,西尔弗设计了新一代算法,即 AlphaZero,它在国际象棋、将棋和围棋方面超越了最顶尖的人类棋手。它们在没有任何人类专家训练或数据的情况下实现了这一点。该系统仅通过一个基于奖励的系统,从零开始通过对局进行学习。

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与《金融时报》的大卫·西尔弗共进午餐

西尔弗将早年的热情转化为职业生涯,其一致性令人瞩目。七岁时,父母送给他一台 BBC Micro 家用电脑,激发了他对软件编程的热爱,这在当时的一代英国计算机科学家中很常见。他的南非父亲在童年时陪他玩拼字游戏(Scrabble)和围棋,并在 20 世纪 80 年代就读于埃塞克斯大学最早开设的 AI 学位课程之一。

“我在很小的时候就接触到了一些这类想法,并且一直觉得这绝对令人着迷。比如这个问题:什么是智能,什么是心智,以及如何构建一个心智?”他说。他尤其热衷于尝试推导出使智能成为可能的规则,并使用计算机代码将其重建。

西尔弗深情地回忆起 DeepMind 早期那种独特的雄心精神:科学家们致力于构建一台能够独立发现事物的机器。2014, 谷歌以 £400mn 收购了 DeepMind,而当时 AI 领域的绝大多数人正专注于其他方法。“ [DeepMind] 是一群敢于独立思考并认为还有更多可能性的人,”他说。

这对搭档将攻克围棋问题作为早期项目之一的计划,可以追溯到他们在 Elixir Studios 工作期间,当时两人都喜欢这款游戏。“德米斯是一个天才游戏玩家,他能将所有其他游戏玩到世界冠军水平,但实际上还没有精通围棋,”西尔弗笑着说。“所以我想,这是我的机会。于是我单独去学习如何下棋,这样我就能赢他。”

t Ineffable,他希望沿着这条线索走到最远端,发明出能够从第一性原理学习任何内容的超级智能软件。他希望这将加速新型基础科学和救命技术的开发。

“如果你采取这个想法最纯粹的形式,你最终会得到一个在很大程度上更像人类学习方式的系统,”西尔弗说道。“就像你脑海中那团从零开始并发现一切的灰色物质。”

基于这一想法,Ineffable 最终筹集了 11亿美元,这是欧洲历史上规模最大的种子轮融资。在西尔弗离开 Google DeepMind 的几天内,风险投资公司红杉资本(Sequoia Capital)的投资者阿尔弗雷德·林(Alfred Lin)和索尼娅·黄(Sonya Huang)便从加利福尼亚飞来与他会面。西尔弗希望他的赌注能带我们走得比今天的大语言模型(LLMs)远得多。他将 AI 的下一个阶段描述为“经验时代”。

“目前可能有多万名极具天赋的人在 AI 领域追求同一条路径。该领域的所有多样性都已经崩溃了,”他说。“所以我可以是做这件事的第 10001 个人……或者我可以走另一条路。”

西尔弗的另一条主线始于一次偶然的相遇:一段学生时代的友谊,这段友谊最终重塑了他的职业生涯,同时也重塑了整个 AI 领域。早在大学期间,西尔弗就意识到他与哈萨比斯拥有极少数人具备的共同兴趣:计算机科学、AI 和策略游戏。他称这段友谊具有“塑造性”。

在服务员到来之前,西尔弗建议了一套点餐方案,其优化程度带有计算机科学家特有的高效与令人愉悦:我们每人都将分享几道精选的小盘菜。我们交换想法并衡量彼此的热情。他很想尝试填入里科塔奶酪和蒜蓉的西葫芦,而我想尝试洋甘菊蜂蜜哈罗米奶酪。

1998, 年,在从剑桥大学毕业一年后,哈萨比斯说服西尔弗共同创立了视频游戏公司 Elixir Studios。他们的目标是利用 AI 创建具有丰富视觉效果、详细角色和演进叙事的模拟环境。西尔弗担任首席技术官和明星程序员。尽管雄心勃勃,但游戏的引擎仅仅是一个具有预设规则和确定结果的有界系统。“那是当年大多数游戏 AI 的编写方式,”他说。“而我发现,不知为何,这非常令人失望。”

西尔弗最终因倦怠而辞职,该公司本身在 2005, 年关闭,但与哈萨比斯的伙伴关系仍在潜移默化中延续。在完成博士学位后——西尔弗在加拿大阿尔伯塔大学研究强化学习,哈萨比斯在伦敦大学学院研究想象力的神经科学——他们最终再次共同创业。2010, 年,西尔弗开始在 DeepMind 工作,该公司当时正试图攻克真正人工智能的问题。哈萨比斯及其 DeepMind 合作者约翰·跳转(John Jumper)在 2024 年获得了诺贝尔奖。

“我在 [Elixir] 中投入了大量心血,然后我花了一段时间才准备好再次与德米斯合作,”他说。“但这绝不是因为缺乏信任或友谊。在我们分道扬镳之后……那种相互尊重就自然而然地重新衔接上了。”

那么他成功了吗?“这部分就交给你的想象力吧。”

此时,服务员端上了一篮松软的 laffa 面包,它是焦黄油鹰嘴豆泥以及桃子青番茄 ezme 的完美搭档——后者是一种盛在奶油芝麻酱之上的、口感明亮酸爽的夏季沙拉。

在我们会面的那一周,关于 AI 的讨论达到了白热化程度。一名年轻的 AI 研究员雅各布·考克森(Jacob Coxon)辞去了在 Anthropic 的工作,理由是该技术对社会构成的威胁。他指责 Anthropic、OpenAI 和 Google 等公司的领导者不负责任地推动该领域的发展。

Silver 对风险收益比失衡的可能性有多担心?“变革的速度、转型以及这将对社会产生的影响,所有这些都比我们有效适应它们的能力来得更快,”他说,“我们的政府并非为快速适应而设计,甚至我们人类的情绪也不是为此而设计的……我认为这次转型将极具挑战性。”

我问他,现代 AI 时代的发展是否符合他的预期。“我认为唯一让我感到失望的是,AI 的进步并没有在 伦理方面得到相应的体现,”Silver 回答道,“我认为 领域的一些领导者……其推进方式……并不像本可以那样负责任。”

他特别指出,公司之间以及国家之间的竞争是一种不健康的动态,不必要地加速了进程。我建议,像 OpenAI、Anthropic 和 SpaceXAI 等公司领导者之间激烈的个人竞争,可能也导致了我们现在看到的 系统的仓促和失败。在我们的对话之后几天,ChatGPT 的开发商 OpenAI 被迫通知包括政府、大学和公共机构在内的数十家第三方,称其软件在公司不知情的情况下入侵了他们的系统。

“在某些层面上可能存在分歧,但所有这些(领导者)都希望人类能有一个好的结果。我认为他们必须找到一种合作的方式……这是必然要求,”Silver 说,“形势的紧迫性将使其成为必须。”

当我们盘中的食物被撤走时,我们暂停了对话,并愉快地发现我们点的一盘土豆潜艇饼(potato latkes)被放在一旁,此前它一直被鲜嫩的西葫芦和淋了茴香油的哈罗米芝士(haloumi)掩盖,而后者味道浓郁。

Silver 告诉我,他有一个确保控制未来 系统的计划,即仅在模拟环境中构建它们,而不是像其他人那样在开放的互联网上构建。“想象一下,我们实际上可以在模拟中构建一门超智能科学,”他说。他对一个由追求不同目标的超智能代理组成的社会会发生什么感到着迷。

但随后他问道,在什么条件下超智能能与我们和平共处——以及它何时会出错?他的目标是科学地设计机器,使其能够“协作、提供帮助并支持人类的繁荣”——他说,这在今天大多还处于“猜测”阶段。

当他描述开发一个可以被研究的 代理伪社会时,任何拘谨都消失了。“如果我们能把这件事做对,我们就拥有这样一个‘培养皿’,可以开始回答一些今天没有人能给出答案的问题。”

从我们的桌子望去,无法忽视面前草坪广场上由艺术家伊娃·罗斯柴尔德(Eva Rothschild)创作的 16 米高的金属雕塑。它从一个单点下降。

它从一个单点出发并分裂成无数的分支,像一棵倒置的树。这为 Silver 的突破性工作提供了一个恰当的视觉类比。AlphaGo 团队教会模型在极其庞大的分支可能性之树中导航——围棋的对局排列组合比宇宙中的原子数量还要多——通过结合人类的历史对局和自我博弈来精通此道。

强化学习(reinforcement learning)或自我博弈的原则是 Alpha 系列模型成功的关键。Silver 解释说,这类系统通过尝试完成一项单一任务,并在正确时获得奖励,从而做出数百万次微小的发现。每一次微发现“就像一次微小的创造性飞跃”,旨在找出哪些模式能带来更多奖励。随后,这些知识可以结合起来,在越来越高的抽象层级上识别模式。“不知不觉中,你就拥有了能够理解极其复杂概念的系统。”

Ineffable 的雄心是开发一个能够随着时间的推移而持续学习并不断进步的 AI“超级学习者”。“互联网上存在一定数量的人类数据——你可以把它想象成化石燃料。一旦你利用所有这些数据完成了训练,化石燃料就全部耗尽了,”西尔弗说道。与此同时,能够自我教学的系统则更像是一种“可再生”的数据源。“当你构建基于此类数据进行训练的系统时,你就能拥有能够永远学习的系统。”

西尔弗及其在 Ineffable 的六位联合创始人已与包括英伟达(Nvidia)、光速创投(Lightspeed)和红杉资本(Sequoia Capital)在内的投资者达成协议,获得三年的资金支持(runway),在此期间他们将专注于当前的路线图,不走任何弯路。他表示,在这一时间框架内,他有信心其团队能够在模拟环境中产生一个超智能 AI 版本,或者至少提供“令人信服的证据,证明我们非常接近实现这一目标”。

他进一步详细阐述道,在模拟的软件实体宇宙中,这些实体将独立地发现语言、数学、经济学和货币等概念。他希望这能带来现实世界的创新:“我们完全可以想象看到某种令人难以置信的先进文明出现。”

这一愿景具备了一名 AI 初创公司创始人所需的所有雄心和乌托邦色彩。但在我们等待薄荷茶餐后饮时,我测试了他对于建立一家“对人类有益”的公司之承诺。这种话我以前听过;

“我们的政府并非为了快速适应而构建……我认为这次转型将极具挑战性”

Google DeepMind、OpenAI 和 Anthropic 在创立之初都秉持着这一使命,但在商业压力的面前,它们都偏离了航向。

西尔弗解释说,Ineffable 设有自己的界限,包括禁止将 AI 用于军事用途,并且他试图雇佣那些不会唯唯诺诺的人。他说,至关重要的一点是必须有“能够从内部和外部进行批评的声音”,而大型科技公司和 AI 公司对此正变得日益抵触。西尔弗还更进一步,承诺通过创始人誓言(Founders Pledge)将其 100% 的股权收益捐给慈善机构。

但我想知道,即便一切按计划进行,为什么有人会想要创造出更高级的智能?谁会渴望一个人类不再是最高智力群体、不再掌控自己命运的世界?西尔弗表示,如果能够构建出可以解决不治之症或环境灾难的工具,他认为自己有道义上的责任去构建它们。

此外还有一个问题:一个没有 AI 的世界是否真的会更幸福。“人类经历过世界大战,我们任由大规模贫困发生。我们任由可治愈的疾病夺走数百万人的生命。我们曾与全面核战争仅一线之隔,”西尔弗说,“所以我们必须问,如果没有 AI,我们将走向何方?”

说完这些,他准备回到工作中。我留在桌边,思考人类的诸多缺陷。相反,我的目光再次飘向那座名为《我的世界与你的世界》的雕塑,我在它面前又静坐了一会儿。

Madhumita Murgia 是《金融时报》的 AI 编辑,也是《代码依赖》(Code Dependent)一书的作者。

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如何穿出男人味

罗伯特·阿姆斯特朗 (Robert Armstrong)

如果你问一位造型师,是否存在所谓的“男性风格”?从某种意义上说,答案显然是肯定的。尽管在过去一个世纪左右的时间里,男女着装的重叠度大幅增加,中性服装也变得相当普遍,但我们文化中的普通男性和普通女性在穿着上仍然截然不同。

在基础层面,这主要体现在女性经常穿着而男性仍然极少尝试的单品上——连衣裙、高跟鞋、宽松的上衣、化妆。在这种乏味的意义上,现代男性风格简单来说就是避免穿着这些东西。

然而,在更微妙的层面,关键不在于穿着哪些单品,而在于穿着的方式。在剪裁方面,强调肩宽的剪裁与强调腰臀线条的剪裁之间存在差异。在面料的重量、颜色和图案中也存在可识别的性别代码——一方面是厚重 / 深色 / 几何感,另一方面是轻盈 / 多彩 / 有机感。

所有这些都存在大量有趣的例外,但我们知道这种光谱是客观存在的。有这样一类男人——皮特·海格塞斯 (Pete Hegseth) 立即在脑海中浮现——他会通过将每一个调节旋钮都尽可能地拧向“阳刚”的一端来证明这一点(不过,公平地说,海格塞斯显然在头发上倾注的精力其实相当模糊性别)。

我所讨论的是某种更难把握的东西:“男性化”作为一个审美分类术语,更具体地说,是一种赞美。这一点在“英俊” (handsome) 与“漂亮” (pretty) 的对比中得到了相当混乱的体现。在服装领域,是什么划定了这种界限?它是否仍然强大到足以让我们感到兴奋或被冒犯?如果你认为这些问题很容易回答,请在此停顿并详细阐述你的观点。你会发现这很难,而且不仅仅是因为所谓的“觉醒”原因。这些东西很难被精准定义。

罗杰·摩尔 (Roger Moore) 在《活与死》(1973) 片场 —— Anwar Hussey / Getty Images

部分原因在于,几十年来,女性风格的标准操作之一就是采用那些此前被定义为男性化的元素,而原因恰恰是因为它们被那样定义。搭配裙子的厚重靴子和皮夹克、松垮的“男友牛仔裤”、不扎进裤腰的牛津衬衫,这就是安妮·霍尔 (Annie Hall) 的全套装备。

这样做之所以有效,原因足够明显:加入一些刻板印象中的男性元素会反衬出女性特质。而且大家都知道,一点点中性美是非常有吸引力的。正如苏珊·桑塔格 (Susan Sontag) 所言:“阳刚男人身上最美的是某种女性特质;女性女人身上最美的是某种男性特质。”

令人惊讶的是,如此多的男性还没有弄清楚如何在风格博弈中成功运用这一最基础的招式。我能想到的两个显著例外是:喜欢使用粉色的传统阳刚型男性(《金融时报》最近注意到足球运动员们已经跟风),以及斗牛士的短上衣 (chaquetillas) 和紧身裤 (talequillas)。男性穿着极紧身牛仔裤的时尚潮流可能也尝试过这种路径,但并未持久。

我不知道原因何在,但无论是什么,可能有助于解释为什么虽然历史上许多单品已无缝地从男性衣橱转移到女性衣橱——如裤装、商务西装——但反方向的转移却极少(珠宝似乎在往那个方向迁移,一点点)。我想,人们可能会用一些关于男性不安全感的还原论废话来解释。

尽管如此,并且承认这片领域多么难以捉摸,但我确实认为存在男性风格。在不试图成为

历史上有很多单品是从男性衣橱转移到女性衣橱的,但反方向的迁移则寥寥无几。即便是不完全全面的探讨,我认为当我们赞美一套装扮具有“男性气质”时,我们至少是在谈论四件事。

男性风格是低调的,它奖励细心的观察,但并不强求关注。它在一定程度上是传统主义的——干练而绝不至于过于追随潮流。它依赖于具有一定纹理、挺括度和重量感的材质,这与男性(大多数情况下)是两性中体型更魁梧的一方这一事实相协调。

最后,借鉴桑塔格的观点,真正优秀的男性风格会带有一抹与上述所有特质相反的色彩。它总是混入了一点女性化的元素。正是这一点赋予了风格趣味,并营造出一种从容自信的气场——简而言之,就是一种男子气概。关于这一点,最生动的例子可以参考罗杰·摩尔饰演的那个非常俊美的邦德,或者是年轻时的埃尔维斯。

重点不在于男性必须拥有男性风格,或者女性不能拥有。庆幸的是,作为文明社会,我们已经超越了那种观念。重点在于,存在一种男性美学,虽然它难以捉摸,但却具有意义且充满吸引力,并且可以成为每个人的时尚武器库的一部分。

任何关注这些事物的人都不需要被告知这一点。有趣的是,考虑到这是一个不断变化的目标,且在经历了三四个世代的界限模糊与重新定义之后,这种美学是如何以及为何依然存在。

剧本短剧占领时尚社交动态

趋势 / 影响力人物正通过喜剧短剧吸引观众和品牌。但当笑话不再新鲜时,会发生什么?作者:Kati Chitrakorn

Angeliqué 的视频通常以一个轻蔑的表情开始。

Angeliqué(仅使用其名)看起来像一名销售助理。在 TikTok 和 Instagram 上,可以看到她用浓重的法语口音说话,同时做鬼脸,将她那齐下巴的黑色波波头推到耳后。当被问到店内是否有其他尺寸的款式时,她会用夸张的法语口音自鸣得意地说:“店里只剩这一件了(Zerr is only one left in zeu staure)”。

但关键在于,Angeliqué 实际上并不从事零售业,她也不是真实存在的人。她是由 Mouhamed Niane 创造的一个经常出现的短剧角色。Niane 居住在巴黎,并于 4 月开始扮演一名自命不凡的巴黎销售员。

这并不是他第一个走红的角色。当 在 2020 年首次加入 TikTok 时,他创作了一些走红的视频,幽默地模仿黎巴嫩口音、法语与阿拉伯语的混用,以及他在成长过程中遇到的私立学校社交行为。( 是塞内加尔人,但在移居法国之前,出生并成长于叙利亚和黎巴嫩。)

的短剧将 Angeliqué 置于一家高端精品店中,旨在讽刺奢侈时尚的精英主义。

的短剧讲述了 Angeliqué 不情愿地在一家虚构的高端精品店值班,并对周围的人展现支配欲,旨在讽刺奢侈时尚的精英主义本质。作为一名高级时装模特, 沉浸在这个世界之中。他最受欢迎的喜剧视频在网上已累积数百万次观看。

本人的亲切举止与他的角色 Angeliqué 完全不同。他说这个想法源于一件万圣节服装。“我手头正好有一顶假发。于是我想,为什么不试着玩玩它?我戴上它,架好相机,这个角色就立刻占据了我的主导,”他说,“我甚至没想过人们会真的喜欢,但他们确实喜欢,所以我决定给这个角色设定一个故事,并继续制作这些短剧。”

是新一批内容创作者中的一员,他们的角色短剧在 Instagram、TikTok 和 YouTube 等社交平台上大受欢迎。例如,像“格施塔德小伙”(Gstaad Guy)这样模仿超级富豪生活的古怪人格,或者被亲切地称为“巴士大婶”(Bus Aunty)的 Bemi Orojuogun——一位居住在伦敦的护士,她因拍摄伦敦红色双层巴士的欢乐视频而闻名。

这些创作者标志着一种转变,脱离了以往主导时尚和美容社交动态的照片“堆砌”(dumps)、教程或开箱视频。他们的网络成名让他们能够迅速跻身时尚界的排他阶层,并与大品牌签署付费合作协议。On 和 Axel Arigato 是近几个月与 开展营销活动合作的品牌。Bus Aunty 在 2025 年 8 月出演了 Burberry 的“回到城市”(Back to the City)活动,而 Gstaad Guy 则是 Loro Piana 和宾利(Bentley)的大使。

“剧本短剧是 Instagram 的精华所在。[这些]创作者让人们感到真正的连接,他们扮演着人们喜爱并像追剧一样反复观看的角色,”Meta 时尚合作伙伴副总裁 Eva Chen 表示。

一些创作者通过创建剧本节目,进一步深化了这种可重复格式的概念。数百万粉丝关注由 Kareem Rahma 在 2023 年共同创立的网络访谈节目《地铁观点》(Subway Takes)。该节目的设定是 Rahma 乘坐纽约市地铁,并询问嘉宾:“那么,你的观点是什么?”(So, what's your take?),促使他们分享一个强烈、古怪或有趣的观点。有时他的同伴是凯特·布兰切特(Cate Blanchett)这样的好莱坞名人;其他时候则是像模特 Alex Consani 或 Alexa Chung 这样的时尚业内人士。

从主图开始顺时针方向依次为:米兰时装周的嘉宾;饰演“Angelique”的穆罕默德·尼安(Mouhamed Niane);“Walk With Me”社交媒体系列视频创作者迪兰·凯利(Dylan Kelly)于3月在纽约参加eBay的一场活动发布会;模仿超级富豪生活的“格施塔德小伙”(Gstaad Guy),他是Loro Piana和宾利(Bentley)的品牌大使;“Subway Takes”主持人卡里姆·拉赫马(Kareem Rahma)与查理兹·塞隆(Charlize Theron)。 Getty Images, GC Images

在其他方面,前作家迪兰·凯利将职业转向了内容创作,凭借其走红的“Walk With Me”社交媒体系列视频而知名。该系列于2025年夏天推出,视频记录了凯利走在城市街道上,直接对着镜头交谈并分享时尚历史的小知识。

到2026年初,该形式已演变为邀请嘉宾参与,如汤米·希尔费格(Tommy Hilfiger)、莉莉·艾伦(Lily Allen)以及造型师兼时尚编辑卡琳·罗伊特菲尔德(Carine Roitfeld),与凯利分享个人风格轶事。

“当Instagram刚出现时,它令人兴奋,因为它感觉如此真实且有趣,”彼得·克内尔(Peter Knell)观察到。他在创立专门从事人才与品牌交易的业务开发及合作伙伴关系机构Knell之前,曾在IMG和ITB Worldwide工作。但他说,随着时间的推移,杂志——以及日益增多的影响力人物(influencers)——的编辑基调在网上被严重冲淡,这是由于需要让广告商满意以及满足算法需求的压力所致。克内尔表示,虽然剧本化的个性或场景在定义上是人造的,但它们仍然具有一种“舒适的熟悉感”。“你仍然能通过这种形式感到与他们很亲近。”

这与真人秀节目有相似之处,熟悉的形式为观众提供了一种低压力的放松方式。在陈(Chen)看来,年轻人只是想要被娱乐。“过去电视是‘必看’的,现在则是Instagram上的视频,”她说。Instagram在今年夏天开始测试一项新的“系列”(Series)功能,允许用户将视频帖子在个人主页上分组为剧集合集。陈表示,通过将原本独立的片段变为有编号的剧集,其目标是通过“使其更容易跟进”,让观众反复回来,并建立更强的观看习惯,就像在刷Netflix剧集一样。

H&M的全球艺术总监兼社交创作者约翰·莫特(Johan Mott)表示,他从美国喜剧系列节目《周六夜现场》(Saturday Night Live)中汲取了灵感,这促使他委任尼安。在整个8月和9月,尼安创作了一系列短剧,塑造了Angeliqué在巴黎玛莱区(Le Marais)旗舰店轮班工作的形象——这与H&M通常通过影响力人物明确推广产品的工作方式截然不同。“我们非常清楚,在TikTok或Instagram上,我们是在与猫咪视频以及[其他病毒式传播内容]竞争,比如那个打开可乐瓶导致爆炸的奶奶,”莫特说。“在时尚界,事情有时会变得过于严肃,尤其是如今一切都如此两极分化。我认为通过注入幽默感,能让它更具共鸣。感觉不像是一个广告。”

但当笑话不再新鲜时会发生什么?萨布丽娜·巴逊(Sabrina Bahsoon),即“地铁女孩”(Tube Girl),曾因在伦敦地铁上自信地跳舞而吸引了数百万人。朱尔斯·勒布朗(Jools Lebron)则用讽刺性的流行语“非常端庄,非常细心”(very demure, very mindful)主导了全球的日常用语。在巅峰时期,巴逊参加了时装周,并与 Valentino、蒂芙尼(Tiffany & Co)和 Hugo Boss 等品牌合作;而勒布朗则通过与 Verizon、Lyft 和 Netflix 的交易获利。(据勒布朗称,她的个人赞助每条帖子可带来数万美元的收入,最高报价高达 $85,000。)然而,由于包括观众审美疲劳在内的因素,人们对这两位创作者的兴趣一直在下降。两位影响力人物还谈到了因承受剧烈的网络审视而产生的心理健康困扰。

随着网络名人的寿命比以往任何时候都短,长期可持续性已成为创作者经济中的终极挑战。傲慢的 Angeliqué 仍然能带来很多笑声——根据 H&M 的说法,还带来了积极的互动——但尼安(Niane)感受到了保持影响力的压力,并正在评估他的下一步行动:“Angeliqué 这个想法就像滚雪球一样发展起来,我一直在不停地工作。但我确实担心有一天这一切会突然结束。”

尼安的适应能力或许能让他度过难关。“即使 Angeliqué 渐渐淡出,也没关系。我不想把这个角色拖得太久,”他说。“目前,我正享受当下,但我也在思考我的下一个角色。我会不断地重新塑造自己。”

全球顶尖独立眼镜制造商

配饰 / 眼镜专家正致力于打造独一无二的镜框,以适应每个人脸部的独特之处、不对称性及个体差异。作者:Jack Stanley

今年早些时候,眼镜品牌 Cubitts 在伦敦国王十字车站(King's Cross)后方开设了新总部。这座名为 The Yard 的建筑不仅仅是一间办公室,它还设有眼镜制造空间,用于培训新一代的制造者。其核心是一个“定制咨询室”,客户可以在这里与 Cubitts 团队合作,订制一副独一无二的镜框。

“我们正试图将量身定制和全定制的产能提高十倍,”该品牌创始人汤姆·布劳顿(Tom Broughton)表示,“目前我们每年生产数千副,但计划让 The Yard 实现数万副的产量。”

Cubitts 是眼镜行业中一个成熟的参与者,在英国拥有 18 家店铺,并在纽约设有分支机构。而更广泛意义上的全定制眼镜通常是小型工作室的领域。在世界各地,将设计和制作眼镜视作量身定制西装般对待的工艺,正由少数设计师和验光师传承。其中一些人已将其作为家族事业传承数代;另一些则是自学成才且刚刚起步。

全定制服务通常始于一次深入的咨询和一系列详尽的测量。客户将参与到这个漫长且昂贵过程的每一个环节,从材质、形状到刻字和铰链位置,所有细节都由客户决定。

Maison Bonnet 是全定制眼镜界的泰斗,拥有近一个世纪的历史,在巴黎第一区设有门店。它曾为勒·柯布西耶(Le Corbusier)、伊夫·圣罗兰(Yves Saint Laurent)、奥黛丽·赫本(Audrey Hepburn)和布拉德·皮特(Brad Pitt)制作眼镜。如今,该公司由第四代经营者弗兰克·博内(Franck Bonnet)领导,他与兄弟史蒂文(Steven)和约翰(John)共同管理。

“我们为一张脸制作一副镜框,”博内说,“我们需要一张脸来激发灵感。”第一次会面需要一个半小时,这既是一次对话,也是一次视力检查;团队在询问问题的同时,会观察你的身体如何移动和偏移。“我们每个人都有不对称之处,”博内继续道,“最常见的是眉毛。一只眉毛比另一只略高。在耳朵、肩膀等方面也会发现同样的情况。”博内几乎是下意识地开始分析我的脸以及我佩戴的眼镜。“形状不错,”博内说,“但不够端正。”

Maison Bonnet 的镜框起价为 €1,700(生物醋酸纤维材质)。不同材质的价格更高,水牛角材质起价 €2,400,玳瑁材质起价 €10,000(使用自然死亡海龟的现有库存),此外,附加项和调整 each 都会产生相应费用。对于博内来说,关注价格就失去了重点。“真正的问题是,一个你每天在脸部中心佩戴 15 或 16 小时的物品,其价值是多少?”

EB Meyrowitz 成立于 1875, 年的伦敦,随后在纽约和巴黎开设了分店。到 20 世纪 60 年代,公司陷入困境并被拆分,制造部门关闭。1993, 年,希尔·戴维森-朗利(Sheel Davison-Lungley)在 EB Meyrowitz 工作期间获得了收购这家伦敦公司的机会。

“她热爱这个品牌,但对其后来变成的样子感到有些失望,”她的儿子杰米(Jamie)说,他现在与母亲共同经营公司并担任创意总监。

在戴维森-朗利家族的经营下,全定制再次成为 EB Meyrowitz 的重要组成部分。“相比身体的其他部位,我们脸部的差异性更大——包括鼻宽、眼宽、头部结构,”杰米说,“然而,眼镜却是量产的,仅符合几种不同的尺寸。”

拥有一副由 EB Meyrowitz 制作的眼镜是一次地道的英式体验,这一切始于其位于 Old Bond Street 的 Royal Arcade 店。 “我们总是从一次愉快的聊天开始,”杰米解释道,“我们试图了解客户的生活方式,他们在审美方面追求什么,以及他们的面部几何结构,以及我们将如何将这一愿景转化为现实。”随后,客户开始做出选择,其中包括 EB Meyrowitz 以之著称的广泛奢华材质。“醋酸纤维、水牛角、天然玳瑁是三种主要材质,”杰米说,“但我们也会使用异域木材……而且我们即将尝试使用石化珊瑚。”价格从 2,500 英镑 起,而稀有材质的价格则可能从 8,000 英镑 起。

并非所有定制眼镜公司都像 Maison Bonnet 和 EB Meyrowitz 那样经营传统奢华与传承。Ransome Optical 位于汉普斯特德荒野(Hampstead Heath)附近,是一个相对的新面孔,于 2024 年开业。该公司由合格的验光师兼自学成才的眼镜制作师杰克·兰索姆·卢普顿(Jack Ransome Lupton)创立,曾与男装店 Drake's 合作,并为已故艺术家大卫·霍克尼(David Hockney)制作镜框。“我们是英国唯一一家既能制作镜框又能在店内进行视力测试的眼镜店,”卢普顿说,“我们所做的事情其实并不新颖,只是在回归验光师过去的工作方式。”

卢普顿所有的镜框均在店内手工制作。“它看起来可能不像你在货架上看到的那些最完美的镜框,但那是因为它是由手工制作并用锯子切割的,”他说,“我认为这是制作过程中非常美妙的一部分。在这个万物皆由工厂量产的时代,看到非量产的东西是很酷的。如果你总是追求制作出完美的镜框,那么你最终会失去那种美感。”Ransome 定制的纯手工醋酸纤维眼镜统一售价为 £700(水牛角材质更贵)。“如果你把它做得过于排外,它就失去了吸引力,”卢普顿补充道。

Ransome 并不是唯一一家以不同方式进行定制的品牌。Ahlem 由阿莱姆·马奈-普拉特(Ahlem Manai-Platt)于 2014 年在洛杉矶创立,最初并不提供独一无二的定制服务。当常客勒布朗·詹姆斯(LeBron James)要求定制一副眼镜时,马奈-普拉特意识到这是一个市场。“如果我们能为勒布朗创造独一无二的眼镜,我们也能为任何人创造,”她说。流程始于与马奈-普拉特的咨询,让她能够近距离观察你的面部。“当我们交谈时,我已经开始在草绘了,”她说,“我可以观察你,观察你说话的方式,你大笑的样子,以及你那只眼睛是如何上挑的。”

Ahlem 定制眼镜起价为 $4,500,这一价格反映了该品牌与获得享有盛誉的“法国最佳工匠”(Meilleur Ouvrier de France)奖项的匠人们的合作。“当然,这涉及价格成本,也涉及时间成本,”马奈-普拉特说。Ahlem 的个性化定制不仅限于形状和贴合度。“我仅为你一人设计,我永远不会重复,永远不会与之接近,”她说,并提到一位纽约客户要求将整个镜框雕刻成藤蔓的样子。如今,Ahlem 在巴黎、纽约、洛杉矶和旧金山设有工作室。

In Barberia 的眼镜采用意大利或日本的醋酸纤维以及水牛角材质。与其他定制镜框制造商一样,In Barberia 的客户分为两类:一类是喜欢眼镜外观的人,另一类是无法被常规眼镜形状和尺寸满足的人。“我们有些客户根本找不到合适的镜框,”安德雷奥尼(Andreoni)说,“所以这里也有技术问题需要解决,比如镜腿的长度、镜框的宽度。”正如 Bonnet 所言,定制“有时并非为了奢华,而是出于需求”。

对定制眼镜的追求已延伸至传统的时尚之都之外。在曼谷,柴瓦特·瓦塔纳努基特(Chaiwat Wattananukit)在担任珠宝设计师后,于2013年创立了自己的眼镜品牌GIMM。通过GIMM,瓦塔纳努基特为每一副镜框引入一个“gimmick”(噱头 / 巧思),即一个将其与日常用品区分开的小细节。这几乎可以是任何东西,从可以夹上或取下的附加配件,到出人意料的材质组合,或是夸张的比例和不对称的细节。“每个人都是不同的,我喜欢创造出独属于那个人的东西,”瓦塔纳努基特说道。

在威尼斯,In Barberia自1980年起便一直在制作定制眼镜。该公司已成为一个旅游景点,店窗内就有工匠在雕刻镜框。“人们看到制作一副镜框所需的诸多工序,会觉得很有趣,”联合创始人马尔科·安德烈奥尼(Marco Andreoni)表示,“人们能理解这需要花费多少时间,因此当他们从我们这里购买镜框时,这种投资就显得合理了。”

风格

面对定制客户,瓦塔纳努基特有时间专注于镜框的每一个方面。“这不仅仅是制作一副眼镜,还包括选择材料、塑造设计,并手工处理每一个小细节。我享受将一个想法转化为可以每天佩戴、并且希望能够保存多年的物品的过程。定制工作给了我自由去

上方:伦敦Ransome Optical的杰克·兰索姆·卢普顿(Jack Ransome Lupton)

从最左起:弗兰克(Franck,左)和史蒂文·博内(Steven Bonnet)在他们的巴黎店外;阿赫莱姆·马奈-普拉特(Ahlem Manai-Platt)在品牌的巴黎店中;威尼斯In Barberia的联合创始人安东尼奥·巴塔利亚(Antonio Battaglia)——Alex Crohry-Systemmans;米卡尔·A·班达萨勒(Mickall A Bandassale);阿德里安·让-理查德(Hadrien Jean-Richard)

制作那些在量产环境下难以或无法生产的东西。”

花数百甚至数千英镑买一副眼镜,并且要等待将近一年才能使用,这看起来可能很奇怪。但你也会知道,它们是完全根据你的尺寸以及你面部的每一个特质而制作的。正因如此,制作者们认为这些眼镜值得投资。

下方,从左起:Maison Bonnet的一个工作室;1982年佩戴Maison Bonnet眼镜的伊夫·圣罗兰(Yves Saint Laurent)——John Downing / Getty Images

上方:Maison Bonnet、Cubitts、Maison Bonnet、GIMM的眼镜

“人们在眼镜上忍受的事情,在衣服或鞋子上是绝不会容忍的,”博内说道,“在某个时间点,他们会选择定制,因为当你一生中每天从早到晚都必须佩戴眼镜时,舒适度和美感就不仅仅是细节了。”

旅行

远西之味

爱尔兰 / 分布在崎岖海岸线上的西科克(West Cork)乡村村庄,已然成为了一个意想不到的美食中心。凯特·麦克斯韦尔(Kate Maxwell)沿着由一家先锋新酒店打造的美食路线开启了旅程。

主厨马克·詹宁斯(Mark Jennings)正在利普(Leap)这个规模微小的西科克村庄里,在一家名为 Harnen 的新面包店兼咖啡馆及杂货店的地下厨房里擀制可颂面团。面团浓稠且带有颗粒感,看起来更像粗花呢,而不是我之前见过的折叠成可颂的丝滑面皮。当我询问原因时,马克解释说,爱尔兰小麦的麸质含量较低,而麸质正是赋予面团弹性的关键。“我喜欢使用本土面粉,因为它的风味独特且碳足迹低,”他微笑着说,“但如果不用的话,我的生活会轻松得多。”

Harnen 是我的美食行程第一站。这次行程由迪迪·罗南(Didi Ronan)组织,她与丈夫西蒙(Simon)共同经营着 Native 酒店——一家位于巴利德霍布(Ballydehob)彩虹色海岸村庄的小型新酒店,距离利普以西 24 公里。乍一看,这个远离尘嚣的地区距离科克机场有一个半小时车程,两旁是点缀着 the fuchsia(灯笼花)的树篱和剧烈之字形起伏的海岸线,似乎不像是一个美食聚集地的理想之选。但正是西科克的偏远和未经破坏的自然美景,最初吸引了迪迪名录中那些当地生产者、手工艺人和餐厅的先驱们。

这些“外来者”(blow-ins)从 20 世纪 60 年代开始从都柏林、英国、德国、斯堪的纳维亚和荷兰迁徙到西科克。他们是寻找另一种非商业化生活方式的波希米亚人,在这里建立了艺术和工艺工作室,并帮助开创了爱尔兰的有机运动。在一百多年前,该地区曾被大饥荒摧毁,近一半的人口死于饥饿、疾病或移民,因此这些具有创新精神且注重社区的新移民受到了热烈的欢迎。

在 Harnen 的楼上,我欣赏着杂货桌上摆满的由马克妻子塞迪(Sadie)种植的酸浆果、辣椒和帕德龙辣椒,并品尝了一块绝佳的胡萝卜蛋糕。当我离开这座有着红色波纹铁皮屋顶、朴素的刷白建筑时,我在想保罗·梅斯卡尔(Paul Mescal)或西尔莎·罗南(Saoirse Ronan)——两位近期迁入西科克的“外来者”——是否也曾来这里买过点心。两人在附近都有房产,经常在当地出没。

我在 Native 酒店那烛光摇曳、书籍盈满的接待室里见到了迪迪。这家酒店由一座修复的 19 世纪农舍改建而成,是这对夫妇的首个酒店项目。迪迪此前曾担任经济学家、外交官以及波诺(Bono)的“幕僚长”;而西蒙则是一名景观设计师,他从 12 岁阅读约翰·西蒙(John Seymour)的《自给自足完全手册》(The Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency)起就梦想搬到西科克。

主屋有三间客房和两栋小木屋(此外在年底前还将开放三栋更多的小木屋,其中一栋配有私人桑拿房)。我的木屋隐藏在点缀着鲁德贝基亚(Rudbeckia)和银莲花的花草丛后,由当地的道格拉斯冷杉、橡木、石灰和麻纤维建成。迪迪将其风格描述为“爱尔兰本土风”(Irish vernacular);她说,这是为了刻意避开旅行者在当地想到奢华酒店时通常会联想到的那种“巨大的、古老的殖民地乡村庄园酒店”。

室内摆放着由爱尔兰制造商 Crannac 生产的中世纪复古家具。淋浴间的洗手盆由当地陶瓷艺术家西蒙·基德(Simon Kidd)制作,生活设施刻意保持模拟状态:用 Roberts 收音机代替电视或蓝牙扬声器;用水壶和 Chemex 咖啡滤杯代替咖啡机。

在我收拾好行李后,迪迪将我送往下一个预约地点:在舒尔(Schull)村庄以东的一个沙质海湾进行一次海藻与香草的采集任务,每年五月的 Fastnet 电影节就在那里举行。

“我热爱潮间带这个概念,因为那里不属于任何人,”负责海藻采集的塞缪尔·基恩(Samuel Keane)说道。此时我们正喝着一种由他的采集伙伴、草药专家珍·多兰(Jen Doran)调制而成的‘树篱茶’——这是一种由山楂果、荨麻和玫瑰花瓣酿制的美味饮品。“当退潮时,你有一个6小时12分钟的机会,可以用任何你想要的方式与它建立联系。”

我们采集的海边馈赠包括 miorânach 海藻(浸在热水浴缸中对皮肤有益)、岩地海茴香(味道比普通品种更辛辣),以及被用作传统感冒疗法的爱尔兰苔藓。在海滩上方,珍向我介绍了被称为“健康草药”并用于处理伤口的 slân-lus,以及被她制成舒缓香膏的银背旋果花叶。她随身带了一瓶,我将这种杏仁香味的油涂在脸部和手上。分别时,当我提到那天晚上将在巴尔的摩(Baltimore)港口村的 Baba'de 餐厅用餐时,塞缪尔赞许地向我点头——他曾与那里的厨师一起采集食材。

与我之前访问过的西科克(West Cork)其他村庄相比,巴尔的摩散发出一种更成熟的气息,这里的餐饮氛围也显得更为先进:其皇冠上的明珠 Dede 餐厅拥有两颗米其林星。Baba'de 是它的休闲姐妹餐厅:椅子上铺着羊皮,提供土耳其-爱尔兰风格的小盘菜菜单,汲取了出生于安卡拉的厨师艾哈迈德·德德(Ahmet Dede)的文化遗产。

我的黑线鳕鱼 lakarde(用海藻出汁腌制的黑线鳕鱼)和用采集蘑菇制成的平菇沙瓦玛(shawarma)口感丰富且风味复杂。那道配有榛子和棕色黄油冰淇淋的温热米布丁极其令人慰藉,曾有一位顾客在经历了一天压力巨大的工作后,将其作为前菜点餐。

在 Native 享用的早餐是斯堪的纳维亚风格,伴随着摇曳的烛光和木柴炉,这里汇集了西科克的生产者:来自斯基伯林(Skibbereen)Walsh 农场和肉铺的火腿,以及来自巴尔的摩一家有机农场的鸡蛋。但我最感兴趣的是洗皮的 Gubbeen 奶酪,因为生产这些奶酪的家族企业是我此次行程的下一站。

“我今天口干舌燥,”当我在占地 250 英亩的 Gubbeen 农场作坊里找到芬加尔·弗格森(Fingal Ferguson)时,他对我说道。他与父母以及姐姐克洛维斯(Clovis)在这里一起制作奶酪。然而,尼格罗尼(Negroni)酒带来的宿醉并未削弱他的健谈:他很快就开始讲述邮递员为了让他能在四个儿子之后生个女儿而给他的建议。他是否采纳了该建议尚不清楚;但无论如何,一个女儿确实出现了。

芬加尔和克洛维斯的父亲汤姆(Tom)是第四代奶农,母亲吉安娜(Giana)在西班牙长大,两人于 20 世纪 60 年代在巴利德霍布(Ballydehob)相识。该农场的牛奶此前被送到当地的乳品合作社,用于制作百利(Baileys)爱尔兰奶油利口酒,但这对夫妇决定尝试用它来制作奶酪。

如今,Gubbeen 拥有 20 名员工,每周生产约 1,500 块半软质和烟熏奶酪。当克洛维斯带我参观时,我们看到吉安娜在乳制品车间给手工包装的“Baby Gubbeen”奶酪贴标签,我很高兴地品尝了当天的第二块奶酪。受吉安娜在西班牙成长经历的启发,弗格森一家还生产萨拉米香肠和乔利佐香肠,而芬加尔的副业是制作刀具(他的刀刃非常抢手,仅在网上限量发售)。

下午,我探索了野大西洋之路(Wild Atlantic Way)壮丽的海岸线,在祭坛楔形墓(Altar Wedge Tomb)前稍作停留——这是该地区十几个巨大的石器时代建筑之一,随后在克鲁克海文(Crookhaven)的 O'Sullivan 餐厅停下来吃了一个巨大的螃蟹三明治,该店声称提供爱尔兰最南端的品脱啤酒。当

吧台服务员发现我在盯着邻座的浓汤看时,他也给我端来了一碗——免费赠送。

在开车途中,我经过了几个迷人的海滩,包括巴利湾(Barley Cove)——那是米曾半岛(Mizen Peninsula)两座岬角之间的一片宽阔沙滩。我在巴利里索德(Ballyrisode)停下来,在充满活力的 Atlantic 海水中畅游。此时是周五下午,有六个人在粉白色的沙滩上享受阳光,在冰冷的水中嬉戏。我跳过了 Heat Shack 桑拿房(因为在 Native 酒店已经有一个在等着我了),当我走回车里时,看到一个男人正往后备箱里装两桶海藻。

我的最后一个夜晚从巴利德霍布(Ballydehob)的 Chestnut 餐厅的晚餐开始,这是一家由旧酒吧改造而成的米其林星级海鲜餐厅。这里有深绿色的墙壁和极简的家具,这个由两个房间、八张桌子组成的空间让我想起在哥本哈根吃过的餐厅——我在书架上发现了其中两家餐厅的食谱。由比利时移民安克·巴雷特(Anke Barrett)端上的四道菜品尝菜单,每道菜都盛在陶器中,看起来和尝起来都非常精致。我最喜欢的是一块配以黄油和细香葱酱的野生比目鱼,上面点缀着橙色的鳟鱼籽,在口中爆裂,像咸味的爆米花糖一样。

几家店之隔就是 Levis Corner House,这是巴利德霍布的一家老字号。这里由朱莉娅(Julia)和内尔(Nell)两姐妹管理了 50 多年(她们分别在 96 岁和 104 岁时去世),现在由她们的侄孙乔·奥利里(Joe O'Leary)及其伴侣卡罗琳·奥唐奈(Caroline O'Donnell)经营。这家小酒吧的仅限现金政策自他们接手以来从未改变,其极繁主义的内部装饰也是如此——角落里有一具骨架,天花板上挂着彩旗,墙上有油画和儿童画,书架上还摆着古老的谷物包装盒,那是这家酒吧兼作杂货店时留下的。

不过,这对夫妇在夏天引入了美食餐车,开设了每周一次的市场并定期举办演出。我很幸运地听到了当地原声吉他手莫莉·奥马霍尼(Molly O'Mahoney)以及由夫妻组成的 Driven Snow 乐队的表演。他们是才华横溢且谦逊的音乐家和讲述者,让仅有的 40 位听众在欢笑与泪水之间徘徊,全神贯注。复古的装饰加上没有一个人举起 iPhone 的事实,让我感觉自己仿佛穿越了时空。

在返回科克机场的路上,我顺道访问了斯基伯林(Skibbereen)村,那里每个周六上午都有一个食品市场,我在那里找到了几家我一直品尝其食品的家族企业。Gubbeen 的摊位挤满了购买奶酪和腌制肉类的当地人,但我设法抢到了最后一瓶 Clovis 自制的玫瑰无花果康普茶。

在 Lisheen Greens,我见到了迪·麦凯利戈特(Dee McElligott),她九年前与她的新西兰丈夫从伦敦的象堡(Elephant & Castle)搬到了西科克。“我们以前从未种过种子,”迪告诉我,“但我们问自己:最糟糕能发生什么?”我想象那些敢为人先的外来者当时也问了自己同样的问题。这里现在或许有了好莱坞演员和米其林星级餐厅,但 60 年后,引导那些定居者的原则——建立一种在所有意义上都可持续的生活——依然鲜活且完好。

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凯特·麦克斯韦尔(Kate Maxwell)是 Native (native.ie) 和爱尔兰旅游局 (tourismireland.com) 的嘉宾。Native 的双人间价格 €250 起,包含早餐和桑拿。包含访问西科克周边生产者和创作者的定制行程每天费用为 €250,或者客人可以跟随酒店新的自助 Native 美食之旅。

从左至右:Terreno Barrio 的主吧和一间带阳台的豪华套房

关键笔记

帕尔马,TERRENO BARRIO

这里有什么亮点?El Terreno 一直以来都拥有波希米亚式的格调。这个位于帕尔马-德马略卡(Palma de Mallorca)西部的街区最早在 18 世纪因浪漫主义者的青睐而成为创意人士的聚集地,此后从格特鲁德·斯泰因(Gertrude Stein)到吉米·亨德里克斯(Jimi Hendrix)都曾在此逗留。从 20 世纪中期开始,这里成为了时髦的派对场所,随后在 20 世纪 80 年代和 90 年代陷入严重衰落。如今,得益于深思熟虑的城市更新,它已重焕生机且比以往任何时候都更好,就像巴黎的玛莱区(Le Marais)被重新定义一样。

Terreno Barrio 是该地区最新的地标,是一家由两栋建筑组成的拥有 41 间客房的酒店。一侧是由弗朗塞斯克·卡萨斯(Francesc Casas)设计的翻新 1935 年公寓楼,他是马略卡理性主义建筑的先驱。另一侧是由屡获殊荣的当地设计工作室 Ohlab 设计的七层新扩建楼,外墙覆盖软木。该建筑根据被动房(Passivhaus)原则采用正交胶合木(CLT)建造,

既精致又可持续。

将你的酒店称为 Terreno “社区”酒店可能显得有些自以为是:这难道不应该由当地人来决定吗?但 Ohlab 确实考虑到了居民。其设计在两栋建筑之间创建了一个新的公共区域,向公众开放,并提供了一条急需的直达海边的通道。

地段,地段,还是地段。El Terreno 华丽的殖民风格别墅与传统的砂岩建筑和现代主义建筑并肩而立。即便在毒品文化和犯罪使该地区空心化的时期,这些良好的建筑基础使其成为了城市更新的绝佳候选地。2018 年,Fluxà 家族(Camper 鞋业和 Iberostar 酒店集团的所有者)资助了一项大规模的绅士化项目,翻新房产并增加新建筑,如今这里遍布时髦的面包店、时尚酒吧、艺术画廊和设计师工作室。

码头也经过了翻新,一条新的沿海自行车道和步行道将 El Terreno 直接与市中心连接起来。再加上一侧是壮丽的帕尔马湾,另一侧是位于 Puig de Sa Mesquida 山顶松林中的 14 世纪贝尔弗城堡(Bellver Castle),El Terreno 成为了一个完美的下榻基地。

办理入住。一条长长的深红色坡道将旧楼入口与开放式的一楼连接起来。一旦进入,便能感受到整体感:接待前台兼作供应充足的酒吧柜台,而酒吧又延伸为酒店餐厅 Destape。这里有一道 34 米长的由羊毛、丝绸和棉绳制成的窗帘,由当地艺术家西尔维娅·桑切斯·蒙托亚(Sylvia Sánchez Montoya)手工打造;而老派的红色天鹅绒帷幕则将多功能空间划分为不同区域,增添了温暖感和结构感。在地下室,一扇没有标记的门后隐藏着一家名为 Dos Rombos 的私密酒吧和夜总会——这向西班牙代表成人电影的符号致敬。

卧室采用了明亮色彩的俏皮装饰,但舒适度极高。Ohlab 努力采购当地制造的家具,且成效显著:整体风格现代且古灵精怪,显然不是从国际供应商那里采购的那种标准沙发和单元。

我的房间带有一个宽敞的阳台,包括一个户外浴缸——这是目前新酒店的标配,但在这种情况下,我认为它不会被经常使用,因为周围建筑的视线过于直接。

水疗中心和健身房规模较小,但拥有一个极佳的桑拿房和冷水浸池、一个户外锻炼区以及一个配备了 Technogym 设备的工作室。一个共享办公空间和地下放映室完善了这些令人印象深刻的设施。

该怎么做?可以前往贝尔维尔城堡(Bellver Castle)——山坡并不陡峭,森林环境宁静,顶部的景色绝对值得一去。或者,如果你想沿着新的自行车道前往帕尔马的历史中心逛逛商店和画廊,或参观圣玛丽亚大教堂(Cathedral of Santa Maria),酒店提供电动自行车租赁。这座通常被称为 La Seu 的教堂是一座哥特式杰作,拥有由飞扶壁组成的冠冕;其建设始于 1229 年,直到 17 世纪初才完工。

或者,如果预算充足,可以前往码头,从 Samar Yachts 租赁一艘 50 英尺长的太阳能 llaït(一种传统的巴利阿里群岛船只),半天价格 €2,200 起(包含船长,最多可容纳 12 人)。

饮食方面如何?Destape 的主厨加布里埃尔·孔蒂(Gabriel Conti)在当地颇有名气,他经营的 Mombo 是一家位于马略卡大道(Paseo Mallorca)上的塔帕斯餐厅,在帕尔马期间你也应该去那里看看。Destape 的菜单专注于明火烧烤、当地食材和地中海料理。我非常喜欢 Destape 的脆皮乳猪小盘,以至于第二天晚上在 Mombo 又点了一次。主菜方面,搭配 escalivada 蔬菜(一种慢烤的加泰罗尼亚菜肴)的烤多宝鱼简直是皇室水准:西班牙国王费利佩六世在夏季访问时就选择了这道菜。

甜点上桌时带有某种戏剧感。在制作“巧克力质感”这道菜时,服务员将融化的巧克力甩在餐桌上的油纸上,然后淋上可食用花瓣和柑橘汁,最后将装在巧克力壳里的巧克力慕斯“啪”地一声掉在上面。如果杰克逊·波洛克(Jackson Pollock)做甜点,大概就是这个样子。早餐时的蛋糕也非常出色,此外还有极赞的脆皮煎蛋和伊比利亚火腿。

其他客人?这里有酷酷的情侣和穿着休闲的商务专业人士。在我入住期间,新的木质扩建区域大部分被一个摄影师、造型师和模特团队占据,他们正在拍摄一场时尚活动。

花费情况:双人间价格 €280 起。

简评:时髦且友好:欢迎来到这个街区。 爱丽丝·费舍尔(Alice Fisher) 爱丽丝·费舍尔曾是 Terreno Barrio 酒店(terrenohotel.com)的宾客。

天堂之步

吉尔吉斯斯坦 / 在从贵族变为冒险家的亚历山德拉·托尔斯泰(Alexandra Tolstoy)带领下,索菲·罗伯茨(Sophy Roberts)骑马深入天山山脉,开启为期一周的旅程

在比什凯克的国家美术馆里,长途飞行让我疲惫不堪,无法跟上导游讲解吉尔吉斯纺织品历史的步伐。于是,我溜进另一个房间,那里的一幅画将我从恍惚中惊醒。这幅名为《1941年秋》的作品描绘了一匹马正扬起鼻子,缰绳松散地垂在头侧,动物身上那种原始的、积压的能量,与背景中用忧郁灰色绘制的嶙峋山脊形成了对比。无论是风景的色调,还是对马匹动态的捕捉,都令人叹为观止。

现在是九月,我抵达比什凯克,准备开始一段180公里的骑马之旅。计划是先向西驱车前往该国最大的湖泊伊塞克湖,参加为期两天、每两年举办一次的世界游牧运动会的尾声。随后,在博索戈(Bosogo)村,我们将换乘马匹沿阿特巴希河(At-Bashi river)溯流而上,沿途在六个偏远地点露营。

这次行程由本次旅行的英国东道主亚历山德拉·托尔斯泰在去年率先开创,将带领我们穿过被海拔4,000米以上的天山(Tian Shan,或称 Celestial Mountains)群峰环绕的村庄。我们的终点是塔什拉巴特(Tash Rabat),一座建于10世纪的驿站,距离托鲁加特口岸(Torugart Pass)的中国边境仅30公里。

20年前,我在一次从西安到撒马尔罕的背包旅行中曾驱车经过此地,因此我对这个鲜有人至的地区很感兴趣;但坦白说,我对托尔斯泰的故事同样好奇。托尔斯泰今年53岁,身材纤细,留着一头亮眼的金色短发,她是出生于多塞特郡的历史学家兼作家尼古拉·托尔斯泰伯爵(Count Nikolai Tolstoy)之女(也是作家列夫·托尔斯泰的远亲)。在瑞士信贷(Credit Suisse)的毕业生计划中短暂工作一段时间后,她在25岁时出发,骑马和骆驼走过了8,000公里的历史丝绸之路。

四年后,她与曾帮助引导她的鞑靼骑手结婚,并开始在中亚组织骑行度假。随后在2008年,她遇到了亿万富翁商人谢尔盖·普加乔夫(Sergei Pugachev),后者于1992年共同创立了梅日普罗姆银行(Mezhprombank),曾一度被誉为“普京的银行家”。

托尔斯泰最初被雇佣来教普加乔夫英语,后来她将星空下的露营垫换成了私人飞机和圣巴茨岛(St Barths)的派对。他们共同育有三个孩子,并成为了BBC纪录片《伯爵夫人与俄罗斯亿万富翁》(The Countess and the Russian Billionaire)的主角,但托尔斯泰极尽奢华的生活很快崩塌。两人分道扬镳,而普加乔夫与俄罗斯政府之间公开的决裂导致其资产被冻结并被国际刑警组织通缉。

为了独自抚养三个孩子,她需要重新自食其力。因此在2022年,她重新开始经营骑行狩猎之旅(同时经营一家在线生活方式商店,销售受俄罗斯达恰、英国乡村小屋及其在中亚旅行启发而设计的服装和家居用品)。当她位于吉尔吉斯斯坦西部萨雷切列克(Sary-Chelek)的骑行项目开始爆满时,她雇佣了更多员工并扩大了经营区域。这就是我此次参与的新旅程,我是10名骑手之一,其中三人是回头客。

离开博物馆后,我在一张硬床上度过了一个失眠之夜,酒店窗外火车轰鸣而过——我想知道托尔斯泰是如何忍受这一切的?随后,我们驱车四个小时前往伊塞克湖畔的度假小镇乔尔蓬-阿塔(Cholpon-Ata)。我们参观了附近的基尔钦(Kyrchyn)山谷,那里举办了许多游牧运动会的项目。托尔斯泰说,体育表演已被取消在

从主图开始顺时针方向依次为:亚历山德拉·托尔斯托伊(右)骑马前往塔什拉巴特;托尔斯托伊与一名当地骑手在沙尔瀑布附近;一名粉丝在 kok boru(叼羊)决赛中挥舞吉尔吉斯斯坦国旗;游牧运动会(Nomad Games)正在进行的比赛;营地里的茶和新鲜烤制的蛋糕;厨房帐篷和卡车,后方是客房帐篷。—— Sophy Roberts

细雨蒙蒙,于是我独自走入人群。我被卷入一片塑料雨披的海洋中。在冒着热气的食物摊位周围,人们分享着在蜂巢状的 tandoor 烤炉中烤制的馕饼。我与在嘈杂的音响系统旁狂欢的当地人一起在泥泞中起舞。我与一名腋下夹着小号的吉尔吉斯音乐家交谈。

次日,阳光在 kok boru 决赛时现身。比赛由两支队伍组成,每队 12 名骑手(任何时间场上每侧各有 4 人),他们争夺一只 32 公斤重的山羊尸体。当尸体被扔进一个高起的、像桶一样的坑中时,即算进球。我觉得这种暴力场面很难观看——骑手们猛拽金属马衔;马匹碰撞、翻滚。

——但对于吉尔吉斯人来说,kok boru 是巨大的文化自豪感之源。当主队的马纳斯·尼亚佐夫(Manas Niyazov)在对阵哈萨克斯坦的比赛中得分时,欢呼声席卷了整个体育场。“吉尔吉斯斯坦的罗纳尔多,”评论员为了照顾外国游客而这样赞美道。

尽管掌声和场面如此盛大,但 kok boru 让我感到紧张,我不禁担心自己需要成为什么样的骑手才能在这个国家生存下来。当我们抵达在博索戈(Bosogo)的第一个营地,我被分配了一匹马——一匹三岁的花色阉马——我做好了迎接最糟糕情况的准备。然而,Kök-Ala 证明了它体型小巧,嘴部柔软且蹄步稳健。当金翅雀从灌木丛中成群飞起时,它并没有受惊。

鉴于我更感兴趣的是吸收乡村的细微之处,而非以飞奔之势穿过吉尔吉斯斯坦,我很快在队伍末尾找到了自己的位置,与阿迪尔·努尔迪诺夫(Adil Nurdinov)同行。他是托尔斯托伊的向导之一,也是一名新合格的兽医。托尔斯托伊的首席骑手艾特贝克·穆尔萨列夫(Aitbek Mursalev)留在前头控制速度。另一名向导瓦迪姆·萨温(Vadim Savin)在中间游走。显然,这正是托尔斯托伊所擅长的——寻找绝佳的马匹和当地人才。

努尔迪诺夫骑马时会唱歌。他指给我看这里的狗蔷薇,那里的星芒 aster 花,并教我吉尔吉斯语单词,我则用英语作为交换。他描述了自己 10 岁时骑马进入山中照看父亲畜群的经历。当他以流畅如芭蕾般的动作跃上他的雄马时,他的从容让我想起用手机拍下的另一幅比什凯克绘画——阿尔·伊格纳季耶夫(Al Ignatiev)于 1970 年创作的《波浪与马》。印象派的色彩旋涡,风吹动马尾的方式,骑手从湖岸升起的姿态——伊格纳季耶夫捕捉到的精神,在当时和现在一样真实地代表着吉尔吉斯斯坦。

我们攀升至 3,000 米的高度,经过一对正在拆除毡房的夫妇,红色的木架映衬在天空下,生动地提醒着人们这种由季节主导的半游牧生活。天山山脉正处于秋季的边缘。沙棘果实饱满且呈橙色,最后一批草地干草正被收割并打包。当我们绕回平原时,遇到了一名反向而行的骑手。他停下来,在马鞍上与我握手,拿出望远镜在林线附近寻找他的马,点点头,牵起缰绳,静静地骑走。最终,在的一道光束与渐浓的雨意阴霾之间,我失去了他的身影。

第二天,我们骑马经过点缀着天竺葵的窗台,开满蜀葵和波斯菊的花园,顶着共产主义镰刀和穆斯林新月标志的坟墓,以及动物的冬季棚舍,干草被堆成高高的金字塔形。从 11 月到次年 4 月,这个山谷将被积雪覆盖。当我们抵达在奥兹戈戈鲁什(Ozgogorush)附近的第二个夜晚营地,并在简短而金色的阳光下徒步探索村庄时,这种变化让人觉得难以置信。

人们正从田野中归来。一个孩子在街上用粉笔画的圆圈里玩着投掷羊踝骨的游戏。一家人邀请我进入他们的家中,喝一种看起来像粥的大麦饮品。当我听着托尔斯泰翻译时,我注意到她的自在,她如何与孩子们嬉戏,赞美这家人的白俄罗斯拖拉机,以及谈论谁在抛弃乡村生活,谁又没有。

我开始好奇,托尔斯泰是否比起在晚餐时与客户进行社交寒暄,更喜欢与吉尔吉斯人在一起。“我喜欢城市的精致,”她解释道,“但我无法在远离乡村的环境中生活。以一种更简单、更快乐的方式生活对我来说是一次教训——在我迷失方向时,这给了我所需的定力。”回到营地,她与工作人员坐在一起,看着他们揉制俄式饺子(pelmeni)

当尼亚佐夫得分时,欢呼声席卷整个体育场。评论员赞誉他为“吉尔吉斯斯坦的罗纳尔多”

为了共进晚餐。她很喜欢与负责营地团队的亚历山大·特罗斯琴科(Alexandr Troschenko)相处;他们的友谊可以追溯到20多年前,即托尔斯泰早期的马背狩猎之旅。

早餐桌上堆满了厚实、蓬松的 syrniki 煎饼,是用甜凝乳奶酪制成的。野餐午餐布置得恰到好处,配有美味的保温炖菜。营地晚餐以营养丰富的汤品开始——如红菜汤(borscht)或酸咸的索良卡汤(solyanka)——随后是芳香的抓饭(plov)或库尔达克(kuurdak,一种配以蜡质土豆的肉炖菜)。餐点在合成穹顶帐篷下供应,但配有精美的彩绘水壶,花瓶中细心地摆放着水刺果,实用与诗意达到了令人满足的平衡。

第二天早晨,我们享受了一段快速的小跑,直到抵达布尔什维克村,在那里我们再次开始向山中攀登。到达营地时,一匹跛脚马被换成了当地牧民的马。在河潭中,我脱掉衣服洗澡,无需在淋浴帐篷和热水桶前排队。冰川水的刺痛感也让我为第二天做好了准备,因为那天我们需要在入夜前骑行 48 公里。

在攀登中亚最高瀑布——沙尔(Shaar)的途中,牦牛在深绿色云杉尖峰环抱的高山牧场上吃草。在瀑布从一片石板岩新月形岩壁倾泻而下之处,我与两名照看马匹的年轻人攀谈起来,他们戴着刺绣的传统 ak-kalpak 毡帽。狼是他们最恐惧的捕食者。

经过瀑布后,我们骑行穿过更多村庄,这段路程很艰辛,这些村庄是吉尔吉斯斯坦苏联时期的破败遗迹。房屋支撑着脆弱的波纹屋顶。窗台上的盆栽天竺葵变少了。损坏的机械和 Lada 汽车堵塞了院子。随后,山谷开阔成一片波光粼粼、种头低垂的草地。从早晨起我们已经骑行了 40 多公里,但仍有 5 公里以上路程。

我们并不完全是迷路了,但我们采取的捷径也不简单,需要跨过一条河并穿过一片荆棘林。天色渐暗,疲惫感袭来,这时其中一匹马陷入泥潭,骑手随之摔倒。当特罗斯琴科和他的营地出现在视野中时,我能感受到大家集体地松了一口气。

第二天,早晨节奏缓慢,经历了一场村庄婚礼,下午则进行了一些长距离的飞奔。在卡拉科尤姆(Kara Koyum)山谷开始收窄的地方——我们被告知这里的意思是“黑色龙卷风”——一阵凛冽的强风仿佛在暗示般地刮起。我们在悬崖边的墓地附近扎营,我在陵墓间四处探索,透过砖砌的圆顶向上凝视,手指抚过刻有阿拉伯语涂鸦的墙壁。没有人能告诉我这些遗迹有多少年历史,但感觉它们像是早期丝绸商人经过时的产物。当我入睡时,耳边是潺潺的河流声和马匹吃草的声音。

早晨带来了一个冲击:我们的一半以上的马失踪了。从早上 7 点起,努尔迪诺夫(Nurdinov)和他的同事们就一直在试图寻找它们。

当他们最终在五小时后找到马匹时,它们已经在山谷下游 12 公里处。这意味着在我们开始最后一段骑行之前,他们已经往返骑行了 24 公里——而最后一段前往塔什拉巴特(Tash Rabat)的路程还有 30 公里。

我们团队中的一人在马鞍袋里装了一些龙舌兰酒,以帮助我们进行最后的冲刺。另一名骑手担心她的马腹部肿胀。努尔迪诺夫在比什凯克兼职做夜间快递员以维持生计,因为马匹逃跑的事,他几乎没睡够一小时。有那么一两次,我看到他在马鞍上打盹,身体瘫在马脖子上。直到我们最后一次离开河谷,一种新的情绪才涌现——节奏剧烈加快,空气变得稀薄,光线更加神奇,我们进入了一座由黑色锯齿状岩峰侧翼环绕的峡谷。

我没有精力去当地的毡房营地洗个俄式桑拿(banya)了,我们将在那里过夜,然后返回比什凯克。我浑身脏兮兮的,疲惫不堪,但这次骑行让我内心某些紧绷的东西得到了释放。当我最后一次望向星空并准备入睡时,即便睡在火车旁边,也无法打破这种深层的平静感。这是一种与自然同步回溯时光、在无篱之境中随马蹄节奏前行的宁静。

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索菲·罗伯茨(Sophy Roberts)是以 Alexandra Tolstoy Travel (alexandratolstoytravel.com) 的嘉宾身份旅行的;其为期 10 晚的“在巴什(At Bashi)”之旅每人费用从 7,935 英镑 起,下次出发时间定于 2027年5月8日。

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怪诞科学

约翰·班维尔(John Banville)赞赏这部关于物理学家尼尔斯·玻尔(Niels Bohr)及其在推动量子理论方面做出巨大贡献的有趣传记。

尼尔斯·玻尔并不理解量子力学,而且也没有任何人理解。事实上,我们对其了解得越多,似乎知道得越少。

这并不奇怪。电子如何能同时表现为粒子和波?两个相隔数百万英里的原子粒子如何能瞬间相互作用?如果你把蓝色的那个变成红色,红色的那个会立刻变成蓝色。在我们生活的牛顿世界中,这种事情是不可能的,但如果你沿着“乌龟”一直追溯下去,事实确实如此。正如 20 世纪伟大的理论物理学家理查德·费曼(Richard Feynman)所评论的:“我希望你能接受自然的本原——荒诞。”

尼尔斯·玻尔不像阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦那样家喻户晓,但有些人——尽管他的传记作者菲利普·鲍尔(Philip Ball)不在此列——会告诉你,在这两人之中,玻尔是更伟大的科学家。他无疑是更激进的思想家。正如鲍尔所写:“玻尔比爱因斯坦更有效地连接了 19 世纪物理学的旧世界与计算机、航天器、核能以及制度化和工业化科学的现代时代。”

然而,科学并不是一场选美比赛。现在建立在过去之上,年轻人向年长者学习。如果没有爱因斯坦在 1905 年和 1915-16 年发表的两篇关于相对论的论文,现代物理学的许多部分可能仍未被发现。艾萨克·牛顿本人在面对自己的价值时绝非胆小之辈,他也承认:“如果我看得更远,那是由于我站在巨人的肩膀上。”

玻尔出生于 1885 年,来自一个富裕的丹麦家庭,与嘉士伯(Carlsberg)酿酒公司有联系,其巨大的财富在他生命中的某些重要关头给予了他帮助。玻尔一家如此幸福,生活如此惬意,以至于年轻的尼尔斯能生存下来简直是个奇迹。他的母亲来自一个成功的犹太银行家家庭。他的父亲克里斯蒂安(Christian)是一位实验生理学家,曾被提名诺贝尔奖;如果他获奖,那将是玻尔家族“帽子戏法”的第一分,因为尼尔斯在 1922 年获得了该奖项,而他的儿子奥格(Aage)在 1975 年也获得了该奖。

说到帽子戏法,有趣的是,尼尔斯是一个热衷于足球的人,他的数学家哥哥哈拉尔德(Harald)也是如此,后者曾在 1908 年奥运会上代表丹麦参赛。生活并不全是死读书。

1912 年,玻尔与玛格丽特·诺伦德(Margrethe Nørlund)结婚,是的,读者们,他们从此过上了幸福的生活。鲍尔给予了玛格丽特应有的认可:“我必须和我的妻子谈谈,”尼尔斯常这么说——他的同事们怀疑,这并不是因为

生活与艺术

上图:丹麦核物理学家、诺贝尔奖得主尼尔斯·玻尔,照片拍摄于约 1940 年 纽约时报 / Radius / Eyevine

下图:1925 年的玻尔与爱因斯坦 SSPL / Getty Images

《打破现实的人:尼尔斯·玻尔与现代物理学的构建》 作者:菲利普·鲍尔(Philip Ball) Bridge Street Press 出版 £30 / Little Brown \$30 480 页

有任何他需要传达或核实的事项,而仅仅是 [用一名助手的原话来说] “为了从她那里获得继续工作的力量和灵感”。

而这项工作之艰巨可见一斑。量子理论大约在1900年由德国物理学家马克斯·普朗克在某种程度上偶然地创立。正是他提出,物理实体(包括你我的身体)发射的能量并非以平滑流动的波形,而是以微小的、离散的数据包,即“量子”形式,就像一股难以想象的极微小子弹流。麻烦在于,波的特性并未消失,最终人们不得不承认,在原子层面,物体既表现为粒子,也表现为波。这很难理解,但不要指望能完全弄明白它(参见费曼等人的著作)。

毋庸置疑,许多科学家对这一新理论持谨慎态度,因为它提出了不可分割的量子或能量包,并且为了概率而牺牲了确定性——这些概念引发了爱因斯坦那句著名的评论:“上帝不掷骰子。”然而,玻尔对新思想的接受度要高得多,尽管即使是他也承认,量子现实观极其难以理解,更不用说接受了。

令人惊讶的是,玻尔并不是一名顶尖的数学家,比起数字,他更感兴趣的是量子理论带来的语言挑战。与他的年轻同事维尔纳·海森堡不同——后者宣称自己追求的是“只有通过数学抽象才能实现的完全精确”——玻尔是一个反教条主义者。正如他在鲍尔早先的一本书《超越怪诞》(Beyond Weird)中引用的一段话中所写:“不存在量子世界。只存在一个抽象的量—”

玻尔与爱因斯坦一同努力警告世界,核武器的发明使人类陷入了险境

物理描述。认为物理学的任务是发现自然“是什么样子”是错误的。物理学关注的是我们能关于自然“说什么”。

玻尔最伟大的成就,是与海森堡、马克斯·玻恩及其他几位学者共同开发了后来被称为“哥本哈根诠释”的理论。该诠释首次承认——或者说,用“提出”这个词可能更稳妥——在原子层面,人类的行为会对事物的本质产生影响。玻尔的理论认为,在观察者将仪器对准它之前,粒子存在于多种潜在状态中;换句话说,在我们通过观察和测量使其实现之前,不存在确定的“事态”。我们观察,原本不存在的东西突然就出现了。

这正是量子理论整体,尤其是哥本哈根诠释中,令爱因斯坦(以及其他人)深感怀疑的方面之一。事实上,爱因斯坦一直认为,现实竟然如此轻易地服从于一门学科——数学——的规则是值得质疑的,因为数学并非神赐,而是人类发明的。而现在出现了一个新理论,它似乎直接在说,正是我们在“发明”世界,正如美国哲学家拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生在其 1844 年的随笔《经验》中所观察到的那样,“是眼睛创造了地平线”。

当我们在鲍尔叙述的后半部分进入量子理论的实际应用时,所有这些迷人且纠结的难题都退到了阴影之中。1941 年 7 月,一个由英国科学家组成的秘密委员会发布了一份关于制造原子弹进展的报告。报告冷静地指出,在两年之内,“将有可能制造出一枚有效的铀弹,其含有的活性物质约为 25 磅,在破坏效果上相当于 1,800 吨 TNT,并且还会释放大量放射性物质”。

如果没有量子力学的发明或发现,这一切都不可能实现。通过量子理论理解原子核的基础物理学,对于计算如何设计和控制核反应至关重要。正如费曼所评论的,自然在最底层可能是荒诞的,但她却拥有恐怖的打击力。

玻尔与爱因斯坦一同不懈地努力,警告世界核武器的发明使人类陷入了险境。在这种背景下,鲍尔提醒我们是很有必要的:尽管“他们奠定了一些概念基础”,但“ 20 世纪中期最著名的两位物理学家阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦和尼尔斯·玻尔,在制造原子弹的过程中并未发挥实质性作用”。那项沉重的任务留给了其他人。

玻尔度过了漫长且极其丰富的一生。只需浏览这部传记后期章节的标题,就能大致了解其活动的广度与影响力:“裂变:原子能的黎明”;“危险的职业:纳粹统治下的哥本哈根”;“伟大的神:玻尔与军备竞赛”;“物理学界的政治家:玻尔在世界舞台”。

玛格丽特陪伴他走到了最后。1962 年 11 月,在参加完哥本哈根的丹麦皇家科学院会议后,他卧床休息,主诉头痛。“听到他呼唤她的名字,玛格丽特冲上楼,发现他昏迷在床边。他再也没有醒来。”

《打破现实的人》(The Man Who Broke Reality)一书详尽、权威且敏锐,且像菲利普·鲍尔的所有著作一样,既具有启发性又充满趣味。

约翰·班维尔是一位小说家、剧作家和编剧。他最新的小说是《威尼斯晚祷》(Venetian Vespers,Faber / Vintage 出版)。

普京的人质筹码

埃文·格什科维奇的监狱回忆录呼应了苏联时代的作品。作者:霍华德·阿莫斯

在2024年8月一次冷战风格的囚犯交换中从俄罗斯监狱获释后,从美国记者变为名人囚犯的埃文·格什科维奇(Evan Gershkovich)避开了公众关注。他没有接受媒体采访,仅写了几篇文章。两年多后,他那部引人入胜的回忆录《这片被诅咒的美丽土地》(This Cursed Beautiful Land)的出版,标志着他重新回到公众视野。

格什科维奇对自己生活故事的讲述(他年仅34岁)始于他在新泽西州的童年,那时他与身为苏联移民的父母用俄语交流。二十多岁时,他移居莫斯科担任记者,重新发现了家族根源并爱上了俄罗斯。

他的新闻报道方式很传统,甚至有些过时(“我将自己视为历史的观察者”)。当克里姆林宫在2022年发起对乌克兰的入侵时,他是少数留在俄罗斯内部的英语记者之一,尽管风险不断升级,他仍为《华尔街日报》“勇往直前”地进行报道。

当时,格什科维奇对那些为了避免触怒克里姆林宫而采取温和方式的外籍记者持批评态度。“如果你自我约束,那么留在这里还有什么意义?那就是自我审查,”他告诉一位担忧的编辑。他承认,作为少数仍能在俄罗斯报道的人之一,这种感觉也令人“陶醉”。

2023年的一次莫斯科郊外行程中,他访问了一家雇佣兵招募中心,在死掉士兵的亲属家门口拦截采访,并在军工厂外徘徊以统计出入人数。几周后,他返回去会见一名承诺向他提供“国家秘密”的国防工厂

2024年6月26日,被指控从事间谍活动的埃文·格什科维奇在俄罗斯叶卡捷琳堡的一次法庭听证会上 Getty Images

《这片被诅咒的美丽土地:一个俄罗斯故事》(This Cursed Beautiful Land: A Russian Story),作者:埃文·格什科维奇,William Collins出版,售价£25 / Crown出版,售价\$34,共432页

工会代表,结果他被以捏造的间谍罪名逮捕。该代表此前一直与联邦安全局(FSB)合作。

一旦入狱,这位年轻的美国人就成了总统弗拉基米尔·普京的筹码,普京当时正寻求将俄罗斯间谍从西方监狱中解救出来。格什科维奇最终得出结论,普京(与联邦安全局的高级官员不同)真心认为他是一名间谍。

虽然格什科维奇的政治重要性意味着他的监狱经历具有特权且绝非典型,但他仍然得以罕见地窥见一个残酷且秘密的体制。他利用监狱日记,以令人心碎的精准度地唤起俄罗斯监狱中的景象、气味和日常。

格什科维奇在俄罗斯监狱和拘留中心度过了16个月(他被判处16年监禁),随后在囚犯交换中获释并飞往美国,当时时任总统乔·拜登在停机坪迎接了他。

监禁提供了反思的时间。他还重新审视了过去的决定(他好奇是否是自己的“自负”想让自己被捕,但他在作家谢尔盖·多夫拉托夫的一句话中找到了慰藉,即“任何没进过监狱的俄罗斯知识分子都毫无价值”)。他还描述了人格的“分裂”,因为他的俄罗斯身份(俄语使用者称他为万尼亚)挤压了他的美国身份。

从本质上讲,格什科维奇的书是一部监狱回忆录——而这正是其最有力的地方。他对狱警、联邦安全局特工、调查员、法警、检察官、线人、律师和囚犯的刻画充满同理心,具有揭示性,有时甚至令人动容。

“运动员、土匪、士兵——我们都是同一类人,”一名联邦安全局(FSB)调查员告诉他,“我们服从命令,不对命令做过多思考。”一名特工问道:“美国人全都是同性恋吗?”而一名监狱官员则寻求一个关于“你是否尊重普京?”这个问题的“诚实”答案。这些人中,有些人将格什科维奇视为敌人,有些人则漠不关心,甚至心生同情。当一名胸前佩戴录音设备的一名狱警与格什科维奇告别时,他用口型说了句“祝好运”,并举起了拳头。

他对狱友的描写尤为引人入胜。读者会认识他那满身纹身的室友谢廖加,格什科维奇对他产生了深厚的感情。另一位室友是20岁的新纳粹分子尼基塔,他后来在乌克兰被杀。在其中一座监狱里,格什科维奇在夜晚可以将头伸出喂食口,与相邻牢房里的政治犯交谈,这些人包括酷刑受害者、被指控恐怖主义的穆斯林、拒绝在乌克兰作战的士兵以及战争反对者。“与他们交谈,感觉就像是在俄罗斯独裁政权的腹腔中听到痛苦的哀求。”

这部名为《被诅咒的美丽土地》(Cursed Beautiful Land)的作品呼应了苏联时期的监狱回忆录,将俄罗斯庞大的监狱系统视为观察整个国家——其政治、社会习俗、文化甚至语言——的一扇窗户。在普京日益专制的俄罗斯,这种方法再次显得极其恰当。“我是在观察一个俄罗斯现状的缩影,”格什科维奇在描述他所在的莫斯科高安全级别监狱时写道,“在这个地方,现代性的外壳掩盖了下方顽固的旧根基。”

霍华德·阿莫斯(Howard Amos)是《俄罗斯由此开始:帝国废墟中的真实生活》(Russia Starts Here: Real Lives in the Ruins of Empire,Bloomsbury Continuum出版)一书的作者。

武装起来

德国对军事力量的拥抱如何可能重新唤醒欧洲旧日的梦魇。作者:安妮-西尔万·沙萨尼 (Anne-Sylvaine Chassany)

德国的重新武装才刚刚开始。这一政策转变由奥拉夫·朔尔茨在 2022 年启动,并在总理弗里德里希·梅尔茨的推动下大幅加速——随着弗拉基米尔·普京领导的俄罗斯威胁日益增加,以及唐纳德·特朗普领导的美国变得更加不可预测,这一转变让整个欧洲松了一口气。但德国历史学家莉安娜·菲克斯 (Liana Fix) 已经发出了警告。在《重新武装的德国》(Germany Rearmed) 一书中,她警告称,德国旧日的梦魇——以及欧洲与德国军事力量之间充满紧张的历史——不应被遗忘。

菲克斯在 2 月份引起了轰动,当时她在撰写书籍的过程中,为《外交事务》(Foreign Affairs) 杂志写了一篇标题更具挑衅性的文章:“欧洲下一个霸主:德国权力的危险”。

这些带有历史沉重感的词汇传到了总理府。在该月晚些时候的一次慕尼黑安全会议演讲中,梅尔茨觉得有必要反驳任何关于德国具有“霸权幻想”的观点。次月在华盛顿访问白宫期间,他试图与菲克斯进行私人会面,以讨论她的观点。

菲克斯的论点是,在未来四年投入预定的超过 7500亿欧元 国防资金时,德国对其邻国负有特殊的历史责任。

欧洲对德国重新武装的初步反应可能是压倒性的积极。但外交关系协会 (Council on Foreign Relations) 高级研究员菲克斯认为,除非德国的军事力量被牢牢嵌入一个欧洲框架之中,否则其巨大的规模可能会重启旧有的竞争。德国选择党 (AfD) 的崛起增加了一层不确定性,这个民族主义政党质疑德国战后对西方的依附,并主张恢复与俄罗斯的经济联系。

“选择党希望建立一个自主的德国国防工业,以实现单方面重新武装,”菲克斯写道。

柏林安全机构的许多人认为,菲克斯的干预不仅过早,而且危险。在德国忽视武装力量并依赖美国提供安全保障的数十年之后,纠结于德国重新武装所谓的风险似乎适得其反。

如果正如欧洲情报机构所评估的那样,俄罗斯可能在 2029, 年之前有能力攻击北约国家,那么德国的优先级难道不应该是迅速赶上,以承担其作为欧洲最大常规防御者的自然角色吗?问问立陶宛人就知道了,他们欢迎德国永久旅驻扎,以防御北约东翼可能遭受的俄罗斯袭击。

至于欧洲竞争重新浮现的危险,人们有理由质疑,如果莫斯科进一步升级其混合战争,更不用说寻求直接对抗,欧洲是否会有更紧迫的问题需要处理。鉴于德国既有政党拒绝与选择党合作,该党进入联邦执政联盟仍是一个遥远的

德国 重新武装: 战争的 回归 与幻象的 终结 作者:莉安娜·菲克斯 Hurst £25, 216 pages

前景。

菲克斯挑战了那些认为数十年的欧洲一体化已经建立了足够的护栏、制度纽带和团结,足以承受失去华盛顿作为欧洲安全保证人的冲击之观点。她写道,这种信心可能等同于“对欧洲安全困境及其 20 世纪解决方案的误读”,“它可能高估了在缺乏美国霸权的情况下,欧洲一体化减轻欧洲竞争的能力”。

菲克斯是一个悲观主义者。她属于那样一代德国人,不愿相信一旦脱离美国领导的安全秩序,他们的国家——以及欧洲——能够克制自己的行为。她提出了解决方案。她的观点值得倾听。

一场穿梭于优秀、糟糕与晦涩之作的史诗之旅

安东尼·卡明斯(Anthony Cummins)写道,菲利普·亨舍尔(Philip Hensher)对从狄更斯到石黑一雄的英国小说的宏大综述,既令人振奋,又在挑剔得令人发笑。

《英国小说史》(A History of the Novel in Britain),菲利普·亨舍尔 著,Pelican 出版社,£25 704页(将于2月由普林斯顿大学出版社在美国出版)

面对像“英国小说”这样宏大且多样的主题,该如何着手?对于写过12部小说的菲利普·亨舍尔来说,

很简单:阅读大量(且海量)的小说,将优秀之作与糟糕之作区分开来。他穿梭于这个不断演变的文学体裁之起伏转折,涵盖了1,000多部作品,从《鲁滨逊漂流记》(1719)到《白牙》(2000),他避开了任何结构性的主题或论点,而是依赖于他在担任严苛书评人约35年间磨练出的批判直觉。

他那令人振奋且直率的综述为类型文学经典(如托尔金、勒卡雷、巴拉德)以及教学大纲中的常青树留出了空间,同时也挖掘出了数十位被长期遗忘的作家,并且在认为某部作品不值得浪费时间时从不犹豫(例如,他评价《新格鲁布街》小说家乔治的弟弟阿尔杰农·吉辛“完全没有才华”,而亨舍尔认为乔治本人也好不到哪去)。

他通过始终坚持表达个人观点,避开了枯燥的陷阱——即一个接一个的梗概。他认为,从1830年到1914年的英国小说是“世界历史上最辉煌的现象之一”,直到现代主义出现。他对弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的《海浪》(1931)嗤之以鼻,认为书中“六个角色仅仅是在就他们的感知进行独白”;而他则为查尔斯·狄更斯欢呼,因为狄更斯明白“人类在外部表现中最能体现自我,而非在他们偶然产生的想法中”。

亨舍尔沉溺于细节的真实性:当他说托马斯·哈代在《远离喧嚣的乡村》(1874)中通过关于剪羊毛的“密集秘辛”和“深奥的植物学调查”实现了“可信度”时,这其实是极高的赞誉。阿诺德·本内特1908年的小说《老妇人的故事》(“可能是英语文学中最接近托马斯·曼《布登布洛克一家》……甚至可能是托尔斯泰的作品”)的卓越之处,体现在一个设定在19世纪巴黎的餐厅场景的细节中:亨舍尔说,只有真正的大师才会知道餐具“应该是钢制的,而不是银制的”。

相比之下,阿加莎·克里斯蒂的《死亡之约》(1938)则因情节被嘲讽,书中描述“英国夏令时下午6.30pm,由于灯被关掉,英国乡村别墅的一间房间陷入了无法穿透的黑暗之中”。简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》(1815)将一座约克郡庄园命名为 Enscombe;但亨舍尔在其中长大的约克郡,地名通常以“-thwaite”或“-gill”结尾。

如果说以这种方式阅读小说有点像去迪斯科舞厅却拒绝跳舞,但这种谨小慎微地带来了洞察力。乔治·艾略特的《丹尼尔·德龙达》(1876)转折点在于主角发现自己是犹太人;亨舍尔质疑道:“他怎么可能在每天早晨洗澡时都想不起这件事?”这凸显了维多利亚时代的小说在多大程度上在迎合当时其主要市场——那些保守的流动图书馆。

亨舍尔这种超人的努力意味着他偶尔的炫耀是可以被原谅的。当他写道凯特·罗伯茨那部“冷峻”的威尔士小说《脚镣》(Traed mewn cyffion, 1936)“值得赞赏”——且没有进一步阐述时——其目的似乎与其说是为了让我们了解罗伯茨,不如说是为了强调他自己的专业知识。当他偶尔提到某些极其冷门的作品“本作者”未读时,这其实是在委婉地提醒读者,他究竟研读了多少鲜为人知的作品,即便有些作品最终在脚注中被他评价为“传奇般地乏味”,比如杰拉尔丁·朱斯伯里的维多利亚时代小说。

19世纪艺术家弗兰克·戴西(Frank Dicey)的作品《小说》——Bridgeman Images

他的轻蔑并非仅限于早已故去之人。石黑一雄的“最佳小说”《不可安慰的人》(1995)被他评价为“乏味”;乔纳森·科的反保守党讽刺小说《真是大快朵颐!》(1994)则被指为“缺乏机智”。他写道:“在 1979-2024 年的大部分时间里,英国一直由保守党政府执政,但没有任何小说承认,任何具有智力或个人道德的人竟然会支持这样的政权。”

在这种吹毛求疵的情绪中,亨舍在书页上与一群光辉的人物为伍,然而他的结论却显得极其天真。阅读小说,曾经曾有“极少

如果以这种方式阅读小说感觉有点像去了迪斯科舞厅却拒绝跳舞,那么亨舍的挑剔则能带来洞见

他担心,阅读小说——这种曾经没有阶级、收入、年龄或教育硬性限制的行为——现在已成为一种小众的资产阶级追求。就在他完成这本书时,一名14岁的男孩在伦敦的一辆巴士上被谋杀;该男孩此前面临携带砍刀的指控。亨舍猜测,受害者和凶手都没有读过任何小说:他说,阅读小说会让一个人“不可能将砍刀挥向另一个人类的面孔……你不会那样做的”。

然而,杀人犯确实读小说:想想伊恩·布雷迪(Ian Brady)或安德斯·布雷维克(Anders Breivik)。我在想,亨舍将小说视为某种神奇且天生良性的共情机器(这是一个广泛持有的观点),这种信念是否恰恰是他所遗憾的那种冗余感的症状。在19世纪——他的黄金时代——政治家们担心孩子们阅读太多露骨的法国小说;而现在,政府正在调查为什么有些孩子根本不读书。

时代在变,但如果我们对小说能说的最好的评价就是它们教会人们同情心,那么当更多的人不再急于去“吃蔬菜”(指做正确但枯燥的事)时,也许没有人会真正感到震惊。

克劳德·莫奈:书信中的一生

用他自己的话,探索杰作背后的艺术家

《泰晤士报》评价道:“在几乎每一封信中,就像阳光穿透浓雾一样,我们可以窥见画家莫奈的身影:他对光线敏锐,被风景迷住,为头顶的天空和脚下的流水而心潮澎湃。”

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埃利夫·沙法克在一部采用多视角叙事的创新小说中,为福楼拜笔下的女性发声。作者:米娅·莱维廷 (Mia Levitin)

《在短暂的一瞬,永恒》(In One Brief Moment All Eternity) 作者:埃利夫·沙法克 (Elif Shafak) Viking 出版社,£20 608 页(将于 1 月由 Knopf 出版社在美国出版)

在动荡的时代,文学的功能是什么?埃利夫·沙法克在构思最新小说的主题时,问了自己这个问题。这引导她关注古斯塔夫·福楼拜的生活。福楼拜的创作背景是 1848 年的法国革命,这场革命开启了短暂的第二共和国,随后在 1852 年回归帝国统治。

《在短暂的一瞬,永恒》在关于福楼拜生活的紧凑第三人称叙述与 30 个女性角色的第一人称视角之间交替进行。其中一些女性是真实存在的,包括他的家人、他的保姆,以及他在晚年与其通信的作家乔治·桑。此外还有埃莉诺·马克思,她是第一个将《波瓦丽夫人》翻译成英文的人,她通过吞服砷药,复制了小说女主角的悲剧命运。而其他角色,如一名杂技演员和一名肚皮舞者,则来自“梦境世界”。

在叙述过程中,我们还能听到一些更不寻常的声音,比如一只骆驼、伊斯坦布尔市、鸦片以及梅毒——福楼拜在旅行期间染上了梅毒,用他的情妇路易丝·科莱 (Louise Colet) 的话来说,这导致了他“过早的衰老”。

福楼拜因对艾玛·波瓦丽的刻画而被誉为现实主义的先驱——沙法克写道:“一个平凡的女主角,尽管她软弱无能且缺乏远见,但归根结底,她是好与坏、希望与忧伤、卑微与崇高的结合体,就像这个世界上的每一个人一样。”她在给读者的注释中解释说,她的想法是将作者作为“女性心理鉴赏家”的前提彻底颠覆,让女性来讲述他的故事。“不仅是艾玛,还有……那些在历史书中没有声音的女性。”波瓦丽夫人,就是我们所有人。

这本书分为五个生命阶段,每个阶段被赋予不同的颜色。虽然福楼拜没有联觉症,但他会将情绪颜色与自己的作品联系起来(例如,蓝色和黄色的色调在《波瓦丽夫人》中非常突出)。故事始于他在鲁昂的童年,他的父亲是一名医生,经营着一家全家共同居住的医院。一个令人动容的早期场景是,年幼的古斯塔夫跑去请求父亲治疗一只翅膀折断的黄蝴蝶。在偶然撞见一次解剖时,他误将尸体当成了他的保姆。与跟随父亲脚步成为医生的哥哥不同,他被戏称为“家族白痴”。

“为什么写作让我们去追寻作者?”朱利安·巴恩斯 (Julian Barnes) 在他 1984 年对福楼拜进行改编的作品《福楼拜的鹦鹉》中如此自问。“……为什么仅有书籍是不够的?”沙法克觉得与福楼拜有某种共鸣并不令人意外。两人都曾因小说面临猥亵指控——《波瓦丽夫人》首次连载时,福楼拜因“触犯公共道德”而被起诉。沙法克在 2006 年的小说《伊斯坦布尔的私生子》中提及亚美尼亚种族灭绝,随后在 2008 年因被指控“冒犯土耳其性”而被起诉,从而选择自我流亡。2019 年,她因小说中对性暴力的描写被土耳其检察官调查猥亵问题。(与沙法克不同,福楼拜从这种恶名中获益,并在给科莱的一封信中承认,他试图“点燃即使是最冷酷的读者的情欲”。)

沙法克精通关于福楼拜及其周边的文学,对于她在某些事实上采取的艺术加工,她并不感到抱歉。她已经

德尔菲娜·德拉马雷(Delphine Delamare)是艾玛·波瓦丽的原型,她因企图毒杀丈夫而被处以断头台极刑,而非像艾玛那样自杀。她将福楼拜第一次癫痫发作的时间提前了,并让他以青少年的身份向他的缪斯艾丽莎·施莱辛格(Elisa Schlesinger)表白;而实际上,他直到35年后她成为寡妇才这样做。或许更令人不安的是,她暗示施莱辛格的女儿是强奸的产物。

“历史是由能被找到的东西写成的;未被保存的东西便丢失了,沉没并腐烂,被大地吞噬,”美国历史学家吉尔·莱波尔(Jill Lepore)在反思其关于本杰明·富兰克林姐妹的传记《时代之书》(Book of Ages, 2013)的研究困难时如此感慨。正是在已知信息的空白之处,小说家可以想象缺失的部分。自由发挥

舍法克的想法是将福楼拜作为“女性心理鉴赏家”的前提彻底颠覆

然而,历史可能会带来困扰:历史小说界的权威希拉里·曼特尔一直坚持一个严格的原则,即绝不违背已知的事实。

舍法克共著有22本书,其中14本是小说。她是一位娴熟的小说编织者,偏好使用富有创意的框架结构。《天空之河》(2024)将三条叙事线索交织在一起,而连接它们的则是一滴水。入围布克奖的《在这个奇怪的世界里,10分钟38秒》(2019)想象了一名被谋杀的性工作者及其被社会排斥的朋友们意识中最后的几分钟。然而,在《在短暂的一瞬,所有永恒》中,讲述故事的多声部合唱之声往往趋于融合。或许是因为人数过多,除了福楼拜之外,这些角色比舍法克之前的作品中定义得更模糊。

舍法克称这本书是她写给文学的“情书”,而这本书在这一领域表现最出色。她展现了福楼拜在寄宿学校被欺负,并在书籍中寻找慰藉。他一生都致力于在所有事情之上寻找“最恰当的词”(le mot juste),这让他的情人们感到绝望。近两个世纪后,我们依然在努力“用文字来表达那些没有语言可以描述的事物,那些内心的感受,那些连灵魂自身都未曾察觉的灵魂之谜”。

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科幻小说

作者:詹姆斯·洛夫格罗夫 (James Lovegrove)

资深科幻作家艾伦·迪恩·福斯特 (Alan Dean Foster) 创作了超过 100 部作品,他最出名的或许是其改编小说。他曾为多个主流系列撰稿——仅举三例便是《异形》(Alien)、《终结者》(Terminator) 和《星际迷航》(Star Trek)——并撰写了第一部原创《星球大战》小说《心眼之碎片》(Splinter of the Mind's Eye),该书于 1978 年出版,即首部电影上映一年之后。由于该书扩展了卢克和莱娅之间的浪漫吸引力,而随后的《绝地归来》揭露两人其实是兄妹,因此该书已不再被视为正史。

浪漫关系是他最新一部非改编小说《迷失天堂》(Lost on Paradise, Blackstone, $32.99) 的核心。书中,一对情侣——魁梧的巨汉乔诺斯 (Jonos) 和身患重病的莉娜 (Liina)——逃离了他们在被污染且过度自动化的地球上凄惨、肮脏的生活,前往一颗名为“天堂”的行星。据称,那里的自然环境处于平衡状态,一切都充满美感与和谐。然而,作为生活在两个敌对异形种族之间的难民,这对情侣发现那里只有更多的冲突与悲剧。

福斯特的故事始于科幻,随后转向太空奇幻,这是一部出自工艺大师之手的成熟作品。同样技艺精湛但相对较新的作者是贝基·钱伯斯 (Becky Chambers),她的处女作《前往一颗愤怒小行星的漫长旅程》(The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet) 最初于 2014 年自出版,引起了广泛关注。钱伯斯被誉为“希望朋克”(hopepunk) 的先驱——这是一个推崇积极心态、社区意识和激进主义的子类型。现在,她为我们带来了《当你醒来,打破外壳》(As You Wake, Break The Shell, Hodderscape £22 / Harper Voyager $32),这是该双部曲的第一卷。

有毒的殖民星球“财富号”(Fortune) 是飞行员科拉 (Cora) 的家。她与科利布里 (Colibri) 建立了心灵感应联系,后者属于一种名为“长须鲸”(rorquals) 的类鲸鱼异形种族,该种族已被驯化为具有意识的太空飞船。不幸的是,这种共生纽带导致了“意识渗漏”(mindbleed),这种状况可能会终结科拉的职业生涯。她唯一的治愈希望寄托在植物学家西格尼 (Signy) 及其自制的药物上。

这两个女人坠入了爱河,钱伯斯以细腻、深刻且带有浓厚幽默感的方式描绘了她们的关系。然而,她的这部小说并非没有挑战:其叙事方式是

福斯特的故事从科幻转向太空奇幻,是一部出自其工艺大师之手的自信之作

故事分为两条时间线,章节并非按时间顺序呈现,且结尾几乎没有给出定论,仅提及了即将出版的续作《随着你的成长,寻找光芒》(As You Grow, Seek The Light)。

说到续作,亚历克斯·格雷西安(Alex Grecian)的《耶利哥之玫瑰》(Rose of Jericho,Solaris £9.99;去年由Tor Nightfire在美国出版,\$18.99)紧随其2023.那部卓越的怪诞西部小说《红兔》(Red Rabbit)之后。本书背景设定在前者事件发生十年后,开篇讲述了复仇枪手摩西·伯克(Moses Burke)在妻子和孩子不幸夭折后,追捕并杀死了“死亡”本身。

由于死神不再挥舞他的镰刀,任何死去的人都不会真正死亡,而是继续生存,但并非总是幸福地生活。这给前作中的三位主要女性角色——女巫塞迪·格雷斯(Sadie Grace)、她的朋友罗斯(Rose)以及她的养女、同样是初学女巫的兔子(Rabbit)——带来了麻烦,她们现在居住在马萨诸塞州的升天镇(Ascension)。她们必须帮助

伯克弥补他所造成的伤害,即便这需要付出巨大的个人代价。

虽然格雷西安的小说可能不像前作那样新鲜且引人入胜,但它仍然是一部阴郁且令人沉迷的读物。相比之下,安德鲁·亨特·默里(Andrew Hunter Murray)的《一切发生如此之多》(Everything Happens So Much,Orion £18.99)在基调上要轻快得多。埃斯梅·古德(Esme Good)通过服用一种药物来逃离她毫无意义的工作和单调的生活,这种药物允许她进行15分钟的“他处”(Elsewherees)之行,短暂地 inhabiting 在另一个(且总是更好的)版本的自己生活中。直到她意外删除了所有其他版本的自我,随后被神秘的“现实织造管理局”(Fabric of Reality Authority)追捕,该机构需要她修复她所造成的多元宇宙裂缝。

播音员兼喜剧演员亨特·默里用脚注、干脆的对话和一种恰到好处的荒诞感,让他的故事欢快地推进。而关于逃避主义陷阱的一种更具警示性的探讨,可以在乔纳森·爱德华·达勒姆(Jonathan Edward Durham)的《温特塞特谷》(Winterset Hollow,Hodder & Stoughton £20 / Union Square & Co \$19.99)中找到。该书将许多儿童故事中固有的阴森感,血迹斑斑且扭曲地拖到了光天化日之下。

从少年时代起,埃蒙(Eamon)就热爱这部70-year-old的文学经典《温特塞特谷》,书中的会说话的动物和朗朗上口的韵文在他动荡的成长过程中起到了抚慰作用。成年后的埃蒙在朋友卡罗琳(Caroline)和马克(Mark)的陪同下,前往该书已故作者EB·艾丁顿(EB Addington)私人岛屿故居进行朝圣。三人很快发现,虚构故事背后隐藏着一个可怕的真相,因为他们被一群持有武器且心怀怨恨的拟人化生物追猎。

在网络上,达勒姆塑造了一个活泼且温情的社交媒体形象,这使得他这部出色的处女作中血腥的残酷感显得更加令人震惊。阅读此书就像发现 A.A. 米尔恩的“百亩森林”其实是一个充满冲突、牺牲和屠杀的地方。这部小说在探索对童年之物依恋的苦甜之乐的同时,也带来了一种违禁的快感。

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贝基·霍格(Becky Hogge)写道,谢里·特克尔(Sherry Turkle)那本令人警醒的书警告称,我们对人工智能“陪伴”的使用将给我们的个人成长和公民生活带来沉重代价。

在特德·姜(Ted Chiang)2011年的科幻短篇小说《戴西的专利自动保姆》(Dacey's Patent Automatic Nanny)中,一名维多利亚时代的婴儿由一个机械护理员抚养。在两岁被交给人类护士时,这个孩子表现出“智力低下”,并被送入机构。反转出现在一名医生提出假设时,他认为这个发育迟缓的孩子需要的不是更多来自人类的爱,而是回到自动机的照顾下:“孩子一看到机器就紧紧抱住它,在接下来的日子里,只要机器在身边,他就能快乐地玩玩具。”

《人工智能亲密关系:当我们与机器对话时,我们变成了谁》(Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines)记录了我们现在距离特德·姜那阴郁的愿景有多近,因为在美国,生成式人工智能最常见的用途就是治疗和陪伴。作者谢里·特克尔写道:“如果说社交媒体抢夺的是我们的注意力,那么人工智能亲密关系抢夺的则是我们的依恋能力。”

作为麻省理工学院(MIT)一名受人尊敬的社会科学教授,特克尔花了近半个世纪研究我们与机器的关系,衡量“人类的需求与技术交付之物之间的差距”。

她的最新著作向我们介绍了 AI 陪伴平台 Replika 的用户、新兴的“悲伤科技”(grief tech)产业,以及那些最初将 ChatGPT 用于写作业或规划饮食,结果却陷入更深层关系的人们。本书围绕心理发展的关键阶段——童年、青春期、爱情、工作、死亡——展开,有力地论证了我们新的“后人类对话伙伴”无法成为人生旅途中合格的陪伴者。

特克尔将她的分析建立在学术文献之上,同时用许多令人心碎的片段使其生动化。九年级学生欧文(Owen)使用 ChatGPT 来模拟与朋友之间棘手的对话。布莱恩(Brian)在疫情期间创建了他的 Replika 陪伴者,将其作为讨论工作八卦的对象;目前她是一个“办公室伙伴”,但他“对更多可能持开放态度”,并停止了约会。张智成(Jang Ji-sung)

《人工智能亲密关系:当我们与机器对话时,我们变成了谁》 作者:谢里·特克尔 Bridge Street Press £22/ Little Brown & Company $32 288页 是一位悲痛的母亲,但自从与死去的女儿进行了一次模拟会面后,她感到了双重的丧失:孩子不再在她的梦中出现。

这些案例为特克尔带来的忧郁和孤独感始终若隐若现。她认为,只有在与他人的协作中,在“责任、后果和关怀的关系”背景下,才能实现成功的心理发展。健康的依恋、共情以及我们独处的能力:所有这些都需要“摩擦”,而这种摩擦只有在与一个“他者”——一个拥有不同感知和欲望的人——互动时才能获得。

从 20 世纪 60 年代在 MIT 开发的全球首个聊天机器人 Eliza(旨在扮演心理治疗师)开始,特克尔反复观察到,在渴望被理解的欲望驱动下,我们赋予了机器它们并不具备的内心世界。ChatGPT 及其同类产品可以模拟共情(例如安抚焦虑的玛丽亚:“即使你没能进入研究生院,一切都会好起来的”)。人们可能会觉得这些陪伴者——其本质是复杂的单词预测软件——比我们生活中的人们更关心我们。但当我们与机器对话时,就像纳西索斯(Narcissus)一样,我们是在与“自我客体”对话——即我们自身的镜像。对它们的依赖增加剥夺了我们的内在成长。我们陷入了社会学家埃米尔·涂尔干(Émile Durkheim)所称的“失范”(anomie)状态:迷茫、抑郁和焦虑。

特克尔写道:“我们越能意识到自己面对虚拟世界的脆弱,就越能全身心地投入到现实之中。”她警告说,聊天机器人“让我们安静下来”的指令,在我们需要紧迫参与公民生活的时刻,反而使我们变得顺从。

特克尔在揭露 AI 日益普及背后的企业激励机制时态度强硬,但仅限于批判与其领域最相关的底层经济状况(她认为,我们可以用投资于 AI 的资金来“培训一支心理健康专业人员大军”)。而在其他方面,她提出的补救措施则令人沮丧地犹豫不决。她建议 Meta 将部分利润投入到公共聚集场所,这感觉就像是一个来自旧时代的幻想。

不过,特克尔的年龄足以让她记得第一批个人电脑爱好者的社区意识抱负——1977 年史蒂夫·乔布斯来家里吃晚餐时,她给他端上了“不对路的一种素食”。与乔布斯不同,她还活着,可以见证那个梦想如何变质。她写道,苹果公司曾经要求人们“Think Different”(不同凡想),而现在的广告则向用户承诺,完全“无需思考”。

黑暗中的快照

约翰·塞尔(John Self)品鉴了一部精简的短篇小说集,该书将读者抛入一个充满危险、肮脏与疏离的世界。

北爱尔兰作家埃温·麦克纳米(Eoin McNamee)——其知名度低于他应有的水平——拥有独特的嗓音和独特的视野。他的散文精炼且风格化,小说大多基于真实犯罪(尽管他 2007 年的小说《12:25》是关于戴安娜王妃之死的)。在这两方面,他都与詹姆斯·埃尔罗伊(James Ellroy)和戴维·皮斯(David Peace)的作品有某种传承关系,但在风格上,麦克纳米的写作更接近科马克·麦卡锡(Cormac McCarthy)那种圣经般的韵律。

在经历了涵盖长篇小说、儿童文学和以笔名(John Creed)撰写的惊悚小说的职业生涯后,《彗星》(The Comets)是麦克纳米的首部短篇小说集,其中包括两部中篇小说和 15 篇简洁有力的短篇,每篇大多在 12 页或以下。尽管篇幅短小,但麦克纳米浓缩的风格意味着这些强烈的文学快照高效地捕捉了一个世界——而且大多数故事似乎都发生在同一个肮脏、落魄的宇宙中。

故事背景并不总是明确标出,但通常听起来像贝尔法斯特或唐郡,其呈现方式既写实又带有超现实感。在同名标题故事中,在游乐场的碰碰车骑行时,“电极从顶棚网格中迸发出蓝色火花,彗星在赛道上闪耀”。在几个故事中,一个废弃的机场呈现出一种阴森的、巴拉德式(Ballardian)的特质。(麦克纳米在唐郡的基尔基尔渔村长大,那里靠近已停用的战时机场格林卡斯尔皇家空军基地。)

角色经常处于旅途中,但由于他们追求的循环性或挫败感,结局往往无法达成。在《向北走,回家路》中,一名童年被收养的女性出发寻找她的生母,却在一名被姻亲驱逐的出租车司机身上找到了志同道合的人。“艾伦点点头。这类事情时有发生。几代人在家庭的荒原中被摧毁。”两人遇到了一名更加绝望的女性,她正沿着马路中间徘徊。“他们知道那个女人永远不会被车撞到。一个简单的命运并不在等待着她。”

在《公路之妻》中,一名长途卡车司机重复着旅程,一名同事给了他一个直白的提议。“我有东西能让你暖和。我车厢里有个女孩。”司机科伊尔几乎是不情愿地屈服了——“我想像我这样的人喜欢聊天。”“不,”女孩说,“他们喜欢做爱”——当他发现她怀孕后,发现自己必须为她承担责任。

麦克纳米世界中那种末日般的氛围,通过其叙述中令人着迷的强度掌控着读者。在《石灰窑路》中(读起来像是他 2019 年小说《风尚》的前作),一名患有认知障碍的女性失去了语言能力。“有些紧迫的话语,她无法表达出来。”

但偶尔也会有一些较轻快的内容破局而出,且不失其诡谲感。在《孤独之狮》中,一名贝尔法斯特男子在屋后养了一头狮子,并带有一个喜剧性的反转。

书中还有更多实验性的作品,例如《尸花》(Corpse Flowers,麦克纳米标题)通过一系列监控摄像头捕捉到的图像,讲述了一个失踪女孩的故事。“仅仅是你出现在镜头里这个事实,就让你看起来鬼鬼祟祟,像是在策划什么。”

《彗星:短篇小说集》(The Comets: Collected Short Fiction),埃温·麦克纳米 著,Riverrun E20,224 页

中篇小说《行迹之末》(The Last of Deeds)可能是这部强力作品集中的亮点。它与短篇故事一样简洁(其中一个角色被这样概括:“[他]每天晚上从酒吧回家时,把路的两边都走一遍”),但篇幅给了故事更多的呼吸空间,以及产生一个真正莎士比亚式的死亡人数的规模。

这个故事讲述了一个年轻的天主教男子与一名新教女孩交往,这引起了女孩所在社区的愤怒:“孩子,这是我们的城镇,她属于我们。”随后引发了双向的混乱,除了读者之外,所有参与其中的人都感到糟糕。在某个时刻,在一次葬礼上,坟墓被水填满,“然后棺材开始再次升起”。书中写道,在麦克纳米(McNamee)这个才华横溢且可怕的世界里,即使死亡也不是终点。

国际象棋 伦纳德·巴登 (LEONARD BARDEN)

在伦敦市中心举办的大师赛并不多见,但一旦举办,往往在棋类历史上具有重要意义。几十年来,位于现已消失的巴奇街(Budge Row)的 Gambit 咖啡馆为金融城提供了一个聚集地,并举办每周一次的快棋赛。Gambit 咖啡馆的高光时刻出现在 1946 年,当时它成为了英国对阵苏联无线电比赛的场地。英国队的目標是至少追平前一年美国队取得的 4.5-15.5 的比分,最终他们在男子棋盘上以 6-14 的总分实现了这一目标。

如今在伦敦的俱乐部圈中,出现了一个极佳的新项目——帕尔马尔陆军与海军俱乐部大师赛(Army and Navy Club Pall Mall Masters),该赛事于上周末举行,由英格兰国际象棋协会(Chess England)赞助。几位棋手在萨马尔罕奥林匹克赛后仅休息了几天便参赛,这似乎对特级大师卢克·麦克谢恩(Luke McShane)产生了特别负面的影响。他在乌兹别克斯坦代表英格兰队参赛时曾有希望获得个人奖牌,但在帕尔马尔的比赛中状态不佳。相比之下,特级大师朱尔斯·穆萨尔(Jules Moussard)赢得了超级

休闲专栏

快棋赛,加温·马罗罗亚·琼斯(Gawain Maroroa Jones)获得第二名,两人在奥林匹克赛中均表现出色。这位法国棋手还赢得了闪电战锦标赛。

谜题 2695 尼亚兹·穆尔谢德 (Niaz Murshed) 对阵 奈杰尔·肖特 (Nigel Short),2012年世界城市团体锦标赛。

白方走了一步看似必胜的 1 Bxf6 gxf6,但并没有走预期的 2 Qxf6,而是陷入了沉思,随后认输!你能解释原因吗?

答案见封底

桥牌 保罗·门德尔森 (PAUL MENDELSON)

有时,我会将这手牌放入一套难度大得多的练习中,以此考验我的学生。这是一个非常简单的牌局,但当人们脑中充斥着高深的想法时,它往往会让人困惑……

使用一个简单的系统,南家会以强 2H 开局,北家则用 2NT 回应

——表明这是一手差牌,但可能包含一到两个 tricks。南家持有接近最大值的牌,应该直接跳到局赛。

西家领出她的最高

♠ J 6 3 2 ♥ A 7 4 ♦ 10 3 ♣ 8 6 4 2

♠ Q 8 ♥ 9 5 2 ♦ A Q J ♣ Q J 10

♠ K10954 ♥ 6 ♦ 9852 ♣ 753

♠ A 7 ♥ K Q J 10 8 3 ♦ K 7 4 ♣ A K

♣Q 序列,南家开始思考。她有黑桃和三张方块会输掉。为了确保局赛获胜,南家

发牌员:北家

N / S 局赛

北家 东家 2NT NB NB

南家 西家 2H NB 4H

必须在拔除主牌之前,在明手(dummy)中用主牌吃掉一张方块。然而,很多时候,庄家会跨到明手的 A♥ 并领出一张方块,导致她的 K♦ 输给西家的 A♦。西家可以领出第二张红心,并且当她用 Q♦ 赢得下一次方块领牌时,她可以打出她的第三张也是最后一张主牌。这将清除明手中的所有主牌,使南家依然面临同样的四个输牌。

庄家必须保持专注。关键在于确保在明手中进行一次方块 ruff(主牌吃掉方块)。在第 2 轮,她应该领出一张低方块。这会输给 J♦,但即使现在领出主牌,她也可以获胜,输掉第二张方块,而明手中仍会剩下一张主牌来吃掉第三轮方块。

我希望你们觉得这个牌局太简单了……

博学之士 (POLYMATH) 1,408 —— 由 HAMILTON 出题

横向

纵向

1 以格雷斯兄弟百货公司为背景的 BBC 情景喜剧 (3,3,5,6)

10 雌性白鼬或雪貂 (4)

11 第八任英国首相 (1766-68) (4,3,5) 12 一种苔藓,通常无分枝且直立,其孢子在茎顶形成囊壳 (8) 13 漫无目的地或闲散地消磨时间 (8)

14 提前订购或预订某物 (8) 16 《超人特工队》中的虚构时尚设计师 (4,4) 18 冲浪板上的鳍,用于提高方向稳定性 (4)

19 1974 年和 1982 年温布尔登男子单打冠军 (7)

20 “The __”,德웨恩·道格拉斯·约翰逊的擂台名 (4)

22 18 世纪的一种橱柜,底部设有抽屉和柜门,上方有放盘子的搁板 (8)

24 第二次世界大战期间国民防卫队的亲昵绰号 (4,4)

26 坚定不移,不背离坚定的立场 (8) 28 来自诺曼底的苹果白兰地 (8)

29 1972 年诺贝尔文学奖获得者的德国作家 (8,4)

30 不义之财 (4) 31 目前市长为 Bev Craig 的 大都会郡 (7,10)

2 如果活动被中断或推迟而签发的延期票 (4,5)

3 1966 年至 2019 年间出版的英国商业名录 (6,5)

4 瑞典城市,安德斯·摄尔修斯和英格玛·伯格曼的出生地 (7) 5 在法律上,禁止或排除 (5)

6 在 1969 年电影《鲍勃、卡罗尔、泰德和爱丽丝》中饰演卡罗尔的女演员 (7.4) 7 英国最北端的群岛 (9)

8 接收并传递信息 (S)

9 __ Fennell,《盐浴之城》的导演 (7) 15 自 1862 年被未来的爱德华七世国王购买以来,一直作为乡村住宅和皇家住所的建筑 (11) 17 美国出生的希腊歌剧女高音 (1923-77) (5,6)

19 1986 年由约翰·克里斯和 艾莉森·斯特德曼主演的 喜剧电影 (9) 21 电影中未署名的角色, 例如《诺丁山》中由 亚历克·鲍德温饰演的 茱莉亚·罗伯茨的男友 (5,4) 23 用于切割和 塑造骨骼的 手术器械 (7) 25 汤姆·琼斯 (1968) 和 The Sensational Alex Harvey Band (1975) 的 英国前 10 名热门歌曲 (7) 27 由旧世界灌木制成的 红褐色染料 (5) 28 像宾·克罗斯比或 佩里·科莫那样唱歌 (5)

纵横字谜 18,502 作者:ROSA KLEBB

横向

1 试图达成目标的游手好闲之徒 (2,4) 4 这种抑郁和倦怠背后的原因是什么? (8) 10 贬低并纠缠那个无名且不知感恩的人 (9)

11 番茄皮,令人厌恶且有嚼劲 (5) 12 遗憾地接到了一个女孩 (4)

13 她在没有父母的情况下旅行,步履蹒跚 (10) 15 离开优雅的旧牧师住宅,空无一物 (7)

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90年代的包容

英国国家美术馆 / 汤姆·霍兰(Tom Horan)撰文:前《英国版Vogue》编辑为那个十年的创造力提供了一个充满活力的愿景

今年早些时候,在笼罩伦敦夜生活的阴郁氛围中,出现了一家名为“Lost”的俱乐部。它不仅设在一座废弃建筑中,而且若要获取详情和门票,你必须拨打电话热线或直接前往。一旦抵达,你的手机将在当晚被锁起来。对于那些从未体验过没有手机的俱乐部生活的人来说,这种效果令人振奋;而对于体验过的人来说,这简直就像回到了90年代。

随着互联网负面影响变得日益清晰,人们对互联网普及前最后几年的自由与纯真地产生了一种日益增长的迷恋。英国国家美术馆的新展《90年代:艺术与时尚》(The 90s: Art and Fashion)通过近70位当时在英国工作的艺术家、摄影师和设计师的作品,揭示了那个十年的面貌。这些贡献者共同促成了创意才华的绽放,帮助重塑了英国的文化认同。

国家美术馆邀请了2017-23年期间担任《英国版Vogue》编辑的爱德华·恩宁富尔(Edward Enninful)担任客座策展人。恩宁富尔童年时期从加纳来到英国,18岁时被任命为《i-D》的时尚总监,而《i-D》是那个 era. 最具影响力的时尚杂志之一。他在伦敦西区作为一名年轻黑人成长,以及在创意繁荣时期从事杂志工作的经历,为本次展览提供了灵感。

在入口处的墙壁介绍中,恩宁富尔回忆起1991年开始在《i-D》工作时的情景:“当时的伦敦感觉很原始,躁动不安,且对重新定义持开放态度……艺术、时尚、音乐和夜生活相互碰撞——一种新的创意语言开始出现……1990年代并非由单一的运动定义,而是由一种共同的

从主图起顺时针方向:凯特·摩丝(Kate Moss)在尤尔根·泰勒(Juergen Teller)拍摄的《年轻的粉色凯特》(1998)中;莎拉·卢卡斯(Sarah Lucas)1997年的《鸡内裤》(Chicken Knickers);娜奥米·坎贝尔(Naomi Campbell)在1994年身着薇薇安·威斯特伍德(Vivienne Westwood)作品走秀;DJ Photek(左)和Goldie(右)与一名朋友在伦敦霍克斯顿广场Blue Note的Metalheadz周日音乐会现场,约1995-96年 —— 尤尔根·泰勒,Condai Nast Eddie Othrine

打破界限的冲动所定义……这就是我想在这次展览中捕捉的能量。”

大幅的摄影放大照展示了关键人物的活动场景:特蕾西·艾敏(Tracey Emin)和艺术家吉莉安·韦林(Gillian Wearing)在肯特郡的海滨跳舞;凯特·摩丝(Kate Moss)和娜奥米·坎贝尔(Naomi Campbell)轻叼着烟,神情轻蔑;莎拉·卢卡斯(Sarah Lucas)和克里斯·奥菲利(Chris Ofili)在苏豪区的Dick's Bar里密谋。我们还能认出辣妹组合(Spice Girls)聚集在一起的双脚,这是一个对所谓“酷不列颠”(Cool Britannia)并不那么虔诚的视角,恩宁富尔在随后的部分对此进行了充分的倾诉。

他通过七个展室的序列来构建这个十年,旨在展示随着1990年代的推进,风格和形象如何变得日益政治化,以及高雅文化与通俗文化之间的界限如何消融。名为“真实”(Be Real)的第一和第二展室,以粗粝、未经滤镜处理的摄影作品以及充满挑衅性的“DIY”态度作品开场。入选的艺术家为女性、黑人或酷儿。科琳·戴(Corinne Day)为另一本关键刊物《The Face》在她的苏豪区公寓拍摄的时尚大片《英格兰之梦》(England's Dreaming),瞬间唤起了那个时代的记忆。这不仅仅是因为自然主义和坦率,还因为地毯的状态——上面放着脏杯子、装满的烟灰缸、电视遥控器、一份小报和一张破旧的沙发。

这种低廉的住所从多个方面推动了那个十年。曾为《The Face》撰稿的米兰达·索耶(Miranda Sawyer)回忆道

随着高雅文化与通俗文化之间界限的消融,风格与形象变得日益政治化

在一部出色的目录中写道:“在整个90年代,我租房每周支付的费用从未超过£60……我们住的公寓简直是垃圾……但正因如此,加上当时还没有互联网,我们总是出门在外……如果你想要任何有趣的东西——食物、饮料、娱乐,或者一次性爱——你必须离开家。”

这种措辞本身就带有90年代的色彩,而这一早期展区的亮点则展示了女性如何以一种抗议意识重新夺回粗俗幽默的掌控权。艾比盖尔·莱恩(Abigail Lane)的《臀部壁纸》(Bottom Wallpaper)呈现了一面12英尺高的墙,上面装饰着她臀部曲线的重复图案,色调为雅致的淡蓝色。在莎拉·卢卡斯(Sarah Lucas)的作品《鸡内裤》(Chicken Knickers)中,她将一只超市买来的鸡那 gaping 的内脏空腔放置在自己的腹股沟处,引发的笑声中夹杂着震惊。在1993年同名的摄影作品中,萨姆·泰勒-约翰逊(Sam Taylor-Johnson)穿着一件印有“Fuck Suck Spank Wank”字样的T恤。该款T恤的副本在礼品店有售。

在第三展厅,焦点转移到了锐舞(rave)和俱乐部场景。这里的摄影和视频作品所传达的喜悦几乎令人窒息。我们被带到了舞池中心,置身于遍布英国的俱乐部、仓库和原野之中,人群中涵盖了黑人、白人、亚裔、酷儿以及异性恋者。摄影师马克·麦克纳尔蒂(Mark McNulty)表示:“无论你看向哪里,人们都在跳舞。在那一夜,每个人都是主角。”

人们能强烈地感觉到,这就是时代精神的源头,也是恩宁富(Enninful)试图捕捉的那种能量。在令人着迷的《Fiorucci让我硬核》(Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore)中,马克·莱基(Mark Leckey)在普通男人全力跳舞的素材片段中揭示了一种诗意。温卡·彼得森(Vinca Petersen)的大规模蒙太奇作品《颠覆性的喜悦(星座 005)》(Subversive Joy (Constellation 005))记录了一种完全为了追求锐舞而生活的生活方式。

在光线昏暗且刷成黑色的第四展厅,自我表达采取了更具理智的形式,这里以亚历山大·麦昆(Alexander McQueen)作品的玻璃展柜和彩色版画为中心。在诸如《外面是个丛林》(It's a Jungle Out There)等设计中,他将一件肩部安装了黑斑羚角的夹克,将时尚与艺术编织成某种具有威胁感且直击本能的东西。与查普曼兄弟(Chapman brothers)根据戈雅作品创作的等比例肢解呈现《针对死者的伟大行径》(Great Deeds Against the Dead)共同展出,这种感觉是幽默与残酷的一种令人不安的混合。

面对56张协和飞机在希思罗机场上空的照片,我感到的着迷程度,想必与艺术家沃尔夫冈·蒂尔曼斯(Wolfgang Tillmans)在

“历史并非固定不变。它正被那些选择挑战它的人积极地重写”

1997年,也就是他拍摄这些照片的时候。该系列作品开启了明亮的白色第五展厅,与达明安·赫斯特(Damien Hirst)和瑞秋·怀特里德(Rachel Whiteread)的作品一同展出。年轻英国艺术家(YBAs)得到了应有的认可,但恩宁富尔(Enninful)希望为其他故事在历史上也留有一席之地——尤其是由设计师胡赛因·查拉扬(Hussein Chalayan)创作的、能转化为裙子的咖啡桌。A字型G-Plan风格?简直是天才之作。

在倒数第二个展厅中,恩宁富尔探讨了“酷不列颠”(Cool Britannia)这一“爱国神话”,他认为这种国家认同的愿景“未能代表许多英国人所经历的不平等”。这里的作品——从奥兹瓦尔德·博滕(Ozwald Boateng)精湛的剪裁,到史蒂夫·麦奎因(Steve McQueen)大胆的视频作品《熊》(Bear),再到克里斯·奥菲利(Chris Ofili)向被谋杀的青少年斯蒂芬·劳伦斯(Stephen Lawrence)之母多琳·劳伦斯(Doreen Lawrence)致敬的凄美作品《没有女人,没有哭泣》(No Woman, No Cry)——将黑人的卓越成就置于这些文化黄金时代的最前沿。麦奎因在目录中观察到:“英伦摇滚(Britpop)纯属胡扯。”

为了支撑起这个令人耳目一新、带有某种修正主义色彩且坦白说相当有说服力的十年版本,恩宁富尔以一个展厅作为结尾,这个展厅似乎旨在打破人们对90年代英国艺术与时尚的所有剩余偏见。我们在这里看到了受18世纪启发的设计师和艺术家的作品:约翰·加利亚诺(John Galliano)、薇薇安·威斯特伍德(Vivienne Westwood)、因卡·肖尼巴雷(Yinka Shonibare)。展板上写道:“他们的作品向我们证明,历史并非固定不变。它正被那些选择挑战它的人积极地重写。”我们在轻盈的管弦乐曲中走出展厅。

这是一个极具娱乐性的展览结尾,它在细致地避开陈词滥调的同时,又让那个年代的风味、质感和情感跃然纸上。对于那些未曾经历过那个时代的人来说,它将生动地还原90年代;而对于那些经历过的人来说,这场展览将提醒你,那曾是一个多么狂放的时代。

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联合导演尤瓦尔·亚伯拉罕(Yuval Abraham)向梅胡尔·斯里瓦斯塔瓦(Mehul Srivastava)讲述如何打破其国家“全面否认”的状态

艺术

电影 / 以以色列国防军(IDF)士兵的忏悔为素材的纪录片,被内塔尼亚胡比作一枚导弹。

NAZA 如何揭露加沙平民的死亡

在开始观看《NAZA》之前——这部安静而具有毁灭性的电影中,匿名以色列士兵解释了他们挑选加沙地带谁生谁死的流程——导演尤瓦尔·亚伯拉罕(Yuval Abraham)希望你了解他选择这个标题的原因。

这并不是因为这个词听起来像加沙(Gaza)。根据当地卫生官员的最新统计,在这个破碎的飞地中,这些军官及其以色列国防军(IDF)同僚所做的决定导致了超过 74,000 名巴勒斯坦人的死亡。

也不是因为这个词听起来像纳粹(Nazi),从而带有某种隐晦的、或许是反犹主义的暗示,即一个诞生于种族灭绝的国家现在正在实施另一次种族灭绝——以色列对此指控予以愤怒否认。

相反,亚伯拉罕指出,NAZA 是希伯来语中“附带损害”(nezek agavi)的军事缩写。对于他以及拍摄了这部简洁纪录片大部分内容的联合导演瑞秋·索尔(Rachel Szor)来说,这就是“揭开将语言作为一种非人性化手段这一层面的关键”。

“这是理解那些自认为是以色列中左翼、自由派精英的人,如何能参与如此大规模杀戮的关键,”他说。

这部由《卫报》和 JW Films 联合制作的电影所引发的争议程度可见一斑:甚至在大多数普通以色列人只看过预告片之前,其平实的标题就因是否存在偏见和诽谤而受到审视。

除了媒体的喧嚣,索尔的家也被抗议者封锁,以色列城市的墙上出现了将她和亚伯拉罕称为叛徒的涂鸦。对于这两位电影制作人来说,这并不令人惊讶。去年,他们与两名巴勒斯坦同事共同凭借 2024 年关于以色列占领约旦河西岸的电影《没有其他土地》(No Other Land)获得了奥斯卡奖。

尤其是亚伯拉罕,自从那部电影以及随后他在 972 杂志上对以色列国防军在加沙和被占领的约旦河西岸行动发表批判性报道以来,一直成为以色列右翼抨击的目标。

以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡从不避讳使用夸张修辞,他因《NAZA》中情报官员描述的部分行为而被国际刑事法院(ICC)指控犯有战争罪。他将这部电影比作等同于“数十枚弹道导弹”,并威胁要撤销电影制作人的以色列公民身份。(内塔尼亚胡目前正在为计划于 10 月 27 日举行的选举中的政治前途而战,他否认了国际刑事法院的指控,将其斥为反犹主义的血祭诽谤。)

“这就是你谈论一个你想杀死的人的方式——向以色列发射弹道导弹的人,正是以色列政府暗杀和杀死的人,”亚伯拉罕说。他认为如果他返回以色列,可能会遭到袭击,甚至更糟。

以色列政府选择杀死谁,选择如何杀死他们,以及决定有多少无辜——以色列使用“无关”一词——的平民将随之丧生,正是《NAZA》试图揭露的主题。

答案来自 24 名参加了这场对巴勒斯坦人造成最严重伤亡的战争的以色列退伍军人,他们的面孔隐藏在阴影中。他们揭露了那种冷静、客观且高效的手段,他们以此追踪与哈马斯有联系的人——这些联系有时是真实的,有时是微弱的,有时则根本不存在。哈马斯是引发这场战争的巴勒斯坦武装组织,该组织在 2023 年 10 月 7 日跨境进入以色列,杀害了 1,200 人并绑架了 251 人质。

那场屠杀带来的愤怒与创伤(这是大屠杀以来最严重的犹太人惨案)给以色列领导人在随后的决策蒙上了阴影——从导致加沙人饥饿的围困,到摧毁了该飞地大部分地区的轰炸行动,以及将整个城市夷为平地。

“我们说,‘我们需要抹除加沙’,”一名出现在《NAZA》中的士兵说道。“我们抹除了历史,然后烧掉了剩下的东西,”另一人说。“加沙到处是尸体,”第三个人说,他通过无人机目睹了狗在啃食腐烂的巴勒斯坦尸体上的肉。

但这类煽动性的言论并非《NAZA》的核心所在。这部电影在夜晚的特拉维夫屋顶拍摄,并穿插着这座繁华城市夜生活的写实镜头,旨在剖析以色列情报部队在何种过程中变成了——正如一名士兵所言——生产目标的“工厂”。

“高效地,”他补充道。据《纽约时报》报道,在战争初期——就在第一天——以色列军队放宽了关于附带损伤的规定:中级以色列军官被授予权限,即使目标只是一个低级别的哈马斯战士,也可以冒最多 20 名巴勒斯坦平民生命风险的代价进行打击。

但据电影中称,对于级别较高的哈马斯领导人,以色列军方律师能够批准那些可能会——且经常——导致 100 名无辜者丧生的袭击。

尤瓦尔·亚伯拉罕(Yuval Abraham)和瑞秋·索尔(Rachel Szor)巧妙地将特拉维夫的正常生活与这些忏悔背后的道德重量进行了对比。在其中一个案例中,一名士兵告诉亚伯拉罕,律师批准了冒最多 500 名巴勒斯坦平民生命风险——在军事术语中即 500 个“”——来杀死一名哈马斯成员。(其中一名军官明确指出,这个词如何将巴勒斯坦人的人性简化为一种计算——永远是 20 个 或 100 个 ,而绝不是 20 个人。)

上周,在《》获得 24 分钟起立鼓掌并被授予威尼斯电影节评审团特别奖后,以色列军方发布了一篇 3,900 字的反驳声明。

该回应详述了以色列国防军(IDF)在整个战争期间的立场,并概括性地断言,军方重视平民生命,在评估和减轻伤害时遵循国际法,且特别强调,从未给出过 20 个 的概括性批准,也从未批准过危及 500 名平民的袭击。

2024 年电影《没有其他土地》(No Other Land),关于以色列占领约旦河西岸。

“战争的悲剧性后果不能成为歪曲事实的理由,”声明称。“以色列国防军已经且将继续人道地行动,即便电影制作者已竭尽全力掩盖这一事实。”

以色列国防军还批评了匿名信源的使用。《卫报》反驳称,保护信源是新闻业的惯例,且电影团队已经“采访了 100 多个熟悉加沙战争中以色列国防军系统的信源,包括直接参与批准袭击的高级指挥官”。

虽然令人震惊且可以说是不道德的,但在武装冲突的规则下,在日内瓦公约最初定义的晦涩条件(区分、比例、必要性等)以及统称为国际人道法的条约和法理体系下,冒无辜者生命风险有时是合法的。

“在最初几周内我们就已经知道,每次事件造成的平民伤害程度超过了我们在之前记录的任何一场战争中所见的情况,”总部位于英国、追踪全球冲突对平民影响的权利组织 Airwars 的执行主任艾米莉·特里普(Emily Tripp)表示。

特里普说,仅在第一个月,加沙被杀害的儿童数量就超过了近期任何一场战争中的任何一年,包括俄罗斯对阿勒颇的轰炸,或美国夺回摩苏尔或拉卡之战。“我们多次遇到近百名或超过一百名平民被杀的案例,而这些案例本身几乎都没有登上头条,”她补充道。

这些在屋顶进行的采访有时会被战争本身的现实所打断——防空警报响起,家中的电视屏幕播放着晚间新闻。而在其他时候,索尔(Szor)和亚伯拉罕(Abraham)则巧妙地将特拉维夫生活的常态穿插其中,以此与士兵们忏悔时的道德沉重感形成对比。

当他们谈论距离南边仅一小时车程的加沙遭受的破坏时,电影画面显示的是建筑起重机正在增加特拉维夫璀璨的天际线;当他们谈到枪击那些奔向食物的饥饿巴勒斯坦人时,画面则显示出拥挤的餐厅和在厨房里的以色列人。

“这部电影最深远的影响在于,它展示了来自以色列自由主义、守法且略偏左翼阵营的以色列人——那些反对内塔尼亚胡及其政府许多政策的人——是如何如此轻易地被征召去发动一场带来巨大破坏的战争,”剑桥大学的人类学家索菲亚·古德弗伦(Sophia Goodfriend)说道。她专注于自动化战争的写作,本周被禁止进入以色列。

其中最令人不寒而栗的时刻,是对驱动以色列目标定位的复杂机制近乎临床式的剖析——即扩大使用人工智能来搜寻哈马斯特工,以及对巴勒斯坦人进行无孔不入的监视。这包括一个绰号为“爸爸在哪里?”(Where’s Daddy?)的系统。据士兵们称,该系统经常大规模入侵儿童的手机,以确定其被怀疑与哈马斯有联系的父亲何时回家。

(图注)上方:在电影《NAZA》中,一名以色列国防军士兵在特拉维夫的一个屋顶上与右侧的尤瓦尔·亚伯拉罕(Yuval Abraham)交谈。

几名士兵表示,随后对房屋的轰炸往往导致整个家庭死亡,从而增加了平民的死亡人数,但却让以色列军队清除哈马斯嫌疑成员的任务变得更加简单。“你入侵她的手机,然后杀了她,”一名士兵在谈到一名12岁女孩时说道。他描述了自己如何翻看她手机里的自拍,然后在空袭后听着她被活活烧死的声音。

“观众的许多反应都集中在加沙所开发和部署的一系列反乌托邦技术上,因为想到人工智能如何被用来批量产生无穷无尽的军事目标并在其家中将其追踪下来,这种侵入感令人恐惧,”古德弗伦说道。

对于观看这部电影的非以色列人来说,这就像是在偷听一场忏悔——以色列人用希伯来语彼此讨论现代战争的复杂性和细微差别。亚伯拉罕表示,他与索尔有意识地选择关注系统而非个人,以迫使以色列内部进行反思。

以色列的打击行动包括扩大使用人工智能来搜寻哈马斯特工

“社会中的许多人一直处于对加沙罪行的完全否认或正当化之中,”他说。“而必须面对这一点,不仅是通过一部由以色列导演拍摄的电影,更是通过一部让以色列士兵和军官们认为发声至关重要的电影,这具有某种特殊的意义。”

有时,清算就发生在屏幕之上。在一次互动中,亚伯拉罕向一名士兵提出一个问题:如果为了消灭一名哈马斯成员而杀死 20 名平民是正当的,而哈马斯有数千名成员,那么这种逻辑是否意味着加沙的每个巴勒斯坦人最终都可能被杀死?

“我真的不确定该如何面对这个认知,”这名士兵说。

另一名士兵则给出了答案。“我曾问自己德国人是如何心安理得地生活的。现在我明白了,”他说道,并提到童年时期一次前往波兰集中营的学校旅行。

“我仍然认为纳粹是邪恶的,”他说。“但那使我变成了什么?”

《NAZA》目前正在美国电影院上映,将于 10 月 16, 在英国电影院上映,网址:naza.movie

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杰斯·吉拉姆(Jess Gillam) 由 Cian Oba-Smith 为《金融时报》拍摄于 皇家阿尔伯特音乐厅外

杰斯·吉拉姆 / 汉娜·内皮洛娃(Hannah Nepilová)表示,这位 28 岁的音乐家正通过融合不同流派和委约新作品,将她的乐器提升到新的高度。

杰斯·吉拉姆大步走上皇家阿尔伯特音乐厅的舞台,身着一套闪亮的银色裤装,看起来像是准备参加派对。现在是九月,逍遥音乐节(Proms)赛季即将结束,这位萨克斯风演奏家此次前来是为了首演格威利姆·西姆考克(Gwilym Simcock)为萨克斯风、圆号和大提琴创作的新三重协奏曲——这部作品既色彩斑斓,又同样繁忙且在节奏上极其复杂。

想到要演奏这部作品,许多音乐家可能会出冷汗,但对于吉拉姆来说,这非常契合,充分发挥了她的精湛技艺和外向能量,而这正是她自 2016 年入围 BBC 年度青年音乐家决赛以来的标志性特点。

在现实生活中,这种能量清晰可见。在逍遥音乐会开始前,我在皇家阿尔伯特音乐厅的后台与她见面,她用灿烂的笑容迎接我。除了热情,她的干练着装和极具个性的眼镜还赋予了她一种权威感。吉拉姆虽然年仅 28, 岁,但在过去十年中所取得的成就比大多数人一生所能实现的还要多。

2018, 年,她成为在“逍遥音乐节之夜”(Last Night of the Proms)演出的最年轻独奏家,三年后获得了 MBE(大英帝国成员勋章)。她委约并首演了许多新的萨克斯风作品。此外,她还在 BBC Radio 3, 经营着一项副业——《这种古典生活》(This Classical Life)节目,在节目中她采访其他艺术家,探讨他们最喜爱的音乐。她是否能找到放松的时间?“我正试着为朋友们腾出时间,”吉拉姆用她浓厚的坎布里亚口音说道,“在许多人交友的那些年里,我全部的时间都花在专注于音乐上。现在我意识到我需要社交。”但她也坦承:“我不是世界上最擅长放松的人。”

最近,由于准备最新专辑《闪耀》(Shine),她的空闲时间尤其匮乏。该专辑于本周发行,展示了她对“情感直接”曲目的热爱,将新音乐与古典、民谣、艺术流行乐和爵士乐的改编曲融合在一起。最令人惊讶的是部分素材的年代,其中最早的是 12 世纪德国本笃会女院长希尔德加德·冯·宾根(Hildegard von Bingen)创作的《圣灵使人活》(Spiritus sanctus vivificans),此处由英国作曲家杰夫·劳森(Geoff Lawson)为萨克斯风改编。

人们可能会认为,这种纯正的圣咏与萨克斯风那慵懒的滑音截然不同,但这种尝试并非没有先例:在 20 世纪 90 年代,挪威萨克斯风演奏家扬·加巴雷克(Jan Garbarek)曾与早期音乐声乐四重奏组希利亚德合唱团(Hilliard Ensemble)合作录制中世纪作品。

对于吉拉姆来说,这种音乐适合萨克斯风所特有的即兴处理方式。“(在手稿中),宾根只给了你音符头,仅此而已,因此有很大的诠释空间,”她说,“最初,我的目标是让声音尽可能纯净且像人声一样,像女高音……然后我最终开始在音高之间进行弯折并自由移动。”

但一件历史不足 200 年的乐器如何承载九个世纪的曲目?在吉拉姆看来,这很简单。“我热爱萨克斯风的一点是它的动态范围和色彩调色盘。它可以成为一个绝对的动力源,甚至能带你进入一个粗犷、丑陋的境地,但它也可以演奏得极其安静,听起来如此空灵……我试图鼓励人们将萨克斯风视为萨克斯风本身,而不仅仅是将其视为所有[我们与之相关联的]事物的总和。”

这种对探索的热爱定义了吉拉姆的职业生涯,也解释了为什么她在与各大国际管弦乐团合作演出的同时,还组建了自己的混合乐队——杰斯·吉拉姆合奏团(Jess Gillam Ensemble),这是一个爵士三重奏与弦乐四重奏的结合体。然而,与大多数萨克斯演奏者不同,古典音乐依然是她的基石。“我一直热爱[古典体系]的结构和清晰的框架,”她说。古典萨克斯原创曲目库的匮乏是否让她感到沮丧?“有时我希望我们能拥有像门德尔松或柴可夫斯基的小提琴协奏曲那样量级的作品,但这同时也是一个巨大的优势:我们能够参与到曲目库的构建之中。”

萨克斯风“甚至能将你带向一个粗犷、丑陋的地方,但它也能听起来如此空灵”

吉拉姆(Gillam)在七岁时爱上了萨克斯风。她的父亲与母亲在湖区小镇阿尔弗斯顿(Ulverston)经营一家茶室,同时他还在附近的巴罗-因-弗内斯(Barrow-in-Furness)的巴拉库达嘉年华艺术中心(Barracudas Carnival Arts Centre)教授鼓类和打击乐,那里有多种乐器可以使用。“我尝试了所有乐器,但只有萨克斯风让我产生了共鸣;幸运的是,我立刻就吹出了声音。”她的父母很快将她的热情转化为一种纪律约束手段。“如果我在家里表现不好,他们就会把萨克斯风放在冰箱顶上,不让我演奏,”她说,“他们还达成了一项协议,让我通过在茶室工作或街头表演来为我的[音乐教育]提供资金支持。”这对她是有帮助还是有阻碍?“这鼓励了我去重视音乐,”她说,并补充道,她家人强大的职业道德留下了烙印:“我不是一个做事半途而废的人。”

18岁时,吉拉姆进入了皇家北方音乐学院。后来,为了应对日益繁忙的音乐会日程,她选择中断学业,最终在疫情期间于吉尔霍尔音乐学院完成了硕士学位。早期的成名是否带来了压力?“我尽量不去过多思考这个问题,因为我经常会对很多我能参与的事情感到相当恐惧,”她承认。对于一个看起来如此自信的人来说,这听起来令人惊讶。“我需要展现出自信,好让房间里的每个人都感到舒适……但这并不总是那么容易。”

她解释说,让她保持沉稳的是“记住我的表演其实与我个人无关;而是要将注意力转移到音乐以及我想创造的精准声音上”。然而,在这样一个需要大量时间孤独练习的职业中,如何防止自我意识过强和自我沉溺的潜入?“[让我保持脚踏实地的,是]在父母的茶室长大,无论如何都必须带着微笑走向每一张桌子。而且是在一个紧密的社区中长大,在那里你离认识任何人仅隔一个人——你会向每个人问早安。这就是我尝试对待每一种场景的方式。”

这一点在她的 Radio 3 节目中体现得最为明显,该节目给人的感觉就像是一场与朋友们一起随意的聆听盛宴。吉拉姆打破了将古典作曲家视为半神的观念;相反,她坚持在采访古典艺术家的同时,也采访其他流派的音乐家:“我觉得一些古典领域之外的音乐同样深刻且有效。”

她是否认为古典音乐世界存在矫揉造作的问题?她谨慎地回答道:“因为古典音乐如此受推崇……它确实可能让人感到孤立,”她指出,“我经历过‘我应该喜欢这首曲子’或‘我应该喜欢这位作曲家’的心理循环。现在……我只是尝试塑造自己真实的观点。”

她承认这种坦率有时会让人感到“尴尬”,让她觉得自己毫无遮掩,但她认为进行一次“真正的对话”很重要。正如她所说:“正式场合有其必要,但感到放松、开放、人性化和快乐同样重要。我认为在这个世界上,我们对此的体验还不够。”

《Shine》现已由 Decca 出版

歌曲的一生 YOU REALLY GOT ME

肮脏的电吉他强力和弦在毫无铺垫的情况下爆发,然后在《You Really Got Me》中无情地重复。“女孩,你真的让我心痒难耐 / 你让我迷失到不知道自己在做什么,”雷·戴维斯(Ray Davies)唱道,被无法抑制的欲望所吞噬,而这种欲望仅在他兄弟戴夫(Dave)狂野且高潮迭起的吉他独奏中得以完成。该唱片于1964年8月发行,以其创新的强力和弦和暴烈态度重新定义了英国流行音乐的参数,这种叛逆的声音为重金属和朋克奠定了模板。

戴夫·戴维斯(Dave Davies)在1963年,年仅16岁时,在他家人位于北伦敦狭窄排屋的前房里发现了他所追求的噪音。起初,他将三个放大器和一个收音机唱机插进一个过载的插座,导致电路短路,电击使他的身体飞了起来。“在极短的一瞬间,我听到了极棒的噼啪声和静态失真,”他在自传《生活在细线上》(Living on a Thin Line)中回忆道。随后,他将自己那个绿色的Elpico 10瓦小型放大器接入一台Vox AC50放大器,并用浴室剃须刀割破前者的扬声器纸盆,从而实现了同样凶猛的效果。

与此同时,雷(Ray)在1964年开始认真创作。他在家前房那台破旧的立式钢琴上弹奏,开发出了《You Really Got Me》中标志性的节奏型(riff)。戴夫接上他的绿色放大器,在吉他上加入了沉重的大横按和弦。他引导兄弟进行递增的转调,增强了兴奋感。“那种和弦转换——从G到A——的能量,实际上是基于一种性冲动,”戴夫在《生活在细线上》中写道。

The Kinks乐队以这个名字在1964年2月1日进行了首次演出,并在Pye Records公司发行了两张单曲,但几乎没有取得成功。《You Really Got Me》将成为他们合同中的最后一张唱片,决定着他们的未来。兄弟俩觉得与制作人谢尔·塔米(Shel Talmy)的首次录音听起来迟缓且充斥着回声,致命地掩盖了那个节奏型,或许也将随之埋葬The Kinks。1964年7月,雷不顾唱片公司的不情愿,极力争取到了第二次录音机会,在伦敦的IBC工作室仅进行了三小时。

第二次录音实现了这首歌雷鸣般的力量。在节奏型充满对抗性的陈述之后,录音鼓手鲍比·格雷厄姆(Bobby Graham)猛击小军鼓,随后亚瑟·格林斯莱德(Arthur Greenslade)刺入般的钢琴声加入其中。“看,永远不要让我自由,”雷唱道,歌词中对女性的奴隶般顺从与声音上的侵略性形成了反差。雷的声音与戴夫的吉他在后者发表自由的独奏陈述之前,达成了一种怪兽般的兄弟统一感。《You Really Got Me》登顶英国排行榜,随后在美国排名第七,将The Kinks从默默无闻中拯救出来,使其与披头士(The Beatles)和滚石乐队(The Rolling Stones)处于同一量级。

and The Rolling Stones,

接下来的冠军单曲《All Day and All of the Night》完善了《You Really Got Me》的模式,但雷很快对这种公式感到厌倦,并在1965年的原声作品《A Well Respected Man》中找到了自己的天赋,这是一部关于阶级战争的人物研究。The Who乐队接过了沉重节奏型的接力棒,皮特·汤普森德(Pete Townshend)承认受到了“The Kinks显而易见的影响”。他们最初的声音和态度后来帮助激发了诸如The Clash等朋克粉丝,而《You Really Got Me》纯粹的沉重感则预示了金属乐的到来。戴夫回忆道,吉米·亨德里克斯(Jimi Hendrix)“说他认为《You Really Got Me》是一张里程碑式的唱片”。

The Kinks的前美国唱片公司高管莫·奥斯汀(Mo Ostin)说服了Van Halen乐队在1978年将《You Really Got Me》作为他们的首张单曲发行。这个节奏型得到了技术升级,听起来共鸣更加宏大。埃迪·范·海伦(Eddie Van Halen)的独奏包含了更多的速弹,主唱大卫·李·罗斯(David Lee Roth)则显得诱惑而非顺从,但这首在其他方面忠实于原作的翻唱版本排名第36位,并开启了他们自己辉煌的职业生涯。

这首曲目与朋克和金属乐备受关注的交汇,似乎影响了The Kinks在现场专辑《One For The Road》(1980年)中的版本,这是一次朋克节奏的惊险之旅,展示了戴夫阴暗的

阴郁的蓝调金属独奏。他们的档案发行专辑《旅程,第三部分》(The Journey, Part 3,2025年)挖掘了一场1993年在皇家阿尔伯特音乐厅的演出,其速度之快犹如 The Clash 乐队,直奔他们职业生涯在1996年的终点。雷将这些备受推崇的金属乐资历字面化,在2010年的一个版本中邀请 Metallica 乐队与他合作。这些速金属之王采取了原汁原味的演绎方式,认为原型已臻完美,无需改进。

雷和戴夫的关系以波动剧烈而著称,戴夫后来写道,他曾寻求律师介入,以防止雷在后者的热门 Kinks 音乐剧《阳光午后》(Sunny Afternoon,2014年)的早期版本中,将绿色放大器的失真效果据为己有。这首歌随后在乐队故事中所扮演的角色则更为积极。2015年12月18日,戴夫在伦敦的伊斯灵顿集会大厅(Islington Assembly Hall)举办了一场低调的圣诞演出,并邀请了他的哥哥。在 Kinks 乐队最后一场演出19年后,雷在返场曲目《You Really Got Me》中现身,引发了往昔般的混乱。“就像刚开始的时候一样,”戴夫事后告诉我,“两个孩子聚在一起玩音乐……仅仅是为了重新唤起那些感觉,就值得了。”

尼克·哈斯特德 (Nick Hasted)

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西区热门剧作创作者的秘密

卢克·谢泼德 / 《出租公寓》(Rent)与《帕丁顿》(Paddington)导演

让商业剧场焕发生机。蒂姆·巴诺(Tim Bano)与他面对面

在我们见面的那天,卢克·谢泼德(Luke Sheppard)在伦敦西区有三部剧目同时在演。《出租公寓》的30周年复排版刚刚开演,而《我的儿子是个酷儿》(My Son's a Queer)刚刚结束其第三次西区演出,同时,《帕丁顿音乐剧》(Paddington The Musical)每晚继续在萨伏伊剧院(Savoy)吸引观众。

40, 岁的谢泼德已成为业内最繁忙的导演之一。他的作品在规模和风格上各不相同——《星光快车》(Starlight Express)有 40 名演员在伪装成火车的改造仓库中滑轮溜冰,而《我的儿子是个酷儿》则是一部关于接纳自身性取向的个人自传式独角戏——但几乎所有作品都赢得了奖项、评论界的赞誉、金钱(《朱丽叶》(& Juliet)是疫情以来少数在百老汇回本的音乐剧之一),而在《帕丁顿》的案例中,则是上述所有项均实现了。

没有一部是稳操胜券的热门剧,也没有一部拥有特别耀眼的明星阵容。每一部都破解了某种公式,将通常被视为商业计算的作品,转化为毫无掩饰的、充满大众吸引力且快乐的制作,同时保持了艺术完整性。

“我参与的很多剧目被一些人描述为‘属于商业领域’,”谢泼德说道。此时我们正挤在汤姆·斯托帕德剧院(Tom Stoppard Theatre)的一个阳台上,这里是《出租公寓》进入最后预演的疯狂阶段中唯一没人的空间。“很容易遇到那些轻视这些作品、认为其价值较低的人。我认为音乐剧也经常被轻视,被认为价值较低。我记得多年来一直有人告诉我:‘如果你想导演音乐剧,你必须通过导演话剧来证明你是一个合格的导演。’”

谢泼德忽略了那个建议。他创作的每一部剧都是一次小小的坚持,证明大众化与艺术价值可以共存。“人们对《朱丽叶》的预期并不都很高,”在谈到这部 2019 年的音乐剧时他说道。该剧采用了流行金曲,想象朱丽叶在罗密欧死后没有自杀,而是前往巴黎与安妮·海瑟薇一起过上了幸福的生活。“但我天生就被那些旨在触达大众的作品所吸引。我总是想到观众席中的祖母、母亲、姐妹和侄女,希望创作出能够跨越这些代际的作品。”

在首演之夜前几天,你根本意识不到数十个工作岗位和数百万英镑在很大程度上压在他的肩上。我采访的一位制片人称谢泼德为“终极外交官”,他确实拥有外交官般的技巧,能将对话从关于预算和差评的令人厌烦的问题转移到更积极的话题上。

他温和的声音和深思熟虑的说话方式表明,他绝非旧派那种咆哮、愤怒的导演类型。“我希望大多数与我共事的人都会同意你的看法。因为我在很年轻的时候就被信任去承担相当大的项目”——他在获得戏剧学位后的第一个重要工作是在皇家莎士比亚公司(Royal Shakespeare Company)担任《玛蒂尔达音乐剧》(Matilda the Musical)的助理——“有时我会发现自己是创意团队中

上图:在《出租公寓》迎来30周年之际,该剧目前正在伦敦汤姆·斯托帕德剧院上演

下图:卢克·谢泼德(左)与演员盖登·马塔拉佐(Gaten Matarazzo)在《出租公寓》排练中 Rampola Raith

最年轻的人之一。我很快意识到,你不能只是到处大喊大叫并要求你想要的东西,因为人们会让你走开。”

早期的几次成功让雪球越滚越大。 2015, 年,由《汉密尔顿》作曲家林-曼努埃尔·米兰达(Lin-Manuel Miranda)创作的《In the Heights》成为意外的热门剧,并随后赢得了三个奥利维尔奖。谢泼德的其他几部剧目也是在小型剧院起步,随后转场至西区。他认为,如果他的成功有什么秘诀,那就是将那种小规模的能量带入大制作中。

即便是在执导《帕丁顿》时,谢泼德也坚持将一切简化到最基础的状态。“我们在Three Mills(工作室)搭建了自己的小型剧场,像做工作坊一样进行了一次非西区的小规模试演。”

显然,拥有一位用心的导演同样至关重要。他在谈论自己的剧作时,展现出一种令人心动的真诚。以《出租公寓》(Rent)为例:“我青少年时期在卧室里听这部剧。听到两个处于主流爱情定义之外的角色演唱《I'll Cover You》,那种方式如此浪漫……这首歌的歌词已经深深烙印在我的灵魂里。”

这种毫不掩饰且不带愤世嫉俗的态度让他获得了执导《帕丁顿》的机会——尽管在此之前,他经历了一场长达18个月的试镜,他认为其中包含了与制片人的八次独立面试。“感觉就像是在相亲。”

“我被那些旨在触及大众的作品所吸引。我总是想到我的母亲、我的姐妹和我的侄女”

“我必须在骨子里感觉到,在那个时刻,我是那个节目的合适人选。《帕丁顿》就是一个典型的例子。我真的很热爱这座城市。我记得 2012 年 [伦敦] 奥运会以及当时的感觉。我想起那个时刻,并提出了这样一个论点:如果能制作一个试图延续那种精神的节目,难道不是很棒吗?其核心就是一种善良感。”

谢泼德可能很温和,但他也很有野心。他想象着有一天能执导像奥运会开幕式那样规模的作品,并且“非常、非常想”拍一部电影。“挑战在于这些需要巨大的投资,而雇佣我将是一场赌博。”他笑了笑。“我记得一位电影制片人对我说过,‘目前你的投资价值最高到这个数’,”——他将手放在胸口高度——“但问题是,你想拍的电影需要你的投资价值达到这个数,”——他将手移到了肩膀高度。具体金额是多少?“就让您发挥想象力吧。”

外交辞令占据了上风。直到我们讨论剧院票价时,谢泼德才变得更加坦率。在《帕丁顿》开演前后的几周里,有头条新闻谴责最高档票价高达 £250。“这只是对整件事的一种非常偏颇的视角,”他说。“我们一直在讨论 [定价] 问题。如果你想以合理的价格观看《帕丁顿》,是可以做到的。你只需要提前预订。这需要提前规划。”

这话出自一个懂得如何提前规划的人之口。他看了看手机,温和但坚定地告诉我,他去参加附近一场试镜迟到了。尽管现在是周五 6.30pm,而且他度过了精疲力竭的一天来打磨《Rent》,但 10 月接手的新版《帕丁顿》剧组仍有角色需要填补。这只熊明年年初还将登陆百老汇。

与此同时,《& Juliet》本周在乌得勒支和斯图加特开演,而他对之前的两部作品也抱有野心:他在 2023, 年执导的音乐剧《The Little Big Things》,以及一部名为《What's New Pussycat?》的拼贴音乐剧(jukebox musical)。该剧大致基于亨利·菲尔丁 1749 年的小说《汤姆·琼斯》,采用了汤姆·琼斯的音乐(为什么不呢),但除了同名歌曲外,与 1965 年的电影《What's New Pussycat?》没有任何关系。

他说,在我们在圣马丁巷疾走时,计划表上的其他所有内容都是“最高机密”。即便他的创作版图继续扩张,谢泼德也确信,他永远不会完全放弃那种曾让他获益匪浅的小空间美学。“这是一种平衡,”他快步走着说,“但有时,你只需要一屋子优秀的演员、一把梯子和一盏灯,就能讲述最清晰的故事。”

《Rent》,温莎姆剧院,至 3 月 27, 日,rentthemusical.com;《Paddington》,萨伏伊剧院,预订至 2 月 13, 日,paddingtonthemusical.com

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我们对理解夜空的永恒追求

沃堡研究所 / 一系列丰富的展品揭示了人类绘制星图并在黑暗中寻找意义的渴望。作者:Jean Sprackland

我热爱一年中的这个时节,白昼缩短,黑暗施展其双重魔力。所有人类对黑暗都有一种原始的恐惧,因为它让我们面对自身的凡胎之躯,但对我们中的许多人来说,它也承载着愉悦、冒险与蜕变的承诺。在我们位于萨默塞特与德文郡边界、布莱克当丘陵(Blackdown Hills)的一个小山谷里,黑暗可以非常浓烈;当我站在晴朗夜空下的巷道中,我所感受到的那种复杂而强烈的情绪——敬畏、着迷、好奇——可能与我遥远的祖先所感受到的并无二致。

这种永恒的人类好奇心催生了一些极其精美的工艺品,其中各类风格迥异的作品被纳入了本月在伦敦沃堡研究所(Warburg Institute)开幕的“夜图”(Night Maps)展览中。其中最令人心向往之的物件无疑是制作于1731年的口袋地球仪:一个陆地球体嵌套在一个天球之内,整体包裹在鳄鱼皮中,小到可以握在手心。18世纪的富裕阶层不仅可以将世界,而且可以将宇宙装在口袋里。我愿意随时用我的手机换一个。

一张1822年绘制于中国的星图则扮演了另一种地位象征。我被它作为艺术品的特质所吸引——细节严谨,并采用了华丽的普鲁士蓝——但在古代,这类地图具有重要功能,为皇帝提供天命。

上方:今年8月,英仙座流星雨照亮了中国大庆的夜空

右侧:安德烈亚斯·塞拉里乌斯(Andreas Cellarius)1660年的著作《宇宙和谐》(Harmonia Macrocosmica,即《宇宙图集》) Chi Shiyong / VCG via Getty Images: The Sunderland Collection

他的行政管理被巧妙地反映在天空的秩序中,那里存在一个拥有等级和职位的“天庭官僚机构”,与地球上的体制非常相似。如果你的权力被写在星辰之中,那么你的权威正当性便几乎无需质疑。

几个世纪以来,人们在星空中书写了许多东西。自从人们首次在星星之间连线以创造形象和符号起,他们就赋予了这些符号深意。星座曾提供一份季节性历法,指导土壤的准备和作物的播种;它们也为人们在夜空下旅行或休息时讲述的故事提供了灵感。

将点连成线是一项定义人类的活动,一种理解我们在世界中所处位置、在空间和时间中定位自身的方式。如果我们想要在个人和集体层面上让生活产生意义,就必须将日常经验中零散的点连接起来,并不断重新连接。这是一种在记忆、理智和想象力中进行的、时刻不停的创造性连接工作,如果没有它,我们将彻底迷失。

对于像我这样被变化所困扰且感到迷茫的凡尘观察者来说,星座给人一种令人安心的永恒感。但新的解读空间始终存在。展览包括了约翰内斯·洪特(Johannes Honter)在16世纪绘制的地图,这些地图显示天空中密集地分布着常见的神话人物——赫拉克勒斯、猎户座、仙女座等等——他们穿着当时的日耳曼时尚:短上衣和紧身裤、泡泡袖、厚重的靴子或卷尖鞋。熊、狮子和巨蛇在他们之间徘徊,一只凶猛的飞马从云端雷鸣般冲出。这可能并非一个完全友好的环境,但它看起来具有社交气息,也许这正是其目的——让文艺复兴时期的观众更容易认出上天,即便其中的一些居民有些吓人。

看着洪特(Honter)的画作,我想起了 C.S. 路易斯(CS Lewis)写过的一段关于中世纪宇宙论的文字:当时人们看待天空,就像在仰望一座高耸的大厦。他告诉我们,人们将其想象成一个“能让心灵栖息的结构,其宏伟令人震撼,但其和谐令人满足”。它确实规模宏大,但其

自从人类首次在星辰之间连线以绘制图案和符号起,他们便赋予了这些图案以深意

边缘被定义;它回荡着天上的音乐,且充满光芒。中世纪人们所经历的黑暗,仅仅是我们自身星球投下的阴影。

相比之下,我们现代的“空间”概念则以寂静和存在主义式的孤独为特征。科学用超出我们理解能力的奇异数字与我们对话:一个星系中的恒星以十亿为单位计算,而星系之间的距离如此之远,以至于我们需要一个特殊的单位——光年——来衡量。这些数字本身已成为一种叙事,如同关于神灵和神话怪兽的故事一样离奇。

科学与幻想在艾米·英格博格·布伦(Emmy Ingeborg Brun)的作品中交织在一起。她是一位自学成才的业余天文学家,她用纸浆塑造并涂色以代表火星表面的地球仪在此展出。该作品制作于20世纪初,当时人们对“红色星球”有着浓厚的兴趣,美国作家珀西瓦尔·洛威尔(Percival Lowell)普及了一种观点,认为火星

她在1901和1910, 之间,在一家精神病院就诊期间制作了这些地球仪。她是被她的哥哥送进去的,原因不明——或许她的哥哥将她对火星的痴迷,或她那些出格的信仰,视为疯狂的迹迹。这些作品是创造力的非凡迸发,将科幻、政治与天文学融合在一起,她在其中将她对乌托邦社会的愿景投射到了那个神秘的异世界。火星被认为布满了由外星文明刻意挖掘的运河。这些运河以及绿洲和植被区等其他特征,都进入了布伦的设计中。她还加入了文字行,一段来自《主祷文》(“愿你的旨意行在地上,如同行在天上”),另一段来自当时的社会主义口号(“自由的土地。自由的贸易。自由的人民”)。

从左上起顺时针方向:月球地球侧半球着陆点图(1967);马克斯·阿道夫·瓦尔堡(Max Adolph Warburg)创作的《在科学分析与对超自然恐惧之间挣扎的人》(1929);一件来自开罗大埃及博物馆的18世纪铜制天球仪的现代印度复制品 —— Lunar and Planetary Institute, 汉堡大学, RIZ / MCC, Kristel Lippincott

愿景投射到了那个神秘的异世界。

在我们这个过度照明的时代,想要陷入黑暗的魔咒需要付出努力。近几十年来,我们竭尽全力地将其驱散。而且,从某些视角来看,我们自己的星球看起来就像一个科幻异世界:展览中的一个计算机模拟(LeoLabs 2026年的“低地球轨道可视化”)显示,地球被数以千计的轨道卫星包围,每颗卫星都覆盖着像镜子一样的反光金属镀层。我不禁在想,布伦会对这种未来愿景作何感想——在这个未来中,我们将天空填满机器,以便能够观察我们自己。她可能会得出结论:地球人不再关心星辰了。

但她错了。各种倡议组织纷纷涌现,“暗夜天空旅游”正蓬勃发展,我们的语言中也出现了一个新词“noctalgia”(夜之怀旧),用来描述曾经作为我们天赋权利的迷人黑夜,以及失去它时所感受到的悲伤。在世界各地,在远离路灯、泛光灯和安保灯的地方,我们依然像往常一样凝视天空,并教导我们的孩子抬头仰望,将星点连线。

“夜图”(Night Maps),10月21-4月17, 伦敦瓦尔堡研究所,warburg.sas.ac.uk

阿尔贝托·贾科梅蒂(Alberto Giacometti),Diego au chandall, 1953 © 2026 Succession Alberto Giacometti / DACS

让·斯普拉克兰(Jean Sprackland)的《夜视:寻找真正的黑暗》(Night Vision: In Search of the True Dark)现已出版平装本。

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《解约条款》(Break Clause) 现于 Channel 4 播出 ★★★★☆

如果一对年轻情侣刚一起搬进租来的公寓,就在同一天分手了会怎样?这就是编剧 Jess Bray 和导演 Alice Snedden 创作的这部温馨新喜剧的前提。他们描绘了一幅在不稳定的经济环境下,年轻爱情中苦乐参半的画像。

单口喜剧演员 Lara Ricote 饰演 Lil,一名二十出头的女性,她正从利兹搬到伦敦,在一家建筑事务所开始她的第一份正式工作。在毕业典礼上,她的男友 Ben(Samuel Bottomley 饰)是一名有抱负的作家,他宣布自己将勇敢尝试,随她一起搬到伦敦。

但在他们搬家前一晚的告别派对上,Ben 背叛了 Lil,而 Lil 很快就发现了这件事,并在第二天甩了他。由于终止新公寓的租赁合同代价昂贵,他们决定改为继续做室友,同时过上各自单身的生活。

这部剧既有浪漫喜剧的成分,也是对“延长的青春期”的一种探索——在这个阶段,成年人被期望能够操持家务、拥有工作并维持健康的关系,但内心却觉得自己仿佛还没脱掉校服。

这种预期与现实之间的脱节成为了笑点,但其中也蕴含着丰富的情感。Ben 和 Lil 试图举办一场晚餐派对,以证明他们是成熟成年人的身份,但一次翻找垃圾桶的行动破坏了他们的计划。作为一名作家,Ben 长期资金短缺;他通过兼职辅导和参加医学临床试验来解决这个问题,而后者则演变成了一场呕吐物横飞的闹剧。

浪漫喜剧的元素比预想的更甜蜜。Lil 和 Ben 显然深爱着彼此,只是在走分手后的形式流程。然而,该剧通过暗示两人之间存在共依附关系,并对维持他们关系的因素表现出一种令人耳目一新的不安感,从而避免了过于甜腻。

在剧集过半时,我们开始看到这段关系的阴暗面。Lil 是两人中更成熟的一个,前途光明,但她很容易被重新拉回 Ben 的混乱之中。

在六集内容中,他们试图寻找自己想要的生活。由于演员天生的魅力,《解约条款》比大多数喜剧更具格调。饰演楼上邻居 Rooster 的 Charly Clive 是一个标准的成年人,而《周六夜现场》英国版(Saturday Night Live UK)的一半演员似乎都在这里有戏份。

Bottomley 将迷茫的 Ben 演绎得令人信服地忧郁,而你禁不住会为饰演 Lil 的 Ricote 打气,随着剧集的推进,Lil 的故事变得更加丰满。因此,这部剧基调低沉且出奇地温柔,但它正悄然成为今年最讨喜的新喜剧之一。

年轻的爱情:Lara Ricote 饰演 Lil,Samuel Bottomley 饰演 Ben,出自《解约条款》

Flanagan 将 King 的原著素材以及 Brian De Palma 著名的 1976 年电影版本更新到了现代。在这里,Carrie White(Summer H Howell 饰)是一名在家上学的青少年,由于父母受阴谋论驱动的信仰影响,她一直被要求隐居生活。当她的父亲在一次工作事故中丧生时,她的

改编作品《山屋之魅》(The Haunting of Hill House)到他对埃德加·爱伦·坡《厄舍府的衰败》(The Fall of the House of Usher)的诠释。

《下方》(Below) 现于 Netflix 播出 ★★★☆☆

这就是《下方》的故事。不幸的是,对于 Netflix 的这部新剧来说,一个无法回避的问题——或者说海中的怪物——是《寡妇湾》(Widow's Bay),这部 Apple 的爆款喜剧恐怖剧近期席卷了艾美奖,并奠定了其作为年度电视现象级作品的地位。《下方》紧随其后,讲述了一个在主题和风格上都相似的故事,这对于一部完全可看且具有鲜明个人风格的剧集来说是不幸的。除了时机不巧之外没有其他过错,它不得不承受不可避免的比较。

一个小岛上的居民们开始出现幻象,其中包括一个关于“女巫”的幻象——一个在男人熟睡时坐在他们胸口上的女人。一个怪物威胁着他们的生活方式,但直到恐怖在最糟糕的时刻最终显现之前,很少有人承认这种恐怖是真实的。镇民们随后必须团结起来,与未知之物战斗,解放他们的沿海社区。

抵达后,凯莉显然是被禁锢且天真的,而这个配备了智能手机的环境成了她的洗礼。在“蜂王”克里斯(Alison Thornton 饰)的压力下——克里斯对这个新来者心怀不满——凯莉开始发现自己潜藏的心灵感应能力。

九十年代青少年电影偶像乔什·哈特内特进入了他的“肌肉型父亲”时代

《凯莉》

虐待孩子的母亲玛格丽特(Samantha Sloyan 饰)被迫自己找工作。由于社会服务部门的干预,她勉强允许凯莉就读于一所主流高中。

斯蒂芬·金的第一部恐怖小说篇幅很短,但它在后世产生了巨大的影响。电影制作人们持续被其中关于青春期女性愤怒的、令人毛骨悚然且极具吸引力的描述所吸引。最新版本出自迈克尔·弗拉纳根之手,他曾凭借其对雪莉·杰克逊作品的改编,证明了自己能够制作出既恐怖又执着于感伤的文学电视恐怖剧。

现于 Prime Video 上线 ★★★☆☆

准备复仇:《凯莉》中的萨默·H·豪威尔

饰演卡尔文·彭尼,他是纽芬兰小镇斯努克斯臂(Snooks Arm)的一名渔民。卡尔文小时候父亲死在海里,而一个巨大的眼睛从波涛之下若隐若现的景象,在他四十多岁时依然令他心有余悸。他的生计是将当地冰山的冰块运到岸上,这些冰块被用于一种极受欢迎的酒精饮料中。他还在为亡妻而悲伤,并与他那不思进取的儿子韦德(Charlie Heaton 饰,出演过《怪奇物语》)生活在一起。他其他搬到大陆上的孩子们正准备回来参加一年一度的返乡聚会——而就在此时,那只眼睛的主人再次显现。

立刻脱颖而出的是创作者兼节目统筹杰西·麦基翁(Jesse McKeown)的选择,他忠实地保留了该地区特定的口音和方言,这种方言起源于爱尔兰和英格兰西南部,听起来与加拿大任何其他口音都截然不同。出人意料的是,这让人想起英国独立导演马克·詹金(Mark Jenkin)以康沃尔为背景的电影,尤其是 2019 年的《诱饵》(Bait),讲述了一个紧密的渔业社区及其经济衰退;两者共享一种粗犷的氛围。

深海之下的秘密:Netflix 剧集《Below》中潜伏在海中的危险

但在斯努克斯臂,确实存在怪物——既有神秘的,也有人类形式的。镇上将就居民是否应接受一笔补偿金并搬迁到较不偏远地区进行投票。与此同时,一名海洋研究员(Mackenzie Davis 饰)发现了冰层中包含的一种奇怪病毒。

《Below》是一部有趣的混搭之作,尽管在仅有的六集中,它显得有些单薄且过于严肃。哈特内特和戴维斯作为动作英雄和勇敢科学家的搭档表现令人信服,且该剧的电影化视野令人印象深刻,向其明显的先辈作品(如《大白鲨》和《异形》)致敬。但它还不够有趣,无法像其镜像作品《寡妇湾》(Widow's Bay)那样具有同样的胆识或热情。

豪威尔饰演的凯莉表现出色,她用一种强烈的温柔来诠释这个角色。她对新世界的发现令人着迷,这使得看着她的好奇心慢慢消逝时显得更加可怕。该剧保留了故事的基调,从体育馆更衣室中臭名昭著的欺凌场景,到克里斯最好的朋友苏·斯内尔(Siena Agudong 饰)的善良。其中还包括灾难性舞会的最高潮,当时凯莉终于实施了她的

随着混乱升级,卡尔文必须将他的家人和社区从潜伏在深海中的未知威胁中拯救出来。这是一个借鉴了民俗、20世纪70年代灾难电影和当代科学的环境寓言。(观众可能会发现其中向葡萄牙海岸虎鲸“袭击”船只事件,以及对永冻土融化可能释放出古代“僵尸病毒”之恐惧的致敬。)

弗拉纳根在这里采取的方法与他之前的改编作品相似。

但在八集的内容中,剧情在各种子情节中徘徊,感觉像是为了注水而填充。将世界观扩展到其他拥有超自然能力的女孩的故事,这一决定尝试失败了。它将剧集推向了漫画书般的基调,且缺乏构建那种即将爆发的愤怒感所需的专注度。

对折磨她的人进行报复。

他倾注了过多的情感,要求观众对所有人产生共情。这并非没有吸引力,但它削弱了故事的狠辣,也剥夺了故事中真正的反派克里斯和玛格丽特应有的恶毒,而这种恶毒正是让观众真正厌恶他们所必需的。即使当《キャ莉》(Carrie)最终达到其歌剧般的结局时,依然感觉有所保留。结果,这更像是一部可看的校园剧,而非对这部恐怖经典之作的一次新鲜诠释。

流行音乐 Ludovic Hunter-Tilney

Troye Sivan 《She's the Best》 Interscope ★★★☆☆

在最近一期的《时代》杂志中,凯莉·米洛(Kylie Minogue)称赞 Troye Sivan 是“一名完美的 2020 年代流行巨星”,既是粉丝们的“英雄”也是“知己”。这位与凯莉同为澳大利亚人的歌手,其 31 年人生的大部分时间都在公众视野中度过,最初是一名童星和 YouTube 视频博主。

他将自己的专辑视为人生不同阶段的日记,是向观众展示自我的另一种方式。这听起来可能显得过于刻意,但结果并非如此。

Sivan 的音乐温暖、感性且迷人。与凯莉相似,他给人一种不被名利所累的印象。他 2015 年的处女作《Blue Neighbourhood》是一幅关于来自珀斯郊区的年轻男同性恋者的成长自画像。

2018 年的续作《Bloom》讲述了年轻时的邂逅与分手。2023 年的《Something to Give to Each Other》在处理一段关系结束后的性自由问题上则更加大胆。

轻松的基调:Troye Sivan 的新专辑在处理明星客串时显得举重若轻

《She's the Best》是他的第四张专辑。这张专辑得到了强大的明星助力——不仅有凯莉的背书,妮可·基德曼(Nicole Kidman)和伊恩·麦克莱恩(Ian McKellen)也出现在单曲视频中,两人此前都曾与 Sivan 合作演戏。歌曲中还出现了莉莉-罗丝·德普(Lily-Rose Depp)和曾与其共同巡演的 Charli XCX 的客串。

专辑在处理这些奢华资源时显得很自然。其轻松的基调在《Le Boy》中得到了集中体现,Sivan 在迷人且阳光的西海岸流行旋律中,讲述自己“开车四处转”,做着“我喜欢的事情”。但《She’s the Best》并未达到其最高级标题所暗示的水准。

专辑以同名主打歌开篇,这首歌显得有些笨拙,Sivan 以一种像低声细语的卢·里德(Lou Reed)大声朗读《Cosmopolitan》杂志文章的方式,讲述了他心目中理想女性的一天(“漂亮,幽默,能打架”)。这首赞歌在 Charli 模糊的背景吟唱中结束。

专辑对女性特质的赞美在采样了麦当娜(Madonna)《Music》的《Party》,以及受珍妮·杰克逊(Janet Jackson)影响的《I Do This for You》中得以延续。德普在《Lost Time》中出场,用法语气喘吁吁地诉说着“amoureuse”(恋爱中)。

这种支持女性的概念应用得较为浅层,且不如 Sivan 之前的专辑那样具有日记感,而音乐则比以往更容易分心,带有笨拙的音频效果和突兀的结尾。

当这位歌手回归到前一张专辑的氛围中时,情况有所改善。他在流畅的节拍和层次丰富的和谐音中,用他那淡定的声音赞美与其他男性的性与浪漫。在这种微妙且丰盈的模式下,他在这一组较为散乱的歌曲中显得最为自在。

Chase & Status 《Generic Everything》 Warner ★★★☆☆

在 The Chemical Brothers 出现十年后,Chase & Status 在 2000 年代作为曼彻斯特的学生组成了一对 DJ 组合。两组艺人都偏好强劲的节拍和全速进攻,但 Chase & Status 从未获得太多的评论界认可。在批评者看来,Chase(Saul Milton)和 Status(Will Kennard)是鼓打贝斯(drum-and-bass)领域的商业投机者,他们拥有一种可疑的天赋,能创作出像强有力的《Baddadan》以及与 Stormzy 合作的英国冠军单曲《Backbone》这样的热门单曲。

他们新专辑那令人不悦的标题《Generic Everything》(通用一切),带有一种预先防御的意味,仿佛在预料电子音乐原教旨主义者们惯常的抱怨。随之而来的是两人关于 AI 垃圾内容以及算法扼杀创造力的眉头紧锁的讨论,但专辑中的 10 首曲目并未触及如此沉重的话题。相反,他们在简洁的 30 分钟内自由地穿梭于不同流派之间。客串嘉宾包括英国说唱明星 Little Simz、同为大空间 DJ 的 Skrillex,以及深沉嗓音的舞厅歌手 Irah,后者的低音深沉(basso profondo)曾出现在《Baddadan》中。

他在开篇曲目《Disgruntled》中与说唱歌手 J Hus 合作,这是一首带有漫画式粗犷风格的跳跃舞曲,包含“坏小子”风格的唱段、一种跳舞(skanking)的节奏,以及像愤怒漫画角色耳朵里喷出的蒸汽一样爆发的吉他声。Little Simz 出现在《Carnage》中,在鼓打贝斯(drum-and-bass)的密集火力中表现得异常冷静。随后,在与 Skrillex 合作的《Essa Ta Quente》中,曲风突然转向巴西的 baile funk。

节奏轻快,处处有新鲜的惊喜。资深 grime 音乐主持 D Double E 在《Levels》中带来了充满活力的表演。《Influence》是一首 Leftfield 风格的赞歌,由说唱歌手兼歌手 Ledbyher 演绎。《Gone Too Far》则是由歌手 Debbie 演唱的一首舞曲流行情歌。

这些曲目给人的感觉像是一组旨在打造热门单曲的集合,这意味着没有冗余的填充,但同时也有一种在不同风格间不停跳跃的躁动感。质量水平保持一致,尽管没有一首歌能达到《Baddadan》的高度。如果说 The Chemical Brothers 是英国电子音乐的先驱专辑艺术家,那么 Chase & Status 就是他们的后辈,一个纯粹的单曲艺术家。

Chase & Status:索尔·米尔顿(左)和威尔·肯纳德

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最新上映电影 Danny Leigh

《社交清算》(The Social Reckoning) 亚伦·索金 (Aaron Sorkin)

112 分钟 (15级) ★★☆☆☆

上一次我们看到马克·扎克伯格,他正阴沉地等待着一个 Facebook 的好友请求。在这种语境下,我们是指电影观众,那次邂逅发生在《社交网络》中——由导演大卫·芬奇和编剧亚伦·索金共同打造,讲述了一个由杰西·艾森伯格饰演的科技界少年王子的尖刻故事。

2010年。那是史前时代。对于扎克伯格来说,之后还有太多事情发生:从 Facebook 被指控助长了缅甸针对罗兴亚穆斯林的种族灭绝,到失败的 3D 虚拟世界“元宇宙”带来的尴尬,而广泛的研究则表明 Meta 的产品造成了深远的伤害。而现在,在经历这一切之后,据报道他的个人财富比那时增长了 60 多倍。

这使得由索金编剧并执导的续集《社交清算》有大量内容需要补齐,但这部电影显得粗制滥造且令人沮丧。事件被精简到了关键点。2019年,我们遇到了循规蹈矩的 Facebook 数据科学家弗朗西斯·豪根。2021年,她就公司从虚假信息中获利的问题在国会作证。电影大部分情节发生在两者之间。豪根由凭借《阿诺拉》获得奥斯卡奖的麦基·麦迪逊饰演,杰里米·艾伦·怀特共同主演,饰演《华尔街日报》的杰夫·霍维茨,豪根首次向他透露了算法违规的消息。

不,扎克伯格还没出现。正如他的地位以及这部极其俗套的电影所注定的那样,

杀手机器人的光芒:杰里米·斯特朗在《社交清算》中饰演马克·扎克伯格。他出场很晚。取代艾森伯格的是杰里米·斯特朗——他极具磁性、细致入微,且始终显露出他本人的特质,在进行一场表演。但随后,这个扎克伯格也在演戏,为他自己的国会听证会做准备。

如果社交媒体让我们变得更愚蠢,那么这部电影对待我们的方式也与之相应。一代人之前,索金凭借编写电视政治剧《白宫风云》而名声大噪。他当时的秘诀是让观众觉得自己很聪明。而现在,他似乎在面对一群脑震荡患者。当麦迪逊透露在 2016 年,Facebook 上极端组织 64% 的新成员是由该公司引导至那里时,这个事实立即被重复了两遍。当扎克伯格接连遭遇危机时,角色们

哀叹道:“时机不能更糟糕了!”

2010年,芬奇将犯罪惊悚片的阴暗快节奏带入了一次人物研究。而现在,现实世界的紧迫感显得很愚蠢。豪根与霍维茨的会面被处理成 screwball 喜剧风格,充满了关于巴塞特猎犬和香蕉大基里酒的古怪聊天。怀特的表演很沉闷,而电影将其等同于正直;麦迪逊在电影中有一半时间穿着黑色小礼服,这极其不合理。这一切对演员来说很残酷。对于举报者或记者来说也并非好事,索金虽然在口头上对他们表示真诚,但显然对他们感到厌倦。

但斯特朗身上那种杀手机器人的光芒除外。当扎克伯格辱骂他的走狗时,剧本终于找到了乐趣。(“你是新来的吗?”“请务必给我建议。”)随后它便无法自拔。“我们这里是后政府时代,”一名公关人员对霍维茨冷嘲热讽。这是一句好词。索金也这么认为。“请让我引用这句话,”记者回答道,这简直是编剧在给自己留下爱之吻。

然而,这一切为何重要却被掩盖了。每个人都在说话,但没有任何事情被清晰地阐述。Facebook 腐朽影响的例子被一一列举——儿童遭受网络欺凌,1月6日的血腥混乱。但这份罪状清单显得平淡无奇。索金心中没有愤怒。不过,如果没有这种反派色彩,他也不会获得拍摄许可。

这部电影看起来像一部过时的电视电影,这反而增强了那种“旧闻”的感觉。如果 2010 年感觉已经很久远,那么 2021 年同样如此。电影必须将那个时刻描绘成扎克伯格的一场灾难。但事实上,他当时只是经历了一些不适,随后便变得越来越富有。这部电影就像是《大白鲨》,只不过鲨鱼吃掉了所有人后继续游走了。年轻时的扎克伯格曾承认《社交网络》让他受伤。十六年后,这部电影并没有给他提供任何可以反思的东西。 现正上映

安德鲁·加菲尔德在《起义》(The Uprising)中饰演一名煽动者

《起义》(The Uprising)

128 分钟 (15) ★★★★☆

即便背景设定在 14 世纪,你也能立刻认出这是保罗·格林格拉斯(Paul Greengrass)的电影。导演在《菲利普船长》和《谍影重重》系列电影中赋予的那种动力电荷,如今在他的新项目《起义》中噼啪作响。而可能没那么熟悉的是这部电影所根植的英国历史。故事是对 1381 年农民起义的一次虚构化重述。这一时刻很少被搬上银幕——或者说,很少被允许去干扰那种认为英国特质天生就对革命具有某种古怪免疫力的流行观念。

电影开篇于雷雨阴霾下的埃塞克斯。一名未具名的耕夫(安德鲁·加菲尔德 饰)在耕种土地。在附近,他的家人在瘟疫后被埋葬。这个选角可能看起来违背直觉:加菲尔德显然不像个土生土长的农民。但他为这个角色带来的心碎氛围被拿捏得恰到好处。这个人物的丧亲之痛是塑造一名叛逆者的基石。因为在死亡之后紧随而至的是税收,由少年理查二世(伍迪·诺曼 饰)的顾问们残酷地向穷人征收。

冲突引发了大火。一群愤怒但心怀希望的群众向伦敦进发。这其中有许多现代共鸣。几个世纪后,另一项人头税终结了玛格丽特·撒切尔的政治生涯;而对“公平工资和租金”的诉求,在 2026 年的年轻人心中或许能引起强烈共鸣。(身穿粗麻布的农奴曾是蒙提·派森喜剧的常客,但我发现自己想起了比利时-法国导演阿涅斯·瓦尔达对卢米埃尔兄弟 19 世纪电影中人群的评价。她说,他们不是祖先,“他们就是我们”。)

然而,《起义》也聚焦于起义的领导者及其中世纪背景。科斯莫·贾维斯饰演坚毅的前士兵沃特·泰勒;杰米·贝尔饰演热诚的传教士约翰·鲍尔。尽管他们激进,但他们共同相信王室的善良。“走着瞧吧,”另一个角色说道。

在美国,这部电影被宣传为罗宾汉的前传故事。事实并非如此,尽管其中确实运用了诗意的虚构。残酷的真相同样存在。由于这是一部格林格拉斯的电影,这两者都被包裹在专业且喧闹的动作序列之中。于是,《起义》变成了完全属于导演个人风格的作品:将英国真实历史中一个被忽视的章节,赋予了史诗般的地位。 现正热映

《门徒》(The Disciple) 导演:乔安娜·纳塔塞加拉 (Joanna Natasegara) 时长 106 分钟 (15) ★★★☆☆

当传奇说唱团体 Wu-Tang Clan 在 20 世纪 90 年代初崭露头角时,他们的声音带来了巨大的冲击——仿佛是九个不同声音交织而成的混乱场面。这种混乱在纪录片《门徒:一个 Wu-Tang 寓言》(The Disciple: A Wu-Tang Fable) 中得以延续,该片重新讲述了一个极其古怪的音乐商业故事。故事在荷兰的省城、纽约的斯塔滕岛以及一座埃及金字塔顶端展开,期间还途经伊顿公学和美国司法部(DOJ)。这就是该团体第七张也是最后一张专辑《从前在邵林》(Once Upon a Time in Shaolin) (2015) 背后的故事。

然而,我们的起点很简单:一个痴迷于远方音乐的少年。他叫塔里克·阿祖加 (Tarik Azzougarh),是荷兰蒂尔堡市摩洛哥移民的儿子,他对 Wu-Tang 的狂热引领他走向了一个不可思议的“灰姑娘”故事。最终,他以制作人 Cilvaringz 的身份,不仅见到了自己的偶像,还成为了团体主脑 RZA 的创意合作伙伴。

随后,在 2014, 他产生了一个耐人寻味且具有煽动性的想法。部分为了应对数字时代录制音乐价值的丧失,阿祖加构思了一张仅限单本副本的 Wu-Tang 专辑。其内容在 2103 年之前将被法律禁止复制——这是一种试图将“艺术品”地位具体化的尝试。

随后局面陷入混乱。导演乔安娜·纳塔塞gara 的这部电影是对粉丝的致敬,同时也探讨了更深层的问题——尤其是嘻哈文化中街头团结与对金钱的狂热追求之间永恒的紧张关系。(该专辑在 2021 年以 $4mn 的价格售出。)甚至在臭名昭著的前制药公司首席执行官马丁·什克雷利 (Martin Shkreli) 登场之前,影片中就已渗透着阴暗基调,而后者在后期扮演了一个诡异的角色。

面对多种冲突视角的压力,电影最终采用了某种轻快且不羁的基调,这有时会让人感到有些突兀。不过,或许这正是 Wu-Tang 的特质——在这么多年后依然能让人感到震撼。现正上映。

《动物》(Animals)

本·阿弗莱克 (Ben Affleck)

时长 106 分钟 ★★★★☆

本·阿弗莱克可能会思考自己在现代电影工业中处于什么位置。作为大银幕的主演,仅凭他的出现已不足以刺激票房。而作为导演,即使是像他在 2013, 凭借《阿尔戈》(Argo) 赢得的最佳影片奥斯卡奖,其影响力也只有一定的时效性。

但他也是一个精明的操盘手。阿弗莱克现在与马特·达蒙 (Matt Damon) 一起与 Netflix 合作,制作成本低廉但完成度高端的精简 B 级片。今年 1 月,他制作并主演了充满张力的警匪剧《撕裂》(The Rip)。现在,他执导并主演了绑架惊悚片《动物》(Animals),这是一部像“高级芝士汉堡”一样的电影。我这是在赞美它。

阿弗莱克在竞选洛杉矶市长——准确地说,是他的角色马克·金博尔 (Mark Kimball) 在竞选。两者很容易混淆,因为金博尔本身就是一个电影明星候选人。“我不会对你们撒谎!”他告诉选民,而且他似乎真的相信这一点。

如果这听起来像契诃夫式的竞选承诺,那么故事还很长。虚构的情节中散布着复杂的细节,但美国的现实也共同出演了。这包括洛杉矶的背景。众所周知,现在越来越少的好莱坞电影在真实的城市中拍摄。而在这里,我们看到了日落大道、贫民窟 (Skid Row) 以及两者之间的大量场景。

不过,与《撕裂》一样,《动物》大部分情节发生在封闭空间内——这是一个聪明的预算选择,同时也让这部动作片呈现出一种紧凑的室内剧风格。

故事在金博尔的儿子被绑架时开始。你可能会想到连姆·尼森 (Liam Neeson) 那些由复仇驱动的《飓风营救》(Taken) 系列电影。但《动物》比那更聪明,而且——在最好的意义上——更愤世嫉俗。出色的配角包括凯瑞·华盛顿 (Kerry Washington) 和表现得极其冷峻的吉莉安·安德森 (Gillian Anderson),他们共同构成了一个由秘密和隐藏议程组成的集束炸弹。对于阿弗莱克来说,就像所有动物一样,生存之道似乎在于适应环境。 现已在 Netflix 上线。

戏剧 Sarah Hemming & Tim Bano

《皆如你所愿》(As You Like It) 皇家莎士比亚剧院, 斯特拉特福 ★★★★☆

在皇家莎士比亚剧团(RSC)新版《皆如你所愿》的首演之夜,乔纳森·格罗夫(Jonathan Groff)饰演的罗莎琳德和菲萨约·阿基纳德(Fisayo Akinade)饰演的西莉亚花比平时更长的时间才抵达亚登森林。一次技术故障导致演出中途出现了严重的延迟,因为暴政公爵的堡垒顽固地拒绝从舞台上升起,不愿让位于森林的自由。当绿意盎然的林间空地终于出现时——这多亏了后台工作人员的出色工作——西莉亚那句“奔向自由而非流放”的呐喊引发了观众热烈的笑声和掌声。

这种经历并非剧团愿意重复的。然而奇怪的是,这次意外恰恰与剧作本身以及导演丹尼尔·埃文斯(Daniel Evans)深情解读的基调相契合。转变是其核心。甚至连森林在这里也经历了转化:它并非树木的聚集地,而在安妮莎·菲尔兹(Anisha Fields)绝美的设计中,呈现为一片丛草丛生的威尔士乡村。

由西奥·杰米森(Theo Jamieson)编曲的威尔士语赞美诗以辉煌的无伴奏合唱形式呈现,将整个剧情浸润在“hiraeth”之中——那是一种深沉且怀旧的渴望感。全男性演员阵容为文本对爱情的探讨注入了一种俏皮的酷儿元素。这是一部由寻找“家”——即你所属之地——所驱动的演出。

这一点在令人震撼的开场中得到了强调,画面显示:

不同视角:RSC版《皆如你所愿》的全男性演员阵容为探讨爱情带来了一种俏皮的酷儿元素 Marc Brenner

格罗夫饰演的罗莎琳德被一群身着西装的朝臣粗暴地推搡,提醒我们,虽然她的父亲在身体上被篡位,但她同样被排挤。她和心爱的表妹西莉亚在这个由强硬言论和摔跤比赛定义权力的压抑环境中没有立足之地。当两人逃往荒野寻求庇护,而那里由被流放的公爵主导着一种替代性的、更自由的生活方式时,西莉亚化名的“艾莉娜”(Aliena)一词凸显了出来。

格罗夫和阿基纳德在关系中展现出丰富且复杂的化学反应,在友谊与爱情之间摇摆不定,而这往往是剧中 deepest 的动力。格罗夫饰演的罗莎琳德拥有迷人的机智和魅力,但也带着一丝顽皮的傲慢。与此同时,阿基纳德的表现堪称卓越,细腻地刻画了西莉亚在奥兰多成为罗莎琳德情感中心时的忠诚与沮丧。罗莎琳德在扮演新身份时所体验到的自由,与西莉亚对自己处境日益增加的不确定感形成了对比。

贯穿始终,全男性演员阵容为莎士比亚这部伟大剧作中早已存在的关于身份和性别的诸多问题带来了微妙的不同视角。在这里,它较少关乎男女的社会规范,而更多关乎发现什么适合自己以及被接纳。这种对“家”的寻找以多种方式展开:在埃利奥特·巴恩斯-沃雷尔(Elliot Barnes-Worrell)饰演的忧郁奥兰多身上,在蒂姆·普雷斯顿(Tim Preston)饰演的拘谨菲比与爱德华·贾奇(Edward Judge)饰演的甜蜜痴情牧羊人西尔维乌斯的配对中,以及在理查德·麦凯布(Richard McCabe)饰演的孤独雅各身上,后者最后为了寻求精神指引而离去的背影显得安静而真诚。

《皆如你所愿》的天才之处在于剧本本身极其灵活——它可以呈现为阳光明媚、阴郁或斑驳。很少有舞台呈现能捕捉到所有面向,而这一版失去了一些对权力与教养的微妙探讨。但在这一部清新且温柔动人的作品中,这似乎是必要的牺牲。该剧充满了精彩的表演,并敏锐地观察到了人类对爱与接纳的普遍需求。 SH 直至11月7日,rsc.org.uk

《花粉热》(Hay Fever)

伦敦温莎剧院 (Wyndham's Theatre) ★★★☆☆

一个世纪以来,礼貌的社交惯例并没有太大改变。而根据艾米莉·伯恩斯 (Emily Burns) 对这部轻快经典的重启演绎,执导诺埃尔·考沃德 (Noël Coward) 作品的方式也未曾改变:我们看到了法式窗户、简洁的口音和一系列精炼的机智对白,再加上克里斯汀·巴兰斯基 (Christine Baranski) 和理查德·E·格兰特 (Richard E Grant) 这两位明星主演的加持。

一场四方参与的社交失礼拉开了序幕:布利斯 (Bliss) 一家的每个成员——演员母亲朱迪思 (Judith)、小说家父亲大卫 (David) 以及两个不务正业的孩子西蒙 (Simon) 和索雷尔 (Sorel)——都在没有告知其他人的情况下,邀请了一位不合适的客人周末前往他们的乡村别墅。这给乔·麦金尼斯 (Jo McInnes) 饰演的那位令人愉悦且脾气暴躁的女佣带来了巨大的压力。布利斯一家以牺牲访客为代价,玩起了心理游戏。

自1925年首演以来,《花粉热》已成为业余剧团和明星主导的重启剧目的常客,当时它是西区天才考沃德同时上演的四部剧作之一。你可以理解其中的原因。虽然起初那些机智的对白令人疲惫,但很快就会出现太多令人无法抗拒的金句。巴兰斯基饰演的朱迪思在评价一名竞争对手时宣称:“她把性当成捕虾网一样使用。”

不过,这部剧大部分时间是以一种令人愉悦且满意的方式推进的,比当地业余剧团的演出要好,但并非那种能将考沃德带入21世纪的启示性制作。格兰特的表演足够有趣,他头上颤动着像古怪教授一样的头发,带着一种孩子般的兴奋。南希·卡罗尔 (Nancy Carroll) 提供了强有力的支持,她将其中一名受邀客人的角色演绎得毫不费力。

一向可靠的查尔斯·爱德华兹 (Charles Edwards) 将尴尬的沉默变成了一种艺术,他饰演的外交官理查德僵硬地站着,年轻的轻佻女郎杰基 (Jackie,由露西·卡尔切夫斯基 Lucy Karczewski 饰演,带着紧绷的笑容) 在被主人忽视的同时试图进行闲聊。

但这部剧的主角基本上是巴兰斯基。她掌控舞台的方式就像朱迪思掌控她的家一样。从低沉的傲慢叫声到每隔几个词就升高几个八度的声音。这种表演处理得很巧妙:一名优秀的演员在扮演一名自认为优秀但其实糟糕的演员。

当然,布利斯家的客厅装饰着与温莎剧院相同的金色檐口和淡蓝色油漆,这并非巧合。整个客厅就是一个舞台,布利斯一家是演员,而四位客人则是这场不情愿的沉浸式体验中无意识的参与者。

但这也是这部剧陷入僵局的地方。你只能勉强察觉到布利斯一家身上淡淡的悲哀。这种表演性是他们唯一能做的事。他们要么不知道如何做自己,或者更悲剧的是,这就是他们的真面目。

诺埃尔·考沃德声称自己用三天时间写完了《花粉热》。这显然是不真实的,但考沃德就像他在剧中塑造的人物一样,比起平庸的现实,他更倾向于对自己进行夸张的表演。这部剧作为一次消遣性的剧院之夜已经足够令人满意,但它似乎害怕窥视表演背后的真相。尽管演员阵容优秀且布景优雅,它依然像其角色一样浅薄。TB 直至12月12日,hayfeverplay.com

狂热:理查德·E·格兰特和克里斯汀·巴兰斯基 Marc Brainer

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Kothegrapher 作品《We Dey Road Dey Come》(2024)

非洲大陆拥有全球最年轻的人口,这里涌现出大量新兴艺术家,他们独特的视角正在塑造一种具有全球影响力的视觉文化。

新书《非洲街头摄影》(Street Photography Africa)便证明了这一点,该书重点介绍了 33 位当代非洲摄影师,他们记录了故乡城市生活的活力。

这位尼日利亚影像创作者 Kothegrapher 呈现了充满奇思妙想的场景。他在阿布贾大学学习社会学期间自学了摄影,这两个学科在作品中交汇,展现了人们在环境中彰显个性的构图。

在这幅作品中,他的朋友 Lifu 看起来准备好迎接冒险,头顶着一叠草帽,大步走在阿布贾市中心的马路上。Kothegrapher 将这部作品描述为“自由、生成、文化与连接的证明”。

Yazzi Gokcemen 《非洲街头摄影》(Street Photography Africa)由 Thames & Hudson 于 10 月 27 日出版,售价 £45 / $60

您是否陷入了语言的迷茫地带?

乔·埃利森 趋势观察

本周,我从执行编辑办公室收到了一份术语表,旨在帮助解释那些被称为“新闻行话”(journalese)的专业术语。这份表原本是为新入职者和实习记者准备的,但读起来依然引人入胜。

这份术语表是舰队街(Fleet Street)经典词汇——如“跑腿新闻”(shoe-leather journalism)、“切入点”(angle)、“概览”(sweep)和“色彩”(colour)——与反映数字化时代的术语的结合体。其中一些词汇是对整个行业的通用描述,而另一些则根据内部人员的心血来潮和个性而演变。如今的行话中包含了诸如“计算新闻学”(computational journalism)和“快速图表”(fastcharts)等词汇,以反映我们数据驱动的活力。但即便我们在构思故事时采用了数字化思维,像“排水”(drains)和“副标题”(decks)这类旧的印刷媒体术语依然在沿用。

新闻行话拥有悠久且晦涩的传统。在千禧之交我刚开始在报社工作时,编辑室的语言仍根植于活字印刷时代。那是“标题爆框”(busted headlines)的时代,即文字无法适应分配的排版空间;那时还有“校样”(galley proofs)和“打字员”(copytakers),后者是指一组主要由女性组成的团队,她们负责将电话中口述的故事打成文字。

有一位编辑经常在截稿日期的问题上催促我们,不停地担心我们是否能及时“脱离石版”(off stone)。他指的是将活字印刷组装成最终格式的旧做法,一旦完成,任何人不得做出任何更改,连一个逗号都不能移动。这个表达在当时已经深深刻上了时代脱节的烙印——印刷现场早已数字化——但我喜欢想象印刷厂里有个像摩西一样的老家伙,在房间里搬运着刻在岩石上的石板。

感叹号被称为“尖叫者”(screamers)(或者有些人喜欢称之为“狗之冠”),而且使用感叹号必须获得“教皇特许”(papal dispensation)。一名年轻的实习生在被要求“提交稿件”(file his copy)后,在那之后的几天里一直默默地焦虑。这其实仅仅意味着他需要通过电子邮件发送故事,但他确实徒劳地寻找了很久那个所谓的“文件”(the file)。多年后,他承认了这次误解带来的笨拙焦虑。我告诉他不必担心:在很多年里,我完全不知道“埋掉导语”(burying the lede)是什么意思。

专业行话是任何职场的必然产物,在金融城(the City)就和在好莱坞一样普遍。(我最近的新发现是“帽子上加帽子”这个表达,编剧们用它来沟通某个场景或笑话已经在运作得很好,但又被添加了多余的内容。)尽管如此,它也可能

我很惊讶我们竟然还需要语言。既然可以用一个“爆炸头”的表情符号,为什么还要说“煮干大海”?

令人困惑且具有排他性:沟通不畅长期以来被认为是新员工面临的一个问题。没有什么比进入一个新工作岗位后发现一个充满“双关语 / 黑话”的世界更让人不安的了。

职场语言可以作为一种便捷的速记方式,但它会让那些不够自信、不敢询问什么是“猫门”(catflap)的年轻员工感到格外疏离。当人们引入更能反映自身年龄的代际语言修饰时,这种断层会进一步加剧。

根据 Instantprint 委托的一项针对 2,000 名英国办公室职员的研究,超过 68% 的人表示他们经常听到不理解的短语。近四分之一(24%)的人因为不理解语言而感到被排除在职场对话之外。

12% 的人表示,误解曾导致他们犯错。

婴儿潮一代的古旧说法与 Z 世代的俚语并不匹配。不同世代被困在沟通之海的两岸:事实上,婴儿潮一代的表达“煮干大海”(boil the ocean)正是那些让 Z 世代员工最感到困惑的表达之一。

郑重声明,我这辈子从未听过“boil the ocean”(煮干大海)这个词。根据谷歌(44%的员工在遇到此类问题时会“秘密”搜索以寻求启发)的解释,这个词是指承担一项过于雄心勃勃且不切实际的任务。

话又说回来,我对“rage applying”(愤怒申请,指因为对现状不满而大量申请新工作)或“coffee badging”(咖啡打卡,指员工到公司刷卡打卡,喝杯咖啡后就离开改为远程办公)这些年轻一代熟知的词汇同样陌生。我陷入了一种语言上的尴尬境地,似乎没有任何俚语能被我理解。也许我对专业术语免疫,或者我更倾向于创造一些更个性化的表达。

坦白说,我很惊讶我们竟然还需要语言。既然可以用一个“爆炸头”的表情符号发给对方,为什么还要费劲去“煮干大海”?而且我发现,很少有对话不能通过一个“大拇指向上”或“向下”的图片得到非常令人满意的解决。尽管如此,我们必须继续滋养语言,并尝试在语言上进化。

jo.ellison@ft.com

我现在正在使用一系列 Z 世代的表达方式:“It's giving”(这很有……的感觉)一个年长女性在悲剧性地试图融入年轻同事之中。“It's giving” 大卫·布伦特。而且我依然热爱我们印刷时代前辈们的俚语,因为我喜欢假装自己是《周五女友》里的希尔迪·约翰逊,而我的编辑是加里·格兰特。我在“咖啡打卡”吗?绝不可能,先生!没错,你可以在那上面放一只狗的阴茎。

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悲观疲劳的危险

贾南·加内什:无国之民

在 Legado 餐厅晚餐。这家店已经开业一年多,理应失去势头。然而,在周三的晚上,这里依然座无虚席,甚至需要分两批就餐。从本周起,为了满足需求,它在周一也开始营业。于是,一场标志着 2026 年许多夜晚社交活动的对话开始了:“这些人都是谁?”“他们怎么负担得起这里的消费?”最重要的是:“为什么没有人看起来心事重重?”

据该领域的一些人士称,人工智能导致人类灭绝的可能性为 10%。在非正式场合,间谍们对本十年内爆发全欧洲战争的概率也给出了类似的预测。尽管如此,我像 REM 一样,感觉良好。在 5.30pm 和 9.45pm 之间为了抢到餐厅桌位而进行的荷马式艰苦奋斗表明,其他人也一样。目前世界的这种不稳定性与外界这种庄严的淡定之间,差距的原因是什么?

我担心,这是悲观疲劳。近段时间,太多的人在虚报“狼来了”——或者是“犯罪浪潮”、“孤独流行病”或“文明抹除”——导致镇上的居民现在对此已经麻木了。末日商人不仅是令人厌烦的陪伴者,他们还是糟糕的公民,因为他们全天候的阴郁让其他人难以将真正的威胁与神经质的废话区分开来。

一个像我这个年纪的西方人经历过以下这些公众恐慌。首先是核毁灭。在 20 世纪 80 年代,这是好莱坞电影和马丁·艾米斯(Martin Amis)最弱作品的素材。结果证明冷战正在结束,而非升级为热战。其次是基地组织。这种威胁并非凭空捏造,但它从未真正触及生存危机。那个时代的政治演说现在看来令人尴尬。第三是疫情,或者更准确地说是封锁,它曾被认为将永远改变人类的互动方式。当时人们甚至在质疑握手是否能回归,更不用说性行为了。我听说这两者都回来了。

发出这些警报并非出于恶意。但其产生的影响——使人们对其他警告脱敏——是有毒的。如果你后悔在听到萨达姆时没有耸肩表示不屑,那么当你听到弗拉基米尔·普京时,就更有可能耸肩而过。

如果你后悔当初没有对萨达姆·侯赛因的出现表现得不以为然,那么现在当你听到弗拉基米尔·普京的名字时,就更有可能耸耸肩表示无所谓

侯赛因。如果你记得那些听起来像专家的关于“永恒大流行病”的论调,你可能会觉得可以理所当然地轻视对气候问题的担忧。

至少往年的恐慌是基于重大且具体的事件:波斯信使导弹的部署、9 / 11、冠状病毒。而现在流行的是一种心理文化上的阴郁——比如“男性气概危机”、“后读写时代”——这些观点建立在选择性数据、流行科学以及一种开始让受众产生抵触的修辞性过度亢奋之上。在某个时间点,人们会将这种“论述”中的痛苦与他们三维生活的实际体验进行交叉比对,而实际上,很多事情比一代人之前要好得多。由此导致的

信任缺失,以及对警告(甚至是有效的警告)的屏蔽,是致命的。

过去,本专栏曾反对悲观主义,因为悲观主义经常出错。事实也的确如此。在那些糊涂的听众面前,赢得掌声最快的方式就是向某个伊甸园般的过去表达向往,然后为随后的衰落给出一个单一原因的解释——比如撒切尔,或者智能手机。这种中庸之见,以及对积极社会趋势的好奇心缺失,简直无穷无尽。犯罪率自20世纪90年代以来已减半,但这些愤世嫉俗的人没一个愿意谈论这件事。

但本专栏不同。它反对悲观主义的理由是功利性的:即悲观主义会产生糟糕的现实后果。绝望是危险的,因为随着时间的推移,如果它大多数时候被证明是错误的,它会让我们变得不那么警觉,而不是更加警觉。当一名总统被称作法西斯分子,结果却发现他“仅仅”是错误、无能且贪婪时,当真正的法西斯分子悄然出现时,人们将不再设防。

在伊索寓言中,罪魁祸首不是那个撒谎的男孩。而是村民们,他们犯了归纳法错误,因为之前的狼报信都是假的,所以不再相信所有关于狼的目击报告。这是一个典型的休谟式禁忌。人们不应该这样做,但我们确实这么做了。因此,减轻语气成了悲观主义者的伦理责任。即使是相当可信的警告也必须定量投放,以避免变成可以被忽略的白噪音。我几乎每晚都能看到这个问题。我几乎每晚就是这个问题本身,对着盘中的蒜蓉虾(gambas al ajillo)大笑,而此时此刻可能是自1945年以来最黑暗的时刻。“为什么没有人看起来心惊胆战?”也许他们曾经那样过,现在觉得自己像个傻瓜。

janan.ganesh@ft.com

岩石之鸟胸针 灵感源自 Jean Schlumberger 1965 年的标志性图案

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随着借贷成本上升侵蚀财政大臣的财政空间,外界猜测约翰·希利(John Healey)将被迫在10月28日的预算案中提高税收。具体将针对哪些领域(如果确实会提高)仍有争议。资本利得税会上升吗?所谓的“豪宅税”门槛会降低吗?我们是否可以期待遗产税或养老金一次性领取金额发生变化?

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法律事务所 Fieldfisher 的合伙人杰西卡·加德纳(Jessica Gardner)表示,数据表明订阅服务正日益被视为经常性的家庭固定支出,而非随意消费。

加德纳表示,消费者在削减其他开支的同时,可能会保留现有订阅,或者增加新的订阅,亦或迁移到更高等级或捆绑式的服务方案中。

她指出,由于订阅交易次数的增长(年增长 5.1%)慢于支出增长,这意味着每笔订阅交易的平均价值正在上升。

加德纳补充道:“这可能反映了价格通胀或供应商的涨价,但同样也可能是消费者升级到高级服务、购买更高价值的套餐,或转向更昂贵的订阅方案的结果。”

来自汇丰银行(HSBC)的独立数据显示,健康科技订阅支出(涵盖 Oura 等智能戒指技术和腕戴设备)在较低的基数上表现出尤为快速的增长,在 2023 年至 2025 年间几乎翻了两番。

健康科技订阅支出从 2023 年的 £28mn 增长到 2025 年的 £106mn,而约会软件和预制餐盒(meal-in-a-box)订阅的支出则有所下降。

汇丰银行(英国)零售与休闲高级总监大卫·马迪森(David Maddison)表示,健康与养生方面的支出尤其令人关注。“这是人们在新冠疫情后极其重视的领域。”

根据汇丰银行的数据,宠物食品订阅支出在 2023 年至 2025 年间增长了 36.5%,从 £307mn 增加到 £419mn。

然而,马迪森指出,一些其他订阅业务在疫情后要么已经“成熟”,要么“不再受欢迎”。

预制餐盒市场——汇丰银行数据中唯一一项支出超过 10亿英镑 的领域——从 2023 年的 11亿英镑 下降到 2025 年的 10亿英镑。约会软件的支出从 2023 年的 £30mn 下降到 2025 年的 £22mn。

客户忠诚度与参与平台 LoyaltyLion 的首席执行官查理·凯西(Charlie Casey)表示,企业正“日益关注终身价值和重复购买”,而非将每次销售视为一次孤立的交易。

读者来信

父母的发射台

1966年,在我九岁时,出身于工人阶级底层的父母给我买了一套亚瑟·米(Arthur Mee)百科全书。

几年后,他们又给我买了一套 Merit 化学实验套装,最终我获得了生物化学博士学位。父母可以如此睿智!—— Irish Passport,通过 FT.com

在“厨房餐桌”上创业所需的动力和韧性,是这个国家在未来保持竞争力的生命线。

我们没有稀有矿产,但就像你描述的那些父母一样,作为一个经济体,我们应该竭尽全力去培养和支持这些创业者—— Mersenne,通过 FT.com

父母向成年子女收取房租似乎是一件非常“英国式”的事情。也许在某些情况下这有其道理或必要性,但我很赞同这篇文章中那些父母的做法。

我将努力让我们的家成为孩子们成年后的发射台—— Jamie Dixon,通过 .

想尝试自由职业?这里有六个成功的财务技巧 我七年前开始从事自由职业,并非完全出于自愿。但正如人们所说,到目前为止,一切都很好!

这些技巧非常精准——从企业世界转向自由职业可能很艰难,因为你不再有办公室里那些关于工作或其他事情的偶然交谈。

但你也会发现,你的高效工作时间大大增加了,因为你不再需要参加大量毫无价值的企业会议—— Gas-expert,通过 .

关于自由职业有一个基本且不可反驳的原则:你不再应该认为自己是在为雇主工作。你现在是一家向客户提供服务的企业。

就像任何优秀的企业一样,如果你花时间了解客户的需求并尽力满足他们,你就会繁荣发展。而且,如果你想向企业的 IT 经理投诉,恐怕你只能对着镜子说话了—— Bob,自由职业者,通过 .

资本利得税上涨将威慑股权投资者,财富主管发出警告

从根本上说,资本利得税(CGT)是对风险和冒险行为征收的税。如果成功时可能面临 45% 的潜在税率,谁还愿意冒着损失资本的风险?大多数(如果不是全部)投入的资本此前已经缴纳过税了—— GM40,通过 .

资本利得税在很大程度上是对通货膨胀征收的税。将其称为利润税仅仅是一种公关手段—— Thucydides trap,通过 .

您可以通过电子邮件 money@. 或在 Twitter 上通过 @ftmoney 对 Money 的文章发表评论。评论可能会为了篇幅和清晰度而进行编辑。

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劳动者预计将推迟 5.3 年退休

退休

英国人无奈地接受比预期多工作五年

ALIYA SHIBLI

一项新研究显示,由于人们对为未来储备足够资金的信心下降,人们理想的退休时间与预计停止工作时间之间的差距首次超过五年。

国家养老金领取年龄的提高被认为是退休预期发生变化的原因之一 —— Finnbarr Webster / Getty Images

根据 Standard Life 的《退休之声》(Retirement Voice)报告,英国劳动者的平均理想退休年龄约为 62 岁,但现在预计要工作到近 68 岁,这使得“退休预期差距”达到了创纪录的 5.3 年,高于去年的 4.7 年和 2024 年的 4.4 年。

女性的这一差距更大,预计将多工作 6.1 年,而男性为 4.5 年。

Standard Life 退休未来中心主任凯瑟琳·富特(Catherine Foot)表示:“人们理想中希望退休的年龄(在近年来)没有改变,但他们认为实际上能够停止工作的时间点正在变得越来越遥远。”

富特将此归咎于家庭财务压力再次增加、更广泛的经济和全球不确定感,以及目前正从 66 岁提高到 67 岁的国家养老金领取年龄。

“这些因素共同作用,使得退休感觉不再那么确定,而且更加遥远,而不是一个人们可以充满信心去规划的里程碑。”

Standard Life 发现,与此同时,在过去三年中,对自身财务状况感到“乐观”的受访者比例有所下降,尤其是在高收入家庭中。

Pensions UK 战略政策与研究总监马修·布莱克斯塔德(Matthew Blakstad)表示,另一个“退休预期差距”存在于人们希望的退休生活与他们预计能实现的退休生活之间。他补充道:“对于数百万在 50 岁和 60 岁出头离开职场的人来说,[这种情况]是非常现实的。”

布莱克斯塔德指出政府数据显示,该年龄段中近十分之三的女性处于经济不活跃状态,男性则超过五分之一。

布莱克斯塔德说:“挑战不仅在于人们何时退休,而是在于他们是否能通过减少工作时间、更换岗位或从事合适的工作,来塑造退休前的这些年。”

在 Standard Life 调查的 6,000 人中,约有一半的人担心他们的退休资金无法维持,并认为他们的财务状况在很大程度上由他们无法控制的因素决定。

然而,将养老金储蓄视为优先事项的人员比例已从去年的 15% 下降至 12%。超过三分之一的人完全没有进行退休规划,其中千禧一代的比例上升至 39%,Z 世代则为 40%。

研究发现,那些进行了“大量”退休规划的人,其退休预期差距为 2.5 年,而完全没有规划的人这一差距则为 7.3 年。

在年收入超过 10 万英镑 的家庭受访者中,规划了退休生活的人差距不足一年,而未规划的人差距约为五年。

Quilter Cheviot 的特许财务规划师梅根·里默(Megan Rimmer)表示:“在收入增加时提高养老金缴费、在适当情况下整合旧的养老金账户、审查投资选择并定期重新评估进度,所有这些都能产生显著的影响。”

虽然半数受访者预计他们需要工作到超过国家养老金领取年龄,但近五分之一的人认为他们在 60 岁之后将无法继续担任目前的职务。

研究发现,退休预期差距在英国各地以及不同群体之间存在差异,租房者和年轻一代面临的差距最大。

威尔士、东米德兰兹和英格兰东南部地区的差距在六年或以上,其中英格兰东北部的差距最大,达6.6年。大伦敦地区的预期差距最小,为3.8年。

租房者面临的退休差距为6.8年,是完全拥有住房者的2.1年差距的三倍多,比有抵押贷款的人员多出一年多。

里默表示:“有些人可能会选择在完全停止工作之前减少工作时间,或转岗到压力较小的职位。而另一些人可能会继续工作,因为他们的养老金和储蓄还不足以支撑他们所希望的生活方式。”

也许吧。但另一种方法是否能更好地协调承租人与业主(freeholder)之间的利益?越来越多的退休社区开发商开始收取较低的服务费,并通过在前期约定好提取一定比例的转售收益,来弥补损失并获取利润。

“我们发现许多人更倾向于以较低的入门价格和更确定的费用进入,而在最后支付更多费用,”行业团体相关退休社区运营商协会(Associated Retirement Community Operators)的迈克尔·沃格斯(Michael Voges)表示。

我对退休公寓仍有两个重大异议。首先,为了合理评估价值,购买者必须在不可预测的寿命与初始成本、经常性成本以及最终成本之间进行权衡。

其次,在需要改革的停滞市场中,退休公寓在历史上一直是一项糟糕的投资。我们需要规模更大、价格更低廉的退休社区,并为入住者和运营商提供更好的激励机制。

需要补充的是,继承人是目前新建公寓转售价格低迷的最激烈受害者。面对难以出售的空置房产以及高昂的每月服务费,他们感到焦虑是可以理解的。

然而,将房产留给他们的年长亲属在购买时,其优先级并不止于残值。这些优先级可能包括安全性、服务,或许还有在阳光下小酌一杯的惬意。那些广告横幅不至于是纯粹的虚构。

许多退休公寓的增值幅度远低于其他住宅

英国城市退休公寓价格变动(年度 %)

来源:Zoopla;土地登记局;作者研究 • 名义数字。自1996.年起,每座城市选取10-12套退休公寓。实现价格指从首次记录销售到最后一次记录销售。预期价格指从首次销售到当前广告价格。2000-26年所有房产的平均实现价格。

来自那些几代同堂居住地的读者,可能会对我们盎格鲁-撒克逊人为了避免这种情况而给自己制造的种种困境感到好笑。

“让我惊讶的是,你们竟然期望老人单独生活,”一位南美朋友曾告诉我,“在我的家乡,我们都住在一起。”

“和平地住在一起吗?”我问。

“噢,不!”他笑了,“每个人都吵得不可开交。但在我的家乡,家人就是家人。”

乔纳森·古斯里(Jonathan Guthrie)是一名记者、顾问兼作家; jonathanbuchananguthrie@gmail.com

Forvis Mazars 被 FT Adviser 评为英国顶尖财务咨询公司

西蒙妮·基里亚库(SIMONEY KYRIAKOU)

根据《金融时报》姐妹刊 FT Adviser 进行的一项年度研究,Forvis Mazars 被评为英国最成功的财务顾问公司。

这家总部位于伦敦的公司因其咨询资产规模的增长以及客户数量的增加而获得最高排名。

Forvis Mazars 英国区合伙人兼财务规划负责人大卫·贝克(David Baker)表示,大多数新业务是通过现有客户推荐而来的。他说:“没有比客户向他人推荐我们更好的认可了。”

这项已运行 30 年的 Top 100 财务顾问排名旨在表彰那些扩大了业务规模、增加了咨询资产、吸引了新客户或获得了特许 / 认证资质的公司。

每年,排名方法都会与 ISS Market Intelligence 协作进行优化,以反映行业的变革。英国财务咨询业务取得成功的同年,Forvis Mazars 在美国裁减了审计、税务和咨询部门约 3 per cent 的员工。

今年入选 FT Adviser Top 100 名单的公司在一年内的总销售额至少达到 £240mn,这是自 Top 100 记录开始以来的最高水平。

ISS Market Intelligence 顾问研究负责人克莱尔·莱斯特(Clair Lester)表示:“对于顾问来说,这是非常强劲的一年。由于所有(政策)变动,更多的人在寻求建议。”

FT Adviser 还为拥有少于 10 名财务顾问的公司创建了 Top 50 Boutiques 名单,以突出小型咨询公司在当地社区所做的工作。2026 年的所有精品店在截至 2026 年 7 月的 12 个月内,总销售额均达到了 £200mn。

完整名单及排名背后的方法论可在 FT.com / adviserlist 查询。

您的提问 / 新闻

您的疑问:我可以为孩子指定监护人吗?

通常由生存的父母承担照顾孩子的责任 —— FT 蒙太奇 / David De Lossy / Getty Images

您的疑问

Lucy Warwick-Ching

我已经与孩子的父亲分居,目前正在更新我的遗嘱,以便为孩子们指定监护人。我对他们的父亲是否适合照顾孩子有严重顾虑,我认为如果我去世,让他们与父亲生活并不符合他们的最佳利益。作为母亲,我可以指定其他监护人吗?我能做些什么来最大限度地确保我的意愿得到执行?

Forsters 律师事务所家庭法部门合伙人兼儿童事务负责人 Sarah Williams 表示,这是一个她经常遇到的问题。

许多父母认为,在遗嘱中指定监护人就意味着,如果他们去世,被选中的人将自动获得孩子的照顾权。然而,如果另一方父母在世且拥有父母责任(parental responsibility),该父母通常将继续决定孩子的抚养问题。

父母责任是指对孩子生活做出重要决定(包括教育、医疗和福利)的法律权力。作为母亲,您会自动拥有这项权力。

如果父亲与母亲结婚或建立了民事伙伴关系,或者其姓名登记在孩子的出生证明上,通常也拥有该责任。此外,通过协议或法院命令也可以获得该责任。

在大多数生存父母拥有父母责任的情况下,遗嘱指定的监护人不会立即介入——只有在生存父母去世且孩子未满 18 岁时,该指定才生效。

一个重要的例外情况是:如果儿童安排令(child arrangements order)仅指定已故父母——而未指定生存父母——为孩子的共同生活人。在这种情况下,监护人在父母去世后可立即获得父母责任,即使另一方父母仍然在世。

如果对孩子的未来照顾产生顾虑,这将使监护人处于更有利的地位。但即便如此,这也不意味着监护人将自动接管孩子的照顾工作,也不保证孩子会长期与他们生活在一起。

如果发生争议,法院将根据孩子的最佳利益决定安排方案,并将福利作为首要考虑因素。不过,监护人将拥有正式身份,且已故父母的意愿可能会具有更大的权重。

明智的做法是准备一份意愿书(letter of wishes),解释您在遗嘱中选择特定监护人的原因,并列出您对生存父母在涉及孩子福利方面的任何严重顾虑。

如果存在此类顾虑,应寻求专业的家庭法建议。

关键点在于,仅凭一项监护权指定可能无法实现您预期的结果。请确保您的遗嘱、任何意愿书以及任何儿童安排法院命令保持一致。应保留支持您顾虑的证据,且此前家庭法院诉讼中的任何裁定可能具有特别重要的意义。

本专栏的观点仅用于提供一般信息,不应替代专业建议。金融时报有限公司(The Financial Times Ltd)及其作者不对因依赖相关回复而产生的任何直接或间接结果(包括任何损失)承担责任,并在法律允许的最大范围内免除责任。

在 FT.com / your-questions 查找更多读者问题的答案。

随着固定利率产品利率上升,追踪利率抵押贷款需求激增

艾玛·邓克利 (EMMA DUNKLEY)

由于人们对固定利率产品成本的担忧日益增加,英国对追踪利率抵押贷款(tracker mortgages)的需求有所上升,尽管一些经纪人警告称,选择追踪利率是一种赌博。

抵押贷款经纪人报告称,随着新固定利率产品的利率持续上涨,选择追踪利率住房贷款(其利率随银行基准利率变动)的人数大幅增加。

根据本周公布的英格兰银行数据,贷款价值比(LTV)为 75% 的五年期固定利率抵押贷款的平均利率在 9 月达到了 4.98%,为三年来的最高水平。

市场分析师和交易员预计,英格兰银行在 2027 年 7 月底前将四次加息,其中首次加息 25 个基点最早可能在 11 月出现。

尽管基准利率的上升会推高追踪利率,但经纪人表示,它们可能比许多固定利率产品更便宜。

经纪公司 London & Country 的大卫·霍林沃思 (David Hollingworth) 表示:“自年初以来,(对追踪利率的)兴趣几乎增长了三倍。”他提到这几乎回到了“迷你预算”时期的趋势,指的是当时利率飙升导致固定利率产品利率随之暴涨的阶段。

John Charcol 的高级抵押贷款技术经理雷·鲍尔格 (Ray Boulger) 表示,在 2026 年的前几个月,约 8% 的客户选择了追踪利率,但现在这一比例已超过 20%。

他补充说,即使考虑到到明年年中可能出现 1 个百分点的涨幅,利率在 4% 以上的追踪产品仍将比目前市场上许多五年期固定利率产品更便宜。

日益昂贵:五年期固定利率贷款

抵押贷款经纪公司 Coreco 的首席执行官安德鲁·蒙特莱克 (Andrew Montlake) 表示:“我们确实看到更多借款人再次询问追踪利率,主要是因为固定利率已经走高,一些追踪产品在价格上现在看起来相对具有吸引力。”

“其吸引力在于灵活性。如果银行利率下降,借款人将从中受益,而且许多追踪产品具有较低或无需支付的提前还款违约金,这对于不想在今天的固定利率水平上被锁定的人来说非常有用。”

然而,蒙特莱克警告说,追踪利率“并非免费的赌注”,因为宏观经济状况始终存在变化的风险,进一步加息仍有可能。

他补充道:“对于合适的借款人来说,追踪利率可以是一个明智的战术选择,但选择它应该是基于灵活性符合其具体情况,而不仅仅是因为他们在赌利率会下降。”

尽管固定利率在上涨,但仍低于 2023 年中期的峰值。许多贷款机构告诉《金融时报》,借款人的欠款情况保持稳定。

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许多英国人表示他们计划离开英国——但出错的方式有很多种,艾玛·阿吉曼(Emma Agyemang)写道

移居海外不为人知的税务陷阱

似乎有越来越多的人决心离开英国。但无论你是向往冒险、寻求职业新起点,还是仅仅想降低税单,请务必确保不要搞砸。

如果未能妥善处理英国的税务退出,可能会让你付出沉重代价。

例如,阿拉伯联合酋长国不征收个人所得税或资本利得税(CGT)。尽管今年中东地区发生了冲突,但那里依然深受英国企业家的欢迎,他们可以在出售企业之前移居至此,旨在消除其资本利得税账单。

然而,如果你在返回英国前在境外停留不足五年,所有这些税务规划都将化为泡影。只要在回国探亲时多待一天,你在海外实现的收益就将被纳入英国资本利得税的征收范围。而且,如果你去世,除非你离开英国超过 10 年,否则你的遗产将需要缴纳遗产税。

随着本月预算案可能带来税收上涨,关于人们为了寻求更友好的税务环境而离开英国的故事正愈演愈烈。

“这并不只是简单地抵达那里然后享受日落,”咨询公司 ATC Tax 的税务合伙人马克斯·波特(Max Porter)表示,“有些事情人们在出问题之前根本不会想到。”

最轻的情况是,那些在多个国家之间平衡收入和资产(如养老金、投资或房产)的人通常面临更高的顾问费用。但这也可能成为一个行政管理问题——而在最糟糕的情况下,可能会导致意外的税单和其他代价高昂的错误。

“个人财富的全球化速度远快于其周边基础设施的全球化速度,”跨境税务与财富平台 Astride 的创始人克里斯蒂娜·特谢拉(Cristina Teixeira)说道。

结果就是,全球流动人口被迫在复杂且碎片化的规则中摸索,这可能给不谨慎的人带来陷阱。

而且,外国司法管辖区正变得更加敏锐,能够察觉到英国人在抵达时可能犯的税务错误。根据会计师事务所 Price Bailey 获得的数据,海外税务机关请求获取英国纳税人信息的次数在 2025 年达到了七年来的最高点。

那么,人们常犯的错误有哪些?《金融时报》理财(FT Money)对此进行了调查。

居住地困扰

如果一个人一年在某个国家停留至少 183 天,就可能触发税务居民身份。然而,相关规则往往比初看时更为复杂。例如,英国根据法定居住测试(statutory residence test)来计算居住状态。一个人在成为税务居民之前可以停留的天数取决于多种因素,包括他们与该国之间有多少种联系。联系较多的人可能需要将在英国的停留时间限制在 15 天或更少,才能维持其非居民身份。

波特曾帮助许多移居中东的英国人,他警告称,意外事件可能会颠覆关于税务居民身份的规划。

为了从海湾国家低税收的环境中获益,纳税人需要成为当地居民,并停止在英国担任居民,因为英国会对个人的全球收入和收益征税。英国还设有反避税规则,如果一个人在五年内返回英国,其在海外实现的某些收入和资本利得将被征税。

在疫情期间,许多在中东的英国人失去了工作,比计划提前返回英国,从而重新建立了英国税务居民身份。因此,他们在中东的收入成为了英国所得税的征收对象。最近,在伊朗战争爆发后,数千人选择返回英国,尽管其中许多人随后又回到了中东。

“一旦超过(允许在英国停留的天数)哪怕一天,就没有重来的机会了,”波特警告道。

咨询公司 Saffery 的合伙人史蒂文·科埃略(Steven Coelho)也表示,他见过有人在海外实现收益后过早返回英国而“栽跟头”,因为人们可能没有意识到,法律要求纳税人必须是非英国税务居民五年或更长时间,而不仅仅是五个纳税年度。

其他考量因素也可能干扰规划。“人们经常在某天醒来时突然意识到‘这个地方不适合我’,”全球伞形公司及国际薪资解决方案提供商 Access Financial 的董事凯文·奥斯汀(Kevin Austin)说道。有时是因为他们的伴侣或孩子不开心。无论原因如何,撤销一次移居计划都可能导致计划外的税务后果。

多重税务主张

个人可能会成为两个或多个国家的税务居民,从而导致每个国家都主张对其收入或资产拥有征税权。

许多国家已签署条约以防止对收入或资本的双重征税。但专家警告称,这些条约并不能防止个人成为多个国家的税务居民;它们只是在这种情况发生时,分配哪个国家拥有征税权。

会计师事务所 RSM 的合伙人瑞秋·德·索萨(Rachel de Souza)警告说,“双重征税条约并不完美”,对于需要利用这些条约的人来说,行政成本通常很高。

如果每个国家同时对其收入征税,成为多个国家税务居民的个人可能会面临现金流问题。在适用条约的情况下,他们可以

英国的就业税低于欧盟同行,但在英语国家中最高

就业税与就业成本,结合单薪及两个孩子 (%)

对比采用 OECD 的“平均税收楔形”计算法(个人所得税加上雇员和雇主社会保险缴款,减去家庭福利,除以总工资加上雇主社会保险缴款) 来源:OECD 2026;乔纳森·古斯里(Jonathan Guthrie)

从一个国家申请抵免以避免重复缴税,但还款延迟可能会延长压力。

多个国家主张对个人资产拥有征税权的可能性不仅适用于个人的收入,也适用于其资本。虽然英国在收入和收益方面与其他国家签署了 120 多项双重征税条约,但在财富方面的条约数量要少得多,仅有

“当人们在亲人去世后处于情感脆弱期时,被告知遗产可能会被征税 [至少] 两次,这是一个非常令人不快的打击”

10 项,德·索萨补充道。这意味着,如果争议涉及在不在英国条约网络覆盖国家持有的财富,个人可能会发现自己无法获得双重征税条约的保护。

此外,不同的司法管辖区可以根据不同的标准主张征税权。德·索萨举了一个她参与处理的遗产案件为例,她说这是一个“完美风暴”,因为爱尔兰、英国和西班牙都主张有权征收遗产税。

该个人在去世时居住在爱尔兰,爱尔兰根据税务居民身份对死者的遗产征税。然而,该个人出生在英国且曾长期居住于此,而这正是英国征收遗产税(IHT)的标准。该遗产的一名受益人居住在西班牙,而西班牙则根据接收者身份对继承财产征税。

“在这种情况下,你将陷入极大的痛苦之中,”德·索萨说。“受苦的是继承人。在人们因死亡而处于情感脆弱期时,被告知遗产可能会被征税 [至少] 两次,这是一个非常令人不快的打击。”

其他资产

如果个人决定保留其拥有的英国房产并在居住海外期间将其出租,无论其居住地在何处,租金收入都将 subject to 英国所得税。他们需要继续以非居民房东的身份提交英国纳税申报表;除非他们向英国税务海关总署(HMRC)注册为非居民房东,否则其租金收入将被扣缴 20 per cent 的预扣税。

他们可能还需要遵守其他规定,包括“数字化税务”(Making Tax Digital)规则。这些规则要求租金收入超过 5 万英镑 的个人提交数字化季度更新。该门槛将于 2027 年 4 月降至 3 万英镑,并于 2028 年 4 月降至 2 万英镑。

另一个较少为人知的陷阱发生在一个人决定在出国期间将英国房产空置的情况下,或许是为了在返回英国时居住。会计师事务所 Moore Kingston Smith 的合伙人蒂姆·斯托沃尔德(Tim Stovold)表示,大多数房屋建筑保险单规定,如果房产空置超过 30 天,将限制承保范围。“人们可能在海外生活得很快乐,却没意识到在离开英国一个月后,他们的房屋建筑保险就失效了,”他说。

其他可能让毫无防备的英国离境者陷入困境的个人财务方面还包括个人储蓄账户(Isas)等税务包装产品。斯托沃尔德警告称,虽然在英国拥有这些账户是“无需多虑的选择,但它们并不适合跨境持有”。

居住在海外的人持有 Isas 主要存在三个问题。首先,非英国居民无法向其账户注资,且在离开该国时必须通知其服务提供商。

其次,Isa 的收入和收益在另一个国家通常需要纳税,因为免税政策仅适用于英国。

第三,在像美国这样的国家,

Isas 和其他投资可能会导致复杂且昂贵的申报要求。斯托沃尔德提到,一位从英国搬到美国的客户此前并未意识到她在处理英国 Isa 时会遇到困难。该 Isa 的价值约为 6 万英镑,但她在美国为满足申报要求而支付的费用,意味着将其兑现并投资于美国才更有意义。

Emanuel Santos

“养老金也可能极其复杂,”税务专家 BDO 的道恩·雷吉斯特(Dawn Register)表示。有时,在英国持有的养老金可能会在另一个国家产生税收,即使在尚未进行任何支付的情况下也是如此。与此同时,居住在英国境外的人员向英国养老金注资的金额受限于其在英国的可纳税收入额,这意味着居住在海外的人可能无法向英国养老金投入太多资金。

“这并不是说只要你成为了英国非居民就万事大吉了。细节决定成败。”

根据一名居住在丹麦的学者的说法,从不同国家的多个养老金账户接收款项也可能产生问题。这位学者在包括英国在内的四个国家拥有六个养老金账户。

他表示,英国税务海关总署(HMRC)在对其英国雇主养老金和国家养老金的分类上犯了错误,花费了数年时间才解决;而丹麦税务机关则花了三到四年时间才承认他的美国雇佣养老金应被视为养老金征税。

这位要求我们不要使用真名的学者说:“没有一个简单的地方可以搞清楚这些……因为我要处理好几个国家的事情,我付给会计师的费用相当高。”

如何避免陷阱

顾问们建议采取几项措施,以避免陷入这些无数的国际税务陷阱。其中包括在任何搬迁之前寻求建议,以及在任何潜在的返回英国之前至少六个月再次寻求建议。

Register 建议人们在搬迁前尽量简化其财务事务,这既能使过渡更加简单,也能让自己清楚地了解所拥有的资产,尤其是因为根据被称为“共同申报标准”(Common Reporting Standard)的规则,超过 110 个税务机关会相互共享有关个人金融资产(包括银行账户和投资)的信息。

De Souza 表示,对于人们来说,将分布在多个国家的财富放入信托或基金会等结构中,使所有资产都由一个司法管辖区持有,有时会更简单。她还建议人们在拥有资产的每个国家分别设立一份遗嘱。

“并不是说只要你是非英国居民就万事大吉了,”来自 Saffery 的 Coelho 说道,“细节决定成败。”

高收入者抱怨育儿成本是有道理的

要求取消 10 万英镑 收入上限的呼声表明,我们的税收制度究竟有多么破碎

Claer Barrett

Serious Money 为年薪六位数的群体提供育儿补贴听起来很疯狂。但如果有人为了积极避免

如果你年收入超过 10 万英镑,你的育儿成本将飙升 —— FT 蒙太奇 / Dreamstime

晋升,故意破坏一项销售交易,或者恳求老板不要给你奖金,那又如何?欢迎来到育儿税收陷阱的疯狂世界,它正困住数以万计的高收入父母,并缓慢地扼杀年轻一代的经济生产力。

在英格兰,如果父母一方的收入超过 10 万英镑 一便士,他们将几乎失去所有针对 3 岁以下儿童育儿成本的国家援助。如今托儿所的费用如此昂贵,如果没有这项补贴,家庭的经济状况可能会恶化数万英镑。这产生了一种反向激励,促使他们削减工作时间、放弃加薪,或将巨额资金投入养老金,以使调整后的净收入保持在上限之下。

多年来,我一直公开抨击这项政策的荒谬之处,因此我很高兴反对党领袖凯米·巴德诺克(Kemi Badenoch)在本周的保守党会议演讲中承诺,将取消 10 万英镑 的育儿“悬崖效应”。

“我们希望看到的是,那些工作更努力的人不会因此受到惩罚,”她说。这完全正确,但我们需要执政党支持这一主张,而帮助高收入者的想法在政治上具有争议。社交媒体上的普通民众对此公开敌视。许多人指出,英国全职工作的薪资中位数低于 4 万英镑。年入 10 万英镑 就能让你进入收入前 5 per cent 的行列。这些富有的抱怨者难道不能支付自己的育儿账单吗?

我并不否认这一点。但税收制度中的缺陷以及英格兰资助育儿的不可持续方式,使得这笔费用变得双倍难以负担。

10 万英镑 的育儿“悬崖效应”恰好与个人免税额递减带来的恐怖边际税率重合。在 10 万英镑-125,140 英镑 的收入区间,一名拥有硕士学位的员工在扣除所得税、国民保险和学生贷款后,每英镑可能只能剩下 23 便士。

这恰恰在他们跨过“悬崖”边缘、必须全额支付育儿费的时刻,打击了他们的赚钱能力。

自 2001. 年以来,英格兰全职托儿所的价格几乎翻了三倍。2024 年的育儿改革降低了有权获得补贴时数的父母的成本。然而,根据最新的 Coram 育儿成本调查,对于那些不符合支持条件的人来说,成本仍在继续攀升。

这种情况在首都最为严重。如果一名年收入超过 10 万英镑 的伦敦父母失去了补贴,一个全职托儿所的名额很容易吞掉他们税后收入的 2.4 万英镑。如此疯狂的边际税率使得父母几乎不可能通过增加收入来解决这个问题。获得 25 to 50 per cent 的加薪是不太可能的,但这可能是让他们摆脱陷阱,并使财务状况与年入 99,999 英镑 的父母处于同一水平所需的条件。

高收入父母不再关注如何赚更多钱,而是在积极尝试少赚钱。在筛选最近一项 FT 调查的回复时,我发现许多读者觉得他们不敢在工作中表现得太出色,因为担心加薪或奖金会将他们推入薪资“死亡地带”——在那里,他们将失去育儿补贴,但赚到的钱又不足以弥补损失。

这为英国高收入的年轻专业人士创造了一个职业晋升的“断裂阶梯”,他们感到被迫限制自己的收入

直到他们最小的孩子开始上小学。这对经济以及工人的未来前景造成了多少损失?

“人们不再努力工作的激励因素贯穿从9 万英镑到16 万英镑,甚至可能更高,”Wealthy Parent Guide的创始人马修·格里菲斯(Matthew Griffiths)表示,该机构旨在指导家长如何应对这一陷阱。增加养老金缴费是保持在上限之下的显而易见的方法,但这需要提前规划。在纳税年度末的一笔意外酌情奖金可能会破坏精心计算的结果。“我接触过一些销售人员,他们为了不让佣金让自己陷入这个陷阱,甚至故意搞砸公司的交易,”他说。

养老金灵活性较低的医疗服务(HS)医生告诉我们,他们正将工作时间缩减至每周四天甚至三天。

一些伴侣收入超过上限的职业女性则完全选择离职,因为她们无法负担额外的育儿费用。两名父母每人收入99,999 英镑有权获得补贴,而一名收入超过10 万英镑的单亲家长却不能,这具有歧视性。

随着税收起征点的冻结,陷入这一陷阱的人数在四年内几乎翻了一番,且预计将进一步增加。随着住房成本飙升,保持在上限之下变得更加困难,

这在到手工资无法增加的情况下,吞噬了家庭收入。

家长们表示,他们不情愿采取的另一个手段就是不再生育第二个孩子。

这令人彻底沮丧,因此我很高兴保守党已将这一问题提升到政治议程中。考虑到该问题造成的痛苦和经济损失,他们估计每年花费£700mn来消除这一“悬崖效应”似乎并不算高。

然而,解决这个问题会给私人育儿服务提供商带来另一个问题。目前政府为“免费”小时提供的资金无法覆盖其提供成本。如果托儿所利润最高的客户变得有资格获得补贴,而资金缺口仍未得到弥补,那么如果更多的托儿所关闭,谁来承担育儿的重担?

解决育儿问题是正确之举,但我们需要对破碎的税收和育儿系统进行根本性改革。与巴德诺克(Badenoch)不同,我认为这应该是比削减遗产税或维持“三重锁”(triple lock)更重要的政策优先级。

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艾玛·希尔:“我们关于负责任的有机面料基础和伦理工作方式的传达引起了共鸣” Anna Gordon / FT

艾玛·希尔的早年生活深受破产的影响。在她八岁时,她的父亲的建筑公司在 20 世纪 80 年代的住房危机后破产,家庭住宅被没收。

希尔、她的母亲和两个兄弟姐妹搬进了社会住房,她的父母随后离婚。“我记得当时的电费是用预付费钥匙充值的。每隔一段时间,电会在晚上用完,所以我们不得不点蜡烛,”希尔回忆道。

她在时尚界工作了十年,但在组建家庭后开始独立创业。2020 年,她联合创立了 Damson Madder:其名称是像李子一样的水果(damson)与茜草(madder,一种根部可用作服装染料的植物)的融合——这体现了该品牌的可持续目标。

Damson Madder 没有实体店,通过在线渠道和零售合作伙伴直接向消费者销售。该品牌去年的营业额为 £31mn,预计在本财年将产生 £40mn 的营业额。公司总部位于伦敦卡姆登,雇佣了 60 人。采访人:Charlotte Guckian

您是什么时候决定开始创业的?

我在各种时尚采购和产品开发岗位上工作了近十年。我喜欢其中的某些方面,但这并不是我想长期从事的事业。我一直具有创业精神,而且到了一个让我认真思考职业路径的年龄,因为我想组建家庭。

我联系了未来的联合创始人、前同事雅各布·莫里斯 (Jacob Morris),询问他是否有兴趣共同创立一个品牌。幸运的是,他感兴趣,于是我们共同创立了 Damson Madder。

您在创业之初是如何筹集资金的?

雅各布最初向公司投资了 6 万英镑。在运营的第一年,他又追加投资了 8 万英镑 用于购买库存并促进我们的批发订单。我们希望缓慢而稳健地发展,而不是依赖银行贷款,并在前三年内收回了初始投资。我们目前尚未寻求外部投资。

早期,我们依赖批发,与小型精品店合作。我居住的沃尔瑟姆斯托 (Walthamstow) 的 W Store 是最早的客户之一。起步阶段充满了奔波:与工厂协商小额订单,请求亲友帮忙。我的姐姐花了 £300 为我们设计并搭建了第一个网站。我最好的朋友通过换取礼品的方式为我们做公关。一切都极其拮据。

出生地:雷丁,1984

教育经历:2003-06:南安普顿索伦特大学时尚推广与传播学士

职业经历:2008-18:担任各种时尚采购和产品开发职务 2019-present:Damson Madder 联合创始人

现居:伦敦沃尔瑟姆斯托,与丈夫和两个孩子同住。

在时尚采购方面的经验如何为您成为品牌所有者做好准备?

它教会了我关于产品的知识,以及工厂在质量、交付周期和利润率方面能实现的实际目标。它让我明白,为什么版型、面料基础和细节比情绪板上的任何东西都更重要。我们了解了消费者行为的变动速度、趋势如何变化,以及如何以公平的价格创造卓越的产品。

那些与我共事且在各自领域拥有专业知识的人,后来成为了我的员工。

Damson Madder 扩张的转折点是什么?

2023年,我们出现了一些非常强势的爆款——豹纹工装裤和豹纹 Tilly 背心——候补名单的人数超过了 15,000 人。这给了我们信心去更换一家新的广告代理公司,并正式在付费广告上进行投资。

与此同时,我们引入了一家批发代理公司,帮助我们向全球扩张(主要是在美国),并进驻了更多高端店铺:Selfridges、Liberty、Galeries Lafayette 和 Nordstrom。这改变了我们的局面。2024年,我们的营业额从 £6mn 增长到 £19mn,增长了三倍多。

疫情如何改变了您的商业策略?

我们在 2020 年 3 月英国进入封锁状态两周后正式启动。我的朋友 Rachel Vasdekys 将我们首个系列的一件单品推荐给了《地铁报》(Metro)的一篇服装汇总报道。我记得报道发布的那天,我意识到没有人会在地铁上阅读它,想象着报纸在风中飘散的样子。

虽然充满挑战,但在封锁期间启动也有好处。我们关于负责任的有机面料基底和伦理工作方式的理念引起了共鸣,因为人们有时间审视自己购买的东西,并希望做出更负责任的选择。我认为,俏皮且大胆的印花也让我们的产品脱颖而出。

您如何管理自己的财务?在成为企业主后,这一点有变化吗?

这真的很难。多年来,我对个人财务一直采取逃避态度。我把全部精力都投入到了公司中,回家时仅剩的精力勉强足够喂孩子吃饭并哄他们睡觉。我在公司里处理损益表,但可能好几个月都不会看一眼自己的银行对账单。

随着团队的壮大并接管了 Damson 的更多财务控制权,我有更多时间处理自己的财务。我设定了五年财务目标,并与丈夫分享。其中一项是为孩子的教育做规划,让他们在选择这条道路时有上大学的机会。

您的成长经历如何影响您与金钱的关系?

从小我就意识到,赚自己的钱、建立自己的安全感且不依赖任何人是非常重要的。13 岁时,我在当地的一家炸鱼薯条店找了份工作,时薪仅为 £2.88。之后我在 Homebase 找到了一份工作。

我父亲的职业道德激励了我;他是一个真正的勤奋工作者——尽管他失去了一切,但他向我证明了成功依然是可能的。

您每月最大的支出是什么?

绝对是我的房子——房贷、家具和账单。我的成长经历在其中起到了很大作用。我们在五年内搬过五处不同的租赁房产。对我来说,拥有一个稳固的基地和安全的环境让孩子们成长至关重要。

我不是一个很物质的人。我想是因为我从事时尚行业,知道每样东西的成本,所以我不怎么给自己买东西。但我热爱旅行,以及与两个年幼的孩子一起体验生活。

您有养老金吗?

现在有了。有一段时间,每一英镑的闲钱都被重新投入到公司中。现在我们的状况良好,我已经设立了一个养老金账户。我会建议创业者不要像我那样拖这么久。你的公司并不是养老金。

您在教给孩子们什么样的财务课程?

学习去做你热爱的事情。安全感和金钱固然极其重要,但你如何利用这些金钱来生活才是真正关键的。我更愿意帮助我的孩子们成为能够为自己创造财富的人,而不是给他们留下一笔巨额遗产。

您会对其他创业者提供什么建议?

痴迷于打造一款卓越的产品。时尚行业的竞争非常激烈。许多企业都能做出令人惊叹的产品,因此你必须热爱自己的产品,确保它穿着合身且体感舒适。这仅仅是基准要求。

保护好现金流。不要过度消费——在没有巨额预算的情况下,也有很多达成目标的方法和手段。对我来说,当一个品牌在拍摄、营销或付费广告上过度消费时,是非常明显的。

放长线,保持信念,并相信你正在做的事情。追随你的热情,以及直觉告诉你正确的事情。

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Avingtrans 受益于成为核能和国防部门的供应商

Aim 市场异类 Avingtrans 在英国境外寻找机遇

近年来,伦敦的小型公司初级市场一直陷入困境,但 Aim 市场的麻烦更多在于外部因素,而非企业本身的质量。

由于强劲的美国市场更具吸引力,以及被动投资的增长(资金主要流向全球巨头公司),投资者对英国股票的整体兴趣有所下降。

较高的利率被认为对小盘股不利,因为这些公司通常依赖借贷来获取开发资金,这降低了投资兴趣,流动性不足也是原因之一。随着股价下跌,公司筹集股权资金变得更加困难。

另一个沉重打击是工党决定取消对非上市股票的全部遗产税减免,这消除了购买 Aim 交易股票的一个关键理由。

虽然旨在鼓励上市、降低成本并减轻监管负担的 Aim 规则改革正在进行,但在初级市场投资最终取决于公司基本面,以及寻找高质量的长期增长机会。该市场已经产生了许多成功案例,包括 Fevertree Drinks、Jet2、Unite、Judges Scientific 和 Cohort。易捷航空 (easyJet)、NCC 和 Asos 也是从这里开始其上市生涯的。

许多公司高度依赖国内经济,但情况并非总是如此。工程综合企业 Avingtrans 的收入有超过一半来自英国境外。

通过这家集团,投资者可以接触到核能和航空航天领域的繁荣,以及通过该公司的成像部门接触到医疗设备领域。

与此同时,其在高度监管行业中收购、扭转并(在适当时候)出售专业工程公司的战略,既扩大又精炼了投资组合,使该公司进入了与更大竞争对手相似的领域。

工业类 Avingtrans (AVG) 728p

股价年内上涨 50 per cent

Avingtrans 股价近期强劲上涨的原因很容易理解。营收和利润增长的记录、在复杂工程领域挖掘利基市场的能力,以及在核能和国防等高需求行业的强力存在,共同促成了今年以来 50 per cent 的股价上涨,即便在 £21mn 股权筹集之后依然如此。

该公司已开始将这笔资金投入使用,以 $2.5mn (£1.9mn) 的价格收购了核能工程师 Joseph Oat Corporation 的知识产权、交易历史和品牌。

投资者纪事 (Investors' Chronicle)

Avingtrans 还在继续寻找能够容纳更大规模美国工厂和培训学校的场所。

先进工程部门的调整后现金利润增长 12%,达到 £24mn。

经纪商 Cavendish 预测今年的调整后税前利润将增长 23%,但由于股权融资后基数扩大,每股收益的增长预测较为温和,为 12%。21 倍的市盈率低于其五年平均水平,考虑到该集团的前景,这一估值并不显得过高。—— Michael Fahy

旅游与休闲 JD Wetherspoon (JDW) 871p

成本压力持续

在公布最终业绩当天,由于这家酒吧运营商透露炎热的夏天有助于提升销售额,JD Wetherspoon 的股价创下 12 个月新高。

这家富时 250 指数公司表示,在截至 7 月 26 日的 12 个月里,同店销售额增长了 4.2%。但 22.4亿英镑 的营收不足以抵消成本压力,导致营业利润下降至 £120mn。

利润下降并不令人意外,因为 JD Wetherspoon 在 7 月曾警告称,其全年数据可能“低于市场预期”。这是该集团自 1 月以来发出的第四次利润预警。

资产管理公司 Ninety One 的投资组合经理 Ben Needham 表示,一个亮点是公司正悄然转向“日益轻资产的特许经营战略”。

自 3 月公布中期业绩以来,该集团的估值显著提高,JD Wetherspoon 的股票目前以相对较高的 17.4 倍远期收益交易。对于一家处于价值端价格区间公司而言,考虑到其利润率压力,我们认为这一倍数偏高。—— Erin Withey

董事交易

消费必需品 Tesco (TSCO) 495p

回购规模扩大至 £950mn

Tesco 的中期业绩显示其表现具有韧性,使这家零售商能够提高 2026 年利润指引的下限,这意味着对下半年持谨慎乐观态度。

在截至 8 月 29 日的六个月中,销售额增长 4%,达到 374亿英镑,其中 79.5% 来自该集团在英国和爱尔兰共和国的核心杂货业务。

尽管 15.7亿英镑 的自由现金流被用于股票回购的 £558mn 以及上一年度末股息的 £613mn 支出部分抵消,但管理层宣布将其当前的股票回购计划从 £750mn 提高至 £950mn。

董事会表示,目前预计 2026 财年的调整后营业利润在 31.5亿英镑 至 33亿英镑 之间,高于 4 月份指出的 30亿英镑 至 33亿英镑 的较为谨慎的区间。

作为一只资产丰富、防御性的股票,我们认为 Tesco 16.9 倍的远期市盈率是合理的。与同行相比,该公司具有现金产生能力且运营高效,因此仍是我们在该行业的首选。—— EW

本周谁在买入或卖出自家公司股票?

买入董事/PDMR日期价格 (p)总价值 (£)
Arbuthnot BankingSir Henry Angest (主席兼首席执行官)2026年9月29日800.8176,000
AvivaAmanda Blanc (首席执行官)*2026年9月30日68849,117
Barr (AG)Darren Shapland (主席)*2026年9月30日57557,486
BioPharma CreditGraeme Proudfoot*2026年9月29日73.751,612
CheckitKit Kyte (首席执行官)2026年9月30日16.299,999
CMC MarketsDavid John Fineberg (PDMR)2026年10月2日598139,325
CMC MarketsLord Cruddas (首席执行官)2026年10月2日604138,996
CML MicrosystemsNathan Zommer2026年9月29日260400,236
EntainMichael Snape (首席财务官)2026年10月1日416.499,995
JD Sports FashionPeter Agnefjäll (主席)2026年9月25日77.1246,720
MidwichAdam Councell (首席财务官)2026年9月28日166.8124,378
Property Franchise GroupGareth Samples (首席执行官)*2026年9月28日41345,430
RenalytixChristopher Mills2026年9月29日670,000
Seplat EnergyTony Elumelu*2026年9月30日88753,220,000
Sirius Real EstateAndrew Coombs (首席执行官)2026年9月24日9090,000
Symphony International HoldingsAnil Thadani*2026年9月22-29日29.71,523,399
TruFinJames van den Bergh (首席执行官)2026年9月28日98.349,150
ZIGUPKatie Tasker (PDMR)2026年9月30日47560,164
卖出
InchcapeGlafkos Persianis (PDMR)2026年9月25日782.3323,614

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* 由配偶/家人/密切关联方进行的交易 ce = 首席执行官;cfo = 首席财务官 来源:Investors' Chronicle

波动性是交易平台的馈赠,因此,在线交易集团 CMC Markets 的首席执行官 Lord Cruddas 和全球战略合作伙伴负责人 David Fineberg 各自购入了价值约 13.9 万英镑的股票,这并不令人意外。

Cruddas 作为公司的创始人,以 604p 的平均价格买入了 23,011 股,而 Fineberg 则以 598p 的价格买入了 23,300 股。

此次买入是在 7 月 1 日的一次交易更新之后进行的。在更新中,CMC 将截至 2027 年 3 月 31 日年度的净营业收入指引上调至至少 5.5 亿英镑 —— 远高于此前 4.6 亿至 4.8 亿英镑的区间 —— 息税折旧及摊销前利润(EBITDA)指引为 2.5 亿英镑。这是在强劲的 2025-26 年度基础上的进一步提升。Julian Hofmann

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每周市场概况

全球市场

< / td><>09< / ><>< / ><>涨跌< / ><>%涨跌< / >< / tr><><>↗< / ><>澳大利亚< / ><>全普通股指数< / ><>8877.70< / ><>54.50< / >< / ><><>↗< / ><>巴西< / ><>博维斯帕指数< / ><>208527.66< / ><>2307.42< / >< / ><><>↗< / ><>中国< / ><>上证综合指数< / ><>3813.79< / ><>1.89< / >< / ><><>↗< / ><>法国< / ><>CAC综合指数< / ><>7803.33< / ><>73.64< / >< / ><><>↗< / ><>德国< / ><>DAX指数< / ><>25087.27< / ><>280.30< / >< / ><><>↗< / ><>香港< / ><>恒生指数< / ><>24211.35< / ><>425.56< / >< / ><><>↗< / ><>印度< / ><>BSE S&P SENSEX< / ><>72472.33< / ><>879.09< / >< / table>

最大涨跌幅

<>< colspan="3">09< / ><>涨跌< / ><>%涨跌< / >< / ><><>意大利< / ><>米兰FTSE MIB< / ><>49746.31< / ><>448.43< / ><>0.91< / >< / ><><>日本< / ><>日经指数< / ><>69030.92< / ><>-11.19< / ><>-0.02< / >< / ><><>新加坡< / ><>海峡时报指数< / ><>5401.89< / ><>-11.07< / ><>-0.20< / >< / ><><>西班牙< / ><>马德里证券交易所< / ><>1898.80< / ><>9.40< / ><>0.50< / >< / ><><>瑞士< / ><>SMI指数< / ><>13787.40< / ><>150.40< / ><>1.10< / >< / ><><>美国< / ><>道琼斯指数< / ><>51616.52< / ><>384.88< / ><>0.75< / >< / ><><>美国< / ><>纳斯达克指数< / ><>27325.93< / ><>+132.59< / ><>+0.49< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="8">货币< / >< / ><><>09< / ><>< / ><>涨跌< / ><>%涨跌< / ><>09< / ><>< / ><>涨跌< / ><>%涨跌< / >< / ><><>$ / €< / ><>1.120< / ><>-0.001< / ><>-0.107< / ><>E / $< / ><>0.756< / ><>0.000< / ><>0.008< / >< / ><><>$ / £< / ><>1.323< / ><>-0.000< / ><>-0.008< / ><>€ / £< / ><>1.181< / ><>0.001< / ><>0.097< / >< / ><><>£ / €< / ><>0.847< / ><>-0.001< / ><>-0.100< / ><>¥ / €< / ><>177.361< / ><>0.034< / ><>0.019< / >< / ><><>¥ / £< / ><>158.415< / ><>0.200< / ><>0.126< / ><>£ Index< / ><>85.286< / ><>-0.009< / ><>-0.011< / >< / ><><>¥ / €< / ><>289.512< / ><>0.249< / ><>0.119< / ><>Sfr / E< / ><>1.099< / ><>-0.002< / ><>-0.191< / >< / ><><>Sfr / €< / ><>0.931< / ><>-0.003< / ><>-0.299< / ><>比特币< / ><>82746.52< / ><>1703.62< / ><>2.10< / >< / ><><>€ / £< / ><>0.893< / ><>0.001< / ><>0.108< / ><>以太坊< / ><>2485.01< / ><>-46.24< / ><>1.90< / >< / table>

大宗商品与加密货币

即将派发的股息

< / td><>派息金额< / ><>前次派息< / ><>股权登记日< / ><>除息日< / >< / tr><>< colspan="5">周三< / >< / ><><>DR Retail Group Holdings< / ><>$0.062< / ><>$0.478< / ><>8月 21< / ><>8月 20< / >< / ><><>Duke Capital< / ><>0.7p< / ><>9月 25< / ><>9月 24< / >< / ><><>Hongkong Land Holdings< / ><>$0.08< / ><>$0.06< / ><>8月 21< / ><>8月 20< / >< / ><>< colspan="5">周四< / >< / ><><>Aviva< / ><>14p< / ><>13.1p< / ><> 04< / ><> 03< / >< / ><><>Banco Bilbao Vocaya Argentina< / ><>60.37< / ><>60.32< / ><>10月 14< / ><>10月 13< / >< / ><><>Hammerson< / ><>5.67p< / ><>7.94p< / ><> 04< / ><> 03< / >< / ><><>South / 02< / ><>4.007513p< / ><>1.9169bp< / ><> 18< / ><> 17< / >< / table>

政府债券 富时私人投资者指数系列

<><>< / ><>派息金额< / ><>前次派息< / ><>股权登记日< / ><>除息日< / >< / ><>< colspan="5">周五< / >< / ><><>Aptitude Store< / ><>1.8p< / ><> 25< / ><> 24< / >< / ><><>ASA International Group< / ><>$0.069< / ><>$0.048< / ><> 18< / ><> 17< / >< / ><><>Baltic Classifieds Group< / ><>60,031< / ><>60,026< / ><> 11< / ><> 10< / >< / ><><>Braine Group< / ><>6p< / ><>10月 02< / ><>10月 01< / >< / ><><>Braine Group (A Old Non Voting)< / ><>6p< / ><>10月 02< / ><>10月 01< / >< / ><><>Chesera< / ><>8.16p< / ><>7.7p< / ><> 04< / ><> 03< / >< / ><><>Churchill China< / ><>7p< / ><> 18< / ><> 17< / >< / ><><>Fevertree Drinks< / ><>6.00p< / ><>5.97p< / ><> 25< / ><> 24< / >< / ><><>JPMorgan Emerging Markets Div Inc< / ><>1.5p< / ><>2.6p< / ><> 11< / ><> 10< / >< / ><><>Keystone Low Group< / ><>24.6p< / ><>7.5p< / ><> 25< / ><> 24< / >< / ><><>M&G< / ><>8.8p< / ><>6.7p< / ><> 11< / ><> 10< / >< / ><><>Power Probe< / ><>1.6p< / ><>6p< / ><> 25< / ><> 24< / >< / ><><>PPHE Hotel Group< / ><>17p< / ><> 18< / ><> 17< / >< / ><><>Real Estate Credit Investments< / ><>3p< / ><> 25< / ><> 24< / >< / ><><>Regional REIT< / ><>2p< / ><>2.5p< / ><> 18< / ><> 17< / >< / ><><>RM Infrastructure Income< / ><>1.2p< / ><>0.025p< / ><>10月 02< / ><>10月 01< / >< / ><><>Saroro Enterprises< / ><>$0.05< / ><>$0.04< / ><> 18< / ><> 17< / >< / table>

<><>< / ><>10月 08< / ><>1个月%< / ><>3个月%< / ><>1年%< / ><>5年%< / >< / ><><>超保守指数< / ><>974.13< / ><>-0.78%< / ><>-1.39%< / ><>-3.15%< / ><>-18.48%< / >< / ><><>保守指数< / ><>1536.68< / ><>-0.26%< / ><>0.11%< / ><>3.16%< / ><>7.48%< / >< / ><><>收益指数< / ><>4318.58< / ><>0.02%< / ><>0.95%< / ><>6.60%< / ><>20.31%< / >< / ><><>平衡指数< / ><>6632.83< / ><>0.31%< / ><>1.69%< / ><>9.51%< / ><>31.67%< / >< / ><><>增长指数< / ><>8750.58< / ><>0.45%< / ><>2.19%< / ><>11.82%< / ><>42.02%< / >< / ><><>超增长指数< / ><>3495.90< / ><>0.71%< / ><>2.88%< / ><>14.76%< / ><>58.40%< / >< / ><><>全球增长指数< / ><>3655.01< / ><>1.28%< / ><>3.33%< / ><>15.71%< / ><>61.01%< / >< / ><><>富时全股指数< / ><>5634.04< / ><>-3.20%< / ><>0.05%< / ><>9.26%< / ><>39.23%< / >< / ><><>富时除英国全球指数< / ><>888.68< / ><>1.48%< / ><>3.46%< / ><>16.12%< / ><>64.09%< / >< / table>

通货膨胀率 零售价格指数 / 消费者价格指数

< / td><>10月09日< / ><>前值< / ><>变动< / >< / tr><><>美国 2年期< / ><>4.77< / ><>4.76< / ><>0.01< / >< / ><><>美国 10年期< / ><>5.25< / ><>5.27< / ><>-0.02< / >< / ><><>美国 30年期< / ><>5.61< / ><>5.84< / ><>-0.03< / >< / ><><>英国 2年期< / ><>4.72< / ><>4.71< / ><>0.01< / >< / ><><>英国 10年期< / ><>5.38< / ><>5.41< / ><>-0.03< / >< / ><><>英国 30年期< / ><>5.95< / ><>6.00< / ><>-0.05< / >< / ><><>日本 2年期< / ><>1.86< / ><>1.88< / ><>-0.02< / >< / ><><>日本 10年期< / ><>3.00< / ><>3.04< / ><>-0.04< / >< / ><><>日本 30年期< / ><>4.10< / ><>4.13< / ><>-0.03< / >< / ><><>德国 2年期< / ><>3.09< / ><>3.06< / ><>0.03< / >< / ><><>德国 10年期< / ><>3.47< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>德国 30年期< / ><>3.84< / ><>3.85< / ><>-0.01< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="2">< / ><>1个月变动< / ><>12个月变动< / >< / ><><>RPI< / ><>8月 421.60< / ><>0.60%< / ><>3.4%< / >< / ><><>RPX< / ><>8月 414.60< / ><>0.58%< / ><>3.3%< / >< / ><><>CPI< / ><>8月 143.60< / ><>0.50%< / ><>3.1%< / >< / table>

结果公布日期

银行利率 / 国际利率 投资信托数据

<>< colspan="2">银行利率 / 国际利率< / >< / ><><>英格兰银行基准利率 (9月)< / ><>3.75%< / >< / ><><>美国联邦基金利率< / ><>3.75 - 4.00%< / >< / ><><>美国长期债券< / ><>4.71%< / >< / ><><>欧元基准利率< / ><>2.65%< / >< / table>

<><>日期< / ><>公司< / >< / ><><>2026年10月13日< / ><>Abington Health< / >< / ><><>13--2026< / ><>Aptamer< / >< / ><><>13--2026< / ><>Bellway< / >< / ><><>13--2026< / ><>YouGov< / >< / ><><>15--2026< / ><>Seraphim Space< / >< / ><><>19--2026< / ><>System1< / >< / ><><>23--2026< / ><>FRP Advisory< / >< / table>

<><>报告< / ><>日期< / ><>公司< / ><>报告< / >< / ><><>年度< / ><>13--2026< / ><>Angling Direct< / ><>中期< / >< / ><><>年度< / ><>13--2026< / ><>Bytes Tech< / ><>中期< / >< / ><><>年度< / ><>15--2026< / ><>XPS Pensions< / ><>中期< / >< / ><><>年度< / ><>21--2026< / ><>Sanderson Design< / ><>中期< / >< / ><><>年度< / ><>22--2026< / ><>Bloomsbury< / ><>中期< / >< / ><><>年度< / ><>22--2026< / ><>Milton Capital< / ><>中期< / >< / ><><>年度< / ><>22--2026< / ><>Sainsbury's< / ><>中期< / >< / table>

<><>< / ><>价格< / ><>当日变动< / ><>折价 / 溢价< / >< / ><><>3i Infra< / ><>388.00< / ><>3.00< / ><>-5.31< / >< / ><><>Abf GVIT< / ><>91.00< / ><>-1.00< / ><>-12.04< / >< / ><><>Abf Sml< / ><>1826.00< / ><>32.00< / ><>-10.47< / >< / ><><>Aberdeen Asia Foc< / ><>470.00< / ><>2.00< / ><>-8.6< / >< / ><><>Aberdeen Asian Inc Fund< / ><>321.00< / ><>1.00< / ><>-7.01< / >< / ><><>Aberdeen Eq Inc< / ><>448.00< / ><>5.00< / ><>1.37< / >< / ><><>Aberdeen UK Sml< / ><>533.00< / ><>6.00< / ><>-6.9< / >< / ><><>Alliance Witan< / ><>1403.00< / ><>6.00< / ><>-4.95< / >< / ><><>Allianz Tech< / ><>764.00< / ><>-10.00< / ><>-8.31< / >< / ><><>Artemis UK Future Lead< / ><>389.50< / ><>1.50< / ><>-13.17< / >< / ><><>Aurora UK< / >

Alpha< / td> 248.00< / ><>3.00< / ><>-13.42< / >< / tr> <>AVI Japan< / ><>179.50< / ><>0.50< / ><>-2.99< / >< / ><><>BG China Growth< / ><>286.00< / ><>3.00< / ><>-4.79< / >< / ><><>BG Euro< / ><>121.50< / ><>0.50< / ><>-8.76< / >< / ><><> Japan< / ><>1076.00< / ><>10.00< / ><>-9.17< / >< / ><><> Shin< / ><>179.00< / ><>3.20< / ><>-9.31< / >< / ><><> US Growth< / ><>389.50< / ><>-1.00< / ><>-2.47< / >< / ><><>Baillie Gifford UK< / ><>218.00< / ><>3.00< / ><>-9.84< / >< / ><><>Bankers IT< / ><>155.20< / ><>0.40< / ><>-8.45< / >< / ><><>Biotech Growth< / ><>1400.00< / ><>36.00< / ><>-6.19< / >< / ><><>BlckR Amer Sml< / ><>283.00< / ><>2.00< / ><>0.94< / >< / ><><>BlckR Energy & Res< / ><>178.00< / ><>4.00< / ><>-4.7< / >< / ><><>

Front< / ><>189.00< / ><>2.00< / ><>-1.45< / >< / ><><> GtEur< / ><>573.00< / ><>4.00< / ><>-7.23< / >< / ><><> I&G< / ><>234.00< / ><>-4.00< / ><>-6.85< / >< / ><><> Smir< / ><>265.50< / ><>3.00< / ><>-14.41< / >< / table>

<><>< / ><>价格< / ><>当日变动< / ><>折价 / 溢价< / >< / ><><>BidR World Mining< / ><>948.00< / ><>25.00< / ><>-3.09< / >< / ><><>Brunner< / ><>1560.00< / ><>10.00< / ><>-9.67< / >< / ><><>Caledonia Inv< / ><>386.00< / ><>4.00< / ><>-35.14< / >< / ><><>CanGen CS< / ><>2701.49< / ><>92.45< / ><>-41.45< / >< / ><><>City of Lon< / ><>571.00< / ><>6.00< / ><>2.04< / >< / ><><>City Natural Res G&I< / ><>413.00< / ><>9.00< / ><>4.17< / >< / ><><>CT Healthcare< / ><>122.00< / ><>—< / ><>-2.94< / >< / ><><>CT MgdI< / ><>131.00< / ><>—< / ><>1.49< / >< / ><><> MgdG< / ><>328.00< / ><>1.00< / ><>-3.16< / >< / ><><> Cp&I< / ><>339.00< / ><>3.00< / ><>-4.48< / >< / ><><> UK HIT B< / ><>107.00< / ><>—< / ><>-5.04< / >< / ><><> UK HIT

Ord< / ><>104.50< / ><>-1.50< / ><>-5.48< / >< / ><><>Dunedin Inc< / ><>306.00< / ><>3.00< / ><>-7.84< / >< / ><><>Edinburgh Inv< / ><>833.00< / ><>14.00< / ><>-7.99< / >< / ><><>Edin Worldwide< / ><>280.50< / ><>3.00< / ><>-6.89< / >< / ><><>The Euro SmCo< / ><>227.50< / ><>1.50< / ><>-8.24< / >< / ><><>F&C Inv Trust< / ><>350.60< / ><>2.20< / ><>-8.99< / >< / ><><>Fidelity Asian< / ><>610.00< / ><>4.00< / ><>-5.08< / >< / ><><>Fidelity China< / ><>245.50< / ><>2.00< / ><>-6.82< / >< / ><><> Emer Mkts< / ><>1522.00< / ><>18.00< / ><>-8.9< / >< / ><><> Euro< / ><>413.00< / ><>2.50< / ><>-5.03< / >< / ><><> Spec< / ><>463.50< / ><>4.50< / ><>-0.34< / >< / ><><>Finsbury G&I< / ><>792.00< / ><>16.00< / ><>-5.87< / >< / ><><>The Glbl Small

Co< / ><>190.40< / ><>1.00< / ><>-4.91< / >< / ><><>GRIT(susp)< / ><>1.25< / ><>—< / ><>-91.32< / >< / ><><>Hansa< / ><>332.00< / ><>2.00< / ><>-40.25< / >< / table>

<><>< / ><>价格< / ><>当日变动< / ><>折价 / 溢价< / >< / ><><>Hansa A< / ><>334.00< / ><>-1.00< / ><>-40.07< / >< / ><><>Hen Fars< / ><>288.50< / ><>1.00< / ><>6.65< / >< / ><><>Hen High Inc< / ><>200.00< / ><>2.00< / ><>-4.71< / >< / ><><>Hen Smir< / ><>958.00< / ><>13.00< / ><>-9.11< / >< / ><><>Herald< / ><>2300.00< / ><>-5.00< / ><>-13.82< / >< / ><><>HICL Infra< / ><>130.60< / ><>-0.40< / ><>-18.33< / >< / ><><>Impax Env< / ><>451.00< / ><>-3.00< / ><>-10.42< / >< / ><><>IntiBiotech< / ><>1050.00< / ><>20.00< / ><>-1.61< / >< / ><><>Intl PP< / ><>135.40< / ><>0.40< / ><>-11.78< / >< / ><><>Inv Asia Dragon Tst< / ><>493.00< / ><>—< / ><>-6.93< / >< / ><><>Inv Bond Inc< / ><>167.50< / ><>-0.50< / ><>1.8< / >< / ><><>JPM Amer

IT< / td><>1250.00< / ><>4.00< / ><>-4.2< / >< / tr> <>JPM Asia G&I< / ><>580.00< / ><>2.00< / ><>1.41< / >< / ><><>JPM China G&I< / ><>250.00< / ><>-0.50< / ><>-8.33< / >< / ><><> Clavr< / ><>928.00< / ><>4.00< / ><>-3.11< / >< / ><><> Emrg EMEA< / ><>234.50< / ><>5.50< / ><>228.6< / >< / ><><> Emrg< / ><>169.00< / ><>0.00< / ><>-6.96< / >< / ><><> Eur Disc< / ><>606.00< / ><>7.00< / ><>-8.44< / >< / ><><> Eur G&I< / ><>135.00< / ><>-0.20< / ><>-2.85< / >< / ><><> Em Mk Div< / ><>214.00< / ><>—< / ><>-8< / >< / ><><> Gbl G&I< / ><>612.50< / ><>-0.50< / ><>-3.44< / >< / ><><> India Growth Inc< / ><>836.00< / ><>18.00< / ><>-8.65< / >< / ><><> Japan< / ><>833.00< / ><>3.00< / ><>-8.51< / >< / ><><> UK

Sm< / ><>350.00< / ><>1.00< / ><>-7.81< / >< / ><><> US Sml< / ><>416.00< / ><>6.00< / ><>-9.33< / >< / ><><>Law Deb< / ><>1206.00< / ><>14.00< / ><>2.23< / >< / table>

<><>< / ><>价格< / ><>当日< / ><>折价 / 溢价< / >< / ><><>Lindsell Train< / ><>580.00< / ><>6.00< / ><>-11.92< / >< / ><><>Lowland< / ><>184.50< / ><>2.50< / ><>-7.97< / >< / ><><>Manwyn Val< / ><>141.00< / ><>—< / ><>-46.63< / >< / ><><>Mercantile< / ><>272.50< / ><>4.50< / ><>-9.92< / >< / ><><>Merch. Tst< / ><>856.00< / ><>8.00< / ><>-3.24< / >< / ><><>Mid Wynd< / ><>805.00< / ><>9.00< / ><>-2.37< / >< / ><><>Monks IT< / ><>1682.00< / ><>8.00< / ><>-5.31< / >< / ><><>Montanaro Eur< / ><>176.50< / ><>2.00< / ><>-9.81< / >< / ><><>Murray Inc< / ><>966.00< / ><>14.00< / ><>-6.39< / >< / ><><>Murray Intl< / ><>356.50< / ><>3.50< / ><>0.95< / >< / ><><>New Star IT< / ><>138.00< / ><>—< / ><>-31.92< / >< / ><><>N. Atl Smir

IT< / ><>418.00< / ><>—< / ><>-34.15< / >< / ><><>Pac. Horiz.< / ><>1124.00< / ><>10.00< / ><>-7.75< / >< / ><><>Pers. Assets< / ><>545.00< / ><>4.00< / ><>-0.99< / >< / ><><>Polar Health< / ><>429.00< / ><>11.50< / ><>1.99< / >< / ><><>Polar Fin.< / ><>237.00< / ><>0.50< / ><>-3.15< / >< / ><><>Polar Tech.< / ><>702.00< / ><>-3.50< / ><>-9.53< / >< / ><><>Rights & Iss IT< / ><>2510.00< / ><>30.00< / ><>-19.48< / >< / ><><>RIT Cap.< / ><>2490.00< / ><>40.00< / ><>-22.93< / >< / ><><>Ruffer Inv Pr< / ><>290.50< / ><>-1.00< / ><>-2.86< / >< / ><><>Schdr AsiaPac< / ><>838.00< / ><>6.00< / ><>-8.44< / >< / ><><>Schdr AsiaTotal< / ><>707.00< / ><>7.00< / ><>-4.18< / >< / ><><>Schroder Inc< / ><>353.00< / ><>1.00< / ><>-6.11< / >< / ><><>

Japan< / ><>388.00< / ><>3.00< / ><>-8.09< / >< / ><><> Orient.< / ><>453.00< / ><>2.00< / ><>-3.83< / >< / ><><> UK Mid< / ><>754.00< / ><>4.00< / ><>-6.05< / >< / table>

<><>< / ><>价格< / ><>当日< / ><>折价 / 溢价< / >< / ><><>Scot American< / ><>555.00< / ><>3.00< / ><>-7.36< / >< / ><><>Scot Mortgage< / ><>1636.50< / ><>13.50< / ><>-9.01< / >< / ><><>Scot Oriental< / ><>281.00< / ><>2.00< / ><>-8.83< / >< / ><><>Strategic Eq.< / ><>401.50< / ><>1.50< / ><>-10.98< / >< / ><><>Temple Bar< / ><>413.00< / ><>3.00< / ><>-0.22< / >< / ><><>Tetragon< / ><>1107.71< / ><>0.09< / ><>< / >< / ><><>TRIG< / ><>76.10< / ><>0.70< / ><>-25.31< / >< / ><><>UIL< / ><>211.00< / ><>—< / ><>-26.98< / >< / ><><>Utilico Emer Mkts< / ><>296.00< / ><>1.00< / ><>-9.61< / >< / ><><>Worldwide Hlth< / ><>368.00< / ><>10.00< / ><>-5.94< / >< / table>

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存款利息

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附带开户奖励的账户 月利率高达 5,000 英镑 浮动利率 首次购房者 通知期最高 90 天 1 万英镑 离岸账户 1 万英镑 重新抵押贷款 ISA 利率

< / td><>账户< / ><>通知期< / ><>最低存款< / ><>AER< / ><>利息支付方式< / >< / tr><>< colspan="6">无需通知 5,000 英镑< / >< / ><><>Progressive BS (通过分行)< / ><>Double Access (2)< / ><>无< / ><>£1< / ><>4.50%< / ><>每年< / >< / ><><>cahoot (cahoot.com)< / ><>Simple Saver (20)< / ><>无< / ><>£1< / ><>4.52%< / ><>每年< / >< / ><><>Hanley Economic BS (通过分行)< / ><>Branch Boosted Tracker< / ><>无< / ><>1,000 英镑< / ><>4.75%< / ><>每年< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="6">无需通知 1 万英镑< / >< / ><><>Progressive BS (通过分行)< / ><>Double Access (2)< / ><>无< / ><>£1< / ><>4.50%< / ><>每年< / >< / ><><>cahoot (cahoot.com)< / ><>Simple Saver (20)< / ><>无< / ><>£1< / ><>4.52%< / ><>每年< / >< / ><><>Hanley Economic BS (通过分行)< / ><>Branch Boosted Tracker< / ><>无< / ><>1,000 英镑< / ><>4.75%< / ><>每年< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="6">无需通知 5 万英镑< / >< / ><><>Monument Bank (通过 App)< / ><>Welcome Saver< / ><>无< / ><>2.5 万英镑< / ><>4.56%< / ><>每月< / >< / ><><>The Stafford BS (srbs.co.uk)< / ><>Access-One Saver 2< / ><>无< / ><>5 万英镑< / ><>4.60%< / ><>每年< / >< / ><><>Hanley Economic BS (通过分行)< / ><>Branch Boosted Tracker< / ><>无< / ><>1,000 英镑< / ><>4.75%< / ><>每年< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="6">无需通知 10 万英镑< / >< / ><><>Monument Bank (通过 App)< / ><>Welcome Saver< / ><>无< / ><>2.5 万英镑< / ><>4.56%< / ><>每月< / >< / ><><>The Stafford BS (srbs.co.uk)< / ><>Access-One Saver 2< / ><>无< / ><>5 万英镑< / ><>4.60%< / ><>每年< / >< / ><><>Hanley Economic BS (通过分行)< / ><>Branch Boosted Tracker< / ><>无< / ><>1,000 英镑< / ><>4.75%< / ><>每年< / >< / table>

<><>Hanley Economic BS (通过分行)< / ><>Notice 50< / ><>50 天< / ><>1,000 英镑< / ><>4.20%< / ><>每年< / >< / ><><>Kent Reliance (通过分行)< / ><>Notice Savings - 75< / ><>60 天< / ><>1,000 英镑< / ><>4.25%< / ><>每年< / >< / ><><>StreamBank (streambank.co.uk)< / ><>Notice - 12< / ><>90 天< / ><>1,000 英镑< / ><>4.35%< / ><>每月< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="6">通知期最高 90 天 5,000 英镑< / >< / ><><>Hanley Economic BS (通过分行)< / ><>Notice 50< / ><>50 天< / ><>1,000 英镑< / ><>4.20%< / ><>每年< / >< / ><><>Kent Reliance (通过分行)< / ><>Notice Savings - 75< / ><>60 天< / ><>1,000 英镑< / ><>4.25%< / ><>每年< / >< / ><><>StreamBank (streambank.co.uk)< / ><>Notice - 12< / ><>90 天< / ><>1,000 英镑< / ><>4.35%< / ><>每月< / >< / table>

<><>Kent Reliance (通过分行)< / ><>Notice Savings - 75< / ><>60 天< / ><>1,000 英镑< / ><>4.25%< / ><>每年< / >< / ><><>StreamBank (streambank.co.uk)< / ><>Notice - 12< / ><>90 天< / ><>1,000 英镑< / ><>4.35%< / ><>每月< / >< / ><><>BLME A (blme.com)< / ><>Notice (10)< / ><>90 天< / ><>1 万英镑< / ><>4.37%< / ><>每季度< / >< / table>

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Kent Reliance (通过分行)< / td><>Notice Savings - 75< / ><>60 天< / ><>1,000 英镑< / ><>4.25%< / ><>每年< / >< / tr><><>StreamBank (streambank.co.uk)< / ><>Notice - 12< / ><>90 天< / ><>1,000 英镑< / ><>4.35%< / ><>每月< / >< / ><><>BLME A (blme.com)< / ><>Notice (10)< / ><>90 天< / ><>1 万英镑< / ><>4.37%< / ><>每季度< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="6">提前通知期最高 90 天 10 万英镑< / >< / ><><>Kent Reliance (通过分行)< / ><>Notice Savings - 75< / ><>60 天< / ><>1,000 英镑< / ><>4.25%< / ><>每年< / >< / ><><>StreamBank (streambank.co.uk)< / ><>Notice - 12< / ><>90 天< / ><>1,000 英镑< / ><>4.35%< / ><>每月< / >< / ><><>BLME A (blme.com)< / ><>Notice (10)< / ><>90 天< / ><>1 万英镑< / ><>4.37%< / ><>每半年< / >< / table>

<><>Vida Savings (vidabank.co.uk)< / ><>Double Access Saver 2< / ><>无< / ><>£500< / ><>4.36%< / ><>每月< / >< / ><><>cahoot (cahoot.com)< / ><>Simple Saver (20)< / ><>无< / ><>£1< / ><>4.52%< / ><>每月< / >< / ><><>cahoot (cahoot.com)< / ><>Sunny Day Saver (6)< / ><>无< / ><>£1< / ><>5.00%< / ><>每月< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="6">每月计息 5,000 英镑< / >< / ><><>StreamBank (streambank.co.uk)< / ><>Notice - 12< / ><>90 天< / ><>1,000 英镑< / ><>4.35%< / ><>每月< / >< / ><><>Vida Savings (vidabank.co.uk)< / ><>Double Access Saver 2< / ><>无< / ><>£500< / ><>4.36%< / ><>每月< / >< / ><><>cahoot (cahoot.com)< / ><>Simple Saver (20)< / ><>无< / ><>£1< / ><>4.52%< / ><>每月< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="6">每月计息 1 万英镑< / >< / ><><>StreamBank (streambank.co.uk)< / ><>Notice - 12< / ><>90 天< / ><>1,000 英镑< / ><>4.35%< / ><>每月< / >< / ><><>Vida Savings (vidabank.co.uk)< / ><>Double Access Saver 2< / ><>无< / ><>£500< / ><>4.36%< / ><>每月< / >< / ><><>cahoot (cahoot.com)< / ><>Simple Saver (20)< / ><>无< / ><>£1< / ><>4.52%< / ><>每月< / >< / table>

<><>Vida Savings (vidabank.co.uk)< / ><>Double Access Saver 2< / ><>无< / ><>£500< / ><>4.36%< / ><>每月< / >< / ><><>cahoot (cahoot.com)< / ><>Simple Saver (20)< / ><>无< / ><>£1< / ><>4.52%< / ><>每月< / >< / ><><>Monument Bank (通过 App)< / ><>Welcome Saver< / ><>无< / ><>2.5 万英镑< / ><>4.56%< / ><>每月< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="6">Standard Bank International.< / >< / ><><>(standardbank.com)< / ><>Offshore Reserve Savings< / ><>无< / ><>3,000 英镑< / ><>1.15%< / ><>每半年< / >< / ><>< colspan="6">NatWest International< / >< / ><><>(natwestinternational.com)< / ><>Premium Saver< / ><>无< / ><>£1< / ><>1.36%< / ><>每月< / >< / ><>< colspan="6">Standard Bank International.< / >< / ><><>(standardbank.com)< / ><>International Saver 36< / ><>36 天< / ><>1 万英镑< / ><>2.70%< / ><>每年< / >< / table>

<><>Principality BS (principality.co.uk)< / ><>Online Bonus Triple Access (9)< / ><>无< / ><>£1< / ><>4.30%< / ><>每年< / >< / ><><>OakNorth Bank (oaknorth.co.uk)< / ><>Easy Access Tracker - 15< / ><>无< / ><>£1< / ><>4.35%< / ><>每月< / >< / ><><>Post Office (postoffice.co.uk)< / ><>Online Saver 90< / ><>无< / ><>£1< / ><>4.40%< / ><>每年< / >< / ><><>Teachers BS (teachersbuildingsociety.co.uk)< / ><>Bonus Savings (1)< / ><>无< / ><>1 万英镑< / ><>4.50%< / ><>每年< / >< / ><><>Chase (通过 App)< / ><>Chase Saver Boosted< / ><>无< / ><>£1< / ><>4.50%< / ><>每月< / >< / ><><>Saffron BS (saffronbs.co.uk)< / ><>Online Bonus Saver (2)< / ><>无< / ><>£1< / ><>4.50%< / ><>每年< / >< / ><><>Tembo Money (通过

app)< / td> HomeSaver< / ><>None< / ><>£10< / ><>4.55%< / ><>Mly< / >< / tr> <>Zopa (via app)< / ><>Limited Access pot< / ><>None< / ><>£1< / ><>4.56%< / ><>Mly< / >< / ><><>Starling Bank (via app)< / ><>Easy Saver< / ><>None< / ><>£1< / ><>5.00%< / ><>Mly< / >< / ><><>LemFi (via app)< / ><>LemFi Instant Access< / ><>None< / ><>£1< / ><>5.00%< / ><>Mly< / >< / table>

除非另有说明,所有利率均显示为年度等效利率(AER)浮动利率。账户的开设和操作方式各不相同。所有利率和条款如有更改,恕不另行通知,在最终确定任何安排之前应予以核实。对于因使用或依赖本信息而产生的任何直接或间接损失,不承担任何责任。非金融专业人士的读者应寻求专家建议。欲了解详细信息,请访问 Moneyfactscompare.co.uk。数据统计日期为 2026年10月8日。

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<>< colspan="5">短期固定利率< / >< / ><><>桑坦德银行 (Santander)< / ><>4.99% 至 2.1.29< / ><>60%< / ><>£999< / ><>至 2.1.29< / >< / ><><>汇丰银行 (HSBC)< / ><>5.54% 至 31.1.29< / ><>90%< / ><>-< / ><>至 31.1.29< / >< / ><><>桑坦德银行 (Santander)< / ><>5.04% 至 2.1.30< / ><>75%< / ><>£999< / ><>至 2.1.30< / >< / ><><>桑坦德银行 (Santander)< / ><>5.31% 至 2.1.30< / ><>90%< / ><>£999< / ><>至 2.1.30< / >< / table>

长期固定利率

<><>桑坦德银行 (Santander)< / ><>4.96% 至 2.1.32< / ><>60%< / ><>£999< / ><>至 2.1.32< / >< / ><><>约克郡建筑协会 (Yorkshire Building Society)< / ><>5.08% 至 31.1.32< / ><>85%< / ><>1,495 英镑< / ><>至 31.1.32< / >< / ><><>first direct< / ><>5.29% 为期 5 年< / ><>90%< / ><>£490< / ><>前 5 年< / >< / ><><>Nationwide BS< / ><>5.64% 为期 10 年< / ><>80%< / ><>£999< / ><>前 10 年< / >< / table>

<><>first direct< / ><>5.14%F 为期 2 年< / ><>60%< / ><>£490< / ><>前 2 年< / >< / ><><>first direct< / ><>5.28%F 为期 2 年< / ><>75%< / ><>£490< / ><>前 1 年< / >< / ><><>first direct< / ><>5.44%F 为期 3 年< / ><>85%< / ><>£490< / ><>前 3 年< / >< / ><><>约克郡建筑协会 (Yorkshire Building Society)< / ><>5.19%F 至 31.1.32< / ><>85%< / ><>1,495 英镑< / ><>至 31.1.32< / >< / table>

<><>Skipton BS< / ><>5.72%F 至 31.1.29< / ><>95%< / ><>-< / ><>至 31.1.29< / >< / ><><>巴克莱抵押贷款 (Barclays Mortgage)< / ><>5.74%F 至 31.12.28< / ><>95%< / ><>-< / ><>至 31.12.28< / >< / ><><>巴克莱抵押贷款 (Barclays Mortgage)< / ><>5.56%F 至 31.12.29< / ><>95%< / ><>£999< / ><>至 31.12.29< / >< / ><><>利兹建筑协会 (Leeds BS)< / ><>5.62%F 至 31.1.32< / ><>95%< / ><>-< / ><>至 31.1.32< / >< / table>

折扣浮动利率

<><>巴斯建筑协会 (Bath BS)< / ><>4.44% 为期 2 年< / ><>80%< / ><>£999< / ><>前 2 年< / >< / ><><>巴斯建筑协会 (Bath BS)< / ><>4.69% 为期 2 年< / ><>80%< / ><>-< / ><>前 2 年< / >< / ><><>西布罗姆建筑协会 (West Brom BS)< / ><>4.69% 至 31.12.28< / ><>90%< / ><>£999< / ><>无< / >< / ><><>白金汉郡建筑协会 (Buckinghamshire BS)< / ><>4.99% 为期 2 年< / ><>70%< / ><>£999< / ><>前 2 年< / >< / table>

<><>Nationwide BS< / ><>4.09% 为期 2 年< / ><>60%< / ><>£999< / ><>无< / >< / ><><>约克郡建筑协会 (Yorkshire Building Society)< / ><>4.13% 至 31.1.29< / ><>75%< / ><>£995< / ><>无< / >< / ><><>Nationwide BS< / ><>4.22% 为期 2 年< / ><>80%< / ><>£999< / ><>无< / >< / ><><>Nationwide BS< / ><>4.35% 为期 2 年< / ><>85%< / ><>£999< / ><>无< / >< / table>

以房养贷浮动利率

<><>汇丰银行 (HSBC)< / ><>4.49%V 为期 2 年< / ><>65%< / ><>1,999 英镑< / ><>无< / >< / ><><>Hinckley & Rugby BS< / ><>4.75%D 为期 2 年< / ><>75%< / ><>1,249 英镑< / ><>前 2 年< / >< / ><><>巴斯建筑协会 (Bath BS)< / ><>5.09%D 为期 2 年< / ><>80%< / ><>£999< / ><>前 2 年< / >< / table>

以房养贷固定利率

NatWest< / td><>5.24% 至 31.1.29< / ><>75%< / ><>£995< / ><>至 31.1.29< / >< / tr><><>HSBC< / ><>4.75% 至 31.1.32< / ><>60%< / ><>3,999 英镑< / ><>至 31.1.32< / >< / ><><>TSB< / ><>5.69% 至 31.1.32< / ><>80%< / ><>1,995 英镑< / ><>至 31.1.32< / >< / table>

D=折扣利率。F=固定利率。V=浮动利率。偿还抵押贷款时可能适用相关条款和条件。所有利率和条款如有更改,恕不另行通知,在最终确定任何安排前应予以核实。对于因使用或依赖本信息而产生的任何直接或间接损失,不承担任何责任。非金融专业人士的读者应寻求专家建议。

<>< colspan="2">房价< / >< / ><>< colspan="2">房价指数 / 抵押贷款利率< / >< / ><><>Nationwide 房价平均值 (2026年9月)< / ><>£274.251< / >< / ><><>Nationwide 房价指数 (月度)< / ><>548.30< / >< / ><><>Nationwide 房价 (年度变化)< / ><>0.80%< / >< / ><><>Lloyds 房价平均值 (2026年9月)< / ><>298,441 英镑< / >< / ><><>Lloyds 房价 (月度)< / ><>514.60< / >< / ><><>Lloyds 房价 (年度变化)< / ><>0.00%< / >< / table>

活期账户

提供商< / td><>账户名称< / ><>账户费用< / ><>利率< / >< / tr><><>Nationwide Building Society< / ><>FlexDirect< / ><>无< / ><>5%< / >< / ><><>苏格兰银行 (Bank of Scotland)< / ><>Vantage Classic Account< / ><>无< / ><>3%< / >< / ><><>劳埃兹 (Lloyds)< / ><>Club Lloyds< / ><>无*< / ><>3%< / >< / table>

<><>提供商< / ><>账户名称< / ><>账户费用< / ><>利率< / >< / ><><>Starling Bank< / ><>Current Account< / ><>无< / ><>15%< / >< / ><><>First Direct< / ><>1st Account< / ><>无< / ><>39.90%< / >< / ><><>维珍货币 (Virgin Money)< / ><>M Plus Account< / ><>无< / ><>19.90%< / >< / ><>< colspan="4">若满足最低要求,则免除账户费用< / >< / table>

信用卡利率

入门利率

提供商< / td><>卡片类型< / ><>入门消费利率< / ><>年利率 (APR)< / >< / tr><><>TSB< / ><>Platinum Purchase< / ><>0% for 25 Months< / ><>24.95%< / >< / ><><>Barclaycard< / ><>Platinum Balance Transfer< / ><>0% for 24 Months< / ><>24.90%< / >< / ><><>M&S Bank< / ><>Purchase Plus< / ><>0% for 24 Months< / ><>24.90%< / >< / table>

余额转移

<><>提供商< / ><>卡片类型< / ><>入门消费利率< / ><>转移费< / ><>年利率 (APR)< / >< / ><><>MBNA< / ><>Long Balance< / ><>0% for 36 Months< / ><>2.99%< / ><>24.9%< / >< / ><><>HSBC< / ><>1st Account< / ><>0% for 36 Months< / ><>3.19%< / ><>24.9%< / >< / ><><>Barclaycard< / ><>Platinum Balance Transfer< / ><>0% for 36 Months< / ><>3.15%< / ><>24.8%< / >< / table>

余额转移

<><>提供商< / ><>卡片类型< / ><>年利率 (APR)< / ><>< / ><>现金返还< / >< / ><><>American Express< / ><>Cashback Everyday< / ><>29.1%< / ><>0.5%-1%. Intro 5% for 5 months (max £125)< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Virgin Money< / ><>Everyday Cashback< / ><>24.9%< / ><>0.25% Intro 1% for 3 months (max £15 a month)< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Natwest< / ><>Travel Reward< / ><>27.9%< / ><>0.1%-1% on spend over £1 a year< / ><>< / >< / table>

养老金年金

<><>提供商< / ><>排名< / ><>每年英镑< / ><>提供商< / ><>排名< / ><>每年英镑< / >< / ><><>单身寿险< / ><>< / ><>Aged 55< / ><>单身寿险< / ><>< / ><>Aged 60< / >< / ><><>自 30 / 09 / 2026 以来变动< / ><>< / ><>7.36%< / ><>自 30 / 09 / 2026 以来变动< / ><>< / ><>6.65%< / >< / ><><>Scottish Widows Annuity< / ><>1< / ><>7,084 英镑.20< / ><>Standard Life Pension Annuity< / ><>1< / ><>7,453 英镑.20< / >< / ><><>Aviva Pension < / ><>2< / ><>7,065 英镑.12< / ><>Scottish Widows < / ><>2< / ><>7,435 英镑.08< / >< / ><><>Standard Life Pension < / ><>3< / ><>7,063 英镑.80< / ><>Aviva Pension < / ><>3< / ><>7,413 英镑.84< / >< / ><><>Canada Life Lifetime < / ><>4< / ><>6,964 英镑.56< / ><>Canada Life Lifetime < / ><>4< / ><>7,326 英镑.36< / >< / table>

<><>提供商< / ><>排名< / ><>每年英镑< / ><>提供商< / ><>排名< / ><>每年英镑< / >< / ><><>单身寿险< / ><>< / ><>Aged 65< / ><>联合寿险< / ><>Male Aged 60 & Female< / ><>Aged 57< / >< / ><><>自 30 / 09 / 2026 以来变动< / ><>< / ><>6.35%< / ><>自 30 / 09 / 2026 以来变动< / ><>< / ><>2.92%< / >< / ><><>Scottish Widows < / ><>1< / ><>8,297 英镑.28< / ><>Scottish Widows < / ><>1< / ><>7,122 英镑.72< / >< / ><><>Standard Life Pension < / ><>2< / ><>8,142 英镑.96< / ><>Aviva Pension < / ><>2< / ><>7,083 英镑.84< / >< / ><><>Canada Life Lifetime < / ><>3< / ><>7,937 英镑.76< / ><>Canada Life Lifetime < / ><>3< / ><>7,053 英镑.36< / >< / ><><>Legal & General Pension < / ><>4< / ><>7,818 英镑.24< / ><>Standard Life Pension < / ><>4< / ><>7,045 英镑.32< / >< / table>

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年金< / td> 4< / ><>7,314 英镑.36< / ><>www.mercor.com / private-wealth / < / >< / tr>< / table>

所有款项均为按月后付,无保证期且无递增,适用时配偶受益比例为 50%。利率不分性别。数据基于 10 万英镑 的年金购买价格,且均为税前金额。LS1 邮编。在某一组福利或年龄段中排名靠前的公司,在另一组福利(例如指数挂钩年金)或不同年龄段中表现可能较差。因此,您必须根据自身情况寻找合适的年金。表格不包括针对吸烟者或健康状况不佳者的增强年金利率,也不包括仅为特定退休群体提供年金的公司。低支付供应商未予列出。排名列显示了该供应商相对于最高支付年金供应商的位置。

<>账户与债券< / ><>通知期或期限< / ><>最低< / ><>最高< / ><>AER< / ><>利息支付方式< / >< / ><><>担保增长债券 第 75 期< / ><>5 年期债券< / ><>£500< / ><>100万英镑< / ><>5.17%< / ><>每年< / >< / ><><>担保收益债券 第 75 期< / ><>5 年期债券< / ><>£500< / ><>100万英镑< / ><>5.17%< / ><>每月< / >< / ><><>担保增长债券 第 83 期< / ><>3 年期债券< / ><>£500< / ><>100万英镑< / ><>5.10%< / ><>每年< / >< / ><><>担保收益债券 第 83 期< / ><>3 年期债券< / ><>£500< / ><>100万英镑< / ><>5.10%< / ><>每月< / >< / ><><>担保增长债券 第 93 期< / ><>1 年期债券< / ><>£500< / ><>100万英镑< / ><>4.99%< / ><>每年< / >< / ><><>担保收益债券 第 93 期< / ><>1 年期债券< / ><>£500< / ><>100万英镑< / ><>4.99%< / ><>每月< / >< / ><><>担保增长债券 第 81 期< / ><>2 年期债券< / ><>£500< / ><>100万英镑< / ><>5.07%< / ><>每年< / >< / ><><>担保收益债券 第 81 期< / ><>2 年期债券< / ><>£500< / ><>100万英镑< / ><>5.07%< / ><>每月< / >< / ><><>绿色储蓄债券 第 9 期< / ><>3 年期债券< / ><>£100< / ><>£100K< / ><>4.45%< / ><>每年< / >< / ><><>直接储蓄账户 (Direct Saver)< / ><>无< / ><>100 万英镑< / ><>200 万英镑m< / ><>3.75%< / ><>每年< / >< / ><><>收益债券< / ><>无< / ><>£500< / ><>100万英镑< / ><>3.75%< / ><>每月< / >< / ><><>投资账户< / ><>无< / ><>200 万英镑0< / ><>100万英镑< / ><>2.05%< / ><>每年< / >< / table>

除非另有说明,所有利率均显示为 AER 浮动利率。账户的开设和操作方式各不相同。所有利率和条款如有更改,恕不另行通知,在最终确定任何安排前应予以核实。对于因使用或依赖本信息而导致的任何直接或间接损失,不承担任何责任。非金融专业人士的读者应寻求专家建议。详情请访问 Moneyfactscompare.co.uk。

<><>< / ><>账户< / ><>通知期或期限< / ><>存款< / ><>转入< / ><>% AER< / ><>利息支付方式< / >< / ><>< colspan="7">现金 ISA (个人储蓄账户)< / >< / ><><>Progressive BS (theprogressive.com)< / ><>双重访问 ISA (6)< / ><>无< / ><>100 万英镑< / ><>是< / ><>4.50%< / ><>每年< / >< / ><><>Plum (通过 App)< / ><>Plum ISA< / ><>无< / ><>100 万英镑< / ><>否< / ><>4.68% A< / ><>每月< / >< / ><><>Moneybox (通过 App)< / ><>Moneybox ISA< / ><>无< / ><>£500< / ><>是< / ><>4.71% A< / ><>每月< / >< / ><><>Chip (通过 App)< / ><>Chip Smart ISA< / ><>无< / ><>100 万英镑< / ><>否< / ><>4.72% A< / ><>每月< / >< / ><><>< / ><>账户< / ><>通知期或期限< / ><>存款< / ><>转入< / ><>% AER< / ><>利息支付方式< / >< / ><>< colspan="7">固定利率现金 ISA< / >< / ><><>OakNorth Bank

(oaknorth.co.uk)< / td> 固定利率 ISA< / ><>12个月债券< / ><>£1< / ><>是< / ><>4.91%< / ><>每月< / >< / tr> <>Hodge Bank (hodgebank.co.uk)< / ><>固定利率 ISA< / ><>1年债券< / ><>1,000 英镑< / ><>否< / ><>4.92%< / ><>到期< / >< / ><><>Shawbrook Bank (shawbrook.co.uk)< / ><>固定利率 ISA - 132< / ><>1年债券< / ><>1,000 英镑< / ><>是< / ><>4.94%< / ><>到期< / >< / ><><>Castle Trust Bank (castletrust.co.uk)< / ><>固定电子 ISA< / ><>1年债券< / ><>1,000 英镑< / ><>是< / ><>4.95%< / ><>到期< / >< / ><><>账户与债券(免税)< / ><>通知期或定期< / ><>最低< / ><>最高< / ><>转入< / ><>% AER< / ><>利息支付< / >< / ><><>NS&I 青少年 ISA< / ><>18岁< / ><>£1< / ><>-< / ><>3.70%< / ><>每年< / >< / table>

A = 有限期限内的入门利率。OM = 到期支付利息。除非另有说明,所有利率均显示为 AER 浮动利率。账户的开设和操作方式各不相同。所有利率和条款如有更改,恕不另行通知,在最终确定任何安排前应予以核实。对于因使用或依赖本信息而产生的任何直接或间接损失,不承担任何责任。非金融专业人士的读者应寻求专家建议。欲了解详细信息,请访问 Moneyfactscompare.co.uk。

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<><>American Dynamic< / ><>$ 9087.20< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>141.16< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>American One< / ><>$ 11100.38< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>115.70< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>Bond Global< / ><>€ 1646.01< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>18.55< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>Eurocroissance< / ><>€ 1311.23< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>-0.09< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>Far East< / ><>$ 1267.36< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>31.70< / ><>0.00< / >< / table>

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<><>VT Cantab 平衡 A 英镑 累积 (VT Balanced A GBP Acc)< / ><>142.07< / ><>-< / ><>-0.06< / ><>0.38< / ><>1.80< / >< / ><><> 温和 A 英镑 累积 ( Moderate A GBP Acc)< / ><>139.49< / ><>-< / ><>-0.01< / ><>0.31< / ><>2.12< / >< / ><><> 可持续全球股票 A 英镑 累积 ( Sustainable Gbl Eq A GBP Acc)< / ><>169.71< / ><>-< / ><>-0.27< / ><>0.89< / ><>1.37< / >< / table>

<><>CG Asset Management Limited< / ><>(爱尔兰)< / >< / ><><>20 King Street, London EC2V 8EG< / ><>< / >< / ><><>交易:电话 +353 1434 5098 传真 +353 1542 2859< / ><>< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="6">CG Portfolio Fund PLC< / >< / ><><>绝对回报 M 分配 (Absolute Return M Inc)< / ><>£ 144.25< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>-0.49< / ><>2.61< / >< / ><><>资本杠杆组合 英镑 P (Capital Gearing Portfolio GBP P)< / ><>£ 39528.49< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>-124.27< / ><>1.95< / >< / ><><>资本杠杆组合 英镑 V (Capital Gearing Portfolio GBP V)< / ><>£ 192.28< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>-0.60< / ><>1.94< / >< / ><><>美元基金 C's D 分配 (Dollar Fund C's D Inc)< / ><>£ 153.04< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>2.82< / >< / ><><>美元对冲 英镑 分配 (Dollar Hedged GBP Inc)< / ><>£ 92.57< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>2.54< / >< / ><><>真实回报 C's A 分配 (Real Return C's A Inc)< / ><>£ 183.11< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>0.01< / ><>2.55< / >< / ><><>英国指数挂钩债券 G 分配 (UK Index-Linked Bond G Inc)< / ><>£ 105.11< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>-0.64< / ><>2.10< / >< / table>

Chartered Asset Management Pte Ltd

CAM-GTF VCC< / td><>$ 477779.20< / ><>477779.20< / ><>0.00< / >< / tr><><>CAM Gb VCC< / ><>$ 1755.82< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>RAIC VCC< / ><>$ 1.90< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>-0.04< / ><>0.00< / >< / table>

CP Global Asset Management

CP Global Asset Management Pte.Ltd.

Capital Asset Management Limited

<><> Multi-Strategy Fund< / ><>$ 466.99< / ><>-< / ><>0.23< / ><>0.00< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="6">国际共同基金< / >< / ><><> Dual-Purpose Fund< / ><>$ 217.88< / ><>-< / ><>-0.06< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><> Global Alpha Fund< / ><>$ 509.96< / ><>-< / ><>-0.15< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>CPS-Master Private Fund< / ><>$ 616.61< / ><>-< / ><>-0.02< / ><>0.00< / >< / table>

Dodge & Cox® 全球基金

Dodge & Cox Worldwide Funds 48-49 Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5JG www.dodgeandcox.com +44 0203 642 3370

Dodge & Cox 全球基金-新兴市场股票基金

新兴市场股票基金 A USD 累积型< / td><>$< / ><>16.14< / ><>-< / ><>-0.11< / ><>0.17< / ><>0.00< / >< / tr><><>新兴市场股票基金 A GBP 累积型< / ><>£< / ><>17.25< / ><>-< / ><>-0.14< / ><>0.14< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>新兴市场股票基金 D GBP 分红型< / ><>£< / ><>15.54< / ><>-< / ><>-0.13< / ><>0.12< / ><>1.69< / >< / ><><>新兴市场股票基金 A EUR 累积型< / ><>€< / ><>17.48< / ><>-< / ><>-0.15< / ><>0.22< / ><>1.51< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="7">Dodge & Cox 全球基金-全球债券基金< / >< / ><><>欧元累积类< / ><>€< / ><>18.46< / ><>-< / ><>0.03< / ><>0.20< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>欧元累积类 (H)< / ><>€< / ><>11.93< / ><>-< / ><>0.04< / ><>0.10< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>欧元分红类< / ><>€< / ><>11.24< / ><>-< / ><>0.02< / ><>0.12< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>欧元分红类 (H)< / ><>€< / ><>7.20< / ><>-< / ><>0.02< / ><>0.05< / ><>5.05< / >< / ><><>英镑分红类< / ><>£< / ><>11.68< / ><>-< / ><>0.03< / ><>0.07< / ><>4.75< / >< / ><><>英镑分红类 (H)< / ><>£< / ><>8.18< / ><>-< / ><>0.03< / ><>0.07< / ><>4.70< / >< / ><><>美元累积类< / ><>$< / ><>14.94< / ><>-< / ><>0.05< / ><>0.12< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>瑞士法郎

分红类 (H)< / ><>Sft< / ><>7.33< / ><>-< / ><>0.03< / ><>0.06< / ><>0.00< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="6">Dodge & Cox 全球基金-全球股票基金< / >< / ><><>美元累积份额类< / ><>$ 48.16< / ><>-< / ><>-0.03< / ><>0.61< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>英镑累积份额类< / ><>£ 59.87< / ><>-< / ><>-0.12< / ><>0.60< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>英镑分红份额类< / ><>£ 38.27< / ><>-< / ><>-0.08< / ><>0.38< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>欧元累积份额类< / ><>€ 64.50< / ><>-< / ><>-0.15< / ><>0.98< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>英镑分红份额类 (H)< / ><>£ 20.89< / ><>-< / ><>-0.02< / ><>0.26< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>美元分红类< / ><>$ 19.67< / ><>-< / ><>-0.01< / ><>0.25< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>加元累积类< / ><>C$ 64.62< / ><>-< / ><>-0.23< / ><>0.79< / ><>0.00< / >< / table>

<><>美元累积份额类< / ><>$ 58.47< / ><>-< / ><>0.24< / ><>0.76< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>英镑累积份额类< / ><>£ 68.74< / ><>-< / ><>0.18< / ><>0.73< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>英镑分红份额类< / ><>£ 39.99< / ><>-< / ><>0.10< / ><>0.42< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>欧元累积份额类< / ><>€ 67.61< / ><>-< / ><>0.17< / ><>1.07< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>英镑分红份额类 (H)< / ><>£ 22.06< / ><>-< / ><>0.09< / ><>0.29< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>美元分红类< / ><>$ 21.39< / ><>-< / ><>0.09< / ><>0.28< / ><>0.00< / >< / table>

Janus Henderson 投资者

EdenTree Investment Management Ltd Sunderland SR43 4AU 0800 358 3010

授权投资资金< / td>< / tr><><>EdenTree Global Impact Bond< / ><>84.43< / ><>-< / ><>0.28< / ><>0.10< / ><>4.36< / >< / ><><>EdenTree Green Impact Equity< / ><>132.60< / ><>-< / ><>0.50< / ><>0.20< / ><>0.95< / >< / ><><>EdenTree Green Impact Infrastructure< / ><>76.02< / ><>-< / ><>0.42< / ><>0.61< / ><>6.91< / >< / ><><>EdenTree Global Sustainable Government Bond< / ><>94.74< / ><>-< / ><>0.33< / ><>0.08< / ><>3.23< / >< / ><><>EdenTree Sustainable European Equity A< / ><>473.10< / ><>-< / ><>3.40< / ><>0.70< / ><>1.94< / >< / ><><>EdenTree Sustainable European Equity B< / ><>478.50< / ><>-< / ><>3.50< / ><>0.80< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>EdenTree Sustainable Global Equity A< / ><>460.10< / ><>-< / ><>0.50< / ><>0.80< / ><>0.53< / >< / ><><>EdenTree Sustainable Global Equity B< / ><>464.40< / ><>-< / ><>0.40< / ><>0.80< / ><>0.95< / >< / ><><>EdenTree Sustainable Managed Income A< / ><>134.70< / ><>-< / ><>1.20< / ><>0.20< / ><>4.25< / >< / ><><>EdenTree Sustainable Managed Income B< / ><>146.10< / ><>-< / ><>1.30< / ><>0.20< / ><>4.22< / >< / ><><>EdenTree Sustainable Short Dated Bond< / ><>94.52< / ><>-< / ><>0.11< / ><>4.66< / >< / ><><>EdenTree Sustainable Sterling Bond A< / ><>82.59< / ><>-< / ><>0.32< / ><>0.20< / ><>5.21< / >< / ><><>EdenTree Sustainable Sterling Bond B< / ><>95.40< / ><>-< / ><>0.38< / ><>0.21< / ><>5.21< / >< / ><><>EdenTree Sustainable UK Equity A< / ><>249.70< / ><>-< / ><>3.40< / ><>2.70< / ><>1.82< / >< / ><><>EdenTree Sustainable UK Equity B< / ><>249.10< / ><>-< / ><>3.40< / ><>2.70< / ><>2.20< / >< / ><><>EdenTree Sustainable UK Equity Opp A< / ><>321.40< / ><>-< / ><>3.40< / ><>4.70< / ><>1.52< / >< / ><><>EdenTree Sustainable UK Equity Opp B< / ><>328.20< / ><>-< / ><>3.40< / ><>4.80< / ><>1.98< / >< / table>

FIL 投资服务 (1200)F

[地址信息:Beech Gate, Millfield Lane, Lower Kingswood, Tadworth KT20 6RP] 私人客户免费电话:0800 414161 经纪交易电话:080 414 181

指数太平洋(除日本)P-ACC-GBP£2.58-0.030.002.68
指数英镑公司债券基金 P-ACC-GBP£0.95-0.000.005.42
指数英国 P-ACC-GBP£2.47-0.030.012.70
指数美国 P-ACC-GBP£6.37-0.000.070.83
指数全球 P-ACC-GBP£4.74-0.010.031.12
MoneyBuilder 平衡基金 W-Acc-GBP£0.78-0.010.002.95
MoneyBuilder 股息基金 W-Acc-GBP£1.61-0.010.013.68
可持续 MoneyBuilder 收益基金 W-ACC-GBP£14.11-0.05-0.044.49
多资产配置进取基金 W-ACC-GBP£3.23-0.010.011.13
多资产配置防御基金 W-ACC-GBP£1.56-0.000.000.00
多资产配置增长基金 W-ACC-GBP£2.57-0.010.011.12
多资产配置战略基金 W-ACC-GBP£2.02-0.000.001.17
多资产平衡收益基金 W-INC-GBP£1.02-0.000.010.00
多资产收益与增长基金 W-INC-GBP£1.31-0.000.012.61
多资产收益基金 W-INC-GBP£0.89-0.000.010.00
多资产开放进取基金 W-ACC-GBP£2.50-0.00-0.011.68
多资产开放防御基金 W-ACC-GBP£1.85-0.000.000.00
多资产开放增长基金 W-ACC-GBP£2.33-0.000.001.81
多资产开放短期基金 W-ACC-GBP£1.96-0.000.002.41
开放全球基金 W-Acc-GBP£3.46-0.010.010.82
战略债券基金 P-Acc-GBP£1.36-0.00-0.012.51
指数英国国债基金 P-Acc-GBP£0.76-0.000.004.56
可持续亚洲股票基金 W-ACC-GBP£2.81-0.01-0.030.74
可持续多资产平衡基金 W-ACC-GBP£1.22-0.010.001.29
可持续多资产保守基金 W-ACC-GBP£1.08-0.010.000.00
可持续多资产增长基金 W-ACC-GBP£1.35-0.010.001.13
英国机遇基金 W-ACC-GBP£2.67-0.040.042.24
英国小型公司基金 W-ACC-GBP£4.85-0.080.012.32

HPB 保险有限公司 (英国)

Fundsmith 股票基金

Fundsmith LLP (1200)F

PO Box 10846, Chelmsford Essex CM99 2BW 0330 123 1815 www.fundsmith.co.uk, enquiries@.co.uk

Equity T Acc< / td><>718.91< / ><>-< / ><>8.25< / ><>17.22< / ><>0.00< / >< / tr><><> Equity T Inc< / ><>648.86< / ><>-< / ><>7.45< / ><>15.54< / ><>0.00< / >< / table>

Guinness Global Investors

<><>Guinness Global Equity Income Y GBP Dis< / ><>£< / ><>24.74< / ><>-< / ><>0.04< / ><>0.30< / ><>2.05< / >< / ><><>Guinness Global Innovators Y GBP ACC< / ><>£< / ><>49.09< / ><>-< / ><>-0.33< / ><>0.04< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>Guinness Global Quality Mid Cap Y Gbp Acc< / ><>£< / ><>16.26< / ><>-< / ><>-0.13< / ><>-0.01< / ><>0.00< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="6">Anglo Intl House, Bank Hill, Douglas, Isle of Man IM1 4NL_01638 563450< / >< / ><>< colspan="6">International Insurances< / >< / ><><>Holiday Property Bond Ser 1< / ><>£< / ><>0.49< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>Holiday Property Bond Ser 2< / ><>£< / ><>0.66< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / >< / table>

McInroy & Wood

<><>Balanced Fund Acc< / ><>6976.10< / ><>-< / ><>50.40< / ><>55.30< / ><>1.84< / >< / ><><>Balanced Fund Inc< / ><>6548.70< / ><>-< / ><>47.30< / ><>52.50< / ><>1.89< / >< / ><><>Emerging Markets Fund ACC< / ><>2346.90< / ><>-< / ><>8.60< / ><>48.20< / ><>1.73< / >< / ><><>Emerging Markets Fund Inc< / ><>2102.10< / ><>-< / ><>7.70< / ><>43.10< / ><>1.77< / >< / ><><>Income Fund Acc< / ><>3617.20< / ><>-< / ><>23.10< / ><>11.10< / ><>2.72< / >< / ><><>Income Fund Inc< / ><>3187.20< / ><>-< / ><>23.30< / ><>9.80< / ><>2.82< / >< / ><><>Smaller Companies Fund Acc< / ><>7277.80< / ><>-< / ><>89.70< / ><>24.10< / ><>1.27< / >< / ><><>Smaller Companies Fund Inc< / ><>6815.80< / ><>-< / ><>64.00< / ><>22.60< / ><>1.29< / >< / table>

司法部共同投资基金 (英国)

房地产及其他英国单位信托< / td>< / tr><><>The Equity Idx Tracker Fd Inc< / ><>2645.00< / ><>-< / ><>17.00< / ><>13.00 2.00< / >< / ><><>分配单位< / ><>< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="6">授权投资基金< / >< / ><><>Nustshell Growth Fund Gbp Inst Founder< / ><>£< / ><>192.23< / ><>-< / ><>-1.06< / ><>2.82 0.00< / >< / table>

Oasis Crescent 全球投资基金 (英国) ICVC (英国)

<>< colspan="6">受监管< / >< / ><><>Oasis Crescent Global Eq Fd (USD) A (Dist)< / ><>$ 56.13< / ><>-< / ><>0.04< / ><>0.18< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>Oasis Crescent Global Inc Fd (USD) A Dist< / ><>$ 9.95< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>0.02< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>Oasis Crescent Low Equity Fund (USD) D Dist< / ><>$ 15.92< / ><>-< / ><>0.01< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>Oasis Crescent Med Equity Fd (USD) A Dist< / ><>$ 18.63< / ><>-< / ><>0.01< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>Oasis Crescent Prop Equity Fd (USD) A Dist< / ><>$ 10.10< / ><>-< / ><>-0.03< / ><>-0.04< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>Oasis Crescent Short Term Inc Fd (USD) A (Dist)< / ><>$ 0.95< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>Oasis Crescent Variable Fund (USD) A (Dist)< / ><>£

12.08< / ><>-< / ><>-0.02< / ><>-0.07< / ><>0.00< / >< / table>

Private Fund Mgrs (Guernsey) Ltd

<>< colspan="6">受监管< / >< / ><><>Monument Growth 06 / 10 / 2026< / ><>£< / ><>612.77< / ><>618.47< / ><>0.00< / >< / table>

Purisima Investment Fds (UK) (1200)F 3rd Floor, Central Square, Wellington Street, Leeds LS1 4DL 订单台及查询:0345 922 0044

授权投资基金

<>< colspan="6">授权公司董事-Waystone Management (UK) Limited< / >< / ><><>Global Total Fd PCG A< / ><>709.49< / ><>-< / ><>-1.76< / ><>4.42< / ><>0.41< / >< / ><><>Global Total Fd PCG B< / ><>698.38< / ><>-< / ><>-1.74< / ><>4.32< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>Global Total Fd PCG INT< / ><>681.01< / ><>-< / ><>-1.70< / ><>4.18< / ><>0.00< / >< / table>

Purisima Investment Fds (CI) Ltd

<><>SICO Kingdom Equity Fund< / ><>SAR< / ><>10.66< / ><>-< / ><>-0.39< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>SICO MENA Equity Fund< / ><>SAR< / ><>21.34< / ><>-< / ><>-0.39< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>SICO Capital Money Market< / ><>SAR< / ><>14.02< / ><>-< / ><>-0.15< / ><>0.00< / >< / table>

授权投资基金

管理基金服务

基金< / td><>买入价< / ><>卖出价< / ><>当日< / ><>周< / ><>收益率< / >< / tr><><>Royal London< / ><>< / ><>(英国)< / >< / ><>< colspan="6">80 Fenchurch Street, London EC3M 4BY< / >< / ><>< colspan="6">授权投资基金< / >< / ><><>Royal London Sustainable Diversified A Inc< / ><>286.30< / ><>-< / ><>0.20< / ><>1.30< / ><>1.55< / >< / ><><>Royal London Sustainable World A Inc< / ><>523.30< / ><>-< / ><>-1.20< / ><>7.30< / ><>0.71< / >< / ><><>Royal London Corporate Bond Mth Income< / ><>75.11< / ><>-< / ><>0.25< / ><>-0.28< / ><>4.64< / >< / ><><>Royal London European Growth Trust< / ><>283.90< / ><>-< / ><>3.70< / ><>-2.60< / ><>1.15< / >< / ><><>Royal London Sustainable Leaders A Inc< / ><>996.90< / ><>-< / ><>11.40< / ><>4.80< / ><>1.50< / >< / ><><>Royal London UK Growth Trust< / ><>856.50< / ><>-< / ><>12.80< / ><>6.20< / ><>1.73< / >< / ><><>Royal London UK Income With Growth Trust< / ><>251.80< / ><>-< / ><>2.70< / ><>1.20< / ><>4.07< / >< / ><><>Royal London US Growth Trust< / ><>683.00< / ><>-< / ><>1.10< / ><>6.90< / ><>0.01< / >< / ><>< colspan="6">可用其他基金,详情请参阅 www.royellondon.com< / >< / table>

Ruffer LLP (1000) F

3rd Floor, Central Square, Wellington Street, Leeds LS1 4DL 订单台及查询电话:0345 601 9610

授权公司董事-Waystone Management (UK) Limited< / td>< / tr><><>WS Ruffer Total Return C Acc< / ><>587.10< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>-2.39< / ><>2.16< / >< / ><><>WS Ruffer Total Return C Inc< / ><>338.68< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>-1.38< / ><>2.19< / >< / table>

买入价 卖出价 D W 收益率

基金

<>< colspan="5">SICO BSC BHR< / ><>(BHR)< / >< / ><>< colspan="5">电话 - +973 1751 5700< / ><>< / >< / ><>< colspan="5">网站 - www.sicobank.com< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Khaleej Equity Fund< / ><>$ 570.76< / ><>-< / ><>-33.51< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>Sico Gulf Equity Fund< / ><>$ 198.62< / ><>-< / ><>3.72< / ><>0.00< / >< / table>

Superfund Asset Management GmbH www.superfund.com, +43 (1) 247 00

买入价 卖出价 D W 收益率 基金

<><>SF Global Best Ideas Eq B USD Acc:< / ><>$ 298.34< / ><>-< / ><>-1.18< / ><>2.63< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>SF Global Best Ideas Eq D GBP Inc< / ><>£ 342.21< / ><>-< / ><>-1.54< / ><>2.61< / ><>0.00< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="6">其他国际基金< / >< / ><><>Superfund Trend Gold< / ><>$ 1820.60< / ><>-< / ><>6.17< / ><>-24.27< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>Superfund Trend Silver< / ><>$ 1911.72< / ><>-< / ><>-29.11< / ><>-61.44< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>Superfund Trend< / ><>$ 817.38< / ><>-< / ><>-0.43< / ><>-1.95< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>Superfund Bitcoin 0-2x< / ><>€ 95.99< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>-2.09< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>Superfund Fund of Funds< / ><>$ 170.73< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="6">受监管基金< / >< / ><><>Superfund Blockchain< / ><>€< / ><>23.63< / ><>-< / ><>-1.02< / ><>-0.67 0.00< / >< / ><><>Superfund Gold Silver + Mining< / ><>€< / ><>18.76< / ><>-< / ><>-0.57< / ><>-0.61 0.00< / >< / ><><>Superfund Quadriga All Seasons< / ><>€< / ><>14.82< / ><>-< / ><>-0.18< / ><>-0.09 0.00< / >< / ><><>Superfund Inflation< / ><>SFr< / ><>11.11< / ><>-< / ><>-0.16< / ><>-0.06 0.00< / >< / table>

买入价 卖出价 D W 收益率

TROY

资产管理

Troy Asset Management (1200)

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3rd Floor, Central Square, Wellington Street, Leeds LS1 4DL 订单台及查询电话 0345 608 0950

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如果 AI 泡沫破裂,如何保护你的投资组合

如果你想持有股票,过去几乎不可能避免其连锁反应。但现在情况不同了。

Stuart Kirk Skin in the Game 你对世界的看法可能与我不同——而且很有可能确实如此。我没有电视,大部分时间要么在森林里,要么在海上。前几天我看到一张新任美联储主席的照片,我还以为那是诺瓦克·德约科维奇。

然而,在投资时,重要的不是你的观点。你正确概率与任何人一样。关键在于你的投资组合是否与该观点一致。你的持仓是否与你的看法相匹配?

读者可能记得我多年来在讨论美国股票配置时写过相关内容——尤其是当我完全不持有美股的时候。我当时担心,无论我多么偏好英国或日本股票,仅持有这些股票是没有意义的。

因为如果我认为标准普尔 500 指数被高估且最终被证明是正确的,我的其他股票基金也会随之崩盘——美国的权重就是如此之大。100% 持有股票且 0% 持有美股,在逻辑上是不自洽的。

因此,当去年的长期牛市让我感到不安时,我卖掉了所有持有的股票。这也是为什么当我决定重新入场时,我小规模购买了一些美国股票。只要我持有少量美股,我就能为持有其他资产提供合理依据。

我仍然认同这个逻辑。问题在于,我依然认为人工智能公司的估值过高。相关的债务狂欢对于我们许多经历过繁荣与萧条的投资者来说,看起来也非常熟悉。桥水基金(Bridgewater Associates)的亿万富翁创始人瑞·达利欧本周表示,AI 是一个“典型的泡沫”,而且我们正“接近”这些泡沫倾向于破裂的临界点。

如果你同意他的观点,该怎么办?你是否必须烧掉其余的所有股票持仓,才能使你的投资组合在内部逻辑上保持一致?幸运的是,现在看来似乎不必如此。事实上,我可能根本不需要这样做。

在疫情刚结束、 开始兴起的时候,情况有所不同。根据彭博(Bloomberg)的数据,当时即使是与 关联度最低的股票——如超市、公用事业和能源公司——与全球 指数的滚动相关性也达到了 0.5。也就是说,它们基本上是同步波动的。

自 2022-23 年期间以来,这种相关性已有所下降,目前为 -0.4。换句话说,当谷歌(Google)和英伟达(Nvidia)近期下跌时,像杜克能源(Duke Energy)和可口可乐(Coca-Cola)这样的公司却在上涨。

自然地,根据与 关联度衡量,排名前 20% 的公司与彭博 指数(如果你想查询,代码为 BAIAT)仍保持 0.8 的强正相关。但它们与关联度最低的 20% 公司之间的差距达到了历史最大水平。

这对实际资金意味着什么?如果我们选取回报率最差的 10% 的交易日, 指数平均下跌约 2%。然而,如果你持有的是与 关联度最弱的 20% 的股票,你在这些日子里的表现将持平。

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因此,对于那些认为 不过是针对律师、会计师和抄作业孩子的“互联网泡沫 2.0”的投资者来说,现在有可能持有这样一篮子公司,在泡沫破裂时为他们提供一定的保护。

不过,让我们现实一点。上述计算中的下跌日与那种真正需要“收拾好纸箱离开办公室”的特大崩盘完全不同。我经历过 2008 年和 2020 年的崩溃,我可以告诉你,那时每只股票都被烧毁了。

此外,达利欧(Dalio)等人认为,导致市场破裂的导火索将是更高的借贷成本。即使短期内没有发生崩盘,这也将损害公用事业等防御性板块,因为这些板块的估值往往与利率呈反向变动。

还有其他方法可以保护你的投资组合免受“AI末日”的影响吗?

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全球多元化配置会有一定帮助。在AI股票表现最糟糕的那些日子里,MSCI全球指数平均下跌约1%,跌幅大约只有前者的一半。

每个全球基准指数都包含美国,而美国与AI指数的相关性几乎达到0.9。相比之下,英国受到的影响要小得多,主要是因为英国仅存的少数几家公司要么是银行,要么是石油生产商。自2022年以来,AI表现糟糕的日子仅导致MSCI英国指数下跌0.3%(同样来自彭博数据)。

更安全的是中国,仅下跌0.1%。马来西亚、印度、澳大利亚以及除英国外的欧洲地区也提供了良好的缓冲。这让我想起我曾经工作过的一家银行,它在次贷危机的大清洗中幸免于难,并非因为它聪明,而是因为它入场太晚。

由于生产了过多的半导体,日本在这一分析中的表现并不出色。我对韩国的超配仓位同样如此。至于台湾,请小心!

如果你仍然希望接触美国市场,但不想让投资组合充斥着食品公司,另一种方法是购买等权重标准普尔 500 指数基金。或者,简单地频繁且果断地重新平衡你的AI持仓。

另一种方法是用黄金、现金或某种短期债券来抵消AI的权重。对于那些坚信超级智能即将遇到其“克利普托奈特”(致命弱点)的投资者来说,为什么不在我们其他人尖叫时,通过购买纳斯达克指数或个股的看跌期权来大赚一笔呢?目前也有很多做空或反向ETF可用,但我之前写过这些产品的风险。

就我个人而言,我采取了简单的方式:大幅低配美国,重仓英国,持有部分债券以及大量日元——从历史上看,每当市场崩盘时,日元都会飙升。

作者曾任投资组合经理。电子邮件:stuart.kirk@ft.com

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在波动的投资环境下,积极猎取利润可能会带来回报。如果您仅仅追踪指数,那么在利润中可能会混入一些令人不快的意外。这就是为什么我们的猎手始终选择精选之路。依靠猎手的直觉,而非追踪者的习惯。您的资本面临风险。

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罗马悠久的古代历史长期以来既是它的福祉,也是它的诅咒。而现在,一项耗资10亿欧元的翻新计划正吸引着外国购房者。雨果·考克斯(Hugo Cox)探讨,它能否与伦敦和米兰竞争。

拜访纺织设计师兼艺术家伊莎贝拉·杜克罗(Isabella Ducrot)的罗马寓所,伴随着银壶盛装的咖啡和浓浓的“甜蜜生活”(la dolce vita)气息。她现已九十多岁。在位于罗马学院广场(Piazza del Collegio Romano)的宫殿公寓里,我爬到二楼,她的女佣接过我的帽子,我步入露台。露台上铺满了赤陶瓦,点缀着盆栽灌木,隔壁巨大的前耶稣会罗马学院塔楼俯瞰着这里。我瞥见了多明我会修道院的边缘——它就在200米外,位于万神殿后方——1633年,伽利略曾在此被宗教裁判所定罪。

罗马是她60年来的家。她告诉我,这座城市依然让她感到惊喜和启发。最近,她在研究圣保罗的书信时产生了一种顿悟:“我意识到他曾在这里——就在几步之遥的地方,他被囚禁了,”她说着,向着卡皮托利欧山(Capitoline Hill)马默廷监狱的方向指了指屋顶。

杜克罗即将在那不勒斯的马德雷博物馆(Museo Madre)举办展览,她从这座城市的古老气息中汲取精神和创作灵感,这里的每一块铺路石和每一个街角都刻满了历史。然而,在某些人看来,这座城市长期以来似乎过于沉溺于过去。根据仲量丰纬(JLL)的数据,去年国际房地产投资者(包括商业和住宅)在罗马投入了€645mn,而米兰为26亿欧元,伦敦则接近107亿欧元。

中介表示,富有的海外购房者长期以来将罗马与交通拥堵、游客塞满的街道、迷宫般的官僚机构以及受法律不确定性困扰的购买流程联系在一起。再加上住房存量以历史公寓为主——这些公寓虽然美丽,但现代化改造费用昂贵且受严格的遗产保护控制——许多人干脆选择了伦敦或米兰。常驻该市的Engel & Völkers意大利办事处首席执行官穆汉纳德·阿尔-萨尔希(Muhannad Al Salhi)表示:“这是一座以美食和活力著称的美丽城市,但它就是行不通——无论是房屋类型还是服务。”

但情况正在改变。在2025年禧年(Jubilee,吸引数百万朝圣者的天主教圣年)之前,一项€3.7bn的公共投资计划催化了转变,从更便捷的交通(例如两座新地铁站的开通)到公共空间的审美和体验提升(例如皮亚广场的步行化)。

全球奢侈酒店品牌正在增加。科林西亚罗马酒店(Corinthia Rome)于3月在议会广场(Piazza del Parlamento)的一栋前意大利银行大楼内开业,其中包括由米其林多星主厨、前《意大利主厨》评委卡洛·克拉科(Carlo Cracco)经营的Viridi餐厅。此前,东方快车La Minerva(该品牌的首家酒店)和Nobu Hotel Roma已于去年开业。文华东方和四季酒店计划明年开业。罗马的餐饮界获得了新的认可:伊甸酒店的La Terrazza和INEO在2026年米其林指南中摘星;目前该市拥有26家米其林星级餐厅,而米兰为20家。

这些开业情况证明了该市不断扩大的国际吸引力:2020年至2025, 间,罗马的外国居民人口增加了13,200人,而前五年仅增加1,670人。根据第一太平戴维斯(Savills)的数据,国际买家的份额正在增加,今年迄今为止占顶级房产销售额的20%,高于2019, 的7%。明年,布赖顿学院(Brighton College)将增加一个校区,以帮助满足国际学校入学名额日益增长的需求。

“在过去一年中,来自英国、法国和美国的买家兴趣尤为浓厚,这在一定程度上得益于意大利的单一税(flat tax),”罗马莱明(ReLiving)——莱坊(Knight Frank)首选代理机构的经纪经理维罗妮卡·萨利亚斯基(Veronica Sagliaschi)表示。这项国家税制于2017年推出,旨在限制那些从国外移居意大利的人员就海外收入缴纳的税款(每年上限为€300,000),截至2025年,已有2,500人使用了该税制。

罗马购房代理人艾玛·罗西·贝尔纳迪(Emma Rossi Bernardi)目前超过一半的客户来自海外,而此前这一比例接近于零

“这就像是能看到梵蒂冈景色的迈阿密。直到现在,我们几乎没有什么类似的产品可以向买家展示”

她说,这是五年前的情况。在过去一年中,随着英国非定居居民(non-dom)税制的变更,她的客户名单中增加了十几位寻求伦敦替代方案的法国金融家和科技高管。在合适的房源方面,她将 2023 年视为一个分水岭,因为 Palazzo Raggi 投入使用,这是一处位于西班牙阶梯附近、经过奢华翻新的 18 世纪早期房产;此前几年推出的 Monticello 也已面世——该项目位于 Via Aurelia,包含 65 套公寓和别墅,配备礼宾服务、屋顶花园和露台,可远眺圣彼得大教堂。

“这就像是能看到梵蒂冈景色的迈阿密,”她在谈到 Monticello 时说道,“直到最近,我们几乎没有什么类似的产品可以向国际买家展示。”

随着一系列配备齐全(如健身房、共享办公空间和礼宾服务)的新建项目出现,选择正变得更加多样。在 Tiburtina 火车站附近是 House of Minerva,这是一个近期推出的包含 111 套住宅的开发项目,其中三居室起售价为 €997,000。在南部的城市商业中心 EUR 区,包含 142 套住宅的 Domus Nova 项目(简称 DoNo)提供两居室顶层公寓,起售价为 €870,000,三居室顶层公寓起售价为 €1.2mn。在城市西部,Porta Pamphili 的第一阶段包含 148 套住宅——其屋顶花园可俯瞰 Valle dei Casali 自然保护区,这是一个占地 466 公顷的绿色走廊(后续阶段计划再增加约 300 套住宅)。明年,一个包含 100 套住宅的新项目将在城市北部的 Via Cassia 区启动。

从主图起顺时针方向:东方快车 La Minerva 酒店;Monticello 住宅;居住在此 60 年的艺术家 Isabella Ducrot;步行街 Piazza Pia —— Alexandre Tabeste;由艺术家提供(Albrecht Fuchs)Antonio Masella / Getty Images

根据第一太平戴维斯(Savills)的数据,罗马各地的新项目意味着到 2029 年将增加 4,500 套新房——其中 3,555 套将在明年年底前完工——这一数字轻松超过了米兰 3,700, 套的总量。高价值住宅的销售额正在增长——根据第一太平戴维斯的数据,去年有 430 套售价超过 €1mn 的住宅成交,比五年平均水平高出 51%。

罗马终于能开始与伦敦、纽约和米兰竞争了吗?

从斗兽场乘坐地铁 25 分钟即可到达 House of Minerva,在许多方面,它都是“新罗马”的象征。它位于 La Sapienza 社区:年轻、现代且充满活力。在罗马市中心那些赭色的宫殿和巴洛克式教堂取代之处,现代公寓楼沿着 Piazza Bologna 周边的街道排开。到上午时分,咖啡馆里坐满了附近大学的学生。日落时分,热闹的人群涌入酒吧和餐厅,或者前往 2021 年开业的罗马 Soho House 喝一杯日落饮品。

这个开发项目感觉更像是在马德里或里斯本能见到的建筑。外观是克制的浅色立面,配有宽敞的露台和深邃的廊道;在内部,罗马设计师 Frattali 为买家提供极简主义或更丰富细节的室内设计选择。家具由意大利最负盛名的设计公司之一 Molteni&C 提供(该公司成立于 1934 年);木地板采用 Itlas 品牌,瓷砖则来自 Iris Ceramica。除了屋顶露台和健身房,居民还拥有一个共享办公空间——这些在全球领先城市的国际住宅开发项目中都是常见配置,但在罗马市中心此前十分罕见。

60, 岁的 Steve Goldman 正是罗马开发商试图吸引的那类买家。在卖掉一家投资管理公司后,他和妻子以及两个青春期的女儿于 2022, 年从悉尼搬迁至此,利用了意大利的单一税制(“我觉得与澳大利亚相比,他们是在付钱请我住在这里,”他开玩笑说)。

在市中心租房四年后,他想要一个远离游客喧嚣的地方。他刚刚获得了一套顶层公寓的购买许可,该公寓位于享有盛誉的朱利亚路(Via Giulia),是一套近期翻新的五楼顶层住宅。这条长达一公里的街道与台伯河平行,由教皇尤利乌斯二世于1508年下令修建。

在前往那里的途中,我们穿过了新近改为步行区的皮亚广场(Piazza Pia);现在的交通流量通过地下通道分流,不再污染从圣安杰洛城堡到圣彼得大教堂的景观。该项目由总理乔治亚·梅洛尼与罗马市长罗伯托·瓜尔蒂耶里共同主持落成,耗资€85mn,是梅洛尼所称的“禧年模式”的旗舰项目:这是一种异常快速且协调的方法,旨在为这座以官僚主义惯性著称的城市交付长期延误的公共工程。更广泛的基础设施计划还包括改造特米尼车站外的广场,以及将靠近

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房屋与家居 (House&Home)

那只住在狗篮子里的鸡的故事

我们的鸡坚信“捡到就是赚到”这个格言。在经历了一次狐狸夜袭导致她成为群体中唯一的幸存者后,她变得有些离群索居。在接下来的四个月里,她一直住在棚子里,趴在一块网格布上,只有在进食时才会出来。我们咨询了一位鸟类专家,他认为她可能患有抑郁症,因此我们决定采取干预措施:将她锁在棚子外面,强迫她在家庭生活中扮演更积极的角色。

这在某种程度上起作用了。她在我们的两只狗身上找到了陪伴,不久之后,她对我们的指针犬 Ginny 的狗篮子产生了特殊的喜爱。每当篮子空着时,她就会爬进去安顿下来。Ginny 会把她赶出去,但只要 Ginny 一转身,瞧,那只鸡就又回到了篮子里。我们允许这种情况继续下去,很大程度上是因为这对我们来说很有趣,而且对提高这只鸡的自我价值感大有裨益。

这是一个很好的隐喻,揭示了我们如何居住在自己的家中。我们设计房间、购买家具时心中都有特定的目的,但很快,居住在其中的人们(以及其他生物)就开始干扰这些初衷。

我们带着对宏伟愿景的憧憬搬进新家。随后,生活的现实接踵而至。

物品来来去去,家具被挪用,孩子们长大,在你还没意识到的时候,房子已经与你最初的规划相去甚远。

我们对空间这种自然演变的抵触程度超过了应有的限度。当我们搬进一座房子时,往往会产生一种诱惑,认为我们正以某种方式将其固定在最终形态。这纯粹是傲慢。我们需要让家回归其本原,接受我们使用它的方式,欢迎改变,而不是强迫它变成我们认为它应该有的样子。

我们的家就是一个完美的例子,或者说是一个警示故事,取决于你如何看待。在我们搬进来后的几年里,房子前部有一个极佳且优雅的餐厅。然后,我岳母的大钢琴来了。

继承这架钢琴是一件幸事,但我们的乡村小屋从未打算容纳如此规模的物件。原本设计为家庭晚餐室的房间,现在摆着一台巨大的钢琴,以及一张对于一个身高超过 6 英尺的男性家庭来说过于狭小的沙发。

这或许不是最理想的安排,但我们已经

Max Rollitt

观点

接纳了这种演变。现在被亲切地称为“钢琴房”的地方已成为我们日常生活不可或缺的一部分——虽然这并非我们最初的设想,但却以一种全新的、有意义的方式存在着。在很多个夜晚,我会进去练习吉他,而我的妻子则在阅读。有时,如果运气足够好,她还会用钢琴为我伴奏。

“钢琴大入侵”带来的另一个积极副作用是,厨房从“后台”变成了前沿的娱乐空间。程度之深,以至于一位朋友在我们家住了两晚,且所有时间都与我们一起在厨房度过之后,不得不腼腆地询问她是否被允许参观房子的其他部分。

我们进入新家时都怀揣着愿望,通常是关于宏伟的愿望。随后我们的品味在演变,生活的现实也随之而至——对舒适的需求,以及冰箱上和墙上到处贴满孩子画作的喜悦。如果我们愿意停止抵触,让这一切自然发生,那么事情通常在此时开始变得有趣。

我并不是说我们不应该仔细思考希望房子呈现的样子,但我们必须放下最初的意图。作为一名古董商,你很早就学到的一课就是:尽管人们天生有强烈的执念,但你不能过于执着地掌控事物。(我买的第一批大件家具之一是一个詹姆斯一世时期的雪松木抽屉柜。我非常喜爱它——爱抚地擦拭它,修复它,然后把它挂在出售名单上,结果当有人竟然胆敢把它从我这里买走时,我感到极其震惊。我想我内心深处其实希望把它留给自己。)

回到动物们身上。那只杰克罗素梗在 16 岁时去世了,三个月后,那只指针犬也因为悲伤而去世。一周后,那只母鸡也算是“过马路到了另一边”(去世了)。随着同伴的离去,她的抑郁情绪似乎再次袭来,然后她去了某个我们从未发现的地方。

于是,指针犬的篮子空在那里。我们后来养了两只可爱的新母鸡,但其中任何一只都没有表现出能像母鸡夫人那样提供娱乐和欢乐的迹象。也许,它们最终也会给我们带来惊喜。

但这正是让房子变成“家”的过程。去留意正在发生的事,理解它,并顺其自然。你可以有计划,你可以与不可避免的事物搏斗,但说到底,仅仅是居住在这里这个行为本身就注定会改变它——而且大多数时候,是向更好的方向改变。

Max Rollitt 是一位室内设计师、家具制作者和古董商;maxrollitt.com

让指针犬感到懊恼的是,母鸡夫人搬进了狗篮子

古董之窟

匠心之居 / 在她的托斯卡纳农舍中,吉莉·伯纳德(Jilly Bernard)利用 17 世纪的 scagliola(仿大理石石膏)艺术,修复并创作仿大理石桌面和雕塑。作者:康斯坦斯·艾顿(Constance Ayrton)

从佛罗伦萨向南行驶 20 分钟前往佩萨河谷的圣卡西亚诺(San Casciano in Val di Pesa),道路最终会变窄成一条由丝柏树和橄榄林环绕的土路。路尽头矗立着一座托斯卡纳石屋,吉莉·伯纳德在此生活和工作。她是极少数从事这项专业工艺的从业者之一,这项工艺的名字经常让人听得一头雾水。

“Scagliola 是一个很多人不知道的词,”伯纳德说,“即使是装饰师、设计师、艺术家,他们也会问:‘那是什么?’”

这个词源自意大利语 scaglia,意为石屑。Scagliola 发展于文艺复兴晚期的意大利,是一种装饰技术,通过将石膏、动物胶和原始颜料混合加工,制作出色彩丰富、经过抛光的仿大理石。它曾点缀在教堂的祭坛上,也曾出现在从萨里郡的汉姆庄园(Ham House)到维也纳下美景宫(Lower Belvedere)等宏伟住宅的地面和柱子上。

伯纳德的作品涵盖了古典人物、风景、野生动物图案和抽象设计,受美国和欧洲各地的私人室内空间委托创作。她为切尔滕纳姆赛马场(Cheltenham racecourse)的皇家公主看台门厅创作了中心装饰件,并在布伦海姆宫(Blenheim Palace)的枪械室旁创作了一组“动物图像拼贴”。

Scagliola 奖赏耐心,惩罚捷径。伯纳德花了近三十年时间研究其特性。“你永远无法真正完成学习,”她说,“你只是变得越来越熟练。”

她使用刮刀制作出一种“石膏面团”,然后加入颜料并用手工重新排列,以形成

(图片说明)从上至下:吉莉·伯纳德的“考陶尔德卡诺瓦狮子”系列雕塑;由佛罗伦萨 scagliola 大师钦齐亚·隆盖蒂(Cinzia Lunghetti)创作并由伯纳德修复的桌面;“永恒的女性”系列包括 12 个不同颜色的躯干。Anders Gramer 摄

纹理和色彩通道。随后对作品进行打磨和填补。“这些步骤可能需要几天,有时需要几周,”她说。最后,进行上油、打蜡和抛光。“最终,我的丈夫走进来告诉我:‘吉莉,完成了。’”

伯纳德接触这项工艺的路径始于远离托斯卡纳的地方——她在苏格兰长大的一家养羊场。她经常拜访附近纺织设计师伯纳特·克莱恩(Bernat Klein)的家,后者以色彩浓烈的高级定制面料而闻名。“他有一双非凡的眼睛,”她回忆道,“马海毛与丝绸混合,荧光粉撞击亮橙色。孩提时代,你在潜意识中吸收了这一切。”

20 世纪 80 年代,伯纳德在伦敦开始她的职业生涯,成为一名专业的装饰画家。在意大利学习里昂托·廷托里(Leonetto Tintori)的湿壁画期间,她发现了 scagliola。后来,她与佛罗伦萨的 scagliola 大师钦齐亚·隆盖蒂共同工作。

最近,伯纳德已不再局限于平面,开始探索将 scagliola 作为一种三维艺术。她的雕塑系列《永恒的女性》包括 12 个女性躯干,色调从深红色到电蓝色不等。为了处理人体曲线,她必须开发出更复杂的技巧灵活性。

“Scagliola(仿大理石石膏)是那些人们并不熟悉的词汇之一。甚至连装饰师、设计师和艺术家都会问:‘那是什么?’”

“Scagliola 的可能性是无穷的,”House of Moy 的汤姆·莫伊(Tom Moy)说道,这家位于牛津的画廊代理伯纳德的作品。“它既适合出现在英国庄园的墙壁上,也适合出现在客厅的双陆棋盘上。”

伯纳德最新的尝试可能是迄今为止最大胆的一次:重现秦始皇兵马俑中那些古老的陶俑。原件曾被涂以鲜艳的色彩,但这些颜色因氧化而消失。“我决定将它们还原成最初的样子,”她说。到目前为止,她已经完成了两个,并计划创作一个系列。“它们是世界上首批此类作品。所以我对此感到非常满意。”

小型作品 8,000 英镑 起,交付周期四个月起;桌面 3 万英镑 起,交付周期六个月起;雕塑请联系 House of Moy;jillybernardscagliola.com;houseofmoy.com / scagliola

希望之泉……

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梵蒂冈以及圣若望拉特朗大教堂外的广场翻新工程。今天早晨,那些在协调大道(Via della Conciliazione)沿线欣赏通往梵蒂冈壮丽景观的人们,既有惊叹的游客,也有在上班途中漠不关心的罗马人。

“我们生活在一家博物馆里,有太多值得看和做的事情;场所营业时间很晚且很安全;我允许我的青春期女儿在晚上单独外出。她之前坚决反对从悉尼搬过来;现在她很喜欢这里,”戈德曼说。他指出,在罗马买房和拥有住房比在悉尼便宜得多:购房税——首套房和第二套房分别为 2 per cent 和 9 per cent——在大多数情况下是根据房产的地籍价值(即公共记录价值)而非市场价值计算的。前者通常仅为后者的几分之一,这意味着对于一套 €2mn 首套房,其税金通常在 €10,000 到 €15,000 之间,在该市负责第一国际地产(Savills)意大利住宅业务的达尼洛·奥兰多(Danilo Orlando)看来是这样。

根据莱坊(Knight Frank)的数据,在过去三年中,顶级房产的平均成交价格上涨了 13 per cent——在欧洲各首都中,只有马德里的增长速度更快。但即便如此,罗马的顶级住宅每平方米价格为 €13,169,在这一组城市中仍是第三便宜的,仅次于里斯本和布加勒斯特。奥兰多表示,这样的经济条件对国际买家来说具有越来越强的投资吸引力。“与其他欧洲城市相比,罗马的性价比依然极高。”

但对于戈德曼来说,寻找合适的房子被证明很困难。四年时间里,他和妻子看了 20 到 30 套公寓。一次又一次,当他们发现批准的规划图与实际建筑之间存在差异时,就将其拒绝了。“几乎总会有问题,比如一个窗户,或一面内墙——但足以让我们放弃,”他说。

当我们沿着朱利亚大道(Via Giulia)原路返回时,一道铁丝网围栏边是一个地下停车场,他正考虑在那里买一个车位。“价格在 €500,000 到 €600,000 之间,”他翻了个白眼。今年早些时候,一个售价 €240,000 的车位在网上走红,理由是车位有限且汽车拥有量在增加。

罗马台伯河上的划船者正向梵蒂冈城靠近 —— Alamy

戈德曼在抵达时已经拥有了一个社交网络:他的妻子来自托斯卡纳的比萨,曾在罗马工作且在那里有家人。她也是一名律师,非常擅长处理办理车辆许可证、身份证件、公用事业等所需的罗马行政系统谈判。但在我见完戈德曼后的第二天,我对罗马美国海外学校(其家庭群体或许是国际移民迁入该市最清晰的晴雨表)的访问表明,那些没有此类内部资源的人面临着严峻的挑战。

来源:莱坊 • * 伦敦市中心顶级房产

八十年前,帕里奥利(Parioli)这个北部区域的大部分还是乡村;学校的主楼早于学校建立,是一栋气势恢宏的法西斯时代混凝土别墅。如今,该地区设有大使馆和罗马大多数的国际学校。它是罗马最令人向往的住宅区之一,拥有大型现代独立住宅。招生负责人萨宾·诺伊曼(Sabine Neumann)表示,除了在 EUR 商业中心工作的人员外,外交官或政府相关工作人员构成了该校家长的大部分。其中 70 per cent 是外籍人士。

诺伊曼的大部分时间都在帮助家长应对搬迁至罗马的行政难关。她说,有时家长在孩子还没入学前就将其撤回,因为签证被拒,或者物流安排过于繁重。“这周我已经好几次在电话里听到家长哭泣了。”

挑战不仅在于官僚程序,还在于社交层面。诺伊曼在带着年幼的孩子搬到这座城市之前,曾居住在伦敦、纽约、法兰克福、慕尼黑和巴黎,她表示这座城市异常难以融入。友谊和职业网络往往可以追溯到几代之前;家庭纽带依然异常强大。“罗马社会具有地方主义色彩且极其保守——毕竟这里是梵蒂冈的所在地。对于我们大多数家长来说,学校就是社交生活的全部,”她说。

这种印象在访问 Reale Circolo Canottieri Tevere Remo(皇家特韦雷赛艇俱乐部)的 Ripetta 会所时得到了加强,该俱乐部是罗马最古老且最负盛名的私人俱乐部之一。其体育和社交会员长期以来由首都的政治、商业和贵族精英组成;该俱乐部不接纳女性。在欢迎我进入俱乐部气势恢宏的木镶板客厅后,主席安德里亚·格兰佐托(Andrea Granzotto)显然对这一事实感到有些尴尬,他说道:“我一直担心会接到体育部部长的电话,要求我做出解释。”

罗马的外国居民并没有理由不能加入——该俱乐部与全球多家俱乐部设有互惠协议——但几乎没有人加入。格兰佐托解释说

“这座城市很难打入。罗马社会具有地方主义色彩且保守——毕竟这里是梵蒂冈的所在地”

罗马的社交生活非常特殊,且高度集中在不同的社区:“帕里奥利(Parioli)、卡西亚(Cassia)和诺门塔诺(Nomentano)”——在很多情况下,他能通过人们的方言和穿着判断出他们住在哪里。“确实,外国人很难融入罗马社会,”他说。

回到杜克罗(Ducrot)的公寓,我再次走到露台上,最后一次俯瞰那里的景色。她的两个儿子都留在城里——像她一样,深深痴迷于这座城市的历史与文化——一个是一名雕塑家,另一个则经营着一家豪华旅行社,在杜克罗的公寓下方拥有一套房产;他目前正忙于挖掘他在2017年买下的一栋附近建筑地下的米诺斯神庙遗址。

如今,这座城市可能更容易通行,拥有更新的住宅和更好的服务,对于国际买家而言,其吸引力甚至比五年前更强。但在杜克罗公寓的辉煌氛围中,对我来说很明显,它的魅力永远不在于便利。“这里一直有电影、戏剧和知识分子生活,”她解释道,“但它更深层——是这座城市通过其历史所赋予的认知。在这里,一切都曾发生。”

不同的视角

室内设计 / 传统壁纸公司 Cole & Son 在充满活力的全新领导层带领下,正拥抱几何风的俏皮感、大胆的色彩以及叙事性,菲奥娜·麦卡锡(Fiona McCarthy)撰文报道

在约翰·佩里(John Perry)1875年于伊斯灵顿(Islington)一家壁纸厂创立的手工木版印刷企业中,“植绒星期五(Flocking Fridays)”曾是生活的一部分。Yelena

1879年的纸膜。Telena Ford 作为 Cole & Son(该公司演变至今的版本)的新任总经理,可能并不打算完全恢复这种对17世纪荷兰模仿切割天鹅绒工艺的庆祝活动,但她正在引导其年轻的、主角般的能量。

“你可以用很多种方式与壁纸共处,”她说,“我希望它能成为某种家庭干预,带来的价值不仅在于颜色和图案,还在于其叙事、工艺和历史的价值,从而在这个空间内帮助人们创造自己的故事。”

Ford 之前曾在高端零售商 The New Craftsmen 担任总经理,她说,她花了很多时间思考什么能创造出“氛围”。“这就是壁纸能做到的;它带来了其他层面的东西——在声学、质感、温暖度和深度方面——这些真正将一个空间凝聚在一起。”

在佩里的领导下,公司一直具有创新精神,不仅复兴了植绒艺术,还开创了诸如闪烁的波纹绸复制品等饰面。在随后的几个世纪里,该公司为议会大厦、白金汉宫、温莎城堡和查茨沃斯庄园(Chatsworth House)制作了壁纸。近期,Cole & Son 以其档案印花而闻名,例如18世纪的“蜂鸟(Hummingbirds)”和50年代后期的“森林(Woods)”,以及与 Fornasetti 合作的梦幻单色“Nuvolette”云景。

在 Ford 担任总经理后的首个系列 Formations 中,几何图案在很大程度上是对这些传统技术的重新演绎,通过 11 款设计的图形线条、网格和角度带来了“一种清新感和锐利感”,Ford 表示,这些设计被“手绘和手绘的、以工艺为导向的流程所柔化”。

“干刷(Scumbling)”是一种使用半透明釉料的传统装饰绘画技术

“我希望壁纸能成为一种对家居空间的干预,带来超越色彩和图案本身的价值”

福特表示,“Archival Marble”系列采用了表现力强的笔触来模拟仿大理石效果,其灵感来自 Cole & Son 的档案大理石书籍,以及“在其中一本书中发现的一条关于如何将其以水平块状悬挂的小说明”。她说:“我们当时觉得,‘噢,等等,我们可以利用这个旧时代的想法,来构建我们关于这种设计在现代空间中如何呈现的思考。’”

飞尘法(Aquatinting)——一种在铜板上蚀刻并用酸处理以实现颜色渐变的过程——被用于创造“Diamond Maze”那种略显模糊的绗缝效果。“Wavelet”则借鉴了历史悠久的巴杰洛(Bargello)针绣的之字形几何图案。“Scattered Ink”则是“精准与自发性的相互作用”,其中精确的凹版蚀刻轮廓与随手绘制的墨迹斑点交织在一起。而受一个世纪前 Cole & Son 原创 Frette 启发而设计的“Fret-work”,则得益于一种模拟印刷方法:油墨层层叠加,创造出一种暗示蜂窝效果的触感印迹。

福特认为,图案不应该是最后才应用到房间里的东西,而应该是“从一开始就是建筑对话的一部分,与空间中的家具、纺织品、艺术品、光线和材质进行对话”。

她补充道:“很多人,包括我在内,习惯在素色墙上挂艺术品。但图案

从主图起顺时针方向:Formations 系列中的 11 款新设计包括 Painted Prism、Diamond Maze、Colour Card、Fretwork 和 Scattered Ink。左图:Cole & Son 新任董事总经理 Yelena Ford —— Dean Heame / 艺术家 Reny Mishon, Betty Martin

可以与房间里的其他事物进行对话;它并不总是需要成为最抢眼的存在。”由艺术平台 Partnership Edition 创始人乔治亚·斯普雷(Georgia Spray)创作的宣传影像展示了“艺术品与壁纸之间的对话,不仅在色调上,而且在制作工艺上。我想展示艺术是如何层叠在壁纸之上的。”

确保 Cole & Son 在未来的 150 年里依然具有意义是福特面临的最大挑战。“我希望 Cole & Son 能成为‘与图案共居’的领先权威。我们拥有非凡的创意历史,但我不想让我们变成自己的博物馆。我希望我们将关于图案、色彩和工艺的所有知识结合起来,探讨这些对于现代人的生活方式意味着什么。”

House&Home

赶紧处理你的废弃物

花园 / 从栖息地堆积到 Hügelkultur(丘状栽培法)——

通过一个名叫 Johanna 的垃圾桶 —— Tabi Jackson Gee

分享她的秋季堆肥速成指南

作为生活中的一个大囤积者,我会竭尽全力避免使用垃圾桶。以茶叶为例,我最近从茶包换成了散叶茶,不是为了口感,而是为了能将它们加入家中的堆肥中(茶包只能在工业堆肥机中分解)。我为什么要将这些宝贵的养分交给市政当局?还有破碎的瓷器——它们是碎石花园中非常有用的基质。剪下的枝条和小树枝?则是昆虫的家园和饲料。

随着秋意渐浓,人们的注意力通常转向为冬季做准备的花园细节:土壤健康、覆盖mulching——以及如何处理夏季积累的大量植物残骸。

在我小时候,花园底部的篝火能处理掉大部分碍眼的废弃物。现在,我们更加关注刺猬和邻居,更多的人理解废弃物为微栖息地带来的益处。尤其是花园废弃物,对于优质土壤和植物繁茂至关重要。

由于采用了覆盖物和堆肥养护,我家前花园的壤土几乎没有感受到夏季干旱的影响。我们正在收获良好废弃物管理和土壤改良带来的好处。

我对那些善用资源的园丁就像对美丽花园一样着迷;两者相辅相成。利用废弃物有很多途径,从简单的托盘堆肥区到新种的树篱(可以将所有废弃物堆在树篱后面)——以及一个时髦的垃圾桶。

我自己的花园堆肥使用 Green Johanna,这是一个 330 升、近一米高的塑料桶,价格约为 £120,但得到了我们当地市政当局的补贴(在威尔特郡,这里仍然不收集厨余垃圾,即便有这项服务我也不会使用)。所有食物(无论熟或生)都交给 Johanna,此外还有木屑(考虑到我男朋友是家具制造师,这很方便)、剪下的草坪和纸板——感谢快递配送。

目标是绿色和棕色原料 50 / 50 的混合比例。我们遵循一些伪科学,避免放入过多的柑橘类水果,因为据说它们酸性太强。骨头是禁忌,牛油果核也是——任何无法分解的东西都不能放。有些堆肥系统可以处理肉类,有些则不行;这取决于温度。我们不在堆肥区放置食物,因为我不希望招来老鼠。

保持堆肥在正确的温度对于其发挥作用至关重要:“55℃-70℃ 是最佳温度,”萨默塞特郡 Batcombe House(景观设计师 Libby Russell 的住所)的主理园丁 Tom Price 解释道。“这个温度足以破坏杂草种子、多年生根系和大多数病原体。在冬季,你需要对其进行绝缘处理以保持最佳温度。使用纸板或塑料布——虽然不好看但很实用,”他建议道。

“翻堆也有助于加速堆肥过程——但在寒冷天气中要避免这样做,因为这会导致热空气流失。另一个因素是水分——覆盖堆肥是个好主意,这样它就不会太湿。过多的水分会排出空气,并使

(图片顺时针从上起:栖息地堆积是昆虫的梦想之屋;Hügelkultur 堆肥床;韩国“博卡西” Bokashi 垃圾桶;Green Johanna 堆肥桶) Lottie Delman; Getty Images; She Grove Veg 堆肥进入厌氧状态。”换句话说,它会耗尽氧气并开始发臭。优质的堆

在寒冷的早晨,穿着睡袍享受这一切。而且,几乎没有什么花园材料是不能堆肥的。“有条理地准备好正确的设置和设备是关键,”普莱斯(Price)说道,“木质材料可以通过粉碎来增加表面积,从而加快分解过程。”

即便在堆肥之外,“花园废物根本不是废物,而是一种极具价值的资源——而且是免费的,”罗素(Russell)表示,“我们收集剪下的材料用于支撑、编织拱门和天然花园结构。每一片落叶都弥足珍贵。”

“栖息地堆”(Habitat piles)现在非常流行——这种结构在地下设有垂直支撑物,可以填充落叶、剪枝、切屑和细枝。这些是昆虫的天然家园,而你就是建筑师。如果高度适中且位置得当,它们可以成为一件艺术品;一种具有雕塑感且空灵的视觉呈现。我们在沃明斯特(Warminster)当地的水草甸就做得很好。在夏末,它们成了迷人的、堆积如山的视觉焦点,在成片白缬草和蓬松的 Filipendula(拟欧当归)中跃然而出。

对于较小的花园废物,例如在修剪、摘除残花,或剪掉枯萎的花朵和茎干时,可以使用“剪后就地铺设”(chop and drop)技术;无需走到堆肥区,只需将嫩的多年生植物剪成火柴棍大小的碎片,直接留在花床中即可。这能节省大量时间。如果你担心环境凌乱,只需记住你正在为土壤健康做贡献,然后深呼吸一次。

“正是土壤——以及其中的生命——为我们生长作物,”西萨塞克斯郡先驱性的再野化庄园 Knepp 的副首席种植师阿里·皮尔(Ali Peel)说道,“作为再生种植者,我们将自己视为土壤的耕耘者和管护者。在我们的市场花园里,我们会将所有作物残余、杂草以及来自厨房的所有食物垃圾全部堆肥,”在谈到获得米其林绿星的 Knepp Wilding Kitchen 餐厅时,她这样说道,“以这种方式闭环,并尽可能让更多营养在土壤中循环,这一点至关重要。当然,当顾客在餐厅用餐时,部分营养会被带走,因此我们使用庄园其他地方的有机牛粪来补充我们自己的堆肥。”

皮尔表示,那些无法方便获得牛粪的人可以尝试博卡西(bokashi)堆肥法。这种韩国方法允许你使用室内垃圾桶,通过发酵快速处理肉类、鱼类和其他食物垃圾。非常酷的园艺网站 She Grows Veg 销售一套此类设备,价格为 £59.99——并附带启动该过程所需的麸皮。

普莱斯还建议充分利用杂草,尤其是聚合草(comfrey)

“花园废物根本不是废物,而是一种极具价值的资源——而且是免费的。每一片落叶都弥足珍贵”

以及荨麻。“聚合草和荨麻茶是极佳的自制植物养料。聚合草是一种优质的富钾有机肥,能促进良好的开花和结果;而荨麻茶则富含氮,能促进强健、健康的生长。”只需将叶子揉碎,浸泡在水中,并将其放置在远离房屋的地方——因为这东西味道很冲。

如果你还想探索另一个领域,那么可以关注一下“休格尔文化”(Hügelkultur,一种堆肥种植法)。普莱斯解释道:“本质上,它是一种高架花园床,由多层结构组成:底层是堆叠的腐木,然后是有机物,最后在顶部覆盖土壤。随着时间的推移,这些物质会分解成一种肥沃且营养丰富的介质。”你可以直接在这些堆肥丘中种植。

“减少我们引入花园的资源数量绝对是一件好事,”普莱斯说,“而且这样做还有一个优势,就是能够掌控最终产物(如堆肥和覆盖物)。通过自制,你可以保证其中包含什么——相应地,也可以保证其中不含什么。”

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“我在脑海中开始构建它”

与《金融时报》共处 / 在经历一次精神崩溃后,托马斯·豪萨戈(Thomas Houseago)想象了一个名为“树屋”的避难所。他在马里布找到了它。 作者:Josh Hickey。摄影:Julien Sage

在马里布的一栋坐落在俯瞰莱丘萨海滩(Lechuza Beach)悬崖上的住宅露台上,艺术家托马斯·豪萨戈开始描述他与这座被他称为“树屋”的家及其崎岖景观之间的关系。他指向下方海滩上一块巨大的狮身人面像形状的巨石。“我会站在那块岩石上,感受到一种我所认为的、如电击般的喜悦。”

这块“岩石”具有多重含义。这位以木材、石膏和金属创作巨型雕塑而闻名的英美艺术家,一直公开谈论他与复杂性创伤后应激障碍(C-PTSD)的斗争,以及他近期经历的精神崩溃,以及在童年严重创伤后走向康复的历程。他说,这个“树屋”始于他的想象,是他大约六年前康复过程的一部分。“我开始构建这个东西,仅在我的脑海中,”他说,“我身处树上,俯瞰大海,想象一个让我感到安全的地方。”

2020年,在海滩散步时,他遇到了朋友——演员莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥(Leonardo DiCaprio),后者告知他有一栋房子可以购买,于是他们一起去看了看。他说,那栋房子的外观和感觉与他想象中的树屋非常相似:“你在想象中开始构建这个东西,然后你在现实生活中开始构建它。”如今,他的露台上摆满了釉面花盆,里面种满了具有疗愈作用的芳香草本植物,包括鼠尾草和薄荷。豪萨戈抓起一把,塞到我的手中。

豪萨戈1972年出生于利兹,在中央圣马丁学院(Central Saint Martins)和阿姆斯特丹的De Ateliers学习艺术,随后搬到布鲁塞尔,并结识了画廊主克萨维尔·胡夫肯斯(Xavier Hufkens),后者代理他的作品已近30年。2003年搬到洛杉矶后,他在大卫·科丹斯基画廊(David Kordansky Gallery)的个展取得了成功,并开始在当时尚未被士绅化的蛙城(Frogtown)购买大型工业空间。在这里,他找到了创作那些巨大的、扭曲的、像怪物一样的雕塑的空间。

这些作品随后在包括2010年惠特尼双年展(Whitney Biennial)在内的活动和展会中展出,为他赢得了国际赞誉。他的高端粉丝群体包括弗朗索瓦·皮诺(François Pinault),后者为2011年威尼斯双年展委托创作了一件名为《匆忙的人》(L'Homme pressé)的巨型青铜和钢制雕塑,并将其安装在皮诺著名的艺术收藏馆格拉西宫(Palazzo Grassi)外。

但豪萨戈的创造力在2019年戛然而止,当时他遭遇了严重的心理崩溃。他告诉我,在经历了一段时间的住院治疗后,他几乎完全停止了雕塑创作。画廊主多米尼克·莱维(Dominique Lévy)说服他回归:“她告诉我,‘尽管去做吧,在展览中把你的故事告诉我。’”他2024年与Lévy Gorvy Dayan在纽约举办的展览标志着一个转变时刻。

本月,豪萨戈将举办多场展览。在巴黎,他将与法国艺术家西奥·梅西耶(Théo Mercier)在Reiffers Initiatives空间举办展览,每位艺术家将占用基金会的一层楼,将其作为艺术家的工作坊。克萨维尔·胡夫肯斯和Lévy Gorvy Dayan也将于巴塞尔艺术展巴黎展(Art Basel Paris)展出作品。在洛杉矶,一座巨型公共雕塑即将于重新设计的洛杉矶郡立艺术博物馆(LACMA)广场揭幕——这是一面162英尺高的墙,其粘土结构内部设有曲线形的有机壁龛和开口。

豪萨戈说,他的家是一个安全之地;在那里他感到足够安全且有支撑,能够雕刻出心中的心魔。他的单层住宅其实根本不是树屋,而是一栋以马里布标准来看较为简朴的20世纪80年代海滨别墅,采用了该地区常见的建筑风格:高山墙、玻璃墙和开放式布局,可俯瞰大海。

陡峭的木梯向下延伸至海滩,那是一个圆润的沙质小湾,点缀着巨石和潮汐池。在海岸线之外,海带林的顶端轻触水面,使海水呈现出红绿色调。虽然是一处公共海滩,但它鲜为人知——这是马里布北部海岸的一段

从右向左顺时针方向:开放式客厅欢迎狗狗、孩子和朋友;来自 Houseago 个人收藏的物品;海滨桑拿房;Houseago 在他的户外工作室创作一件巨大的红杉雕塑;他艺术收藏的一部分;厨房,与餐厅相连

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从左向右顺时针方向:托马斯· (Thomas ) 的海景卧室;艺术家与他的一只救援犬;用于冥想的海滩;一盆盆疗愈草药

这里是寻求隐私的名人居住的区域。他如此钟爱的“冥想之岩”是海滩中心最大的一块巨石。

正是在他的马里布家中, 开始了他的“幻象绘画”系列——描绘花朵、太阳、夜空和棕榈树。他屋旁的工作室里摆满了巨大的画布,上面是色彩迸发的绚烂阳光。 “每画一幅阴暗的画,我就挑战自己画一朵花……这就是我开始重建生活的方式。”

在他的家中,同样维持着这种平衡。一幅巨大的迈克·凯利 (Mike Kelley) 的画作描绘了一棵被砍倒的树,上面写着“现在又大又强,但内心有弱点——那是弱小时代的遗留”,这幅画挂在拉希德·约翰逊 (Rashid Johnson) 的黑色蜡画旁边。此外,还有一件阿尔伯特·奥伦 (Albert Oehlen) 作品的绚丽色彩。

拿出一本已故艺术家大卫·霍克尼 (David Hockney) 为他签名的书。颤抖的笔迹写着“热爱生活”。同样来自英格兰北部的霍克尼在 2008 年参加了 在洛杉矶的首次展览,两人一直保持着亲密友谊。

“我在最需要的时候得到了这座房子。它是风暴后出现的另一道巨大的彩虹”

Houseago 说,他曾是“我的教父”。他“既有摇滚和朋克的特质……又温柔、可爱、美妙,而且才华横溢且善良”。

他的三只救援犬在铺着白色毯子的大沙发上跳上跳下。他对此并不在意。他的卧室就在旁边。床上方挂着一幅弗朗西斯·皮卡比亚(Francis Picabia)的作品,梳妆台上方挂着一幅由康斯坦丁·布朗库西(Constantin Brancusi)创作的腼腆女性肖像,梳妆台上摆放着漂流木、一件原住民器皿和处方药。

在许多方面,这座房子就像艺术家本人一样:开放、慷慨、不矫揉造作且热闹。他说,这是一个欢迎朋友、孩子和动物的地方。我们站在摆满了水果碗和削好彩铅的杯子的厨房中岛台旁,他画了一个绿色三角形——他说,这是支持性关系的象征。他向我展示了同样图案的纹身;他的朋友布拉德·皮特(Brad Pitt)和红辣椒乐队(Red Hot Chili Peppers)的 Flea 也有同样的纹身。“我生命中出现了一群不可思议的人。我在最需要的时候得到了这座房子。它是风暴后出现的另一道巨大的彩虹。”

在沿着太平洋海岸公路(Pacific Coast Highway)短距离车程之遥的地方,这座海边别墅还有一个“分身”。Houseago 的牧场位于公路的圣莫尼卡山脉(Santa Monica Mountains)一侧,作为他的主工作室,他在那里创作规模最大、最复杂的雕塑。

“响尾蛇喜欢躲在木屑下面——小心点,”他一边说着,一边随意地踢开一堆未使用的红杉木。他至少有 15 件在制品,那些有着骷髅面孔和空洞眼睛的人物像似乎在向前踉跄,或在一种不安的对立平衡(contrapposto)中维持平衡。猫头鹰、米诺陶洛斯和巨大的蛋与处于各种完成阶段的怪诞人形交织在一起,有些被塑料篷布遮盖,有些则从一堆木屑中升起。

Houseago 换上了安全装备:钢头靴、护耳器、护目镜和橙色头盔。他从一排工具中挑选了一把电锯,爬上梯子,开始在一尊由加州红杉雕刻而成的巍峨人物像上工作。电锯像疯狂的舞者一样在木材中轰鸣。电机的音调是一场嘈杂的交响曲。这似乎是一场美丽的创造力从粗犷中破茧而出的最终展示。

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整洁如新 (Spick and Span)

建筑 / 在埃里克·里昂斯 (Eric Lyons) 的两处现代主义住宅区迎来 70 周年之际,朱利安·巴吉尼 (Julian Baggini) 探讨其人性化的设计、开放空间和社区精神是否能为未来提供模板

1955 年,年轻的建筑评论家伊恩·奈恩 (Ian Nairn) 在《建筑评论》(Architectural Review) 杂志的一期名为“愤怒” (Outrage) 的特刊中,猛烈抨击他所定义的“亚乌托邦” (subtopia) —— 即“将所有地域的个性统统用蒸汽压路机压平,变成一种统一且平庸的模式”。他的论点为大多数针对战后投机性住宅建设的批评提供了模板。在全国范围内,那个时代的住房开发项目通常在美学上乏味,在社交上死板,缺乏任何社区感或认同感。

然而到 1961 年,奈恩受到了一些采取不同做法的开发商的鼓舞。他写道:“更多的树木被保留了下来,住房单元更加简洁干练,而且——偶尔——会以某种模式分组,从而产生一种地域感。”对此,他将功劳归于“一位建筑师埃里克·里昂斯的先驱努力”,后者是开发商 Span 的首席创意领袖。

里昂斯也给予了同样的回应。在 1961 年的一本手册中,Span 将自己描述为“一项反对‘亚乌托邦’的作品”。正如顾问建筑师协会在里昂斯 1980 年去世后所言:“埃里克希望让中端购房者在财务和认知上都能触及现代建筑。”

“自从建成以来,它一直由同一家人拥有,所以我把它视为我的祖宅”

回顾里昂斯在 1948 年至 1969 年间完成的 73 个 Span 项目(包括 662 套公寓和 1,463 栋房屋),显然他成功了。其中四个开发项目现在整体被列为二级保护建筑 (Grade II listed)。二十九个项目获得了重大荣誉,例如英国皇家建筑师学会 (RIBA) 建筑奖和公民信托奖 (Civic Trust awards)。艺术史学家尼古劳斯·佩夫斯纳 (Nikolaus Pevsner) 在其具有开创性的建筑指南《英格兰建筑》(The Buildings of England) 中写道,Span 住宅区“安静而一致地证明了,无论是面对庞大且具有支配性的公共住房计划,还是面对 20 世纪 50 年代和 60 年代那些冷漠的投机性开发,都存在着人性化且具有吸引力的替代方案”。

尽管里昂斯领导着 Span(该公司在完成几个项目后于 1957 年采用了这个名字),但该开发商也得益于几位合伙人的才华,尤其是杰弗里·汤森 (Geoffrey Townsend) 和景观设计师伊沃·坎宁安 (Ivor Cunningham)。随着他们最受赞誉的两个伦敦住宅区——里士满的 Parkleys 和布莱克希斯的 The Priory —— 在今年庆祝 70 周年,里昂斯的愿景以及 Span 持久的吸引力表明,在投机性开发被极度需要的时代,Span 背后的基本原则依然具有相关性和生命力。

“如果你今天看 Parkleys,它看起来不像有 70 年历史,因为它被人们热爱着,”埃里克的儿子理查德说道,他曾与父亲共事多年。搬进 Span 住宅区的人往往不愿搬走。

希拉·马卡姆 (Sheila Markham) 就是一个极端的例子。她出生在 The Priory 开业后的第二年,在离开一段时间上大学和工作后,当她从未离开过这里的母亲搬入受保护住房 (sheltered housing) 时,她又搬了回来。“这似乎是一件非常幸运的事,”她告诉我,“自从建成以来,它一直由同一家人拥有,所以我把它视为我的祖宅。”

在 Span 住宅区漫步,令你震撼的不是建筑本身,而是它们的环境——它们坐落在安静、开放且绿意盎然的空间中。许多项目建在破旧的庄园原址上,大多数成熟的树木都被保留了下来,公寓和房屋的布局则旨在最大限度地利用这些绿植。

景观设计在通常较小的区域内营造出一种开阔感。正如奈恩(Nairn)所言,你会感觉到“转角处总有新发现”。建筑师兼 Parkleys 居民贾斯汀·朗福德(Justine Langford)提到了 19 世纪奥地利建筑师卡米洛·西特(Camillo Sitte)可能令人惊讶的影响。西特和 Span 都是围绕广场和绿地进行设计。“大多数情况下,你从一个角落进入,再从另一个角落离开,”朗福德说,“这在通透感与封闭感之间取得了良好的平衡。”

树木和视线掩盖了开发项目的密度。Span 与任何其他开发商一样,都有最大化住宅数量的动力。例如,Parkleys 有一个

上图:Foxes Dale,位于伦敦南部布莱克希斯(Blackheath)的一栋二级登录建筑,由埃里克·莱昂斯(Eric Lyons)设计,通过 The Modern House 以 £1.495mn 售出

人口密度为每英亩 74 人 (ppa)——高于当时伦敦低层方案平均每英亩 30-40 人的密度。莱昂斯(Lyons)和坎宁安(Cunningham)证明了在土地上实现盈利开发而又不至于让人感到拥挤不堪是可能的。他们通过使用有限数量的公寓和住宅设计来降低成本。但由于这些建筑并非排列在整齐的直线中,且在每次迭代中不断演进,因此从未给人一种枯燥统一的感觉。朗福德指出了 Wates,这是由 Span 承包的建筑商随后在汉姆(Ham)建造的另一个社区。这些房屋具有与 Parkleys 相同的美学风格,但她说,那里有一种太多新开发项目所共有的死板感,因为景观设计的重要性没有被理解。

景观设计还在住宅周围创造了公共空间。“当你进入公寓时,是经过一系列由公共空间逐渐变为私密空间的路径,”

在葡萄园与橄榄林间探索顶级住宅

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法国,拉马图埃勒 (Ramatuelle)

一座迷人的普罗旺斯住宅,坐落在拉马图埃勒的葡萄园之中,距离圣特罗佩半岛的海滩仅咫尺之遥。该物业灵感源自普罗旺斯的大型乡村庄园,拥有超过 8,000 平方米的私人场地。

意大利,卢奇尼亚诺 (Lucignano)

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莱坊 (Knight Frank)

一座全面翻新的庄园,包含一座四卧室别墅、三栋客房附件、一座健身房、一个泳池及泳池房。它将永恒的托斯卡纳建筑风格与当代可持续设计相结合,完美融合了传统与现代生活。

意大利,锡耶纳 (Siena)

一座精致的托斯卡纳度假屋,位于风景如画的基安蒂卡斯特利纳 (Castellina in Chianti) 乡村核心地带,靠近村庄及所有基本生活设施,提供了隐私、魅力与永恒优雅的完美结合。

指导价 €6,500,000 isabella.foster@knightfrank.com / +44 20 3930 4772

法国,卢马兰 (Lourmarin) 一座绝佳的别墅,坐落在两公顷的景观场地内,拥有 200 多棵橄榄树、地中海花园以及卢贝隆 (Luberon) 的壮丽景色。多个露台和一个无边泳池完善了这一卓越的户外环境。

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兰福德 (Langford)。社区意识是 Span 理念的核心,在大多数开发项目中,“景观一直延伸到你的家门口”,另一处布莱克希斯 (Blackheath) Span 庄园 Parkend 的建筑师兼居民安娜·萨瑟兰 (Ana Sutherland) 解释道。在 Span 庄园漫步,你可以看到这种设计如何帮助维持秩序与连贯性。萨瑟兰向我展示了一排房屋,其中建筑与它们后退所在的路径之间的场地管理责任

(从上方起顺时针方向):肯特郡朗菲尔德 (Longfield) 的 Punch Croft, New Ash Green;布莱克希斯二级保护建筑 South Row 庄园;特威克纳姆 (Twickenham) 的 Fieldend 庄园。布里奥尼·阿林奇森 (Bryony Arinchison) 拍摄。

“随着时间的推移,最终变成了人们想怎么做就怎么做”。结果就像一块补丁布,有些花园疏于打理,而有些则呈现出不同的风格。

Span 的公共性部分源于设计,部分源于管理。公共区域由居民选举产生的委员会管理。在设有公寓的地方,建筑外壳由居民协会负责。未经委员会允许,居民不能更改房屋的外观,而这种许可通常很难获得,因为契约不允许进行不协调的更改。莱昂斯 (Lyons) 认为,“认为你的房子必须代表你,这是一个奇怪的 20 世纪观念”。

对于习惯于对房屋拥有绝对决定权的业主来说,这些协会可能看起来像是一种负担。“但这是一种社区生活,如果你希望家就是你的城堡并拥有完全的独立,我认为你不应该搬到这种环境下生活,”马卡姆 (Markham) 说道。正如萨里郡拜弗利特 (Byfleet) Weymede Span 庄园的居民托尼·罗兰兹 (Tony Rowlands) 所言:“这是一种集体努力,但它又不是苏联。”

当我访问 Weymede 时,孩子们在绿地上玩耍,邻居们在自家门前聊天。“我认识所有的邻居,而且我知道如果我几天没露面,肯定会有人注意到,”马克汉说。Span 社区是养老的绝佳之地。我的妻子和我住在布里斯托的一个 Span 社区里,我们的许多邻居都是独居老人。我们的隔壁邻居在 99 岁时去世,直到最后仍能独立生活,这在很大程度上得益于社区的支持。

在 Span 住宅内部,空间满足了勒·柯布西耶对“空间、光线与秩序”的要求。这些房屋通常具有双向采光,且像一张白纸。莱昂斯认为,建筑师不应强加自己的品味,室内设计应允许居住者表达自己的风格。

线条简洁,没有空间被浪费,走廊极少,每个角落都设有内置储物空间。“与同价位能买到的房子相比,Span 住宅提供了设计精良、建造考究且维护良好、空间宽敞的家,”The Modern House 和 Inigo 的董事总经理路易丝·威洛克斯表示。凭借其原始特色,这些房子在我们的客户群中“一直很受欢迎”。她补充道,该机构每年销售“大约两到三套”,买家涵盖了“从首次购房者到夫妇、家庭,以及希望居住在单层空间的缩减规模购房者”。

与一些力求打造抢眼建筑的现代主义建筑师不同,莱昂斯采取由内而外的设计方式。这或许就是为什么 Span 房产的外观在景观和室内设计面前显得非常次要。奈恩将 Span 社区描述为“一篇关于抽象几何的冗长论文,通过屏风墙、围栏、房屋单元的阶梯式布局或房屋的定位来构建一种构图”。Span 正确地自豪于它“快乐且自然地做自己,不模仿任何其他时代,不效仿任何其他时期”。最重要的是,这里“没有任何伪装——没有虚假的乡村风”。

与此同时,它们融入了本土元素。萨瑟兰指出了伦敦标准砖(London stock bricks)和悬挂式瓦片,这些元素具有“近乎肯特郡的特质”。2006 年英国皇家建筑师学会(RIBA)关于埃里克·莱昂斯和 Span 展览目录的编辑芭芭拉·西姆斯认为,这里能看到 18 和 19 世纪最佳投机开发项目的影子,那些项目“通过将开放空间设计为住房计划不可分割的一部分来提升物业价值:正如在伦敦的布卢姆斯伯里广场或巴斯的新月形和圆形街道中所见”。理查德·莱昂斯补充道:“伊沃和埃里克都非常倾向于‘能力布朗’(Capability Brown)的风格。创造空间和自然感的英国景观花园传统至关重要。”

如今 Span 住宅的致命弱点是其糟糕的隔热性能,尤其是在尚未过渡到双层玻璃的社区中。虽然可以进行改造,但为了保持外部外观一致,过程十分复杂。“我想每个人都会说冷凝水是一个大问题,”马克汉说。但正如理查德·莱昂斯所指出的,“20 世纪 60 年代的每栋建筑在隔热水平上都糟糕透顶。”萨瑟兰还提醒我,他们当时是在材料短缺的情况下,按照 20 世纪 50 和 60 年代的建筑法规进行建造的。

Span 的遗产不应仅仅是它留给我们的房屋。“如果采用同样的原则并适当增加密度,其结果仍将比英国目前许多平庸的住房好得多,”萨瑟兰说。理查德·莱昂斯认为我们可以更广泛地应用 Span 原则。“关键在于社会组织。即便我父亲的审美理念有所不同,也没有那么重要。”朗福德同意 Span “更多的是一种态度和方法,而非风格。他们将所有不同的学科聚集在一起,并提出:如果人们重新思考某件事会发生什么?”

“这是一种社区生活,我认为如果你希望家就是你的城堡,那么你不应该搬到这样的环境中来。”

保持 Span 的精神并非简单的复制。“Span 在其本质上就不能是静态的,”它声称。这种实践在不断演进,从过去中学习并应对市场状况。居民协会的任务是保持其社区的连贯性和特色,而不是将其像用果冻封存一样原封不动地保存起来。“埃里克会反对将其列为法定保护建筑,”理查德说,“他不认为事物应该被冻结。”

那本 1961 年手册中的图片在未来的 Span 方案中需要更换,但几乎所有文字都可以原封不动地保留:“其目标是创造一种整体的统一感,既避免刻板,又提供一种新鲜感,增强而非抹杀场地的自然特征;确保社区从一开始就显得成熟,并保持一种非正式的、内在的尊严,这种尊严在 50 年后依然能传递出来。”如果我们按照这些原则来建设,英国未来的住房将会好得多。

朱利安·巴吉尼(Julian Baggini)是一位作家和哲学家

PARK MODERN

伦敦,海德公园

海德公园的卓越视角。

MODERN 最终房源发布

随着大部分住宅已售出,Modern 现推出最后一批俯瞰海德公园的卓越住宅。

落地玻璃窗框住了壮丽的南向景观,住户可享受五星级酒店标准的管理服务以及一系列非凡的私人配套设施,包括一座 25 米游泳池、水疗中心和健身房、24 小时礼宾与安保服务、代客泊车、私人电影院及商务套房。

最终房源 £190 万 起。

FENTON WHELAN

建筑 / 韦斯·安德森来到卡姆登,在迈阿密色彩与冰淇淋条纹的欢快交织中。作者:Hugo Cox。摄影:Juliet Murphy

访问“云屋”(Cloud House)需要穿着得体。这座近期由建筑师彼得·莫里斯(Peter Morris)及其妻子、电视制片人艾米莉·肯尼迪(Emily Kennedy)在伦敦北部完工的建筑,是对浮夸风格的一次非凡建筑见证。

我穿着电蓝色长裤、花衬衫和亮绿色套衫,来到了这座糖果粉色的曲线之作面前。然而,当肯尼迪打开前门时,我觉得自己像个殡仪馆工作人员。她的黑色罩裙搭配粉色连裤袜、霓虹黄拉夫领和粉色发带,显得活力四射。莫里斯则戴着一条粉蓝波点围巾,穿着粉色长裤、系黄带的红色皮靴,外穿一件天蓝色衬衫,上面别着一枚写着“为什么不能是黄色?——德里克·贾曼(Derek Jarman)”的徽章。两人都戴着配套的黑色粗框圆眼镜。

进入室内,一楼的主房间看起来就像是韦斯·安德森设计的一家冰淇淋店。水泥地面是天蓝色的。厨房和客厅的橱柜、端墙以及部分天花板采用了粉白相间和绿白相间的条纹。整个厨房中岛以及许多表面都是亮粉色的。由 British Mouldings(一家制作乔治亚和维多利亚风格装饰石膏件的公司)提供的球形顶角线被大量使用。

“这是一种视觉玩笑,”肯尼迪在谈到条纹和石膏圆球时说道,“就像遮阳篷、边缘带绒球的条纹毛巾,或者是 20 世纪 70 年代的甲板椅。”“冰淇淋店、糖果店——那些能产生愉悦感,你知道的,幸福感的东西,”莫里斯补充道。这确实起作用了:无论是服装、装饰,还是这对夫妇在彼此陪伴中流露出的明显喜悦,都让我感到心情愉悦。

肯尼迪的父亲是一位艺术家,她在色彩斑斓的家中长大;在她住过的每一处房子里,她都会把地板刷成粉色。当这对夫妇 11 年前通过约会网站相识时,她对色彩的热情“解放”了莫里斯。

“这条街上的每一栋其他建筑都来自不同的 era.。我们说,让我们继承那种精神,创造一些特别的东西。”

不久之后,他们搬进了一栋陈旧的维多利亚式两层住宅,并开始计划在原址上建造两栋半独立住宅——通过出售包含第二栋住宅在内的一半地块,来资助建造他们自己家园的成本。2017 年他们去迈阿密度蜜月时,这座城市的装饰艺术(Art Deco)形状和奔放的色彩提供了灵感。

“所有东西都是扇形、圆形或拱形,”参与管理施工的肯尼迪说道。门上绘有半圆;墙上绘有拱门;半球形的橱柜把手被安装在

从主图开始顺时针方向:建筑师彼得·莫里斯和电视制片人艾米莉·肯尼迪在伦敦北部的云屋;计算机雕刻的高密度泡沫被固定在轻质混凝土砌块上,以在立面上塑造二十多个像云朵一样的拱门;条纹是一个主题;这些拱门呼应了邻里间一些不寻常的建筑

“这像是一种视觉玩笑”

相反地,它形成了一个圆圈;滑动门将双向光线引入屋内,使得门廊拱门与房屋前后方的圆形窗户在轴线上对齐。

一些图案是精明的设计技巧——采用绘画图案而非结构性干预,或是经过改装或重新喷漆的宜家饰面。其他设计则更为复杂,例如附着在建筑通风块上的计算机雕刻高密度聚苯乙烯——这种仿石材料被用于塑造立面上二十多个拱门;此外还有 28 扇拱形窗户,其青绿色窗框与前方的钢制围栏相匹配。

“形状非常简单:交错的拱门,就这样,这就是规则,”莫里斯微笑着说。

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卡姆登区议会利用其建筑师专家组对规划申请进行了评审。这对夫妇指出了他们所在的肯蒂什镇(Kentish Town)地区风格混杂的特点。肯尼迪表示,拱门和圆窗在一定程度上受到了房产对面维多利亚哥特式圣马丁教堂的启发,建筑历史学家尼古劳斯·佩夫斯纳(Nikolaus Pevsner)曾将其描述为“伦敦最疯狂的维多利亚时代教堂”。在他们的地块旁边,一座 1800 年代后期的二级保护建筑,配有宏伟的木门和厚重的石墙,让人联想到中世纪的城堡——她说,“这简直太离谱了”。

该项目在 2023. 夏天正式启动。但重大项目通常意味着戏剧性的波折和心碎,这次也不例外。出现了预算超支,原计划的木框架被放弃而改为使用轻质混凝土砌块,承包商的计算错误意味着莫里斯及其团队不得不使用美工刀切割聚苯乙烯拱门以使其契合。总承包商被解雇,整个项目停工九个月。与此同时,由于电视行业的低迷,曾为 BBC、ITV、Channel 4, Channel 5 和 Sky Arts 制作过包括《钢琴》(The Piano)在内的获奖剧集的肯尼迪失业了六个月。在整个过程中,他们不得不说服另一对依赖同一家承包商完成隔壁房屋建设的年轻夫妇,让他们相信一切都会好起来。这座房子终于在今年夏天完工。

这对夫妇主张多样性:“你在这条街上能看到这两座非常古怪的建筑,而其他每座建筑都来自不同的 era.。我们认为我们可以汲取这些建筑的精神,创造出一些真正特别的东西。”

当地居民纷纷支持,其中包括 91, 岁的蒂莫西·希尔(Timothy Hill),他参加了 2019 年的一次开放日,当时莫里斯和肯尼迪公开了他们的计划。他说:“令我印象深刻的是它在街道中的独特性,以及区议会想要某种前卫之作的愿景。”莫里斯说,决定性的因素是专家组相信这对夫妇致力于实现其愿景,并且实际上会住在那里。“我不想做一个只管走人,然后让承包商敷衍了事的建筑师。他们意识到我们多么在意设计,并知道我们会执着于每一个细节,”他解释道。

停工期是最低谷。租赁替代住所的费用以及每月 £500 的仓储费侵蚀了他们的积蓄;他们不得不向家人借款以完成这次事实证明是 73.5 万英镑 的建造;而创意上的妥协也让莫里斯倍感压力。这对夫妇轮流陷入绝望,但每次总有一个人将另一个从深渊中拉出来。他说:“我们没有在同一时间感到极度沮丧并一起哭泣的时刻。否则我们可能就撑不下去了。”

我们回到了前花园;一名路人隔着镂空的青绿色围栏向肯尼迪表示赞赏,他的脸上写满了中年伦敦人在向陌生人赞美时所付出的艰巨努力。莫里斯是个外向的人——“我会直接在街上向任何人倾诉我的苦恼”——而这道低矮的围栏正是为了方便此类交流。现在是11.30am,这位赞赏者是他们今天的第七位。午餐通常在前花园的柠檬绿钢制桌上享用,期间会不时穿插着不断的赞美、询问以及参观请求。

在最近的伦敦开放日节(Open House Festival)期间向公众开放住宅时,他们在三天内接待了4,000名访客,而协助工作的工作人员仅有一名。“我们可能并不介意被围观,”莫里斯说。真是这样啊。

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灵感来自“冰淇淋店、糖果店——那些能产生愉悦感,你知道的,幸福感的东西”;肯尼迪说,“所有东西都是扇形、圆形或拱形”。

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室内设计 / 精英住家保姆面临着日益苛刻的期望。但塔拉·洛德·威尔金森(Tara Loader Wilkinson)发现,她们自身也提出了超高规格的要求。

如今精英保姆的职位描述足以让玛丽·波平斯(Mary Poppins)大吃一惊。先决条件包括精通多种语言,尤其是普通话、法语和西班牙语;接受过礼仪培训;精通滑雪和网球,若有武术背景则更佳。拥有常春藤联盟或牛剑学位的者优先,且需持有教育学研究生学位。

她们应该见多识广,而曾在超级游艇和私人飞机上工作的经验是“默认具备的,而非要求”,由安妮塔·罗杰斯(Anita Rogers)于2012年创立的英国美国家政人员招聘公司(British American Household Staffing)首席执行官表示。如今,她拥有约7,000名寻求此类资质保姆的客户;这些家庭分布在从纽约、洛杉矶和德克萨斯州,到伦敦和迪拜的各地。罗杰斯说,许多家庭配备两名或更多保姆轮班(轮值保姆),以实现“全年每周七天”的育儿服务。

对于顶尖的住家保姆而言,需求远超供应。像巴斯(Bath)的诺兰(Norland)这样精英育儿项目,每年仅培养约100名保姆。因此,尽管工作要求极高,保姆们本身也可以提出要求。“家庭必须让这些职位具有吸引力,因为幸运的是,我们可以挑选,”现居英国、受过诺兰培训的索菲-朱利安·伯内特(Sophie-Julienne Burnett,44岁)表示,她在生女儿之前照顾孩子十年,现在从事咨询工作。雇主脱颖而出的一种方式?提供超高规格的住宿。

“地下室的一个小卧室已经不够好了,”Middleton Advisors的伦敦采购主管艾希利·威尔斯登(Ashley Wilsdon)说。他有两名客户分别在切尔西(Chelsea)和温布尔登(Wimbledon)扩大住房规模——两人都雇有住家保姆,并渴望提供一个独立且具有吸引力的空间,“以确保在搬家时能留住她们”。

“在这两个案例中,我们的客户都希望提供一整层楼,并且愿意在自己的空间上做出妥协,以提供一个宽敞的卧室和套内卫浴,外加一个独立的起居区,”他补充道。有时,他甚至见过保姆影响客户决定购买哪套房子。

“人们越来越倾向于将宽敞的住宿作为保姆雇佣方案的一部分,”Arlington Residential的董事马克·施耐德曼(Marc Schneiderman)表示赞同。他最近在摄政公园(Regent’s Park)和马里波恩(Marylebone)卖掉了两套大公寓,每位客户还为他们的保姆在同一栋楼或附近购买了独立的单身公寓。

克莱夫·刘易斯(Clive Lewis)在抚养现在已成年的三个孩子时一直有帮手。在他们北伦敦的第一套房子里(他们在那里住了五年),保姆拥有一个通过共用前门进入的独立工作室。当他们搬到随后住了12年的房子时,他们改造了这座300年历史房屋的一部分,为保姆创建了私人区域,包括套内卧室、厨房,以及至关重要的独立入口。

“保姆们工作极其辛苦,在不工作时,她们想要

'一张好床,一个像样的浴室……你希望一个被照顾得很好的保姆来照顾你的孩子'

拥有自己的私人、舒适空间,这样她们可以邀请朋友过来,我们意识到了这一点,”刘易斯说。“她们很看重这种远离家庭的独立程度。”

刘易斯夫妇在布置保姆附属房时毫不吝啬,铺设了木地板,配备了现代卫浴以及包括洗衣机和烘干机在内的美诺(Miele)电器。他们位于圣约翰之木(St John's Wood)的六居室住宅目前正由Arlington Residential代售,刘易斯表示,大部分意向买家是已经雇佣或想要雇佣保姆的家庭。

对于住在迪拜的英国事务律师、三个孩子的母亲亚历克西斯·戈尔丁(Alexis Golding)来说,在翻修他们位于朱美拉棕榈岛(Palm Jumeirah)的五居室别墅时,“升级保姆房是优先事项”。戈尔丁在过去七年里一直雇佣同一位保姆,最近又雇佣了第二位。“保姆市场竞争异常激烈,拥有舒适的房间可以成为决定性因素;有些别墅给保姆提供的空间陈旧,只有上下铺和简陋的淋浴间,”戈尔丁说道。

她的每位保姆都有自己的房间和共用浴室,每间房都配备了“舒适的床和优质的床垫,创新的储物方案,以及像精美台灯和地毯这样能营造居家氛围的小细节,还有一个正规的浴室。我们愿意购买她们想要的任何毛巾和床单。你希望一个被妥善照顾的保姆来照顾你的孩子。”

伯内特(Burnett)对此表示赞同,认为“红地毯经常被铺开”,并回忆起在中东照顾一个小女孩的一份格外奢华的待遇:她不仅拥有一个配备豪华家具和香氛蜡烛的私人套房,甚至还拥有自己的女佣和司机。“是的,孩子们很可爱。但这工作很辛苦。这并不是一份朝九晚五的工作。”

但对于许多保姆来说,极致的奢华并非1,000针密度的床单、宽敞的空间或柔软的毛巾。住在伯恩茅斯(Bournemouth)、拥有三十年经验的住家保姆克莱尔(Claire)经历过各种类型的员工宿舍。她说,最终,尽管陪伴孩子充满乐趣,但你仍需要空间——这意味着能关上门不被干扰。

她在20世纪90年代初在美国的一份最心仪的工作并没有提供豪华设施,但远离了家庭的喧嚣。“是的,我的房间在地下室,但那里很棒。当我待在下面时,没有人会打扰我。”

上方:玛丽·波平斯会认可吗?(朱莉·安德鲁斯在1964年的电影中)左图:克莱夫·刘易斯(Clive Lewis)在他位于圣约翰之林(St John's Wood)的房屋中为保姆附件房配备了木地板、时尚的浴室和美诺(Miele)电器,该房产目前由Arlington Residential代理出售。Landmark Media / Alamy

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把握雏菊之美

它们的光彩点亮了十月的花园——而且其绽放的时间并不像你想象的那么短暂

在持续的酷热和干旱中,我对即将到来的秋天感到忧心忡忡。九月和十月本是花卉花园的绝佳月份,但无情的夏天似乎注定要将这些主打花卉烤死。虽然有例外,但并不多。在地面层,秋季番红花能够很好地在干热环境中生存,而黄色小星花(sternbergias)的球茎则在其中生长得十分欢快。它们那灿烂如番红花般的花朵从未如此亮眼,因为它们在干燥且阳光充足的土壤中茁壮成长,尤其是在墙根下。然而,那些雏菊状的紫菀(asters)又如何呢?在植物学家将它们分类之前,所有这类亲缘植物都被如此称呼。其中包括米迦勒玛斯雏菊(Michaelmas daisies),在这个十月的周末,它们依然令人惊叹。

到八月初,我心爱的“小卡洛”(Aster 'Little Carlow')的叶子开始皱缩,边缘变褐。它们看起来像是等待被清理的伤员,是大自然残酷对待的受害者,很可能在没有开出那种电蓝色花朵的情况下就枯萎了。多年来,我种植了“小卡洛”的两种亲缘品种,两者同样喜欢干燥的土壤:高大的“酋长”(Chieftain)和较高大的“毕宿五”(Aldebaran),它们都拥有薰衣草蓝色的花尖。它们开启了花园的蓝色时期,但到八月中旬,它们就被烤得支离破碎。

其他一些雏菊状的优胜品种似乎毫发无损,尤其是那些蓝色系的兄弟,如 Aster x frikartii 'Mönch' 和 frikartii x 'Wunder von Stäfa'(后者是一个没那么容易倒伏的品种)。'Mönch' 较为常见,在这样一个艰难的季节里,它是我的边境植物首选:无论太阳如何暴晒,它都能生长。八月份,它开始在花床前缘倾斜的茎干上绽放蓝紫色花朵。这是一个绝佳的主打品种,由卡尔·弗里卡特(Carl Frikart)于 1918 年在瑞士培育。由于门希峰()、艾格峰(Eiger)和少女峰(Jungfrau)就在他的苗圃附近,他以这些山峰为名,分别为它们培育了一种杂交雏菊:其中 '' 是最成功的。它在粘土中生长效果不佳,但在其他土壤中生长旺盛。当它不被邻近植物挤压时效果最好,而人们很容易犯错,因为在购买 9 厘米的小盆(这是最便宜且最合适的尺寸)时,植株看起来很小。但随后它们能长到 3 英尺高且宽。我在花园各处花床的前端点缀了单株的 '',以便引导视线。

它们在干旱中给了我慰藉,其他植物也是如此,尤其是两种小花雏菊:一种是 Eurybia x herveyi 'Twilight',它在七月开启蓝色季节;另一种是 'Hon Vicary Gibbs',它在 4 英尺的高度即将为这个季节画上句号。然而,我对新英格兰和纽约

它完全没有失去光彩。数百朵精致的雏菊,颜色从深紫色、粉色一直延伸到白色,品种涵盖了从“玛丽·巴拉德”(Marie Ballard)到“玫瑰蕾”(Rosebud),从“信仰”(Faith)到“萨姆·班汉”(Sam Banham),正处于全盛花期,由皮克顿家族的第三代成员海伦及其丈夫罗斯·巴伯(Ross Barbour)悉心照料。我原以为会看到萎缩的茎干,以及纽约雏菊常见的威胁——白粉病。我确实发现了一些焦边和下部茎干上的干叶,但只有“达德利伯爵夫人”(Countess of Dudley)变成了半褐色,不过它本身就是一个罕见品种,起源于1935年之前。

作为国家级收藏,科尔沃尔(Colwall)的雏菊在法律上可以使用软管浇水。也许正是这项特许权解释了那些大花境的状态,那里开满了盛放的圣弥刻尔雏菊(Michaelmas daisies)。在之前的访问中,在大师保罗·皮克顿(Paul Picton)本人的引导下,我曾选中红色的“温斯顿·丘吉尔”(Winston Churchill),部分原因是因为它的名字,但随后被委婉地引导向其他方向,仿佛有更好的选择。今年我独自前往,欣赏了极佳的红紫色品种“鲁弗斯”(Rufus),以及刚刚进入盛花期的低矮粉色品种“玫瑰小矮人”(Rosenwichtel)。在白色品种中,我倾向于高大的“阿尔巴尼亚”(Albanian),但想起两年前大师曾诱导我改买“桑福德白天鹅”(Sandford White Swan)。这是一种重瓣白色品种,花蕾带有粉色晕染,而且在极少浇水的情况下,已经在我的花境中成为了明星。至于重瓣蓝色的“艾达·巴拉德”(Ada Ballard),无论是否有白粉病,它都令人无法抗拒。这些以及许多其他根系发达的植株在苗圃中售价每盆£9.50,而通过电子邮件订购并在明年春天交付的植株价格为£7,尽管起初规模较小(oldcourtnurseries.co.uk)。

请坚持三个原则。为了最大限度地降低白粉病风险,请选择新英格兰雏菊(Symphyotrichum novae-angliae)的品种,它们在干旱年份表现更好,且几乎不需要支撑。在科尔沃尔,我为我的新英格兰系列增加了一个“报春花向上”(Primrose Upward),因为它拥有令人印象深刻的淡紫红色花朵,高度可达5英尺,非常适合布置在干旱花境的后方。否则,请选择欧洲的 amellus 品种,或者带有花簇的 cordifolius 品种,以及强韧的 Pyrenaeus 雏菊,其中最著名的是淡丁香色的“卢泰西亚”(Lutetia),它能很好地应对干旱年份。

就像其他伟大的植物家族一样,园丁们口中的雏菊(asters)也没有停滞不前。即使是“卢泰西亚”也有一个极佳的新近近亲——“科茨沃尔德宝石”(Cotswold Gem),它能保持直立且开粉色花。自2024年起,一个名为“保罗·皮克顿”(Paul Picton)的无白粉病品种被加入到 amellus 系列中,这是一种高度适中的丁香蓝色品种,能以其命名想必确实有其特别之处。不要满足于次优选择。老庭院苗圃(Old Court Nursery)的收藏改变了人们对可用品种的认知。

干旱是可以克服的,但蛞蝓和过度拥挤则不然。在冬季和春季,蛞蝓会攻击许多雏菊的核心嫩芽:必须将它们清除,尤其是现在的冬季变得温暖湿润,促使它们快速繁殖。在初夏,要小心不要让其他花境植物

还记得你接触到的第一幅马格利特作品吗?探讨现代大师受这位超现实主义者影响的报道 —— 第 5 页

伪装的艺术

辛迪·舍曼 / 几十年来,她一直利用装扮箱将自己化身为社交名媛和圣母像。但她告诉露西·戴维斯,她最新的自画像可能是她最私人的一组作品。

走进辛迪·舍曼在纽约的据点——一套顶层公寓,映入眼帘的场景简直像是出自一部古老的抢劫电影:一位拥有深蓝色眼睛的银发女性,一套套古怪的伪装装备,以及在房间中央的一张桌子上散落的一堆华丽珠宝。

仔细观察才发现,这些是戏服道具而非精品:由浇铸玻璃和合成“仿钻”制成,镶嵌在仿金材质中。尽管如此,它们捕捉并散射光线的方式与真品无异,这并不奇怪;它们来自巴黎的香奈儿档案馆,与各种复古面料一起寄给舍曼,让她为了新作品可以随意处置——包括使用剪刀。她像一名熟练的奥斯曼地毯商人那样,利落地抖开她最中意的一批面料,指着其中的金线或丝绸的扭结、微小的水晶以及经典且像春季羔羊般柔软的羊毛圈呢。

舍曼是一位被推崇了半个世纪的概念艺术家,今年年满 72 岁。自 2005 年起,她一直在这座位于曼哈顿下城、由仓库改造而成的时尚空间中生活和工作。她在东汉普顿还拥有一处海滨房产,在那里,在完成她最新的系列摄影作品——《织物贵妇》(Fabric Matrons)之后(该系列将在 Frieze 艺术博览会期间于豪瑟沃斯画廊的萨维尔街分馆首展)

“我的想法是:处于某个年龄段的女性试图展示她们的珠宝,每个手指上都戴着巨大的钻石”

伦敦——她整个夏天都在花园里悠闲地打理,照顾她的宠物鸡,并提高她的 Bananagrams 游戏水平。

这部新作中,艺术家将自己化身为一群身着顶级高级定制服装和珠宝的年长女性。灵感源自一家在长岛飞地分发的珠宝店杂志。杂志撕下的页面被贴在舍曼的工作室墙上,旁边是一些 20 世纪初肖像画的明信片,那些画作具有大胆、扁平且具装饰性的背景,同样为这部作品提供了养分。

这家店出售价格极其昂贵的珠宝;其杂志上出现了一位前《体育画报》模特,身披层层叠叠的马拉布羽毛饰边和欧根纱。“这太诡异了,”舍曼说,“这些荒诞的珠宝,荒诞的姿势。我的意思是,她为什么要对着镜子举起手?而且当然全部经过了气刷处理——她和我年纪相仿,看起来漂亮且性感,所以这在某种程度上就是我的想法:处于某个年龄段的女性试图展示她们的珠宝,每个手指上都戴着巨大的钻石。”

在之前一个受香奈儿档案启发项目(《不祥的风景》,2010-12)中,舍曼费了很大劲才把自己拉进全套服装中。而这一次,她只是在面料上为头部和手部剪了孔,将较小的碎布扎成头巾或胸花。“没有任何缝纫,只是松散地用别针固定在一起。你可以看到接缝和毛边,”她说。这种临时凑合的随意感在她的作品中十分常见,旨在引起人们对图像人工痕迹的关注。夸张的妆容、做作的表情以及将相机的快门线留在画面中,都达到了同样的效果。悬置

辛迪·舍曼的作品《无题 #703》,出自《织物贵妇》系列,该系列在伦敦的 Hauser & Wirth 首次展出 2020 辛迪·舍曼 / 艺术家权利协会 (ARS), 纽约。由艺术家和 Hauser & Wirth 提供

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伪装的艺术

怀疑并非重点。她的作品在视觉上可能令人愉悦,但其核心吸引力在于哲学。我们如何利用服装和妆容来唤起或伪装自己;自我如何习得这种伪装的艺术——这些问题令谢尔曼沉迷,尽管她通常在提出这些问题后便让你捉摸不透,让它们像一缕香水味一样在空中飘荡。

即便对于一位从20世纪70年代末开始将自己拍摄成虚构角色(B级片明星、不快乐的家庭主妇、佛兰德圣母、经过手术美容的社交名媛)且始终能精准把握时代的艺术家来说,《织物贵妇》(Fabric Matrons)也是一组极具力量的照片。这或许也是她最私人的一组作品,因为尽管她一直明确表示,那些人格是“除了我之外的一切。如果看起来太像我,就会被舍弃”,但她在这一新系列中创作的首批图像之一,“真的让我想起了我的母亲。她在和我现在的年纪去世,带着所有的皱纹”——谢尔曼指了指脖子——“她当时留着深色头发;她真的长那样。这有点令人不安。”

这是第一次发生这种情况吗?“我想是的,尽管当我回顾早期的作品,比如我戴着灰色假发之类的时候,我意识到我现在就长那样。这挺有趣的。我的工作让我不得不面对身体的变化。大多数人不会想到自己的耳垂上有皱纹,但我拍这些照片,我能看到这些东西,这些疯狂的东西。”

谢尔曼的工作室宽敞且深长,有一排大窗户,在潮湿下午那细密飘散的雨中,透出柔和的光线。资深粉丝一眼就能认出这里是她的工作室:她曾化身为的所有主角的雏形都

(从上起顺时针方向:辛迪·谢尔曼的作品《无题 #709》和《无题 #706》,选自《织物贵妇》(2026);辛迪·谢尔曼的作品《无题 #540》,选自《不祥的风景》(2010-12)—— 2026 辛迪·谢尔曼 / 艺术家权利协会 (ARS), 纽约。由艺术家及豪瑟沃斯画廊提供)

就在这里,包括面具和模特零件、舒洁纸巾(大号)、假发、粘毛滚筒、各种色调的闪光乳液,以及一排排牛仔衬衫、舞会礼服和古董 Ungaro 礼服。

在这些引人注目的物品中,有一个假火炉(她说在冬天相当温馨),但最令人震惊的是那面长镜子,谢尔曼从其银色的深处召唤出她的每一个角色,装扮并指导她的镜像,直到那个像她的人脱离了创造者。“有时这有点令人胆寒,就像看到了幽灵,”她说,“我真的觉得‘有什么东西附在了我身上’。”

我指出,当她描述这个过程时,总是使用超自然现象的语言——她相信这类事情吗?“噢,是的。当然相信,”她说,接着描述了最近在亚利桑那州一个淘金热小镇的一家古老旅店逗留的经历,当时她坚信自己的房间闹鬼。“尽管我很想看看鬼魂,”她补充道,“但我也会非常害怕。”(谢尔曼以热爱恐怖电影而闻名。)

她还是个孩子时,就开始尝试通过旧衣服来塑造完整的角色。当她把父母位于长岛家中地下室的衣橱翻了个遍——那里堆满了她已故祖母在世纪之交时穿的衣服(她告诉我,那些灯笼裤她现在还留着)——她便开始光顾当地教会的二手店,花掉珍贵的 25 美分硬币去买 20 世纪 40 和 50 年代的破旧派对裙。“对我来说,这些就像舞会礼服一样。我有一个小行李箱专门装这些,是我母亲允许我买的。我发现穿上这种古怪的衣服,我能看到一个有趣得多的角色。”邻居们也配合她演戏。“‘瞧,是谢尔曼太太!’他们会这么说,假装我是我父亲的母亲,而我心里在想,‘噢,我真的

一幅画“真的让我想起了我的母亲。她在和我现在这个年纪时去世了,而且脸上布满了那些皱纹。这有点让人不安”

骗过了他们”,所以回想起来,这其实挺可爱的。

在布法罗州立大学担任艺术系学生期间,她因在派对上扮成男人或演员露西尔·鲍尔(Lucille Ball)而闻名。是她当时的男友、艺术家罗伯特·隆戈(Robert Longo)说服她将这些变装过程拍成照片,但无论当时还是现在,她都更倾向于独立工作,“这样我可以进行更多实验。而且,如果结果很尴尬,或者很糟糕,如果我不喜欢它,且认为其他人也不会喜欢,那么就永远不需要让任何人看到,”她告诉我。

直到最近她才意识到,“对失败持开放态度——面对糟糕的局面然后想办法修复它——实际上非常有帮助”,也就是说,她可能比大多数人更擅长冒险。“就像我玩香蕉拼字(Bananagrams)的时候一样,”她解释道,“我的男朋友非常害怕更改他的单词,害怕为了加入一个字母‘J’而改变字母组合,因为他觉得现有的已经很完美了。而我会说,你知道,如果你愿意冒险把全部都改掉,你会惊讶地发现一切竟然能如此轻松地组合在一起。”

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谁说孩子们不

艺术市场 / 年轻收藏家打破 Z 世代刻板印象——画廊正升级策略以吸引他们。作者:Melanie Gerlis

孩子们不在乎艺术。或者说,这是目前主流的说法。在最新的巴塞尔艺术展(Art Basel)与瑞银(UBS)市场报告中,一位匿名的交易商发现,“人们对艺术的兴趣正在减弱;屏幕和电视已经取代了客厅里的画作”。

Avant Arte 的创始人兼首席执行官马兹达克·萨尼(Mazdak Sanii)认为并非如此;相反,他们的优先级不同。他的公司在 2017 年成为一个在线版画平台,并成为了包括艾未未、亚历克斯·卡茨(Alex Katz)和辛迪·舍曼(Cindy Sherman)在内的艺术家们首选的高规格出版商。萨尼表示,他们的客户名单中有超过 200,000 名收藏家,其中 60% 年龄在 45, 岁以下。他发现,虽然这是一个对价格敏感的群体,但他们仍然是高消费群体,而且通常比许多人认为的“更严肃,也更专业”。

不过,态度已经发生了变化。“过去,有一种将‘唯一性’神圣化的浪漫观念,”他说,“但在一个更加碎片化的世界里,人们渴望连接。因此,‘奖杯资产’(trophy asset)的概念不再那么极端,而关于‘多样性’(multiplicity)的概念则更多”——这就是为什么人们对版画的兴趣日益增长,版画也是进入市场的更廉价途径。萨尼坚持认为这并非在走捷径。“年轻买家会对工艺、心血和艺术家的专注产生共鸣,我们谈论的不是复印件。”他表示,最激进的转变在于发现渠道。“Instagram 能触及如此广泛的受众。并不是上面的每个人都有 $1,000 来开始收藏,但他们可能会通过这种方式发现一位艺术家,然后参观他们的展览,这就是开始。”

弗洛拉·尤赫诺维奇(Flora Yukhnovich)的新作借鉴了老扬·布鲁盖尔(Jan Brueghel the Elder) 弗洛拉·尤赫诺维奇,由艺术家、豪瑟沃斯(Hauser & Wirth)和维多利亚·米罗(Victoria Miro)提供,卡西亚·博布拉(Kasia Bobula)

豪瑟沃斯画廊合伙人佐伊·斯佩林(Zoe Sperling)表示,这种对研究的投入在整个艺术市场中都能看到。“对于千禧一代和 Z 世代来说,我们发现作品的销售几乎是尾声。”购买行为“发生在进行研究并围绕艺术家建立自己的联系和社区之后。我遇到过一些人进来时,已经了解整个展览历史以及展出作品的所有细节。”在他们的艺术家名单中,艾弗里·辛格(Avery Singer)很受欢迎,她的绘画将数字渲染与喷笔图像融合,其新作将展出在伦敦弗里兹艺术博览会(Frieze London)上。

与此同时,没有官方画廊代理的艺术家,例如南非的维尔纳·布隆克霍斯特(Werner Bronkhorst),可以通过社交媒体迅速走红,直接向收藏家销售,并创下拍卖高价。2026 年的作品《来自每个角落》(From Every Corner)描绘了广阔球场上的微型足球运动员,在 7 月的菲利普斯(Phillips)拍卖行以 $283,800 成交。

与此同时,古艺术正经历复兴,这表明这一代人的口味比前辈更广泛。Avant Arte 最近的研究发现,45 岁以下的人对古典大师(Old Masters)表现出兴趣的可能性比年长者高出三分之一,而对艺术家遗产作品感兴趣的可能性高出 29%。商业画廊正倾向于这种混搭:在弗里兹大师展(Frieze Masters)艺术博览会上,豪瑟沃斯的展位将包括弗洛拉·尤赫诺维奇的一件新作,该作品基于 17 世纪早期弗兰德艺术家老扬·布鲁盖尔的一幅花卉画(该画作也将在展位展出)。

博物馆在吸引年轻访客和资助者方面也在重新思考。伦敦国家美术馆(National Gallery London)青年大使项目的共同主席莫妮卡·伊拉尼(Monica Irani)表示,在 2020 年该项目启动之前,“我被告知其赞助人圈子的平均年龄是 72 岁。他们是非常出色的人,但这让我对博物馆的未来感到有些担忧。”

伊拉尼最初的决定之一是不使用“赞助人”(patron)这个词来针对 45 岁以下人群。“这听起来太像旧钱阶层,显得难以接近。人们预期这需要花费数百万,而实际上每年仅需 1,200 英镑。”使用“大使”并非

陨落的英雄在罕见展览中重聚

“我是一名德国艺术家,我的创作根植于德国传统。它是丑陋且具有表现力的。”

格奥尔格·巴塞利兹(Georg Baselitz) / 这些画作曾不受青睐,但现在看来可能是这位已故艺术家最伟大的系列作品。杰基·武尔施莱格(Jackie Wullschläger)参观了他最后一次计划中的展览。

从左至右:《红旗》(Mit Roter Fahne),格奥尔格·巴塞利兹(1966);画家站在“英雄”展览海报前。 格奥尔格·巴塞利兹 2026,由 Thaddaeus Ropac 画廊提供;埃尔克·巴塞利兹(Elke Baselitz)

格奥尔格·巴塞利兹于今年 4 月去世,享年 88 岁。他身材高瘦,头大,举止严肃庄重,且充满无限活力。而那个为他赢得名声的另一个自我则同样庞大,但却臃肿、笨拙,头小,外表邋遢破旧,姿态慵懒。在 1965-66 年间,巴塞利兹用粗犷的厚涂法、阴郁的色调(棕色、绿色、暗粉色)和破碎的线条,绘制了数十个这类孤独的失败角色,他们大多身着破烂的军装,在荒芜的景象中徘徊。

这些反英雄式的“英雄”诞生于波普艺术的黎明时分,最初被广泛厌恶——被认为过于悲观、过于强调绘画性且退步——但后来被公认为巴塞利兹最伟大的系列作品之一。这些作品极少能同时展出,而此次在伦敦 Thaddaeus Ropac 举办的历史性罕见展览《格奥尔格·巴塞利兹:英雄 1965-66》中,包括各大博物馆外借作品在内的约 35 件作品再次重聚。

右图:《黑底》(Schwarzgrundig),格奥尔格·巴塞利兹(1966)——格奥尔格·巴塞利兹 2026。由 Thaddaeus Ropac 画廊提供。摄影:米克·文森特(Mick Vincent),埃森。杜伊斯堡 MKM 现代艺术博物馆。Ströher 收藏。

在宽敞明亮的主展厅里,那些巨大的单人像(许多采用深色背景,仿佛正从画布中向前推进)将你四面包围。他们彼此对峙,共同放大了每个角色身上的悖论:巴塞利兹在描绘失败与崩溃时所采用的绘画攻击性。在《黑底》中,一名血迹斑斑、色彩斑斓的士兵从一个充满阴森形状的虚空中出现,灰白红色的轮廓暗示着陷阱、野兽以及森林地表不确定的地形。《反叛者》面带惨淡的微笑,虚弱到近乎半透明;他的双腿之间有一座房屋在燃烧。《受阻的画家》是一名目光困惑的截肢者,他倚在一棵没有叶子的尖刺树上,调色盘由拐杖支撑。《现代画家》孤独地蜷缩着,裤子拉链敞开,露出的不是阴茎,而是一团瘫软、无能的螺旋状颜料。

在这个系列中,这些背着笨重背包的艺术家-英雄们几乎无法支撑自己的体重——隐含地是指历史的重量——并诉说着年轻的巴塞利兹对战后绘画“受阻”未来的担忧。其他作品则暗示了被毁掉的田园诗意、无根状态以及与自然的失调。《牧羊人》无法保护他的羊群,双脚被陷阱套住,只有一只卡通般的绒毛鸭陪伴在侧。在《陷阱》中,一个带有伤疤的人物(或许是一名林务员)瘫在两棵树之间。在一幅线条密集且阴郁的木炭画中,《猎人》拿着一只细长的、大小诡异地像人的野兔。

巴塞利兹 1938 年出生于萨克森,在极权统治下长大,先是希特勒,然后是德意志民主共和国(GDR)。他因“社会政治不成熟”被东柏林的艺术学校开除,于 1957 年移居西德。当时那里正处于经济奇迹之中;但在其之下,潜藏着诗人鲁道夫·布林克曼(Rudolf Brinkman)所称的“集体罪责的霉味”,尽管近现代史几乎不被提及。巴塞利兹可以随心所欲地绘画,但他发现这里是“一个非常陌生且寒冷的环境。当传统的纽带消失,当不再有老师,不再有父亲,这就是我所说的断裂。”

他在27岁时开始创作《英雄》(The Heroes)系列,唤起对第二次世界大战结束时的记忆——“被摧毁的景观,被摧毁的人民,被摧毁的社会”,以及回到其中的可怜的德国士兵,以及驻扎在他家附近的苏联士兵。

色彩逐渐褪去,前景中站着一个巨大的身影,有着标志性的小头、被割开的腿和破烂的制服。他防御性地放下一面带有黑色标记的深红色旗帜:一个被粉碎的万字旗,一面苏联红旗,或是两种恐怖标志的融合体。

在《持红旗》(With Red Flag)中——该系列的典型之作,也是有记录以来最昂贵的巴塞利茨画作(2017年以£7.5mn成交)——一条血迹从一座被掏空的房子延伸到荒芜的赭色土地上,所有

这些陨落的英雄是对苏联现实主义残酷美学的戏仿,同时也在此刻肯定了具象艺术的力量,而当时由美国表现主义引领的西方艺术正趋向于抽象。德国哥特式和怪诞风格的影响力十分强大——从格吕内瓦尔德到迪克斯和格罗斯在20 世纪 20 年代创作的狂野肖像。巴塞利茨说:“我是一名德国艺术家,我的创作根植于德国传统。它是丑陋且具有表现力的。”

但他融合了其他影响:《英雄》系列的直接灵感来自 16 世纪风格主义画家庞托莫、帕米贾尼诺、菲奥伦蒂诺和贝卡富米的作品——那些扭曲的形体、极小的头部、不稳定的构图、蜿蜒的线条以及经常女性化的特征(如卷曲的乱发、柔和的面部特征)。巴塞利茨在 1965 年在佛罗伦萨的一次驻留期间接触到了这些艺术家。

比例极度失调的《你好,库尔贝先生》(Bonjour Monsieur Courbet)便创作于那里,这是该系列的早期作品——标题指的是库尔贝自己的自画像。而《Spekulatius》则是一个人物

这里有一种令人振奋的感觉,一名年轻的画家抓取过去中任何有帮助的东西,以创造一种新型的现实主义:表现性的、震撼的,而非直接的再现。立体主义不可避免地产生了影响:展览以几幅“破碎绘画”(Fracture Paintings,1966年)结束,包括《分裂的英雄》和《三条线——穿外套的画家(第二幅破碎绘画)》,在这些作品中,巴塞利茨将画布分为水平部分,并在每个部分中描绘身体的碎片,各部分虽有连接但未能正确衔接。他在测试在图像溶解之前可以将其推向何种程度——接下来的阶段,即 1969, 将出现他的倒置人物——并为分裂且伤痕累累的德国提供一个象征。

尽管巴塞利茨认为“我永远无法逃避的是德国,以及身为德国人”,但他的《英雄》系列将战后欧洲一代人在创伤后寻求身份和意义的困境戏剧化,这与存在主义者贾科梅蒂和弗朗西斯·培根有着共同的感触。巴塞利茨将他的一些英雄命名为“新类型”,例如这里的一幅水粉、墨水和油画棒画,画面被金黄色洗刷,一个像宇航员一样踉跄前行的人物,半跌半浮;通过他们,他像存在主义者那样追问:现代战后的人是什么样的,他如何才能在异化、孤立和失败中生存?

在刚刚于威尼斯乔治·奇尼基金会(Fondazione Giorgio Cini)闭幕的《金色英雄》(Eroi d'Oro)展览中,巴塞利茨依然在探讨这个问题,他创作了超大尺寸的肖像,描绘那些精疲力竭、脆弱且衰败的躯体,其间点缀着高饱和度的色彩。罗帕克画廊(Ropac)和奇尼基金会的呼应展览是他亲自策划的最后一次作品展:两者都是极佳的纪念碑,并提醒人们,对于这位人道主义且专注的画家来说,“我的开始即是我的终结”。

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其黑色服装敞开,露出以厚涂法绘制的粉色条纹生肉,他举起双臂,头部向上倾斜,呈现出一种意大利风格主义式的宗教狂喜姿态——尽管他的名字取自一种德国姜饼:一个荒诞的角色。

左图:罗伯特·隆戈(Robert Longo)的《无题》(来自“城市中的男人”系列,2026年)。上图:艾弗里·辛格(Avery Singer)的《求解者》(Solver,2026年)。下图:Avant Arte 创始人兼首席执行官马兹达克·萨尼(Mazdak Sanii)。 艺术家及 Avant Arte 提供;Lance Brewer,由 Avant Arte 提供;Vivek Vadoliya 提供

她说,这只是对该角色更好的描述,但很愉快地与博物馆的珍藏之一——汉斯·霍尔拜因(Hans Holbein)备受关注的《大使》(1533年)相呼应。

在针对年轻资助者的方案方面,伊拉尼(Irani)表示:“你需要深思熟虑。例如,专业人士无法在周中上午11点去听讲座。”他们也不是被动的投资者。“他们希望看到自己的 1,200 英镑 正在产生影响,”她说。她补充道,今年的支持还包括为该团体首次为画廊收购一幅画作筹集了六位数的资金(细节尚未公开)。

对于 2024 年成为青年大使的 Z 世代金融科技高管周洁(Judy Zhou)来说,其吸引力包括

45 岁以下的人群通常“比许多人认为的更严肃、更专业”

“幕后方面,了解博物馆是如何成长以及我们的投入用于何处”。此外,她说,“在我所做的一切中,人文角度都非常重要,而这个项目是一个以人为本的设置,无论是团体中的其他人,还是博物馆的策展人、馆长或赞助人经理”。周洁同时也是 Frieze Connect 的指导委员会成员,该计划是于 2021 年启动的艺术博览会会员方案。

博物馆和市场也在寻求有影响力的名人来传播其理念。上个月,邦汉斯(Bonhams)拍卖行宣布卡西姆和艾丽西亚·迪恩(Kasseem and Alicia Dean,即 Swizz Beatz 和艾丽西亚·凯斯)成为一项计划的代言人,该计划旨在让在世艺术家在作品于二级市场销售时获得版税。“除了增加跨类别销售和更多数字化渠道,我们还计划与品味引领者开展合作,”邦汉斯首席执行官塞斯·约翰逊(Seth Johnson)表示。

所有这些都可能是富有成效的、面向未来的尝试。萨尼认为,“有一代年轻人打破了我们对他们的刻板印象……如果我们能敏捷且细致地应对这些变化,艺术赞助将迎来一个强有力的全新篇章的巨大机遇。”

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凯莉·曼宁 / 这位艺术家的职业生涯让她从阿拉斯加海岸的商业捕鱼船走到了佩斯画廊(Pace gallery)的展览现场——但她的巨幅画作依然波涛汹涌,泡沫翻滚。作者:克里斯蒂安·豪斯(Christian House)

“在这些画作中,重点不一定在于不同的海洋,而在于不同的纬度,”凯莉·曼宁(Kylie Manning)坐在耀眼的普罗旺斯阳光下说道。这位画家在阿拉斯加和墨西哥度过了童年,对海洋有着敏锐的观察力。“在阿拉斯加,所有的绿色都倾向于蓝色的铁杉和云杉。然后你还会看到所有这些拥有透明氧化金和灰金色的湿地。但墨西哥则非常潮湿。”

我在卡拉梅尔城堡(Castel Caramel)见到了曼宁,这里曾是20世纪维也纳艺术家恩斯特·富克斯(Ernst Fuchs)的住所和工作室,现在是一家艺术家驻留地,位于卡斯蒂永(Castillon)村的边缘,坐落在地中海上方郁郁葱葱的山丘上。曼宁在这里进行为期一个夏季的驻留,用于完成《泥滩搜寻者》(The Mudlarkers)——这是一个新系列作品,将在 Frieze 周期间在伦敦佩斯画廊展出。

这位常驻布鲁克林的画家的职业生涯让她从阿拉斯加渔船的船舱走到了纽约的林肯中心。但水始终是她的向导:曼宁的构图中充满了涌动、旋转、飞溅和涡流;它们泡沫翻滚。她说,构图的流动性让人想起“自传的拓扑结构”。她的许多作品中还带有一种类似鬼故事的氛围:仔细观察,一些人物在画面中浮现,形状像半成品般的记忆一样凝聚在一起。

她的新系列标题参考了那些在泰晤士河岸边搜寻历史漂浮物(如硬币、纽扣、烟斗碎片和陶器)的爱好者。她也参与过泥滩搜寻吗?“没有。但泥滩搜寻的概念与绘画共享一种奇特的探索感:一种对‘近乎可见’之物的信念,对就在表面之下的价值之物的信念。你带着一种虔诚回到某个地点,在沉积物中搜寻和抹除,等待着某些东西显现。这是一种部分在黑暗中进行的挖掘——在心理地质学中挖掘,并不确定是否会有任何回应。”

坐在露台上,沉浸在看不见的蝉鸣声以及在通往摩纳哥的狭窄蜿蜒道路上疾驰的轻便摩托车声中,曼宁解释了她艰苦的工作流程,

顺时针从主图起:由 Jérémy Tourvieille 为《金融时报》拍摄的艺术家凯莉·曼宁;出自其 2026 年《泥滩搜寻者》系列的《Puestero》;《仅限目阅》(Eyes Only)(2026)—— Jérémy Tourvieille, Kylie Manning

这种流程模拟了洋流的节奏。在用兔皮胶和油底料准备的画布上,她添加然后擦掉多层像洗色一样的颜料——她称之为“信息”——逐渐形成锚定在“追逐那些难以捉摸、滑溜且朦胧的意象这一想法”之上的构图。其结果唤起的是水生生命的永恒运动,而非对海床、海岸线和破碎波浪的纪录片式记录。

她对材料的选择至关重要。“我尝试让几种核心颜料与画作最终安放的地方建立联系,这样它们的物理实体就如同回家一样,”曼宁说道,并补充说,为了在英国首都展出的作品色调,她采购了“汉普郡的白垩和粘土,以及来自泰晤士河的伦敦粘土和淤泥”。“汉普郡的粘土带有氧化红;伦敦的粘土几乎是茄子般的淡紫色;而泰晤士河的淤泥则是更偏褐色的灰色。所以,我从所有的英国灰色开始,就像一幅透纳(Turner)的画作。”

曼宁非常适应这种朦胧的色调。“我热爱它。阿拉斯加到处都是雾。”事实上,她的画作包含极其广泛的光谱。“大海有一种特质,它是具有反射性的。而这正是色彩发生偏移的地方,”她说,“捕鱼很危险。在我还太年轻的时候,经历过很多次险些出事的情况。但这帮我清空了脑海中关于艺术界的杂念。”

她停下来眺望法国的山坡。“在这里,在这些丝柏和橄榄树之间,你也能看到这一点。橄榄树看起来像银蓝色。当夕阳落在它们身上时,其他一切都变成了暖绿色,而它们则呈现出一种极冷色调的绿色。”一片树海。

她于1983年出生在阿拉斯加偏远的首府朱诺,那里靠近冰河湾国家公园。她的父母都是美术教师,家庭生活在阿拉斯加以及墨西哥的小渔镇圣布拉斯(San Blas)和萨尤利塔(Sayulita)之间往返。

“我的父母是嬉皮士。我父亲是个冲浪者。但他们都觉得单一的文化是不够的。你得明白没有什么东西是真正属于你的,而一切又是你的,单一的视角太局限了,”曼宁解释道,“他们有一辆面包车和一个帐篷,我们从俄勒冈州一路开到了危地马拉。那时我三四岁。他们会一次性打包一整年的学习用品,然后对我兄弟姐妹和我进行家庭教育。”

人们经常以为她是加利福尼亚人,虽然她有着被海滩阳光漂白的发色和西海岸式的开朗举止,但这与一种务实的天性相结合——这种天性源于她曾在阿拉斯加海岸的拖网渔船上工作,以支付艺术学习费用。“我二十多岁时从事商业捕鱼,”她回忆道,“捕鱼很危险。在我还太年轻的时候,经历过很多次险些出事的情况。我一年到头在学校学习或参加驻留项目,然后整个夏天去捕鱼,在海上待上三四个月。这对我很有效,因为我好胜且热爱运动。我想在户外,而且这也帮我清空了脑海中关于艺术界的杂念。”

曼宁就读于马萨诸塞州的圣霍利奥克学院(Mount Holyoke College)和纽约艺术学院,其作品曾在佩斯画廊(Pace)的洛杉矶、日内瓦、香港以及曼哈顿展馆展出。在借鉴特纳(Turner)、库尔贝(Courbet)和温斯洛·霍默(Winslow Homer)等海洋绘画大师的影响之余,她的作品还具有交响乐般的特质。它们呈现出缓慢的乐章与渐强的高潮。

2023年,曼宁为编舞家克里斯托弗·惠尔登(Christopher Wheeldon)的芭蕾舞剧《来自我内心》(From You Within Me,配乐为阿诺德·勋伯格的《升华之夜》,由纽约市芭蕾舞团在林肯中心演出)设计了长60英尺的半透明舞台背景,色彩涵盖橙色、绿松石色和油润的蓝色——部分像日落,部分像暴风雨。“凯莉的作品具有史诗般的宏大感,且充满了动感,”惠尔登指出,“我很期待她能发现灯光如何以多种不同方式赋予她的作品生命。在芭蕾舞剧的一个片段中,我让舞者们缓慢走上舞台,仅仅是观察背景后发光灯光所呈现的缓缓移动的壮丽景象,舞者们被深深地打动了。”

在我们见面一个月后,曼宁从纽约给我打电话。在与留在布鲁克林工作室的《拾荒者》(Mudlarker)系列作品重逢后,她惊讶地发现,那些她原以为尚未完成的作品,竟然已经进入了一种和谐的漂移状态。“我将数十年的能量、努力、爱与关怀投入到一件将不断变化的事物中,”她说,“我原以为回来后需要增加一些细节,但这些画作其实需要我不要那样做。那种转变本身就是最终的构图。”

不过,她确实做了一处小小的添加,就在画作的背面。“我还搜集了一些由泥滩拾荒者在泰晤士河岸边发现的小型陶烟斗碎片——其中几块被秘密地放置在画布的支撑架背面。”对于一位痴迷于潜藏之物的艺术家来说,这似乎是一个恰到好处的细节。

上图:在法国卡斯特尔-卡拉梅尔(Castel Caramel)创作《泥滩拾荒者》(The Mudlarkers)系列

10月13日至11月14日,pacegallery.com

右图:在阿拉斯加担任渔民(最右侧)

右图:曼宁(Manning)为克里斯托弗·惠尔登(Christopher Wheeldon)的芭蕾舞剧《来自我心深处》(From You Within Me)创作了背景 Jeremy Tourville 为《金融时报》拍摄。由 Kyle Manning 提供。Erin Bazano

下表提供了原始文档:

改变我的马格里特

影响力 / 很少有画家能像这位比利时超现实主义者那样在人们心中挥之不去。六位艺术家解释了其中的原因。作者:Jacoba Urist

圆顶硬礼帽。烟斗。蓬松的白云。很少有艺术家能像勒内·马格里特(René Magritte)那样在人们心中留下如此深刻的印记。“距离马格里特在1926年创作首批超现实主义作品正好过去了一百年,”Gagosian艺术咨询总监伯纳德·拉格朗日(Bernard Lagrange)表示,“但当我走访工作室并与艺术家们交流时,他的名字总是被反复提及。”这一认知促使拉格朗日与贾斯珀·夏普(Jasper Sharp)在马格里特基金会(Fondation Magritte)的协作下,共同策划了名为《这依然不是一支烟斗:马格里特的来世》(This Is Still Not a Pipe: The Afterlife of Magritte)的大型展览。该展览将这位超现实主义大师的作品与当代画家及雕塑家(其中部分由其他画廊代理)的作品并列展出,目前在伦敦Gagosian的格罗夫纳山画廊(Grosvenor Hill gallery)展出。在这里,展览中的六位艺术家解释了马格里特那些崇高且不可能的画作之魅力,以及他如何持久地掌控着我们的文化意识。

达娜·舒茨 (Dana Schutz)

我第一次被马格里特震撼是在青少年时期,即1993年,在芝加哥艺术学院的一次艺术家回顾展上。《受威胁的刺客》(The Menaced Assassin,1927年)是一幅如此诡异、令人不安的画作,带有深层的偏执感。一名死去的女人躺在沙发上。两名侦探在门外。而这个男人看着留声机的样子如此冷漠,以至于

感觉整幅画可能都发生在他的脑海中。

马格里特将一种感觉或形而上学的情境具象化,这也是我感兴趣的地方。我非常喜欢他1927年至1928年的作品。它们具有一种奇怪的叙事感,并带有某种焦虑。

讽刺的是,虽然马格里特绘制的是虚构的主题,但每当我需要绘制非常写实的事物(如木纹、鹅卵石、云朵或水)时,我总是寻求他的启发。在工作室里放着他的画册,随着时间的推移对我非常有帮助。我不参考照片,通常也绘制虚构的主题。但当我试图思考“混凝土看起来像什么?”或“这幅画中处于什么样的氛围?”时,我会转向马格里特。

在《这依然不是一支烟斗》展览中,我的画作《歌手》(The Singer,2026年)在色调和场景上借鉴了马格里特的《秘密双倍》(The Secret Double,1927年)。我的作品描绘了一位坐着的女性,她有着巨大的头部和骨质的下颌。她像一个腹语师的玩偶,一个沉默的歌手。留声机是对马格里特的明确致敬,同时也暗示了欺骗的局限性,一种壳中的声音。

迈克尔·克雷格-马丁 (Michael Craig-Martin)

我从未在创作时直接思考马格里特的作品。但他玩弄视觉意象的语言和惯例——从本质上讲,这正是我所做的事情。当然,当你还是个学生时,你会接触到《图像的叛逆》(1929),那是一幅相当惊人的画作。关于马格里特的一点是

左起上方:勒内·马格里特 (René Magritte) 的《秘密双倍》(1927);达娜·舒茨 (Dana Schutz) 的《歌手》(2026)—— 2026 ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London, Artepics / Alainy;达娜·舒茨,斯蒂芬·阿诺德,由艺术家、大卫·泽默 (David Zeimer)、柏林当代美术馆 (Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin) 和托马斯·丹画廊 (Thomas Dane Gallery) 提供

一旦你见过它,它就如此令人难忘,你永远不会真正忘记。他创作的每一幅图像都如此简洁。他以一种非常实事求是的态度绘画,但呈现出的事物却是非凡的。

“他以一种非常实事求是的态度绘画,但呈现出的事物却是非凡的”

50多年前,当我创作出《一棵橡树》(1973)时,我本能地知道我也偶然发现了一些非凡的东西。它以如此简单的方式表达了如此复杂的东西:玻璃架子上的一杯水。我知道我需要一段文字来解释我的意图:即这杯水实际上在物理上变成了一棵橡树。突然间,我想到了用对话作为作品的一部分,这是表达“这绝不可能成真”的完美方式。马格里特令我着迷的地方在于,他利用图像特性的方式是多么聪明。每一幅画看起来都像是真实的。从壁炉里出来的发动机,一个人照镜子却看到自己的后脑勺:这些都是极其简单的事物,而它们的不可能性又是如此清晰。但马格里特呈现它们的方式却完全合理。你能准确理解他想要表达什么。

亚历克斯·达·科特 (Alex Da Corte)

我有一段非常清晰的记忆,大约在九岁时第一次接触马格里特。我的叔叔曾在费城管弦乐团担任多年首席打击乐手,他在万圣节时打扮成了《人类之子》(1964)中的角色。他戴着一顶圆顶硬礼帽,面前有一个苹果,所以你看不见他的脸。

马格里特曾有名言称他的作品并非关于梦境,我也坚持这一点。我的雕塑并非关于梦境,尽管人们说它们是梦幻般的或噩梦般的空间。我的作品深深植根于现实世界,由物理材料制成。但我认为我的雕塑体现了马格里特关于物体的一些主张——当他将物体嵌入绘画中时,将其视为世界的一个不完整的切片。

我觉得马格里特的作品如此紧迫,因为它质疑了我们与语言的关系,以及语言与意象的关系。两者始终在变动之中,通过我们彼此发送的文本,通过模因(memes)以及人工智能的引入。所有这些问题都融入在马格里特的实践中,探讨一个物体能为你做什么,以及我们为它做了什么。

左起顺时针:《光之帝国》(1961);《不可复制》(1937),均为马格里特作品;亚历克斯·达·科特的《皮奥神父》(2026) 2026 ADAGR, Paris and DACS, London, Prudence Coming Associates Ltd. Heidi Horten Collection; 2026 ADAGR, Paris and DACS, London, Bridgeman Images, Alex Da Corne, Joseph Hu, courtesy Sadie Colas HQ, London

技术如何影响我们对事物的体验?新事物的发明对旧事物产生了什么影响?

埃德·鲁沙 (Ed Ruscha)

1967年的夏天,我的妻子丹娜(Danna)和我正走在威尼斯的一座桥上。我们向下看去,发现我的艺术经纪人亚历山大·约拉斯(Alexander Iolas)正和马格里特(Magritte)、他的妻子乔尔热特(Georgette)以及他们的狗露露(Loulou)同在一艘贡多拉船上。他们邀请我们一起共进午餐。马格里特带着一台微型相机,用来拍摄一名正站在那里绘制大教堂的艺术家。他站在艺术家的身后,非常像那幅名为《不可复制》(Not to Be Reproduced)的画作。当我们到达 Cipriani 餐厅吃午餐时,马格里特因为怀里抱着露露而被拒之门外。勒内说:“无论我去哪里,露露都跟着我。”

  • 在一阵小小的骚动之后,我们被安排在花园里一张非常不错的户外桌位。最近,我偶然看到一张由李·米勒(Lee Miller)在20世纪40年代初拍摄的马格里特和一只狗露露的照片。这让我相信,多年来他养过好几只小型犬,且每只都叫露露。

毛里齐奥·卡特兰(Maurizio Cattelan)

马格里特和我都使用熟悉的图像和物体,然后微调它们的语境,使其变得不稳定。我一直回想起《不可复制》——一个男人看向镜子,看到的却是自己后脑勺的背面。这几乎没有什么特别之处,但它打破了图像的契约。马格里特非常擅长这一点:改变一条规则,让整个世界突然变得不可靠。

至12月12日,gagosian.com

佳士得 (CHRISTIE'S)

Ceci n'est pas une pipe.

安娜·韦扬特 (Anna Weyant)

瓦西里·康定斯基 (WASSILY KANDINSKY)

当我的弟弟搬进新公寓时,我刚从罗德岛设计学院毕业,他请我为他临摹马格利特著名的《图像的叛逆》(1929)。但我无法加上那句文字“Ceci n'est pas une pipe”。对我来说,那太强烈了。今天,那幅画显得格外具有现实意义。这不是一支烟斗。但它确实是一支烟斗,而我们被告知了一些与现实完全矛盾的事情。我们生活在一个政治不信任和误导信息的时代。有了 AI 图像,我们也无法知道自己实际看到的是什么,以及真正发生的是什么。

我最喜欢的画作之一是《不可复制》(1937)。马格利特在画中描绘头发的方式

上方从左起:勒内·马格利特 (René Magritte) 的《图像的叛逆》(1929);安娜·韦扬特 (Anna Weyant) 的《我的小马》(2019) — 2026 ADAGR, Paris and DACS, London. Bridgeman Images; Anna Weyant, Owen Conway, courtesy Bagosien

——我将用一生努力尝试画出那样完美的头发。在我提交给高古轩画廊的作品《我的小马》(2019)中,你可以从女孩的马尾辫看出我受其影响之深。另一幅《试播集》(2026)是本次展览的新作。画中有一个脆弱的人类,赤裸且被性化,充满渴望。我当时在思考一部剧集的试播集:你无能为力,只能希望它能被选中。我也参考了马格利特的《人类之子》(1964)。漂浮在脸前的青苹果在物理上是不可能的,但在情感上是可能的。

伦敦 • 2026年10月14日

奥塔维亚·马尔基泰利 (Ottavia Marchitelli) omarchitelli@christies.com +44 (0) 78 2441 5884

瓦西里·康定斯基 (WASSILY KANDINSKY) (1866–1944) 《多彩的生活》(Das bunte Leben / La vie mélangée),1907 20 / 21世纪晚间拍卖会 估价请洽

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向科技巨头发起挑战

Theo Triantafyllidis / 你能想象一个更有趣、毒性更小的互联网吗?这位艺术家通过一只邀请观众攀爬的巨型蜘蛛,提出了这样一个问题。作者:Tom Faber

不幸的是,这个故事始于马克·扎克伯格。那是 2021 年,扎克伯格刚刚宣布将公司名称从 Facebook 改为 Meta。他押注未来属于元宇宙:一个像电子游戏一样的在线空间,人们将在其中登录并构建一个新的数字社会。

但结果并未如愿。Meta 的虚拟平台 Horizon Worlds 最终被证明是一个乏味的企业荒原。如今,该公司基本上已经放弃了这个想法,转向了 AI。元宇宙已被扔进了科技失败者的垃圾堆,与 NFT、Segway 和 Quibi 为伍。

“扎克伯格对元宇宙的愿景完全是一场反乌托邦的噩梦,”38 岁的 Theo Triantafyllidis 在一次视频通话中告诉我。他身在雅典的工作室里,剃净胡须,穿着一件白色 T 恤。

他的新作品《野性元宇宙(蜘蛛)》(Feral Metaverse (Spider))将在他获得 Frieze 艺术家奖后在伦敦 Frieze 艺术展上展出,该作品最初是对扎克伯格的一种反驳。它采用了多人电子游戏的形式,玩家必须协作才能逃离洞穴。

Meta 旗下 Facebook 和 Instagram 等平台的算法放大了极端且具有分歧的内容,而 Triantafyllidis 则在思考,如果一个在线空间是围绕协作与关怀构建的,它会是什么样子。

他的艺术利用电子游戏技术,为我们的社会绘制出阴暗且讽刺的肖像,探讨我们哪里出了错,以及我们如何能做得更好。这部作品是他持续进行的“野性元宇宙”项目的第三部分。在游戏中,角色必须攀爬在彼此的肩膀上,小心地保持平衡,并避开巨型蜘蛛喷射的蛛网,以触及屋顶附近的秋千并逃脱。

上方:Theo Triantafyllidis 由 Douglas Martin Eveleigh 为《金融时报》拍摄,他斜靠在自己的雕塑《野性元宇宙(蜘蛛)》(2026)上。左上方:《激进化管道》(Radicalization Pipeline)(2021),由艺术家及雅典 The Breeder 画廊提供。

“这款游戏要求玩家进行协调、协作,互相大喊,并共同学习目标,”他说,“让他们明白,基本上是他们对抗游戏,而击败游戏的唯一方法就是真正地紧密合作。”

Triantafyllidis 谈吐稳重,但他的作品中充满了幽默与荒诞。游戏中的角色是像动物一样的人类,他们四肢着地行走,用尖叫和咕噜声交流:就像我们想象中潜伏在网络评论区里的穴居人,现在被强迫协作。他称这款游戏为“一种更具动物性的体现”。

开始变得俏皮。甚至可能忘记他们在艺术展中表演性的面貌。”他微笑着,很享受 Frieze 参展者笨拙地在巨型蜘蛛身上攀爬的想法。

在过去的十年里,电子游戏制作软件变得更加普及,迎来了一批寻求定义新艺术媒介可能性的新一代艺术家,包括 Lawrence Lek、Lu Yang 和 Ian Cheng。在去年瑟彭廷画廊(Serpentine Gallery)的展览《错觉》(The Delusion)中,Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley 采用了类似的游戏技术,将访客连接起来并鼓励他们

Triantafyllidis 出生于 1988 年,在希腊学习建筑学,并于 2012 年毕业,随即陷入希腊债务危机。他在中国担任建筑师两年,随后加入了一个互联网艺术家的在线社区,并前往加州大学洛杉矶分校学习设计媒体艺术,在那里生活了六年。当时,互联网似乎是一种向善的力量,让他能够结交朋友并发现令人兴奋的新艺术家。“那是社交媒体历史上一个更愉快的时刻,”他回忆道。

自那时起,社交媒体的格局发生了剧烈变化。特里安塔菲利迪斯(Triantafyllidis)2021年的作品《激进化管道》(Radicalisation Pipeline)是对现代网络讨论之毒性的评论。这是一场在电子游戏引擎中上演的激烈战斗,看起来像是《堡垒之夜》(Fortnite)的一局游戏与美国街头骚乱的结合体。从白人民族主义者到武装警察,再到奇幻世界中的兽人,各种角色在进行一场永无止境的战争,他们死去后仅在战场边缘重生,然后重新开始。网络评论区里的争吵演变成了一场全面的战争。同样凶残,同样毫无意义。

“扎克伯格的元宇宙愿景完全是一场反乌托邦的噩梦”

与此同时,2022年的《兽人屋》(Ork Haus)是对新冠疫情封锁期间家庭生活的阴暗评论,它将一场发生在疫情中的、由反社会兽人组成的《模拟人生》(The Sims)游戏具象化。在一次幻觉般的居家办公噩梦中,父亲穿着三角裤坐在沙发上,戴着VR头显出神。母亲在床上盘腿冥想,而她的婴儿在旁边的婴儿床里尖叫,一场真正的飓风正席卷整个房子。一个被技术“连接”起来的家庭,却彼此完全疏离。

这些作品并非预录视频,而是实时模拟——即由特定规则主导、角色行为会实时变化的数字环境。特里安塔菲利迪斯(Triantafyllidis)认为,这种方法使传统艺术观众更容易理解电子游戏技术,因为他们不需要操作游戏控制器,也不需要遵循一个有固定开头和结尾的叙事。他说,你可以像欣赏一幅画那样,只需后退一步,让目光随意游走。

彼得·哈灵顿(PETER HARRINGTON) 伦敦

纽约 “一种原始的、具身化的、直观的在线共处方式”。

伦敦

但他说,要让画廊观众开始玩电子游戏并不容易。“他们意识到游戏是视觉文化和语言如此巨大的生产者,以至于无法被忽视,但即使是要求艺术观众触碰游戏手柄,也需要一个破冰之举。”

这就是蜘蛛出现的地方。为了玩这个游戏,参观者必须爬上一座巨大的白色蜘蛛雕塑,那是游戏反派的复制品,由覆盖泡沫的木材和钢材制成,其关节腿的末端穿着作战靴。雕塑身体中嵌入了六块屏幕,观众可以通过这些屏幕进入游戏。他称这座雕塑为“诱饵”,旨在鼓励参观者进行交流,放松心态,摆脱典型的画廊冷漠感(froideur)。

“我希望他们爬上雕塑,想起自己的身体是多么笨拙,然后通过游戏来讨论社会议题,”特里安塔菲利迪斯说,“在策展和艺术理论中,游戏尚未被整合,因此它们给人一种局外人的感觉。”

“我们所有人都在试图弄清楚:好吧,在这种技术中,我的艺术之声是什么?我能用这种媒介表达什么以前无法表达的内容?”

右图:《BugSim (信息素水疗)》(2022)。下图:特里安塔菲利迪斯在雅典的工作室中 图片由艺术家及雅典 The Bredet 提供;道格拉斯·马丁·伊夫利(Douglas Martin Eveleigh)拍摄

“我们所有人都在试图弄清楚:在这种技术中,我的艺术之声是什么?我能用这种媒介表达什么以前无法表达的内容?”《兽人屋》(2022)是特里安塔菲利迪斯对新冠疫情封锁期间家庭生活的阴暗评论 图片由艺术家及雅典 The Breeder 提供

《BugSim (信息素水疗)》(2022)于今年早些时候在纽约惠特尼美术馆展出,展示了一个生态缸,其中一个微小的蚂蚁群体试图修复受损的环境,而蜜蜂、蜘蛛和螳螂在生态系统中各自扮演着自己的角色。背景中潜伏着一个阴森的怪物身影,有着愤怒的黄色眼睛和狭长的蛇形鼻孔,正专注地盯着这些昆虫。

他一些最引人入胜的实时模拟描绘了生活在微缩世界中、相互依赖的生物生态系统,就像活的雪花球一样。《漂移晶格》(Drift Lattice)(2025)是一个水下世界,螃蟹、鱼类和鸟类在被塑料垃圾和渔网污染的珊瑚之间穿行,而无人机在周围嗡嗡作响,试图

清理垃圾。该模拟的行为受到全球气候监测网络数据的实时影响。“游戏引擎是研究生态系统的合适媒介,”特里安塔菲利迪斯(Triantafyllidis)表示,“我对自然界中涌现的系统的深度和复杂性深感着迷。”这些作品旨在成为“一种训练观众观察生态系统各部分之间微妙关系的方式,以培养一种理解和观察的能力”。

他即将推出的作品《有趣的天气》(Funny Weather)由国际工厂(Factory International)委托创作,将于11月在曼彻斯特首展。这是一个实时模拟作品,展示了一个由鸟类、风筝和纺织品组成的天空,并受到实时天气和业余观鸟数据的影响。

特里安塔菲利迪斯的每件作品都是一次挑衅,以微缩形式展示我们世界的某个侧面,让观众面对关于我们如何共同生活——无论是与他人还是与自然界——的棘手问题。

“这是在推测气候变化,因为我们正进入一个天气成为‘主角’的时代,”他说。“天气正变得如此反复无常且不可预测,甚至在24小时的尺度上也是如此。这将极大地影响我们的日常生活。”

特里安塔菲利迪斯的艺术反映了我们正在步入的世界,在这个世界中,我们脆弱的生态系统(无论是自然的还是数字的)都在崩溃。透过玻璃后那难以解读的目光,他提出了一个问题:我们将对此如何应对?

“她让她的能量全速释放”

爱丽丝·尼尔 / 希尔顿·阿尔斯 反思这位艺术家的作品, 其酷儿肖像画被纳入 Frieze Masters 的一个新策展板块

虽然我对 Frieze Masters 组建的新板块“酷儿现代主义:20世纪的视觉语言”(Queering Modernism: Visual Languages of the 20th Century)感到非常高兴,但我好奇这个标题是否有些冗余。现代主义难道不一直都是酷儿的吗?从杜尚到保拉·雷戈,再到大卫·哈蒙斯,这些伟大的现代主义者是我所谓的“现状操纵者”——他们通过镜像并粉碎我们关于种族、性别和阶级的共同假设,从中获得巨大的快乐与灵感。他们以及其他人通过重新排列一个早已为我们设定好身份的世界——男人、女人、黑人男性、白人女性、女性化者、男性化者、公民等等——所实现的,是让我们作为复杂个体那极少被探索的多重性变得可见。

“酷儿”(Queer)是一个如此美妙且宽泛的词。韦伯斯特词典将其定义为“非传统的”,我认为这是一枚荣誉勋章。非传统通常会引发讨论,尤其是在那些问“为什么那个人不同?”以及“为什么他们让我们感到不同?”的庸俗之辈之间。

最近,我坐在纽约的华盛顿广场公园里,试图理解伟大的现代主义者戴安·阿勃丝在那里拍摄的照片。她在非凡的作品中提出了其中一些问题,同时也帮助我形成了自己的疑问。我想起了她的《华盛顿广场公园长椅上的年轻情侣》(1965)——这张照片拍摄于公共空间,却唤起了关于私人关注的思考,例如被注视以及注视他人的体验。

过了一会儿,我注意到公园里的景象——我的视野——发生了一些有趣的变化。那些异常的,或者说通常被认为是异常的事物,并不算干扰。吸大麻者、皮条客和精神恍惚的大学生在这样一个相对温和的公共空间里找到了归宿,尽管是暂时的。

干扰这种视野的是另一种符号——美国式的繁荣理想:一名富有的女性走在她的保姆身边,保姆推着未来的继承人前行。他们的角色如此格格不入,以至于我想让附近一名几乎全裸、胸前画着紫色雏菊的女性——她正随着没人能听到的音乐起舞——远离那个现实。因为那个画着雏菊的女人在她的酷儿特质中体验着一种允许女性身体存在的自由,而那位富有的贵妇则扮演着另一种角色,一种需要穿着 Tory Burch 拖鞋的角色。

随着天色渐暗,吉他和大麻出现了,那些招募

从主图起顺时针方向:1947年,尼尔在纽约东108街的工作室里;《理查德·吉布斯》(1965);《克里斯·基尔斯滕》(1971) 萨姆·布罗迪:爱丽丝·尼尔遗产管理委员会。由爱丽丝·尼尔遗产管理委员会提供。David Zwimmer 和 Victoria Miro

尼尔的酷儿主题充满了某种并非道貌岸然的优雅,且往往浸染着讽刺

未来的马克思主义者们收起桌子离去,我仍在思考那个“拥有一切”的女人。我想知道她是因为方便才穿过公园,还是为了记住一种她永远无法成为的状态?生活将我们所有人塑造得扭曲;而如何处理这些形状,则取决于我们自己。

在漫长的一生中,画家爱丽丝·尼尔(1900-84)大部分时间都在描绘人们——这些形状——在很大程度上反映了这个世界是多么的酷儿。

我在本科期间第一次发现了尼尔的作品。我立刻被这位艺术家对有色人种的关注所吸引;在她成年后的绝大部分时间里,她都住在西班牙哈莱姆区和曼哈顿的上西区。我了解她笔下绘制的人们,了解她倾注在作品中的心血,以及在这个过程中,她是如何在解构自己的白人身份的:体面的白人女士是不会去画波多黎各人的。

多年过去,我将这个问题提出了给大卫·兹维纳(David Zwirner),他与受人尊敬的维多利亚·米罗(Victoria Miro)共同代理尼尔的遗产。为什么没有人为尼尔的有色人种肖像画举办展览?又过了一段时间,大卫为我打开了大门,让我能够展示我在尼尔作品中一直被吸引的部分:那些并非由资本定义,而是由生活的艰辛所定义,且因为生活至关重要而生活的人们——对他们自己,对他们的孩子,以及在西班牙哈莱姆区塑造他们的那个世界而言至关重要。

在2017年筹备《艾丽丝·尼尔,上城》(Alice Neel, Uptown)展览期间,我对尼尔的模特进行了大量研究,其中包括已故的酷儿艺术家罗恩·梶原(Ron Kajiwara)。事实上,正是通过观察罗恩,我开始思考尼尔对酷儿世界本身的兴趣,以及她如何接纳LGBTQ群体——不仅是因为她笔下的许多成员在视觉上令她感兴趣,更因为他们体现了一种日常生活中与众不同的感觉。

尼尔笔下的酷儿主体,从安妮·斯普林克尔(Annie Sprinkle)到杰基·柯蒂斯(Jackie Curtis),都充满了一种并非道貌貌相、且往往浸染着讽刺的优雅。尽管尼尔的一些酷儿公民肖像画看起来如此静默,但它们在发声。事实上,她的画作有时感觉像是画家与模特之间关于“渴望归属感是一种多么可怕且人性化的欲望”的对话。在她那幅卓越的1982年斯普林克尔画像中,尼尔让她的能量全速释放;她不再是一个身体受限的82岁老人,而是一个在不断触及、不断探索的灵魂,试图理解并描绘酷儿特质如何自我发声。我的尼尔酷儿肖像展《在家:酷儿世界中的艾丽丝·尼尔》(At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World)于2024年在洛杉矶的大卫·兹维纳空间开幕,随后在伦敦的维多利亚·米罗画廊展出。

避难所是远离“常态”窥视目光的短暂庇护之所,我确信是我内心身为母亲的一面希望每个人都能拥有这种体验——远离宇宙这面破碎的镜子,以便更好地审视自我。但我不想削弱像尼尔以及杰出的哥伦比亚艺术家路易斯·费尔南多·萨帕塔(Luis Fernando Zapata, 1951-1994)这类艺术家的坚韧,两人的作品都展出于《酷儿现代主义》(Queering Modernism)中。我希望你们能看到他们,看到他们为了创作而幸存了什么,以及分享一个酷儿自我、一个人类自我是多么奇妙。

在萨帕塔的《石棺 9号》(Sarcofagi No 9, 1992-94)等作品中,我们看到的是一个用纸浆制成的容器;它的形状像一口棺材,但将死亡客体化——这是现代主义的另一种定义:让死亡发挥作用。萨帕塔在《坟墓》(Tombe, 1993)中正是这样做的,物体被压入纸浆之中;它们是人们遗留之物的幽灵残迹,正如萨帕塔在43岁因艾滋病相关并发症去世时,留下了他那些令人震惊的作品。他依然在与我们对话。

“酷儿现代主义”展览将于10月14-18日在 Frieze Masters 展出,详情见 frieze.com

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贝弗利·布坎南 / 这位已故艺术家的作品灵感源自美国南部的建筑,她那些令人震撼且粗犷的雕塑和绘画正吸引着新的观众。作者:格伦·亚当森

那是 20 世纪 70 年代初,贝弗利·布坎南(Beverly Buchanan)——一位来自北卡罗来纳州的年轻黑人女性,拥有哥伦比亚大学的公共卫生硕士学位——当时在布朗克斯和新泽西工作,向人们普及避孕和疫苗接种知识。在晚上,她会前往艺术学生联盟(Art Students League),在著名的抽象主义画家诺曼·刘易斯(Norman Lewis)门下学习。然而,她主要的艺术灵感来自每日的通勤。在她的画作中,布坎南开始用鲜艳的色彩重新构思城市肌理的片段——一面贴满撕裂海报的墙,一座教堂的砖墙侧面。“如果可以,而且我也在尝试,”布坎南在她的笔记本中写道,“我会把那个开着白色和栗色汽车、戴着糟糕墨镜的家伙画在画布上。”

这是近期艺术史上最卓越的职业生涯之一的开端。由安德鲁·埃德林画廊(Andrew Edlin Gallery)代理的一组布坎南的“棚屋雕塑”将在 Frieze Masters 展出,同时展出的还有安提瓜艺术家弗兰克·沃尔特(Frank Walter)的绘画作品;该画廊还出版了一本关于她生活和职业生涯的、极其详尽的著作。从任何正统的观点来看,这些晚期作品可能表明布坎南在地点和风格上都退回了原点。然而,通过这样做,她开辟了令人兴奋的新领域。

1977 年,布坎南做出了一个勇敢(且在财务上具有风险)的决定,离开纽约市并放弃她的医疗事业。

上方:《Lamar County GA》(2003);右侧:《Marsh Ruins》(1981);右下方:《Hometown Shotgun Shack》(1992)——贝弗利·布坎南遗产 / 简·布里奇斯,2020。由安德鲁·埃德林画廊提供。

她搬回南部,在佐治亚州的梅肯(Macon)建立了一个工作室。她开始在附近的贫困乡村巡游,追随沃克·埃文斯(Walker Evans)和多萝西亚·兰格(Dorothea Lange)等大萧条时期艺术家的足迹,并在其中发现了丰富的内涵。她将所见之物绘制成画或拍摄成照:那些随意搭建、倾斜得离谱的棚屋,其角落由矮小的石堆支撑着。

这在某种程度上是一次回归。布坎南小时候经常随父亲(南卡罗来纳州立学院农业学院院长)一起旅行,访问农村农场和曾经的种植园。这段经历开启了布坎南对建筑环境的终身兴趣——关注世界真实的样子,而非规划者设想的样子。

在梅肯,她的作品转向了雕塑,尽管这个词无法捕捉到其非凡的粗粝感。她采用了一种当地自制的建筑材料,称为“tabby”(一种以碎牡蛎壳为粘合剂的混凝土),并将其模塑成块。随后,她将这些块状物堆放在画廊中,将整洁的空间变成了拆除现场。在一位经销商的建议下,她将这一系列作品命名为 Frustula,在拉丁语中意为“碎片”。

布坎南还将她的作品移至户外,其中最具震撼力的是《沼泽废墟》(Marsh Ruins,1981年)。这是一组无定形的 tabby 雕塑,安置在伊格博登陆地(Igbo Landing)附近的沼泽地中,那里曾发生过 1803 年的一场由一群非洲人发起的反抗,他们推翻了绑架者。根据口头传统,其中一些人故意溺水自尽,宁愿死亡也不愿被奴役。

在布坎南安装了这座持久的“反纪念碑”后,她看着那些隆起的形状缓缓沉入湿润的土地。“惬意的小雨,”她在笔记中写道,“土地已经在接管这些废墟了。”

显然,布坎南并非一个循规蹈矩的人,而这很可能正是自2015年她去世以来,她的名声如此迅速提升的原因。在艺术界这个永远追求真实性的领域,人们正热切地赞颂她特立独行的风格。

除了在 Frieze Masters 的展出外,一场名为“贝弗利·布坎南:风化”(Beverly Buchanan: Weathering)的巡展近期在布里斯托的斯派克岛(Spike Island)开幕,她还参加了今年的威尼斯双年展。

一个看似矛盾的现象贯穿于布坎南的艺术之中:当她脱离当时纽约盛行的前卫抽象主义,转而拥抱基于 DIY 建筑的草根本土风格时,她的作品在形式和主题上反而变得更加复杂。在她众多描绘破旧住所的精彩素描中,《蓝天小屋》(Blue Sky Shack,1988)的页边空白处写有一篇对此类理念的宣言。其中部分内容写道:

主图左:贝弗利·布坎南作品《弗洛西小姐的小屋》(Miss Flossie's Shack,1989);下方:《柯尼卡相机镜中自画像》(Self-Portrait in Mirror on Konica,1979)——安德鲁·贾德,贝弗利·布坎南遗产管理委员会,简·布里奇斯,2020。由 Andrew Edin 画廊提供。

毕晓南描绘她所见之物:那些歪斜得离谱的临时棚屋,其角落由矮小的石堆支撑

“我认为南方的艺术家在某个时刻必须面对民间艺术家的作品,不一定是在他们自己的作品中,而是在于这样一个观念:民间艺术家看到并体验的是相同的源头——食物、泥土、天空、回收土地、开发、暴力、枪支、幽灵等等。”

这种信念——即共同体验可以锚定个人表达——是毕晓南后期作品的核心。她热爱南方传统的房屋形式:走廊屋(dogtrot)和双室屋(double pen)、鞍袋屋(saddlebag)和散弹枪屋(shotgun)。在她 1980 年代起创作的雕塑中,她或多或少地忠实地再现了这些形式,尽管她加入了由油漆、纽扣、瓶盖、手写字,甚至钉在上面的车牌组成的狂放装饰。

“一切似乎都不可能,”她说,“直到我想起我曾在这样一座房子里生活过,吃过我人生中最美味的炸鸡,并透过屋顶看到了星星。”尽管这些作品只有娃娃屋的大小,但它们看起来却像是被长期居住过,而且确实像真实的民间艺术,尽管它们也让人想起同时期的组合雕塑以及某些解构主义建筑师的手作模型。

然而,这些作品真正的本质,是一位完全且毫不妥协地做自己,并且始终对周围现实做出回应的艺术家的心血。

Frieze Masters,10月14-18日,frieze.com;“Beverly Buchanan: Weathering”展于布里斯托尔 Spike Island,展至 2027年3月31日,spikeisland.org.uk。

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艾娃·朗格雷特 / Frieze EMEA 总监分享她在首都最喜爱的发现。作者:基蒂·格雷迪

我最喜欢的伦敦景色是从切尔西桥(Chelsea Bridge)望出去的。当我从希思罗机场返回居住的伦敦南部时,会经过这座桥。这是一个标志性的伦敦景观,你可以看到所有熟悉的地标。我的工作需要频繁出差,每当我看到这座桥时,总会深深地舒一口气,因为我知道自己快到家了。

在伦敦的永久馆藏中,我最喜欢的作品是位于东伦敦 V&A 仓库(V&A Storehouse)的弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特(Frank Lloyd Wright)设计的考夫曼办公室(Kaufmann Office)。这是一件经典的 20 世纪 30 年代装饰艺术(Art Deco)建筑作品,是赖特为百货公司所有者埃德加·J·考夫曼(Edgar J Kaufmann)的匹兹堡办公室设计的。它就像是搬到伦敦的一块匹兹堡碎片。

如果我可以穿越时空,我会回到 21 世纪初的伦敦。那是我来到这个国家的时候,也是我的成长之年。当时的伦敦非常有趣。我那时二十出头,这座城市感觉非常多元且向世界开放,像是一个全球集会——而这还是在脱欧之前。

那时有一种真正打破界限、创造新事物的氛围,还有一些令人惊叹的艺术展,比如罗杰·希恩斯(Roger Hiorns)受 Artangel 委托,将大象与城堡(Elephant & Castle)后面的一套市政公寓变成了蓝色晶体;以及海沃德美术馆(Hayward Gallery)的“非洲重混”(Africa Remix)展,该展览在将来自非洲及非洲裔艺术家聚集在伦敦方面具有重大意义。

上方:艾娃·朗格雷特在伦敦南部美术馆,由夏洛特·哈登为《金融时报》拍摄;右侧:瑞秋·琼斯(Rachel Jones)的作品《封闭峡谷》(Gated Canyons)(2024) 夏洛特·哈登,艾娃·赫尔佐格,由艺术家提供

伦敦的夜生活也非常有趣。我不会透露我去过哪些俱乐部,但我度过了一段快活的时光。

我会带收藏家去位于梅费尔区杜克街(Duke Street)的 Maison François 餐厅吃午餐。他们把所有经典的法式菜肴都做得非常好,尤其是那道柠檬马鞭草生金枪鱼,酸爽程度恰到好处。我也很喜欢法灵顿(Farringdon)的 Sessions Arts Club。这是一家由艺术家乔尼·根特(Jonny Gent)共同创立的绝美餐厅,位于一座 18 世纪的前法院建筑中,拥有拱形窗户、高天花板、斑驳的墙壁,夏天还有一个屋顶露台。这些是我喜爱的餐厅——这也是为什么它们会出现在 Frieze London 的推荐名单中。

我会带艺术家去 Toklas 吃午餐,它就在我们位于 Strand 街 180 号的办公室下方。它拥有极佳的菜单和氛围,紧邻泰晤士河,风格非常简约但

给拥有了一切的艺术交易商

食谱 / 当伊万·沃思年满 50 岁时,他的妻子送给他一本由名友贡献的食谱。这简直是一份名人录。作者:艾拉·里斯布里杰

在《给伊万的食谱》(A Cookbook for Iwan)的核心中存在着一个有趣的矛盾。这本书由光鲜亮丽的艺术交易商豪瑟与沃思(Hauser & Wirth)创作——具有最华丽的咖啡桌画册的所有高级时尚感,且汇集了千万富翁和名厨——但它同时也是你近期读过的最具有居家气息的食谱之一。这本书最初由曼努埃拉·沃思(Manuela Wirth)为丈夫的 50 岁生日而编纂,它将名流、家人、朋友、单件艺术品以及从正宗约克郡布丁、瑞士蛇面包到红松鸡日式烤串等各种食谱奇特地结合在一起。汤姆·帕克·鲍尔斯(Tom Parker Bowles)撰写了序言。

它更像是一本独立杂志(zine)而非传统的食谱:食谱通过复印件、拍立得照片、备忘录应用截图以及粗糙的蜡笔摆盘示意图呈现。精美的绘画与揉皱的 A4 打印纸扫描件并列。书中还出现了各种不同的手写体——而且,不知为何,甚至更加

食谱种类繁多,从正宗的约克郡布丁、瑞士蛇面包到红松鸡日式串烧

令人动容,字体多样。其设计巧妙地营造出一种近乎不经意的随意感,间距参差不齐,偶尔还会出现错别字。

有些食谱变成了诗(“与鸟儿一同搅拌至透明”),而更令人惊讶的是,这里也有真正的食谱。辛迪·舍曼(Cindy Sherman)可能是她那一代最受赞誉的摄影师之一,但在这里占据中心位置的,却是她那只有六句话的大蒜面包汤食谱。这看起来是一道有趣且令人慰藉的菜肴:大蒜烤面包,淋上鸡汤,配上一个水波蛋和香菜。我试着做了,味道不错。

在《给伊万的食谱》(A Cookbook for Iwan)中,很多东西看起来很诱人,但也有很多东西看起来糟糕透顶。正是在这一点上,它实现了所有社区众筹食谱的真正功能。因为这本售价 £60 的高艺术著作,与随机举例的《Café Connect 食谱》之相似之处,远多于它与大多数精装画册的相似之处。我拥有许多食谱书,但任何由委员会编写、采用螺旋装订,且最好是为了给某个村庄或当地事业筹款而制作的书籍,都是我的私人珍藏。来自斯塔福德郡伊普斯通斯(Ipstones)一家村庄咖啡馆的《Café Connect 食谱》就是这类书籍的完美典范。那款小豆蔻杏仁梨蛋糕听起来棒极了。大卫的牛肉咖喱令我着迷,那是他对 20 世纪 70 年代在香港青衣发电厂员工食堂吃过的一种咖喱的改编;我也很高兴认识名字极其有趣的霍利斯·布恩·查克(Hollis Boon Chuck),他曾是美国海军成员,将他原本“为了喂饱 400-600 名饥饿水手”的德克萨斯辣椒酱食谱缩减到了家庭用餐的分量。(不过必须得说,我对咸味燕麦法兰饼则要谨慎得多。)

我非常痴迷于这类家庭自制食谱。比如一本 20 世纪 90 年代的教会食谱,里面包含许多关于普世教会的笑话;或者那些主要由过度自信的孩子们编写的学校食谱。我菲姨的《六十岁时的六十道菜:菲奥娜的食谱》(Sixty at Sixty: a Cookbook by Fiona,由我尼克叔叔拍摄照片,我表弟帕迪设计)包含了毕生的家庭食谱,其中不乏发明与改编之作:“德莉亚的食谱描述了如何制作焦糖洋葱:我不再尝试,而世界也没有毁灭。”而在我的收藏中,或许最丑陋、最不吸引人的——却是我会首先抢救出来的——是一个破旧的蓝色笔记本,封面上有水渍,上面贴着一张古老的复印件,画着一堆看起来像软糖般的巧克力甜点。

这些当然是“尼格拉女王最棒的布朗尼——真的得佩服这个女人!”第一页的右上角写着我离开家的日期。下面用我母亲的笔迹写着:“我们所有人选的,漂亮姑娘!”“末尾留白,方便你添加自己的内容!”当原书上的圆珠笔修改痕迹过多时,书中就贴入了食谱书的复印页。“当你看到这道菜做起来多么简单时,你会笑的,”杰米·奥利弗(Jamie Oliver)在介绍一款快速番茄通心粉时如此声称;而在侧边,我母亲潦草地写道:“08 / 01 / 09。没笑。但挺喜欢。”

在结尾的几页中,我感动地发现我遵循了母亲的建议。更让我惊讶的是,我在这里发现了自己所有食谱书的痕迹。我青少年时期的笔迹标注着一款水果奶油“炸弹”;一份我已经十多年没做过的鸡肉咖喱的模糊形状;一个前男友潦草写下的奶酪司康食谱——所有这些在后来的书籍中都变成了更正式的形式;还有我在担任互惠生期间的曲奇配方,在 15 年后的今年 5 月,终于被收录进了《厨房之书》(The Kitchen Book)。

在序言中,帕克·鲍尔斯(Parker Bowles)引用了这位伟大的美食家的话

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从主图开始顺时针方向依次为:尼古拉斯·帕蒂(Nicolas Party)的《Papet vaudois》;凯瑟琳·古德曼(Catherine Goodman)准备的快速工作室晚餐;科西玛·斯潘德(Cosima Spender)和瓦莱里奥·博内利(Valerio Bonelli)制作的海鲜面;基思·泰森(Keith Tyson)制作的披萨;菲利达·巴洛(Phyllida Barlow)制作的苏格兰烟熏黑线鳕鱼柳;克劳德·毕加索(Claude Picasso)制作的红萝卜。 图片由艺术家及 Hauser & Wirth 出版社提供

布里亚-萨瓦兰曾言:“告诉我你吃什么,我就能告诉你你是谁。”事实是:告诉我你吃什么,我就能告诉你你曾经是谁;告诉我你吃什么,我就能告诉你你去过哪里,认识过谁,以及热爱过什么。

或许人们会觉得这本书比普通的社区食谱更重要。这种感觉确实颇具吸引力。(去谷歌搜搜他们吧!他们那些疯狂的百万富翁生活!)但《给伊万的食谱》(A Cookbook for Iwan)真正重要的部分在于书名。这是一本为了伊万而写、关于伊万,以及关于他所热爱之物与之人的书。这本书的故事在于为所爱之人创造某些东西:一顿晚餐,一幅画,或一本书。创造任何事物的唯一理由,就是为了某个人而创造。

在这个充斥着精心修饰的 Instagram 照片、高多巴胺的 TikTok 烹饪节目,以及 ChatGPT 等工具将一切都涂抹成同样单调米色的平滑抛光时代,这些由人为他人制作的菜肴具有某种吸引力。让《给伊万的食谱》不仅仅成为一份鹰嘴豆团子和 ceviche(西式柠檬腌鱼)的指南。去询问你爱的人他们热爱什么。询问你自己热爱什么。并将其转化为某种作品。

《给伊万的食谱:从工作室到炉灶》(A Cookbook for Iwan: from Studio to Stove),hauserwirth.com / publishers。Hauser & Wirth 出版社快闪店,伦敦 W1,南奥德利街 62 号,10 月 12-17 日

礼品店?请往这边走……

美丽的房间。另一家是位于东伦敦的 Rochelle Canteen,那里有一种非常迷人的庭院花园氛围。

我为了欣赏墙上的艺术品而光顾的餐厅是位于伊斯灵顿(Islington)的 Tramps Bar,它由画廊主帕里纳兹·莫加达西(Parinaz Mogadassi)及其伴侣、画家彼得·多伊格(Peter Doig)所有。餐厅位于原先多伊格在维多利亚·米罗(Victoria Miro)画廊附近的工作室房间内。那里只有几张桌子,入口就在一家麦当劳旁边,非常不起眼。内部装饰有贝朗·卡里米(Behrang Karimi)和登齐尔·福雷斯特(Denzil Forrester)的精美画作,并且设有 DJ 演出。声音是多伊格艺术实践的重要组成部分,因此对这个空间也至关重要。

最好的博物馆礼品店在卡姆登艺术中心(Camden Art Centre)。那里有极佳的书籍和家居用品选择。此外,它还出售艺术家的限量版版画,例如由纳特·福克纳(Nat Faulkner)在意大利一家废金属设施拍摄的抽象照片,福克纳在 2024 年的 Frieze 艺术博览会上获得了 CAC 新锐艺术家奖。我还很喜欢 House of Voltaire,它是南伦敦 Studio Voltaire 的商店。

伦敦最棒的室内设计是宇宙屋(Cosmic House)。它是位于荷兰公园(Holland Park)的一件后现代主义建筑作品,曾属于美国建筑历史学家查尔斯·詹克斯(Charles Jencks)。它的风格非常折衷,其中有一个布满镜子的房间。他们在那里还与当代艺术家开展了许多精彩的合作。我喜爱的另一个地方是荷兰公园的莱顿故居(Leighton House),那是维多利亚时代艺术家弗雷德里克·莱顿勋爵(Frederic, Lord Leighton)的住宅和工作室。它是维多利亚时代设计的绝佳范例,同时也受到了阿拉伯世界的启发。那里有一个带有金色圆顶和绚丽色彩瓷砖的华丽大厅。

让我理解英国的艺术家是马克·莱基(Mark Leckey)。他创作了大量关于亚文化、青年文化和城市景观的作品。几年前在英国国家美术馆(Tate Britain)举办的一次他的作品展中,他重建了一座高速公路桥,将整个展览置于一个极其阴郁的城市景观之中。他看待英国文化以及讨论阶级的方式具有某种非常独特的特质。

无与伦比的后现代主义:荷兰公园的宇宙屋 —— Sue Bart,由宇宙屋提供

让我理解伦敦的艺术家是史蒂夫·麦奎因(Steve McQueen)。他的电视剧《小斧头》(Small Axe)尤为精美。它探讨了从 20 世纪 60 年代到 80 年代数十年间,加勒比人在伦敦的生活经历。

伦敦最被低估的博物馆是达尔维奇绘画展馆(Dulwich Picture Gallery)。去年他们举办了一场令人震撼的瑞秋·琼斯(Rachel Jones)绘画展 —— 这是该新古典主义展馆首次举办当代艺术个展。她的作品如此奔放且色彩浓郁,与我在那个空间见过的任何其他作品都截然不同。南伦敦美术馆(South London Gallery)也值得一提 —— 他们在与更广泛的社区合作以及面向青少年的教育项目方面做了极出色的工作。

最好的画廊咖啡馆是位于 V&A 东馆(V&A East)的 Café Jikoni。我很喜欢他们在玛丽勒本(Marylebone)的餐厅,而他们将其引入 V&A 的尝试非常成功。在阳光明媚的日子里,你可以坐在水边,那里真的非常惬意。我们需要博物馆成为人们社交的场所 —— 这是体验中至关重要的一部分。

一家每个人都应该了解的伦敦新兴画廊是位于法灵顿(Farrington)、史密斯菲尔德市场(Smithfield Market)对面的 Ginny。我很喜欢他们合作的许多艺术家,比如亚历克斯·马戈·阿登(Alex Margo Arden),她是英国皇家艺术学院(RA)的一名优秀毕业生,并在去年的 Frieze 艺术博览会上获得了 Nicoletta Fiorucci 基金会奖。

当我寻找灵感时,我会参观学生展。在春末和夏天,我会去参加所有的展览,从英国皇家艺术学院(RA)和英国皇家艺术学院(RCA)到伦敦大学金史密斯学院(Goldsmiths)和斯莱德美术学院(Slade),以了解艺术界年轻头脑在思考什么。我还很喜欢当代艺术学院(ICA),因为那里融合了展览、讲座和电影。音乐会或电子音乐与艺术及行为表演的并置,非常有助于思考视觉艺术中哪些内容可能具有趣味性。

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Airlines sound alarm on costs crisis

- Energy shock erodes profits - Flights cut and spending axed - Carriers fear for survival

PETER CAMPBELL — BRUSSELS SYLVIA PFEIFER — LONDON

Airlines face a mounting crisis in the months ahead, industry bosses have warned, as persistently high fuel prices force them to cut flights, axe costs and delay payments on leased aircraft.

Executives are sounding the alarm as the industry heads into its first winter since the Iran war unleashed an energy shock that has depressed profits.

EasyJet, one of Europe's biggest airlines, and Germany's Lufthansa are among those scaling back capacity to navigate the winter season. In a sign of the growing strains, Delta Air Lines yesterday slashed its annual profit forecast, saying the rise in fuel prices triggered by the Middle East conflict would cost it an extra \$6bn this year.

"This is a full-blown crisis," said Ryan-air boss Michael O'Leary. "Everybody is going to be hurting next year . . . We are just trying to trim the ship as much as we possibly can."

Industry leaders, analysts and financiers told the FT that the spectre of airlines failing over the winter season, which runs until late March, was higher than it had been in previous years.

Any bankruptcies would come on top of the collapse of US carrier Spirit Airlines in May and airBaltic last month.

"This winter . . . we are going to see medium-sized and small companies struggling and they are going to have difficulties surviving," said Luis Gallego, chief executive of British Airways owner IAG. He said the European leisure market was suffering more than others, while premium demand was "resilient".

EasyJet said bookings for next summer were weaker but that more customers were booking at the last minute.

O'Leary said he expected the surge in fuel prices to last until at least 2028.

Analysts and executives said the pain European and international carriers faced from higher oil prices was rising as fuel hedges expire, leaving airlines to choose between buying new hedges, locking in higher costs or risking paying even more on the open market.

Michael O'Leary: 'Everybody is going to be hurting next year . . . We are just trying to trim the ship as much as we can'

"Even if you're buying fuel six months out, today it's still \$1,200, \$1,300, which is incredibly high," said easyJet chief Kenton Jarvis, compared with industry norms of about \$700 per tonne.

The industry has cut 6mn seats, or 1 per cent of capacity, from services for the rest of the year, data group Cirium said.

"It does look like it's going to be a tough winter, even for airlines that are hedged," said John Strickland, an aviation analyst. "We're going to see substantial cancellations and it even puts life in question for some." Delta slashes outlook page 15

French classes Students pile on pressure

Students take part in mass protests in Nantes, western France, yesterday as part of nationwide demonstrations against the French school system.

Over the past fortnight pupils have barred the entrances to hundreds of schools, complaining of a lack of teachers, overloaded timetables and dilapidated classrooms. More than 7,000 people have been detained and hundreds of police officers, students and school staff have been injured.

The crisis is piling pressure on President Emmanuel Macron's minority government as it tries to push through a belt-tightening budget. Test for Macron page 4

Israel motion puts Greens' solidarity under scrutiny

Despite this week's by-election defeat, the Greens are potential kingmakers at the next election. Yet a split between Zack Polanski and his deputy Mothin Ali over a 'Zionism is Racism' motion threatens to tear the party apart. Some Greens fear it is in danger of morphing into a Palestinian campaign group too extreme for the average voter. Andy Burnham has not ruled out a coalition but senior Labour figures see that as unviable unless the motion is reversed. Battle for party's soul ▶ PAGE 3

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Some 727,000 people had an adjusted net income between £100,000 and £125,140 in 2025-26, according to data from HM Revenue & Customs obtained under a Freedom of Information request by the FT. That shows an increase of 85 per cent since 2021-22 when the tax-free personal allowance was frozen at £12,570.

The number of individuals caught in the £100,000 “tax trap” has nearly doubled in four years, pulling more than 700,000 people into an effective marginal tax rate of 60 per cent in the last financial year.

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cant for parents who lose access to thousands of pounds of childcare benefits if they earn just £1 above £100,000.

Olly Cheng, financial planning divisional lead at Rathbones, said the threshold had become "one of the most penal 'tax cliffs' in the system".

For every £2 earned above the £100,000 threshold, £1 of the allowance is removed, resulting in an effective rate of 60 per cent on income earned

"A six-figure salary used to be widely seen as a sign that you had 'made it'. Today, many people earning £100,000 or more are finding higher earnings do not always translate into greater financial freedom," he added.

Individuals earning more than £100,000 have since 2010 had their personal allowance tapered away until it is eliminated entirely, at present for earnings exceeding £125,140.

A parent in London with two children at nursery would need to earn more than £149,000 to compensate for the loss of 30 hours of free childcare a week, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. This “cliff edge” has driven some high-earning individuals to reduce their working hours, turn down promotions or make excess pension contributions to keep their earnings below the threshold.

The Conservatives unveiled plans to tackle the £100,000 tax trap at their conference this week in a bid to win back support from traditional Tory voters.

The Treasury said: "The personal allowance is reduced . . . to ensure support is focused where it's most needed, including funding public services."

between £100,000 and £125,140. Parents earning above the £100,000 income threshold become ineligible for government-funded childcare support.

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Burnham vows to end non-competes

Prime minister calls his plan a 'Bosman ruling' for the innovation sector

JENNIFER WILLIAMS — MANCHESTER JIM PICKARD AND KIERAN SMITH LONDON

Andy Burnham has pledged to end the use of non-compete clauses in employment contracts, which he said were a "drag on innovation".

Speaking at an innovation summit in Manchester yesterday, the prime minister said the government was determined to crack down on non-competes, which are commonly used by technology and financial services companies to restrict employees' ability to work for or set up a rival. "We will legislate to ensure non-compete clauses will no longer be a barrier to hiring for our most promising start-ups and scaling firms," he said.

Comparing the move to a 1990s court decision that overhauled football transfer rules, he added: "Call it, if you like, the Bosman ruling for the innovation sector, but I think it is much needed and much overdue."

The crackdown could also affect restrictive notice periods for employees.

One senior Whitehall figure described the announcement as a "big win for pro-business forces in the government".

Former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown, who organised the summit, praised the government for its focus on planning, housing and infrastructure as ways to boost growth. But he added: "I think there has been an element that has been underplayed and overlooked and that is the power of innovation to drive the future of the economy."

Even the best thinkers, he said, had "blind spots".

Burnham responded: "I think innovation has sometimes been a blind spot for the country, or certainly how innovation leads to major investment in the regions. We've let too much go overseas and that is a blind spot."

The founders of some leading UK tech start-ups last month called on ministers to limit the use of non-compete clauses and extended notice periods, arguing that they hampered British businesses' ability to compete with Silicon Valley.

Their letter was signed by more than 20 founders, executives and investors in start-ups such as Recursive Superintelligence, Synthesia and Fuse Energy.

The fight for tech talent has been a controversial issue after some Google DeepMind staff left the company's London base to launch rival AI businesses.

About 5mn employees in Britain work under a contract that contains a non-compete clause – typically with a duration of about six months. Many companies, particularly in financial services, have long used non-competes to protect their talent and intellectual property.

A review into non-competes was launched last year by Sir Keir Starmer, setting out options from an outright ban to placing a time limit — for example of three months – on the arrangements.

Enterprise Britain found in a recent survey that 87 per cent of "scale-up leaders" regarded non-compete clauses as a hurdle when hiring. Brent Hoberman, co-chair of the business lobby group, said: "Non-compete clauses have held back Britain's fastest-growing firms from hiring, while forcing workers to miss out on job opportunities or spend months without pay . . . Banning non-competes is in part what made Silicon Valley what it is today."

Scrapping non-competes would not be popular among all business leaders: the CBI business lobby group has said it has not seen evidence that they are a significant drag on innovation.

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Heads up Warhol's 'Four Marilyns' to be sold at auction

Gallery staff handle 'Four Marilyns (Reversal Series)' by Andy Warhol at Sotheby's in London yesterday.

The 1979-86 signed silkscreen print is expected to fetch up to £2.8mn in Sotheby's Frieze Week Auctions next Thursday. The auction house said: "In revisiting Monroe's image in the Reversal series, Warhol transformed the familiar visage into something newly spectral and uncanny. Repeated four times in negative register, Four Marilyn underscores both the enduring power of Monroe's celebrity and the symbolic weight of Warhol's own artistic mythology."


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'Don't do any harm' in Budget, PM adviser urges Healey

Economist says it is preferable to cut 'headroom' buffer than hit business with higher taxes

GEORGE PARKER — POLITICAL EDITOR

Chancellor John Healey should avoid damaging business with Budget tax rises and instead accept an “emergency” cut in his fiscal buffer to deal with the fall-out of the Iran war, according to influential economist Lord Jim O’Neill.

O'Neill, who has advised Prime Minister Andy Burnham, said Healey should not "do any harm" to the economy in this month's Budget by raising taxes on business and the wealthy to fill a fiscal hole, estimated at almost £12bn.

He claimed in a Financial Times interview that big tax rises would undermine confidence just as Britain stood on the verge of a return to healthy growth.

O'Neill said he would be "most disappointed" if Healey put up rates of capital gains tax but feared the chancellor might target banks with what he regards as a futile increase in their taxes, "I can imagine if they need to find a few bob, that is probably the least evil and most tempting thing to go for, but I don't really see the point," he said.

O'Neill said that Healey would be "wise" to allow his so-called Budget "headroom", which stood at £23.6bn in March, to shrink by £10bn and that markets would understand.

He said that was far preferable to raising taxes to fill a fiscal hole and risk hitting economic confidence. The Iran war has blown a near-£12bn hole in Britain's public finances because of higher borrowing costs, according to FT estimates.

The former Goldman Sachs chief economist believes Britain could be on the brink of annual growth of 2 per cent or more, higher than in recent years, and that Healey's Budget should have a simple objective: "Don't do any harm."

O'Neill, an informal adviser to the prime minister, said Healey should particularly avoid an increase in CGT, as advocated by some Labour MPs, arguing it would be "so stupid" and feed into the idea that Britain was no longer a place for wealth creators. "The one I would be most disappointed in would be capital gains tax," he said. "That would pour more fuel on this idea that every other wealthy person is planning to move to Place X."

Louise Haigh, first secretary of state, and Wes Streeting, defence secretary, are among those who have advocated aligning CGT with income tax rates, but O'Neill said this missed the point that


Jim O'Neill believes that big tax rises would damage confidence in Britain

CGT rates were lower because investing was "risky".

O'Neill believes the bond markets have been reassured by Burnham and Healey since they arrived in Downing Street in July, arguing that the UK has been less badly affected than other G7 countries by the recent rout.

Referring to Burnham's recent promise to maintain fiscal discipline and his longer-term plan to end the costly pensions "triple lock", O'Neill said: "That's much more important than whether he lowers his buffer by £10bn."

The fiscal buffer could fall to about £14bn without sparking a gilt sell-off, according to the average of eight estimates provided to the FT by market participants.

O'Neill said: "It's quite reasonable to have a buffer that you use in an emergency. That's kind of what it is, when you see what's going on in the Gulf and with bond yields. I think it's not just legitimate, but wise."

He said he could not understand why people were not more upbeat about Britain's economic outlook after the economy grew by 1.1 per cent in the first half of this year, the fastest growth of any G7 country.

He added that productivity data was looking positive. "If you were to maintain 2 per cent growth and it became the norm, I think people would feel a lot happier about life. Not many people are talking about it. It's strange. Maybe I'm living in cloud cuckoo land, but we might have started to see the first signs."

O'Neill, one of the architects of the Northern Powerhouse initiative and a longtime adviser to Burnham from his time as Greater Manchester mayor, said he expected Healey's Budget to have a heavy focus on devolution, including handing down more powers over local taxes.

He said, though, that it was important to prioritise areas with a strong capacity for faster growth, including focusing on the capital. "You've got to do something to stop London growing as weakly as it has," he said.

O'Neill said he had not been briefed on the Budget but said: "I think they want this to be a low-key thing."

Universities

Student loan access to be curbed under ministers' plan

CHRIS SMYTH

University students will be asked to meet minimum entry standards to receive government loans under new plans being considered by the government.

Ministers will lay out plans soon to limit access to student loans as the government seeks to deal with concerns about the proliferation of underqualified students on poor-quality courses.

The focus will be English language skills, with ministers considering imposing a minimum of a GCSE pass in English to qualify for student loans. However, they will also consult on a lower bar that would allow alternative English-language qualifications, people familiar with the plans said.

Britain's more established universities have become increasingly vocal about the need to restrict access to loans to free up funding for a financially stretched higher education system. They have argued it is illogical to require five GCSEs to study A-levels, while having a lower bar to start a degree.

Adam Tickell, vice-chancellor of the University of Birmingham, said it was "imperative that students are suitably qualified for their course".

"The naive belief that everyone should have a right to funding for a degree serves no one. Students accumulate debt without improving their life chances, the student loan book grows uncontrollably, and public cynicism about the value of our brilliant universities grows," he added.

One in 12 undergraduates starting full-time courses last year had no formal qualifications, up from one in 62 a decade earlier, and six universities admitted a majority of their home students without A-levels, GCSEs or equivalents, according to FT analysis of official data.

The increase has largely been driven by the rise of for-profit franchise providers who recruit from migrant and minority communities with few formal qualifications.

These companies are likely to lobby against restricting access on the grounds it would deny opportunity to underprivileged groups.

However, Libby Hackett, chief executive of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities, said it was necessary to consider minimum entry standards "to make sure a university education delivers value for money for both students and taxpayers".

This could help deal with the cost of higher education that is “disproportionately placed on individuals relative to government funding”, she added.

The student loan system, where government pays fees and maintenance costs upfront, which is then repaid by graduates using a portion of their salary, is available to all students with UK residency accepted on to qualifying courses.

But as student numbers have risen, ministers have pushed more of the cost on to graduates, provoking a backlash over repayment terms.

About 50,000 students without qualifications started courses last year. While savings dependent on future loan repayments are highly uncertain, if all were caught by the new policy it would save about £750mn a year.

The Department for Education confirmed it would look at "a range of options".

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Former prince Andrew pays £1.5mn to end Royal Lodge lease

ROBERT WRIGHT

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has paid the Crown Estate a net £1.5mn to terminate his lease on a luxury mansion in Windsor, using money provided to him by his brother, King Charles.

The Crown Estate, which owns the 30-room Royal Lodge, yesterday said it had assessed Mountbatten-Windsor's liability for "dilapidations" - damage to the property - at £1.8mn. The estate, meanwhile, owed Mountbatten-Windsor £302,000 in compensation for early termination of the lease, meaning the former prince paid a net £1.5mn.

A person familiar with the matter indicated the King had provided a loan from his private income to his brother Mountbatten-Windsor to make the payment.

The payment ends the controversy over the terms of a 75-year lease for the huge property awarded to Mountbatten-Windsor in 2003. While Mountbatten-Windsor made a £1mn upfront payment on taking over the lease and had to fund £7.5mn in renovations and repairs, he paid no annual rent and had the right to rent out three properties in the lodge's grounds. Critics including Baroness Margaret Hodge, the former chair of the House of Commons' Public Accounts Committee, have suggested the deal was unduly generous.

Mountbatten-Windsor was entitled to some compensation under the lease for his upfront payments if he left the property within the first 25 years, leaving open the possibility that he would be paid for moving out.

The former prince was pressured into surrendering the lease last October as part of the royal family's effort to distance itself from him following revelations about his conduct in the US Department of Justice's release of files relating to the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, a close friend of the former prince. He moved to a cottage on the grounds of the King's private Sandringham Estate in February.

The person familiar with the matter indicated the King had provided the loan to ensure the Crown Estate was "appropriately and promptly" reimbursed for the repair costs.

Both Royal Lodge and the Sandringham cottage were searched in February by police investigating potential misconduct in public office by Mountbatten-Windsor following the Epstein file revelations. The searches started on the day Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested as part of the investigation. Mountbatten-Windsor, who was stripped of his titles by the King last year, denies wrongdoing.


The 30-room Royal Lodge had been the official country residence of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and his family Tuiga Akmen/EPA/Shutterstock

The former prince on Thursday succeeded in a court challenge to the lawfulness of the search warrants.

The Crown Estate said it was focused on determining the potential future use of the property in line with its statutory duty to maintain the character of the Windsor estate as a royal park and forest. "Following completion of this review, the property will be marketed for its proposed future use by two nationally recognised agents," it said.

A National Audit Office report this year revealed the former prince earned rental income from properties adjoining Royal Lodge but said it had not discovered how much rent they generated.

There was no immediate response to a request for comment from Mountbatten-Windsor's office.

The Crown Estate said: "The lease for Royal Lodge has ended and our focus now is firmly on its future use and the opportunities to generate additional financial value for the nation from its early return."

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Green leader and co-deputy battling for party's direction

Poll loss shines light on splits between Polanski and Ali over Zionism motion

DAVID SHEPPARD

Greens under Zack or Ali is even worth approaching," one Labour MP said.

On October 7 2023, when Hamas militants were still on a bloody rampage through southern Israel, Mothin Ali took to social media to express his view: "white supremacist European settler colonialism must end".

Three years later, Ali has transformed from an accountant with a sideline in YouTube gardening videos into Green Party co-deputy leader. He is tipped as a potential challenger to Zack Polanski after the leader's loss to Labour this week in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election.

Polanski and Ali are on a potential collision course over a controversial “Zionism is Racism” motion, which Ali supported but which Polanski has pledged to amend so that it would not implicitly deny Israel’s right to exist.

The leader of the Jewish Greens, Vivien Lichtenstein, told Times Radio yesterday that Polanski should "resign" for

Some fear the party risks becoming a Palestinian campaign group too extreme for broad appeal

failing to block the motion at the party's conference in Brighton last weekend.

Senior figures fear the party risks morphing into a Palestinian campaign group too extreme for broad appeal.

The dispute has ramifications well beyond the Greens' own ranks.

At one stage this year the party looked like a challenger to the Labour Party, capitalising on dissatisfaction among leftwing voters. Despite slipping in the polls, it remains a potential kingmaker at the next general election.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham said this week that the “Zionism is Racism” motion, which calls for a single Palestinian state, was an example of “terrible judgment” and called on the Greens to reverse it. But he has stopped short of ruling out a coalition with the Greens, despite pressure from some of his MPs.

With a general election not expected until 2029, Burnham is likely to be wary of closing off options that could keep Nigel Farage's Reform UK out of power.

But senior Labour figures say it is hard to see how Labour could form a coalition with the Greens unless the Zionism is Racism motion is reversed.

"I don't think a coalition with the


Division: Mothin Ali, Green Party co-deputy leader, supports the motion

Critics fear Ali's rapid ascent is a sign of a takeover of the party by the Greens' most ardent pro-Palestinian supporters that could lead the party into an electoral cul-de-sac.

Sian Berry, Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, offered an apology yesterday that senior party figures had not fought harder against the motion because of the by-election campaign, saying the "proposers were very organised".

Ali has been broadly loyal to Polanski, a gay Jewish actor-turned-politician, since becoming deputy leader, supporting him in his failed attempt to become an MP this week.

Labour's Sagal Abdi-Wali won Sir Keir Starmer's former seat of Holborn and St Pancras with 45 per cent of the vote, versus 33 per cent for the Greens.

Ali said this week that he "loved Zack" and that he was a "fantastic leader" who had his "full support". Polanski has said he will not step down.

Ali was not available to comment yesterday, with a Green official saying he was tired after campaigning.

The official said it would be wrong to assume Ali's position on any future amendment to the "Zionism is Racism" motion, and that for party unity it was "important for us to continue being a strong and effective advocate for the rights of Palestinians".

Polanski has said that while he broadly supports the aim of the motion, it would be “imperialism” for a western party to dictate the form of any eventual settlement for the Palestinian people.

The amendment he has proposed would leave the door open to the Green Party supporting a two-state solution with separate Israeli and Palestinian states if that were the Palestinians' will.

If Ali refuses to back Polanski's amendment, he is likely to have the backing of many of the 150,000 new Green members who have helped triple the size of the party in the past year.

Polanski faces a leadership vote from the Green membership next summer, as the party holds elections for leaders every two years. Many supporters of Jeremy Corbyn, the leftwing former Labour leader who was suspended from the party by Starmer for alleged antisemitism, have joined the Greens.

Caroline Lucas, a former Green Party leader who declined this week to give full backing to Polanski, acknowledged yesterday that he had “transformed the party”. But she added Polanski must now bring “the same leadership to help resolve huge issues we face and transform our internal structures”.

Green MP Ellie Chowns believed most new members supported the party's aims of environmental and social justice, but said they must look at revising how members could vote.

"There are a small number of people for whom the campaign for Palestinian rights is their primary driving force," Chowns said. "My worry is it risks weakening our voice in advocating for Palestinian rights in the future."

Failed challenge

Lib Dem MPs rally behind Davey after attempted coup

JIM PICKARD

DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR

Senior Liberal Democrat MPs have rallied behind their leader Sir Ed Davey after a frontbencher resigned in an attempt to trigger a coup.

and wanted Davey to remain as leader.

Charlie Maynard, an Oxfordshire MP, resigned as a Treasury spokesperson yesterday after months of frustration over the centre-left party's lack of momentum.

Maynard has asked other MPs to back him in a confidence vote against the leader, although he is not understood to want the leadership for himself.

Sir Tim Farron, a former leader, said of the attempted coup: "To think we're helped by this kind of rubbish you'd need to be smoking the kind of stuff even we aren't in favour of legalising."

Daisy Cooper, deputy leader, told the FT that the "vast majority" of Lib Dem MPs were "furious at this distraction"

Davey has led the party for six years and won its biggest ever number of MPs at the 2024 election. He has come under criticism for failing to move beyond colourful stunts, with the party having fallen to fifth place in opinion polls behind the Greens.

Maynard declined to comment yesterday. The MP for Witney has become a prominent figure for his campaign against Thames Water's management.

To dislodge Davey, half of the party's 71 MPs would need to back a no-confidence motion. That would trigger a membership ballot in which other challengers could take part.

Maynard's resignation comes days after another Lib Dem frontbencher, Alison Bennett, stood down from the role as care and carers spokesperson.

The Lib Dems have struggled for attention compared with the Greens and Reform UK, which have fewer MPs.


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WORLD WEEK IN REVIEW

Iran attacks tankers beyond Strait of Hormuz in bid to limit exports

Iran has expanded its attacks beyond the Strait of Hormuz and into the Gulf as it tries to maintain its leverage over the critical waterway and prevent an increase in Gulf oil exports.

Following attacks on two tankers – one near Qatar and one off the coast of Al Jazeera in the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday and yesterday – Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps insisted that it had control over the Strait of Hormuz.

The IRGC navy said yesterday that action against "non-compliant" vessels and companies would not be limited to the strait and vowed to strike "any vessel that passes through an unauthorised passage".

The past 10 days have been among the most deadly for tanker operators since the war began.

Norway leads the way in proposing ban on AI glasses in public places

Norway has become the first major country to propose a temporary ban on the use of AI glasses in selected public places amid growing privacy concerns over wearable technology.

The centre-left government said it would introduce a law to parliament to restrict the glasses' use in parks, beaches, schools and kindergartens. It will also set up an expert group to propose permanent rules. Torgeir Micaelsen, the digitalisation minister, said he was concerned by the risk of people being photographed or recorded without their knowledge.

US technology companies such as Meta, Google and OpenAI believe wearable technology, including smart glasses, has the potential to replace mobile phones as the main gateway to AI.

Bolsonaro in pole position for Brazil presidency after winning first round

Flávio Bolsonaro defied opinion polls to win the first round in Brazil's presidential election. Bolsonaro, above with his wife Fernanda, won 47 per cent of the votes, with leftwinger Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on 45.2 per cent, before a run-off on October 25. Bolsonaro pledged to try to free his father, Jair, who was jailed for plotting a coup to overturn his 2022 election defeat. Person in the News page 13

Daughter of Trump's chief of staff works at Republika Srpska lobbyist

The daughter of Susie Wiles, Donald Trump's chief of staff, is working for a US lobbying firm that signed a \$35,000-a-month contract to represent Republika Srpska, a Balkan entity at the centre of a new dispute over conflicts of interest inside the White House.

Katie Wiles is a partner at Continental Strategy, which signed up as lobbyist for the self-governing entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina in February. The firm said she had not lobbied US officials on behalf of the enclave. In September, Susie Wiles met Željka Cvijanović, the Serb member of Bosnia's tripartite presidency, according to Cvijanović's social media account. The meeting was requested by Continental Strategy partner Alex Garcia, said US officials.

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Trade talks

EU and China reach hybrid cars accord

Šefčovič says deal shows talks bring 'results' as Beijing agrees export cut

JOE LEAHY — BEIJING EDWARD WHITE — SHANGHAI ANDY BOUNDS — BRUSSELS

China has agreed to limit its exports of hybrid vehicles to the EU, the bloc's trade commissioner announced after high-stakes trade talks in Beijing.

After two days of negotiations that were seen as a last-ditch effort to avoid full-scale trade conflict, trade commissioner Maroš Šefčović, said yesterday that Beijing's acceptance of a central EU demand proved dialogue could work.

Šefčovič said China had agreed to restrain its hybrid car exports to the EU to a level half or less than that currently projected by the EU over the next four years, a commitment he said would prevent "several million" being shipped. However, that would still allow actual volumes to increase over the period.

EU imports of hybrids have surged after the bloc imposed high tariffs on Chinese battery-only electric vehicles. The FT has reported that China had rejected an EU request to limit exports of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles to roughly 15 per cent of the market.

China did not immediately confirm the details of the agreement, but a joint statement said they had reached an "understanding on trade in hybrid vehicles in a manner consistent with [World Trade Organization] rules".

The talks between Šefčovič and China's economy tsar, vice-premier He Lifeng, and commerce minister Wang Wentao had also yielded 15 other areas of agreement, the statement said.

'The trade deficit is a mountain of a challenge for the EU, felt in every member state' Maros Šefčović, commissioner

Šefčovič said China had agreed to drop tariffs on some products, including car parts and olive oil. This covered levies of €225mn on €4bn of annual exports. China had a €370bn trade surplus with the bloc in 2025. "This package proves that negotiations . . . bring results," Šefčovič said. "The trade deficit is a mountain of a challenge for the EU, felt in every member state. It is unsustainable and it demands a credible path to rebalancing."

Šefčovič claimed European companies would get easier access to Chinese rare earths, crucial materials used in high-tech manufacturing, but the joint statement only mentioned continuing a "fast-track" licensing scheme.

The EU set a deadline of this month for progress to reduce China's trade surplus and Šelčovič said member states and the European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen would decide if the agreement was enough to forestall tougher trade defence measures.

Exports of Chinese hybrids to the EU hit 50,000 units in July, more than double the 19,000 shipped in the same month last year. The European Automobile Manufacturers' Association said yesterday's announcement was "a positive step in easing trade tensions".

The joint statement said the two sides "reaffirmed their commitment . . . to properly handle differences within the framework of WTO rules, and to continuing to stabilise and balance bilateral trade and economic relations".

This week, France and Germany proposed introducing a last-resort trade instrument that could cut off China's access to the EU's single market in response to coercive measures, such as restrictions on critical materials.

Education. Clashes

French student riots pose test for Macron


Demonstrators gather at the Place de la République square in Paris this week — Dimitar Dikoff/AFP/Getty images

Protesters call for extensive reform of schools system as belt-tightening budget looms

ADRIENNE KLASA AND LEILA ABBOUD PARIS

Clouds of tear gas followed the arc of water cannons fired into the crowd in central Paris this week, as student strikes that shut hundreds of schools and led to thousands of arrests culminated in clashes between heavily armed police and protesters.

"Down with the cops, the state and the fascists!" the crowd, mostly young people, chanted on Thursday. "Too young to be listened to, but old enough to be tear-gassed," read a sign carried by a young woman in a purple headscarf.

French students are revolting against a school system they say is failing them, just as France faces a fiscal reckoning after years of lavish welfare spending. Students are demanding more teachers, better facilities and smaller classes, and an overhaul of how universities select their students, which they say is stressful and unjust.

The crisis is piling pressure on President Emmanuel Macron's minority government as it is seeking to push through a belt-tightening budget while investors grow increasingly worried about France's inability to lower its public deficit. That means the government cannot turn to its usual method of calming protests – taking out the cheque book.

The demonstrations have spread to universities while labour unions have swung behind them, suggesting the movement may widen further.

Anger over heavy-handed policing — a chronic issue in France, especially on the left and in poorer neighbourhoods — has also come to the fore as the weeks of protests in some cases turn violent.

Rioters have burned schools and emergency service vehicles. Police suspended the use of stun grenades for the rest of the uprising after a 15-year-old's hand was blown off in the northern town of Lens.

More than 7,000 people have been detained since the demonstrations began, according to the interior ministry. Hundreds of law enforcement officers have been injured, as have students and school staff.

In Saint-Denis — a working-class, immigrant suburb north of Paris — students outside Lycée Paul-Éluard criticised deteriorating conditions, which they said were making it hard for them to learn.

Zohra, 16, said the school had rats and cockroaches, and that heatwaves over the summer in classrooms without air conditioning were so punishing that some students fainted. "In winter, we freeze, and in summer we boil."

Saint-Denis is in the country's poorest department in mainland France, with nearly four in 10 residents in the suburb living below the poverty line, more than twice the national rate, and it has become a focal point for demonstrations. It is hard to recruit experienced teachers and turnover is much higher than elsewhere.

Nationally, about 10 per cent of scheduled classroom hours go untaught largely because absent teachers are not replaced, according to the education ministry, an issue that has become a flashpoint for demonstrators.

"There is no equality in the education system. It is always us in the 93rd who get screwed, not like the nice neighbourhoods of Paris," said Jamal, 15, using the departmental code for Saint-Denis.

A sharp decline in French maths and literacy scores in the OECD's transnational Pisa study this year has fuelled the feeling that the public education system is broken.

Salomé, 16, protested about long school hours with poor learning outcomes in Paris's well-heeled ninth arrondissement. "Increasing class hours won't make us smarter," she said.

"The big challenge for France is that those results stand in no relationship to the time that young people spend in school. You have a very long school day and still low results," said Andreas Schleicher, the architect of the Pisa study.

He said France had never had as many teachers for every hundred students as it has today. "I think it is more a way of how resources are utilised."

Critical thinking skills were in the most worrying decline in France, he said, in a system that emphasises teacher-student hierarchy and learning arguments by heart. Pisa concluded that inequality between rich and poor students strongly determined the educational outcomes – an experience reflected in Saint Denis.

Education is one of the few ministries that is not earmarked for cuts in next year's budget, with the government proposing a €1.2bn budget increase to €64bn for 2027. Education minister Édouard Geffray announced on Thursday that 3,000 additional substitute teachers would be deployed in the coming days in response to student demands.

Overall, education spending, from pre-school through university, has increased, albeit unevenly. According to statistics agency Insee, it rose nearly 14 per cent between 2010 and 2024, adjusted for inflation, from €173.3bn to €197.1bn.

Spending per student in secondary schools such as collèges and lycées fell 2 per cent over the same period. Mid-career teachers still earn less than the OECD average, while education spending as a share of GDP is down from 7 per cent in 2010 to 6.8 per cent in 2024.

Successive French administrations have failed to tackle the country's biggest public spending line item: its huge pensions bill, which takes up nearly 14 per cent of its GDP, according to Insee.

A study last year from think-tank IPP shows that about 13 per cent of France's national public education budget is for contributions to teachers' generous pensions. After stripping those out, France falls into the bottom quarter of OECD countries for spending per primary school student, the study said.

An attempt during Macron's second term to raise the pension age to 64 to manage the system's costs was met with nationwide protests — including by young people — and the law was suspended. Education ministry data shows nearly all the increase in the national education budget all but wiped out by inflation last year.

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Arrest fallout

German spy agency under pressure over 'treason' scandal

SAM JONES — BERLIN

Germany's intelligence service faces "heated and turbulent days" as allied agencies ask tough questions about the country's biggest spy scandal in decades, the lawmaker in charge of overseeing it has warned.

The German security establishment was rocked on Tuesday by the arrest of August Hanning, head of the BND from 1998 to 2005, on charges of treason and espionage.

Marc Henrichmann, chair of the German parliamentary Kontrollgremium — the committee that has special powers to supervise the country's intelligence services — told the FT: "We need to get to the bottom of the circumstances and ensure that something like this never happens again."

The committee on Thursday ordered a special audit of the BND foreign intelligence agency over the affair.

Hanning is accused of having arranged for thousands of classified documents to be leaked to him from the BND for more than a decade after he left office, to aid his work as a private security consultant. "Trust is the hardest currency in this business," Henrichmann said. The current president of the BND, Martin Jäger, "has had his hands full discussing this with his international partners . . . I wouldn't have wanted to be in his shoes right now. These have been heated and turbulent days for him."

Among the classified materials found in Hanning's private possession were sensitive documents intended for the eyes of Germany's political leaders only.

Partner services, such as the UK's MIG and US's CIA, have sought reassurances that none of their classified intelligence has been compromised by the leaks, security officials have told the FT.

Hanning's lawyer said on Thursday that his client admits illegally possessing the documents but denies the more serious charge of treason. The federal prosecutor alleged that in two instances Hanning had contact with foreign intelligence operatives and may have transmitted classified information to them.

Henrichmann's special audit would be followed by a "rigorous" parliamentary debate and possible changes to the rules governing what former government employees were allowed to do after leaving service, he promised. It may also complicate the passage of legislation proposed by the government to give the BND sweeping new powers, which has only just gone through its first reading in parliament.

"To put it lightly, it certainly doesn't help," said Henrichmann. "One thing has become absolutely certain . . . the strengthening of oversight of the services is [also] important. It will be absolutely crucial that we make no compromises on this."

The 50-year-old MP, a member of Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Christian


The Karlsruhe court where a hearing on the Hanning case is scheduled

Democratic Party (CDU), said he nevertheless had full faith in the leadership of the BND to act appropriately.

Under Jäger, who was appointed last year, and his predecessor, Bruno Kahl, the BND has already begun an expansive set of reforms as it races to modernise itself, amid a rapidly deteriorating international security situation.

"The new president has a very, very high reputation internationally," Henrichmann said. "He is an outstanding choice."

The MP said "earlier generations" at the BND had "lived by a culture . . . of complacency".

"Apparently, in the past it never occurred to anyone [to do] everything possible to prevent such insider threats [and that] shows exactly where we stand. It is a question of mindset and we need a radical, complete change of mindset. We are waking up again at a terrifying pace and, er, with a loud bang, and realising that the world has changed," he said.

Passing the new BND law was more essential than ever as a result, he added. "[Change] starts with politics." See Opinion

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Drone attack

Ukraine hits data centres of Russian tech group Yandex

ANASTASIA STOGNEI — BERLIN CHRISTOPHER MILLER — KYIV

Ukraine has struck two of Russian tech giant Yandex's data centres this week, in retaliation for Moscow's attacks on its own IT facilities as the air war widens to target the systems that underpin each country's economy.

Yandex, often referred to as “Russia’s Google”, confirmed a drone attack on its largest data centre, in central Russia’s Kaluga region, in the early hours yesterday. The previous night another data centre in the Ryazan region, also in central Russia, was attacked, Yandex said.

The Kaluga strike “completely knocked out several modules of the data centre”, Yandex said. Its shares fell about 4 per cent on the Moscow Exchange following the hit.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had vowed retaliation after weeks of Russian attacks on its digital infrastructure. "They've been attacking and are attacking our data centres . . . we always respond in kind," he said on Thursday.

The strikes broadened Ukraine's campaign inside Russia, having targeted oil refineries and warehouses belonging to the country's biggest online retailers.

Yandex is the country's key technology company, offering services from a search engine, email, internet browser, cloud services and AI to a taxi app, food delivery and smart home devices.

After the strike on the Ryazan data centre the websites of companies using its cloud infrastructure were disrupted, including the Russian state railway monopoly, telecoms operator MegaFon and several Russian media outlets. The centre also hosts supercomputers Yandex uses to develop its AI model.

Yandex said it did not know when the centres would be back up and running.

"At this stage it is very difficult to say when the equipment at the data centres will be fully operational again," it added.

INTERNATIONAL

Israel conducts ‘scorched-earth’ campaign in Gaza one year into US-brokered truce

Residents of enclave live in fear of air strikes or stray bullets as military continues to seize territory

HEBA SALEH — CAIRO

JAMES SHOTTER — JERUSALEM

As families slept, an Israeli strike ripped through an apartment block in Rimal, leaving another pile of smouldering ruins in what had once been a relatively upmarket Gaza City neighbourhood.

The target, according to the Israeli military, was Ali Ahmed Al-Amoudi, a Hamas leader it described as one of the decision makers behind the group's October 7 2023 attack. But when rescuers arrived, they found the bodies of Maisa Abu Dawoud, 55, and her 56-year-old daughter Mary Hafez, among the several Palestinians killed that day. There was no clarity on Amoudi's fate.

While such scenes have been repeated throughout the two-year war that ravaged Gaza after October 7, the air strike on Rimal happened last Saturday — nearly a year after a US-brokered ceasefire nominally brought the conflict to an end.

Far from stopping fighting, Israel has in that time continued a relentless military campaign in the devastated enclave. Its troops have conducted repeated air strikes, demolished buildings and fired on Palestinians they deem threatening to the soldiers positioned around the growing Israeli-occupied zone, which now encompasses more than 60 per cent of Gaza.

In all, more than 1,400 people have been killed since the truce went into effect on October 10 last year, according to the Palestinian health ministry, equivalent to about four a day. It said that at least 300 children and more than 120 women were among the victims.

Israel has variously described these as attacks on militants, police, armed men or – often – given no explanation at all.

"It is very evident that Israel sees the ceasefire as a kind of cloak in order to advance its aims, rather than something to actually have to abide by," said Amjad Iraqi, a senior analyst for Israel and Palestine at the International Crisis Group. "It is a weaponisation of the ceasefire in order to entrench the occupation."

When it was agreed last year, the peace deal was touted by US President Donald Trump as one of his signature achievements. Under the terms of the 20-point plan, Hamas would disarm, Israeli troops would gradually withdraw from Gaza and reconstruction would begin.

While the truce paved the way for more aid to enter Gaza and ended the worst of the fighting from Israel's two-year offensive – during which nearly

73,000 Palestinians were killed – progress quickly stalled.

Trump announced in July that the militant group had agreed to a roadmap to disarm alongside a phased Israeli withdrawal. Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister, rejected the plan, saying Israel would not pull back troops until Hamas had been completely disarmed.

The result for Gaza's 2.1mn population, most of whom live in tattered tents or ruined buildings in the portion of the enclave once again controlled by Hamas, is that death by a stray bullet or in an air strike is still a daily fear.

Maisa Abu Dawoud and Mary Hafez, who were killed last Saturday, were part of Gaza's dwindling Christian community and spent much of the conflict sheltering in the Holy Family Church in Gaza City, which was itself struck in an Israeli attack last year.

They had left the church this year and moved into the flat in Rimal, Mary's 14-year-old son Fouad said. "My mother was tired of sleeping on a mattress on the floor, so they found this apartment," he said. "The day before she was killed she rang and said, 'I miss you, come and have lunch with me and I will cook your favourite macaroni dish.'

"But by that time, she and my grand-mother had been martyred."

In response to questions, the Israel Defense Forces said it was "operating to remove threats, including through strikes against military targets", and accused Hamas of refusing to disarm and "rebuilding its military infrastructure". It described last Saturday's strike as "an attempt" to eliminate Amoudi, claiming "measures were taken to mitigate harm to civilians, including the use of precise munitions".

Israel's continued use of force in spite of the truce reflects what analysts regard as the country's new post-October 7 security doctrine, one in which it launches what it describes as "pre-emptive" attacks against perceived threats; seizes territory from neighbours to create depopulated "buffer zones" along its borders; and deploys constant force.

In Gaza, Israel has continued to raze

Smoke rises from an explosion after an Israeli air strike in Gaza City in August Omar Ashtawy/Getty Images

infrastructure in territory under its control and actively seized more land by shifting the so-called "yellow line" that separates Israeli- and Hamas-controlled Gaza. "They are conducting a scorched-earth policy," Crisis Group's Iraqi said. "They are basically erasing entire villages and towns and depopulating as much as possible to make it difficult for people to return."

It is often by venturing in the vicinity of the yellow line that Palestinians are in

'It is very evident that Israel sees the ceasefire as a kind of cloak in order to advance its aims'

the most danger. Bahaa Abu Ajeen, an agricultural worker in his 30s, described how he picked up his three-year-old son Rayan and tried to flee after seeing Israeli soldiers emerge from a building near the makeshift boundary in June.

"The Israelis fired a shot to the ground behind me, so I stopped. But then they fired again, and it hit Rayan in the head," Abu Ajeen said. Another shot, he added, shattered his leg and sent him to the ground. He was then detained by Israeli troops for several hours, he said.

The IDF said it "does not operate against civilians and does not use fire against individuals solely because they approach" the yellow line.

Netanyahu has made clear the strikes in Gaza will continue, portraying the campaign as revenge for the October 7 assault – in which Hamas killed 1,200 people, including families and young people attending a music festival, and took another 250 hostage – and vowing to assassinate anyone associated with it.

"We are hunting without let-up the human beasts who attacked us with shocking cruelty," the prime minister said at a ceremony commemorating the victims of the attack this week. "We are eliminating them one by one."

Though Hamas has lost control of most of Gaza, the militant group runs a threadbare administration in the western, more populated portion of the strip, raising some taxes, controlling police and issuing birth and death certificates.

Many in Gaza are preparing for another winter in what the UN said was a “critical” public health situation, with infectious diseases spreading. “We need a full ceasefire,” said Abdel Raouf Rihan, the father of nine-year-old Retaj, who was killed in April by a stray bullet. “Every day there are stray shots killing or injuring people.”

Israeli air and drone strikes on Gaza have continued despite ceasefire

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Middle East

Airport attacks pose threat to Saudi summits

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AHMED AL OMRAN — JEDDAH

A wave of Houthi attacks has threatened to overshadow Saudi Arabia's flagship "Davos in the desert" event and an energy conference in Riyadh after six people were killed in strikes on the country's airports this week.

Executives were racing to determine whether they could travel to the events – which typically draw the CEOs of the world's largest companies and investment banks – after the UK issued a travel warning and several carriers suspended flights to Riyadh.

The latest barrage of Houthi missiles struck Riyadh's international airport on Thursday, killing three Saudi citizens, including a pilot, and hitting a plane belonging to flag carrier Saudia.

The attacks come just days before the World Petroleum Council's Energy

Congress and two weeks ahead of the Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference, nicknamed "Davos in the desert", Saudi Arabia's flagship summit.

Italy's energy minister has opted against attending a ministerial energy meeting next week, Rome said yesterday, and would instead speak by video link.

"We have no idea what's going on," said an executive at one business scheduled to attend FII. "They want to go ahead with the show. But let's see what happens. It's a very dicey situation."

The latest strikes pose a fresh obstacle to Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 economic transformation plan, which aimed to attract an influx of foreign investment and tourists but has been tested in recent years by a period of low oil prices and overspending on mega-projects.

This year's FII is scheduled to feature speakers including BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink, JPMorgan chief executive Jamie Dimon and Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio, according to the organiser's agenda.

Riyadh is locked in a renewed conflict with Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, and the attacks have disrupted business travel for management consultants who fly into the kingdom.

One consultant said they had to drive almost 12 hours from Riyadh to Dubai on Thursday after flights were axed. Another consultant said their firm had cancelled travel to Saudi Arabia as of yesterday. The UK on Thursday advised against "all but essential travel" to parts of Saudi Arabia, including Riyadh.

Several foreign energy executives said they were still planning to attend next week's WPC, adding they were mindful that "the Saudis remember who their friends were in bad times".

The FII and the Ministry of Energy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Trump launches inquiry into Fed governor

Investigation comes after Supreme Court rebuffed attempt to sack Cook

PETER WELLS — NEW YORK ELLA LEE AND CLAIRE JONES WASHINGTON

Donald Trump has launched a committee to investigate Lisa Cook, months after the Supreme Court rebuffed the president's attempts to sack the Federal Reserve governor.

The committee will investigate claims that Cook made "false statements in connection with one or more mortgage instruments" and will conduct an in-person hearing addressing the matter on November 5. Trump's move comes after the Supreme Court ruled in June by a five-four majority that Cook could remain in her position as Trump had failed to give her the ability to properly dispute his attempt to fire her.

Cook has denied the allegations against her and has not been convicted of any wrongdoing.

The memo directs Cook to appear in person for questioning by the committee and submit written statements before and after the hearing. After receiving her final written statement, the panel will submit its findings to the president and recommend whether Cook should be removed.

"As president, it is my job to ensure the laws are faithfully executed, including by firing subordinates who cannot be trusted to tell the truth and follow the law," Trump said in a statement dated October 7 that was issued by the White House yesterday.

Trump named to the committee political appointees including Kevin Hassett, assistant to the president for economic policy; Andrea Lucas, chair of the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; and Keith Sonderling, acting director of the US Office of Government Ethics.

Cook's lawyers said they had engaged with the White House to evaluate whether Trump's proposed process "has a possibility of being a genuine one and not simply a box-checking exercise".

"In light of the president's repeated statements that he has already decided to fire Governor Cook – regardless of the facts and evidence – we have grave doubts that this 'hearing' is a legitimate one that would conform to the law," said lawyers Abbe Lowell and Norm Eisen.

Trump's decision to launch the new inquiry will reignite fears over the independence of the Fed to set interest rates free from political pressure.

Since returning to the White House, Trump has heaped pressure on rate-setters to slash borrowing costs, with administration officials attacking several members of the Fed's board.

Trump has also called for Jay Powell, former Fed chair, to step down over claims that he mishandled a \$2.5bn renovation of the Fed's headquarters.

The justice department dropped the probe after Republican lawmakers blocked the appointment of new Fed chair Kevin Warsh unless the administration reversed course. Powell was later cleared of any criminal wrongdoing in an investigation by the Fed's Inspector General watchdog.

The allegations against Cook stemmed from a criminal referral last year by Bill Pulte, federal housing director, who asserted that she claimed primary residence status on properties in Michigan and Georgia.

Tourism. Mediterranean Sea

Gulf developers see potential in Egypt's 'evil coast'

Abu Dhabi and Qatari wealth funds are pouring billions into country's northern resorts

HEBA SALEH — AL ALAMEIN

A few decades ago, a traveller heading west from Alexandria on Egypt's Mediterranean coast would have driven through desert fringed by a turquoise sea, occasional Bedouin stone houses and memorials to British, Italian and German soldiers killed in the second world war – before reaching the first town, Marsa Matruh, 260km away.

The coast has since then become a popular summer holiday spot for well-off Egyptians, home to gated communities whose exorbitant prices have earned its expensive western stretch the nickname the "evil coast".

But the region is now on the brink of what developers, mostly from the Gulf, hope will be a far greater transformation – one that will turn it from a domestic destination with a brief seasonal window into an international hub attracting foreign property buyers and tourists.

Sovereign wealth funds from Abu Dhabi and Qatar, along with Dubai-based developer Emaar, are among those pouring billions of dollars into mega-projects offering hotels, yacht marinas, malls, schools and healthcare. The Egyptian government has also invested in roads, airports and New Alamein, intended for year-round living.

"The coming of the Gulf developers can be a game-changer," said Omar El-Shenety, an Egyptian investment banker and managing partner at Zilla Capital. The developers "are very familiar names to Gulf citizens and they trust them. So, I expect them to become sizeable buyers."

The Abu Dhabi and Qatari investments were widely seen by economists as bailouts aimed at shoring up heavily indebted Egypt's finances.

In 2024, Abu Dhabi paid \$35bn for development rights to 40,600 acres in Ras el-Hekma, in the largest foreign investment in Egypt's history. Master developer Modon Holding said the site would include tourist facilities, a marina, airport, investment and free zones, and 310,000 homes for an eventual population of 2mn.

Qatari Diar, a property developer owned by Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, followed in 2025 with a \$30bn project to transform Alam al-Roum into a year-round luxury destination.

A computer-generated image of the Alam al-Roum development, in which Qatar's sovereign wealth fund has invested \$30bn

Egypt's largest developer, Talaat Moustafa Group, joined forces with the state on the \$21bn SouthMED development, which was launched in 2024 with an English-language advertising campaign fronted by actor Sylvester Stallone. TMG has promoted the site as "a new global destination rising on the Mediterranean".

Construction and off-plan sales for the initial phases of all three mega-projects are under way, but the risk is that such large urban projects do not go to plan. "There will always be some vulnerability to the economic and geopolitical risks of the region," said Shenety.

"I would describe the north coast as a destination in transition rather than a fully mature international resort market," said Moataz Sedky, general manager of Travco Holidays, a tourism company that owns nine hotels on the north coast.


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While Egyptian destinations such as Sharm el-Sheikh on the Red Sea and Luxor in the south have long been popular with foreign visitors, the Mediterranean coast has catered almost exclusively to Egyptians.

But the region, Sedky said, was "beginning to see the emergence of two additional markets: visitors from the Gulf and international leisure tourists, particularly Europeans".

The hope now, analysts say, is that the mega-developments will change an economic model currently built around a brief summer season.

A glimpse of the region's potential can be seen in Marassi, an upscale beach resort by Emaar. The meticulously landscaped palm-lined compound boasts a 6.5km-long seafront, 8,000 homes and 12 luxury hotels, where a night during peak summer can cost more than \$1,000. On an August night, it was thronged with well-dressed crowds, including many Gulf visitors. The vibe was more Dubai than Egypt, without the stifling heat.

Hotel occupancy in Marassi in late August was 65 per cent non-Egyptian, almost exclusively from Gulf countries, said Mohamed Alabbar, the founder and managing director of Emaar. "This

'The coming of the Gulf developers can be a game-changer'

Omar El-Shenety, Egyptian investment banker

is what we were wishing for six years ago, because typically they are big spenders and stay for a long time."

But only 10 to 15 per cent of housing units were sold to Gulf citizens. "We are just starting because it [the north coast] is not discovered yet. Even for us in the Gulf, we only learnt in the past 10 years about its incredible beauty and weather."

North coast property sales reached over \$10.4bn last year, making it the country's second-biggest property investment destination after east Cairo, said Ahmed Zaki, managing director of advisory firm The Board Consulting.

To maintain the flow of visitors beyond beach season, Sedky said more hotels, year-round scheduled flights, restaurants, convention centres and sports facilities were needed.

"Hotel capacity remains a main constraint if international demand continues growing at the present rate," he said, adding that some of winter would be suitable for sports, conferences and cultural tourism. "The mistake would be to assume a year-round destination must sell the same product in January as it does in July."

Tourists visiting the coast were not far from Egypt's more traditional attractions, Alabbar pointed out. "You can spend three or four days here, drive down to see the Pyramids and then come back."

Pollution

Smog casts cloud over Singapore as it gears up for Grand Prix

OWEN WALKER — SINGAPORE

Singapore is stockpiling face masks and preparing medical services as hundreds of thousands of spectators arrive for this weekend's Formula 1 Grand Prix that is set to go ahead under the worst toxic haze in years.

Smoke from Indonesian wildfires has cloaked the city-state, making Singapore the most polluted city in the world this week, according to air quality monitoring company IQAir. Nearby Kuala Lumpur, which has also been affected by the haze, was ranked second.

Air pollution is an annual hazard in Singapore, where outdoor activities are curtailed and hospitals experience a surge in admissions for respiratory complaints during haze-heavy seasons.

The smog this weekend has cast a pall over the city-state's turn on the global stage and threatens to interfere with festivities including open-air concerts by The Killers, Janet Jackson and Lana Del Rey.

At least 300,000 fans, some of whom have spent thousands of dollars, are expected to attend the Grand Prix, while tens of thousands more will watch from rooftop bars and balconies.

In the run-up Singapore also hosted corporate events including Token2049, the world's biggest crypto event. The haze was the biggest topic of discussion.

"It couldn't have happened at a worse time," said Margaret Grieve, who had travelled from Melbourne for the race.

"We are used to bushfires back home, but this must be pretty awful for the people who live here," added her husband Jason.

The smog in Singapore often blows in from Indonesia, where vast tracts of land in Sumatra and Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo, are burned for paper and palm oil production.

This year a “super” El Niño, the natural weather pattern of warming Pacific Ocean temperatures, has made it the worst season in at least seven years.

The city-state's monitoring system has shown consistently unhealthy air quality in recent days – levels at which the government advises Singapore's 6mn residents to avoid prolonged or strenuous outdoor physical activity.

Singapore's tourism board has said it would keep racegoers informed of the risks of poor air quality. It is also reserving face masks and preparing to offer medical assistance to those in need.

"The relevant agencies will work closely with the Singapore Grand Prix to assess the situation before making any collective decisions regarding the event," the tourist board told the FT.

F1 added: "There is absolutely no risk to the event and the conditions . . . are not at any level of concern."

For most of the year Singapore enjoys better air quality than many Asian cities as it strictly enforces controls on emissions from cars and factories.

In recent weeks, though, school trips have been cancelled and children told to play inside, while some health clinics have reported up to 30 per cent increases in patients with smog-related conditions.

Singapore was forced to take similar measures in 2015 when El Niño briefly pushed the local pollution standards index to levels regarded as hazardous. In 2019, seven-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton said he had been advised not to run outside before the race.

Europe

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Italian winery robbed of bottles worth €5mn

AMY KAZMIN — ROME

Italy's biggest family-owned winery, Marchesi Antinori, says professional thieves have stolen 30,000 bottles of wine worth about €5mn from its storage facility in Tuscany in what it described as one of the largest wine thefts in recent history.

It is the latest in a series of wine heists in Italy carried out by criminals whose careful selection of bottles reflected wine connoisseurship and inside knowledge of their targets.

Florence-based Antinori, which traces its origins to 1385, told the FT the thieves targeted its warehouse in Cortona, Tuscany, last weekend just as the winery was preparing to ship a large consignment of some of its most valuable bottles to customers abroad.

Seven masked men disabled the alarm system and stole thousands of cases of the winery's famous Tignanello, Solaia and Guado al Tasso Tuscan reds in two big trucks on Saturday night.

The stolen bottles typically retail for between €150 and €500 each. The theft was not discovered until Monday morning. The winery has extensive surveillance camera footage of the theft.

Police are investigating but have yet to make any arrests.

Renzo Cotarella, Antinori's chief executive, said the company, which had revenues of €263mn last year and exports

‘These wines have a great value and I don’t know how they can sell all this . . . without being seen’

to 170 countries, was sounding the alarm in the hope that oenophiles might help them track down the missing bottles.

"We still hope we are able to find the wine . . . Two trucks cannot just disappear," Cotarella said. "These wines have a great value and I don't know how they can sell all this wine around the world without being seen."

He said Antinori also wanted to

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"protect the market" by alerting potential buyers to the risk that bottles offered to them from unusual sources or at low prices might be stolen property.

Wine theft is not unusual in Italy but thieves have typically targeted Michelin-starred restaurants with well-stocked wine cellars and made off with a handful of highly valuable bottles worth tens of thousands of euros each.

Two men dressed as workers wearing hard hats and high-visibility vests managed to open holes in shatterproof glass at Milan's famed Affinatore restaurant to seize several bottles of prized Romanée-Conti wine worth a total of €280,000 this summer.

Bottles are also occasionally stolen from trucks while in transit. Banfi di Montalcino had 3,000 bottles of its best Alta Langa wines stolen this summer from its Piedmont warehouse by thieves who "carefully selected" the cases.

Last month, thieves seized 3,000 bottles of Barolo at the Conterno Fantino winery, also in Piedmont, in just under three hours with the aid of a forklift.

South America

Venezuelan exile Machado calls for poll by July

JOE DANIELS — PANAMA CITY ANA RODRÍGUEZ BRAZÓN — CARACAS GEOFF DYER — LONDON

Exiled Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has called for presidential elections next year, even as she acknowledged “differences” with the US over the timeline for a democratic transition in a country with some of the world’s biggest oil reserves.

There was "more than enough time" to prepare for an election by July, Machado, the winner of last year's Nobel Peace Prize, told the FT.

She also called for "transparency" in the management of proceeds from Venezuela's oil sales, which are being overseen by Washington.

"The US government and the Venezuelan people all agree that the only way to make this sustainable and a real victory is to turn Venezuela into a stable democracy," said Machado.

Machado, based in Panama, has not returned to Venezuela since she left in December to receive the Nobel Peace

Prize in Oslo. In early January, US special forces arrested Venezuela's authoritarian former president Nicolás Maduro in a dramatic night-time operation.

Donald Trump's administration has said it wanted to see a political transition but it has not outlined a timetable for elections. Machado is Venezuela's most popular politician but Washington backed Maduro's deputy Delcy Rodríguez, now the acting president.

"I think where there is a different assessment is in the pace, in the timing. I am saying I believe we can move ahead and we are ready," said Machado.


María Corina Machado said there should be 'transparency' on oil sales

Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, remain in jail in New York awaiting trial on drug-trafficking charges, which they have denied. US authorities this week added torture conspiracy charges. Their trial is expected to begin next year.

Some members of Venezuela's opposition have become increasingly frustrated with the US approach, including a recent deal to hand over control of part of the country's vast oil reserves to a private company backed by the Pentagon.

Washington has been managing the proceeds from Venezuela's oil sales since January, but the Trump administration has not disclosed how much it has collected or disbursed.

Machado has made at least seven unsuccessful attempts to return in recent months, her team said. She dismissed suggestions Washington was blocking her return. "The secretary of state [Marco Rubio] has said . . . I have the absolute right to return," she said.

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Populism. Election

Spanish rapper gives voice to right's hatred of Sánchez

Corine embodies heightened level of vitriol directed towards a premier fighting for survival

BARNEY JOPSON — MADRID

With her full-arm tattoos, glistening tooth gems and patriotic embrace of the national flag, Angie Corine, a ginger-haired rapper, is the new face of Spain's insurgent populist right.

At its vanguard is Vox, a party with a chance of forming a governing coalition with the conservative People's Party (PP) after Pedro Sánchez called a snap election this week – a high-stakes gamble by a prime minister fighting for political survival.

What Corine embodies, with her chirpy brand of Vox-inspired satire, is the public anger directed at the leftwing premier after his eight years in power.

"I don't want your handouts, your gifts or the dole," Corine sings in one tune. "I just want a prime minister who's not a nutjob."

Protesters in Málaga last month hold banners calling the prime minister a traitor after the mass influx of migrants at Ceuta. Below: singer Angie Corine and Vox party leader Santiago Abascal Jorge Guerrero and Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images Instagram

Not only are more young people warming to the rightwing messages Corine puts to music, but the personal vitriol aimed at the Socialist leader has hit extraordinary new highs.

The rapper once called Sánchez a "border collie, a smart mutt", alluding to an offensive nickname that puns on Pedro and perro (dog). She branded him a "psychopath" for promoting his summer playlist on Instagram while Ceuta, a Spanish African exclave, was reeling from the illegal arrival of more than 70,000 migrants.

Bitter divisions are ubiquitous in western democracies, but Spain is a stark example of what academics call "affective" polarisation, a version where rifts are rooted not in policy but in basic emotions of distrust and contempt.

Mariano Torcal, a political science professor at Pompeu Fabra University, blames Vox and the PP for deliberately stoking hostility by insulting and “dehumanising” Sánchez. He said the opposition’s strategy was “mostly based on discrediting the leader and accusing him of terrible things, like saying Spain is a dictatorship” under Sánchez.

This week a pundit on Telemadrid, a conservative television station, described the prime minister as "punchable". At a birthday party, the FT watched five-year-olds hit a piñata with a stick while a father urged them to "whack it like it's Pedro Sánchez".

Emotional polarisation tends to be starker when the enemy is seen as morally bankrupt or a threat to society. For Sánchez's enemies, he ticks both boxes.

He has been engulfed by corruption allegations against people close to him, including his wife, Begoña Gómez. She denies wrongdoing and Sánchez says he is the victim of politicised judges waging "lawfare". He is also accused of putting his "cronies" in charge of institutions that were once unpoliticised, such as the Bank of Spain, the state polling agency and telecoms company Telefónica.

William Chislett, an author of books on Spain, said Sánchez had broken his word on points of principle. He said he would never govern with the far left or make parliamentary pacts with Catalan separatists and a Basque party with links to Eta, a disbanded terrorist group.

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He ended up doing all those things to keep his minority governments in power. "Even if we know the right lies too, that dishonesty adds fuel to the overall anger," Chislett said.

Sánchez this week said he had made Spain a “global reference point for peace, feminism and prosperity”. He is also the last EU leader openly welcoming immigrants, who have helped make the country one of the rich world’s fastest-growing economies. In response, Vox leader Santiago Abascal has accused the premier of “promoting a migrant invasion . . . to replace the Spanish people who don’t like him”.

Vox, a fiercely anti-immigration party founded in 2013, was at 19 per cent in a 40dB opinion poll published yesterday. The PP, which takes a more moderate stance on immigration, stands at 32 per cent, while Sánchez's Socialists are on 28 per cent.

Corine, who has more than 1mn followers on YouTube, has sung about schools "with no Spanish kids". In a podcast interview she denied being a xenophobe because she was born in the US and identifies as "half-American, half-Polish". In one song she refers to being "Spanish-ised" during her upbringing in Málaga. The rapper did not respond to an interview request from the FT.

According to one analysis, Sánchez elicits such hatred because he has reopened the wounds of Spain's 1936-39 civil war and Francisco Franco's fascist dictatorship. Under a 2022 law backed by the premier, the country created a registry of Franco's victims, exhumed graves and sought to identify remains of tens of thousands who "disappeared".

Luis Garicano, a former centrist Spanish MEP, rejected the idea that Spaniards are divided because of the civil war. "I'm almost 60 and grew up in a hopeful Spain, a country that was coming together. It wasn't the reds versus the blues. This is a relatively new thing," he said.

He traced the acrimony back to 2004, when a PP government wrongly blamed Eta for deadly train bombs planted by al-Qaeda. Then came a Socialist administration that mishandled a property bubble and a PP term defined by the Eurozone debt crisis and austerity.

Next was Sánchez, who is no innocent victim, said Garicano, now a public policy professor at LSE. "What Sánchez has wanted from the start is to make Vox the main opposition and to dig a trench between his voters and the right," he said. "He wants to stop people moving from left to right by saying, 'Look, if you go to the right you're essentially voting for extremists that represent Franco and all that.'"

He is playing with fire, however. Sánchez has condemned Abascal for spreading hate. "You've called me an autocrat, a dictator," the premier said in parliament last month. "They even call me a dog."

Corine is also on the receiving end of insults. "The other day they yelled 'fucking fascist' at me on my doorstep," she said on TikTok. "But I'm the radical one?" The rapper has recently found God, donned a crucifix and said she's softened her hard edges - to some extent. "I wish the best for everyone," she said in another video, "except Pedro Sánchez."

Additional reporting by Carmen Muela

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AMERICAS

Edward Luce

Morbid gimmick of US public execution adds to sense of decay

raucous crowd of 20,000 gathered in Owensboro, Kentucky, in 1936 to watch the hanging of Rainey Bethea, a 22-year-old convicted rapist. Revulsion at the media frenzy and carnival-style atmosphere led to a US ban on public executions that has stuck for 90 years. This week, Pete Hegseth, America's self-named "secretary of war", broke that taboo when he said the Pentagon would livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, a military psychiatrist who shot and killed 13 of his fellow soldiers. "People need to understand that there are serious consequences for these type of things," Hegseth said. As a public service, Hasan's death by firing squad would be available to all.

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Edward Gibbon, the 18th-century historian who attributed Rome's fall to the "triumph of barbarism and religion" might have felt a pang of recognition. Hegseth has devoted his time at the Pentagon to re-establishing a culture of "lethality". This has included championing testosterone as the ultimate warrior quality and the purging of women and minorities from the military's senior ranks. Last week, he created the Pentagon "office of religious affairs", which would lift spiritual health to the same level as physical.

It is unclear whether Hegseth's morbid gimmick would be a one-off or open a new chapter in America's fraught history of crime and punishment. Hasan's lawyers are expected to argue that it would amount to constitutionally banned "cruel and unusual punishment". Should it go ahead, America would join Iran, Afghanistan and North Korea in the small group.

Korea in the small group of countries that stage public executions. Most democracies have long since banned capital punishment. Britain's last executions were in 1964.

Polling shows that most countries, including US allies, view China more favourably

Hegseth and Trump are unlikely to be swayed by such qualms. It is con-

Receivable that Trump will reverse Hegseth's decision if public revulsion takes hold. Thom Tillis, an outgoing Republican senator, called it "beyond disgusting". But Trump's fascination with televised spectacle goes deep. On his 80th birthday in June he hosted a UFC ultimate fighting match on the White House lawn, which had a viewership of 34mn.

Though there is no suggestion that Hegseth will set up a pay-per-view scheme for Hasan's execution, Trump would undoubtedly pay keen attention to the ratings. He is a lifelong enthusiast for capital punishment. On his first day in office, Trump lifted the moratorium on federal executions and said it should automatically apply to illegal immigrants convicted of murder and anyone who kills a law enforcement officer. He also added firing squad, electrocution and nitrogen gas to the permitted menu of options alongside lethal injection. Hasan would be the first person to be executed by a US military firing squad since 1945.

What would Hasan's staged execution do to America's soft power? Recent polling shows that a majority of countries, including US allies, now view China more favourably than the US. The longstanding image of America as a society with an egalitarian temper that welcomes all comers is fast receding. The world has become familiar with footage of masked ICE officers snatching mothers from day care centres. They see a US president releasing one fake AI video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys.

Other than opinion polls, it is difficult to put a metric on the scale of America's reputational harm. Nor would this be likely to influence Trump or Hegseth. The latter has staked his career on kinetic displays of hard power and a contempt for soft. But a contemporary Gibbon would surely take a stab at evaluating the harm. The historian placed greater emphasis on Rome's internal moral decay than on the menace of barbarians from without. A society that loses its civic virtues wastes its vital sinews, he observed. Bread and circuses kept Romans entertained. Yet they sapped the republic of all that was noble.

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South African lawyer

Rights pioneer Pillay wins Nobel Peace Prize

RICHARD MILNE — OSLO MONICA MARK — JOHANNESBURG

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Navi Pillay, a South African human rights lawyer and jurist, in an endorsement of the importance of international law as it comes under "tremendous pressure".

The Nobel committee said yesterday that Pillay, 85, who has served on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Court, was a “lawyer and legal pioneer”.

It said this year's award came as "the system of international law is under tremendous pressure, and its institutions are under attack". The prize is likely to be seen as a shot across the bows of many autocrats and even democratically elected leaders such as US President Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister.

Trump has issued sanctions against the ICC, which has issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu as well as Russia's President Vladimir Putin over his country's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Last year, Pillay chaired a UN commission that determined that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza, an accusation Israel has vehemently denied.

The Nobel committee said that from her early work as a lawyer, including defending Nelson Mandela, Pillay had become “one of the most respected international jurists of our time”.

It added: "Her distinguished career reminds us of the need to support, fortify

Navi Pillay: described as 'one of the most respected international jurists of our time'

and expand the global rule of law."

Pillay was born in 1941 in Durban, South Africa, to a family of Indian Tamil origin. Her father was a bus driver, while her mother was denied education under apartheid. "I was treated like dirt just because of my skin colour," she told South Africa's The Citizen newspaper in 2023, recalling how even her later legal qualifications could not shield her from discrimination. But she said that she "learnt not to succumb to that".

Pillay opened her own legal practice in 1967 as no white law firm in South Africa would hire a woman of Indian descent, and went on to defend anti-apartheid activists on Robben Island.

But it was her subsequent work in Rwanda that would reshape international criminal law.

As president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Pillay co-authored a groundbreaking 1998 judgment that established that mass rape and sexual violence constitute acts of genocide.

The Nobel committee said her work confronted "deep structural discrimination, segregation and exclusion".

Israel reacted angrily to the choice of Pillay. Its foreign ministry called her prize “the grotesque weaponisation of an award to legitimise anti-Israel hatred and prejudice”.

The award signalled the Nobel committee's intent to underscore the importance of the rule of law in an increasingly volatile geopolitical environment.

"The institutions that uphold the international law are under tremendous pressure, sanctions and attack," said Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

International Criminal Court

White House announces sanctions to 'end' ICC

SUZI RING — LONDON ANDY BOUNDS — BRUSSELS

The US has announced sanctions against the entire International Criminal Court in an attempt to hobble its ability to function, stepping up President Donald Trump's campaign to dismantle what he says is an "anti-American tribunal".

Under the sanctions order published yesterday, companies have 180 days to stop trading with The Hague-based war tribunal. Marco Rubio, secretary of state, said the US was still hoping for “a diplomatic solution” that addressed US “concerns”, without specifying what that would involve.

"Republicans and Democrats alike rejected the idea that the ICC had the power to prosecute American citizens, military service members or political leaders," Rubio said. "America never joined the court. We don't need it. And we don't want it.

“Either the ICC will end its threats, or we will end the ICC. We expect our allies, many of whom are part of the ICC and that rely on American service members for their defence, to rein in the court.”

The ICC said the sanctions were "an attempt to obstruct the course of justice and to prevent the court from doing what it was created to do".

"It is an assault on the rule of law and on the very foundations of the international legal order which strikes at the simple principle that no one stands above the law."

'Either the ICC will end its threats, or we will end the ICC. We expect our allies to rein in the court'

The Trump administration has already imposed sanctions on 13 court officials, including half of the tribunal's 18 judges, over the past two years.

Trump told the UN General Assembly last month that the ICC was "out of control" and an "evil group of people".

While the US is not a member of the court, it has long criticised the ICC for over-reach.

Tensions increased when the ICC started a full investigation of the Afghanistan conflict in 2020, including whether US personnel had committed war crimes there.

This intensified during Trump's second term in the wake of the court's decision to issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoay Gallant over alleged war crimes. Israel denies the allegations.

The ICC has taken steps to protect itself against fallout from any US sanctions. Last month, deputy prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan told the FT that the court had insulated itself against such measures.

Workarounds have included shifting its office software from Microsoft to Germany's openDesk and cutting ties with its health insurance provider Axa.

Tom Berendsen, Dutch foreign minister, said the Netherlands would "do everything in our power to ensure that the court can function effectively".

EU lawmakers have long urged Brussels to employ its "blocking statute" that would forbid European companies from implementing US sanctions.

The European Commission said: "The EU stands ready to take any necessary measures to enable the court to carry out its work."

Food companies are racing to cash in on a nutritional craze, turning once low-value byproducts into prized ingredients. But will consumers' appetite for more variety last? By Susannah Savage and Michael Peel

ust as cheese is often paired with ham, so cheesemaking has long gone hand in hand with pig rearing. The cheesemaker keeps the curds; the pigs whey.

get the whey.

Some of Europe's best-known cheeses and cured meats owe their shared geography to this practical arrangement. In Italy, pigs destined for Parma ham were fed whey left over from making Parmesan, giving the meat its nutty sweetness.

Now, the protein craze is giving cheesemakers a more lucrative mouth to feed.

Dutch dairy co-operative Friesland-Campina, for example, no longer sells whey proteins for animal feed. Instead, it intends to turn more of the whey left over from cheesemaking into concentrated proteins for human nutrition.

For centuries whey has been seen as a byproduct of cheesemaking. Now, says Guus Aerts, the co-op's global director of marketing and product strategy, "to some extent, cheese has already become a byproduct of whey."

This turnaround reflects a protein boom that is reshaping the food industry. From dairy co-operatives to meat processors, companies are extracting more valuable ingredients from materials they once sold cheaply, while food manufacturers compete to secure supplies. The appetite for protein is driving billions in factory investments and acquisitions.

“Protein is increasingly [dictating] what food companies produce, where they invest capital, and how they differentiate and grow,” says Brian Earnest, lead animal protein economist at agribusiness lender CoBank.

Yet the commercial enthusiasm rests on a proposition that nutrition scientists question: that eating more protein necessarily means eating better. While some groups may benefit from increasing their intake, researchers say protein deficiency is rare in countries such as the US. They warn that the pursuit of one essential nutrient to excess can crowd others out of people's diets.

Companies must also distinguish a lasting change in eating habits from a passing enthusiasm for particular products. As they invest in new processing plants and supply chains, will customers tire of the novelty of protein-enriched popcorn and move on to something else?

Aerts believes protein mania is here to stay. "We've only seen a little bit of what it will mean for the food industry as a whole," he says. "This will be a disruption, not just a trend."

Demand for protein has been building for decades, but it has been turbo-charged over the past few years.

"I think about it in three stages," says John Lancaster, head of Emea dairy and food consulting at broker StoneX.

The first came in the noughties when gym culture took off and whey proteins and shakes were in vogue, he says. "It was a growth market, but it wasn't setting the world on fire."

Then came the “real watershed moment,” he says: weight-loss drugs, which studies have shown lead to reductions in muscle mass as well as fat. “You had people losing a lot of weight, needing to take in extra protein to try to minimise the muscle loss at the same time.” Finally, “popular culture took over. Everybody feels that they need more protein, and we’ve got this halo effect.”

How protein took over the world

The US government has amplified the message. Dietary guidelines unveiled in January by health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr and agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins urge Americans to prioritise protein at every meal, setting a


Food makers have changed recipes to cash in on the protein hype — FT montage

We've only seen a little bit of what it will mean for the food industry as a whole. This will be a disruption, not just a trend'

daily target of 1.2-1.6 grammes per kilogramme of body weight, 50-100 per cent above the longstanding recommended dietary allowance of 0.8g.

Kennedy himself has become the poster boy for the "carnivore diet," which consists near-exclusively of meat, eggs and fermented foods. He credits it for his weight and fat loss.

The protein craze gave meat and dairy a new selling point. US sales volumes of cottage cheese, once an unglamorous diet staple, grew by double digits in 2024 and 2025, according to the National Milk Producers Federation.

Food manufacturers have changed recipes to cash in on the hype. Consumers in the US can buy "PowerMac" mac'n'cheese and Pop-Tarts Protein, while British people can enjoy berry-flavoured protein collagen jelly or White Chocolate Protein Matcha Lattes.

US unit sales of snacks marketed as high in protein increased 9.6 per cent in the year to March 28, according to consumer intelligence company NIQ, compared with just 0.9 per cent for snacks overall.

Food companies are finding fresh value in what were once byproducts.

JBS, the world's largest meat processor, is developing its collagen and gelatin businesses to "convert co-products into super products", says Ricardo Gelain, president of its new businesses division. These are being used in protein water, cheese spreads and non-alcoholic beer.

In the dairy sector, whey has become important enough to influence whether, and where, companies invest in cheesemaking. Demand for whey has started to outpace supply. Prices “have gone absolutely ballistic over the past 18 months", says StoneX's Lancaster.

As whey becomes more expensive, companies are testing milk-protein concentrates, soy and pea ingredients. Suppliers are expanding the choice available to them. Agrifood giant Archer Daniels Midland launched eight soy and pea ingredients in May, including proteins designed to mix smoothly into drinks.

But substitutes bring their own problems: some dissolve less easily, carry stronger flavours or produce a poorer texture.

The most consequential question for the food industry is not whether consumers will try more protein. It is whether the change in appetite will last long enough to justify the factories now being built to supply it.

Aerts of FrieslandCampina and others are betting that the next wave of customers has yet to arrive. The spread of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, he says, will create demand for protein products well beyond existing markets, including in India and China.

But people taking GLP-1s do not necessarily need more protein overall, says Lindsey Smith Taillie, a nutrition researcher at the University of North Carolina. Rather, because they are consuming fewer calories, protein must account for a greater share of what they eat if they are to get enough of it.

She acknowledges that proteins can help rebuild muscle shed during rapid weight loss. "However, I don't think this justifies the proliferation of protein-infused ultra-processed foods." Minimally processed foods such as beans, eggs, fish, lean poultry and dairy are better sources, she adds.

Beyond people with particular nutritional needs, the case for a broad increase in protein consumption is less clear than the commercial enthusiasm suggests.

Protein deficiency in the US is rare, according to nutritional surveys carried out before the government's food guideline changes. While eating more protein might help specific groups such as older people, who process it less efficiently than younger counterparts, it is far from a population-wide need.

Some researchers have suggested that eating more than 2g of protein per kg of body mass might cause health issues such as kidney damage, although this is contested. Less disputed are warnings that eating more high-protein foods risks displacing fruit and vegetables from the diet, leaving people short of other vital nutrients, such as vitamins, minerals and fibre. If the additional protein comes mainly from meat and dairy products, it can also increase consumption of saturated fats.

Some of those seeking more protein are also trying to eat fewer ultra-processed foods – an awkward combination for companies adding the nutrient to crisps, cereals and confectionery. Taillie sees the proliferation of protein claims partly as an effort by food companies to respond to concerns about processing. "They're really trying to figure out how can we make these foods seem healthy," she says.

The criticism comes from within the fitness world as well. Dan Go, a Canada-based fitness coach, has criticised bars that are high in calories, short on other nutrients and loaded with sweeteners and additives. They are often “expensive candy in disguise, offering little

They are often 'expensive candy in disguise, offering little nutritional advantage over their sugary neighbours'

nutritional advantage over their sugary neighbours", he says.

Melissa Abbott, a consumer researcher at the Hartman Group, a consultancy says the industry has reached an uncertain point where protein and ultra-processed foods are meeting. "More than anything, taste continues to be the most important thing.

For manufacturers, that means making products people want to eat, rather than simply putting a number on the front of the packaging. Friesland-Campina is investing in research into taste, texture and how different types of protein behave in different foods.

With a protein bar, says Aerts, there is a substantial difference between "chewing on a brick" and eating something that "almost tastes like a candy bar". That distinction matters more if manufacturers want to reach beyond committed sports-nutrition consumers.

"Sometimes being available was enough," he says. "We don't believe that will be the case in the future."

Thanks to social media, consumers' understanding of protein is growing quickly – and with it their expectations, says Lucy Woods, a consumer insights specialist at agribusiness giant Cargill. Americans might be moving from simply wanting more to wanting more variety, she says, asking "what kind of protein is in that pasta or in that pizza?"

With protein counts increasingly appearing on food packaging and restaurant menus, and consumers more engaged in nutrition, consumers may start asking a different question, says Woods: "Am I eating too much protein? How much protein should I be getting?"

Obituary MP and author defined by both success and scandal

Jeffrey Archer Novelist and politician 1940-2026

Jeffrey Archer's public life was defined by headline-grabbing scandals, bouts of outright charlatanry and almost comically gigantic publishing success.

His character – part bumptious cricket-loving schoolboy, part barking major general – was best summed up by his steadfast wife Mary. She admitted, after Archer found himself in yet another spot of bother, that her husband "has a gift for inaccurate précis".

Archer, who has died aged 86, led a bustling life as a Conservative politician and one of the bestselling novelists of the past half century. He claimed to have sold more than 300mn books in more than 100 countries.

His beloved Margaret Thatcher, to whom Archer provided entertainment as a kind of modern-day political court jester in the 1980s and 1990s, called him the "extrovert's extrovert". Ringo Starr, encountering an earlier version of Archer in the 1960s, described him as "the kind of bloke who would bottle your piss and sell it".

Archer was born in north London in 1940. He would later give misleading accounts of what his father, William, did. Was he, as his son variously claimed, a British consul, an army officer "who went through the fall of Singapore", a sergeant in the Somerset Light Infantry in 1914?

No, no and no. William Archer was later revealed to be a convicted fraudster and bigamist. Archer's mother Lola was a journalist who wrote a weekly column for her local paper in Weston-super-Mare, where Archer grew up.

Bullied at school for being short, Archer transformed himself into an athlete. "The Pune", as he was tauntingly known by other boys, became an Oxford Blue who represented England and Great Britain as a sprinter.

An “inaccurate précis” had smoothed Archer’s way into a teacher training course affiliated with Brasenose College: he allegedly invented academic qualifications to get into Oxford.

Reflecting on the enigmatic nature of his origins in 1998, Archer wrote, "Yes, I was young once, and, yes, I have made a number of mistakes in my life. I'm neither genius nor saint." He admitted that his father didn't win the Distinguished Conduct Medal, and that his grandfather was never the Lord Mayor of Bristol.

After success as a student fundraiser and marriage to Mary in 1966, Archer entered politics with a seat on the Greater London Council in 1967. By the end of the decade he was representing Louth, in Lincolnshire, for the Tories, becoming Britain's fourth youngest MP.

He resigned from parliament in 1974 when he was declared bankrupt after an investment in a Canadian company, Aquablast, misfired.

Faced with an overdraft of £427,727, Archer decided to reinvent himself as a man of letters. His first novel, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less, appeared in 1976. Subsequent titles such as Kane and Abel and The Clifton Chronicles were also bestsellers. Archer's homes included a Thames-facing penthouse, an 18th-century vicarage once owned by Rupert Brooke and a clifftop writing eyrie in Mallorca.

Archer's by-the-bootstraps ascent back into the public eye made him Thatcherism's poster boy in the early 1980s, a living embodiment of the Tory ideal of self-reliance.

Despite being warned that he was "an accident waiting to happen" by her deputy Willie Whitelaw, Thatcher appointed Archer deputy chair of the Conservative Party in 1985. He resigned 13 months later, after it was


Archer claimed to have sold more than 300mn books in 100 countries

His steadfast wife Mary admitted, after he found himself in another spot of bother, that he had 'a gift for inaccurate précis' reported that he paid off a sex worker, Monica Coghlan, to the tune of £2,000. Archer cleared his name through the courts in 1987.

He was ennobled by John Major in 1992, a time when an invitation to Archer's champagne and shepherd's pie Christmas parties was one of the most coveted in London.

But in 2001 Archer was found guilty of perjury and perverting the course of justice at the 1987 trial, in effect ending his political career, which had been reborn yet again with a tilt at the London mayoralty.

He served two years in prison. Loyal friends, including Thatcher, helped rehabilitate him upon his release in 2003.

Archer inspired as much suspicion as loyalty throughout his life, although later years saw a softening of his public image. In 2023, he called time on the Christmas parties.

He described his latest novel, Adam and Eve, as "the best book I've ever written" in a BBC interview on Sunday, as part of a relentless promotional push. Archer's last days were spent doing what he did best: publicity. Will Lloyd

FINANCIAL TIMES 'Without fear and without favour'

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The remarkable resilience of the global economy

Surprising robustness of growth and trade rests on shaky foundations

The global economic backdrop does not look pretty. Even though US courts have curbed much of President Donald Trump's protectionist agenda, the effective tariff rate of the world's largest economy is still at its highest level in several decades. The Iran war has meanwhile delivered the biggest disruption to oil markets since the 1970s, just as Russia's conflict with Ukraine continues to strain global supplies of food, fertiliser and fuel. Most recently, concerns over high debt piles and rising interest rates have stoked an intense bond market sell-off. Yet growth appears to be holding up remarkably well.

Last month, global business activity reached a joint 40-month high, according to JPMorgan's composite purchasing managers' index. The worldwide trade in goods is also expected to grow faster in the coming years. In all, the global economy is expected to muster a respectable annual growth rate of around 3 per cent this year and next. As policymakers gather in Bangkok next week for the IMF and World Bank meetings, understanding what has sustained global economic expansion is as important as assessing the risks ahead.

Governments have played an important role. Long-running efforts to support the green transition and build up oil and gas stocks, and release them, have provided a valuable buffer. And across the world, support packages have absorbed some of the cost pressures facing consumers.

Much of the credit goes to the agile private sector. Faced with tariffs and geopolitical disruption, businesses have quickly found new suppliers, shifted production and rerouted trade. As the flow of oil, gas and chemicals through the Strait of Hormuz has been clogged up, producers from Canada to

Kazakhstan the have stepped up their exports.

The AI boom has provided a further boost. Surging demand for chips, servers and circuit boards has lifted exports across Asia, and suppliers of specialist equipment in Europe. In the US, the vast spending on data centres and related infrastructure has powered industrial output, despite the country's high import duties. The investment frenzy has also propelled stock markets, generating wealth effects that have helped sustain consumer spending.

Good fortune has helped. The AI build-out has come with fortuitous timing, offsetting geopolitical shocks. Dollar weakness has helped cushion developing economies, and legal challenges have blunted Trump's more aggressive tariff plans.

Still, there is little room for complacency. Bond investors are losing patience with heavily indebted governments, while populist politicians threaten to make fiscal restraint harder.

Dollar weakness has helped cushion developing economies, and legal challenges have blunted Trump's more aggressive tariff plans

The longer the Iran war persists, the more existing buffers will be depleted. And with so much trade and investment now riding on AI, any misuse, accident or disappointment over the technology's commercial returns would reverberate across the global economy.

There are, though, valuable lessons in what has worked. Having some fiscal space has allowed governments to cushion the blows. But that room is running out and rebuilding it through credible consolidation is essential, lest bond markets become the source of the next shock. Equally important is supporting the ability of businesses to adapt. Removing barriers to hiring, investment and expansion helps the private sector respond faster, while deeper trade ties and better transport and energy infrastructure give companies more options when supply chains are disrupted. The world economy has proved remarkably resourceful so far. Keeping it that way will require more than good fortune.

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Don't panic about the plague

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her death and a chorus of concern over the potential for an epidemic. While details of the incident remain scant and contradictory, history offers us some important context.

Fear is an understandable initial response to a pathogen so odious it has acquired the moniker "plague". The Yersinia pestis bacterium was responsible for two of the deadliest pandemics in human history; the plague of Justinian (541-549 AD) and the Black Death. By the end of its terrible reign in the mid-1300s, the Black Death had killed somewhere between 30 and 60 per cent of Europe's population.

he death of Russian plague researcher Daria Shipilova has ignited a firestorm of speculation over the circumstances of

Infections can take a variety of forms, depending on how the disease

Quarantining staff and close contacts seems a reasonable precaution rather than ominous

Today that once relentless killer is now relatively easily treated with antibiotics, its deadly legacy often considered a relic of antiquity. But Y pestis remains endemic in parts of the world. Between 2019 and 2025, the WHO recorded 3,847 suspected cases and 423 deaths worldwide. While most stemmed from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Madagascar, there were cases in the US and China. Russia last reported wild cases in 2018. As plague remains an active threat in many regions, Y pestis is still researched worldwide. Plague has been endemic in Siberia for millennia affects the body. Most common is bubonic plague, defined by swollen, blackened lymph nodes that gave the middle-age pestilence its name. Septicaemic plague results from bacteria entering the bloodstream, while inhalation of bacteria leads to pneumonic plague. While severity and prognosis vary markedly, the same agent is responsible for all forms.

— the Irkutsk Institute where Shipilova worked was established in 1934.

As with all research, there are risks. Pathogen research is conducted at an array of universities and hospitals worldwide, and laboratory-acquired infections (LAIs) and accidental pathogen escape from laboratory settings (APELs) are periodic occurrences.

Historical incidents of lab infections have involved everything from poliovirus to Ebola. A review in the Lancet Microbe journal identified 309 LAIs and 16 APELs worldwide between 2000 and 2021. Of the eight LAI fatalities during the period, plague exposure accounted for two. Crucially, however, even with highly pathogenic agents, neither LAIs nor APELs typically result in onward chains of transmission due to multiple levels of containment and risk mitigation.

Even so, Russia's long history of being less than transparent about medical hazards renders it harder than it should be to clarify matters. While Moscow is obliged to report such incidents within 24 hours, the incident came to the attention of the WHO only after conflicting stories were being shared on local and social media. One version insists Shipilova was exposed after breaking a test tube, concealing the accident and fatally delaying vital life-saving measures. Another telling asserts she was exposed during a field trip. Russian health authorities have downplayed the plague entirely, stating Shipilova died of “pneumonia of unknown etiology”, finding “no micro-organisms linked to her professional activity”.

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Inevitably, the incident has conjured up the spectre of bioweapons. Chinese and European accounts from the 1300s detail attempts by warring factions to weaponise the plague. Most infamous was the siege of Caffa in 1546, where Mongol attackers catapulted afflicted corpses into the city. More recently, the Soviet Union and imperial Japan experimented with weaponised plague during the second world war. But, evocative as this is, there is no evidence Shipilova's death stemmed from anything so nefarious.

Whatever the cause of her tragic death, quarantining staff members and close contacts seems a reasonable caution rather than inherently ominous. Pneumonic plague is always concerning as it can spread from person to person by infected droplets. Untreated patients, however, get severely ill extremely quickly, drastically limiting transmission potential. While lab accidents happen, the likelihood of onward transmission remains vanishingly small. The chances of it triggering an epidemic are virtually zero, especially given infection is now readily treatable.

While we are still unclear as to what precisely transpired in Russia, this incident is a stark reminder that transparency is vital to mitigate the harms of such events. We can never afford to be complacent about our vulnerability to the microscopic.

The writer is a health scientist and author of 'The Irrational Ape: Why We Fall for Disinformation, Conspiracy Theory and Propaganda'

Pricing extinction risk is an impossible task

An Argentine ant, Linepithema humile, carrying a sunflower seed – Alarm

Richard Waters' opinion piece entitled "Why does Anthropic's IPO feel so weird?" (FT Weekend, October 3) invites a disturbing thought. When did humanity's survival become a risk for IPO subscribers to price?

For a given loss scenario, expected loss is probability multiplied by consequence. But expected loss to whom? A shareholder's financial loss can be measured in invested capital. Humanity's loss would include every human life and every future

Imagine if your cleaner brought a pit bull to work

In "Who let the dogs out? Please put them back" (Opinion, October 3) Emma Jacobs refreshingly addresses the "doggification of human leisure activities" – a taboo topic that needs more conversation to regain spaces such as restaurants, cinemas, and workplaces from the tyranny of pet-owners.

The piece bravely goes against the trend that not only permits, but actively welcomes dogs into inappropriate spaces. It is now widely assumed that the rest of us must tolerate this. But to what end? Restaurant waiters asking if you'd like a table in the non-dog section? Sharing a swimming pool with pooches? Labs in the library?

If you think this is hyperbole or a slippery slope fallacy, go out and count the "Dogs Welcome" signs compared to the signs saying "Guide Dogs Only" and see how the trend compares to a decade ago.

And Jacobs astutely acknowledges that the "dogs in workplaces" fad is a power game. Most workers don't enjoy this privilege; it's for the senior managers to bring dogs in, not their junior staff. Ask yourself what you'd think of the evening cleaner bringing their pit bull into the office alongside the Henry vacuum cleaner. James McDonald

Worthing, West Sussex, UK

Why 'Chicken, Chanterelles' is not a fine dining tell

Your first look at The Horses pub ("Pub group taps the past with restored Victorian hostelry", Report, FT Globetrotter, September 18) treats a dish named "Chicken, Chanterelles" as "shorthand for fine dining".

If so, Fergus Henderson, founder of St John, on St John Street in London, has been running a fine dining restaurant since 1994 without noticing. St John's "cuttlefish and onions" and "roast bone marrow and parsley salad" taught a generation of London cooks to write menus that way, and the pubs followed.

Stanford's Dan Jurafsky, author of the book The Language of Food, read 650,000 menu items so that the rest of us would not need to. He found that expensive restaurants are 15 times more likely to name the farm from where they sourced the ingredients, and that each extra letter in a menu's words adds about 18 cents to the price.

The fine dining tell is closer to "Hand-dived Orkney scallop, fermented kohlrabi, beurre noisette".

On the other hand, a pub that describes an item as "Chicken, Chanterelles" signals only that it expects you to know what a chanterelle is. In Notting Hill that is a fairly safe assumption. Edward Rich London W11, UK

generation. The consequence need not be literally infinite to make a reassuringly small probability profoundly unreassuring.

Anthropic, the maker of the large language model Claude, deserves credit for candour. But putting extinction in a prospectus does not turn it into an acceptable business risk, and disclosure is not mitigation. Those exposed include billions of people who will never own a share.

The question is not whether

Triple lock polemic can not go unchallenged

Claer Barrett's polemic querying the triple lock guarantee on the value of Britain's state pension cannot be allowed to go unanswered ("It's time to scrap the triple lock", Opinion, FT Weekend, September 12).

Her position is based on the assumption that it will eventually be abolished anyway. So young people now are unlikely to support it as they will not benefit. I hope she is wrong.

State pensions are an efficient way of providing guaranteed support that may not be available elsewhere. (Have a look at the overheads for personal pensions or annuities)

Surely the way to get the support of young people is to campaign for political commitments to keep the current arrangements? So that by the operation of the triple lock the state pension will eventually provide an adequate income for all older people.

It's worth noting the way the state pension is linked to national insurance payments. NI income to the exchequer is still substantially more than the cost of the state pension.

NI income could equitably be increased by levying it on workers over the state pension age who currently not only don't pay NI but also receive the state pension. Removing this odd exemption would bring in billions.

Barrett talks about howls of anger from young people about taxes, and illustrates this by reference to young graduates paying a marginal rate of tax of 71 per cent. Certainly the incremental removal of the personal allowance for very high earners which produces this marginal rate seems unfair.

However, I estimate there will be more than howls if the strong safety net of the triple locked state pension is removed without big reductions in taxes: something that is not remotely on the cards. Paul Brown

Glasgow, Scotland, UK investors have been warned, but who has the authority to accept this risk on humanity's behalf.

An IPO can establish a price for a company. It cannot establish humanity's risk appetite. Investors are being offered a choice; the rest of us are being handed the exposure. Peyman Mestchian Chair, AI Markets Group (AIMG) Fellow of the Institute of Risk Management, Hadley Wood, Hertfordshire, UK

Altruism, a trait Britons apparently have in reserve

Will Lloyd's Weekend Essay "How resilient is Britain?" (September 26) catalogues the country's fragility with admirable thoroughness, whether it's food, medicines, cables or engineers.

Yet the strength he finally identifies

- “altruistic people” – arrives only in the closing paragraphs, as a reserve Britain happened to have in the cupboard.

That placement reveals the problem. Human beings are not a residual stock. They are the infrastructure every other system runs on. Pipes do not find their own leaks, and supply chains do not reroute themselves. Like any infrastructure, this human layer can be built up or allowed to decay.

It can also be measured. For 30 years my colleagues and I have studied what I call resilient agency: people's capacity to learn their way through the unexpected. More than 100,000 people have completed our Learning Power for Resilient Agency profile.

At Hunter Water, a water utility in Australia, a sustained investment in the adaptive capacity of its staff, partners and customers – their so-called learning power – was followed by a one-third fall in network leakage over three years. In 2019-20, the region also recorded the country's largest drop in residential water use.

Lloyd rightly ends with sociologist Ulrich Beck's call for transformation. But transformation cannot be ordered, any more than a plant can be ordered to grow. A state can tell citizens where to keep their torches, but it cannot tell them to become resilient. It can, however, create the conditions in which people learn to become resilient agents in their own lives.

The pandemic showed that people will do the right thing. The question is whether we will treat that capacity as infrastructure and build it deliberately. Professor Ruth Crick Founder, WILD Learning Sciences, Bristol, UK

Regulatory code of the ant is masterwork of simplicity

Two cheers for Camilla Cavendish – she hits the nail on the head when she says that regulation is on a self-generating cycle of complexity (Opinion, September 19). But her remedy looks rather like tweaking the regulations in order to better regulate the regulators.

The Argentine ants I have been reading about recently have one answer. Demanding absolute conformity in their population, they appear to have conquered the world. Any eccentric behaviour is extinguished. Their regulatory code is a masterwork of instinctive, unreflecting simplicity and there are no warlike, egocentric tyrants or zillionaire oddballs to lead them astray. Their punishments fit any crime like a glove.

Then again, perhaps we should just stick to our time-wasting paperwork and be thankful that it will be changed for something different soon enough. In the meantime it, at least, provides steady employment. David Boorer

Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK

My first T-bill security was like a greenback, only larger

Brendan Greeley's The Long View column (October 3) about whether Treasuries are considered cash or bonds reminded me of the time I bought my first Treasury security back in the early 1970s, before the digital era. The 5-month bill arrived by mail, an unregistered bearer bond printed on the same paper with the same ink as currency, but about twice the size. Perhaps the confusion between bonds and cash has always been deliberate. Roland Draxler Potomac, MD, US

Doctor, doctor

Let me add to the editorial on fitness trackers (The FT View, October 3) a personal anecdote. On an annual check-up – and in response to a request by my cardiologist if there was anything I wanted to further discuss – I mentioned a low heart rate at night. Asked how I knew this, I showed him my smart watch. "Oh well," he said. "We've just spent a considerable amount of time and money that 30 seconds looking at your watch's data over the last year would have avoided. Everybody over 50 should wear one."

Tony Parrack London SW20, UK

Corrections

- There were several errors in last weekend's HTSI. The Papa Bear chair was designed by Hans Wegner, rather than Pierre Jeanneret, as incorrectly stated in a photo caption. A photo of a Ferrari 308 GTS was mistakenly referred to as a Testarossa. The Black Forest was described as being located in the German state of Bavaria, rather than Baden-Württemberg. And The White Company reported 2025 turnover of £290mn, rather than its parent company, Bectin.

- The Panama Canal no longer has a Chinese stakeholder, as incorrectly stated in a Life & Arts essay in last weekend's paper.

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The former president's son is favourite to defeat Lula in the October 25 run-off. By Geoff Dyer and Michael Pooler

n the early days of his presidential bid, Flávio Bolsonaro worked from the same Brasília office his father once used. The room is dominated by a portrait of Jair Bolsonaro war.

by a portrait of Jan Dolsonaro wearing the presidential sash and another of him praying to God, hands outstretched to the sky.

Flávio took meetings on the sofa and chairs, but was reluctant to sit at his father's old desk. "President Bolsonaro is a person without parallel," he told the FT earlier this year. "He will always be my north star."

There is now a good chance that the younger Bolsonaro, 45, will occupy another office once occupied by his father, this time in the presidential palace. After leading in Sunday's first round of voting, he is the favourite to beat the incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the run-off on October 25 – although there are still two weeks of fierce campaigning to come.

While analysts do not rule out a Lula recovery and note a hint of premature triumphalism in the Bolsonaro camp, they also say Bolsonaro has a clear advantage. The scion of the family business has already demonstrated the durability of Bolsonarismo as a political movement, a tropical analogue to Maga.

When his father was elected in 2018, some put it down to the way his brusque, illiberal charisma appealed to voters at a unique moment when scandal had discredited much of the elite. But this election has shown the movement has much deeper roots.

Just as Donald Trump has done in the US, so the Bolsonaros have refashioned Brazilian politics around their radical right instincts. These combine conservative social views tinged with evangelical Christianity, hardline policies against drug gangs and a rhetorical bent towards entrepreneurs, all wrapped in an anti-system rhetoric that drips with disdain for progressives.

And as Trump did in 2024, they could orchestrate a remarkable comeback. Only a year ago, the dynasty's political future seemed doomed after Jair Bolsonaro was jailed for 27 years for plotting a coup after losing the 2022 election. But with the family seemingly on the verge of a return to power, what is less clear is who will be calling the shots this time around. Aware that his surname is his chief political asset, Flávio has gone out of his way to praise his father and has shown few signs over the course of his career of taking an independent path.

A presidential pardon would run the risk of a legal challenge. But even before the second round has been held, allies are openly discussing other ways to get Jair's conviction overturned before the January 5 inauguration, so that father and son could walk up the ramp to the Planalto Palace together with the rest of the family.

Thaís Oyama, author of Tormenta, a book about Jair Bolsonaro, says Flávio's temperament makes him unlikely to stand up to his father in the event of disagreement. While Jair is "full of certainties, obsessions and fixations", Flávio "is different, he listens".


Person in the News | Flávio Bolsonaro

Scion of a Brazilian dynasty eyes victory

"That can be a good thing or a very bad thing," she says. "He's not a very firm person. He's easily swayed."

The oldest of five children, Flávio was born in Rio de Janeiro and has been in politics for much of his adult life, first in the Rio state assembly and since 2019 as a senator. A lawyer, his main private sector experience was as part-owner of a franchise of Kopenhagen, a popular chain of chocolate shops, in a Rio shopping mall.

In 2019, Rio prosecutors accused him of skimming funds from his state legislature office and of using the chocolate shop to launder money. The case ended up being dismissed in 2022 after the Supreme Court ruled much of the evidence inadmissible. Flávio consistently denied the accusations and said they were politically motivated.

An evangelical, he has been baptised several times, including once in the Jordan River in Israel. Unlike his father, a former army captain who surrounded himself in office with retired generals,

Flávio has no direct connection to the military.

If he wins, he will be joined in Brasília by his stepmother Michelle and brother Carlos, now both in the Senate, while brother Jair Renan and an uncle will be in the House of Representatives.

By temperament, Flávio is the most

'He doesn't share his father's impulsiveness, but he is very much part of hardcore Bolsonarismo'

mild-mannered of the Bolsonaros. Senate colleagues say he is conciliatory, a key skill for a president who will have to negotiate complex deals with Congress.

He has made spending cuts an early priority, which he hopes will allow interest rates to fall. Markets have reacted positively to his potential victory, in part because he would have a strong base in Congress. He has also promised to work more closely with the Trump administration.

The first round of voting has already enhanced Flávio's stature nationally and if he puts together a coherent economic plan, it would help establish his leadership. But his credibility could still be badly damaged if he appears to be taking instructions from his father.

"The main question is just how ideological a Flávio Bolsonaro government would be," says Oyama. "He doesn't share his father's fervour or impulsiveness, but he is very much part of hardcore Bolsonarismo."

Jair Bolsonaro will be a "key adviser" but will not "want to steal Flávio's spotlight," said Gerald Brant, a Miami-based financier who has known Flávio for more than a decade. However, he adds: "Flávio of course realises that Jair is the head of the movement."

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A very German spy scandal

EUROPE

Constanze Stelzenmüller

all me a romantic, but I prefer my spy scandals served with glamour or at least a whiff of loucheness; the kind that feature a charismatic stranger

called Sergei with a cashmere turtle-neck and bare feet in suede loafers.

But this being Germany, the country's latest example of the genre involves a retired 80-year-old spy chief and a mole in its foreign intelligence agency. The latter applied for, and received, official permission from the agency to undertake paid outside activities, whereupon he allegedly sold classified documents to the ex-spy chief for more than a decade.

August Hanning, who was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of treason, was the chief of the German foreign intelligence service, or BND, from 1998 to 2005. Subsequently, he was state secretary in the interior ministry until 2009, a position that involved oversight of the domestic intelligence service.

Police also arrested his former chief of staff, identified as Manfred D. According to prosecutors, he is alleged to have passed on "approximately 2,000 documents" including classified executive intelligence briefings for the chancellor and cabinet-level officials to Hanning "in exchange for remuneration" between 2010 and 2022. All this while working as BND chief of staff.

With hindsight, there appear to have been signs of outsized self-regard, lax judgment and unusual financial needs that ought to have given German authorities pause. The energetic Hanning had been highly visible in office. After leaving it, he became a fixture on the media and conference circuit. He opined on a broad range of topics from Islamist terror, migrants, the US intelligence services and Russia's invasion of Ukraine to the urgency of providing the BND with more powers.

At the same time, and despite a generous state pension (over €10,000 a month), Hanning set up shop as a security consultant. He also joined the board of a Latvian bank owned by a Russian oligarch. In 2019, the bank failed, Hanning was sued for damages, and two-thirds of his pension garnished. One newspaper noted drily that “all this was known in Berlin political circles, and it was occasionally discussed”.

Yet the alleged leaks came to light only in September 2025 when police raided Hanning's house and found the government documents. The raid was in connection with the investigation of a steakhouse heiress on trial in Hamburg for allegedly orchestrating the abduction of her children in a custody battle with the father. Hanning is accused by local prosecutors of introducing her to an Israeli security firm that arranged the kidnapping of

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On the question of what exactly Hanning did with the stolen material, the prosecutors' statement is tight-lipped. It alleges only that he was in contact with or passed on information to employees of two unidentified foreign intelligence services. (Unnamed officials are cited as saying Russia was not one of them.) Hanning's lawyer admits his client had the documents but denies he passed them on or received payment in exchange.

The magazine Der Spiegel speculates that the paper trail might lead to Azerbaijan or China; the authoritarian regimes of both countries have assiduously cultivated, and spied on, German political influencers for decades, resulting in harsh sentences for some of those involved. Authorities in Baku have expressed their disgust at this “malicious disinformation”.

Both suspects remain in pre-trial detention, which is subject to strict legal conditions. That strongly suggests there may be more revelations to come.

Meanwhile, this spectacular intelligence breach – the worst since the arrest of the East German spy Günter Guillaume in 1974 forced the resignation of then Chancellor Willy Brandt – could hardly have come at a worse time for the BND and for Chancellor Friedrich Merz's beleaguered coalition.

The BND's reputation has already taken some knocks in recent years. The trial of its head of technical reconnaissance, Carsten L, who was arrested in

This spectacular intelligence breach could hardly have come at a worse time for the BND

2022 on suspicion of selling secrets to Moscow, is ongoing; he faces a potential life sentence. But that Hanning and his chief of staff were allegedly able to steal and sell classified documents for more than a decade indicates an appalling failure in oversight that will require an exacting investigation and clean-up.

Information exchanges with partner agencies are crucial for the BND and will probably have been included in briefing materials for the chancellery. MI6, the CIA and others now face the realisation that their assessments and sources may have been compromised for years.

The BND's current head Martin Jäger wants to turn it from an agency mainly restricted to intelligence collection and analysis into one capable of offensive operations such as cyber “hackbacks” against adversaries. This is an urgent necessity as Russia ups its reckless shadow war in Europe. But the latest controversy risks blowing up the draft law that paves the way for the reform.

Hanning, it appears, has betrayed his career, his colleagues, his peers and his country at a time of great danger. And that is neither romantic nor funny.

The writer directs the Center on the US and Europe at the Brookings Institution

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Opinion

The narrow Tory path to power

We are now going to see a fight to the death on the right – which the Conservatives may yet lose

BRITAIN

Camilla Cavendish

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irst, get a hearing. Since the Conservatives lost the general election in 2024, the populists have sucked up most of the oxygen. It has been a rude awakening for the party, which languishes in third place in the polls and still faces possible annihilation. Some of its tone had been unappealingly shrill. But the Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has now opened up a possible path back to power.

This week has marked a significant shift in Tory strategy, in three respects. Badenoch's visceral and authentic attack on Reform UK's leadership categorically ruled out any future pact – and crucially she took her audience of party members and activists with her. We are now going to see a fight to the death on the right, which the Conservatives may yet lose. This is a big gamble by the Tories – Nigel Farage's core support is entrenched despite the cryptoshenanigans, and the Conservatives lost their deposit in two of the four by-elections this year. But the move still comes as a relief to many Tory MPs who were sick of chasing a man they loathe. And the Labour slogan "vote Tory, get Farage" no longer holds water.

When it comes to Labour, the government's leftward drift has opened up an

Badenoch has put an end to the infighting but the party must choose pragmatism over ideology

obvious argument about the economy, enterprise and the size of the state. Prime Minister Andy Burnham appears lukewarm about business and has no theory of growth beyond devolution. The coming Budget would be a challenging one for any chancellor, but this government's tendency to postpone difficult decisions does not inspire confidence.

Even more striking, to me, was the Conservative mea culpa. The Right Way, a 100-page document published at this week's party conference, is a lengthy statement of principles and policies. It also contains a clear-eyed acknowledgment of past failures. Badenoch declares in the foreword: "We promised lower immigration without a strategy for delivering it. Net Zero was legislated for before we had an economically feasible route to get there. We left the European Union without the economic plan that should have gone with it." To deliver such a message takes a very strong leader indeed. I take issue with the idea that any economic plan could have made a success of Brexit. But this indicates a party which is moving forward.

Britain needs an end to political drama, and it needs competence. Badenoch has put an end to the infighting in her party. But if the Conservatives are to be trusted again, they must also choose pragmatism over ideology. It would be wrong to quibble over nationalising water, for example, a natural monopoly which should never have been privatised. And their promise to ditch inheritance tax lacks the clear link to growth of other tax pledges on national insurance and stamp duty.

If they are wise, the Tories will be careful not to rise to their opponents' bait. In choosing to focus on electoral reform and a possible EU rapprochement at his own party conference, Burnham was making a clear overture to the Liberal Democrats, and inviting the right to respond by looking unhinged. Reform UK has already screamed at the idea of getting closer to Europe. But Burnham's vague pledges are of the "talks about talks" variety.

The Conservatives should instead hold the government accountable for what it's doing right now: making it harder to employ people, failing to rein in welfare, planning to dismantle reforms that dramatically improved educational outcomes over the past 20 years. It also seems unlikely that any future Conservative government would row back on an improvement in UK-EU relations or even Burnham's curbing of the triple-lock ratchet. Better to keep your powder dry and focus on the issues you want to talk about.

This will still be an uphill battle, especially when the best chance of getting on the airwaves is to shout. I continue to assume that Burnham may call an election next year while the right is split. But he has promised not to, and the numbers aren't great: Labour would lose its majority, according to the latest More in Common analysis. And while it would be the largest party, it wouldn't muster enough numbers to govern even with the Liberal Democrats. That means bringing in the SNP, Greens and Plaid Cymru or some combination.

Badenoch's path to power is far narrower, with no obvious coalition options. But the picture is complicated by the fact that almost half of all parliamentary seats are on a knife edge. The Conservatives are in second place in 63 of Reform's 102 marginal seats, while Reform is second in 49 of the Conservatives' 80 marginal seats. More in Common suggests that a mere 1 per cent swing from Reform UK to the Tories could dramatically change the picture. So Badenoch may be able to win back ground without returning to the Tories' former level of national support.

Burnham is clearly uniting the left. But on the right, the Conservatives can't just wait for Reform UK to implode. The question is whether they can start to look like a government-in-waiting beyond the leader. Their tone has often been uncomfortably shrill. On the environment, The Right Way states that "net zero scepticism is not climate-change scepticism" and that "the case is harder to prosecute as long as people believe they are the same thing". But the party hasn't helped itself by simply sounding anti-environment.

Britain needs a competent opposition. Voters need the option of a party which is pro-enterprise. If the public is willing to start listening again, the Conservatives could be back in the game.

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Get used to multi-party politics, it's here to stay

Alan Renwick

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his week's by-election in Holborn and St Pancras gave us a psephological first: in no previous by-election have Labour and the

Green Party shared the top two spots. A minor record, perhaps one only for political aficionados. But this was the seventh parliamentary by-election since the general election, and it delivered the seventh different top-two configuration. We have also had Reform UK and Labour slugging it out, the Greens and Reform, SNP versus the Conservatives, the Conservatives defeating the SNP, Labour defeating a Reform challenger and, famously, Nigel Farage's face-off with a bin.

All this variety illustrates that Britain has firmly entered an era of multi-party politics. Gone are the days of dominance by the two main parties – indeed, one configuration we have yet to see since

2024 is a straight contest between Labour and the Conservatives.

Into this kaleidoscopic mix, Andy Burnham has thrown a grenade. He is the first modern prime minister to advocate scrapping the first-past-the-post voting system for Westminster elections. Speaking to the Labour conference last month, he pledged that, following a review, the party's next manifesto would include a commitment to electoral reform.

This is a major step. Elections are the very heart of our democracy. How much would it change if the prime minister made good on his promise, given the new multi-party competition?

Burnham's commitment to the cause does appear sincere. He wants to change two features of the rules, arguing that two aspects of politics would shift. He believes voters should be able to express multiple preferences rather than just select one candidate or party, arguing this would make politics more collaborative. And he wants a degree of proportionality between support and seats won, so that a party – might he be thinking of Reform? – cannot gain power on less than a third of the vote. He has consistently voiced this analysis over several years.

But change is not inevitable. Our current system benefits the largest party – will Labour MPs back reform if their recent polling bounce gains momentum? It's not a priority for many voters, so will Burnham really expend political capital pursuing it?

One possible outcome is a more lim-

This was the seventh by-election since 2024 and it delivered the seventh different top-two mix

ited reform than ardent supporters would like. Labour has already restored one version of preferential voting – the supplementary vote – for mayoral elections, after the Conservatives scrapped it in 2022. It allows voters to express first and second preferences and would be the simplest change for general elections. A step further would be to adopt the alternative vote, where voters can rank as many candidates as they like.

We have already had a referendum on this in 2011 – the proposition was comprehensively defeated.

Both options would consolidate the recent shift towards multi-party politics, but structured into two blocs on left and right. Under FPTP, this pattern requires deft tactical voting from voters. Under a preferential system, it gets much easier.

But neither SV nor AV would satisfy Burnham's desire for proportionality. They would still leave the national result as the haphazard product of 650 constituency contests, whereas the proportional system seeks to match seats won (at least roughly) to the spread of votes across parties.

A full-fat proportional system that kept Burnham's desire for preferential voting would be the single transferable vote. Beloved of reform devotees for over a century, this would create constituencies that would each elect maybe five MPs. Voters would rank the candidates, and the outcome would reflect the spread of opinion – the system is already used for some elections in Northern Ireland and Scotland.

Alternatively, Burnham could pursue an intermediate option: an element of proportionality but continuing with one MP per constituency. The last major review of the voting system – the Jenkins commission, set up by Tony Blair in 1997 – came up with exactly such a solution, dubbed "AV+".

STV really would change our politics. Coalition governments would likely become the norm – a recipe for unstable government and weak accountability, critics say. Advocates counter that it would lead to better policymaking and broader representation. AV+ would leave us somewhere between this new world and the status quo.

What will happen remains highly uncertain. Major reform will be likeliest under a Labour-led coalition after the next election. This by-election may have helped to re-establish Labour as the main vehicle on the progressive wing of politics but an outright majority still looks improbable. Even without a change in the voting system, we are in a new era for party politics.

The writer is Professor of Democratic Politics and director of the Constitution Unit at University College London

Our 1990s nostalgia is far too rose-tinted

Shahidha Bari

here are no Tamagotchis at Tate Britain's latest show, The 90s: Art and Fashion. No lurid latex Mr Blobbys preparing to pounce from behind the oversized pictures of a pouting Kate Moss. Not a thing that even hints at the deep and enduring naffness of 1990s culture; those of us who lived through it probably remember all this rather ruefully. But nostalgia – well – it's not what it used to be.

The '90s have been back for a while if the preponderance of boot-cut jeans and Britpop revivals are an indicator of anything. Mixed responses to the new film adaptations of Sense and Sensibility and a forthcoming Pride and Prejudice seem more likely to have sent people scurrying back to the 1995 BBC serialisation and Emma Thompson's Oscar-winning screenplay of the same year than to the books themselves. We could clutch our bonnets in horror at this, or ask why the '90s are now being cast as the new halcyon days of our cultural lives.

Nostalgia is contagious. It is practically a disease. The word – deriving from the Greek nostos, a return home, and algos, suffering or pain – hasn't always been synonymous with rosetinted reminiscences. It was the name given in 1688 by Swiss medical student Johannes Hofer to the longing felt by soldiers serving far from home, a melancholia so debilitating and intense it could induce symptoms of exhaustion, loss of appetite and fever. The Romantics later revelled in it as an aesthetic, ushering in an age of dreamy poets gazing moodily at ruins.

It is almost cheeringly absurd that the Tate's show, curated by former British Vogue editor Edward Enninful, should be so determinedly filled with stylish things: small sharks suspended in formaldehyde – teeth as sharp as the Ozwald Boateng suits behind them, the iconoclastic i-D magazine editions that

It's flattering to believe your generation could have been so effortlessly cool. Spoiler alert: most of us were not

edgy kids kept pristine and a Philip Treacy hat nonchalantly mounted with a rigged galleon. It's flattering to believe your generation could have been so effortlessly cool. Spoiler alert: most of us were not. If, like me, the '90s were the formative years of your youth, then the nostalgia for the decade is also perplexing. And it's a complicated business working out what should live on.

When in 1825, the essayist William Hazlitt sought to capture the "spirit" of his age, he picked out the work of Byron, Bentham and Scott to measure the intellectual temper of his time. But we're too close to the '90s to confidently hold up a novel by Zadie Smith to define the decade or to claim that The Spice Girls put the zig-ah-zig-ahhh into the Zeitgeist. We might be more confident of the work of the women of the Young British Artists movement (the YBAs) though — Sarah Lucas, Gillian Wearing, Tracey Emin among others. The show reminds us that their works still stand up, that their concerns with the hazards of sexual freedom in a world of sexual violence remain our concerns 30 years on.

It's tempting to pretend that the '90s were a simpler time. We were the Cool Britannia brigade (though we would have been indignant at the label), post-Berlin Wall coming down, pre-9/11, kicking around waiting for the internet to take off. It's true that there is a pre-social media innocence associated with witnessing the infancy of the digital age; we lived in that strange interregnum between Ask Jeeves and Google.

But it's also impossible to forget how the '90s were scarred by wars in the Balkans, by the Rwanda genocide and the long shadow cast by the Aids crisis. Hamad Butt's Familiars – an astonishing 1992 sculptural series of iodine suspended in glass – is the one exceptional work in the Tate show. He died of Aids-related complications in 1994 at just 32. It's worth remembering that when Familiars was first shown at the Tate in 1995, the installation broke and the gallery had to be evacuated. Perhaps there's something to take from that. Our recollections of the '90s are beautiful, and dangerously fragile too.

The writer is an academic, critic and broadcaster

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Companies & Markets

SoftBank seeks \$100bn from Gulf backers to expand AI bet

- Japanese group's chief in UAE talks - Plan comes at critical point for market

DAVID KEOHANE AND LEO LEWIS — TOKYO

Masayoshi Son is seeking to raise up to \$100bn from Gulf investors as the SoftBank founder hunts for fresh financial firepower to scale up a colossal AI bet that has already made him one of the technology's biggest champions.

Son has held discussions in recent weeks with senior figures, including in the United Arab Emirates, over the possible fundraising, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.

The fundraising effort is the latest in a series of big AI bets by the buccaneering Japanese billionaire, including a \$65bn investment in ChatGPT maker OpenAI.

It also comes as a delay to OpenAI's long-anticipated initial public offering and fears over the scale of SoftBank's exposure to the AI boom have led some investors to reassess Son's ability to plough more money into a technology he has hailed as revolutionary.

As part of the Gulf fundraising, the SoftBank founder would use the money to set up a fund to buy companies and then use AI and other technology to improve their operations, the people said. Roze, SoftBank's robotics and physical AI business that Son hopes to float at a lofty valuation, is expected to play a key role in this process.

There is no guarantee the talks with Gulf investors will be successful, the people added.

In recent years, Gulf nations have deployed part of their vast wealth into the AI sector to diversify their energy-dependent economies.

Abu Dhabi, in particular, has emerged as one of the world's biggest spenders on AI through vehicles such as the AI-focused fund MGX and AI holding company G42. Representatives for those companies did not respond to requests for comment.

SoftBank declined to comment.

Son remains one of the most controversial investors in technology with an investment strategy that some regard as tantamount to gambling. The approach has occasionally resulted in eye-catching failures such as WeWork, which filed for bankruptcy in late 2023.

However, he has also enjoyed spectacular success, most notably with Alibaba, and has repeatedly reinvented SoftBank, first as a telecoms group and now as one of the biggest backers of AI.

Son has previously turned to Gulf investors to write large cheques to back his ambitions. Mubadala, one of the UAE's sovereign wealth funds, and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund invested in SoftBank's first \$100bn Vision Fund in 2017.

Since its inception, the first Vision Fund has generated about \$29bn in cumulative investment gains as of the end of June. The more recent Vision Fund 2, which is primarily backed by

SoftBank and contains the OpenAI stake, has generated \$20.5bn.

Son has used a combination of fund-raising and borrowing, partially backed by SoftBank's stake in chipmaker Arm and its own resources, to finance his investments.

Last month, SoftBank completed the largest junk bond offering on record, paying investors yields as high as 9.75 per cent to raise more than \$11bn.

Any commitment from deep-pocketed Gulf investors would also come at a

A fall in OpenAI's value could be problematic as so much of SoftBank's investments are tied to it

critical juncture for the AI boom, which has powered Wall Street stocks to record highs and ignited an investment frenzy.

Anthropic, the maker of Claude and OpenAI's arch-rival, is expected to launch a potentially record-breaking IPO in coming weeks even as fears over the safety of the technology have intensified.

Son has dismissed sceptics of the technology, saying in July that "those who condemn AI are themselves spitting upwards". More recently he admitted that if AI were used by "bad" actors it could "become super dangerous".

OpenAI's decision to delay an IPO, due to what both the company and competitors say are risks around the development of AI, could hurt SoftBank's plans for new AI investments.

SoftBank's share price is up 25 per cent this year but has fallen more than 30 per cent since June when it was briefly Japan's most valuable company.

The stock fell 5 per cent yesterday after the FT reported that OpenAI's annualised revenue was about \$20bn lower than the company had signalled.

SoftBank's ability to raise debt is linked to the existing valuations on its balance sheets with net asset value standing at ¥72.3tn at the end of June.

Its loan-to-value ratio stood at 13 per cent at the end of June – well below the 25 per cent ceiling targeted during normal operations.

Senior SoftBank figures said short-term movements in the valuation of OpenAI or other large portfolio companies would not upset investment plans.

A fall in OpenAI's valuation could be problematic, said analysts and others close to the company, as so much of SoftBank's investments are linked either directly to the ChatGPT maker or AI more broadly. "A contagion effect . . . could get quite bad, quite quickly," said one Asia-based analyst. Additional reporting by Nicolas Parasie in Dubai and Arash Massoudi in London The Long View page 24


SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son has repeatedly reinvented SoftBank, first as a telecoms group and now as one of the top AI investors — Rodrigo Reyes Mariny/EPA/Shutterstock

Treasury yields at risk of 26-year high, Pimco says

HARRIET CLARFELT — NEW YORK

US benchmark borrowing costs risk hitting 6 per cent for the first time in 26 years as fears over high oil prices, inflation and America's towering public debt roil the world's most important bond market, Pimco has warned.

Dan Ivascyn, chief investment officer at bond giant Pimco, said that a further sharp rise in 10-year Treasury yields – from the current level of 5.29 per cent – is “feasible” as investors such as hedge funds are forced to ditch their losing bets on bonds following weeks of heavy selling in the \$32tn market.

"It is certainly possible, even from a short-term trading perspective, given that some of the activity we've seen in the last couple of weeks is tied to some negative technicals, some stop-out activity from the platform hedge funds and other levered investors. You can certainly get there," Ivascyn told the FT.

Investors have warned in recent weeks that a “vicious loop” is taking hold in the Treasury market as waves of selling bring yields to levels that prompt other market participants such as real estate investment trusts to sell bonds.

US 10-year yields, a benchmark for trillions of dollars in assets globally, are trading at levels last seen at the turn of the millennium as investors worry about inflation fuelled by the Iran war, a vast borrowing binge by AI companies and expectations for strong economic growth. Inflation is toxic for bonds, which provide investors with fixed revenue streams.

The rise in yields has heaped pressure on US households just weeks ahead of midterm elections. Data on Thursday showed that US mortgage rates had hit their highest level since 2023, with the 30-year fixed rate averaging 7.4 per cent as of October 8, up 0.12 percentage points from the prior week.

Ivascyn said that a further rise in Treasury yields could also deal a blow to riskier assets such as stocks and corporate bonds. If 10-year Treasury yields hit 5.5 per cent or above, "you're going to see some decent weakness in risk markets, both credit and equity", he said.

While US share indices are near

Dan Ivascyn of Pimco said that a further rise in yields could also hit stocks and corporate bonds

record highs, there are signs that high yields are weighing on some US companies. Borrowing costs on the bonds of companies with the lowest credit ratings hit their highest level since May 2020 this month at 17 per cent.

In addition to stress in risky segments of public markets, Ivascyn predicted that higher Treasury yields would spark problems "in slow motion" for parts of private markets, including commercial real estate, where there are "a lot of still fragile capital structures, fundamental weakness".

Ivascyn noted that elevated yields would eventually prompt investors to shift more of their portfolios into Treasuries as they seek to lock in high returns.

That would present a “limiting factor on how high yields can go from here”.

Airlines

Delta slashes profit outlook as Iran-led higher fuel prices bite

CHRISTIAN DAVIES — KANSAS CITY

Delta Air Lines slashed its profit forecast despite achieving record third-quarter revenues, as it predicts that a surge in the price of jet fuel resulting from the Iran conflict will cost it an extra \$6bn this year.

Revenues to the end of September rose 16 per cent year on year to \$17.6bn as deep-pocketed consumers and business travellers shrugged off higher air fares and sought out perks including lounges and premium seating.

But the US carrier's net income declined by almost half over the period as fuel expenses rose by 69 per cent. US jet fuel hit \$4.71 a gallon on Thursday — its highest point since April, amid signs that a brief revival in shipping through the Strait of Hormuz is fading.

As a result, Delta has cut its full-year profit forecast by almost a quarter to an earnings-per-share range of \$5.10-\$5.60, down from guidance of \$6.50-\$7.50 just three months ago.

Erik Snell, Delta's chief financial officer, said that the downgraded forecast was entirely because of the price of fuel being higher than the market expected in July, and that there was "reason to believe [it would remain] higher for longer for a period of time".

Delta's forecast is that the average price of jet fuel for the fourth quarter of the year will be \$4.25 a gallon. That compares with a price of about \$2.50 per gallon just before the US and Israel launched their military assault on Iran at the end of February. Unlike European airlines, US carriers do not hedge jet fuel, which has left them more exposed to the soaring prices.

Snell said that Delta had mitigated its fuel costs this year by about \$700mn as a result of owning an oil refinery that makes it less reliant on buying from the open market. It has also cut losses by reducing capacity, raising fares and expanding its premium offerings.

"Equalling our earnings that we had last year with a 60 per cent higher fuel bill is truly incredible," he said.

Delta shares were down 1.5 per cent in early afternoon trading yesterday. Additional reporting by Peter Campbell

Industrials. Automation

Shipbuilding titans Japan and South Korea deploy robots to challenge China's lead

US allies invest in 'smart shipyards' as Beijing adopts more aggressive approach

SONG JUNG-A — SEOUL HARRY DEMPSEY — TOKYO WILLIAM LANGLEY — GUANGZHOU South Korea and Japan are stepping up efforts to deploy robots in their shipyards as China's industry dominance alarms Washington and its allies.

The push towards “smart shipyards” has become essential as Seoul and Tokyo grapple with labour shortages, order backlogs and competition from lower-cost Chinese rivals, which secured 63 per cent of ship orders last year, according to Clarksons.

The two east Asian countries are vital for the US to reduce reliance on China for commercial and naval shipbuilding. The two largest shipbuilding nations after China comprise 40 per cent of global vessel production as of last year and possess crucial technological expertise on liquefied natural gas carriers, submarines and marine engines.

But they face an uphill task as some experts said Chinese yards had outpaced them developing and deploying welding robots and smart systems in a tough industry to automate.

“China is adopting robots for shipbuilding more aggressively and at a faster pace than the other two countries,” said Woo Jong-hun, a professor of naval architecture and ocean engineering at Seoul National University.

Shipbuilding is difficult to automate because every vessel differs in design and structure, unlike standardised products such as cars. Yards are also complex and hazardous outdoor working environments, with narrow and irregular spaces similar to construction sites for buildings. As such, the sector remains heavily dependent on an ageing pool of skilled workers.

"Our future competitiveness and long-term survival depend on whether we can develop multifunctional robots using AI and autonomous technologies," said Ryu Sang-hun, vice-president at HD Hyundai Samho, an affiliate of South Korea's top shipbuilder. "Robots help us make up for labour shortages and guarantee product quality."

While skilled workers may complete individual jobs more quickly, robots excel at maintaining consistent quality and output. A worker can complete as many as 30 welding cells a day, while robots can lift that to up to 50, according to HD Hyundai Samho, which estimated that the technology could help accelerate the delivery of vessels by days.

Fanuc, the world's largest industrial robot maker, has produced its first two welding and painting machines tailored for shipbuilders. It aims to deploy as many robots as people in Japan's shipbuilding industry, which has 75,000 workers, to enable night operations.

"Shipbuilders now see automation to be urgent and trials have started in earnest," said Kenichiro Abe, senior managing officer at Fanuc.

At HD Hyundai's yards in Ulsan, robots identify welding locations using design data, move between ship blocks and perform simple welding, while workers supervise operations through computer systems. Rival Hanwha Ocean said a human operator could manage up to 10 robots for standardised welding work.


An HD Hyundai Heavy Industries robot performs welding work

Experts were divided over whether China was further ahead in automation than South Korea and Japan, which have more mature shipbuilding industries.

George Q Huang, a professor of smart manufacturing at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, estimated South Korean and Japanese yards were likely to be five years ahead in adopting robots, but China “should be more or less able to catch up” in that timeframe.

Like in South Korea and Japan, the rollout in China, where the population is declining, was being driven by labour shortages, said Huang, who is working on a project to introduce robots at a small shipyard in Zhuhai.

"The conditions are bad and [the work] is very hard, so young people don't like to enter this industry anymore."

The industry's ultimate goal is to produce "dark factories" that rely almost exclusively on robots. HD Hyundai aims to fully automate some production lines and build a small dark factory by 2030 using AI, big data and "digital twins" — replicas of the physical world that update in real time to allow safe testing of automated manufacturing processes.

Hanwha Ocean has invested Won160bn (\$120mn) over the past two years on smart yards and wants to automate 70 per cent of production by 2030. The group also plans to introduce automation to its US operations.

But Woo of Seoul National University said it would be difficult to automate many shipbuilding processes fully within the next five years “because complex work still requires the dexterity of human hands”.

Ryu of HD Hyundai Samho said robots could perform more than 90 per cent of simple welding tasks, but they struggled with more complex work.

Samsung Heavy Industries, one of South Korea's three biggest shipbuilders, admitted that automation was technically challenging and costly.

Yang Jong-seo, a researcher at the Export-Import Bank of Korea, said China's government support meant its industry could better absorb risks.

“Robots are badly needed for Korea and Japan to compete better with China as local workers increasingly avoid difficult and dangerous jobs for relatively low wages,” he said. “But they must carefully weigh the costs and benefits because automation requires enormous investment, while government-backed Chinese shipbuilders can absorb the costs of trial and error.”

India's motorbike billionaire holds key to Tata power battle

Venu Srinivasan Chair emeritus, TVS Group

The battle for control of the \$265bn Tata Group hinges on a single vote — and it belongs neither to the founding family nor its powerful leadership.

Billionaire Venu Srinivasan sits on the board of Tata Sons as one of two representatives of Tata Trusts – charitable bodies that own a controlling stake in the vast conglomerate.

His stance is vital as Noel Tata, the chair of Tata Trusts, and Tata Sons' chair N Chandrasekaran, known as Chandra, clash over the future of the group, which has been ordered to list its shares by India's central bank to comply with rules on shadow banking. Noel Tata is trying to fight off the order while Chandra backs it.

Srinivasan has backed the listing plan and the reappointment of Chandra as group chair to carry it out, casting the crucial vote in a fight that has captivated corporate India and drawn in New Delhi.

The influence that Srinivasan wields speaks to the convoluted governance structure at Tata, where every important decision depends on the support of the ownership trusts.

In effect, one of the biggest corporate fights in modern India — with potential repercussions for companies including Tata Consultancy Services, Air India and Jaguar Land Rover cars — is being shaped by some of the country's biggest charities.

The key question is: "What do the trusts actually want?" said Sharmila Gopinath, an independent corporate governance consultant.

"Srinivasan is the dark horse," Gopinath said. "We have no idea what he's thinking, why he is doing what he is doing."

Philanthropy is central to the ethos of Tata, known globally for everything from aviation to steel and services. Much of the group's profits are funnelled into the charitable endeavours that were integral to the founding family's vision for the company.

By the time of his death in the early 20th century, founder Jamsetji Tata had donated half his wealth to educational charities. His children also engaged in philanthropy and today the 14 trusts fund everything

'Srinivasan is the dark horse. We have no idea what he's thinking, why he is doing what he is doing'

from cancer hospitals to community water-purification plants. In 2024-25, 14 trusts handed out some Rs9bn (\$93mn) for philanthropic causes.

By convention, the trusts are supervised by members of the founding family. Noel Tata chairs Tata Trusts and holds a 1 per cent share in Tata Sons.

"Anyone can run the trust, as long as they have the support of the majority of trustees," a person briefed about their functioning said. The trustees are appointed by unanimous vote and until recently many of them held their positions for life.

Crucially, in terms of the boardroom fight, Tata Trusts are allowed to have a third of Tata Sons' board seats at any given time.

With just six members on the board, that means the trusts have two nominees – Noel and Srinivasan. The two do not agree on the initial public offering, Chandra's reappointment or other strategic issues. As a majority of trust nominees to the boards must agree on any strategic decision, this has resulted in deadlock.

A successful businessman in his own right, Srinivasan, 73, is the chair emeritus of the more than \$20bn TVS Group motorbike maker, which also owns Norton Motorcycles.

Srinivasan does not own any shares in Tata Sons but he has made clear his support for an IPO.

"A public listing would not only unlock value for minority shareholders – including providing an exit route to the Shapoorji Pallonji Group – but also equip Tata Sons with capital to sustain its growth trajectory," he told Indian newspaper the Economic Times in April.

His influence is amplified by his contacts in New Delhi. He runs charitable trusts in his home state of Tamil Nadu and is a large contributor to temple restoration in that region.

This has brought him into close contact with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the Hindu nationalist volunteer movement that is the ideological backbone of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party.

Modi's government had awarded

Key figure: the stance of Venu Srinivasan, centre, is pivotal amid the IPO battle raging at India's \$265bn Tata Group. Bottom, Tata Motors' Harrier EV model — Norton Motorcycles: Indrail Mulherjee/AFP via Getty Images

him the Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian honour, for his contribution to trade and industry in 2020. Given Tata's importance to India, New Delhi's view is important for any final decision on the IPO.

Ratan Tata, Noel's half-brother and Tata Group's former leader, brought Srinivasan on to Tata Sons' board in 2016, added him as a trustee and later made him the vice-chair of Tata Trusts.

Ratan, who had overlooked Noel twice when choosing a chair, "didn't think much of Noel", a person close to Srinivasan said. "That rubs off to an extent." After Ratan's death in 2024, Srinivasan was a reluctant supporter of Noel. He has also blocked Noel's son, Neville, from becoming a trustee of one of the largest trusts.

Noel had sought to remove Srinivasan from the board of Tata Sons at a meeting of the trusts in April, two people familiar with the agenda said, a move that would have given Noel "absolute control".

But Srinivasan fought back, raising complaints with the trust regulator about management of one of the largest trusts. The regulator then blocked the Sir Ratan Tata Trust, which owns 23.56 per cent shares of Tata Sons, from holding any meetings. Without SRTT's presence, Tata Sons cannot hold a shareholders' meeting.

His complaint about SRTT has left the trust in what an insider called a state of "coma". More than \$3mn is waiting approval for disbursal. Srinivasan has in recent weeks filed a complaint against the second main trust, raising questions about Noel's position as the chair and governance more broadly.

Srinivasan declined multiple requests for an interview.

"Can Noel prevail and get the trusts out of coma?" a person close to some of the trustees said.

"If he does, and holds a shareholders' meeting, two things will happen: Srinivasan will be removed and Chandra's directorship won't get renewed.

"But until he can get Srinivasan out, nothing will happen." Krishn Kaushik and Chris Kay in Mumbai; additional reporting by Michael Stott in New Delhi

Technology

Chinese smart camera rivals fight for dominance after GoPro's decline

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WILLIAM LANGLEY — SHENZHEN

The decline of action-camera pioneer GoPro, which was rescued by a buyer last month, has allowed two Chinese rivals rapidly to dominate the market, as China's consumer technology brands take their competition global.

DJI and Insta360, both based in the southern Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen, now account for more than 90 per cent of global handheld smart camera sales – a category that includes action cameras, panoramic view devices and gimbal cameras – according to consultancy IDC.

They are now engaged in a fierce battle to be the world's top smart camera maker after displacing GoPro, which was the largest seller by revenue as recently as 2023, according to consulting firm Frost & Sullivan.

Their dominance shows how Chinese producers of consumer electronics are increasingly bringing their technology - and internecine competition - to markets such as the US and Europe.

Chris Pereira, founder of consultancy iMpact, said DJI and Insta360 were exporting Shenzhen's "civil war", referring to the intense competition between the city's start-ups.

"A similar situation happened with robot vacuums," said Pereira, noting how Chinese companies took over a market created by Roomba maker iRobot, which filed for bankruptcy last year. "The strong competition . . . in the local Shenzhen market is generating extremely efficient . . . companies that are going overseas now."

The performance of DJI and Insta360 contrasts with that of GoPro, which first commercialised action cameras in the early 2000s and was seen as a US tech champion. Its sales have declined steeply as Chinese competitors innovated more quickly. By the second quarter of this year, GoPro snagged just 3 per cent of the market.

After years of struggling with debt, which totalled \$92mn last month, it agreed to be taken over by a US optical hardware group for \$285mn, far below its peak almost \$12bn valuation in 2014.

"In recent years, GoPro's product iteration has been slow," said Jacky Xue, a research manager at IDC. "Meanwhile, Chinese vendors such as Insta360 and DJI have seized the market opportunity. They all want to find new growth."

In search of that growth, the two com-

Bigger picture: Shenzhen-based Insta360 says it hopes to become the top smart camera brand in the US

panies are increasingly encroaching on each other's territory.

DJI, which dominates the global drone market, has aggressively expanded its offerings, unveiling a panoramic camera called Osmo 360 last year.

At the same time, Insta360, whose panoramic cameras are popular with extreme-sports enthusiasts and vloggers, launched a drone brand.

By the second quarter of this year, DJI held a 73 per cent share of the global smart camera market, while Insta360 took up 20 per cent, though it dominates niche categories such as panoramic cameras.

The pair have sued each other in the US, alleging patent infringements on a range of camera-related products.

DJI said it was investing in research on cameras, accessories and editing software. Insta360, which opened its first US flagship store in New York last month, told the FT it hoped to be the country's top smart camera brand.

BUSINESS

WEEK IN REVIEW

Taco talks

- Leading coffee-shop chain Starbucks explored a bid for Chipotle Mexican Grill, the burrito chain valued at \$41bn, in a deal that would unite two of America's best-known brands and rank as the biggest-ever tie-up in the restaurant sector.

- OpenAI's annualised revenue is about \$20bn less than the company had signalled, according to financial documents shared with investors, a massive gap likely to damp optimism about the growth of AI demand.

- David Ellison has finally sealed his \$111bn deal to combine Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros Discovery into a Hollywood titan.

- Jaguar is entering the luxury electric-

vehicle market with a £130,000 model that “stands out” for its bold design, as the revamped marque warned that EVs will become “a commodity” if they all look similar.

Samsung Electronics estimated its operating profit surged nearly ninefold in the third quarter to Won107.4tn (\$80.2bn) on the back of demand for memory chips from AI companies.

- Goldman Sachs' most senior executives are in line to receive more than \$500mn in special bonuses from a five-year incentive plan, one of the biggest payouts in the Wall Street bank's history.

Google is launching a platform that lets users create video games from a simple text prompt, in a tie-up with tools developer Unity

Kirkland & Ellis, the world's highest-grossing law firm, is to stop sharing its financial figures with the sector's flagship ranking of profits and revenues.

- Hong Kong's de facto central bank questioned HSBC on why its new AI hub would be established in Singapore and not in the Chinese territory.

- Amin Nasser, chief executive of Saudi Aramco, warned that the world's oil stockpiles are now "scarily thin" and that it would take up to two years to rebuild inventories depleted by the war in Iran.

- Tech giant Google is launching a platform that lets users create video games from a simple text prompt in a tie-up with gaming-tools developer Unity.

- Sainsbury's held talks this year with private equity-owned rival Morrisons over a potential multibillion-pound deal in the UK's fiercely competitive supermarket industry.

£130,000 Price of Jaguar's new and boldly designed luxury electric vehicle \$80bn Profit at Samsung Electronics amid surging demand for memory chips

- BT acquired heavily indebted UK broadband provider TalkTalk in a pre-pack administration, days after making a late entrance into the auction.

HSBC is planning sweeping job cuts in its UK wealth management business, including reducing its ranks of financial advisers by nearly 70 per cent as part of a push to use AI to serve clients.

● Money-transfer app Wise is attempting to negotiate a settlement with HM Revenue & Customs after software failures caused 4,000 UK users to pay the wrong tax during a four-year period.

- Clients of Goldman Sachs' wealth management division and UK-listed hedge fund Man Group were among the victims of a major data breach at Big Four accounting firm EY.

Hedge funds' use of leverage climbs Gross asset value divided by net asset value

Hedge fund borrowing surges since 2020

COMPANIES & MARKETS

Hedge funds' trillion-dollar borrowing spree fuels bumper profits on Wall Street

Bulge-bracket banks' trading businesses are booming, but post-crisis rules mean it is no longer them placing the bets

COSTAS MOURSELAS AND ORTENCA ALIAJ — LONDON JOSHUA FRANKLIN — NEW YORK

In February Goldman Sachs invited top hedge fund executives to a 500-acre resort outside London. The Wall Street bank delivered a clear message: you are no longer our rivals but among our most valued clients.

The meeting underscored what has become an inescapable reality on Wall Street. US banks are generating record trading profits. But they are not the ones doing the trading.

Firms such as Jane Street and Citadel have aggressively expanded into banks' traditional turf, dominating the core business of market making as well as placing big bets on market moves. But their insatiable demand for financing to juice those trades has made them irresistible clients for lenders and a powerful engine for profits.

In market making, "banks are struggling to compete", said Mike Webb, Barclays' global head of liquid financing. "But financing is a thing that banks do and there is a big moat around it."

The moat is built on credit lines that lenders provide to trading giants that run into trillions of dollars. Hedge funds' borrowing from banks has tripled since 2020, and the revenues from financing have turned prime brokerage

[Prime broking activity] has just grown and grown and grown. Has it become too big?

into one of Wall Street's fastest-growing businesses.

Revenues from equity and fixed income prime broking – two of the main ways that banks lend to hedge funds – are forecast to hit \$47.9bn this year, according to an analysis by industry data provider Coalition Greenwich.

However, as banks have leaned into the trading boom, they have inextricably bound their fates with their biggest clients – giant multi-manager hedge funds such as Citadel, Millennium Management and Point72, and proprietary trading firms including Jane Street and Hudson River Trading.

The sheer size of the exposures has regulators' alarm bells ringing. Prime brokerage balances rose about 40 per cent over the previous year, the Bank of England said in July. "It has just grown and grown and grown," said one regulator. Has it become too big? "When you see a chart that keeps going upwards, you do have to naturally ask yourself."

Prime brokerages were long seen as an unglamorous and quiet part of banking that acted like a back-office function. That changed with the 2008 financial crisis and the subsequent regulatory overhaul, which curtailed the ability of banks to take risks with their own balance sheets.

Much of the speculative trading that once used to take place on banks' prop desks migrated to the hedge fund industry, while market making – a lower-risk activity – became the purview of high-frequency trading firms and, later, specialist market makers.

The result of post-crisis regu-

Top: prime brokerage is one of Wall Street's fastest-growing businesses. Right: Bill Hwang
Spencer Platt/Gelty Images


Prime broking's biggest blow-ups

Prime broking has become a highly lucrative business, but it can also be fraught with risk.

Prime brokers lose money when their clients take losses so large that they burn through a cash buffer required by the bank known as "margin". If, after taking losses, a client misses a margin call, prime brokers seize the underlying positions and conduct a fire sale to neutralise the risk.

The most famous blow-up might be the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management in 1998, a hedge fund founded by former Salomon Brothers bond trader John Meriwether.

LTCM negotiated terms that meant it paid zero in initial margin to its prime broker Bear Stearns when it initiated some trades.

It racked up \$1.3tn in off-balance-sheet derivative notional exposure against a capital base of less than \$5bn in 1997 — and received a \$3.6bn bailout from commercial banks the following year after the Federal Reserve intervened.

More recently, there was the default of Bill Hwang's family office Archegos Capital in 2021.

Archegos entered into highly leveraged derivatives agreements with its prime brokers to bet on companies including ViacomCBS and Baidu.

His firm used its desirability as a client to negotiate high leverage with each bank, while refusing to disclose details about the size of similar positions across all its prime brokers. The \$5.5bn loss sustained by Credit Suisse, one of Archegos's prime brokers, contributed to a loss of confidence in the lender which resulted in a sale to its rival UBS.

This year, prime brokers narrowly escaped another debacle when AI-focused hedge fund Situational

Awareness got into trouble after a rally reversed. Banks had lent billions of dollars to the hedge fund's 24-year-old founder and were exposed to a brutal unwinding of those trades — until Citadel stepped in to buy its portfolio of public stocks, sparing blushes.

lation was unexpected. While policymakers succeeded in moving much of the risk-taking outside the banking system, Wall Street lenders gradually became more reliant on revenues linked to this type of trading activity than before.

The key attraction of servicing hedge funds and trading firms is recurring revenues. Investment bankers can spend years courting executives such as Elon Musk in order to secure a one-off payment for advising on an initial public offering. But acting as prime broker to Citadel, Millennium or Jane Street offers a steady revenue stream that can generate as much as \$200mn per year after trading costs, said three executives at bulge-bracket banks.

Martin Moloney, deputy secretary-general at the Financial Stability Board, said: "If anyone thought that by making sure banks were properly capitalised that we would make the problem go away . . . that would have been a naive view."

Prime services revenues will have leapt from 10 per cent of banks' equities revenues in 2005 to about 38 per cent this year, according to Coalition Greenwich – and those figures exclude the vast derivatives services banks provide.

"People are increasingly understanding that as non-banks take positions, they actually use the assistance of banks to do that," he added.

Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are the biggest players in the business, with JPMorgan Chase third, according to hedge fund executives. But as prime broking revenues have exploded, they have faced stiffer competition from Wall Street rivals Citigroup and Bank of America, as well as challengers in Europe including BNP Paribas, Barclays and ABN Amro.

One of the biggest drivers of growth — beyond simply the expansion of the hedge fund industry — has been the rise of a small number of mega hedge funds and trading firms. Large multi-managers made up more than a third of the industry's trading activity last year despite managing less than a tenth of its assets, according to Goldman.

Because the managers are sophisticated players with hundreds of trading

Prime broking units' revenue is soaring Bank equity prime services revenue (\$bn)

Funds push for better lending terms

Source: Based on responses to the Federal Reserve Board's quarterly senior credit officer opinion survey on dealer financing terms

teams across a spectrum of asset classes, they have an inbuilt diversification and level of risk management that has allowed banks to justify ratcheting up their lending.

Webb at Barclays said: "An institutional-quality hedge fund or asset manager is a sophisticated organisation with a liquidity-management function that reports directly to the founder."

Fewer, bigger clients are also simpler to manage. "It's easier to know a smaller set of clients really well," Webb added.

Scale helps banks too. The more trading flow they have, the easier it is to match one client's long position with another client's short – a crucial balancing act known as internalisation.

That means the bank can finance both sides of the transaction without having to borrow or source stock in the open market, eliminating one of the costliest parts of the business and boosting margins.

But the growing scale of a few clients at the top of the industry has also shifted the balance of power, according to people familiar with industry practices, with clients pushing for far more favourable lending terms.

Lock-up terms, the length of time a prime broker commits to providing financing before it can withdraw credit, have gradually lengthened. Commit-

'Competitive pressure can erode risk controls and you need to be extremely careful about them'

ments that typically lasted two weeks went up to 30 days, stretched to three months and more recently to half a year for some of the industry's most coveted clients.

That means a bank cannot cut back its financing or demand more margin than agreed at the start of the contract without giving increasingly lengthy notice.

Some regulators see this as intense competition steadily weakening safeguards put in place in case things go wrong, especially because banks often have limited transparency into their clients' broader activities and true risk profiles.

Big trading firms and hedge funds typically disclose as little as possible about their relationships with rival prime brokers, which they say is necessary to protect their intellectual property and prevent leaks.

Large counterparties will often provide an overall leverage figure for their business across multiple prime brokers, according to the bulge-bracket veteran, but banks do not know how that leverage is distributed or the concentration across their positions.

Prime brokers insist that standards have tightened in recent years, with greater scrutiny around leverage and more robust risk controls.

But some regulators disagree on whether banks have fully learnt broader lessons around liquidity despite previous blow-ups.

Moloney of the Financial Stability Board said: "I recognise that many of the major participants would say we have very robust collateral and risk-management systems in place, and that is good as long as it lasts."

"But competitive pressure can erode those risk controls and you need to be extremely careful about them because their impacts can be cross-border and they can trigger much wider problems across the financial system." Additional reporting by Martin Arnold

Financial services. Regulation

SEC warns asset managers against collaborating over activist campaigns

BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street's role in ousting Exxon directors investigated

HARRIET CLARFELT, BROOKE MASTERS AND SUJEET INDAP — NEW YORK

The US securities watchdog has moved to prevent asset managers from working together to influence corporate policy, after investigating BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street's role in the ousting of ExxonMobil directors in 2021.

The Securities and Exchange Commission stopped short of enforcement action but said that it "has serious concerns about the conduct" of some fund managers that participated in the Climate Action 100+ coalition (CA100+).

It said asset managers should be wary of similar efforts in the future or risk becoming subject to the stricter rules that apply to activist investors.

The move is the latest effort by the Trump administration and SEC chair Paul Atkins to dilute shareholder influence over publicly traded companies, including weakening the influence of proxy advisers and large passive managers such as BlackRock and Vanguard.

Atkins has also sought to ease reporting requirements for companies, including rules that would decrease the frequency of financial results from quarterly to semi-annually. Last month, the SEC proposed eliminating its oversight of shareholder proposals, shifting power to states to oversee investor recommendations to boards of directors.

Republican and business groups have had the big three fund managers in their sights ever since they voted with activist hedge fund Engine No. 1 to replace three board seats at an Exxon shareholder meeting. All three have left or cut back their participation in climate groups after being investigated or blackballed by Republican-controlled state governments that objected to the use of environmental, social and governance factors in investing.

The SEC began its probe last year, after Donald Trump won the presidency and changed its leadership. It sought to determine whether asset managers, including BlackRock and State Street's investment management arm – both of which were members of CA100+ – and Vanguard were forming "groups" and co-ordinating their votes.

Passive investors are subject to much lighter regulation than activists who work together to take over or influence companies. In particular, they use a short version of the 13G form to report their holdings, rather than the more onerous 13D.

In 2025, the SEC sought to push asset managers that engaged with companies on ESG matters to file on the 13D form, initially prompting some funds to scale

'It appears to us the players on the field [in the Exxon case] came very close to not being passive'

back meetings with companies. Last month the SEC clarified that routine engagement with companies would not trigger the 2025 guidance.

In the Exxon case, an SEC official said: "It appears to us the players on the field came very close to not being passive — instead of being eligible to report their shares on 13G."

Exxon declined to comment.

The official added that the SEC opted not to spend more time investigating and instead issued the report ahead of preparations for the 2027 proxy season, when many large public companies hold annual meetings and shareholder votes take place. He described this week's report, which "encapsulates our findings after one year", as "instructional guidance to the marketplace".

BlackRock and State Street declined to comment. Vanguard did not respond to requests for comment.

Michael Boudett, general counsel of Ceres, which helps manage CA100+, said it "has always operated within US securities law. It supports investors as they assess and address the financial risks that climate poses to the companies they invest in. It is up to every participating Climate Action 100+ investor to make their own decisions, including how they vote their shares."

Exxon and other corporations have claimed that social activists with tiny share stakes hijacked the proposal process to pursue agendas that had little bearing on shareholder value.

"It's rather ironic that this SEC is proposing to rescind the shareholder proposal rule on the ground that corporate governance should be left to the states, while simultaneously invoking bureaucratic red tape at the federal level," said Ann Lipton, a professor of law at the University of Colorado.

"Applying the activist rules to [asset managers'] conduct provides no additional information to the public; it merely uses the threat of paperwork to inhibit shareholder engagements," Lipton said.

COMPANIES & MARKETS

Sport. Regulatory scrutiny

Man City scandal shines light on BDO and audit regime

Club's 19-year relationship with accounting firm stirs questions over wider industry oversight

ELLESHEVA KISSIN AND JOSH NOBLE LONDON

At a glitzy event in London last year, BDO staff were among auditors shown a training film about plucky accountants who uncovered a web of fraudulent transactions at a fictional football club.

BDO is now under intense scrutiny over its work for a real club. The Premier League last week revealed that an independent commission had found that Manchester City artificially inflated its financial position by more than £900mn over nine years as it became the dominant force in English football.

City rejects the findings and has launched an appeal.

As well as using “sham” commercial deals to overstate its income, an independent commission’s report said the club had “filed misstated accounts and concealed the true state of its finances from its auditors and football regulators”.

Those auditors were BDO, the UK's fifth-biggest accounting firm and self-described football "market leader" that says it works with more PL and Championship clubs on deals, audits and tax advice than any rival.

BDO will be facing "battlegrounds" on several fronts and will need to "prepare for the worst", according to a Big Four audit veteran, which said that the firm would need to contain "brand damage".

"This is pretty juicy stuff . . . and when things get political, it's all fair game," they added, referring to pressure the regulator may feel to take action.

Although the commission found that City concealed its true finances from BDO, regulators will now consider whether the firm did enough to examine the deals it was shown and exercise the professional scepticism expected of it.

But the scandal has also exposed a broader question about the UK audit regime. Even football clubs of City's size and profile are not classified as "public interest entities", a designation that would subject their audits to the tougher oversight applied to listed companies, banks and insurers.

The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, which regulates the audits of most football clubs, produced its film after concerns over creative accounting in the sector prompted it to probe several club audits from 2023 onwards, according to a person familiar with its regulatory arm.

Two senior auditors at rival firms said the commission's finding that City hid the true state of its finances from BDO made a regulatory investigation into the firm's work for the club less likely.

The Financial Reporting Council has powers to investigate BDO as the firm that audited the accounts. It can also examine the accountants who prepared City's financial statements, as long as they are members of a recognised professional body – which several senior finance executives at City are. It has not opened probes into either and is examining the scope of its jurisdiction, say people familiar with its position.

BDO declined to comment, citing legal and professional confidentiality requirements in the auditing sector.

Standards in force during the period required auditors to obtain "reasonable assurance" that financial statements

'This is pretty juicy stuff and when things get political, it's all fair game'

were not materially misstated as a result of fraud. The standards acknowledged that sophisticated schemes to deceive auditors could go undetected, particularly if “intentional misrepresentations” were made to the auditor.

After a series of audit failures prompted pressure for reform, strengthened standards introduced in 2021 say the possibility of deception "does not diminish the auditor's responsibility" to perform a reliable audit. Any regulatory examination would therefore need to assess whether BDO did enough to test independently City's transactions and exercised sufficient professional scepticism.

Liam Byrne, chair of the Business and Trade Select Committee, has urged the FRC to probe the affair. Drawing comparisons with the collapse of Carillion, one of Britain's biggest audit scandals, he asked: "How could the established system of audit and regulatory scrutiny fail to uncover alleged misstatements of such a scale over nine years?"

Football chiefs have asked why it has been left to the PL to spot issues with City's accounts. "The Premier League plays second fiddle to the auditors, the lawyers and HMRC," said one senior football executive. "We have to assume these people are doing their jobs."

BDO also audits Aston Villa, Burnley, Queens Park Rangers, Southampton, Celtic, Brentford and Cardiff City, which together paid fees of £428,000 in their financial years ending in 2025. The clubs also pay hundreds of thousands more for extra work such as tax advice.

The sums are small relative to BDO's total audit revenues but the work helps the firm build its profile in sport and has the potential to lead to more lucrative mandates such as advising on deals.

BDO was paid roughly £200,000 a year for its audit and tax work for City Football Group from 2014 while the Manchester club alone paid £830,000 during the nine years at issue.

So far, BDO has retained City as a client. The club's latest accounts are due this winter but could be delayed if the firm concludes it needs to examine the soundness of previous years' accounts.

BDO's audit quality more broadly has come under sustained scrutiny with the FRC heavily criticising its work for six consecutive years.

BDO won the Man City audit when KPMG resigned in 2007. The first BDO partner to sign City's accounts during the period in question was Julien Rye, a football specialist who went on to serve for a decade from 2014 on the firm's 12-member partnership council, its ultimate governing body. Rye retired as a BDO partner in 2023 but, according to his LinkedIn profile, continues to work for the firm on contract as an “engagement quality reviewer”.

Stuart Wood took over the City audit in 2017 only months after becoming an audit partner and signed the club's accounts as recently as 2024. He is now BDO's head of audit for the north-west of England.

Only months before, the PL revealed the commission's findings, Wood contributed to a BDO report examining the financial vulnerabilities of English football.

The report highlighted dealings between a club and parties connected to its owners as an area requiring particular scrutiny.

Identifying City as an example of the trend towards multi-club ownership — its Abu Dhabi-controlled owner City Football Group owns or holds stakes in clubs across several continents — BDO said such “related-party transactions” required “careful consideration” and often independent review.

Clubs would have to demonstrate financial resilience and sound governance "not just in principle but through auditable evidence", the report said, as football moved towards tougher standards for "ownership scrutiny, financial

Hot streak: Manchester City striker Erling Haaland scores against Brentford last season en route to another Premier League title. The club began to be audited in 2007 by BDO, below Daiman Staples/AFP/Getty Images Chris Batson/Alamy StockPhoto

risk management [and] governance reporting".

However, the regulatory framework for the City audit was less onerous than that applied to groups designated as public interest entities. Because City is not a PIE, its audit arrangements are neither subject to nor consistent with stricter FRC rules requiring audit tenders at least once every 10 years, rotation of key audit partners every five years and limits on non-audit fees.

Where to draw the boundary around PIEs has long vexed Britain's audit industry. Disagreement over which companies should fall within the tougher regime was among the issues that helped derail the government's long-promised audit reforms this year.

Several of the Big Four firms – Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC – are preparing to urge the government to revisit

rate reporting reform bill, according to people familiar with the matter.

They plan to argue that the problems at City strengthen the case for bringing more large private companies within the PIE regime.

However, one of the people noted that this was a commercially convenient position for

the firms, which can charge more for the additional work required on PIE audits.

City's non-PIE status means responsibility for overseeing the quality of its audits falls not to the FRC but to the ICAEW – the body that produced last year's training video. The ICAEW said its film, which featured actors from East-Enders and Game of Thrones, drew its storyline from “cases we see in our monitoring and enforcement work, where some auditors are still getting it wrong”.

The FRC is now assessing whether it should take over the case from the ICAEW, according to the person familiar with the regulator's position.

根据《中华人民共和国企业年金计划管理办法》(以下简称《企业年金计划》)和《中华人民共和国企业年金计划管理办法》(以下简称《企业年金计划》),公司于2017年3月25日召开的2017年度股东大会审议通过了《关于使用部分闲置募集资金暂时补充流动资金的议案》,同意公司使用不超过人民币4,000万元的闲置募集资金暂时补充流动资金,使用期限自董事会审议通过之日起不超过三年。

Financials

Ex-Deutsche Bank trader's conviction is overturned

ALISTAIR GRAY — LONDON

Former Deutsche Bank star trader Christian Bittar's conviction for manipulating a key interest rate benchmark has been overturned despite his having pleaded guilty, leaving the criminal pursuit of City of London traders over alleged rate rigging facing near-total collapse.

The rare reversal of a criminal confession of guilt by the Court of Appeal is the latest setback for the Serious Fraud Office, which had insisted Bittar's conviction should have stood.

Five former Barclays traders also had their rate-rigging convictions quashed this week, though while prosecutors had conceded the Barclays cases without a fight, the SFO drew a line at Bittar due to his guilty plea.

It represents a serious unravelling of prosecutions of traders who were blamed for manipulating interest rate benchmarks, which became a lightning rod for public anger about banks in the wake of the financial crisis.

Bittar, once described by a judge as "perhaps the best in the world" in his field, netted tens of millions of pounds working for Deutsche in the mid-2000s in London.

The derivatives specialist spent almost two years in prison after pleading guilty at Southwark Crown Court in 2018 to conspiring to manipulate the Euribor rate.

At a hearing yesterday, Adrian Darbishire KC, for Bittar, said it would be “grotesquely unfair” for his conviction to stand. Darbishire said Bittar only pleaded guilty because court rulings at the time left him with no viable defence.

Benchmarks such as Euribor underpinned trillions of dollars in financial contracts and were determined each day by submissions from large banks.

Judges had told juries in the rate-rigging cases that any submission that had been influenced by commercial self-interest was automatically false, as a matter of law. The Supreme Court last year found those directions had been erroneous when it overturned the convictions of two other traders, Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo.

Darbishire highlighted that while Bittar had pleaded guilty, the trader had not admitted submitting rates that were, in fact, false or dishonest.

James Waddington KC, for the SFO, urged a panel of three senior judges not to overturn Bittar's conviction. His plea was "proof of guilt, it being immaterial that Mr Bittar protested his innocence to his lawyers". "The evidence against Mr Bittar was overwhelming," Waddington told the court.

Lord Justice Edis, Mr Justice Goose and Mr Justice Moody said Bittar's conviction should be quashed and their reasons would be provided at a later date.

"I have waited a very, very long time for this day," Bittar said yesterday. "Finally, the injustice of what I and others suffered has been recognised. I am so grateful for those who stood by me through this ordeal and those who worked so tirelessly to correct it."

His solicitor Ben Rose, of Hickman & Rose, added: "It is a scandal that the SFO has consistently failed to uphold its duty to seek to ensure that these trials are fair. It is hard to see how it will learn the lessons it needs to of this saga until it accepts it was wrong."

Jason Williams, head of the fraud and corruption division at the SFO, said: "We argued for a different outcome but respect the court's decision."

Financial services. A7 network

Kremlin-backed money launderer used London fintech to make payments

Wooshpay is registered in the UK but listed as controlled by a Chinese national in China

CHRIS COOK

A British fintech company was listed as a payment vehicle by A7, the Kremlin-backed money laundering network, while also holding a registration from the UK's Financial Conduct Authority.

One document drawn from a vast leak seen by the FT shows that A7 tried to create a cover story for its relationship with Wooshpay by forging an invoice suggesting the company was supplying it with "cashmere sewing fabric".

A7 was designated as a "transnational criminal organisation" by the US Treasury last week, shortly after the FT had revealed it had moved \$6.9bn through conventional banks using hundreds of front companies and a huge document forgery operation. The core purpose of the network is to allow Russian importers to make payments abroad in the wake of the financial sanctions imposed on Moscow after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Further documents from the leak show that A7 named Wooshpay, which holds FCA authorisation as a small payment institution, on a list of entities that it could use to make payments.

Registration with the UK watchdog requires the company, which is incorporated as Swooshtransfer, not only to identify and verify customers and their beneficial owners but also to understand the purpose of the relationship and monitor transactions.

An internal note prepared by A7 for staff referred to Wooshpay as holding an "extensive licence". It was listed as acting as a possible "payment route to PRC and Hong Kong" in both renminbi and dollars.

Wooshpay's own website advertises it as “offering a range of payment products and subscription billing tools, helping AI companies quickly launch and scale their businesses”.

While many of the front companies used by A7 were controlled by the network, the A7 note referred to Wooshpay as a "rented" treasury, implying it was an independent business that did work for the network alongside other things.

The A7 document noted conditions on payments that could go via Woosh-pay. "There are limits on payments of no more than 50 thousand USD per day. A customs declaration (with no Russian language) is required to agree on conducting payments," it said. The one payment on this route found by the FT — a transfer of 189,000 Rmb (\$26,000) — was recorded by A7 with a reference number that indicated Wooshpay was making onward payments for the network and was not merely a recipient.


In the bag: A7 has been designated as a 'transnational criminal organisation' by the US Treasury Aleksandr Zholatow/ Roscongress

While Wooshpay is registered in the UK, it is listed as ultimately controlled by a Chinese national living in China, while another director is listed on Companies House as resident in the UK.

Neither of these people responded to requests for comment, nor to telephone calls at the number given in their FCA listing.

The A7 payment record shows that the money was sent to an account at Zhejiang Chouzhou Commercial Bank, a small lender to which A7 made a large number of payments despite its size.

According to BankCheck, a banking payments counterparty intelligence company, Zhejiang Chouzhou is the 98th largest bank in China by balance sheet. Yet it is the fourth-largest Chinese bank by volume in the A7 cache. Its customers received about \$170mn of payments from A7 between late 2024 and August 2025.

In total, 268 entities mentioned in the leaks held accounts at the bank. Of these, 120 were non-resident accounts, indicating that – like Wooshpay – they were not local companies.

Wooshpay was one of four UK-domiciled entities in the leaks with Zhejiang Chouzhou accounts. One of the others, Albi International, was also offered to a customer as a potential paying front.

The company, which is registered at a mailbox rental service in central London, reported a turnover of more than £100mn in 2024-25 – and a tax bill of £274,000.

The FCA declined to comment. Zhejiang Chouzhou, Wooshpay, Albi and A7 did not respond to requests for comment.

Additional reporting by Martin Arnold

COMPANIES & MARKETS

Crypto. Regulation

Singapore distances itself from ‘dangerous product’

City-state averse to risk and scandal discourages the use of Hyperliquid's popular 'perps'

OWEN WALKER — SINGAPORE

A company offering what consumer advocates have called "the most dangerous product in crypto" has become one of the industry's hottest names.

But Hyperliquid Labs is also raising the heat in Singapore, a city-state averse to risk and scandal where it has made its home.

Hyperliquid's founder and chief executive, Jeff Yan, was a headline speaker on Wednesday at Token2049, a conference being hosted in Singapore dubbed "the world's largest crypto event".

The company is known for its risky perpetual futures or "perps".

The crypto-based derivatives allow traders to speculate on the price of everything from oil and cryptocurrencies to stocks in otherwise inaccessible markets without having to make or accept delivery of assets.

Perps, which do not expire and deploy a mechanism that anchors them to the spot prices of assets they track, gained mainstream attention at the start of the Iran war as traders used them to make off-hours bets on turbulent energy markets.

But consumer advocates have called them “the most dangerous product in crypto” because of their often highly leveraged and open-ended structure.

Hyperliquid Labs' presence in the city-state has posed a dilemma for the Monetary Authority of Singapore, which regulates the industry and has cautiously embraced crypto.

The regulator is keen to promote innovation in digital assets among institutions but believes cryptocurrencies are too risky for the general public.

It has taken measures to discourage their use and warned investors in June that it did not regulate Hyperliquid's perps.

"We are not aware that Hyperliquid is regulated in any major jurisdiction," MAS told the FT.

People familiar with the regulator's thinking said MAS did not believe Hyperliquid was based in Singapore due to its "decentralised nature" and thus should not fall under its jurisdiction.

Yet Hyperliquid Labs confirmed to the FT that it was based in the city-state.

Job ads posted as recently as last week asked applicants if they were able to "work in the Singapore office" and company documents seen by the FT show Singapore as its registered headquarters.

The company said Hyperliquid, which is unregulated, “is not, and has never claimed to be, licensed or authorised by MAS”, adding that it respected the role of regulators and “remains committed to engaging constructively with them”.

MAS's wariness stems from Singapore's chequered history with crypto.

Once called a “crypto paradise”, the city-state has been a favourite destination over the years for exchanges to set up their headquarters, thanks to its reputation as a secure and innovative financial centre.


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But the collapse of several businesses has tarnished that reputation.

Terraform Labs, the company that defrauded investors in the \$40bn crash of TerraUSD digital tokens in 2022, was registered in Singapore while crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital began as a registered fund management company in Singapore before filing for bankruptcy in the US.

Last year, MAS caught the industry off

Animal magnetism: Hypurr, the cat mascot for Hyperliquid Labs, the company selling controversial 'perps' products and led by Jeff Yan, below, founder and chief executive Christophus Visiae

‘We are not aware that Hyperliquid is regulated in any major jurisdiction’

guard by announcing that unlicensed crypto exchanges operating in Singapore had to close or move abroad within a matter of weeks.

Analysts said the short timeframe was the regulator's way of flushing out unwanted players in an industry that had caused embarrassment.

"The regulatory work . . . is partly a response to those instances," said Jordan Wain, head of global policy at blockchain data provider Chainalysis. "They had a hard time, got a wake-up call and responded to it way faster than most jurisdictions around the world."

Despite the crackdown, Singapore's crypto industry has continued to flourish, with assets growing by 55 per cent last year, according to Chainalysis.

Other regulators have mixed stances on perps. The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has warned investors that it does not regulate Hyperliquid while the US gave the green light this year for retail investors to trade perps.

President Donald Trump said in August the Commodity Futures Trading Commission was “working to bring Hyperliquid into the United States in a fully compliant and legal fashion”.

Hyperliquid Labs is not the only Singapore-based group that offers perps.

SGX, the local bourse, is on track to become the first traditional exchange to offer perps to US institutions, having launched products in Singapore last year.

MAS said SGX and Hyperliquid "differ fundamentally in their regulatory position" and that SGX's products were designed for institutional investors.

"Cryptocurrency trading is highly risky and not suitable for the general public," it said. "MAS has put in measures to discourage cryptocurrency speculation by retail investors."

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SpaceX move for spectrum hits shares in US telecoms

PETER WELLS — NEW YORK

SpaceX has taken a big step to launching a Starlink mobile service for US consumers, announcing its acquisition of a low-bandwidth spectrum portfolio and wiping about \$45bn from the combined market cap of the country's biggest telecoms groups.

The company is buying licences for up to 14 megahertz of paired spectrum in the 800MHz band, it said in a statement on Thursday.

Shares in US mobile providers sank shortly after Wall Street's opening bell yesterday in the wake of SpaceX's announcement. Verizon Communications, which has the most mobile subscribers in the country, fell 6.9 per cent. AT&T tumbled 8.4 per cent and T-Mobile US fell 9.6 per cent.

The move into retail contracts would mark one of SpaceX's most significant commercial expansions since launching Starlink, which has now made high-speed internet connections available in more than 160 countries via the group's constellation of satellites.

"Very big deal," SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk said in an X post. Shares in his AI-to-rockets group were up 1.4 per cent yesterday, increasing the company's valuation by about \$30bn.

Shares in operators of mobile network infrastructure jumped. Crown Castle was up 10.2 per cent, American

The group is buying licences for up to 14MHz of paired spectrum in the 800MHz band

Tower gained 7.1 per cent and SBA Communications rose 6 per cent.

Ahead of its record-breaking initial public offering in June, SpaceX executives told investors the company was considering launching a Starlink retail product.

SpaceX laid some of the groundwork to expand its services in the US last year, when it agreed to pay \$17bn to buy wireless spectrum licences from operator EchoStar.

SpaceX has already offered more limited direct-to-consumer services in the US. It has given telcos such as T-Mobile access to its satellites so they can augment their existing network coverage in rural areas.

But the acquisition of the low-band spectrum and a subsequent direct-to-consumer mobile offering would give SpaceX access to a much bigger market than its satellite broadband alone and could also result in it reducing its reliance on telecoms partners.

SpaceX said that after final approval from the Federal Communications Commission, which sells the spectrum licences, it will combine its satellite-to-mobile services with a terrestrial network that can “connect devices everywhere”.

The low-band spectrum will provide a "coverage layer" that would allow Starlink Mobile signals to penetrate obstacles such as walls, thereby allowing customers to use their devices while inside buildings.

Crypto

Digital asset start-ups in \$141mn legal battle over token sales

NIKOU ASGARI — LONDON

Two crypto firms with links to Trump family-backed company World Liberty Financial are embroiled in a \$141mn legal battle that has shed light on controversial “over-the-counter” deals popular in digital assets.

British Virgin Islands-based DWF Maas and Panama-based sister company Falcon Digital have sued BitGo, claiming it breached contracts by selling digital tokens before agreed lock-ups expired, causing the tokens' prices to fall. DWF Maas and Falcon are part of Dubai-headquartered market maker and investor DWF Labs.

In a lawsuit filed in London's High Court, DWF and Falcon allege they entered into agreements to sell Falcon Finance tokens at a discount to BitGo, which would then be subject to a three-month lock-up, plus further vesting lock-ups.

DWF and BitGo also entered into an agreement with the same lock-up structure for ESPORTS tokens, which are used for electronic sports and gaming, according to the lawsuit.

Private "over-the-counter" token sale agreements are common in the crypto industry as a way for token founders to raise money without dumping assets on to the market and depressing the coin's price. In return, traders receive discounted tokens that can be sold once the lock-ups expire.

However, they rely on trust between the two parties and their opacity means they are controversial, especially in the eyes of retail investors, who can be exposed to dumping after token vesting periods expire.

DWF claims BitGo sold its Falcon Finance and ESPORTS tokens before the lock-ups expired, breaching the contract. It said the "sale of its FF Tokens was sudden and unexpected" and "flooded the highly illiquid and concentrated" market, therefore "causing a reduction" in the token's price.


WLF is backed by Donald Trump's sons, Eric (left) and Donald Trump Jr

BitGo declined to comment. DWF said: "The discount BitGo received was conditional on the tokens remaining locked and they were moved to exchanges roughly two months before the first unlock. We raised this with BitGo in April and May, and with no undertaking forthcoming, court action became necessary. We remain hopeful of, and open to, resolution."

The purpose of the lock-ups for both tokens was to ensure DWF could "actively build and launch a number of products during the lock-up period" in order to "materially improve" the assets' liquidity, it said in the lawsuit.

Falcon Finance tokens fell from \$0.08 in early March when the first lock-up was agreed to about \$0.07 by late April, according to CoinMarketCap data.

ESPORTS tokens fell from about \$0.28 in mid-March to \$0.07 by early June, around when DWF alleges BitGo sold the tokens.

DWF is seeking \$141mn in damages, saying BitGo's token sales "resulted in direct losses" for the company because of the fall in the value of the tokens that it still held. "There is no contractual or other legal excuse for BitGo's conduct in transferring or selling" the tokens, DWF said in the lawsuit.

DWF last year bought \$25mn worth of tokens created by WLF, a crypto venture backed by Donald Trump and his sons. BitGo issues and custodies World Liberty's stablecoin. Its chief executive personally donated \$50,000 in bitcoin to, and hosted a fundraiser for, Trump's 2024 presidential campaign.

BitGo was founded in 2013 and is one of the biggest crypto custodians. Its CEO, Mike Belshe, has appeared at White House crypto events and has praised the administration's approach to digital assets.

The company listed in New York at the start of this year but its shares have plunged by about 60 per cent since.

Andrei Grachev, who founded DWF in 2022, previously worked in Moscow as the head of crypto exchange Huobi's Russian business and at the Russian Association of Cryptoindustry and Blockchain.

After DWF bought \$25mn of the WLF tokens last year, a Democrat member of the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security wrote to WLF raising concerns over its dealings with foreign nationals, saying DWF's management "previously managed Russian firms accused of enabling Russian banks to bypass sanctions".

DWF said: "The accusation by the Senate member is unfounded."

Regulation

EU to centralise supervision of key financial infrastructure

PAOLA TAMMA — LUXEMBOURG

Supervision of most major European stock exchanges and other financial market infrastructure such as clearing houses will be centralised at an EU level under reforms agreed yesterday aimed at deepening integration of the bloc's capital markets.

The overhaul is part of a broader effort by Brussels to bolster the EU's flagging competitiveness in relation to the US by ensuring that companies can raise sufficient capital locally and grow to scale rather than crossing the Atlantic to obtain funding.

The European Commission argues that the current set-up, with 27 national regulators overseeing more than 35 different stock exchanges, as well as 17 separate central counterparties for clearing and 28 central securities depositories for settling trades, reduces liquidity and increases companies' financing costs.

Under an agreement struck by EU finance ministers yesterday, the Paris-based European Securities and Markets Authority will directly supervise key financial entities including eight trading venues, post-trading infrastructure and some crypto exchange platforms — although Germany has secured an exemption for Deutsche Börse.

The trading venues that would qualify for direct supervision by Esma include Euronext, Nasdaq, Cboe, Tradeweb and the London Stock Exchange Group's European subsidiaries, according to people familiar with the compromise.

The carve-out obtained by Germany to exclude Deutsche Börse until it reaches a certain market share threshold has riled smaller countries, including Luxembourg and Belgium, which in turn sought to claw back control from Esma for organisations operating in their own countries.

The new system of regulation will include some safeguards: nine national regulators acting jointly will be able to contest a draft binding decision by Esma, but the latter can still over-rule national objections, according to a draft compromise seen by the FT.

Some countries are critical of these safeguards, arguing that they add red tape and costs to what was supposed to be simplified and efficient market supervision modelled on the US's Securities and Exchange Commission.

On Wall Street Prediction trades may reveal wisdom of crowds

Michael Mauboussin

n 1932, Bernard Baruch, a financier who made his fortune on Wall Street, wrote the foreword to a reprint of the 1852 edition of Charles Mackay's classic book.

Mackay's classic book, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.

He cited a quote by the German playwright, Friedrich Schiller: "Anyone taken as an individual, is tolerably sensible and reasonable – as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead."

Any theory of the stock market must explain why prices are usually sensible but periodically go bonkers.

About 70 years after Baruch's take, James Surowiecki, a journalist, wrote a book called The Wisdom of Crowds. He showed that crowds can be remarkably accurate in reflecting objective values when certain conditions are satisfied but highly inaccurate when one or more of the conditions are violated.

Surowiecki offered a single framework to explain the "tolerably sensible" and the "blockhead".

Surowiecki's conditions, presented with slight modification, include cognitive diversity, aggregation and incentives. Cognitive diversity means that people with different points of view are participating in the process.

Aggregation provides a mechanism to combine information into a price. And incentives reflect rewards for being right and penalties for being wrong. The costs to participate and correct mispricings also affect results.

I applied this framework to prediction and stock markets. In prediction

markets, participants buy or sell contracts that generally pay based on a binary result. For instance, an election pays \$1 if a candidate wins and \$0 for a loss. A price of 70 cents implies about a 70 per cent probability of winning.

Prediction markets are very well calibrated as measured by the relationship between the implied probability and the outcome.

A closer look reveals that the win rate is slightly above average for high contract prices and slightly below for low prices. This is the "favourite-longshot bias", which is underestimating the winning rate for high-probability bets and overestimating the winning rate for low-probability bets.

Bets on binary outcomes can contain valuable cues for businesspeople and their investors

The high degree of calibration means that contract prices are a reliable source of information about the likelihood of future events in the aggregate. Prices in the stock market, on the other hand, do not offer such a clear signal.

This makes sense. Prediction markets forecast a definitive outcome that is often revealed in relatively short order. Stocks generally lack a similar settlement, allowing narratives and herd thinking to emerge and persist.

For the same reason, price manipulation in a prediction market is difficult to sustain. Economists who studied the phenomenon concluded "that the speculative attacks initially move prices but these changes are quickly undone".

Prediction markets are zero-sum, which means that aggregate gains and losses are equal, before considering the costs to participate. Further, a small percentage of participants earn the lion's share of profits.

The stock market is “positive-sum”. Stocks represent partial ownership in businesses that generally create wealth by increasing profits. Investing is zero-sum only in a relative sense. For example, if the market rises 10 per cent, some investors outperform and others underperform. But underperforming the market need not mean losing money.

Despite their rapid growth, prediction markets remain illegal in many parts of the world and there is still legal wrangling in the US over regulatory oversight of contracts related to sports. There have also been episodes of insider trading. And detractors point out a high percentage of participants lose money.

However, these markets also offer important benefits. One is substantial informational value, which may continue to rise as AI agents, which now forecast as accurately as the best human forecasters, become involved. Prediction markets may offer valuable cues for businesspeople and investors.

Another is that these markets also allow participants to hedge risks. For instance, the owner of a bar in New York City offered free tabs up to \$100 if the Knicks won Game 1 of the 2026 NBA Finals. He bet \$5,000 on the Knicks and the payout covered the bar tabs. In this way, a zero-sum contract can be useful for risk management.

For stock market investors, the lesson is to look for opportunities arising from breakdowns in cognitive diversity. When independent opinions give way to imitation, prices can go to bullish or bearish extremes. The wisdom of crowds yields to madness when investors act as Baruch's blockheads.

Michael Mauboussin is head of consilient research at Counterpoint Global, Morgan Stanley Investment Management

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The day in the markets

What you need to know

- Wall Street, European and Asian stocks rally ahead of US earnings season - Treasury yields climb, remaining close to post-2007 peak seen earlier in week - Oil prices little changed with Brent crude hovering around \$104.30 per barrel

Global stocks rallied yesterday as traders prepared for Wall Street earnings season to begin the following week.

The blue-chip S&P 500 index was 0.5 per cent higher by lunchtime in New York, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 technology index rose 0.3 per cent. Both indices are trading close to record highs, which they hit earlier in the week.

The rally in stocks came despite more weakness for US government bonds, which was pushing yields higher.

Yields on 10-year Treasuries rose 0.02 percentage points to 5.26 per cent and remain close to their highest level since 2007, which it touched earlier in the week.

Investors have warned that a further sell-off in government bonds could start to hurt equities more meaningfully — for example if investors opt to reallocate from stocks to bonds, given rising yields.

"The backdrop for equities is no longer as straightforward as it was earlier in the year . . . earnings will need to do more of the heavy lifting," said Emmanuel Cau, head of European equities strategy at Barclays.

The rise in US bond yields yesterday came after the University of Michigan's index of consumer sentiment declined by slightly more than expected to the lowest reading in the survey's history, showing pressure on consumers from higher prices.

Higher inflation caused by the US-Iran conflict and the slowing of traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is starting to seep into the global economy.

The two-year Treasury yield, which is tied more closely to changing interest rate expectations, rose 0.05 percentage points to 4.8 per cent.

Across the Atlantic, the recent sell-off in European government bonds eased.

In France, where concerns about the government deficit and the looming presidential election have sparked a violent sell-off in recent weeks, borrowing costs eased.

The 10-year French government bond yield fell 0.04 percentage points to 4.86 per cent. In the UK, 10-year gilt yields fell by the same amount to 5.45 per cent.

European stocks also rallied. The region-wide Stoxx Europe 600 index was up 1 per cent while London's FTSE 100 benchmark gained 1.1 per cent.

In Tokyo, the Topix rose 0.3 per cent. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index gained 1.8 per cent and mainland China's CSI 300 gained 0.2 per cent.

Oil prices were little changed from the previous day with Brent crude hovering around \$104.30 per barrel. Emily Herbert

Markets update

USEurozoneJapanUKChinaBrazil
StocksS&P 500Eurofirst 300Nikkei 225FTSE100Shanghai CompBovespa
Level7808.692523.0669030.9210552.053813.79208527.66
% change on day0.560.97-0.021.060.05112
Currency$ index (DXY)$ per €Yen per $$ per £Rmb per $Real per $
Level102.291.120158.4151.3236.694.987
% change on day0.15-0.1070.126-0.008-0.16-0.503
Govt. bonds10-Year Treasury10-year-Bund10-year JGB10-Year Gilt10-year-bond10-year-bond
Yield5.253.473.005.381.6912.63
Basis point change on day-0.020.00-0.04-0.030.01-0.13
World / CommodsFTSE All-WorldOil - BrentOil - WTIGoldSilverMetals (LMEX)
Level753.85104.6792.014188.8260.905711.60
% change on day0.50-1.010.571.882.94-1.64

Main equity markets

Biggest movers

UpsCrown Castle Int13.09
Humana12.54
Amer Tower7.81
Oracle4.63
Constellation Energy4.62
Arcelor Mittal564
Wolters Kluwer CVA449
Capgemini379
SAP370
Sonova Holding360
T Mobile-12.43
AT&T-10.90
Verizon Comm-10.83
HP Inc-6.66
FMC Corp-6.05

Prices taken at 17:00 GMT Oct 09
Based on the constituents of the FTSE Eurofirst 300 Eurozone

Deutsche Telekom-794
Telefonica-4.61
Telia Co-3.75
STMicroelectronics-3.00
OMV2.90
Morgan Advanced Materials9.43
Oxford Nanopore Technologies6.27
Trustpilot Group6.16
RHI Magnesita6.10
Baltic Classifieds Group5.84

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Airtel Africa-6.27
Vodafone-4.86
SSP Group-4.10
Pennon Group-3.77
Rightmove-2.41

Technology

Nvidia-backed Australian data centre operator withdraws plans for \$5bn IPO

GAVIN HUANG, WILLIAM SANDLUND AND ARJUN NEIL ALIM — HONG KONG

A Nvidia-backed data centre operator has abandoned plans for what would have been one of the world's biggest listings this year in a sign of growing investor wariness of AI valuations.

Firmus, which had aimed to raise \$5bn at a \$30bn valuation, said yesterday it had withdrawn its application to list in Sydney in light of “recent market volatility and prevailing market conditions”.

It added: "The board determined that the terms on which the offer could proceed would not appropriately reflect the strength of the company's business and long-term growth outlook."

Firmus struggled to convince investors to buy into the initial public offering at its target price, highlighting concerns with ambitious AI financing and whether valuations align with the industry's prospects.

The listing would have been Australia's largest since telecoms operator Telstra made a \$10bn debut in 1997.

A person familiar with the deal said the company would instead look to raise capital through a private round.

“Firmus is probably one of the most polarising IPOs I have ever seen,” said Jun Bei Liu, founder of asset manager Ten Cap. “They might deliver cheaper earnings in two years if they build what they promise, but that’s speculative.”

‘We think that Firmus indeed has a compelling story; it just doesn’t have a compelling valuation’

Firmus was founded in 2019 as a bitcoin miner in Australia before switching to data centre services. It has ambitions to build "AI factories" using chips from Nvidia, which participated in a funding round in August that valued Firmus at more than \$10.5bn.

The company is also backed by global investors including Jane Street and funds managed by Blackstone.

While Firmus has signed contracts for more than 900 megawatts of capacity, it only has 46 megawatts in operation across two facilities in Australia and Singapore. Five data centres are under construction with a target to begin operations in the next two years.

"We think that Firmus indeed has a compelling story; it just doesn't have a compelling valuation," John Pearce, chief investment officer of Australian pension fund UniSuper, said in an investment update published on Thursday before Firmus pulled its IPO.

"So much has to go right to justify the valuation," he added. "Furthermore, we're quite concerned that Firmus will have to keep coming back to the market for a lot more debt and more equity to fund its expansion plans."

In recent months, AI companies have warned about the technology's risks and called for a slowdown. Globally, there is also discontent with data centres and the resources needed to power them. Additional reporting by Nic Fildes in Melbourne


Effective 07.11.2025
Stock Market movements over last 30 days, with the FTSE All-World in the same currency as a comparison

WORLD MARKETS AT A GLANCE

Change during previous day's trading (%)

FTSE EuroFirst

0.97%

Sep 09 - Oct 09
S&P 500New York
IndexAll World
7636.367808.69
Day ▲ 0.56%Month ▲ 2.14%Year ▲ 15.80%
Nasdaq CompositeNew York

Day ▶ 0.75% Month ▶ -1.73% Year ▶ 11.04%

CountryIndexLatestPrevious
AustraliaAll Ordinaries8871.708823.20
AustraliaS&P 5006718.809680.90
AustraliaS&P 500 S&P 500s7671.607672.40
AustriaATX6543.456560.57
BelgiumBEL 255454.745389.40
BelgiumBEL Mid6408.456552.98
BrazilBovespa208577.66206231.24
CanadaS&P 100 602092.702070.76
CanadaS&P 100 Mid Cap35569.4430145.38
ChileSS&PCOLX NIPA GEN58620.5258620.52
ChinaChina FUT2 420010884.9010894.94
ChinaChina Shanghai A1088.451099.51
ChinaChina Shanghai B311.68311.75
ChinaChina Shanghai Central3813.783811.90
ChinaShenzhen A2479.392474.95
ChinaShenzhen B1161.301154.28
CroatiaCROBEX4492.974480.61
CyprusCS2 M&P 50N307.76305.30
DayMonthYear
BovespaSao Paulo
1856290420852756
CountryIndexLatestPrevious
Czech RepublicCzech Republic Pk2576.772545.21
DenmarkOMXC Copenhagen 201518.171495.16
EgyptEGX 3050265.2050265.20
EstoniaOMX Federation2232.882228.71
FinlandOMX International General13504.3513495.25
FranceFrance (CACD)7803.337729.69
GreeceSIF 1205819.235800.44
GermanyMX-AX25995.9025908.83
GermanyYoc Class3878.413965.53
GermanyXETRA Dus25007.2724956.97
GreeceAthens2556.182568.85
GreeceFTSE/ASEA6547.036577.49
Hong KongHang Seng74211.2523785.78
Hong KongHang Seng (Europe)9147.618319.03
Hong KongHSCC Red Chip42466.954028.81
HungaryBak141571.80127185.79
IndiaBSI Sensex72472.2071593.24
IndonesiaJakarta Comp6883.766931.28

Nikkei

Day > 0.95% Month > -2.00% Year > -2.96%

CountryIndexLatestPrevious
IrelandIBG2 Overall1399.811450.78
IsraelTel Aviv 1252625.782634.01
ItalyFTSE Italia All-Share52207.0851818.10
ItalyFTSE Italia Mid-Cap50778.6350077.62
ItalyFTSE 20045476.3149257.80
JapanNikkei 22568030.9268042.11
JapanYenji4104.814261.46
KuwaitKAI Market Index9860.039880.03
LatviaOMX Large980.42977.86
LuxembourgOMX Invesco1534.361536.11
LuxembourgLuxil1774.121748.55
MexicoIPC Mexico City85854.0184886.91
MalaysiaFTSE Bursa KGD1638.451601.01
MoroccoMASI16797.1016749.18
NetherlandsAEA1130.961121.20
NetherlandsAEK All-Share1534.111538.83
New ZealandNZX 5012749.3513991.85
NigeriaSC All-Share249593.55249542.50

Day > 0.91% Month > -4.10% Year > 16.25%

CountryIndexLatestPrevious
NorwayDaily All-Share3485.482432.58
PakistanKSE 100167098.27187441.91
PhilippinesMarkit Corp5730.995910.39
PolandWig157001.42157678.56
PortugalPSI 208307.508347.58
PortugalPSI General6306.796354.43
RomaniaPerformance A&T Index32430.4533007.90
RussiaRussia Traded Index and USD988.10986.10
Saudi ArabiaTADAMG All-Share Index10319.2810376.88
SingaporeFTSE Divers Times5401.885412.96
SlovakiaOMX311.85301.00
SloveniaSRX TOP3108.873104.21
South AfricaFTSE GSE All-Share108529.77107100.29
South AfricaFTSE GSE Res65680.5564800.65
South AfricaFTSE GSE Top 40100764.3399490.91
South KoreaKuwait6625.936825.93
South KoreaKuwait 2001044.521044.52
SpainSpanish REXR 3518833.1018659.90

\$ per £ ¥ per \$ 0.1264%

Day 0.05% Month -3.49% Year -3.05%

CountryIndexLatestPrevious
SwedenOMX Stockholm 3052616.143032.48
SwedenOMX Stockholm AS1122.111104.05
SwitzerlandSNI Index15707.4013657.00
TaiwanWeighted Stock Index49313.4448313.44
ThailandBangkok SET1577.651570.81
TurkeyBIST 10012265.9812213.59
UKFTSE 10010092.0510441.60
UKFTSE All-Box UK9190.439068.32
UKFTSE All-Box £18693.969654.04
UKFTSE NonMARK 1009872.579433.03
U.S.A.Dow Jones Composite16118.0516038.28
U.S.A.Dow Jones Industrial51618.0251251.61
U.S.A.Dow Jones Transport10073.689808.07
U.S.A.Dow Jones Utilities408.41406.63
U.S.A.Nasdaq 10030835.0130775.81
U.S.A.Nasdaq Composite27255.9327150.34
U.S.A.NYSE Composite20112.8220170.60
U.S.A.SSIF 1007808.697765.30

UK MARKET WINNERS & LOSERS

FT.COM/MARKETSDATA

£ per €

STOCK MARKET: BIGGEST MOVERS

Day > 1.23% Month > -3.07% Year > -11.80%

CountryIndexLatestPrevious
WoroviaIBC8172.648400.73
VietnamViet Men Index1735.091738.97
Cross-BorderEuro Stoxx 50 (Eur)6173.376126.73
NetherlandsEuronext 100 ID1859.811849.30
Cross-BorderFTSE 40 and Global ($)21288.1621179.81
Cross-BorderFTSE All World ($)754.60756.08
Cross-BorderFTSE 53002523.062498.60
Cross-BorderFTSE Eurotop 1004676.744829.01
Cross-BorderFTSE Global 100 ($)5907.965874.02
Cross-BorderFTSE Gold Min ($)5400.555450.55
Cross-BorderFTSE Latibex Top (Eu)7284.907156.60
Cross-BorderFTSE World ($)1413.811405.82
Cross-BorderFTSEurofirst 100 (Eur)7001.086841.84
Cross-BorderFTSEurofirst 80 (Eu)9416.628362.32

EURO MARKETS

AMERICA
ACTIVE STOCKSstock traded m/sclose priceDay's change
Nvidia42.22258.48-1.08
Intel38.17106.57-1.51
Tesla26.50382.637.93
Apple33.26334.84-5.76
Palantir18.25305.797.01
Amazon.com17.02261.277.21
Super Micro Computer16.4841.13
Moderna16.21217.14
Netflix12.5770.85-0.72
Comcast11.6320.57-0.64
ACTIVE STOCKSstock traded m'sclose priceDay's change
Lloyds Big 1p99.871.020.01
Habtec76.733.490.05
Rolls-Royce62.7713.850.18
Vodafone49.221.18-0.06
BP30.875.850.01
Temo38.175.040.03
Taylor Wimpey26.509.73-0.01
Barclays24.424.300.04
Glencore23.545.850.18
BT Group21.941.93-0.05
BIGGEST MOVERS
Close priceDay's changeDay's change%
Ups
Crown Castle Int77.919.0213.08
Huntsora435.8848.5812.54
Amer Tower178.7513.027.91
Oracle141.976.284.63
Constellation Energy288.2513.184.62
Downs
T-Mobile150.01-21.30-12.43
AT&T22.16-2.71-10.80
Verizon Comm41.33-5.02-10.83
HP Inc30.28-2.18-6.68
FMC Corp8.38-0.54-6.05
ACTIVE STOCKSstock traded m/sclose priceDay's change
Intesa Sanpaolo50.756.120.08
Steurolis33.994.00-
Banco Santander23.0113.020.11
Telefónica21.743.25-0.16
Enel17.118.870.11
Banco De Saba#el14.433.49-
Royal KPM13.793.88-0.07
Talia Co11.3243.40-1.69
Iberdrola10.8221.260.15
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentina9.5023.110.09
BIGGEST MOVINGClose priceDay's changeDay's change%
Ups
Morgan Advanced Materials2.900.258.43
Oxford Nanopore Technologies2.130.138.27
Truophilot Group2.480.146.16
RHI Magnosora28.701.856.10
Barric Classifieds Group1.990.115.84
Downs
Airtel Africa2.90-0.19-8.27
Vodafone1.19-0.06-4.86
SSP Group1.80-0.08-4.10
France Group3.57-0.14-3.77
Rightmove4.31-0.12-2.41

CURRENCIES

ACTIVE STOCKSstock traded m/sclose priceDay's change
Nappon Tel & Tel152.03172.900.80
Tokio Marine Hldgs94.68525.707.80
EarthBank Corp72.265883.00-237.00
SoftBank Corp69.65242.000.70
Metalsbury UFJ34.403462.00-43.00
Nissan Motor Co33.02284.001.00
Fujitsu29.915413.00-99.00
Nappon Steel26.20629.40-1.90
Tokyo Electric Power26.18520.806.20
Tokyo Yuden22.461135.00168.00
BIGGEST MIVERS
Close priceDay's changeDay's change%
Ups
Arcelor Metal57.283.085.64
Wolters Kluwer CIA75.003.224.49
Capgemini115.054.203.75
SAP191.466.843.70
Sonora Holding264.609.203.60
Downs
Deutsche Telekom24.70-2.13-7.94
Telefonica3.25-0.18-4.61
Telia Co43.40-1.69-3.75
STMicroelectronics48.55-1.44-3.00
CMV71.95-2.15-2.00
FTSE 100pre估值% Chg week% Chg ytdP
Winners
Experian26.829.16-33.25A
Imperial Brands26.628.98-14.65B
The Sage Grp10.718.98-1.06C
RELX27.207.58-9.93B
Lon Stock Ex.88.347.47-2.98R
Tesco5.047.4214.03N
Halace3.496.37-6.82L
JD Sports Fashion8.846.080.05C
Brit. Amer. Tobacco41.345.51-0.47V
Alicolor Group4.895.85-16.66C
BIGGEST MOVERSClosepriceDay'schangeDay'schange%
Ups
Natmax Research Inc5813.00272.005.09
Trent Mills7587.00355.004.81
Socor Holdings16548.00635.003.99
Japan Tobacco1230.00270.003.84
Nintendo8146.00295.003.76
Downs
First Retailing Co71760.00-3020.00-4.04
Riversas Elec3800.00-150.00-4.00
Asahi Kashi1585.50-85.00-3.94
SoftBank Grp Corp5803.00-237.00-3.92
Murata Manufacturing Co7070.00-297.00-3.59
FTSE 250price(£)% Chgweek% Chgptd
Winners
Avon Technologies23.3023.8026.45
Bridgepoint Group4.0221.1741.58
Cusco Group2.9714.8625.68
Beltic Classifieds Group1.9913.75-1.92
Rightmove4.918.40-5.60
Merry Group1.967.641.14
Footstart Group2.481.6350.97
Claricon54.051.4641.58
Wilmington (LC)9.827.3833.22
CMC Market6.781.28126.78
Industry Sectorsprice(£)%Chg week%Chg yld
Winners
Finance & Credit Services1396.137.08-3.77
Consumer Digital Services178.307.03-6.73
Software & Computer Svcs1934.507.01-5.26
Technology1894.476.90-4.94
Tobacco45880.066.47-3.42
Oil Gas & Coal11926.865.3537.22
Energy12539.405.3137.26
Real Estate Investment & Svcs1972.885.23-7.88
Consumer Services4138.455.13-0.21
Personal Care Drug & Grocery4630.424.66-1.90
FUSE Small Capproved (£)% Chg week% Chg ytd
Winners
Yellow Oil3.1135.3874.55
Kernando Resources2.2523.48-8.70
Aston Martin Llegenda3.4719.74-25.48
Blackrock Latin American Inv Tgt4.7314.2517.08
Capita2.359.61-42.05
ASA International2.450.4129.29
US Property Services2.846.480.38
Focus3.286.11-41.27
EnQuest3.285.97167.53
Utica Emerging Mkts2.964.9810.04
LosersLosersLosers
Barson Retchow2.90-6.74-33.80Pennan Group3.57-22.18-32.33The Smart Water Stock Company0.63-21.2583.80Alternative Energy39.37-11.48
Vodafone1.18-6.8819.69Taylor Wimpey0.73-8.78-31.68Hootchkurt Group0.89-11.08-28.80Tech Hardware & Equip134.12-7.26
Lion Finance123.80-6.6433.13Vistry Group2.19-8.44-65.89Ginger Country0.50-9.09-18.67World Goods & Home Care7816.78-6.42
Berkshire Equity8.76-6.5623.21Unity Group4.23-8.33-34.36The Beauty Tech Group4.32-6.0848.97Aerospace & Defense23872.47-5.04
Rolls-Royce13.85-6.2320.45Dellkey19.46-7.4120.01Noblemark1.59-7.40-12.90Industrial Serv. Food Services328.68-4.78
3i Group24.02-5.99-35.38Raspberry Holdings0.64-7.26121.25Spence Hldg0.14-6.07-44.72Telecommunications3574.86-4.70
Jard Caro Airlines4.16-5.730.38Inchcape8.67-7.17-10.73ASOS4.86-6.43-84.37Leisure Goods38597.31-4.64
Aristal Africa2.93-5.66-18.30Hill & Smith30.50-6.7342.52Baker Road Resources Ltd.1.31-6.4369.03Construction & Materials15791.35-3.68
Mindsor Ind4.45-5.43-24.46Texas Partners5.50-6.67-13.52Sandfield0.37-5.6239.72Banks8662.29-3.11
Games Works103.93-4.65-13.37Metro Bank1.56-5.8529.52Boutok3.77-5.57-44.70Industrials11378.04-2.31
Oct 09DOLLAREUROPOUND
Closing MidDay's ChangeWeeks ChangeClosing MidDay's ChangeWeeks ChangeClosing MidDay's ChangeWeeks Change
Argentina Pastel1515.7844-3.4514-9.10431907.6543-5.8308-22.84682084.6785-4.7245-15.5480
Australian Dollar1.4337-0.3026-0.00111.8052-0.0046-0.01311.9841-0.0035-0.0044
Bahraini Dinar8.37760.00040.00088.4228--0.00258.4985--
Bolivian Boliviano11.8930-0.000013.2673-0.0142-0.154715.6723-0.0072-0.0054
Brazilian Real4.9888-0.82520.24515.5852-0.0042-0.31769.5953-0.0338-0.3362
Canadian Dollar1.42750.00460.65611.98620.0001-0.68721.86790.00580.0021
Chilean Peso876.358-3.4558-1.28981051.3078-3.9831-16.455613.8309-3.1396-12.9969
Chinese Yuan6.9922-0.0093-0.01717.4872-0.0164-0.07048.8588-0.0128-0.0328
Colombian Peso3152.0400-32.8688-74.19083573.9081-46.6598-110.13065221.0227-43.7816-105.5293
Costa Rican Colon454.0000-2.50003.5800588.2997-3.3467-7.7156808.4384-3.3519-5.6910
Czech Koruna21.77300.02020.187824.37700.0036-0.099026.78580.02450.0029
Danish Krone6.57610.00660.04917.4745-0.0004-8.22640.00830.0486
Egyptian Pound72.4379-0.63880.060310.6393-0.0965-0.347013.7819-0.9449-0.6388
Hong Kong Dollar7.8479-0.00040.00058.7868-0.0098-0.064813.3795-0.0013-0.0174
Hungarian Forint328.56750.17120.2308365.6256-0.2006-2.4508431.80183.1038-0.4450
Indian Peso96.7313-0.55590.4368138.5903-0.1778-0.7432127.8293-0.88240.3560

FTSE ACTUARIES SHARE INDICES

RollesDOLLAREUROPOUND
Closing MidDay's ChangeWeeks ChangeClosing MidDay's ChangeWeeks ChangeClosing MidDay's ChangeWeeks Change
15400Indonesian Rajsh17869.000015.00007.00002018.4488-38.2893-140.509025447.1950-21.6280-31.8500
30440Israel Shekel3.0634-0.00020.01013.4297-0.0039-0.01404.0515-0.00050.0064
30540Jupiahara Yen158.41500.20000.7400177.36140.0241-0.4002209.53180.24060.6160
30540Kanyan Shilling129.7000-0.1500-0.0500143.2122-0.0337-1.1329171.54040.2114-0.3645
3362Kuwait Shar0.31110.00010.02220.3463-0.0002-0.00010.41140.00010.0022
3302Malaysian Pongo4.0650-0.00050.00004.5136-0.0121-0.03335.4205-0.0090-0.0089
3302Peru Gren16.3805-0.00050.235525.5298-0.14130.111124.30010.51190.2630
3329New Zealand Dollar1.7630-0.00090.05521.9971-0.0032-0.00882.2592-0.00140.0029
3329Nagasaki Pizza1330.7000-0.30000.00001489.6518-2.0239-0.95591759.9176-0.6357-1.6264
6913Norwegian Krone9.51770.0009-0.163610.7165-0.0015-0.120012.85910.0109-0.0686
2929Pakistan Rupee276.9250--0.0500310.0453-0.2023-2.3549366.2471-0.0277-0.7032
4588Paraguay New Sol4.54500.01430.01813.8891-0.0119-0.00824.57050.0786-0.1931
3489Russian Tobacco52.89780.09830.236970.2516-0.1782-0.227680.8527-0.12520.2908
3174Polish duty3.91860.01020.03684.3872-0.00680.00885.1825-0.01310.0395
4561Romanian Lira4.77100.00100.02743.2417-0.0046-0.00976.31000.00080.0253
3562Russian Ruble94.7300-0.30001.000094.8862-0.4279-0.4245112.0863-0.40521.1300
£ Strg Oct 9Day's chg %Euro Index£ Strg Oct 8£ Strg Oct 7Year agoDiv YieldCover FactorP/E ratioX/D adjTotal Return
FTSE 100 (100)10552.051.069715.2610441.6010498.509651.383.112.2214.50275.6212436.78
FTSE 120 ex Investment Trusts (95)3447.911.073174.483411.523416.943251.793.282.0915.1491.2533964.31
FTSE 250 (251)24213.781.1322253.5823943.8824306.7522470.383.172.7111.64613.7122934.07
FTSE 350 ex Inv Co (164)2505.631.3723077.8824372.5424719.9423308.143.201.9918.45663.6424328.78
FTSE 350 (351)5755.611.075208.185894.965705.545408.233.122.2714.12149.8213444.42
FTSE 350 ex Investment Trusts (258)5668.921.095220.035619.275628.435261.903.162.0615.36190.289870.47
FTSE 350 Higher Yield (134)5122.210.694716.015087.265073.124626.654.251.3212.23171.6714241.24
FTSE 350 Lower Yield (217)5765.381.505294.365665.255706.235445.001.833.3017.1698.787674.00
FTSE SmallCap (175)8135.350.837400.118088.048114.137537.894.041.5115.75233.6515762.49
FTSE SmallCap ex Large (136)6779.501.036714.076714.076709.006358.001.140.5210.41177.1113360.00
FTSE Small Financials ex Inv Co (13)149.000.79143.50147.84148.01150.085.421.947.100.00200.21
FTSE All-Share (528)5955.901.065242.365634.045644.915358.383.132.2614.14148.4213431.63
FTSE All-Share ex Inv Co (355)5577.381.095135.005517.235526.335253.823.162.0515.43147.516848.67
FTSE Fledgling (41)12882.41-0.2511860.6212915.1212982.1313083.035.6410.13-1.75310.2631295.13
FTSE Fledgling ex Inv Co (21)17140.12-0.3215780.0017194.7417132.5124330.425.83-0.89-19.22617.8140893.98
FTSE All-Small (216)5642.740.815185.265587.475629.365246.474.061.2120.20161.5914035.59
FTSE All-Small ex Inv Co (117)5088.350.894684.845043.225065.324745.493.890.4755.06129.1712948.33
FTSE All-Share (528)777.530.89715.67770.67775.98766.391.02-2766.26-0.0210.90981.03
FTSE All-Share Technology (18)2064.904.001801.151985.481880.042154.292.401.8422.7147.383242.03
FTSE All-Share Telecommunications (6)2074.63-3.851910.112157.762197.711838.123.380.9036.8041.303925.35
FTSE All-Share Health Care (12)15961.921.0114696.1115691.7316158.1917787.222.472.4316.96360.3316248.35
FTSE All-Share Financials (21)8213.171.057561.948129.258223.537738.993.642.579.23268.2710778.66
FTSE All-Share Consumer Banking Services (30)7597.771.077400.007597.777600.007460.003.641.9318.1931.179587.40
FTSE All-Share Consumer Discovery Banking (8)8821.190.875543.705986.425993.336097.312.422.1219.46122.519987.65
FTSE All-Share Consumer Staples (30)18970.220.9418353.9118391.5018541.5820151.954.071.4117.43573.9821357.67
FTSE All-Share Industrial (80)11859.951.5710919.4411676.9111777.3610902.881.592.0630.41158.4014816.50
FTSE All-Share Basic Materials (2)11495.802.3910574.9611217.3011352.669106.892.562.0319.98292.2218428.47
FTSE All-Share Energy (13)12314.450.3411337.8912272.1711632.798861.273.372.9111.82314.1117651.71
FTSE All-Share Oil Inv (8)10887.710.0310005.8810664.1110656.5510509.923.761.5217.35289.4119524.95
FTSE All-Share Software & Computer Svcs (17)2223.394.052056.182146.392140.212341.562.421.8222.6051.753707.08
FTSE All-Share Tech Hardware & Equipment (2)4044.25-0.174054.984411.604468.172276.410.000.0040.450.006186.35
FTSE All-Share Telecomers, Inc (6)3231.78-3.852875.503361.313423.512863.353.060.8036.8064.345589.63
FTSE All-Share Health Care Providers (2)10756.721.449883.7010634.4310705.768413.291.091.3667.7026.7810259.29
FTSE All-Share Medical Equipment & Servs (3)5208.592.224785.535095.445118.776175.002.122.1216.90145.189568.25
FTSE All-Share Pharmaceuticals & Biotech (8)22891.590.9621168.3223773.4023395.0025560.622.472.4416.59514.9924077.14
FTSE All-Share Banks (13)8549.010.917671.658473.138623.167620.313.873.515.88303.719320.29
FTSE All-Share Credit & Services (1)11655.790.8411466.7911666.7911666.7911666.791.311.3125.25246.7712467.97
FTSE All-Share Inv Banking & Borrowings (3)12238.962.2411286.3911811.1812029.0113237.984.092.958.57408.9820296.95
FTSE All-Share Closed End Investments (17)15637.030.6214396.9615540.5415583.9714372.942.596.595.96306.6810917.07
FTSE All-Share Life Insurance (5)7827.550.857208.817761.007805.838294.185.171.1716.54401.4611982.39
FTSE All-Share Minority Insurance (4)6816.980.666092.246573.786895.965171.053.521.2722.30224.0616230.88
FTSE All-Share Real Estate Inv & Sec (10)1883.23-0.211733.891867.291810.092063.182.341.7724.1342.586159.35
FTSE All-Share Real Estate Investment Trts (28)1896.410.781746.031881.801908.981928.135.620.9718.3284.313511.34
FTSE All-Share Automobiles & Parts (1)1043.5812.76880.62925.48931.591437.940.000.000.930.001193.33
FTSE All-Share Consumer Services (3)3689.151.473580.733832.863804.0638858.562.171.7726.0884.265338.94
FTSE All-Share World Goods & Home Care (8)6483.18-0.535968.066573.736654.206868.713.153.199.95150.136813.70
FTSE All-Share Leisure Goods (2)41261.270.2737933.8041068.7841577.9847983.862.611.6223.031017.7653414.33
FTSE All-Share Protein Goods (3)14468.811.8113332.4514222.7114354.2115672.830.261.7532.9637.5012198.27
FTSE All-Share Media (8)12767.921.2611749.6812660.6912476.1713285.173.161.8017.65370.7810067.40
FTSE All-Share Retailers (19)27364.041.2425197.0927607.9927697.9925916.687.722.3516.71165.779857.37
FTSE All-Share Automotive & Services (6)9555.22-0.229183.669697.67100382.669685.951.951.0830.51150.0410074.45
FTSE All-Share Beverages (8)16568.820.9715254.8816436.2416296.2415618.323.231.9520.06169.9314716.69
FTSE All-Share Food Producers (1)7670.430.057082.157866.227810.457556.822.031.8018.05115.218174.44
FTSE All-Share Tobacco (2)45890.140.0942250.0745443.8544046.8547515.585.891.3013.062030.0557708.14
FTSE All-Share Construction & Materials (16)16206.931.4914921.3015966.2316129.7614300.592.722.2316.44356.0322307.15
FTSE All-Share Aerospace & Defense (7)23730.941.3221649.0323452.5323793.4021014.131.192.5033.72229.4630575.55
FTSE All-Share Electronics & Electrical Equip (12)17393.941.1716014.5717193.2417248.7014821.050.053.0234.64141.0018231.50
FTSE All-Share General Industrials (8)9588.411.455485.905673.515673.885275.722.001.0427.6784.288896.58
FTSE All-Share Industrial Engineering (8)15646.013.7114405.2615385.8515524.9015129.602.271.9027.59303.4222956.19
FTSE All-Share Industrial Support Svcs (26)10214.961.989404.9010036.159966.2310512.102.451.4929.11200.5613800.92
FTSE All-Share Industrial Transportation (7)7032.822.006464.066683.076609.585689.343.691.7914.36224.758047.41
FTSE All-Share Precious Metals & Mining (5)31631.331.7629122.8230717.4631267.3930569.132.032.7712.79911.8925132.50
FTSE All-Share Chemicals (6)31122.621.579288.218891.558972.887611.183.860.9034.20282.4819368.36
FTSE All-Share Petroleum & Gas (12)11858.99-0.9911107.2411954.4911494.098378.99-2.50-2.5011.74305.5817307.02
FTSE All-Share Alternative Energy (1)177.93.2518.05-9.949.000.00-0.00-18.400.79-
FTSE All-Share Electricity (2)14279.250.6913146.6814186.9814291.9713064.842.891.6318.93296.7033370.79
FTSE All-Share Financials ex Inv Co (8)199.861.15192.49197.59200.16190.333.902.3910.727.15255.78
FTSE All-Share Gas Water & Multi Utilities (5)10361.93-0.208846.219439.559374.919258.324.111.4516.85270.4816708.51
FTSE All-Share Industrial Metals & Mining (1)103418.402.499562.2010354.6410186.228009.632.502.0519.52259.5818924.16
FTSE All-Share Penc Care Goods & Grocery Store (1)4814.000.964432.244767.374727.604062.733.411.4420.46128.257442.10
NON FINANCIALS (6)6254.091.075685.206298.896271.945566.912.921.9017.98148.3813061.69

FTSE SECTORS: LEADERS & LAGGARDS

UK RECENT RIGHTS ISSUES

Company Name Petra Diamonds Ltd

Item of basic percentage changes
Techn Hardware & Equip121.38
Alternative Energy79.06
Energy37.28
Oil Gas & Coal37.22
Industrial Metals & Mining35.23
Health Care Providers27.85
Nonlife Insurance27.64
Basic Monitors25.29
Industrial Transportation18.82
Chemicals16.13
Electronic & Electrical Equip16.32
Construction & Materials15.25
Aerospace & Other12.61
General Industrials12.92
Telecomms Pvt Providers12.87
Telecommunications12.87
Cloud Dot Investments11.64
Semi9.31
Electricity9.13
Oct 09DOLLAREUROPOUND
Closing MidDay's ChangeWeek's ChangeClosing MidDay's ChangeWeek's ChangeClosing MidDay's ChangeWeek's Change
Saudi Riyal3.75580.00040.00134.2959-0.0029-0.02974.99720.0014-0.0070
Singapore Dollar1.2812-0.00030.00341.4346-0.0011-0.00971.69460.00030.0016
South African Rand16.5375-0.0081-0.000618.5154-0.1157-0.235621.8779-0.1195-0.1581
South Korea won17.4300-0.2600-0.000619.92330.3444-19.666721.7525-0.4100-13.3555
Swedish Krona18.90260.0165-0.011821.10000.6885-0.113023.23620.0232-0.0441
Swiss Franc0.0014-0.00150.00290.9307-0.0027-0.00381.0995-0.00210.0018
Taiwan Dinar31.83050.009535.7494-0.0083-0.211842.2286-0.0032-0.0044
Thai Baht33.3356-0.1500-0.002537.5497-0.0064-0.315144.3517-0.0017-0.1332
Taleon Irish3.85030.00000.01473.9447-0.0028-0.00684.97420.00090.0174
Turkish Lira49.34230.12750.107555.24360.0837-0.169865.25760.18370.1482
UAE Dirham3.67300.00020.00034.1123-0.0042-0.03024.8578-0.0080
Pound Sterling0.78010.00010.00130.8488-0.0008-0.00481.0836
United Kingdom Dollar1.88882.1198-0.0012-0.00623.2225-0.0001-0.0023
Venezuela Dinar25881.0000-18.5000-104.500028076.3670-51.749-332.670634228.8170-27.0590-187.9130
Euro0.8832-0.00100.80061.00001.1812-0.00110.0068

FTSE GLOBAL INDICES

Event Rights issue: 10 for 17 at 16.5p p.a., payable in full by Nov. 21 (or 07.11.25).

Oct 09Regions & countriesNo of stocksUS$ IndicesDaily %ChgMonth %ChgYTD %ChgUS$ Total/RetYTD %Total RetGr Div Yield
FTSE Global Indices
Global102181253.18-0.65-1.3411.892168.0713.471.61
Global Large Cap17421183.99-0.89-0.6512.502107.6214.021.48
Global Mid Cap24611404.620.16-2.7311.092305.0512.882.03
Global Small Cap69151397.40-0.20-4.158.842172.9810.461.85
Global ex Eurozone96131335.12-0.64-0.8112.712250.6214.401.52
Global ex China79024238.43-0.63-1.2212.827025.1014.401.59
Global ex US8673797.85-1.04-4.779.711590.9712.172.50
Global ex UK99961330.97-0.66-1.1812.192253.2813.721.56
Global ex Japan89881308.56-0.59-1.3211.502281.0613.031.58
FTSE Regional Indices
Americas19871769.91-0.370.5313.022740.4314.101.19
Asia Pacific6431916.99-1.63-2.9617.761653.6419.982.04
Asia Pacific ex Japan50811147.02-1.67-3.5917.442338.7819.552.05
Europe1434663.13-0.63-7.261.051428.593.762.94
Europe ex UK1212763.45-0.78-7.720.411587.993.112.87
Eurolife805688.63-0.76-8.031.031468.642.642.85
Aerosen402722.55-2.29-7.222.381611.186.354.72
FTSE Developed Indices
Developed53701301.67-0.57-1.1612.262225.3213.761.52
Developed ex North America3838747.32-1.11-5.4110.491910.8613.142.57
Qtr QtrNo of stocksUS$ IndicesDaily %ChgMonth %ChgYTD %ChgUS$ Total/RetYTD %Total RetGr Div Yield
Industrials8.78Tobacco-3.42
Media6.46Precious Metals & Mining-3.84
Beverages6.13Finance & Credit Services-3.77
Financials6.13
Financials incl Co5.62Technology-4.94
Services4.98Software & Computer Goods-5.26
Utilities3.40Life Insurance-5.63
Industrial Engineering3.27
Biotechnology3.01Consumer Digital Services-6.73
Travel & Leisure2.82Investment Banking & Brokerage-7.42
Food Products1.47Personal Goods-7.81
Gas Water & Multi-cities1.43Real Estate Investment & Goods-7.88
Consumer Services-0.21Pharmaceuticals & Biotech-10.05
Consumer Staples-0.80
Real Estate Investment Trusts-1.24Health Care-10.16
Consumer Discretionary1.26Leisure Goods-14.01
Personal Care Drug & Surgery-1.50Medical Equipment & Goods-14.96
Real Estate-2.20
Industrial Support Services2.87Profit Goods & Home Care-28.83
Digital Information Services
Software & Computer Svcs5273711.94-0.835.203.394519.563.880.54
Media153790.321.94-2.23-13.191137.39-12.521.06
Technology
Semiconductors300950.41-3.113.1452.361041.0453.040.54
Tech Hardware & Equip7667350.10-2.604.0451.2710595.1651.970.53
Technology12935171.25-1.514.4728.956783.3029.560.53
Biotechnology216119.88-2.42-4.1412.79122.2213.140.28
Telecommunications Equip112576.922.441.5072.57867.7173.990.77
Telecommunications257549.38-1.61-2.5832.971357.2835.441.96
Telecommunications Svcs Providers 145435435.85-0.44-6.85-0.00975.592.463.62
Electronic & Electrical Equip3612087.75-1.20-1.1822.913026.7324.050.94
Financials
Financials & Credit Services111834.840.87-8.90-16.751309.97-14.641.07
Financials11603685.65-0.39-7.183.761454.406.442.91
Life Insurance71634.73-0.28-5.648.741351.8910.203.46
Banks497524.06-1.01-8.008.06117.8211.243.45
Mortgage Real Estate Inv Tots80.171.77-18.62-22.901177.82-17.821.74
Real Estate Investors1251034.631.03-4.559.101871.713.252.78
Inv Banking & Brokerage Svcs3491187.490.02-6.72-0.391912.921.081.74
Transaction Processing Svcs55144.540.85-1.32-3.10151.69-2.440.86
Real Estate
Real Estate642674.440.23-6.94-4.181073.76-1.284.02
Real Estate Inv & Srvs319321.900.05-7.44-15.14883.64-13.122.94
Real Estate Investment Tots323520.300.28-6.78-0.091435.743.154.36
Consumer Goods & Services
Consumer Digital Services94336.29-0.725.103.57347.143.850.32
Consumer Brictionery14861185.50-0.12-2.73-6.961845.55-6.691.26
Consumer Services701344.481.44-2.06-7.431835.35-6.770.90
Consumer Staples612810.611.47-2.262.451744.255.023.12
Retailers2631913.14-0.41-1.05-0.812630.951.460.83
Pets Care Drug & Grocery Sms196553.841.20-1.00-0.52826.651.602.58
Personal Goods138725.04-0.70-8.11-2.19181.19-0.982.29
Leisure Goods153627.14-1.01-2.67-3.23900.58-1.951.50
Travel & Leisure2931586.040.92-5.14-8.211622.56-8.051.73
Oct 08Regions & countriesNo of stocksUS$ IndexDaily %ChgMonth %ChgYTD %ChgUS$ TotalRetYTD %TotalRet% ChgDiv Yield
Developed on Canada51531308.82-0.61-1.0012.452231.4913.941.50
Developed ex Europe41581538.18-0.57-0.0814.412441.1015.651.28
Developed ex Eurozone47651401.65-0.56-0.5613.302324.7814.691.41
Developed ex US3825776.64-0.94-5.4410.081558.6512.632.52
Developed ex UK51491382.23-0.18-0.1812.662231.4914.741.40
Developed ex Japan49231370.41-0.50-1.1311.852360.0013.281.48
Developed Asia Pacific2303849.76-1.72-3.2224.701532.1727.232.14
Developed Asia Pacific ex Japan28531108.97-1.92-5.1733.422430.3236.062.28
Developed ex Japan2712619.80-0.82-0.740.901648.953.002.08
Developed ex US990793.98-0.78-7.570.301648.953.012.86
Developed Eurozone605684.08-0.76-8.020.821456.763.432.65
Developed Europe Asia Pacific2515749.09-1.13-5.2910.481515.3713.142.57
FTSE Emerging Emissions
Emerging Markets48481079.72-1.29-2.928.702102.0810.922.43
Emerging Asia Pacific41281212.40-1.52-2.619.522219.9611.401.91
Emerging Europe222315.59-0.71-10.372.07718.374.703.07
Emerging Plus Korea52954301.61-1.52-3.0918.007925.1820.122.13
Emerging Developed and Restated PV250/pc5278.68-1.58-1.52-2.5730.137447.2414.892.43
Advanced Emerging11981581.31-1.020.8645.133447.2448.262.43
Secondary Emerging3650947.36-1.58-6.50-14.301980.00-12.632.43
Oct 08No of stocksUS$ IndicesDaily %ChgMonth %ChgYTD %ChgUS$ Total/RetYTD %Total RetGr Div Yield
Sector
Health Care
Health Care8431154.31-1.02-1.174.051828.225.561.62
Health Care Providers1141768.74-0.81-2.958.432213.509.801.58
Medical & Biotech5311071.511.33-1.728.711772.6610.551.63
Medical Equipment & Svcs1981649.46-0.261.26-9.302021.29-8.541.01
Agricultural Food & Beverages
Food Producers300613.090.81-6.20-2.841102.930.143.36
Beverages103640.251.89-3.016.121513.218.422.99
Energy
Energy376716.352.30-0.5533.891556.8837.212.94
Electricity252643.04-0.33-4.32-0.821518.801.382.97
Alternative Energy9096.500.03-4.534.40120.546.683.58
Pharmaceuticals69363.55-0.98-4.03-2.33129.29-2.414.41
Oil & Gas307749.592.45-0.9636.221689.7339.783.05
Gas Water & Multi-Utilities119681.350.27-4.620.241723.633.083.69
Utilities412669.93-0.12-4.33-0.611004.711.703.06
Transportation
Automobiles Parts3001039.18-0.95-3.0714.531713.27-13.351.56
Industrial Transportation3641351.290.44-5.247.852395.0310.002.39
Industrials
Aerospace & Defense1052691.82-0.06-8.26-5.444100.81-4.721.23
Industrial Equipment3472286.15-1.94-4.0117.613648.6818.541.41
Industrial Materials92271.44-0.34-5.64-2.42539.32-0.532.97
Industrial Metals & Mining3861048.56-1.39-9.7615.392097.7717.632.40
Industrial Support Services2321268.381.01-1.28-1.461860.73-0.321.33
Industrials21021513.16-0.37-4.035.562422.328.881.50
General Industrials300933.69-0.81-2.5714.031677.2615.691.63
Resources & Materials
Basic Materials10351015.49-0.58-7.9910.771887.9312.842.20
Chemicals4531071.19-0.90-1.7515.621929.6618.042.11
Construction & Materials4711343.85-0.67-6.54-4.972144.63-3.042.41
Waste & Disposal Services419404.150.23-3.25-1.80446.78-0.731.32
Precious Metals & Mining981407.930.62-13.37-0.912507.600.651.85

FTSE 100 SUMMARY

UK COMPANY RESULTS

CompanyTurnover(E)
Ashokia India Equity Inv Trust*Fin - (-)
Fidelity Emerging Markets S*Fin - (-)
JPMorgan Global Growth & IncomeFin - (-)
Netcall*Fin 57.7m (48.0m)
Next 15 Group*Int 299.4m (318.1m)
Prestine CapitalInt - (-)
ScansollInt - (-4.7m)
Schroder Japan Trust*Fin - (-)
Tesco*Int 37.4bn (36.0bn)
Voluation Grp*Fin 484.8m (419.1m)
Close (p)% Chg.Close (p)% Chg.
3 Group2402.002.13InterCont'l Holdings12826.00
Aberdeen Group243.002.53Intl Cents Airlines415.00
Admiral3024.00-Intria Group5898.00
Arist Africa250.206.27Investec393.00
Albanca Wilson1433.000.43Ithaca Energy295.40
Anglo American4170.003.22JD Sports Fashion84.50
AmTapestry3770.004.58Kingfisher318.00
Assoc. Int'l Funds1835.000.05Land Securities604.00
AstraZeneca11996.000.89Legal & General287.00
Automotive Group498.700.58Lion Finance12368.00
Aviva677.000.65Lyondy Big Up101.60
Babcock Intl913.200.95LondonMetrical Prop172.20
BAC Systems1860.001.26Lion Stock Ex8694.00
Baltair Beauty819.001.15MSG304.30
Barclays425.650.82Martha & Spa397.00
Berkeley Reserve256.40-0.54Melrose Intl444.50
BP598.200.20Metler Energy4127.63
Brit. Amer Tobacco4194.000.79Nat Grid1147.00
British Land398.800.99NatWest Group642.60
BT Group192.75-2.39Nord14700.00
Basil2738.001.03Pearson1395.00
Burberry1924.501.74Pershing Square Hldgs3776.00
Comerica147.350.24Rolar Capital702.00
Coca Cola Europac7875.001.16Prudential896.40
Coca Cola HBC AG4392.000.66Reckitt Benckiser5152.00
Compass2359.001.47RELX2720.00
Compasscenter5550.001.19Rentokil Initial303.00
Compass2258.001.29Rio Tinto7126.00
Croda International3386.001.30Rolls-Royce1085.20
DCC Energy6425.00-0.31Sandybury U&I335.60
Diego1638.000.99Scott Trent Inv Tot1836.50
Diploma7765.000.45Saga818.20
easyJet980.00-0.15Severn Trent3094.00
Endeavour Mining4126.001.30Shell3793.50
Experian3992.004.20Smith & Magthey1020.50
FBC Inv Trust358.000.63Smiths Gp2730.00
Fenneco2758.002.49Sprouts Group7270.00
Games Works16280.000.24SSE2454.00
Glencore584.803.80Standard Chartered2119.00
GSK1750.000.84Standard Life848.50
Hireon749.201.42St James's Place1037.50
Herna5028.000.80Textron503.00
Hiscox1847.001.37The Sage Grp1071.50
Howden Joinery762.501.94Trinidad Big Box139.70
HSBC1335.801.10Unilever4673.50
ICG1808.004.21Unit Utilities1423.00
IG Group395.003.22Vodafone118.35
IMI3092.001.88Wool3542.00
Imperial Brands2662.001.84Writshire2476.00
Informa805.800.52WPP385.40

UK RECENT STOCK ADDITIONS

Close (p)%ChgClose (p)%Chg
INT Oil & Gas9.80-Ferron Financial145.00-
Aimia141.00-Marshall Helium3.90-
ARC Music Corp167.50-Mondar Mining123.501.23
Braze Resources164.50-Falcons Power25.50-
Chelair Holdings69.00-Rith Helium6.40-
Coastal Africa Group200.00-Samal Resources30.50-
Consol Metals104.508.48Santana Energy21.00-
Duch Corp426.00-0.47Sunbelt Rentals5642.000.32
EDX Medical Group8.006.57Super Holdings48.5010.23
Halo Minerals8.25-The Smarter Well Co63.003.81
BHP Group61.18-1.2568.7740.173.9531.61311.10
Commonwealth Bank148.12-2.25185.58146.983.4122.70247.87
CSL Ltd101.46-0.53222.4790.002.2328.2287.08
Moulinian Group246.79-1.98267.90167.313.2525.2194.68
National Australia Bank37.80-0.6049.4535.484.5317.10117.84
Western banks76.04-0.2694.7070.802.9230.0188.33
Westpac Banking33.71-0.5343.3233.484.5716.78115.30
Bulgaria (EUR)
Austron Biddle-Heft68.441.1076.1850.101.1625.03123.00
Brazil (BRIL)
Itau Obenhance Holdings53.500.3595.4332.500.000.00300.55
Itau Obenhance Holding Pte.49.350.2450.8536.980.000.00286.94
Petrobras Bank plc61.931.0862.0030.960.0054.89460.90
Petrobras Bank plc55.401.1556.7529.310.000.00302.17
Vale67.94-1.1191.6258.670.0076.21287.66
Canada (CAD)
Argent Eagle Mines261.474.26348.94188.480.9922.31133.21
Ameristar Canada Trust77.970.7095.1568.301.1026.7871.48
Bank of Montreal238.43-2.30259.20168.822.9825.89156.71
Bank of Nova Scotia124.430.14134.5088.233.6625.60153.23
Brookfield52.27-0.2195.7658.760.7859.34118.68
Brookfield Asset Mgmt A64.710.7095.9853.084.4536.84118.68
Canadian Imperial Bank152.68-0.89172.81111.452.7920.52139.53
Canadian National Railway106.231.24105.25128.05-2.2029.27100.42
Canadian Natural69.842.0472.3541.673.5917.03143.98
Canadian Pacific Kanssen120.000.82133.3896.500.8338.10105.49
Construction Software2912.0010.024081.712198.000.20980.4761.71
Enbridge66.140.7180.8562.425.8734.63149.99
Manulife Financial59.890.3863.5844.163.2422.2599.37
Royal Bank of Canada270.87-1.95306.38200.822.6024.60576.45
Shopify Inc.234.19-2.40253.10129.010.00157.17283.04
Suncor Energy100.893.63100.2453.022.3826.34118.00
TC Energy85.361.36100.1869.414.1134.1485.36
The Dominion-Domestic Bank162.23-0.20175.33109.502.7119.64274.69
Werner Connections220.02-1.25251.45203.460.9153.0255.46
Nasparo IN701.77-7.141255.72660.050.7283.19522.77
Spain (EUR)
Banco Santander11.91-0.3513.128.101.7113.09173.37
BMW Spain23.02-0.4125.5715.383.4188.54126.86
Casabank11.88-0.0413.558.573.4134.9682.91
Iberdrola SA21.110.1822.0818.352.6138.24140.67
Inditex52.84-0.5058.4248.072.68119.82164.68

FT GLOBAL 500: THE WORLD'S LARGEST COMPANIES

StockPrice+/-Chg52 Week
HighLowYldP/EMV (lb)
Australia (AUD)
AIA Group Holdings37.36-0.5941.0033.365.8219.19112.67
BHP Group61.18-1.2668.7740.173.9531.61311.10
Commonwealth Bank148.12-2.25185.58146.983.4122.70247.87
CSL Ltd181.46-0.53222.4780.002.2326.2287.08
Moulin Group246.79-1.98267.90187.313.2625.2194.68
National Australia Bank37.80-0.6049.4535.484.9317.10117.64
Western76.04-0.2694.7070.802.9230.0188.33
Wilmington Banking33.71-0.5343.3233.484.5716.78115.30
Belgium (EUR)
Admiral Bank AG69.441.1276.1859.151.1828.83123.00
Stock52 Week
Price+/-ChgHighLowYldP/E
Finland (EUR)
Nord Monaco & Am.16.69-0.1418.1113.760.0012.01
France (EUR)
Air Liquide167.94-0.69189.80154.862.0032.18
Airbus167.26-0.18221.30157.421.7134.94
AAA41.42-0.6145.6636.555.9311.54
BNP Paribas A89.20-2.20113.8295.126.939.32
Compensation de Santeil Gains64.7691.5864.503.559.67
Credit Agricole16.21-0.3120.4015.370.007.44
Esterne99.280.9380.1457.263.8022.69
Dassault Schumtes21.59-0.0230.3615.821.3523.99
ENGL22.71-0.0329.8818.454.5414.94
Essential Industria143.80-3.65333.80138.502.8627.53
Hermes International1262.50-17.502300.001255.001.4326.74
L'Indust374.05-0.35456.80338.851.9229.43
LM&T Motor Efficiency380.80-7.55654.70376.003.4117.42
Safran310.80-6.60366.50262.601.0940.89
Sonofi70.83-0.8891.1569.755.819.06
Schneider Electric261.106.55312.30220.401.0130.40
Total Equipen77.582.1681.3449.244.5111.26
VMCI106.95-1.05143.15104.254.7212.36
Company (EUR)
abirds AG140.50-0.25196.40129.951.9115.04
Allianz413.40-3.90454.60338.804.1414.45
BASF51.770.5955.0541.484.3528.45
BMW52.18-1.4887.9252.360.434.39
Deutsche Bank29.66-0.2035.8423.823.379.38
Deutsche Borse282.900.40298.60200.101.4444.40
Deutsche Finland AG36.83-0.1634.3623.532.7313.82
Deutsche AG54.60-0.6268.8643.403.4617.78
Inmetron Technologies58.90-2.0588.8331.270.5976.49
Mercedes-Benz Grp39.02-0.8162.3438.910.973.83
Merck135.70-4.45148.80100.701.0221.24
Munderwerk Bank519.002.40575.60457.404.6224.79
Porsche40.96-1.7150.6635.622.4710.37
Rivemontal934.908.701066.00900.001.2356.63
SAP184.62-3.00244.30127.001.3538.07
Siemens254.25-6.95291.70188.002.0225.09
Siemens Energy142.50-1.10191.6694.400.49226.19
Siemens Healthsystem38.260.3048.7132.812.0120.03
Volkswagen166.90-3.15118.2067.507.775.03
Volkswagen Fiat166.60-3.14109.1567.027.905.01
Agricultural Bank China A7.020.058.685.793.709.0022.41
Bank of China A5.810.086.785.133.469.2018.25
Bank of Communications A7.830.087.716.374.307.25453.40
China Construction Bank A11.150.0911.238.503.628.56238.19
China Life Insurance A35.94-0.7651.9232.322.725.55748.40
China Merchants Bank A41.710.4543.7935.284.837.32680.43
China Petroleum Chemicals A5.480.208.114.433.5620.92531.77
China Shenhua Energy A47.48-0.3151.1838.274.2317.85889.63
China Yangtze River A26.900.3529.5725.383.4620.50707.13
OTC Securities A25.40-0.4630.6323.773.3012.96309.88
East Antopex Tech A206.75-4.36488.75285.741.2517.771284.27
East Money Information A17.28-0.5127.0817.0212.9422.59373.41
Foresian Int'l Med A55.69-2.5184.9547.351.7631.251105.12
IGE A8.310.038.406.853.858.312.24
Industrial Bank A18.240.1921.9016.445.845.27386.01
Jiangsu Hengpu Pharma A10.00-0.0110.678.880.4039.50259.88
Kweichan Bank A1255.79-1.781998.881151.74-4.1424.131566.99
Lia Finance Group A46.43-1.0081.7844.570.5121.73786.79
Midea Group A81.741.6489.5071.025.2614.09569.12
FeryChina A11.590.3813.898.044.4012.467.48
Feng Iron Insurance Group A52.67-0.6274.8846.905.186.86581.47
Postal Savings Bank China A5.490.036.134.764.161.525.50
Shenzhen Mitei Gold A Med A157.60-3.72248.98130.662.6923.47190.96
Wuliangye Yen A70.140.08122.9688.887.3530.41272.26
Zijin Mining Group A35.37-0.4244.9424.422.7215.06605.07
BoNTechHong Kong (HKD)92.06-3.19124.0079.520.0044.0523.28
NA Group83.250.4592.1568.002.86117.17716.51
HKD375.00-4.00460.20360.003.7225.60475.44
Mexico (MXN)
Americas Mobil E20.200.0524.4917.482.670.001256.14
Mobil Aero de Mexico47.250.4963.9744.602.460.00824.34
Netherlands (EUR)
Apturn881.80-5.001600.80772.400.0047.3127.31
AGML Holding1630.6020.401741.00812.600.4881.90632.91
Heineken70.780.3266.4463.902.7115.1940.02
ING Groep29.43-0.8132.4020.253.8614.8664.55
Petrox M34.85-0.4563.9434.480.806.5976.21
The Magnum Ice Cream Co15.450.2417.6811.000.0032.199.46
Universal Music Group NV14.680.3324.2213.923.5434.1426.89
Norway (NOK)
Equinor410.707.20426.00226.403.50211.70981.88
Republic of Korea (KRW)
US Energy Solution401000.0010000.00527000.00206000.000.0067.469364.00
SAMSUNG BIOLOGIES1219000.0058000.001967000.001003000.000.0053.9456429.57
Samsung Electronics303000.004500.00314500.0090200.000.6439.670.00
Samsung Electronics Prof194000.004000.00243000.0070400.000.67103.43155683.01
Samsung Equip345500.0029500.00173000.00324000.000.00269.908412.58
SK Hynix1681000.0042000.002067000.00403000.000.1627.090.00
StockPrice+/-Chg52 WeekP/EMC Val
HighLowYld
Sino-Etica Chemical617.00-113.00700.00436.002.2224.2212701.9
SoftBank241.300.00252.80202.803.6521.2511594.75
SoftBank Group604.00-370.00719.00336.000.18-9.8134459.56
Sony Financial Group148.50-2.20180.40128.505.4818.40991.86
Sony Group377.00-37.00477.00304.000.9447.7522127.46
Summeira Minai Financial207.00-75.00720.00308.002.7316.8120644.52
Tokio Pharmaceutical5818.0050.006033.004130.003.5163.118318.05
Tokio Marine Holdings518.102.10848.00581.003.1537.8215830.08
Tokyo Electron6118.00-163.008178.0011720.001.3048.5828252.68
Toyota Motor2502.001.504000.002698.003.459.8342554.68
Kuwait (KWD)
HKEY375.00-4.00460.00390.003.7225.69415.44
Influent (INR)
Bayer Finance954.00-10.101177.60788.400.6350.07509.556
Bank's Arts Unit1796.35-36.652174.701726.051.34137.231210.12
HCI Technologies1180.750.051770.001030.005.0918.402034.16
HDFC Bank892.60-11.201020.35882.001.8813.9910678.92
Investment Universe1842.20-25.802686.571827.102.2342.124208.42
ICICI Bank1354.00-0.001479.901187.550.9921.439720.02
Infosys994.152.051727.85980.304.8315.414034.54
ITC Ltd254.05-11.25426.50254.755.719.143183.38
Avalon Media Bank438.70-2.10441.60345.400.153.944364.14
Larsen & Toyota2630.50-76.504440.002038.651.0530.964981.43
Ulu Insurance Corp379.50-6.603036.60382.652.6413.344800.67
Maruti Social Index11222.20-267.6517371.6011043.301.2524.043526.29
Reliance Industries1177.30-29.351611.201181.000.5122.8755931.06
State Bank of Virginia940.85-12.151334.80857.201.8410.829682.92
Sun Pharmaceutical Inc.1752.50-30.752047.501563.600.9136.434034.74
Total Consultancy Group2075.25-8.753538.701970.003.1815.467538.44
ACWA Power164.90-6.20252.60154.500.3866.76126.39
AVRajib Bank62.30-0.90110.0062.004.8315.97373.80
South Arabian Mining62.40-0.6078.9054.900.0032.67242.66
South Arabian Oil25.74-0.1027.9623.295.2717.8862.29
South basic Industries45.80-0.7662.5045.705.885.33137.40
South National Bank37.86-1.2245.2436.006.089.37227.16
STC Co.42.60-0.4045.3841.145.1614.34213.00
Agricultural Bank Chs 16.590.016.715.054.628.45202.57
Alibaba Group Holding104.30-1.10179.0089.650.99125.662075.77
Bank of China 16.030.046.144.114.588.15504.24
Bank of Communications 18.350.148.386.334.727.73292.35
BVD 172.90-1.65113.4071.400.5620.36268.52
China CITIC Bank 18.310.058.706.505.596.92123.67
China Construction Bank 19.660.049.907.184.897.4323.24
China Life Insurance 126.76-0.5036.1620.904.214.91199.13
China Merchants Bank 151.650.7053.7043.344.409.06237.12
China Petroleum Chemicals 14.540.125.703.885.5417.31107.37
China Shenhua Energy 143.420.1849.6237.545.3515.91146.65
UTC Securities 123.54-0.4632.5023.244.1612.0189.60
IDIC 17.57-0.017.775.564.957.57656.60
JU Lien A105.200.30137.2095.803.7215.27262.63
Metsoil B69.40-0.75108.0063.650.0018.07388.38
Midea Group 192.802.35101.7077.655.4316.0080.40
NetEase186.50-2.00244.80168.802.4717.61569.05
Marigta Spring 140.440.6856.2537.902.7929.88203.80
PetroChina 19.830.2412.227.055.9811.43207.40
Ping An Insurance Group 151.30-0.2074.7050.006.136.88382.06
Fleetar Savings Bank China 15.36-0.015.784.484.987.34106.43
Tencent Holdings 1411.40-5.20681.00411.001.2516.623740.70
Xincai Corp 123.99-0.2954.7021.300.0014.605265.51
Zijin Mining Group 131.28-1.0846.8826.562.9416.04187.34
Bank Central Asia6000.00-50.008750.004620.000.0012.657396.50
PJT Brazil Permanitária2860.00190.0010725.002300.000.150.00558.71
Italy (EUR)
Aççamentaria Generali41.02-0.6046.2431.764.0016.8862.95
Enel8.760.0310.318.185.5923.6787.03
Eni24.880.6525.0214.544.4217.6575.34
Ferrari342.80-2.35422.40269.000.6749.6160.77
Intesa Bampaolo6.06-0.186.944.616.2026.35107.16
SãoVento4.00-0.1210.493.610.005.3611.59
UniCredit SpA75.33-2.3986.4257.364.1814.76117.64
Sweden (SEK)
Atlas Copco A205.70-1.00214.10149.451.4637.88690.05
Atlas Copco B179.70-0.60186.05134.001.6733.03280.49
EOT276.00-3.50383.00258.001.81445.88360.72
Investor B406.55-0.95426.80301.501.387.91740.71
Volvo B309.50-2.90374.50244.804.2018.27492.94
Centrix4635.0016.00-5000.003987.003.4515.988181.98
Dongguan Pharmaceutical6107.006.00-5100.005874.002.1623.1610242.91
Daikin's Skelly3953.50-49.004178.002398.003.7711.554952.19
FAST REACHUNG74800.0020.0068860.0046488.001.2642.3123802.93
Hitachi5597.00-52.006030.004223.001.0841.8225385.53
Honda Motor1172.5025.001786.501228.004.8516.157702.76
HAVA52525.00110.0030480.0020140.001.1632.648370.32
FROCHU2138.5025.006989.001082.002.0616.7110846.43
Japan Tobacco6960.00-30.007216.004638.003.8134.2213030.08
KOBB3905.0020.003121.003229.002.8515.8211641.45
Kayence80000.00-1550.0067500.0051510.000.6943.5814566.61
Mitsubishi4580.00-46.006572.003482.002.2231.7817021.33
Mitsubishi Heavy3680.00-13.005528.003494.000.7837.2212415.02
Mitsubishi U.K. Grf Index3504.00-118.003813.0022350.002.7416.4445549.46
Mitau & Co4759.00-143.0016575.0026240.002.9416.3813647.27
Michafo Financial Group8350.00-254.006963.004568.001.8016.0820301.65
Nintendo7851.0070.0014630.006544.002.8621.5411030.28
NTT172.10160.10140.10143.603.1413.6515583.71
Reckitt Nut Holdings17200.00200.0016210.006848.000.1549.1725327.07
ABB78.80-1.0869.1453.781.1930.42143.66
Alstom52.20-0.5368.3447.800.5459.1926.00
Cui Financieren Richemont168.40-4.20202.20127.201.9635.9150.53
Gran<|im_start|> Germany3409.00-9.003562.002596.002.1138.2931.48
Helcor62.84-0.8462.5460.102.7119.5235.62
Larsa Group563.40-13.80507.80454.600.8963.0339.57
Nucile76.000.4467.0070.294.0821.65195.82
Novartis117.72-2.30132.6897.053.1438.60239.54
Roche Holding361.00-7.90383.00270.802.7122.3138.52
Roche Holding Perf.352.70-7.30375.90291.002.7821.80247.79
Sika170.86-2.90197.60120.352.1726.2827.42
Swiss Re142.30-1.45153.85114.05-4.4310.9342.51
UBS Group38.83-0.5045.0428.252.2119.81127.28
Zurich Insurance Group572.80-0.20628.00521.005.2417.9186.02
Hem Rial Precision249.00-3.00214.00167.502.8818.303504.98
MediaTek4680.00-145.005480.001130.001.1470.897527.23
Taiwan Servicos Mfg2560.00-35.002560.001375.001.0238.4866127.54
United Arab Emirates (AED)
Fall Truck Alliance8.33-0.0213.507.462.77277.67155.36
Fatu Holdings A108.76-0.92202.5380.502.3410.4183.31
POD Holdings A76.26-0.24139.4171.940.0031.30444.41
Denmark (DKK)
DVV A/S1153.0015.501913.501137.500.6133.62277.23
Novo Nordisk B249.904.00409.95224.254.6810.84847.19
United Kingdom (GBP)
3.254.034.705.105.3149.21249.51
First Bank Debt Bank18.66-0.4420.7415.704.2910.09206.15
Bayer Group
3 Group Plc24.020.5044.9718.253.524.4524.57
AstraZeneca119.981.00157.3298.901.9924.04186.09
BAS Systems18.000.2323.6015.292.0327.0355.81
Barclays4.300.045.543.542.689.8157.43
BP5.860.016.093.994.2892.00
British American Tobacco41.940.3350.2636.775.8411.9590.47
Compass Group23.580.3425.8120.002.1528.3440.12
Diageo16.380.1619.0412.962.3127.7436.48
Experian28.921.0837.0722.001.9321.5623.59
Glencore5.850.167.073.322.2058.58
StockPrice+/-Chg52 Week
HighLowYldP/EM/Val
GSK17.500.1422.8215.924.0012.4075.54
Huron3.490.054.163.192.0918.7730.72
HSBC Holdings13.060.1516.109.593.9915.25239.17
Ubiquity Banking Group1.020.181.080.923.8014.5113.18
London Stock Exchange Grp86.942.24101.4366.044.9530.4741.82
National Grid11.47-0.0614.2913.064.2317.5157.66
NorthWest Group8.430.037.265.045.4512.0150.98
Red Hat Financial Group51.320.6065.2336.644.2210.9632.53
RELX27.201.2535.3919.912.5324.1047.41
Fiat Times71.261.0491.1749.704.8915.3686.44
Rolls-Royce Holdings13.850.1815.869.900.7819.95114.89
Shell37.940.1338.0625.542.9716.56217.00
Unilever46.730.4755.4236.443.5312.75100.68
INTEREST RATES: OFFICIAL
RateCurrentSinceLast
USFed Funds3.75-4.0016-09-20263.50-3.75
USPrime7.0016-09-20268.75
USDiscount4.0016-09-20263.75
EuroRepo2.6516-09-20262.40
UKRepo3.7518-12-20254.00
JapanO'night Call1.2518-09-20261.00
SwitzerlandSMB0.0019-06-20250.25
INTEREST RATES: MARKET
OvernightChangeOneMonthThreeMonthSixMonthOneYear
DayWeek
SOFR3.880-0.0200.0103.9234.0374.1804.472
EURIBOR---2.4142.6422.9363.213
ESTR2.4390.000-0.0032.4522.5142.6492.882
SARON-0.0380.000-0.002-0.040-0.046-0.044-0.046
SONIA3.7330.0000.0003.7683.9464.1344.460

BONDS: TEN YEAR GOVT SPREADS
Rates are fixed at 11am UK time.

Data provided by ICE. www.ice.com

Bid YieldSpread vs BondSpread vs BondBid YieldSpread vs BondSpread vs Bond
Austria3.650.18-1.60Italy4.420.95-0.83
Australia5.281.810.03Japan3.00-0.47-2.25
Belgium4.210.74-1.04Netherlands3.510.04-1.74
Brazil12.639.167.38Poland6.252.781.00
China1.68-1.78-3.56Portugal3.890.42-1.35
Denmark3.29-0.18-1.98Spain4.000.53-1.25
France4.751.28-0.50Sweden3.12-0.35-2.13
Germany3.470.00-1.78UK5.381.910.13
Ireland3.500.03-1.75US5.251.780.00

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Aren Holdings275.29-19.08452.70100.020.00323.69282.31
United States (USD)
SM Co163.581.46104.90139.341.9128.8584.36
Abbott Laboratories38.490.24135.1261.972.5631.77170.43
AbbVie272.421.08274.94190.752.5476.95461.40
Accenture Plc A298.3611.72291.69118.153.2816.50127.50
Adobe341.00-2.00363.70146.002.8010.00100.00
Aflac114.942.26138.22105.432.1212.3557.62
Air Products & Chemicals278.380.26314.87229.112.6029.3361.39
Archrock163.232.60193.45110.810.0043.5368.48
Alphabet A348.29-2.21406.61235.840.2517.282043.77
Alphabet C344.66-2.51404.47236.690.2617.111096.04
Altia Group71.422.0477.0654.706.2214.91119.25
Amazon.com254.06-5.88297.20196.000.0020.152740.37
AMD602.68-35.19656.52188.220.00156.341013.24
American Electric Power122.320.24140.58112.533.1121.0266.59
American Express308.103.85367.49250.971.2319.99208.06
American International77.051.3987.2971.252.6013.9340.29
American Tower166.730.55196.08160.054.2422.8777.69
American Financial498.088.52572.56422.371.3611.8944.09
AMETek Inc.247.52-1.10261.16170.240.5536.0856.75
Anglo407.44-5.64447.03288.002.4725.12220.28
Aspenol A85.32-2.23178.5276.740.5940.63210.40
Analog Devices405.93-4.15445.91223.471.0847.93190.70
Ami Plc A277.120.85302.34206.331.1815.2159.70
Apollo Global Mgmt115.30-0.25153.2999.561.8540.6069.09
Apple340.423.75345.34243.420.3230.86486.58
Applied Materials Inc509.57-11.08738.67203.400.4243.63404.39
Apple Inc A296.17-1.85378.40216.470.4734.53108.87
Applied Management116.260.51181.1995.804.6453.3325.04
Arista Networks210.97-4.86217.32114.520.0065.52266.08
Arthur J. Gallagher234.056.95310.35190.751.2038.3759.99
AT&T24.070.4029.4319.894.488.21170.42
Atlassian Corp A203.577.78220.0056.010.00989.3832.37
Autodesk233.60-1.45320.00185.500.0030.0849.82
Auto Data Processing270.730.73292.60188.162.5124.69107.28
AuroraZone2910.5484.274146.422730.650.0019.5247.52
Baker Hughes A56.300.8970.4143.921.6317.8755.89
Bank of New York Mellon143.610.89165.04103.111.7516.5897.44
Becton Dickinson182.752.58213.08140.112.3031.5149.78
Berkshire Hathaway A66891.81691.8766832.81688000.000.008.1438.81
Berkshire Hathaway B511.054.80537.74464.000.0013.70714.61
BlackRock Finance1085.35-4.281218.94917.382.1525.14164.99
Blackstone112.680.85106.39101.732.9425.2164.58
Black, A75.23-0.8486.9248.210.00129.7140.89
Boeing Co187.750.57254.35176.770.0087.29149.39
Berkitt Corp53.610.0965.2246.122.3912.18374.88
Booking Holdings159.97-4.101503.10150.141.0317.68123.20
Boston Scientific42.040.46105.6541.500.0016.8969.93
Bristol Myers Squibb56.56-0.84619.62475.521.7313.07117.70
Becton Communications360.14-16.37495.00289.631.8620.37108.53
Caledonia Design Systems348.84-7.28416.69262.750.0068.5498.07
Capital One Financial199.403.49259.63174.241.8010.95122.33
Carrier Global55.830.8376.7650.241.7229.3246.02
Carvana A63.200.44486.6956.120.0028.3445.50
Campbellar798.18-17.851073.46489.340.8234.11395.98
CME Group A131.083.52174.27121.690.0033.7837.98
Cencora321.354.10377.54244.820.7523.7561.32
Charter Colors A109.672.71276.10104.910.002.8212.57
Chevron Energy277.685.68300.89186.200.8020.9957.39
Chevron211.556.40217.78146.493.3720.30417.97
Chipotle Mexican Grill32.681.9142.8126.040.0029.9841.35
Chubb343.789.08365.91205.301.1986.30122.63
Cintas201.123.83216.16161.161.0338.2075.86
Cross Systems114.89-2.50130.3766.811.4634.19452.96
Citigroup128.080.76147.9693.092.0918.01214.85
Cloudflare Inc A341.69-1.08370.35158.830.00589.47110.30
CME Group A276.446.17328.16218.314.0933.3399.40
Cognizant Tech G Ltd A80.012.9487.0337.082.2012.8227.03
Colgate Global A172.00-0.45402.16139.110.0044.4438.32
Colgate Petroleum88.101.8995.5374.552.4134.6970.23
Comcast Corp A21.23-0.7722.9526.696.2317.47147.54
Comcast Phillips134.194.35141.6265.572.5017.75161.21
Constellation Energy285.07-14.52412.70228.630.6027.84101.00
Copart27.460.8645.8926.391.0017.6225.46
Corning152.63-10.42217.7877.390.7388.84131.85
Coteva13.75-0.7090.9711.745.248.339.18
Costa Wholesale947.925.671066.50844.060.6245.62420.05
Coupang A15.410.6032.7013.350.0035.8425.27
CRH81.680.42131.5586.131.9116.1554.47
CrowdStrike Holdings A263.01-2.43786.00174.140.00659.75269.31
EnergyPriceChange
Brent Crude104.67-1.07
Natural Gas3.200.04
Light Crude Oil92.000.51
3.5 Fuel Oil580.5410.23
Euro Naphtha Oil898.6231.45
Base Metals
Aluminium3057.006.50
Copper14539.00230.00
Lead1888.0028.00
Nickel15670.00117.00
Tin52905.001458.00
Zinc3809.0090.50
Precious Metals
Gold4188.8277.36
Silver ($)60.901.74
Platinum1686.9046.55
Palladium1151.3927.06
Iron Ore90.850.39
Bulk Commodities
Baltic Dry2917.00-56.00
Richards ICE Futures127.750.65
AgriculturePriceChange
Corn502.252.00
Wheat206.50-2.00
Rapeseed501.00-11.25
Sunflower Seed10265.0035.00
Soybeans1293.756.25
Soybeans Meal388.005.30
Cocoa (ICE Life)4233.0059.00
Cocoa (ICE US)5658.00-7.00
Coffee (Robusta)3378.00-77.00
Coffee (Arabica)354.40-1.40
White Sugar541.10-14.60
Sugar #1120.300.15
Cotton81.361.42
Orange Juice146.85-3.10
Maple Leaf4165.5154.74
Live Cattle222.901.03
Feeder Cattle339.381.35
Lean Hogs75.28-0.55
Palm Oil (Malaysian)1136.00-11.50

Sources: Energy: NYMEX, Base Metals: LME / London Metal Exchange. Corn, Wheat, Soybeans: CBOT Live Cattle, Live Feeder, Lean Hogs: CME.

BONDS: GLOBAL INVESTMENT GRADE

StockPrice+Chg52 Week
HighLowYldP/EM/Div
ONEOK90.292.2490.9587.164.1415.5456.92
Oracle135.99-7.67132.54114.501.4720.04410.29
O'Reilly Automotive86.011.40104.0682.590.0027.2269.56
Old Worldwide166.110.3794.5863.582.6618.7825.17
PBG150.592.77167.25137.622.9922.31349.77
PNCAM105.663.08139.2492.251.2023.0457.72
Procter & Gamble190.761.06207.54180.001.50158.52108.52
rho Alto Networks398.50-7.03432.22336.570.00571.95325.57
Parker Hannifin946.96-5.601099.94715.370.8432.78119.42
Paychex104.462.81128.2485.454.5620.7337.19
PayPal Holdings155.020.0779.2238.460.0210.3247.07
PepsiCo128.344.61171.48123.474.6715.60175.17
Pfizer27.82-0.1829.2123.626.1836.13158.56
Philip Morris Int'l200.507.81207.76142.113.1928.61312.50
Phillips 88281.600.98277.12126.741.8016.02112.26
PNC Financial Services Sp219.681.96258.98176.883.6412.0887.64
Progressive218.734.61245.64189.200.1810.95127.10
Prologis Inc129.291.99153.35111.033.3128.60122.87
Prudential Financial113.531.17127.7291.894.9310.2439.17
Public Storage285.523.53335.55256.544.2027.1453.35
QUALCOMM176.01-1.11258.92121.990.8919.93187.95
Realty Income54.170.8267.9453.326.0139.5451.26
Regeneron Primes739.57-2.55858.34541.000.5117.6674.80
Republic Services216.840.66233.42196.411.2430.7166.40
Robertson Markets A107.01-2.50153.5683.520.0046.3284.61
Reblox A45.520.89141.9533.880.0032.2830.50
Roper Technologies364.235.68321.28305.961.0015.1136.02
Ross Stores225.20-0.33257.00147.490.7827.0371.94
Royal Caribbean Trust281.410.91356.29222.221.95104.6175.47
KTA184.324.06226.88155.641.5832.06246.42
S&P Global402.737.55592.25381.610.9624.50118.72
Salesforce227.803.24269.11146.320.7720.82187.48
Schlumberger48.981.0260.4631.642.4110.8672.69
Sempra80.080.58101.0476.213.2823.2153.36
ServiceNow129.75-0.25164.44103.740.0062.60108.00
SimonProp199.622.02239.50172.831.4114.5964.58
Snowflake A343.4010.95384.58119.300.00111.49121.15
Solidsco Advanced60.23-0.1390.8040.430.5051.489.57
Southern Co86.150.71100.8381.693.5320.6689.10
Southern Copper198.66-1.91223.88119.251.9929.63167.74
Spotify Technology526.4213.50700.12405.000.00236.05108.36
Starbucks Corp93.21-0.37110.5177.792.7053.88106.26
Stratoga A151.47-1.90336.3681.810.001.5360.96
Stryker270.971.57392.55267.001.2728.47108.24
Synopsys497.75-4.92539.48352.550.0086.2795.38
Targa Resources288.494.53307.94144.141.7327.5081.88
Target154.763.64170.7583.443.0015.9970.31
TE Connectivity214.31-1.52252.56195.271.4020.6562.65
Tesla375.00-2.61498.83297.380.00317.601481.06
Texas Instruments288.20-0.78334.03152.732.1143.60263.20
The Alcatia230.636.68277.22188.081.674.5658.32
The Charles Schwab95.871.29114.5383.961.3217.55167.52
The Copix Group381.032.52312.18239.512.2211.6374.26
The Coca-Cola67.771.9592.4960.002.4226.36377.63
The Kroger61.412.1670.5854.152.5433.1936.27
The SherwinWilliams321.036.03377.77289.860.0019.3477.93
The TCR Cos136.75-0.05170.00122.781.3825.37152.82
The Williams Cos72.340.6880.0856.192.9028.6288.48
Thermo Fisher Scientific651.98-10.08694.33435.270.2935.03241.07
T-Mobile US171.313.66231.02160.812.4717.68183.76
Timeva Technologies469.942.67505.67348.060.8935.63103.40
UnitedGroup Inc1088.30-6.911463.031071.250.0033.0466.21
UnitedHealth Care210.70-0.44288.88205.000.0018.95108.55
Trust Financial46.190.6956.2043.784.5010.4758.41
Uber Technologies70.241.76100.3565.410.0015.20143.47
Union Pacific278.203.52315.98215.532.0423.18165.27
United Parcel Service III94.131.84122.4182.006.9717.5070.54
United Rentals1050.1512.711179.18701.590.7325.2085.06
UnitedHealth Group370.85-5.03461.62259.872.5023.78332.96
US Bancorp57.030.6666.0845.023.7911.3888.66
Volvo Energy443.8019.70428.98193.291.8818.50127.78
Vermilion Communications46.350.5851.6810.606.1112.07192.57
Verant Media Group A21.770.3359.0027.174.720.004.41
Vertex Pharmaceuticals933.25-2.39560.25402.580.0029.07127.55
Visa A375.103.00365.57253.990.7131.87839.21
Visteo156.14-10.58217.10132.980.5928.0252.41
Walmart110.562.40135.1698.880.9039.51677.15
Welt Disney107.022.27117.0892.191.4021.58164.78
Waste Management210.101.16248.13194.111.8029.6883.98
Wells Fargo82.031.7797.7672.762.4411.70249.06
Welltower223.041.92255.20163.751.5298.97160.75
Workday A187.813.55247.40110.360.0038.1736.61
WW Grainger1268.675.161418.91906.520.7932.2958.76
Yum Brands143.002.65170.14134.262.1017.9039.02
Zscaler A73.091.53148.3068.772.9011.9230.20

VOLATILITY INDICES

Red DateCouponBid PriceBid YieldDailyWeekly
US$
Morgan Stanley30/014.0097.624.570.130.17
Trust Finl Corp28/064.1299.435.120.000.09
National Rural32/114.0292.035.270.540.21
Washington Gaslight Co36/035.7897.975.020.000.00
Northern States Power28/038.13100.665.050.000.00
Oklahoma Gas & Elec28/046.50101.054.58-0.07-0.99
Euro
Germany25/082.2288.653.190.00-0.07
Spain46/102.8879.294.470.34-0.13
Belgium47/061.5057.864.900.20-0.23
France48/052.0058.055.300.180.13
£ Sterling
United Kingdom46/124.2580.635.910.420.42
United Kingdom47/071.5047.265.960.310.31
StockPrice+Chg
Crown Castle68.89-0.12
CSI47.349.53
Cummins520.403.06
CVS Health87.90-0.15
Danaher217.46-1.03
Darden & Co652.00-1.00
Deluxe Technologies C574.55-4.41
Diamondback Eagle101.687.30
Digital Realty Trust176.07-4.40
Dominion Energy61.750.22
Doosh A151.710.47
DR Horton135.822.54
Duke Energy116.841.34
Eaton Corp424.51-6.82
Ecolab261.693.58
Edwards Lifesciences Corp64.24-1.54
Elevance Health400.94-3.37
Eli Lilly & Co1169.60-19.12
Emerson Electric159.08-0.16
ESG Resources148.514.30
Eupkin1011.16-20.61
Exelon41.730.24
ExxonMobil Hldgs168.504.45
Futoral50.490.66
FedEx291.732.69
Ferguson Ent218.731.87
ROO SOXC107.4325.68
Fiserv45.940.83
Hartner Entertainment61.585.73
Honeywell Inc169.10-0.16
ImpOil McMillions71.10-0.37
ImpOil266.44-7.72
GE Aerospace305.622.00
GE Healthcare Tech64.22-0.45
GE Vernova999.352.26
General Dynamics329.903.27
General Motors82.251.26
Gilead Sciences147.100.25
Goldman Sachs Group882.59-4.62
HCA Healthcare445.015.84
Hilton Worldwide Holdings323.292.76
Home Depot235.478.70
Honeywell International256.60-1.51
Honeywell Aerospace222.56-0.19
IBM226.616.10
Illinois Tool Works264.713.56
Intel107.08-8.04
Interactive Brakes Gp A66.47-1.27
Intercontinental Exchange155.352.76
Intuit303.086.84
Intuitive Surgical415.410.80
Johnson & Johnson256.46-1.97
Johnson Controls Intl154.00-1.93
JPMorgan Chase553.431.84
KeyCorp17.33-0.09
Keurig Fin Pteger31.260.72
Kindby Clark97.741.28
Kinder Morgan P32.250.43
KKR & Co88.56-0.11
KLA196.72-0.11
L3Harris Technologies238.923.29
Lam Research320.59-8.82
Linke461.70-2.28
Lockheed Martin507.898.67
Lowes188.857.31
Liberty Utilities92.660.80
Medtronic Petroleum463.3421.06
Marvell International A361.094.58
Masoli176.673.01
Marvell Technology274.66-10.02
Mastercard A574.764.70
McDonald's238.906.02
McKesson930.2519.92
Medtronic67.752.24
Metso Bc142.38-0.41
Meta Platforms A723.09-0.42
MetLife104.472.69
Microsoft Corporation1005.8452.16
Microsoft Word522.87-2.69
Metlife International A60.671.29
Motorola Beverage43.650.77
Moody's456.699.06
Morgan Stanley167.44-2.27
Motorola Solutions447.12-1.21
MSC Inc A561.676.29
Nasdaq92.370.44
Netflix71.571.87
Newmont Corp115.552.01
NextEco Energy77.370.31
NKE B34.740.38
Norfolk Southern316.683.79
Northrop Grumman484.4811.02
Nu Holdings A15.38-0.20
Niobos230.48-6.99
NXP Semiconductors221.07-4.15
Occidental Petroleum60.292.07

BONDS: BENCHMARK GOVERNMENT

Oct 09Day ChgPrev52 wk high52 wk low
VIX14.93-0.4815.4135.3013.38
VXD15.34-0.1115.4542.712.43
VDAX18.08-1.2619.3435.5813.53
Red DateCouponBid PriceBid YieldDaily yield chg.Wkly yield chg.Monthly yield chg.Year yield chg.
Australia06/544.7585.385.82-0.060.000.130.57
04/274.7599.954.84-0.010.010.051.47
Austria02/332.8896.333.550.000.060.130.67
10/533.1384.604.100.010.050.010.27
Belgium06/543.2574.984.980.000.040.190.70
Canada06/271.0099.012.820.000.000.03-0.18
12/552.7574.983.930.000.030.130.15
Denmark11/332.2594.072.780.000.000.000.20
11/394.50111.103.43-0.010.030.060.50
Finland09/270.5097.752.990.030.020.060.86
09/303.0095.953.66-0.010.020.140.68
France05/543.0066.465.35-0.03-0.020.320.90
11/333.5093.944.51-0.03-0.02-0.96-0.30
Germany08/332.6095.503.34-0.010.030.050.64
08/531.7565.763.87-0.020.04-0.010.38
Greece06/283.88100.873.320.02-0.100.020.88
06/334.25100.314.19-0.030.770.290.91
Ireland10/320.3582.753.59-0.44-0.140.610.86
Italy12/272.6399.333.270.01-0.060.171.02
03/344.1399.414.33-0.03-0.030.291.02
Netherlands01/542.0088.873.86-0.010.03-0.020.28
07/332.5094.473.43-0.030.000.060.63
Poland04/282.7597.364.56-0.04-0.020.120.72
10/336.0099.476.080.000.010.181.16
Portugal07/321.6389.893.60-0.02-0.020.190.82
Spain10/521.8859.924.55-0.03-0.010.100.75
10/333.5098.383.81-0.020.000.200.76
Sweden11/331.7596.302.500.000.000.00-0.14
Switzerland03/062.50117.770.320.00-0.02-0.22-0.49
United Kingdom06/280.0092.624.750.000.060.170.98
10/533.7570.405.97-0.050.060.080.75
United States11/334.5096.125.16-0.03-0.010.421.19
11/534.7587.515.66-0.05-0.010.320.83

GILTS: UK CASH MARKET

Oct 09PriceYieldRed YieldDayWeekHighLow
Tr 1.25pc '2797.631.284.420.03-0.0097.7195.53
Tr 0.875pc '2888.940.984.850.06-0.1991.000.01
Tr 1pc '3281.361.235.050.10-0.2885.0781.01
Tr 4.25pc '3691.604.645.400.19-0.5799.3991.15
Tr 4.5pc '4286.405.215.810.28-0.8196.4585.71
Tr 3.75pc '5271.155.275.950.33-0.7581.5070.51
Tr 4pc '6072.345.535.910.34-0.8283.5271.62

Closing prices and highs & lows are in traded currency. Market capitalisations are in local currency. Highs & lows are based on a rolling 52 week period

GILTS: UK FTSE ACTUARIES INDICES

Price IndicesFixed CouponOct 9Daychg %TotalReturnMonthReturnYearReturnYield
Up to 5 Years84.470.072652.46-0.040.904.83
5-10 Years141.270.233344.55-0.87-2.095.26
10-15 Years138.950.373652.78-1.20-3.955.64
5-15 Years138.970.273408.49-0.97-2.675.41
Over 15 Years161.540.593224.23-0.93-7.335.90
All stocks123.660.273098.36-0.60-2.495.59
Index LinkedOct 9Day'schg %Monthchg %Year'schg %TotalReturn1 MonthReturn1 Year
Up to 5 Years365.320.050.312.843188.090.323.67
Over 5 Years464.950.49-0.45-2.783645.81-0.27-2.17
5-15 Years455.550.30-0.620.593828.25-0.411.35
Over 15 Years462.460.69-0.27-5.993493.35-0.11-5.52
All stocks464.060.39-0.28-1.643713.98-0.13-0.99
Yield IndicesOct 9Oct 8Yr Ago
5 Yrs5.025.044.26
10 Yrs5.445.474.59
15 Yrs5.735.764.88
20 Yrs5.875.915.02
45 Yrs5.715.754.91
Real Yield 0% InflationOct 9Dur YrsPreviousYr Ago
Up to 5 Years1.032.591.040.73
Over 5 Years2.3916.122.421.90
5-15 Years2.119.422.141.61
Over 15 Years2.5122.902.542.01
All stocks2.3313.222.361.86
Real Yield 5% InflationOct 9Dur YrsPreviousYr Ago
Up to 5 Years0.812.590.810.43
Over 5 Years2.3716.122.401.88
5-15 Years2.069.422.091.54
Over 15 Years2.5022.902.532.00
All stocks2.3013.222.331.87

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Johnson Matthey2468.0022.003245.252192.004.16-32.36263.46
Victrex942.0018.001024.00515.003.1829.44109.55
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Morgan Sindal•4086.0018.005730.003938.003.9910.98138.16

Main Market

Price+/- Oty Chg52 WeekYldP/EVol000s
HighLow
Aerospace & Defence
BAE Systemic1860.0023.502380.001529.002.0327.032231.57
Chemring Group511.0012.00650.75446.521.5828.711588.64
Automobiles & Parts
Ford Motors922.46-3.711319.04841.764.92-5.13
Banks
ANZ Group1960.87-5.812126.501753.255.8519.103531.59
Banco Santander1020.008.001122.00709.001.6913.24140.69
Bank of Nova Scotia6653.0741.317185.884733.333.63745.98
Barclays429.653.50554.10353.552.689.8124422.67
Canadian Imperial8225.2358.239198.885989.152.76269.41
HSBCs1395.0015.201610.00959.293.9915.2618164.00
Lion Finance Gp12380.0010.0014820.007320.002.568.44108.21
Lloyds Bnkg Gp#101.601.00117.9081.823.9514.5139871.69
NatWest Group542.602.00726.00504.415.4512.0110651.57
OSB Group486.6013.00647.50472.007.386.44878.66
Perm TSB Group253.974.41291.66182.420.616.6184.00
Royal Bank of CA14466.2073.1516187.0310784.892.58516.51
Stand Chart2119.0011.002364.001351.502.4314.342812.32
...3.73%PI107.50128.84102.006.8638.67
...8.25%PI118.75143.80114.256.9542.17
Toronto-Dominion8654.0233.719256.885890.822.691882.28
Westpark1778.383.852275.381755.744.5716.784907.84
Garoline Ry Hlgs584.002.00726.81486.003.4418.4079.42
Morgan Sindall4086.0018.005730.003938.003.9910.98138.16
Electronic & Electrical Equip
discoverie Grp874.0026.00900.00505.001.4928.94660.71
Halma3528.0029.004902.003268.000.7035.79484.39
Morgan Adv Mat290.0025.00294.50179.804.2138.672678.87
Oxford Instruments2958.0032.003318.001682.000.8034.96106.67
Renishaw5735.0085.006030.003280.001.4335.08144.07
TT Electronics181.002.00197.8093.00--8.25213.06
XP Power1950.004.002160.00849.23--46.4352.29
Financial General
3i Group2402.0090.004497.001825.003.52--
Aberdeen Group243.006.00265.00179.606.0111.252748.78
Bridgepoint Group*401.8018.20402.60212.002.4480.362534.71
City of London Inv*522.004.00540.00349.006.5114.1565.42
Close Bros305.401.20556.15318.40--6.75501.63
ICG1808.0073.002214.001424.874.8110.841518.99
Investec583.004.50690.00499.386.497.691645.51
Jupiter173.603.20214.50137.203.469.04950.43
Liontrust301.505.00358.00223.006.3019.58136.46
London Stock Exa8694.00224.0010140.006884.001.8236.471334.89
Rathbones Group1540.0022.002500.001490.006.4914.27106.16
S & U*1880.0030.002458.501620.006.179.634.24
St James's Place1037.5017.501575.501011.501.7310.391388.07
Price+/- Dly Chg52 WeekVol.000s
HighLowYldP/E
Aerospace & Defence
Cohort1208.0016.001538.00881.101.4823.13415.80
Velocity Composites18.25-24.0012.00--8.12163.82
Basic Resources (Ex Mining)
Cropper J680.0010.00710.00250.00-22.0816.35
Construction & Materials
Acsys Tech55.40-0.2079.8454.60-24.5178.32
Electronic & Electrical Equip
Checkit16.00-27.0012.35--6.15422.68
LPA82.00-0.5092.0034.00--31.0616.63
Thorpe FW250.00-5.00320.00240.002.9410.5451.56

Investment Companies

Price+/- Dcy Chg52 WeekYldNAVDiv./ Plan
HighLow
Conventional (Ex Private Equity)
3i Infra388.003.00389.50325.003.47405.58-5.31
Abf GVIT91.00-1.0096.7776.006.70103.23-12.04
Abf Sml1826.0032.001835.001408.072.622005.63-10.47
Aberdeen Asia Foc470.002.00478.00348.001.37515.73-8.60
Aberdeen Asian Inc Fund321.001.00357.00246.005.85344.34-7.01
Aberdeen Eq Inc.448.005.00473.00359.255.16446.321.37
Aberdeen UK Smll533.006.00544.00441.502.63565.55-6.90
Alliance Witan1403.006.001409.001178.002.091467.58-4.95
Allianz Tech764.00-10.00789.00480.75—828.82-8.31
Artemis UK Future Lead389.501.50405.00321.003.96443.55-13.17
Aurora UK Alpha248.003.00279.00222.091.90275.96-13.42
AVI Japan179.500.50194.00154.501.23186.01-2.99
BG China Growth286.003.00331.04283.000.87293.95-4.79
BG Euro121.500.50133.0091.400.59134.80-8.76
BG Japan1076.0010.001114.00811.100.931197.07-9.17
BG Shin179.003.20182.00123.050.39198.77-9.31
BG US Growth389.50-1.00398.00261.00—401.86-2.47
Battile Gifford UK218.003.00231.00180.122.84237.76-9.84
Bankers IT155.200.40157.80125.201.82168.68-8.45
Biotech Growth1400.0036.001786.001050.00—1493.00-6.19
BidR Amar Sml283.002.00289.56208.855.26276.920.94
BidR Energy & Res178.004.00205.00135.503.48181.96-4.70
BidR Front189.002.00206.00164.504.03188.33-1.45
BidR Gfrur573.004.00625.00506.951.25614.13-7.23
BidR I&G234.00-4.00240.00208.003.29250.86-6.85
BidR Smrl265.503.00288.40230.802.98305.34-14.41
BidR World Mining948.0025.001076.00628.002.53956.06-3.09
Brunner1560.0010.001612.001236.001.731723.26-9.67
Caledonia Inv386.004.00402.00312.001.99603.89-35.14
CanGen Cls2701.4932.452958.282358.192.4380.44-41.45
City of Lon571.006.00599.00498.003.93556.282.04
City Natural Res G&I413.009.00467.00258.016.85387.624.17
CT Healthcare122.00—152.40118.804.32128.37-2.94
CT MgtI131.00—135.00115.006.11127.921.49
CT MgtS328.001.00330.00280.26—335.78-3.16
CT Cp&I339.003.00373.00320.003.97351.78-4.48
CT UK HIT B107.00—120.0092.005.57112.40-5.04
CT UK HIT Ord104.50-1.50126.0097.005.70112.63-5.48
Dunedin Inc308.003.00323.00275.006.58329.59-7.84
Edinburgh Inv833.0014.00867.00737.603.84891.04-7.99
Edin Worldwide280.503.00294.50194.20—296.78-6.89
The Euro SmCo227.501.50247.21193.805.56244.71-8.24
F&C Inv Trust350.602.201332.00325.801.21380.68-8.99
Fidelity Asian610.004.00672.00546.063.36637.56-5.08
Fidelity China245.502.00328.00239.503.87260.70-6.82
Price+/-Div Dsg52 WeekYldP/EVol 000s
HighLow
TP ICAP Group●328.606.60355.00235.505.2313.041677.10
Vanquis Banking Gp69.701.00132.0067.00-21.78600.85
Food & Beverages
AEP Plantations196.40-0.40229.00124.003.1011.22246.19
Assoc. Brit Foods1935.001.002359.001729.453.4312.96642.11
Bar (AR)●552.003.00715.32538.003.4613.06341.05
Fevera147.001.00152.00114.501.636.3612.38
Coca-Cola HBC4282.0029.005185.003326.002.3719.54299.62
Cronswick4385.00-45.005810.004775.002.2616.85243.61
Diageo●1838.0016.001903.911295.502.3127.742822.61
Greencore255.403.20307.50191.101.0219.352553.74
Kerry Group●7348.15111.487648.355567.811.8621.69122.74
Tate & Lyle559.00-0.50580.00319.403.5425.411980.65
Unilever●4673.5047.505542.113644.003.5312.753531.74
ON Store Nord1221.4934.001429.97984.75-15.88390.27
Smith&Neph+1020.5017.001426.59980.402.9418.721675.36
House, Leisure & Pers Goods
Barratt Redrow+290.40-1.00410.29235.402.0721.356445.50
Bellway1948.00-17.002890.001715.003.7014.67627.79
Berkeley3170.00-6.004442.002798.00-9.56404.21
Burberry Group1024.5017.501376.50953.40--955.36
Cairn Homes+221.00-2.00251.00161.003.9812.26298.64
Games Workshop10390.0040.0023540.0014300.003.4226.27153.94
Gleeson (MJ)272.001.50435.00221.001.84-81.93-33.34
McBride176.202.25214.10107.601.769.95268.35
Philips1843.8123.632413.421790.383.90-43.561951.30
PZ Cassiers96.501.10114.0085.093.8320.53339.13
Vistry Group218.801.60746.40216.00-5.181941.70
Industrial Engineering
Bodycote•910.500.50967.50585.002.5629.374770.45
Goodwin•14220.0010.0028500.0010820.002.3219.2624.06
Hill & Smith3050.0050.003345.001994.00-29.70494.16
IMI3092.0010.003022.002244.001.1424.88371.75
Melrose444.506.20685.00409.901.6815.333487.97
RH2870.00105.003390.001920.005.3118.6333.07
Weir•2642.00104.003580.002254.001.5827.611052.60
Coats Group85.103.4098.1073.152.9619.043079.74
Mactarlane84.901.9093.8058.804.3121.28174.34
Smiths2730.0020.002885.002088.001.784.346201.40
Braemar237.002.00249.00203.112.9532.7375.02
Fisher (J)426.008.00554.00358.00-48.9774.44
Insurance
Admiral Group3824.00-4128.002824.003.9514.71411.93
Aviva+677.004.40740.60590.605.9425.173919.40
Chesnara+322.004.00378.00265.007.1343.76421.56
Ecclesiastical Insurance130.25-155.00125.506.62-41.29
Hansard Global+54.000.2560.8043.208.2411.4911.46
Hiscox1847.0025.001952.001288.002.1213.521584.49
Lancashire Hldgs646.5011.50695.00549.002.607.07245.81
Legal & General287.001.50318.10217.207.6328.7314545.73
Price+/- Dsg Dsg52 Week
HighLowYldP/EVol000s
Financial General
Arbuthnot Banking800.0010.00955.00755.006.887.335.14
BP Marsh655.00-710.00613.005.544.9410.37
Burlont Capital266.0016.80880.50249.203.5912.13165.27
Premier Miton Group34.75-64.0034.508.6344.5537.89
Food & Beverages
Cometia5600.00-125.006300.004800.004.64-29.990.24
Feverbee Drinks●858.5013.50973.00711.002.0345.712383.49
Nichols1085.00-5.001200.00880.003.5918.4913.85
House, Leisure & Pers Goods
Churchill●355.00-460.00271.005.928.946.46
Frontier Div●905.0029.00640.00302.00-8.1192.19
Portmeison47.50-118.0046.60--1.050.50
Sanderson Design Grp77.002.5090.0040.001.9525.84142.35
Price+/- Chg Chg52 WeekS&P 500
HighLowYldNAVDisc/
Fidelity Emer Mkts1522.0018.001574.00897.341.641660.32-8.90
Fidelity Euro413.002.50447.50367.502.47433.76-5.03
Fidelity Spec463.504.50479.50384.772.23459.22-0.34
Finzbury G&I792.0016.00875.00706.252.65836.85-5.87
The Gbl Small Co190.401.00198.60162.721.65199.11-4.91
GRT(susp)1.25—1.251.25—14.40-91.32
Hansa332.002.00346.00250.001.33558.38-40.25
Hansa A334.00-1.00340.00244.001.32558.38-40.07
Hon FaEs268.501.00281.50229.009.33253.566.65
Hon High Inc200.002.00214.00173.255.56208.20-4.71
Hon Smir958.0013.00998.00769.003.031044.43-9.11
Herald2930.00-5.003290.732285.00—3399.01-13.82
HCL Infra130.60-0.40141.00107.206.51160.43-18.33
Impax Env451.00-3.00494.76379.001.15502.01-10.42
IntBiotech1050.0020.001235.00798.002.981060.66-1.61
Indl PP135.400.40145.90115.606.49153.74-11.78
Inv Asia Dragon Tst493.00—520.00395.003.89533.58-6.93
Inv Bond Inc187.50-0.50178.50150.117.31165.671.80
JPM Amer IT1250.004.001258.001041.000.921290.19-4.20
JPM Asia G&I580.002.00652.00426.005.69581.841.41
JPM China G&I250.00-0.50313.00250.004.56266.62-8.33
JPM Claw928.004.00986.00799.983.93951.38-3.11
JPM Emg EMEA234.505.50310.00196.000.2668.72228.60
JPM Emg169.000.80181.20126.204.45183.21-6.96
JPM Eur Disc606.007.00666.00548.002.64652.82-8.44
JPM Eur G&I135.00-0.20153.00124.504.03140.58-2.85
JPM Em Mk Div214.00—222.00155.502.80232.64-8.00
JPM Gbl G&I612.50-0.50641.00529.604.05630.85-3.44
JPM India Gwth Inc836.0018.001038.00799.005.07911.62-8.65
JPM Japan833.003.00867.00668.001.04913.55-8.51
JPM UK Sm350.001.00368.00287.924.26374.62-7.81
JPM US Smi416.006.00463.00365.000.77456.88-9.33
Law Deb1206.0014.001290.00991.003.031185.042.23
Lindell Train580.006.00750.00529.504.836.52-11.92
Lowland184.502.50191.50148.003.73199.10-7.97
Marwyn Val141.00—142.00141.006.43284.24-46.63
Mercantile272.504.50290.50234.313.05298.68-9.92
March, Tst656.008.00691.00536.254.56677.50-3.24
Mid Wynd805.009.00814.00682.001.07817.30-2.37
Monks IT1682.008.001696.001366.000.051755.56-5.31
Montanaro Eur176.502.00189.00142.000.88192.11-9.81
Murray Inc966.0014.001036.00854.664.241020.39-6.39
Murray Intl356.503.50376.00296.503.59354.670.95
New Star IT138.00—148.00111.002.57202.72-31.92
N. Atl Smk IT418.00—434.00328.001.67649.96-34.15
Pac Holiz1124.0010.001262.00718.00—1209.72-7.75
Price+/- Dly Chg52 WeekYldP/EVol000s
HighLow
Old Mutual•60.201.0078.8055.407.226.68130.24
Prudential•898.4010.801238.00867.402.347.717628.42
Standard Life•848.5010.00950.00633.508.61-180.159476.22
ME Group112.801.00195.9498.507.447.52815.13
Media
AutoTrader Grp488.702.80828.80418.602.3714.304616.42
Informa895.604.601000.00719.002.51-17465.08
ITV66.45-0.1587.3565.707.5211.268129.44
Pearson1285.0018.501337.00874.801.9825.001596.69
Reach47.500.4073.7039.0012.42-1.131058.25
Relive2720.00125.003539.001991.002.5324.162899.58
Rightmove490.50-12.10700.00391.402.1917.464320.03
STV Group100.00-1.00124.5095.60--9.2621.80
52 WeekVar.000s
Price+/-Div DsgHighLowYldP/E
Sirius Real Estate88.40-0.35113.0085.856.136.893972.58
Smart UJ115.00-140.00106.002.838.8015.00
Retailers
Cafryns500.00-550.00350.002.00-12.29-
Dunelm Group799.5011.501174.00707.008.8210.38381.69
Halfords Group262.003.50276.10123.803.4417.241071.31
Inchcape686.5029.50895.00627.874.899.471568.46
JD Sports84.500.48102.6063.981.509.799939.49
Kingfisher+318.00-4.40372.30286.403.9022.716787.00
Marks & Spencer397.000.90418.33301.101.0631.268478.08
Saga765.0010.00799.00234.50--194.94
Sainsbury J335.603.20380.30293.704.0819.4015621.19
Tesco503.803.40516.20411.702.9318.3238109.98
Mining
Angle American4170.00130.004348.002639.000.69-16.572034.96
Autofagasta3770.00165.004475.002496.001.5736.991599.50
BHP Group3261.0074.003592.001971.003.9122.28909.62
Ferrexpo31.920.2887.2325.22--1.11255.58
Fresnillo2756.0067.004472.002000.004.0619.41792.47
Glencorex584.6015.90707.20332.202.20-2355.41
Harmony•1258.9746.491983.66946.964.6811.891585.95
Rio Tintos7126.00104.009117.004970.504.8915.361525.56
Oil & Gas
BP*586.301.50609.40399.354.28-38870.65
Capricorn428.00-1.00450.00181.80-20.227.33
ExxonMobil Hldgs12828.00-12875.9012709.502.43--
GeoPark867.26-876.34861.210.8013.99-
Hellenic Energy1565.29-1565.291521.273.256.35454.10
Imperial Oil CS9388.46103.4110397.166229.981.96-167.32
TC Energy Corp*4534.79-4564.454510.424.10-23.99573.42
Support Services
Bunzl2738.0028.002958.001981.002.7319.421303.24
Capita235.0019.50416.00196.20--1.631943.47
DCC Energy6425.00-20.006740.004188.003.37-954.92
Diploma7785.0035.007980.004970.000.8156.45374.56
Essentra●115.003.60117.8078.401.83-1098.12
Experian●2682.00108.003707.002203.001.9321.563668.42
Hays64.252.3078.4528.680.68-17.652781.64
Howden Joinery762.5014.50981.00713.002.8915.501423.13
Intertek5890.00-5900.003519.422.8027.012314.48
Johnson Service●137.902.30172.10123.803.6314.83875.83
MITE Group210.400.20214.00135.202.1431.882690.08
RS Group792.0042.00798.00536.902.8922.89887.55
Vp512.00-20.00608.00420.007.71-37.1016.93
AstraZeneca11998.00100.0015732.009892.001.9924.044458.56
Chemical Works2805.50-2805.502805.505.4114.51-
GlaxoSmKlinea1750.0014.502282.001592.004.0012.406931.38
Hoka Pharm1612.005.001865.001187.004.0311.71267.49
Tech - Software & Services
Computacenter•5550.0085.006045.002579.001.4137.88180.77
NCC Group•151.602.50161.60107.203.0727.071316.62
The Sage Grp1071.5044.001181.00771.662.1028.391956.37
Triad Group380.00-430.00236.002.3738.310.12
REITs
British Land388.803.80451.60335.405.95--
Derwent London1763.0014.002198.001469.334.65--
Great Portland Est303.202.40377.00270.002.70-0.00
Land Securities604.003.00726.00525.006.82--
LondonMetric Prop172.200.20216.20170.207.29--19.67
Primary Health Prop89.400.15109.6087.408.17--
Segro919.2011.20997.40632.203.43--
Shaftesbury Capital135.301.20155.10124.103.187.242013.76
Tritax Big Box139.700.80175.00138.505.91--
Telecommunications
Airtel Africa290.20-19.40436.20219.001.8520.633593.50
BT Group192.75-4.70242.09173.004.3217.5221944.81
Telecom Plus(652.00)13.001896.00638.005.878.42166.49
Vodafone118.35-6.05132.0783.403.35-84.7349223.14
Real Estate Inv & Services
Grainger162.002.10202.79149.445.19--
Hanworth Group●187.00-195.00116.800.9864.481074.46
Helical177.002.00236.25170.501.4836.65142.12
Mountview Estates8700.00200.0010200.008350.006.0316.66-
Savills973.0016.001142.00791.462.4218.71398.82
Price +/- Dly Chg52 WeekYldP/EVol.000s
HighLow
Industrial Engineering
MS Intl1540.00-25.001800.001120.001.6822.859.08
Media
Mission Group25.00-0.5029.0012.00--1.17241.90
Mining
Central Asia Metals♦153.802.00244.00125.2710.08-4.78535.49
Crism Therapeutics9.00-0.2518.508.00--1.76158.60
Oil & Gas
BarrSitrPet8.12-0.0414.007.28--67.123507.42
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Sareum Holdings‡27.50-40.009.50--11.46-
Price+/-52 WeekYldNAVDist- Prem
HighLow
Pers. Assets545.004.00558.00515.001.03547.92-0.99
Polar Health429.0011.50460.50352.110.51417.921.99
Polar Fin.237.000.50260.50199.16—245.71-3.15
Polar Tech.702.003.50743.50420.00—769.63-9.53
Rights & Iss IT2510.0030.002520.001995.131.803005.13-19.48
RIT Cap.2490.0040.002645.001985.251.813198.50-22.93
Ruffer Inv Pt290.50-1.00319.00281.282.12301.52-2.86
Schr. AsiaPac838.006.00892.00641.351.55922.66-8.44
Schr. AsiaTotal707.007.00746.00530.001.63739.94-4.18
Schroder Inc353.001.00380.00314.004.33371.97-6.11
Schr. Japan388.003.00402.53276.003.44423.28-8.09
Schr. Orient.453.002.00478.00317.002.91474.61-3.83
Schr. UK Mid754.004.00790.00652.003.00794.01-6.05
Scot American555.003.00572.00480.102.95598.93-7.36
Scot Mortgage1636.5013.501651.501015.740.281765.27-9.01
Scot Oriental281.002.00295.00240.001.21308.03-9.83
Strategic Eq.401.501.50415.00330.001.12446.35-10.98
Temple Bar413.003.00429.50345.253.78411.33-0.22
Tetragon1107.710.091476.82892.963.21—
TRIG76.100.7080.5063.209.92101.39-25.31
UK211.00—211.90211.903.79287.42-26.98
Utilico Emer Mkts296.001.00302.00243.003.27335.36-8.61
Worldwide Hlth368.0010.00401.50322.520.65388.70-5.94
Tobacco
Brit Amer Tobacco•4194.0033.005326.003677.005.8411.952780.53
Imperial Brands2652.0040.003632.042408.006.2510.608833.83
Travel & Leisure
easyJet680.00-1.00683.80332.601.9410.332498.05
FirstGroup190.803.00222.60152.103.778.921803.82
fullers 'A'716.008.00780.00572.002.9618.2611.13
IntContl Hotels12026.00118.0913305.068762.001.1732.40310.50
Intl Cons Air415.90-4.10492.90332.701.826.8911470.34
Whitbread2478.0033.003278.002098.003.9120.10386.82
Company
Drax Group*785.505.00937.50695.503.8637.95407.80
National Grid1147.00-5.501428.501086.254.2317.5110713.20
Pennon357.00-14.00606.00340.008.2018.406716.39
Severn Trent3094.00-2.003335.002381.004.0725.05426.19
SSE2454.0017.002767.501786.502.8023.261014.52
Conventional - Private Equity
CT PrivEq468.0014.00592.00439.848.05689.16-33.39
HICapital366.000.50512.00318.641.37530.16-29.64
HVPE3245.0040.003500.002807.59—4518.00-28.40
ICG Ent1390.0010.001611.421288.313.022089.50-33.95
Pantheon Int384.004.50409.00339.05—534.80-28.64
Partners PE €580.74-10.74945.52568.4510.2011.58-39.55
Price+/- Chg12 Week
HighLowYldP/EVol000s
Retailers
Boohoo Group24.50-0.1029.5010.30—-3.171268.55
CVS Group1173.0039.001648.001062.000.7748.07144.32
Support Services
Christie●186.00—199.6090.002.2235.430.36
LonSec3750.00—3900.002100.002.5919.33—
NWF158.00-2.00187.50110.005.518.4980.41
Pertards8.50—12.507.00—-12.691.08
Renew947.001.001016.00821.002.1515.3666.04
Tech - Software & Services
Oxford Metrics32.70-2.2060.4027.509.94-59.453519.93
Travel & Leisure
Gaming Realms30.60-1.2047.2029.00—15.0762.07
Jet2●1407.00-7.001612.00980.001.206.66450.76
AEW UK REIT98.501.20113.2095.908.12106.95-7.03
TR Prop289.501.00364.50267.505.97300.55-11.05
VCTs
Bred 2nd VT44.40-1.0054.0039.509.0146.55-4.62
Nthn 2 VCT53.00—56.5047.005.8655.40-4.33
Nthn 3 VCT82.00—86.5079.505.4986.00-4.65
Nthn Venture56.00—59.5053.005.5458.60-4.44
Zero Dividend Preference Shares
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Slowing deals are a flashing red sign for equities

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hink of it as a bull market with no horns. Earlier this week, the S&P 500 hit an all-time high, a scenario that would normally come

with a frenzy of mergers, acquisitions and public offerings. Rising prices usually lead to rising animal spirits, after all. But after what looked like a healthy start to 2026, corporate dealmaking has proven oddly muted.

Several high-profile listings, like that of OpenAI, fitness tracker Oura (pictured) and SoftBank's greenfield data centre builder SB Energy, have been postponed. Reasons vary: SB Energy is still waiting for regulators to sign off. But outside of buoyant equity prices, conditions aren't terribly friendly. Interest rates, which impact companies' cost of capital, are rising. Consumer confidence has been hit by higher prices and mortgage rates, as well as weak job hiring trends.

And the S&P 500 isn't necessarily the best indicator of sentiment. Tech accounts for 40 per cent of the index, which has far outperformed the more broad-based Russell 2000. Yet the titans in its roster are not just a play on AI. Alphabet and Meta Platforms, for example, have huge advertising businesses that already throw off huge amounts of cash. That sets them apart from a lossmaking pure-play AI company like SB Energy.

In the third quarter of the year, global M&A fell below the psychologically important \$1tn level. The boutique investment banks that rely on deal fees have been feeling the chill. Shares in Evercore, the biggest of the specialist firms, are down nearly a quarter this year. Perella Weinberg is close to selling itself to a diversified rival, according to press reports.

The big banks are in a slightly better position, since volatility has been good for trading. The State of New York recently disclosed that broker-dealers in the first half recorded record profits of \$46bn, up 50 per cent relative to 2025. Goldman Sachs is happy enough with its prowess to give another \$500mn special bonus to its brass. Analysts expect its overall investment banking fees to rise 30 per cent for the full year, according to LSEG, faster than in 2025.

The M&A slowdown doesn't reflect any notable change in how much companies might benefit from teaming up. What changes is managers' appetite for risk, which has been hit by rising yields and AI jitters. The divergence between booming stocks and dwindling deal volumes will eventually close – although it's most likely a fall in the equity market that will make that happen.

Why Starbucks and Chipotle really don't belong together

Putting the band back together is surely a great feeling but a dubious corporate strategy. Starbucks chief Brian Niccol has considered a merger with Chipotle, his \$41bn rival – and former employer – the FT reported on Thursday. However neat the match might seem from the corner office, it makes little sense for shareholders.

Niccol knows Chipotle very well. He ran the Mexican-themed chain for six years before decamping in 2024 to the world's biggest coffee chain, which was then in disarray. The two do faintly similar things, serving comestibles to customers who are in a hurry.

Moreover, the ways in which they differ might seem like opportunities. Chipotle's balance sheet is free of debt; gearing it up a little could provide low-hanging fruit. And while Starbucks has a global network, Chipotle only has a smattering of international stores.

But do they belong together? Not really. For one, the overlap is unlikely to be enough to justify a takeover premium. Imagine Niccol could shave 10 per cent off Chipotle's food, drink and packaging costs and halve its general overheads. That would save \$770mn a year, Lex reckons, using Royal Bank of Canada forecasts, giving an after-tax return on investment of just 6 per cent. Anything below 10 per cent should make investors nervous.

More importantly, Niccol hasn't finished fixing his present employer. Starbucks shares have gone sideways and profitability isn't yet where it used to be. Same-store sales growth of 8 per cent in the latest quarter suggests it has turned a corner but numbers are still flattered by the previous year's decline.

Chipotle has fared worse. But for Niccol to argue he can do a better job might be problematic, since Chipotle chief Scott Boatwright was his direct report for six years. Conversely, keeping the brand separate and its leaders in place – the Starbucks boss spent more than a decade at multi-brand group Yum Brands – would further trim the potential cost savings.

Perhaps Niccol could use some more motivation. The \$100mn-plus package he received in 2024, linked to the share price, has mostly failed to pay out. Worse, having started his role in sunny California, he now spends significant time in rainy Seattle. Starbucks should want to keep Niccol engaged but buying Chipotle is too high a price.

Caribbean cruises are going cheap, and so are operators' shares

Who wouldn't dream of wintering in the Caribbean, especially as the northern hemisphere gets chilly? But the glut of cruise ships doing just that has led to a round of fare slashing for these prized destinations.

Caribbean cays attract roughly two-fifths of all cruise passengers, so discounted sailings in the all-important high season of January and February have helped put shares in the big three — Royal Caribbean, Carnival and Norwegian Cruise Line — on course for their weakest year since the pandemic.

The cut-price holidays reflect the fact that capacity has far outpaced demand. Norwegian has added a whopping 40 per cent more space, while rivals have also redeployed ships first intended for the Middle East. All-in, capacity for the region will rise 12 per cent this year, estimate Goldman Sachs analysts – the most in more than a decade.

High demand for Caribbean holidays has been the driver of the sector's post-pandemic recovery, so it isn't hard to see why signs of overcapacity are leading investors to give it a wide berth. It doesn't help that the operators have also made big investments onshore: Carnival has spent \$600mn developing a private resort on Grand Bahama while, last month, Norwegian opened a water park on its own private island. Carnival boss Joshua Weinstein admitted last week that flat capacity in the region "would make my life easier".

Like hotels, cruise ships' high fixed costs leave them high and dry when demand drops. Norwegian has lowered its earnings forecast for this year by more than a third. Carnival's are expected to remain roughly flat.

Still, cruise lines are not as risky a bet as other leisure operators. If they fail to forecast market squalls, they can move their vessels to more favourable locations. Carnival, for example, is excited about Europe where a series of summer heatwaves has generated fresh interest in Nordic voyages.

Meanwhile, the industry benefits from long-term trends. About one-third of the roughly 40mn passengers sailing somewhere in the world this year are new to the experience, says UBS. Studies show a high propensity among cruisers to return to the high seas – and returnees tend to spend about a quarter more than nautical newbies, Jason Liberty, boss of Royal Caribbean, says.

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Katie Martin The Long View

he hot new investment theme was AI once – a shiny opportunity for money managers of all sizes willing to put their capital to work in a transformative technology.

It still is that, sort of, if you look past the warnings of a robot apocalypse, the destructive “rogue” hacking agents that look more like a feature than a bug and the legal risks circling around AI labs. (“Oops, our agents did it again” is wearing thin as an excuse.) Despite all that, no one can reasonably doubt the once-in-a-generation moneymaking capabilities of the ecosystem, from chips to data centres, and that’s the bit that professional investors are paid to think about.

But the AI trade is no longer new and it is no longer "a" theme. Instead it has morphed into "the" theme — a vast, suffocating blob slathered on top of the global financial system, starving everything else of oxygen, distorting market reactions and leaving every portfolio, everywhere, alarmingly reliant on the fortunes of just one bet.

Stocks, real estate, infrastructure, energy, emerging markets, some vintages of private equity . . . they're all, to a large extent, the same trade.

The sheer dominance of this thing over global stocks was on emphatic display this week. The oil price continued to smoulder at \$100 or so a barrel, and traders again fired up their warnings that logistical constraints in the Strait of Hormuz opened up a very real chance of a push to \$200. Bond prices were stuck in the deepest rut in decades, with the 10-year benchmark US government bond yield wedged comfortably above 5 per cent. Either or certainly both of these things would usually pull stock markets lower.

Not a bit of it. Instead, the S&P 500 index of US stocks hit a new record, as did the tech-heavy Nasdaq. We're all by now accustomed to a little market dissonance, but this is, at a minimum, extremely odd.

Slicing up indices in weird ways to suit a narrative is cheating. But we need to do it anyway to understand. So, yes, the S&P is at a record. But if you strip the AI component out of the index, the remaining rump has dropped by 7 per cent since the end of August. You get a similar picture if you look at the S&P on an equal-weighted basis, which helps to smooth out the oversized impact of enormous tech stocks.

The gap between the top-heavy typical index and its more even-handed cousin is not new, but it has now hit its widest point in nearly 24 years. Three-

The AI boom has become a major prop not just for the US stock market but for the dollar too

quarters of the stocks in the S&P fell last month – tech stocks and the energy stocks that reflect the data centre build-out really are doing all the work.

Who cares? A lot of people don't, as long as the line on the index goes up. The problem is that investors are struggling to work out how to diversify properly, how to shield themselves if something goes wrong – a key part of their task in managing other people's money. Many are spooked by just how correlated portfolios turn out to be across a range of supposedly diverse asset classes.

For now, the whole world is all-in. Non-US money has funnelled into dollar-denominated assets at an extraordinary pace over the past decade, and increasingly, it is not even hedged for currency risk.

In other words, the AI boom has almost by accident become a major prop not just for the US stock market but for the dollar too.

Without question, US corporate earnings, not only in tech but especially in tech, justify the excitement. If anything, US stocks are pretty cheap right now – stock prices have not kept pace with spectacularly rapid earnings growth, seemingly held down in part by rising bond yields.

But we still, collectively, have a very poor read on how AI will pan out. To some extent, everyone is guessing here, but private equity firm Bain said in a recent report that annual spending on AI infrastructure could reach \$1.5tn by 2031. Extraordinary stuff.

Even more extraordinary, though, Bain added that “sustaining this level of investment would require an AI market approaching \$6tn annually”. Really? An industry worth one-and-a-half times the UK’s entire annual economic output every year? This is struggling to pass the smell test.

Policymakers seem uncertain what they are dealing with here too. US Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh has been of the view that the productivity stemming from the use of AI will, fairly quickly, pull down inflation. But others at the central bank, recently including Mary Daly and Lisa Cook, are veering towards an opposing view, that the build-out poses an upward risk to inflation in the months ahead.

So we're left with a strikingly two-speed US stock market beloved of pretty much every investor on the planet, dominated by an AI build-out that is, in practical terms, nearly impossible to hedge or avoid.

We don't really understand the long-term economic implications, but the underlying commercial assumptions seem rather heroic. And we've all, deliberately or otherwise, hitched our fortunes to the idea that it will work out just fine. We'd better be right.

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ianni Infantino looks the perfect villain. There's the egg-like dome, the unflagging grin, often directed at Donald Trump, and the uncomfortable match of tailor-made suit with white trainers. The Swiss son of a railway station worker spent this summer's World Cup flying around North America on a Qatar-owned jet, attending 44 games in 39 days. Each time he appeared on the stadium video screen, spectators jeered — partly because he had jacked up the prices of many tickets to thousands of dollars each.

Back then, Fifa's president with his \$6mn pay package seemed impregnable, heading for his third straight unopposed re-election next year. But he hit a crisis in late July, when his plan to sell a stake in the World Cup leaked. Fans were repulsed. The European, Asian and North and Central American confederations called for his ousting. Former Swiss footballer Ramon Vega said this week he will run against Infantino in March's presidential elections. Stronger candidates are expected to declare before the deadline of November 18.

Yet Infantino will probably survive. In fact, he might be exactly the Fifa president that most of the world's football associations want.

Infantino was born in Brig in the Swiss Alps in 1970. In his own telling, he had jaundice as a baby and needed a blood infusion to survive. After the Red Cross scoured Europe for two matching

Each member association, regardless of size, was entitled to up to \$9.2mn over the four-year cycle

donors, a helicopter delivered the life-saving fluid to Brig's hospital. Infantino says the story made the front page of the Swiss tabloid Blick.

That's his self-image: a born fighter. He's certainly a self-made man. Brig lies just across the border from Italy, in the canton of Valais, and his parents were poor Italian immigrants. Vincenzo and Maria each at different times ran a kiosk at Brig station, with Gianni sometimes in tow. In 2022, in his notorious "Today I feel..." speech, delivered just before Qatar's World Cup, Infantino said he could feel Qatari, African, a migrant worker, gay, female and more "because I know what it means to be discriminated...at school, I was bullied because I had red hair and freckles... Plus I was Italian, so imagine."

He loved football, and ran a team for Brig's Italians, but played the game poorly. His sister Daniela recalled, "He once said he had two left feet." His only assets were brains and ambition. He excelled at school, was a gifted linguist even by Swiss standards, and studied law.

He began working for Europe's association Uefa in 2000. Both Uefa and Fifa are headquartered in Switzerland, and recruit from a caste of hardworking, efficient, multilingual Swiss bureaucrats. Infantino rose to be Uefa's general secretary – football's traditional role for the person who does the work while the president, in this case the Frenchman Michel Platini, glad-hands with A-listers. Another workaholic from the Valais, Sepp Blatter, was Fifa's general secretary before becoming president in 1998.

The Swiss news magazine Republik interviewed 84 people who knew Infantino, and reported: “Something we kept hearing...Infantino pushes himself to the foreground out of a need for social revenge, which is why he seeks proximity to rich and well-known people.” Miguel Maduro, hired by Infantino to chair Fifa’s governance committee in 2016 but soon sacked with other ethics officials when the president’s reformism waned, found him “smart but so eager to impress that I detected a certain level of insecurity”,

When Blatter's reign collapsed in 2015 amid corruption scandals and FBI raids, Platini prepared to take over. Then scandal felled him too. A desperate Uefa anointed Infantino as its candidate. As ever, he was underestimated. But in his speech at the crucial Fifa congress in 2016, switching between six languages, he promised reforms of the rotten organisation, and spoke the winning line, "The money of Fifa is your money! It's not the money of the Fifa president. It's your money." Delegates from around the world gave him an ovation.

Fifa's concierge king

Infantino understood the central fact about Fifa: it's a patronage system.

tions, especially as Montserrat has one vote in Fifa's council, the same as India.

Gianni Infantino has been under attack

since his ill-fated plan to sell a stake in the

World Cup. Yet patronage continues to

underpin his power, writes Simon Kuper

From top: Gianni Infantino leaves the pitch following the trophy presentation at the Fifa Asean Challenge Cup final in Hong Kong last week; with Vladimir Putin and Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman at the 2018 World Cup in Moscow — Zulu Lo/Nexpher Images/Zuma Press/Reuters Connect, AP Photo/Hassan Animal

Almost all its income comes from one source: the men's World Cup, started by Fifa in 1930. That income is divided among the 211 national football federations. Each member association, regardless of size, was entitled to up to \$9.2mn over the four-year cycle up to 2026.

The system fails India, the country where football has most scope to grow, while overfunding the Caribbean island of Montserrat (population 4,300). Nicholas McGeehan, director of the campaign group FairSquare, says, "I've spoken to a couple of people in development and told them the model, and they don't believe you when you tell them how it works." The model makes no sense as a way to develop football. But it makes perfect sense as a way for Fifa's incumbent president to please poor federa-

Most national federations live off Fifa's funding. Infantino, justifying the unprecedented ticket prices at the last World Cup, said, "Without Fifa, there would be no football in 150 countries." Some federation presidents use Fifa's funds to maintain fields or train referees. Others pocket the money themselves.

Infantino's Fifa sometimes punishes corruption. For instance, last month it slapped a life ban on Vincent Cassell, longtime president of Montserrat's federation, for "abuse of position, systemic conflicts of interest" and misuse of Fifa's funds. Fifa's then ethics committee had first prosecuted him in 2011.

The problem is that it punishes selectively and untransparently, says Maduro. The ethics committee sometimes buries cases without explanation. Federation presidents who run into legal trouble in their own countries are often not sanctioned by Fifa. It's usually unknown whether Fifa even investigates them, as the ethics committee is not obliged to disclose its doings. Maduro says, "The rules are not enforced equally. It is a system of rules without the rule of law."

The same goes for disciplinary cases against players. Cristiano Ronaldo was initially banned for Portugal's first two games of the World Cup after receiving a red card in qualifying. Fifa rescinded the suspension. Notoriously, it did likewise for the US striker Folarin Balogun, after Trump phoned Infantino with the request.

In short, Infantino operates like a typical 21st-century autocrat: growing rich from what should be a position of public service, winning serial elections unopposed, and ruling almost solo. The best way to find out Fifa's policies is to follow his personal Instagram account. Fifa's congresses typically rubber-stamp his decisions, with most votes nearly unanimous, says Alex Phillips, longtime former official of Fifa, Uefa and, until recently, secretary-general of the footballers' trade union Fifpro. "And the four that vote against, it's normally because they pressed the wrong button on the electronic voting thing."

Infantino held no press conferences between 2023 and 2026, and recently responded to a journalist's factual query with the text message: "Fuck off mate". Like other autocrats, he stretches term limits. Fifa's presidents are only supposed to serve three terms, but he's now running for an apparent fourth. He said his first term from 2016 didn't count, as he was completing Blatter's truncated final term.

No wonder he seems happiest among fellow strongmen. An enduring image of the Infantino era is of him joking in a VIP box in Moscow with Vladimir Putin and Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman at Russia vs Saudi Arabia,

Friendly, multilingual and unideological, 'der Portier' always remembers his guests' names

the opening match of the 2018 World Cup. When Putin awarded him Russia's Order of Friendship a year later, Infantino called it "an incredible, unbelievable honour".

Infantino, like his predecessor, is an eternal Swiss type: the hotel concierge, "der Portier" in German, friendly, multilingual and unideological. He always remembers his guests' names. Above all, living in a country where money flows through, der Portier knows which of them can afford the hotel bills: in the 19th century the British, later the Americans, then Russians, and currently Gulf Arabs. While their money lasts, no matter where they got it, der Portier treats them with respect.

Infantino relentlessly defended Qatar when it hosted the 2022 World Cup, then orchestrated the controversial award of the 2034 event to Saudi Arabia. The presidents of national federations who notionally choose the host joined by video link. When the unopposed Saudi bid was announced, they approved the decision by applauding with their microphones turned off. Lise Klaveness, president of Norway's federation and Infantino's most outspoken opponent inside football, notes: "We didn't clap."

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What Hannah Arendt can teach us about friendship

In an increasingly polarised age, the political theorist's notion of civic fellowship is essential, says Roger Berkowitz

n January 1946, Hannah Arendt received a furious letter from her friend Gershom Scholem in Jerusalem. Arendt had published

an essay arguing that the push for a solely Jewish nation-state threatened both Jewish security and democratic ideals. Scholem read it as a betrayal of their people – written in the immediate shadow of the Holocaust, by a woman who had herself fled the Gestapo. He demanded she recant.

Arendt defended her argument point by point. But what makes her reply worth reading 80 years later is how it ends. Not with an argument – with a plea. She begged Scholem not to become a “fanatic for truth”, not to let an “orgy of truth-telling” dissolve a friendship that had survived exile and war. “A human being,” she wrote, “is far more valuable than his opinions.”

It is a startling sentence from a thinker devoted to truth – she called it the ground on which we stand. And it answers a question most of us are now living inside: the uncle who thinks abortion is murder, the old friend who won't stop posting about Gaza (or the one who won't stop posting about

We present our political judgments as though the facts have already settled them. This is almost never the case

Hamas). You used to argue, or at least agree to disagree. Now you mostly avoid each other. Can you be friends with someone whose opinions make you cringe? Arendt's answer was yes – and her reasons are far more demanding than the civility we usually preach.

Friendship with someone whose views we dislike is at the heart of both what it means to be human and any meaningful politics. We have ignored Arendt's warning not to set agreement about truth above friendship. Truth matters. Facts matter; without them, cynicism corrodes the common world and propaganda rushes into the vacuum. We must insist on facts. But facts only tell us what is; they cannot tell us what should be, or what makes our collective lives meaningful.

It is a fact that the Earth is warming and that human activity is in large part responsible. Those facts constrain and inform any honest response. But the facts themselves cannot tell us what to do about global warming – how quickly we should act, which risks we should accept, or how the burdens of a response should be distributed. Those questions require political judgment and will be answered differently depending on one's interests and perspectives.

Too often, however, the demand for facts bleeds into a claim that my interpretation of facts is true, when it is really just my opinion. We present our political judgments as though the facts have already settled them. This is almost never the case. The real struggle of politics is not to come to an agreement about truth; it is, rather, to build a shared world with those who see our shared world differently than we do.

To consider a fellow citizen who disagrees with us – even fundamentally – an enemy of humanity is not moral seriousness. It is how a shared world rips apart.

Aristotle was the first to see that building a shared world within a plural democracy depends more on friendship than truth. Plato dreamt of a city unified by the knowledge of a philosopher-king; Aristotle insisted that a polity is a gathering of different people around a common life. The bond between them is civic friendship: the lived experience of talking to and coming to respect those with whom you disagree, and yet still recognise as fellow citizens.

Hannah Arendt lived Aristotle's idea of friendship in both her personal life and her political thinking. Her friend Hans Jonas said she had a "genius for friendship". When Scholem and Arendt clashed in 1963 about her book Eichmann in Jerusalem, Scholem accused her of lacking Ahavath Israel — a love for the Jewish people. Arendt agreed. She wrote back that she would never deny or apologise for being a Jew but that she could not love any "people or collective". "I love," she wrote, "only my friends."

Friendship, for Arendt, is based on direct, honest and sustained talking among friends. With our friends we speak about the sunset, the plight of refugees, the coming election, the joy of the Knicks' championship, and the horrors of war in Ukraine, Israel, Gaza and Iran. We share pictures of our children on summer vacation, celebrate our hopes for their happiness and confess our worries about their future. In such


'A human being is far more valuable than his opinions' — Hannah Arendt in 1944 — Fred Stein Archive/Archive Photos/ Getty Images

friendships, we transform the incomprehensible and strange into a world fit for human habitation, a shared world that we can love.

This world-building power is why civic friendship, not agreement, is the ground of political solidarity. When we talk to people with whom we fundamentally disagree, we find, to our surprise, that we share more than we think. We may disagree about abortion, but we do want to treat people with dignity and make the world better. That common ground is where we begin to found and re-found a meaningful politics, a world we actually share, and a world in which people with different politics and beliefs can live, respectfully, as equals.

And yet a shared world has sharp edges. If friendship is the bond of the people, are there those who simply do not belong to it – people with whom we cannot be friends or perhaps people we cannot even respect? Should we read Carl Schmitt, the Nazi jurist, or Céline, the unrepentant antisemite? As we build our shared world, we also need boundaries.

When the comedian Bill Maher described President Donald Trump as "gracious and measured" over dinner, Larry David responded with a satirical essay, "My Dinner With Adolf". David was setting boundaries. Beneath his provocation lies a serious question: does treating a dangerous political figure as a friend help preserve a common world, or does it normalise someone who threatens that world? Are some people beyond conversation, friendship or even respect?

Arendt faced a far more extreme version of this question after the second world war. She permanently cut off friends who had become enthusiastic Nazis – yet she defended her old teacher Martin Heidegger, who had joined the party in 1933 and served as rector of Freiburg University until 1934. Although he remained a party member, Arendt believed that Heidegger had never crossed the line into supporting murder or the machinery of extermination. Most importantly, she took to heart his private confession that his effort to work with the Nazis was “the greatest stupidity of my life”.

Arendt's answer – and the practice we should put in place today – is that friendship is not infinite tolerance. She concluded that Adolf Eichmann should be hanged because no member of the human race could be expected to share the earth with him. Yet she reached that judgment only after making an extraordinary effort to understand

him. Understanding, for Arendt, did not mean forgiveness. It was what made judgment possible.

But Eichmann marked an extreme boundary. The limit of friendship is not disagreement, however bitter; it is conduct that denies others a place in the common world – racially based mass murder, religious persecution or participation in a machinery of dehumanisation. Such people exist, but they are far rarer than our righteousness suggests. Most people with whom we disagree – even those who may break laws or hurt others – remain people with whom we can converse, trying to persuade them – or allowing them to persuade us – as we build a more nuanced understanding of our common world.

In a 1964 interview, Arendt said the real shock of Hitler's rise was not that a dictator could win a democratic election. It was personal: the moment her own friends "co-ordinated", fell into line and found reasons for the new

The temptation to cast out those whose opinions disgust us feels like moral clarity. More often, it is an escape from understanding

regime. "The problem," she wrote, "was not what our enemies did but what our friends did." Around her, she said, an empty space formed.

This empty space is where we have gone wrong. We have begun to treat ordinary opponents – the colleague who signs an angry letter or the neighbour with the wrong yard sign – as if they are beyond the reach of friendship. They are not.

What about the friend who votes for the wrong candidate? Or even the one who commits a crime, accepts judgment and serves his punishment? The temptation to cast out those whose opinions and actions disgust us feels like moral clarity. More often, it is an escape from understanding, a reduction of character and a refusal of politics. It is based on the fantasy that the common world can be purified by removing everyone who sees it differently.

Friendship offers no exemption from judgment. We can and should judge our friends. But it demands that we judge with understanding, considering their actions and opinions from their perspective, whether or not we agree. It does not promise reconciliation. It remains open to the possibility that our shared world is worth sharing in spite of our real and at times angry disagreements.

Friendship asks something harder than moral clarity: it asks that we judge without pretending that our judgment contains the whole of another person. A human being is worth more than his opinions because the world we share depends upon our treating him as one.

Roger Berkowitz is author of 'A World We Share: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Friendship in a Broken World' (Yale University Press)

Fifa's concierge king

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After Infantino invented a “Fifa Peace Prize” and awarded it to Trump at last year’s World Cup draw, apparently breaching the organisation’s duty of political neutrality, Norway backed Fair-Square’s request to Fifa’s ethics committee to investigate the matter. The committee’s instant reply, says Klaveness, was, “We will not give you any information.” In a system of selective justice, the leader can break the rules.

Despite it all, by mid-July about 200 national federations had endorsed Infantino's re-election. Under personalised rule, everyone seeks the leader's favour, hoping he will give them goodies (such as the right to host tournaments). His grip on power seemed absolute.

Everything changed when news broke of his plan to sell a 20 per cent stake in the tournament for \$4.2bn to investors led by Joshua Kushner, brother of Trump's son-in-law Jared. Infantino gave national federations just 53 days to decide, promising them asweetener if they accepted it: \$20mn each. That's nearly a quarter of Montserrat's GDP.

The outrage inside football was fourfold. First, many consider the World Cup a sacred event, which should be above commerce. Second, Infantino didn't seem to have asked anyone else's opinion or sought rival offers. Third, Fifa, a non-profit with \$6bn in cash reserves, didn't need the money. Last, the price seemed remarkably low. The proposed sale valued the most popular tournament in sports at \$20bn – only \$5bn more than revenues for the last World Cup cycle.

Infantino had over-reached. Finally, his opponents dared to act. Uefa led the charge, declaring, "The World Cup is not for sale." European federations said they would boycott Fifa's tournaments until he withdrew the plan. He did, almost immediately. Emotionally, it felt like global football's long-awaited revolution. And yet the king is expected to survive.

That might surprise fans, especially those from wealthy European football economies. But fans aren't represented on Fifa's council. Nor are players, coaches or referees. To understand Infantino's support, it's essential to view him from the perspective of the bulk of

The Fifa president with former Brazil striker Ronaldo and former Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon at a 'legends' football match in Brig, Switzerland, 2017 — Keystone SOA

Fifa's electorate: presidents of football federations in places that barely have a football economy. Many of them think he's doing a good job.


Infantino helps Donald Trump to his seat at the MetLife Stadium, 2025 – AP

For a start, his energy is rare in a sport where decision makers often owe their positions to family or political connections. He's a president who works like a general secretary. Blatter had kept a bed beside his presidential office; Infantino replaced it with exercise machines. His jetting around the World Cup might have struck fans as entitled. To football officials, it looked vigorous.

He has grown global football, expanding the Club World Cup with Saudi funding, as well as the men's and women's World Cups. Westerners in particular opposed the expansion of the men's tournament from 32 teams to 48. But this summer's edition was a success, and the 2030 World Cup will probably feature 64 teams. That means more income, and more spots for small nations. Cannily, Infantino has also multiplied the number of committees inside Fifa. Federation presidents with committee roles enjoy lavish per diems, luxury hotels, selfie opportunities with ex-footballing greats, and the chance to oversee, say, the Beach Soccer World Cup in Seychelles while general secretaries and volunteers do the actual work.

Fans hated the World Cup's high ticket prices, and the "hydration breaks" that interrupted games so that TV broadcasters could show more ads. But federations appreciate the extra money. Infantino's biggest critics tend to be countries – notably England, Germany and the Nordics – that have enough.

Their criticisms also carry whiffs of entitlement and hypocrisy. Take Uefa's sonorous statement opposing the Kushner deal: "The World Cup cannot be treated as an investment product... Football's future cannot be dictated by the expectations of those whose first duty is to maximise financial return." Well, most big European football clubs are treated as investment products, bought and sold by owners hoping to

'If you go to election now and say to Montserrat or whoever, "I don't want to give you any money," why would they vote for you?'

maximise financial return. Uefa ruthlessly monetises its Champions League. Why shouldn't the World Cup offer poor countries some financial return?

Nor can Uefa easily paint Infantino as an unaccountable autocrat when the confederation's own president, Aleksander Čeferin, who likes to be called "President Čeferin", had his term limits waived. As for the English, well, the Premier League is now mired in its own scandal after Manchester City, dominant team of the past 15 years, was found to have dodged financial rules by artificially inflating its revenues by over £900mn.

Many westerners believe that autocracies such as Russia, Qatar and Saudi Arabia shouldn't host World Cups. But many in the global south think that's because the west still feels it owns the tournament. Infantino, though European himself, fights the anti-European culture war. He moved to Qatar before its World Cup, and defended the monarchy against western criticisms: “I think for what we Europeans have been doing for 3,000 years around the world, we should be apologising for the next 3,000 years.” He has even acquired a smidgen of Arab identity, taking Lebanese citizenship through his wife Lina.

The European, Asian and North and Central American confederations officially oppose Infantino, but some of their members have publicly broken ranks. Mexico, for instance, is backing him. Admittedly, his supporters are fickle. Phillips says: "They don't particularly like Infantino as a person. I was in Vancouver at the Congress [in April] when he said, 'I'm standing as a candidate next year,' expecting the whole room to rise in unison. There was some Fifa guy telling the [ex-footballer] 'Legends' at the front to stand. But I look round to the rest of the hall, and there were, like, 15 people standing. He was visibly shocked."

Qatar and Saudi Arabia remain in his corner. Each helps fund dozens of poor federations, and influences their votes. Qatar came out for him almost immediately after the scandal broke, while the 22-member Union of Arab Football Associations, run by Saudi Prince

Abdulaziz bin Turki al-Faisal, last week "reaffirmed" its support for Infantino.

Even if he loses, few believe that his successor would reform Fifa's decades-old patronage system. Norway this week filed complaints about Infantino's conduct to two Fifa committees. But Klaveness says, "If you go to election now and say to Montserrat or whoever, 'I don't want to give you any money,' why would they vote for you? I think that will be the logic of any new president, that you have to distribute equally." Uefa says every federation should immediately be paid \$10mn from Fifa's reserves. Infantino has cleverly co-opted the proposal.

Some critics of Fifa hope that pressure for reform will come from European countries. They are football's kingpins, winners of five of the last six World Cups. Europe generates 70 per cent of the global football economy, notes Infantino. The Europeans abandoned their threat to boycott Fifa competitions after he dropped the Kushner plan. However, if European associations refused to play these competitions until he left or Fifa was reformed, the rest of the world would have to listen.

But the Europeans won't walk out. Corruption in Fifa is at least 50 years old, and the European hypothesis has been on the table since the early 2000s, yet Europe has never boycotted a tournament. Even if several European countries set up rival men's and women's "World Cups", these would never have the status of the original. The main effect would be to damage football's best competition.

Infantino is flying around the world on a jet provided by Qatar Airways, wooing federation presidents and touting reforms of Fifa's governance. He's a redoubtable fighter. Phillips says: "He's probably the person who wants to be the Fifa president more than anybody else in the whole world."

As the technical linchpin of Google DeepMind, he broke a key frontier of artificial intelligence with AlphaGo. Over Levantine food in London, the computer scientist tells Madhumita Murgia about his friendship with Demis Hassabis, how his new start-up challenges today's LLMs – and why he feels a moral obligation to build AI

t an outside table in London's King's Cross, I am sitting in the shadow of Google DeepMind, the pioneering artificial intelligence lab that has seeded a crop of fast-growing AI and tech companies clustered around the district's canals and waterways.

I'm awaiting David Silver, renowned as the technical linchpin of the Google-owned lab, where he was the architect of AlphaGo – the first computer program to beat a human world champion at Go, a fiendishly complex Chinese board game. After more than a decade of working alongside his old friend Sir Demis Hassabis, the mild-mannered scientist is stepping out on his own. In February, he announced his \$5bn start-up Ineffable Intelligence. So far, he has revealed very little about his plans and motivations.

Silver joins me at Bubala, a restaurant serving Levantine cuisine. Despite his former employer's looming presence, the spot represents a fresh start for him: this is where Ineffable's team ate lunch together on its very first day.

Ineffable is named after what Silver hopes to create. A technology, he says, that can make discoveries about the world that are “so profound that we can’t even express them in the words that we have today”.

It's our first meeting since 2016, when I was in Seoul to watch Silver's team challenge Go grandmaster Lee Se-dol in a Four Seasons ballroom – a decade bookended by a paradigm shift that Silver helped engineer. When Se-dol conceded defeat to the computer, those present became witnesses to history. Unlike the brute-force processing of chess computer Deep Blue, AlphaGo combined technical capability with unexpected ingenuity in order to crack this frontier.

At 50, Silver remains unassuming even as the world has changed around him. The only personal nugget I can eke out of him over the course of our lunch is that he plays ultimate frisbee, to which I have little rejoinder. Yet he envisions building humanity's boldest, most ambitious invention: an emergent intelligence that supersedes human beings.

'Where are we going without AI?'

"We're nowhere close to a system that can discover everything for itself," he says. "In silico, we can build [machines] which . . . ultimately run many orders of magnitude faster than the human brain."

The reason we haven't achieved "superintelligence" yet, Silver believes, is that modern AI systems such as ChatGPT or Claude are rooted in human knowledge. Training this type of software, known as large language models, requires feeding the system vast swaths of human-generated data from the internet. People then provide feedback to chatbots' responses, rating their quality and crafting examples for them to ingest. "Human input is required at many, many levels in the process," he says.

By contrast, Silver has been driven by a life-long obsession with reinforcement learning: the idea that machines can learn new things, beyond what humans can teach them, only through their own experience of success or failure at a task. After AlphaGo's success, Silver designed a new generation of algorithms, known as AlphaZero, which surpassed the best human players in chess, shogi and Go. They did so without any training or data from human experts. The system simply learnt through a rewards-based system by playing the games from scratch.

BUBALA Lewis Cubitt Park, Unit 1, Cadence Court, London NIC 4ED

Laffa bread£3.50
Hummus burnt butter£9
Peach ezme£9
Smacked cucumbers£11
Halloumi with camomile£13
Round courgette£16
Potato latkes£9.50
Sumac lemonade£7
Mint tea x2£4
Total (including service charge)£94.32

Lunch with the FT David Silver

Silver has been remarkably consistent in building an early passion into a career. At the age of seven, he was gifted a BBC Micro home computer by his parents, sparking a love of software programming common to a generation of British computer scientists. His South African father, who played games such as Scrabble and Go with him as a child, enrolled in one of the first available degrees in AI at the University of Essex in the 1980s.

"I had some early exposure to some of those ideas when I was very young and always found it absolutely fascinating. This question of: what is intelligence and what's a mind and how can you build one?" he says. He was particularly taken with trying to work out the rules that enable intelligence and recreating them using computer code.

Silver speaks fondly of the unique spirit of ambition that animated DeepMind in those early days: scientists on a quest to build a machine that could discover things for itself. In 2014, Google acquired DeepMind for £400mn, at a time most of the AI world was focused on alternative approaches. “[DeepMind] was a group of people that dared to think differently and say there’s more that’s possible,” he says.

The duo's plan to attack the Go problem as one of their early projects could be traced back to their time at Elixir Studios, when both men enjoyed the game. "Demis is this brilliant games player who could play all these other games to world champion level, but actually hadn't mastered Go yet," Silver says, smiling. "So I thought, this was my chance. I went off and I learnt separately how to play, so that I could beat him."

t Ineffable, he wants to follow that thread to its farthest end point, inventing superintelligent software that can learn anything from first principles. He hopes this will accelerate the development of new types of fundamental science and life-saving technologies.

"If you take the purest form of this idea, you end up with a system that's really much more like the way that humanity learns," Silver says. "Like the grey mush in your head that starts from nothing and discovers everything."

Based on this idea, Ineffable ended up raising \$1.1bn, the largest-ever seed round in Europe. Within days of Silver's departure from Google DeepMind, investors Alfred Lin and Sonya Huang at venture capital firm Sequoia Capital flew in from California to meet him. Silver hopes his bet will take us far beyond today's LLMs. He describes this next phase of AI as the "era of experience".

"There are probably tens of thousands of super-talented people pursuing the same path in AI at the moment. All of the diversity in the field has collapsed," he says. "So I could be the ten thousand and first person doing that . . . or I could follow this other path."

Silver's other through-line started with a chance encounter: a student friendship that ended up reshaping his career, but also the entire field of AI. Even at university, it was obvious to Silver that he and Hassabis shared a combination of interests that few others did: computer science, AI and strategy games. He calls the friendship a "formative" one.

Before the waitress arrives, Silver suggests a plan for our food order that is optimised with the pleasing efficiency of a computer scientist: each of us will share a selection of small plates. We trade ideas and gauge mutual enthusiasm. He's keen on the courgettes stuffed with ricotta and garlic, and I want to try the camomile-honeyed halloumi.

In 1998, a year after graduating from Cambridge, Hassabis convinced Silver to co-found video games company Elixir Studios. Their aim was to use AI to create visually rich simulations with detailed characters and evolving narratives. Silver was chief technology officer and star programmer. Despite the ambition, the game's engine was simply a bounded system with programmed rules and definitive outcomes. "That's how most games-AI was written back in those days," he says. "And I found it, somehow, very disappointing."

Silver eventually quit from burnout, and the company itself shut down in 2005, but the partnership with Hassabis continued to simmer. After completing their PhDs – Silver in reinforcement learning at the University of Alberta in Canada, and Hassabis in the neuroscience of imagination at University College London – they ended up back in business together. In 2010, Silver began working at DeepMind, which was trying to crack the problem of true artificial intelligence. Hassabis and his DeepMind collaborator John Jumper were awarded a Nobel Prize in 2024.

"I put a lot of myself into [Elixir], and then it took me a while to be ready to do something again with Demis," he says. "But it was never about a lack of trust or friendship. After we'd been off our different ways . . . the mutual respect just kind of clicked back into place."

And did he manage it? "I leave that part to your imagination."

y now, the waitress has delivered a basket of pillowy laffa bread, which is the perfect partner to our burnt-butter hummus and the peach and

green tomato ezme, a bright, tangy summer salad served over creamy tahini.

In the week of our meeting, conversation around AI has risen to a fever pitch. A young AI researcher, Jacob Coxon, quit his job at Anthropic, citing the threat the technology posed to society. He blamed the leaders of companies such as Anthropic, OpenAI and Google for pushing the field forward irresponsibly.

How worried is Silver about the risk-benefit ratio tipping out of balance? "The speed of change, the transition, the impact that will have on society, these are all coming faster than our ability to adapt to them effectively," he says. "Our governments are not built for rapid adaptation, even our human emotions are not built for it... I do think the transition is going to be very challenging."

I ask if the modern AI era has panned out the way he would have wanted. "I think the only thing I feel disappointed by is that the advances in AI have not been mirrored by the ethics of AI," Silver replies. "I think that some of the leaders of the AI field ... are moving in a way that has ... not been as responsible as it could have been."

He points particularly to the race between companies and also countries as an unhealthy dynamic that has sped things up unnecessarily. The bitter personal rivalries between the leaders of the likes of OpenAI, Anthropic and

SpaceXAI may also have contributed to the haste and failures of AI systems that we are now seeing, I suggest. In the days following our conversation, ChatGPT maker OpenAI was forced to notify dozens of third parties, including governments, universities and public agencies that its software had breached their systems without the company's knowledge.

"There may be differences at certain levels, but all of these [leaders] want there to be a good outcome for humanity. I think they have to find a way to work together ... it's an imperative," Silver says. "The urgency of the situation will require it."

We pause as our plates get cleared away, and happily discover the potato latkes we had ordered sitting to one side, thus far overshadowed by the tender courgettes and fennel-drizzled hal-loumi, which explodes with flavour.

Silver tells me he has a plan to ensure control over future AI systems, which is to build them only in simulation, rather than on the open internet as others have done. "Imagine that we can actually build a science of superintelligence entirely in simulation," he says. He is fascinated by what happens when you have a society of superintelligent agents that are all pursuing different goals.

But then what, he asks, are the conditions under which superintelligence coexists peacefully with us — and when does it go wrong? His goal is to scientifically design machines to be “co-operative, helpful and supportive of human flourishing” — something that he says is mostly “guesswork” today.

As he describes developing a pseudo-society of AI agents that can be studied, any diffidence disappears. "If we get this right, we've got this kind of Petri dish in which we can actually start to answer some of the questions which no one has the answers to today."

rom our table, it's impossible to miss the 16-metre metal sculpture by artist Eva Rothschild in the grassy square in front of us. It descends from a single point

It describes from a single point and splits into myriad branches, a sort of inverted tree. It's a fitting visual analogy for Silver's breakthrough work. The AlphaGo team taught the model to navigate through an impossibly vast tree of branching possibilities – the game of Go has more playing permutations than the number of atoms in the universe – using a combination of historic human games and self-play to master it.

The principles of reinforcement learning, or self-play, were key to the Alpha models' success. This type of system, Silver explains, makes millions of microdiscoveries by trying to accomplish a single task, receiving a reward when correct. Each micro-discovery "is like a tiny, creative leap" that figures out which patterns lead to more rewards. This knowledge can then be combined to spot patterns at increasingly higher levels of abstraction. "Before you know it, you have systems which are able to understand extremely complex concepts."

Ineffable's ambition is to develop an AI "super learner" that continuously learns and excels over time. "There's a certain amount of human data out there on the internet – you can think of it like a fossil fuel. And once you've trained on it all, the fossil fuels are all gone," Silver says. Meanwhile, systems that teach themselves are more like a "renewable source" of data. "And when you build systems that train on that, you can have systems that can learn forever."

Silver and his six co-founders at Ineffable have agreed a three-year runway with their investors, including the likes of Nvidia, Lightspeed and Sequoia Capital, in which they will focus on their current roadmap, with no detours. Within that timeframe, he says he is confident that his team can produce a version of superintelligent AI in simulation, or at least “compelling evidence that we are very close to achieving it”.

He elaborates by describing a simulated universe of software entities independently discovering concepts such as language, mathematics, economics and money. This could, he hopes, lead to real-world innovations: "We can literally imagine seeing some kind of incredible advanced civilisation emerge."

The vision has all the ambition and utopianism required of an AI start-up founder. But as we wait for our mint tea digestifs, I test his commitment to building a company that is “beneficial to humanity”. I have heard that before;

'Our governments are not built for rapid adaptation . . . I think the transition is going to be very challenging'

Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic were all built with this mission in mind, yet have veered off course in the face of commercial pressures.

Ineffable has its own boundaries, Silver explains, including no AI for military use, and he tries to hire in people who won't be yes-men. It's critical, he says, that there are "voices that are able to criticise from the inside and the outside", something that large tech and AI companies are increasingly resistant to. Silver has also gone a step further and pledged 100 per cent of his equity gains to charity via the Founders Pledge.

But even if all goes to plan, I want to know, why would anyone want to create superior intelligence at all? Who desires a world in which humans are the lesser intellect, no longer in control of their destiny? Silver says that if it is possible to build tools that can solve incurable diseases or environmental catastrophes, he feels a moral obligation to build them.

There is also the question of whether a world without AI would actually be a happier one. "Humans have had world wars, we've allowed mass poverty to happen. We've allowed curable diseases to kill millions of people. We've come within a coin toss of all-out nuclear war," Silver says. "So we have to ask, where are we going without AI?"

With that, he is ready to get back to work. I stay at the table to consider humanity's many flaws. Instead, my eyes wander back to the sculpture, titled "My World and Your World", which I sit with for just a moment longer.

Madhumita Murgia is the FT's AI editor, and author of 'Code Dependent'

Style

How to dress like a man


Robert Armstrong

Ask a stylist s there such a thing as masculine style? In one sense the answer is obviously yes. Even as the overlap between how men and women

dress has increased dramatically over the past century or so, and unisex clothes have become fairly standard, the average man and average woman in our culture still dress quite differently.

At a basic level this is mostly visible in things that women often wear but men still rarely do – dresses, high heels, blousy tops, make-up. Modern masculine style, in this boring sense, has come to mean simply avoiding wearing those things.

At a subtler level, however, it's not about which items are worn, but the way they are worn. In tailoring, there is the difference between cuts to emphasise the width of the shoulder versus the shape of the waist and hips. There are also recognisable gender codes in the weight, colour and pattern of materials – heavy/dark/geometrical on one hand, lightweight/colourful/organic on the other.

All of this admits loads of interesting exceptions, but we know the spectrum is there. There is a certain sort of man – Pete Hegseth leaps to mind – who will prove the point by twisting every dial as far as it will go to the manly end (though, to be fair, the attention Hegseth clearly lavishes on his hair is quite gender-ambiguous).

I'm talking about something that is a little harder to grasp: "masculine" as a term of aesthetic categorisation, and more specifically of praise. This is captured, rather messily, in the contrast between "handsome" and "pretty". What draws the distinction in the realm of clothes? And is it still powerful enough to excite or offend us? If you think these questions are easy to answer, pause here and spell out your views. You'll find it hard, and not just for woke-y reasons. This stuff is tricky to pin down.


Roger Moore on the set of 'Live and Let Die' (1973) — Anwar Hussey/Getty Images

Part of the reason is that one of the standard moves of women's style has been, for decades, to adopt things that were previously coded as masculine, for the precise reason that they were coded that way. Heavy boots and leather jackets worn with a skirt, slouchy "boyfriend jeans", untucked Oxford shirts, the whole Annie Hall arsenal.

Why this works is obvious enough: adding something stereotypically masculine emphasises the feminine. And everyone knows that a little androgyny is a big turn-on. As Susan Sontag has it, "What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."

What is surprising is that so many men have not figured out how to make this most basic move in the style game successfully. Two prominent exceptions to this I can think of are traditional manly types who like to use the colour pink (the FT recently noted that footballers have latched on to this), and bullfighters' chaquetillas and talequillas. The fad for very skinny jeans on men may also have plugged in here, but it didn't last.

I don't know what the reason for this is, but whatever it is probably helps explain why, while there are many items that history has ported seamlessly from the male to the female wardrobe – trousers, business suits – there has been very little travel in the other direction (jewellery does seem to be migrating that way, a bit). One could fall back on some reductionist drivel about male insecurity, I suppose.

All that said, and acknowledging how slippery this terrain is, I do think there is masculine style. Without trying to be

There are many items history has ported from the male to the female wardrobe but very little travel in the other direction even approximately comprehensive, I think that when we praise an outfit as masculine, we are talking about at least four things.

Masculine style is understated, rewarding a close look but not demanding one. It is traditionalist, up to a point — sharp without ever being too au courant. And it leans on materials that have a certain amount of texture, body and weight, which harmonise with the fact that men are (mostly) the meatier of the sexes.

Finally, to take up Sontag's point, a really good masculine style is flavoured with a touch of the opposite of all of these things. It always has a little something feminine mixed in with it. It is this bit that gives interest and creates an aura of easy confidence – of manliness, in short. Think, for vivid examples of this, of Roger Moore's very pretty Bond, or the young Elvis.

The point is not that men must have a masculine style, or that women mustn't. Happily, we have moved beyond that as a civilisation. The point is that there is a masculine aesthetic, and while it is elusive, it's meaningful and attractive, and can be part of everyone's arsenal.

Anyone who pays attention to these things doesn't need to be told that this is so. What is interesting is how and why it is so, given that it's a moving target, and after three or four generations during which the lines have been blurred and redrawn.

Scripted skits take over fashion feeds

Trends | Influencers are attracting audiences and brands with comedy sketches. But what happens when the joke runs its course? By Kati Chitrakorn

ngeliqué's videos often begin with a sneer.

Angeliqué, who only goes by her first name, appears to be a sales assistant. She

can be seen on TikTok and Instagram speaking in a thick French accent while simultaneously grimacing and pushing her black chin-grazing bob behind her ears. "Zerr is only one left in zeu staure" is the kind of thing she would say smugly in an exaggerated French accent, when asked if a style is available in store in additional sizes.

The catch is that Angeliqué does not actually work in retail, nor is she real. She is a recurring skit character created by Mouhamed Niane, who in April began portraying a pretentious salesperson in Paris, where he is based.

This isn't his first trending character. When Niane first joined TikTok in 2020, he created viral videos humorously

Niane's skits, which feature Angeliqué at an upscale boutique, aim to poke fun at luxury fashion's elitism

imitating Lebanese accents, French-Arabic code-switching, and the private school social behaviours that he encountered while growing up. (Niane is Senegalese, but was born and raised in Syria and Lebanon, before moving to France.)

Niane's skits, which feature Angelique reluctantly picking up shifts at a fictional upscale boutique and asserting dominance over those around her, aim to poke fun at the elitist nature of luxury fashion. It's a world that Niane is immersed in as a high-fashion model. His most watched-comedic videos have amassed millions of views online.

Niane – whose affable demeanour is nothing like his character, Angeliqué – says the idea was born out of a Halloween costume. “I had this wig lying around. So I thought, why not play around with it? I put it on, set up my camera and this character just took over me,” he says. “I didn’t even think people would really like it, but they did, so I decided to give the character a story and kept making these skits.”

Niane is among a wave of content creators whose character skits have taken off on social platforms like Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. See, for example, quirky personalities like "Gstaad Guy", the online persona parodying the lives of the ultra-wealthy, or "Bus Aunty", as Bemi Orojuogun, a London-based nurse, has been affectionately dubbed for her joyful videos featuring London's red double-decker buses.

These creators mark a shift away from the photo “dumps”, tutorials or unboxing videos that have historically dominated fashion and beauty social feeds. Their burst of online stardom has enabled them to swiftly work their way up fashion’s exclusive ranks and sign paid partnerships with big brands. On, and Axel Arigato are among those that have collaborated with Niane on marketing campaigns in recent months. Bus Aunty starred in Burberry’s “Back to the City” campaign in August 2025, while Gstaad Guy is an ambassador for Loro Piana and Bentley.

"Scripted skits are the best of Instagram. [These are] creators that people feel genuinely connected to, playing characters they love and come back to like a show," says Eva Chen, vice-president of fashion partnerships at Meta.

Some creators have taken the notion of a repeatable format further by creating scripted shows. Millions of followers tune into "Subway Takes," the internet talk show co-founded in 2023 by Kareem Rahma. The premise is that Rahma rides the New York City Subway and asks his guest, "So, what's your take?" prompting them to share a strong, weird or funny opinion. Sometimes his companion is a Hollywood celebrity such as Cate Blanchett; other times they're fashion industry insiders like model Alex Consani or Alexa Chung.

Clockwise from main: Guests at Milan fashion week; Mouhamed Niane as 'Angelique'; Dylan Kelly, creator of the 'Walk With Me' social media series, at an event launch for eBay in March, New York; 'Gstaad Guy', who parodies the lives of the ultra-wealthy, is an ambassador for Loro Piana and Bentley; Kareem Rahma, host of 'Subway Takes', with Charlize Theron Getty Images, GC Images

Elsewhere, former writer Dylan Kelly pivoted his career into content creation with his viral “Walk With Me” social media series. Launched in summer 2025, the videos show Kelly walking down city streets while talking directly to the camera and offering fashion history titbits.

By early 2026, the format had evolved to include guests such as Tommy Hilfiger, Lily Allen, and stylist and fashion editor Carine Roitfeld sharing personal style anecdotes with Kelly.

"When Instagram first came out, it was exciting because it felt so authentic and fun," observes Peter Knell, who previously worked for IMG and ITB Worldwide before founding Knell, a business development and partnerships agency specialising in talent and brand deals. But over time, the editorial voice of magazines – and increasingly influencers – became heavily watered down online, driven by the pressures of keeping advertisers happy and satisfying algorithmic demands, he says. While scripted personalities or scenarios are by their definition manufactured, there is still a "comfortable familiarity" about them, says Knell. "You still feel close to them through the format."

Parallels can be drawn with reality television, where familiar formats offer viewers a low-stress way to relax. In Chen's view, young people simply want to be entertained. "Where TV used to be a 'must-see', now it's video on Instagram," she says. Instagram began testing a new "Series" feature this summer that allows users to group their video posts into episodic collections on their profiles. By turning what would be separate clips into numbered episodes, the goal is to bring audiences back repeatedly and build stronger viewing habits by "making it easier to follow along," says Chen, as if one is binge-watching a Netflix series.

H&M's global art director and social creator Johan Mott says he took inspiration from Saturday Night Live, the US comedy series that led him to commission Niane. Throughout August and September, Niane created a series of skits portraying Angeliqué working shifts at its flagship store in Paris' Le Marais – a different approach to H&M's usual way of working with influencers to explicitly promote a product. "We're very aware that on TikTok or Instagram, we're competing with cat videos and [other viral content] like the grandma who opens a Coke bottle that explodes," says Mott. "In fashion, things tend to get too serious sometimes, especially nowadays when everything is polarising. By injecting humour, I think that makes it more relatable. It doesn't feel like an ad."

But what happens when the joke runs its course? Sabrina Bahsoon, aka Tube Girl, captivated millions by dancing confidently on the London Underground. Jools Lebron dominated global vernacular with the satirical catch-phrase "very demure, very mindful". At their height, Bahsoon attended fashion weeks and collaborated with brands like Valentino, Tiffany & Co and Hugo Boss, while Lebron cashed in deals with Verizon, Lyft and Netflix. (According to Lebron, her individual sponsorships brought in tens of thousands of dollars per post, with her highest offer reaching up to \$85,000.) However, interest in both creators has been declining due to factors including audience fatigue. Both influencers have also spoken about mental health struggles from the intense online scrutiny.

With the lifespan of an internet celebrity shorter than ever, long-term sustainability has become the ultimate challenge in the creator economy. The snoty Angeliqué still generates plenty of laughs – and positive engagement, according to H&M – but Niane feels the pressure to stay relevant and is evaluating his next moves: "The idea of Angeliqué just snowballed and I've been working nonstop. But I do worry that it might just one day be over."

Niane's adaptability might see him through. "Even if Angeliqué fizzles out, it doesn't matter. I don't want to drag her too far," he says. "For now, I'm enjoying the moment, but I'm also thinking of my next character. I'll keep reinventing myself."

The world's best indie glasses makers

Accessories | Eyewear specialists are creating one-off frames to suit the quirks, asymmetries and idiosyncrasies of each individual face. By Jack Stanley

Earlier this year, eyewear label Cubitts opened a new headquarters behind King's Cross in London. Named The Yard, this is more than just an

office, with space for manufacturing eyewear and training a new generation of makers. At its heart is a “bespoke consultation room” where clients can work with the Cubitts team to commission a unique frame.

"We're trying to grow our made-to-measure and bespoke capacity tenfold," says Tom Broughton, the brand's founder. "Currently, we're making thousands a year, but the plan is The Yard will make tens of thousands."

Cubitts is an established player in the eyewear industry, with 18 shops across the UK and outposts in New York. Bespoke glasses, more generally, are the domain of smaller outfits. Across the world, the process of designing and making eyewear as if it were a tailored

suit is being upheld by a few designers and opticians. Some of them have been doing this for generations; others are self-taught and just getting started.

The bespoke service usually begins with an in-depth consultation and an exhaustive range of measurements. The client will be involved in every aspect of the lengthy – and costly – process, deciding on everything from material and shape to engravings and hinge placements.

Maison Bonnet is the grande dame of bespoke eyewear, with almost a century of history and a store in Paris's 1st arrondissement. It has made glasses for Le Corbusier, Yves Saint Laurent, Audrey Hepburn and Brad Pitt. Nowadays, the company is led by Franck Bonnet, the fourth generation to run the business, who works with his brothers Steven and John.

"We do one frame for one face," Bonnet says. "We need a face to inspire us." The first meeting takes an hour and a half, and is as much a conversation as it is an eye exam; the team asking questions while they watch how your body moves and shifts. "We all have asymmetries," Bonnet continues. "Most often, we notice it more on your eyebrow. One eyebrow is slightly higher than the other one. You'll find the same thing on the ears, on the shoulders and so on." Almost reflexively, Bonnet begins analysing my face and the glasses I'm wearing. "The shape is not bad," says Bonnet. "But it's not very straight."

Maison Bonnet frames begin at €1,700 for bio-acetate. Different materials cost more, with buffalo horn starting at €2,400 and tortoise-shell at €10,000 (using pre-existing stocks from turtles that have died from natural causes), then add-ons and adjustments each bring their own cost. For Bonnet, focusing on the price misses the point. "The real question is what is the value of the object you will wear for 15 or 16 hours a day, in the very centre of your face?"

EB Meyrowitz was founded in London in 1875, eventually expanding to open branches in New York and Paris. By the 1960s, the company had faltered and it was split up. The manufacturing side closed down. In 1993, Sheel Davison-Lungley was working at EB Meyrowitz when she had the opportunity to purchase the London company.

"She loved the brand, but had become a bit disillusioned by what it had become," says her son Jamie, who now runs the company with her and serves as creative director.

Under the Davison-Lungleys, bespoke has become an important part of EB Meyrowitz once more. "We have more variance in our faces – nose width, eye width, head structure – than any other part of our body," says Jamie. "Yet spectacles are mass-produced and only conform to a few different sizes."

Having a pair of glasses made by EB Meyrowitz is a decidedly British experience, and begins at its Royal Arcade store on Old Bond Street. "We always start with a good chat," Jamie explains. "We try to understand the lifestyle, what they're looking for from an aesthetic point of view, their facial geometry and how we're going to translate that vision." Then, the customer's decisions begin, including the extensive array of luxury materials that EB Meyrowitz is known for. "Acetate, buffalo horn, real tortoise-shell are the three main materials," says Jamie, "but we also make in exotic wood . . . and we're about to work with fossilised coral." Prices start at £2,500, while rare materials can begin at £8,000.

Not all bespoke eyewear companies trade in the old-school luxury and heritage of Maison Bonnet and EB Meyrowitz. Ransome Optical sits close to Hampstead Heath and is a relative newcomer, having opened in 2024. Founded by Jack Ransome Lupton, a qualified optometrist and self-taught glasses maker, the company has collaborated with menswear store Drake's and made frames for the late artist David Hockney. "We're the only optician in the UK that makes frames and does eye tests on site," Lupton says. "What we're doing is not actually novel, it's just revisiting the way that opticians used to be."

All of Lupton's frames are made by hand on site. "It might not look like the most perfect frame you see on a shelf, but that's because it's made by hand and cut with a saw," he says. "I think that's a really beautiful part of the process. In this era when everything is factory produced, it's cool to see something that isn't. If you're always striving towards making the perfect frame, then you end up losing that beauty." Ransome bespoke, handmade acetate glasses cost a flat £700 (buffalo horn is more expensive). "If you make it too exclusive, it's not appealing," Lupton adds.

Ransome isn't the only label doing bespoke differently. Ahlem was founded in 2014 in Los Angeles by Ahlem Manai-Platt and initially didn't offer a one-of-one service. When regular customer LeBron James asked for a custom pair of glasses, Manai-Platt realised there was a market. "If we could create one-of-one for LeBron, we could create it for anyone," she says. The process begins with a consultation with Manai-Platt, allowing her to see your face up close. "When we talk, I'm already sketching," she says. "I can see you, how you talk, how you laugh, how that one eye is going up."

Ahlem bespoke glasses begin at \$4,500, a price that reflects the label's work with craftspeople who have been awarded the prestigious Meilleur Ouvrier de France. "Of course there is a price tag to it, there is a time tag to it," Manai-Platt says. The personalisation at Ahlem extends beyond just shape and fit. "I design just for you, I will never repeat it, I will never go close to it," she says, mentioning a client in New York who wanted the entire frame carved to look like vines. Nowadays, Ahlem has ateliers in Paris, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Glasses from In Barberia come in Italian or Japanese acetate and buffalo horn. As with other bespoke framemakers, there are two types of In Barberia customer: those who like how the glasses look and those who aren't served by conventional eyewear shapes and sizes. "We have customers who couldn't find frames," Andreoni says. "So there is also a technical problem to solve, the length of the arms, the width of the frame." As Bonnet says, bespoke "sometimes it's not luxury, it's a need".

The desire for bespoke glasses extends beyond the traditional fashion capitals. In Bangkok, Chaiwat Wattananukit founded his eyewear label GIMM in 2013 after working as a jewellery designer. With GIMM, Wattananukit introduces a "gimmick" to each frame, a small detail that separates it from the everyday. This could be almost anything, from added extras that can be clipped on and taken off to an unexpected mix of materials or exaggerated proportions and asymmetric details. "Every person is different, and I enjoy creating something that belongs uniquely to that person," says Wattananukit.

In Venice, In Barberia has been making bespoke eyewear since 1980. The company has become a tourist attraction, with a craftsman carving frames in the shop window. "It's interesting for people to see the many processes that you need to make a frame," says co-founder Marco Andreoni. "People can understand how long it takes, so it justifies the investment when they buy a frame from us."

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With a bespoke client, Wattananukit has the time to focus on every aspect of the frame. "It's not just about making a pair of glasses, it's about choosing the material, shaping the design, and working through every small detail by hand. I enjoy the process of turning an idea into something that can be worn every day and, hopefully, kept for years. Bespoke work gives me the freedom to

Above: Jack Ransome Lupton of Ransome Optical in London

From far left: Franck (left) and Steven Bonnet outside their Paris store; Ahlem Manai-Platt in the brand's Paris store; Antonio Battaglia, co-founder of Venice's In Barberia — Alex Crohry-Systemmans; Mickall A Bandassale; Hadrien Jean-Richard

make things that would be difficult or impossible to produce in a mass-production environment."

It might seem strange to spend hundreds or even thousands of pounds on a pair of glasses, and to wait for the best part of a year until you can use them. But you'll also know that they have been made exactly for your measurements and for every idiosyncrasy of your face. It's for this reason that their makers think they are worth the investment.

Below, from left: a workshop at Maison Bonnet; Yves Saint Laurent in his Maison Bonnet glasses in 1982 — John Downing/Getty Images

Above: glasses by Maison Bonnet, Cubitts, Maison Bonnet, GIMM

"People put up with things with their glasses that they wouldn't tolerate with clothes or shoes," says Bonnet. "At some point, they come to bespoke, because when you have to wear glasses from day to night every day of your life, comfort and aesthetics aren't just details."

Travel

Flavours of the far west

Ireland | Scattered along a rugged coastline, the rural villages of West Cork have become an

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hef Mark Jennings is rolling out dough for croissants in the basement kitchen of Harnen, a new bakery, café and grocer in the pocket-

unlikely gourmet hub. Kate Maxwell sets out on a food trail created by a pioneering new hotel

sized West Cork village of Leap. Thick and grainy, the dough looks more like tweed than the silky sheets I've previously seen folded into croissants. When I ask why, Mark explains that Irish wheat is low in gluten, which is what gives dough its elasticity. "I love using native flour for its flavour and low carbon footprint," he smiles, "but my life would be a lot easier if I didn't."

Harnen is my first stop on a food itinerary that's been organised by Didi Ronan, co-owner with her husband Simon of Native, a small new hotel in the rainbow-coloured coastal village of Ballydehob, 24km west of Leap. At first sight, this far-flung region, an hour and a half's drive from Cork airport, with its fuchsia-spangled hedgerows and wildly zigzagging coastline, seems like an unlikely location for a gourmet enclave. But it's West Cork's remoteness and unspoilt natural beauty that drew the forebears of the local producers, makers and restaurants in Didi's black book in the first place.

These “blow-ins” started migrating to West Cork from Dublin, England, Germany, Scandinavia and the Netherlands in the 1960s. Bohemians in search of an alternative, less commercial lifestyle, they set up arts and crafts studios and helped to pioneer Ireland’s organic movement. A little more than a century earlier, the region had been devastated by the Great Famine, losing almost half its population to starvation, disease and migration, and these innovative, community-minded incomers were welcomed with open arms.

Upstairs at Harnen, I admire the grocery table laden with tomatillos, chillies and padrón peppers grown by Mark's wife Sadie and tuck into a slice of sublime carrot cake. As I leave the unassuming whitewashed building with its red corrugated-iron roof, I wonder whether Paul Mescal or Saoirse Ronan, two of West Cork's more recent blow-ins, have popped in for a pastry – both own houses nearby and are often spotted in the area.

I meet Didi in the candlelit, book-filled reception of Native. The hotel, in a restored 19th-century farmhouse is the couple's first hotel project. Didi previously worked as an economist, diplomat and "chief of staff" to Bono, while Simon, who'd dreamt of moving to West Cork since the age of 12 when he read John Seymour's The Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency, is a landscape architect.

There are three guest bedrooms in the main house and two cabins (plus three

Above from left: Samuel Keane and Jen Doran foraging; the coast near Ballydehob; Clovis Ferguson at Gubbeen farm; cheeses made on the farm

Below: one of Native's garden suites; tables outside the hotel Zoe Ardiff, Max Jones

more cabins due to open before the end of the year, one with its own sauna). Hidden behind banks of grasses dotted with Rudbeckia and anemone flowers, my cabin, built from local Douglas fir, oak, lime and hemp, is what Didi describes as "Irish vernacular" in style; a deliberate departure, she says, from the "big, old colonial country house hotels" that travellers tend to associate with luxury hospitality here.

Inside is vintage mid-century furniture by Irish manufacturer Crannac. The shower room's basin is by local ceramicist Simon Kidd, and the amenities are deliberately analogue: a Roberts radio instead of a television or Bluetooth speaker; a kettle and a Chemex rather than a coffee machine.

Once I've unpacked, Didi sends me off to my next appointment, a seaweed-and-herb foraging mission on a sandy bay just east of the village of Schull, where the Fastnet Film Festival takes place each May.

"I love the idea of the intertidal zone, which no one can own," says Samuel Keane, the seaweed half of the operation, as we drink hedgerow tea, a delicious hawthorn berry, nettle and rose petal concoction brewed by his foraging partner, herbalist Jen Doran. "When the tide is out, you have a six-hour, 12-minute window of opportunity to connect with it in any way you wish."

The seaside bounty we gather includes miorânach seaweed (good for the skin when steeped in a hot bath); rock samphire, which tastes much more peppery than the regular variety, and carrageen moss, used as a traditional remedy for colds. Above the beach, Jen introduces me to slân-lus, known as the “health herb” and used to dress wounds, and silver-backed meadowsweet leaves, which she makes into a soothing balm. She’s brought a bottle with her, and I slather the almond-scented oil on my face and hands. As we part, Samuel nods approvingly when I say I’m eating at Baba’de in the harbour village of Baltimore that evening – he’s foraged with its chefs.

Baltimore has a more grown-up air than the other West Cork villages I've visited so far, and the restaurant scene feels a little more evolved, too: the jewel in its crown, Dede, has two Michelin stars. Baba'de is its casual sister restaurant: it has sheepskins draped over chairs and a Turkish-Irish small-plate menu that draws on the heritage of Ankara-born chef Ahmet Dede.

My haddock lakarde (cured haddock with seaweed dashi) and oyster mushroom shawarma, made with foraged mushrooms, are multi-textured and complex in flavour. The warm rice pudding, with hazelnuts and brown butter ice cream, is so deliciously comforting, a customer once ordered it as a starter after a stressful day.

Breakfast at Native, served Scandi-style alongside flickering candles and a wood-burning stove, is a roll-call of West Cork producers: ham from Walsh's farm and butcher in Skibbereen, eggs from an organic farm in Baltimore. But it's the washed-rind Gubbeen cheeses I'm most interested in, because the family business that makes them is the next stop on my tour.

"I'm cotton-mouthed today," Fingal Ferguson tells me when I find him in his workshop on the 250-acre Gubbeen farm, where he makes cheese with his parents and sister Clovis. His Negroni hangover does nothing to curb his garrulousness, however: he's soon recounting the advice the postman gave him for conceiving a girl after four sons. Whether he took it is unclear; either way, a daughter materialised.

Fingal and Clovis's (fourth-generation) dairy farmer father Tom and mother Giana, who grew up in Spain, met in Ballydehob in the 1960s. The farm's milk had previously been sent to the local creamery co-op to be used in Baileys Irish Cream liqueur, but the couple decided to try to make cheese from it instead.

Today, Gubbeen has 20 staff and produces around 1,500 semi-soft and smoked cheeses a week. We find Giana applying stickers to hand-wrapped "Baby Gubbeen" cheeses in the dairy when Clovis gives me a tour, and I happily help myself to my second wedge of the day. Inspired by Giana's Spanish upbringing, the Fergusons also produce salami and chorizo, while Fingal's side hustle is knife-making (his blades are so sought-after he releases them online in limited drops).

I spend the afternoon exploring the spectacular coastline of the Wild Atlantic Way, pausing at Altar Wedge Tomb, one of a dozen hefty Stone Age structures in the area, and stopping for a gigantic crab sandwich at O'Sullivan in Crookhaven, which claims to offer the most southerly pint in Ireland. When

the bartender catches me gazing at my neighbour's chowder, he brings me a bowl of that, too — on the house.

I pass several ravishing beaches on my drive, including Barley Cove, a broad sweep of sand between the headlands of the Mizen Peninsula, and stop for an invigorating Atlantic swim at Ballyrisode. It's Friday afternoon and half a dozen people are enjoying the sunshine on the powdery white sand beach and splashing in the chilly water. I skip the Heat Shack sauna (there's one waiting for me back at Native) and as I walk back to the car, I see a man piling two buckets of seaweed into his boot.

My last evening begins with dinner at Chestnut in Ballydehob, a Michelin-starred seafood restaurant in a former pub. With its deep green walls and minimal furniture, the two-room, eight-table space reminds me of restaurants I've eaten at in Copenhagen — I spot the cookbooks of two on a shelf. Every dish on the four-course tasting menu, served on earthenware pottery by Belgian émigré Anke Barrett, looks and tastes exquisite. My favourite is a slab of wild halibut with butter and chive sauce, dotted with orange trout roe that bursts in the mouth like savoury popping candy.

A few doors down is Levis Corner House, a Ballydehob institution. Managed by sisters Julia and Nell for over 50 years (they died aged 96 and 104 respectively), it's now run by their great-nephew Joe O'Leary and his partner Caroline O'Donnell. The diminutive pub's cash-only policy hasn't changed since they took the reins, nor have its maximalist interiors – there's a skeleton in one corner, bunting strung across the ceiling, oil paintings and children's drawings, a shelf of ancient cereal boxes from when the pub doubled as a grocer.

The couple have, however, introduced food trucks in the summer, a weekly market and regular gigs. I'm lucky enough to catch local acoustic guitarist Molly O'Mahoney and husband-and-wife band Driven Snow, accomplished yet self-deprecating musicians and storytellers who have the rapt crowd of just 40 veering between laughter and tears. The combination of the retro decor and the fact that not a single iPhone is raised makes me feel as if I've time-travelled.

On my way back to Cork airport, I drop by the village of Skibbereen, where a food market takes place every Saturday morning and I find several of the family businesses whose food I've been enjoying. The Gubbeen stall is mobbed with locals stocking up on cheese and cured meat, but I manage to snag the last bottle of Clovis's homemade rose-and-fig kombucha.

At Lisheen Greens, I meet Dee McElligott, who moved from London's Elephant & Castle to West Cork with her Kiwi husband nine years ago. "We'd never grown a seed before," Dee tells me, "but we asked ourselves: what's the worst that can happen?" I imagine the trailblazing blow-ins asking themselves much the same thing. There may be Hollywood actors and Michelin stars here now, but 60 years later the principle that guided those settlers - to build a life that was sustainable in every sense - is still alive and well.

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Kate Maxwell was a guest of Native (native.ie) and Tourism Ireland (tourismireland.com). Doubles at Native cost from €250, including breakfast and sauna. Bespoke itineraries with visits to producers and makers around West Cork cost €250 per day, or guests can follow the hotel's new self-guided Native Food Trail


From left: Terreno Barrio's main bar and a deluxe suite with balcony

KEY NOTES

TERRENO BARRIO, PALMA

What's the buzz? El Terreno has always had bohemian cachet. This western district of Palma de Mallorca was first known as an enclave for creatives in the 18th century when the Romantics fell for its charms, but everyone from Gertrude Stein to Jimi Hendrix has spent time here. From the mid-20th century it became the chic place to party, before going into serious decline in the 1980s and 1990s. Now it's back and better than ever thanks to thoughtful regeneration, in the same way Le Marais has been reinvented in Paris.

The Terreno Barrio is the latest addition to the scene, a 41-bedroom hotel made up of two buildings. On one side is a renovated 1935 apartment block designed by Francesc Casas, a Mallorcan pioneer of rationalist architecture. On the other is a new seven-storey, cork-clad extension by Ohlab, an award-winning local design studio. Built of cross-laminated timber according to Passivhaus principles,

it's sophisticated and sustainable.

Calling your place the Terreno "neighbourhood" hotel might seem presumptuous: surely that's up to the locals to decide? But Ohlab has truly considered the residents. Its design creates a new communal area between the two buildings which is open to the public and provides a much-needed direct route down to the sea.

Location, location, location El Terreno's ornate colonial-style villas sit next to traditional sandstone buildings and modernist blocks. Even when drug culture and crime hollowed out the area, these good bones made it a perfect candidate for regeneration and in 2018, the Fluxà family (owners of Camper shoes and the Iberostar hotel group) funded a big gentrification project, renovating property and adding new buildings which are now full of chic bakeries, fashionable bars, art galleries and designers' studios.

The marina has also been revamped with a new coastal cycle and walking path linking El Terreno directly to the city centre. Add in the glorious bay of Palma on one side and the 14th-century Bellver Castle in its pine forest atop the Puig de Sa Mesquida on the other, and El Terreno is a perfect base for a stay.

Checking in A long scarlet ramp connects the old building's entrance to the open-plan ground floor. Once you're in, you're in: the reception desk doubles as the counter for the well-stocked bar and this morphs into Destape, the hotel's restaurant. There's a 34-metre-long curtain made of wool, silk and cotton ropes, handcrafted by local artist Sylvia Sánchez Montoya, while old-school red velvet drapes partition areas of the multipurpose space, adding warmth and structure. Downstairs, behind an unmarked door in the hotel basement, there's an intimate bar and nightclub called Dos Rombos — a nod to the Spanish symbol for an X-rated film.

The bedrooms are playfully decorated in bright colours but are also seriously comfortable. Ohlab worked hard to source locally made furniture and it's paid off: the look is modern and quirky, and these are clearly not the sort of standard sofas and units you'd get from international suppliers.

My room came with a spacious balcony, including an outdoor bath – de rigueur in new hotels at the moment but which, in this case, I don't think will get much use as it's so overlooked by surrounding buildings.

The spa and gym are compact, but there's a great sauna and cold plunge pool, an outside workout area and a studio full of Technogym equipment. A co-work space and basement screening room complete the impressive facilities.

What to do? Head up to Bellver Castle – the hill's not that steep, the forest is peaceful and the view from the top is well worth it. Alternatively, the hotel offers electric bikes if you want to take the new cycle path into Palma's historic centre to check out the shops and galleries or visit the Cathedral of Santa Maria. La Seu, as it's more usually known, is a gothic masterpiece with a crown of flying buttresses; construction began in 1229 but wasn't completed until the early 17th century.

Or, if money's no object, head to the marina and charter a solar-powered, 50ft version of a llaït, a traditional Balearic boat, from Samar Yachts (half day from €2,200, including captain, for up to 12 people).

What about the food? Gabriel Conti, the chef at Destape, is renowned locally for Mombo, a tapas restaurant on Paseo Mallorca which you should also visit while you're in Palma. Destape's menu focuses on open-grill cooking, local produce and Mediterranean

dishes. I liked the crispy suckling pig small plate at Destape so much I ordered it again at Mombo the following night. For mains, the grilled turbot with escalivada vegetables (a slow-roasted Catalan dish) is literally fit for a king: Felipe VI of Spain chose it when he visited in the summer.

Dessert arrives with a sense of theatre. For the chocolate textures dish, a server flicks melted chocolate on to a sheet of greaseproof paper on the dining table then drizzles it with edible petals and citrus before chocolate mousse in a chocolate shell is dropped on top with a splat. If Jackson Pollock made pudding it'd be this. There was excellent cake at breakfast too, along with wonderful crispy fried eggs and iberico ham.

Other guests? Cool couples and dressed-down professionals here on business. When I stayed, most of the new timber extension was occupied by a team of photographers, stylists and models shooting a fashion campaign.

The damage Doubles cost from €280.

Elevator pitch Trendy and friendly: welcome to the neighbourhood. Alice Fisher Alice Fisher was a guest of Terreno Barrio Hotel (terrenohotel.com)

Heaven's gait

Kyrgyzstan | Led by aristocrat turned adventurer Alexandra Tolstoy, Sophy Roberts saddles up for a week's ride deep into the Celestial Mountains

n Bishkek's National Museum of Fine Arts, I'm too tired from a long flight to follow our guide unpicking the history of Kyrgyz textiles. So I

slip away into another room, where a painting jolts me out of my daze. Called "Autumn 1941", it depicts a horse tossing its nose in the air, a loose rein dangling from its head, the animal's raw, pent-up energy offset by the bony ridges of mountains painted in moody greys. It's spectacular, both the palette of the landscape and the feeling for how a horse moves.

It's September, and I've arrived in Bishkek at the start of a 180km-long trip on horseback. The plan is to drive out west to Issyk-Kul, the country's largest lake, to catch the last couple of days of the biennial World Nomad Games. Then, at the village of Bosogo, we will pick up horses to follow the At-Bashi river upstream, camping at six remote locations along the way.

The itinerary, pioneered last year by the trip's British host Alexandra Tolstoy, will take us through villages flanked by the 4,000-metre-plus peaks of the Tian

Shan, or Celestial Mountains. We'll finish at Tash Rabat, a 10th-century caravanserai 30km short of the Chinese border at the Torugart Pass.

Having driven this way 20 years ago on a backpacking journey from Xi'an to Samarkand, I'm intrigued by this little-visited region, but also, to be honest, by Tolstoy's story. A slight 53-year-old with shock-blonde hair, Tolstoy is the Dorsetborn daughter of the historian and writer Count Nikolai Tolstoy (and a distant relative of the author Leo). After a short-lived stint on the Credit Suisse graduate scheme, she set off aged 25 to travel 8,000km of the historic Silk Road on horse and camelback.

Four years later, she married the Tatar horseman who had helped guide her, and they started organising riding holidays in central Asia. Then in 2008 she met billionaire businessman Sergei Pugachev, who co-founded Mezhprombank in 1992 and who, at one point, was known as "Putin's Banker".

Tolstoy, originally hired to teach Pugachev English, switched rollmats under the stars for private jets and parties in St Barths. They had three children together and were the subject of a BBC documentary, The Countess and the Russian Billionaire, but Tolstoy's life of extreme luxury soon fell apart. The couple split, while Pugachev's high-profile falling out with the Russian state led to asset freezes and Interpol notices.

With three children to raise alone, she needed to go back to earning her own living, so in 2022, she started running riding safaris again (as well as an online lifestyle store selling clothing and homewares inspired by Russian dachas, English cottages and her travels in central Asia). When her rides, based in Sary-Chelek in western Kyrgyzstan, began filling up, she hired more staff and expanded her territory. Hence this new journey I'm taking, as one of 10 riders, three of whom are return guests.

After the museum, I have a sleepless night on a hard bed with trains rattling past our hotel – how can Tolstoy bear it, I wonder? – followed by a four-hour drive to Cholpon-Ata, a resort town beside Issyk-Kul. We visit Kyrchyn, a nearby valley where many of the nomad games are being hosted. Tolstoy says the sporting displays have been called off in

Clockwise from main: Alexandra Tolstoy (right) riding towards Tash Rabat; Tolstoy with a local horseman near the Shaar waterfall; a fan holds the Kyrgyz flag at the kok boru final; the match under way at the Nomad Games; tea and freshly baked cakes at camp; the kitchen tent and truck, with the guest tents behind. — Sophy Roberts

the mizzling rain, so I take off into the crowds alone. I get pulled into a sea of plastic ponchos. Around steaming food kiosks, people share nan bread cooked in hive-shaped tandyr ovens. I dance in the mud with locals partying beside noisy speaker systems. I talk with a Kyrgyz musician who carries a trumpet tucked under his arm.

The following day, the sun comes out for the kok boru final, comprising two teams of 12 horsemen (four from each side on the pitch at any one time) who fight over a 32kg goat carcass. A goal is scored when the carcass is slung into a raised, bucket-like pit. I find the violence hard to watch — riders yanking at metal bits; crashing, tumbling horses

- but to the Kyrgyz, kok boru is a source of immense cultural pride. When the home team's Manas Niyazov scores against Kazakhstan, cheers sweep through the stadium. "The Ronaldo of Kyrgyzstan," eulogises the commentator for the benefit of foreign tourists.

Despite all the applause and spectacle, the kok boru leaves me nervous about what kind of rider I need to be to survive this country. When we arrive at our first camp in Bosogo and I'm assigned my horse – a three-year-old piebald gelding – I'm expecting the worst. Instead, Kök-Ala turns out to be small, soft-mouthed and sure-footed. When goldfinches scatter from thickets in abundant flourishes, he doesn't spook.

Given I'm more interested in absorbing the rural nuances than passing through Kyrgyzstan at a gallop, I soon find my place at the back of our group, riding with Adil Nurdinov, one of Tolstoy's guides who is also a newly qualified vet. Tolstoy's head horseman, Aitbek Mursalev, stays up front to control the pace. Another guide, Vadim Savin, floats around the middle. This is evidently what Tolstoy excels at - sourcing fantastic horses and local talent.

Nurdinov sings as he rides. He points out a dog rose here, a frill of starry asters there, and teaches me Kyrgyzz words, which I exchange for English. He describes riding into the mountains at 10 years old to mind his father's herds. When he vaults on to his stallion in a smooth balletic sweep, his ease reminds me of another Bishkek painting I snapped on my phone – "Waves and Horses" by Al Ignatiev (1970). The impressionistic swirls of colour, the way the wind catches the horses' tails, the poise of the rider coming up from the lakeshore – Ignatyev captures a spirit as true to Kyrgyzstan then as now.

We climb to 3,000 metres, and pass a couple dismantling their yurt, the red wooden frame against the sky a stark reminder of a semi-nomadic life dictated by the seasons. The Tian Shan are on the brink of autumn. The seabuckthorn berries are plump and orange, and the last of the meadow hay is being cut and baled. When we loop back down to the plain, we meet a horseman coming the other way. He stops, shakes my hand from his saddle, pulls out his binoculars to look for his horses near the tree line, nods, takes up his reins, and rides off silently. I eventually lose sight of him between a shaft of light and the gathering dark of encroaching rain.

The next day, we ride past windowsills dressed with geraniums, gardens spilling with hollyhocks and cosmos, graves topped with Communist sickles and Muslim crescent moons, and winter stalls for animals, the hay piled high in pyramids. From November to April, this valley will be covered in snow, a change which feels hard to believe when we arrive at our second night's camp near Ozgogorush, and I explore the village on foot in a summary, golden sunlight.

Men are coming in from the fields. A child plays a game throwing sheep knucklebones into a ring chalked on the street. A family invites me into their home for a barley drink that looks like porridge. As I listen to Tolstoy translate, I notice her ease, how she plays with the children, admires the family's Belarus tractor, talks about who is abandoning village life, and who is not.

I begin to wonder if Tolstoy prefers being with the Kyrgyz than making small talk with clients over dinner. "I like the sophistications of the city," she explains, "but I couldn't live without being close to the countryside. To live in a simpler, happier way has been a lesson to me — the grounding I needed when I lost my way." Back at camp, she sits with staff as they shape pelmeni dumplings

When Niyazov scores, cheers sweep through the stadium. "The Ronaldo of Kyrgyzstan' eulogises the commentator

for dinner. She's drawn to the company of Alexandr Troschenko, who directs the camp crew; their friendship goes back over 20 years, to Tolstoy's earliest days of horse safaris.

The breakfast table is piled with thick, pillowy syrniki pancakes made with a sweet curd cheese. Picnic lunches are perfectly pitched, with tasty, Thermoswarm stews. Camp dinners start with a nourishing soup — a borscht; a tangy, salty solyanka — followed by an aromatic plov or kuurdak, a meat stew served with waxy potatoes. Meals are served under a synthetic dome tent but with pretty painted kettles and buckthorn berries thoughtfully arranged in vases, the practical and the poetic fall into a satisfying balance.

The next morning, we enjoy some fast canters until we reach Bolshevik village, where we start climbing into the mountains again. When we reach camp, a lame horse is swapped out with a local herder's. In a river pool, I strip off and wash without waiting in a queue for the shower tents and buckets of hot water. The glacial sting also sets me up for the following day, when we'll need to cover 48km by nightfall.

On our ascent to Shaar, central Asia's highest waterfall, yaks graze on alpine pastures cradled by spikes of dark green spruce. Where the waterfall cascades from a crescent of slatey rock, I strike up conversation with two young men minding their horses and wearing traditional ak-kalpak embroidered felt hats. Wolves are the predator they fear.

After the waterfall, there's a hard ride through more villages, these ones decrepit remnants of Kyrgyzstan's Soviet past. Houses prop up frail corrugated roofs. There are fewer potted geraniums on the windowsills. Broken machinery and Lada cars clog up yards. Then the valley opens into grasslands rippling with nodding seed heads. We've already covered over 40km since the morning, but there are still more than 5km to go.

We're not exactly lost but the shortcut we take isn't straightforward either, with a river to cross and a thorny woodland to cut through. It's getting dark and exhaustion is setting in when one of the horses sinks in a bog and its rider falls. I can feel the collective relief when Tro-schenko and his camp come into view.

The next day, a slow morning, a village wedding, and some long gallops in the afternoon. Where the valley starts to narrow at Kara Koyum, which we're told means "black tornado", a sharp wind picks up as if on cue. We camp near a clifftop cemetery, where I poke around mausoleums, gazing up through brick cupolas, running my fingers over walls scored with Arabic graffiti. No one can tell me how old the ruins are, but they feel like they could belong to when the early silk merchants came through. When I fall asleep, it's to the sound of the lisping river and our horses grazing.

The morning brings a shock: more than half our horses have disappeared. Since 7am, Nurdinov and his colleagues have been trying to hunt them down.

When they eventually find them, five hours later, they are 12km back down the valley. This means they've covered 24km before we've even set out for our last ride – another 30km stretch to Tash Rabat.

One of our group packs some tequila in her saddlebag to help us with the final push. Another rider worries about her horse's swollen belly. Nurdinov, who works nights as a courier in Bishkek to make ends meet, has barely had an hour's sleep because of the runaways. Once or twice, I watch him nod off in the saddle, his body slumped on his horse's neck. Only when we turn away from the river valley for the last time does a new mood kick in – a dramatic shift into a faster pace, thinner air and even more magical light as we enter a gorge flanked by black, teeth-edged crags.

I don't have the energy to take a banya in the local yurt camp where we'll sleep before our return to Bishkek. I'm filthy, bone-tired, but this ride has loosened something in me. When I turn in for bed with a last glance to the stars, not even sleeping next to a train could break this feeling of deep calm. It's the serenity which comes from falling back in time with nature, from moving through a fenceless landscape to the rhythm of a horse's gait.

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John Banville applauds this entertaining account of the life of physicist Niels Bohr – and of the quantum theory he did so much to advance

iels Bohr did not understand quantum mechanics and neither does anyone else. Indeed, the more we learn of it, the less we seem to know.

And no wonder. How can electrons behave both as particles and waves? How can two atomic particles, separated by millions of miles, act upon each other instantaneously? If you turn the blue one red, the red one will turn blue, on the spot. Such a thing is an impossibility in the Newtonian world where we live, and yet it is so, if you follow the turtles all the way down. As the great 20th-century theoretical physicist Richard Feynman remarked, "I hope you can accept Nature as she is — absurd."

Niels Bohr is not a household name in the way that Albert Einstein is, yet there are those – though his biographer Philip Ball is not among their number – who will tell you that of the two, Bohr was the greater scientist. He was certainly the more radical thinker. As Ball writes, “Bohr, more than Einstein, bridges the old world of 19th-century physics and the modern era of computers, spacecraft, nuclear power, and institutional and industrial science.”

Science, however, is not a beauty contest. The present builds on the past, the young learn from the old. Without Einstein's two papers on relativity, in 1905 and 1915-16, much of modern physics might still lie undiscovered. Isaac Newton himself, who was no shrinking violet when it came to his own worth, acknowledged: "if I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."

Bohr, born in 1885, came from a well-to-do Danish family with connections to the Carlsberg brewing company, the immense wealth of which was to help him at certain important junctures in his life. The Bohrs were such a happy lot and lived so comfortably in the world that it is a wonder young Niels survived at all. His mother was from a successful family of Jewish bankers. His father, Christian, an experimental physiologist, was nominated for the Nobel Prize; had he won, it would have been the first score in a Bohr hat-trick, for Niels won the prize in 1922, as would his son Aage in 1975.

Speaking of hat-tricks, it is interesting to learn that Niels was a keen footballer, as was his mathematician brother Harald, who played for Denmark in the 1908 Olympics. It was not all swotting.

In 1912 Bohr married Margrethe Nørlund, and yes, reader, they lived happily ever after. Ball gives Margrethe her well-earned due: “I just have to speak to my wife,” Niels would say – not, his colleagues suspected, because there

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The Man Who Broke Reality: Niels Bohr and the Making of Modern Physics by Philip Ball The Bridge Street Press £30/ Little Brown \$30 480 pages

was anything urgent he needed to convey or check out but, merely [in the words of an assistant] 'to gain from her the strength and inspiration for continuing the work."

And what work it was. Quantum theory was founded in 1900, more or less accidentally, by the German physicist Max Planck. It was he who posited that physical bodies, yours and mine included, emit energy not in smoothly flowing waves but in tiny, discrete packets, or "quanta", like a stream of unimaginably minute bullets. The trouble was, the waves would not go away, and eventually it had to be accepted that at the atomic level, objects behave both as particles and waves. Go figure, but don't expect to understand it. (See Feynman et al.)

Needless to say, many scientists were chary of the new theory, with its indivisible quanta or packets of energy and its sacrifice of certainty in favour of probability – notions which prompted Einstein's famous remark that "God does not play dice with the world." Bohr, however, was much more receptive to novel ideas, though even he acknowledged that the quantum view of reality was extremely difficult to comprehend, never mind accept.

It is surprising to learn that Bohr was not a first-rate mathematician, being less interested in the numbers than in the linguistic challenges presented by quantum theory. Unlike his younger colleague Werner Heisenberg, who declared himself to be in pursuit of "complete precision, [which] can be achieved only by means of mathematical abstraction", Bohr was an antidogmatist. As he once wrote, in a passage cited by Ball in an earlier book, Beyond Weird: "There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quan-

Bohr, along with Einstein, worked hard to warn the world of the peril it had put itself in with the invention of nuclear weapons

tum physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature."

Bohr's greatest achievement was the development, along with Heisenberg, Max Born and a few others, of what has come to be known as the Copenhagen Interpretation. This recognised for the first time – or perhaps “proposed” is a safer way to put it – that human agency has an effect on the nature of things at the atomic level. Bohr's theory holds that before the observer trains an instrument upon it, a particle exists in multiple potential states; in other words, there is no definite “state of affairs” until we – we – bring it about by observation and measurement. We look, and something that was not there suddenly is there.

This was one of the aspects of quantum theory in general and of the Copenhagen Interpretation in particular that made Einstein – among others – deeply suspicious. Indeed, Einstein had always found it questionable that reality should obey so readily the rules of a discipline – mathematics – not bestowed on us by the gods but invented by human beings. Now here was a new theory that seemed to say directly that it is we who “invent” the world, in the same way that, as the American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson observed in his essay “Experience” (1844), “it is the eye which makes the horizon”.

All these fascinatingly entangled conundrums recede some way into the shadows when, in the second half of Ball's narrative, we come to the practical applications of quantum theory. In July 1941 a secret committee of UK scientists issued a report on the progress towards the manufacture of an atomic bomb. Within two years, the report coolly stated, "it will be possible to make an effective uranium bomb which, containing some 25lb of active material, would be equivalent as regards destructive effect to 1,800 tons of TNT and would also release large quantities of radioactive substances".

None of this would have been possible without the invention, or discovery, of quantum mechanics. Understanding the fundamental physics of the atomic nucleus through quantum theory was essential for calculating how to design and control nuclear reactions. Nature at her foundations might be absurd, as Feynman remarked, but she packs a terrible punch.

Bohr, along with Einstein, worked tirelessly to warn the world of the peril it had put itself in with the invention of nuclear weapons. In this context, it is well that Ball should remind us that although "they laid some of the conceptual foundations", the "two most prominent physicists of the mid-20th century, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, played no substantial role in building the atomic bomb". That onerous task was left to others.

Bohr lived a long and immensely rich life. One has only to glance at the headings of the later chapters of this biography to have a notion of the breadth and consequence of his activities: 'Fission: The Dawn of Atomic Energy'; 'A Dangerous Occupation: Copenhagen under the Nazis'; 'A Great God: Bohr and the Arms Race'; 'The Statesman of Physics: Bohr in the World'.

Margrethe was with him to the end. In November 1962, having attended a meeting of the Danish Royal Academy of Sciences in Copenhagen, he took to his bed, complaining of a headache. "Hearing him call her name, Margrethe rushed upstairs to find him unconscious next to his bed. He did not wake up again."

The Man Who Broke Reality is comprehensive, authoritative and shrewd, and, like all of Philip Ball's books, as entertaining as it is enlightening.

John Banville is a novelist, playwright and screenwriter. His most recent novel is 'Venetian Vespers' (Faber/Vintage)

Putin's human bargaining chip

Evan Gershkovich's prison memoir echoes those of the Soviet era. By Howard Amos

fter his release from a Russian jail in a cold war-style prisoner exchange in August 2024, the US journalist-turned-celebrity prisoner Evan Gershkovich shunned the limelight. He did not speak to the media and wrote just a few articles. More than two years later, the publication of his captivating memoir This Cursed Beautiful Land marks his return to the public eye.

Gershkovich's retelling of his life story (he is only 34) begins with his childhood in New Jersey, where he spoke Russian with his Soviet emigrant parents. In his mid-twenties, he moved to Moscow to be a reporter, rediscovering his family roots and falling in love with Russia.

His approach to journalism was traditional, even old-fashioned (“I viewed myself as an observer to history”) and when the Kremlin launched its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, he was among the few English-language journalists to remain inside Russia, “charging ahead” with reporting for The Wall Street Journal despite the spiralling risks.

At the time, Gershkovich was critical of foreign journalists who moderated their approach in order to avoid falling foul of the Kremlin. "If you stop yourself, then what's the point of being here? That's self-censorship," he told a concerned editor. Being one of a select few still reporting from Russia, he admits, was also "intoxicating".

On a trip outside Moscow in 2023, he visited a mercenary recruiting centre, doorstepped relatives of dead soldiers and loitered outside arms factories to count those going in and out. Returning a few weeks later to meet a defence plant

Evan Gershkovich at a court hearing in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on June 26 2024, after being accused of espionage Getty Images

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union representative who had promised him “state secrets”, he was arrested on fabricated espionage charges. The representative had been co-operating with the Federal Security Service (FSB).

Once behind bars, the young American became a bargaining chip for President Vladimir Putin, who was seeking to extricate Russian spies from western jails. Gershkovich eventually concludes that Putin (unlike senior FSB officers) genuinely believed he was a spy.

While Gershkovich's political importance meant his prison experience was privileged and far from typical, he was nonetheless afforded a rare glimpse into a brutal and secretive system. He uses his prison diary to evoke the sights, smells and routines of Russia's jails with gut-wrenching precision.

Gershkovich spent 16 months in Russian prisons and detention centres (he was sentenced to 16 years) before being released in the prisoner swap and flown to the US, where he was met on the tarmac by then-President Joe Biden.

Incarceration provided time for reflection. He also re-litigated past decisions (he wonders if his "ego" wanted him to get arrested, but takes comfort in a quote from writer Sergei Dovlatov that "no Russian intellectual who hasn't been in prison is worth a damn"). And he describes the "cleaving" of his personality as his Russian identity (he was Vanya to Russian-speakers) squeezed out his American one.

At heart, Gershkovich's book is a prison memoir – and this is where it is most powerful. His portraits of prison guards, FSB agents, investigators, bailiffs, prosecutors, informants, lawyers and inmates are empathetic, revealing and sometimes moving.

“Athletes, bandits, soldiers – we’re all one type,” an FSB investigator tells him. “We obey orders and don’t think too much about them.” One operative asks: “Is everyone gay in America?” And a prison official seeks an “honest” answer to the question: “Do you respect Putin?” Some of these people see Gershkovich as the enemy, others are indifferent or even sympathetic. When one guard with a recording device on his chest says goodbye to Gershkovich, he mouths “good luck” and raises his fist.

The descriptions of his fellow inmates are particularly compelling. The reader is introduced to his tattooed cellmate, Seryoga, for whom he develops a deep fondness. Another cellmate, the 20-year-old neo-Nazi Nikita, is later killed in Ukraine. In one prison, Gershkovich can stick his head out of the feeding hatch at night and converse with political prisoners in neighbouring cells who include victims of torture, Muslims accused of terrorism, soldiers who refused to fight in Ukraine, and opponents of the war. "Talking to them felt like hearing the pleas of misery from the belly of the Russian dictatorship."

This Cursed Beautiful Land echoes Soviet-era prison memoirs in casting Russia's sprawling penitentiary system as a window on to the country as a whole: its politics, social mores, culture and even language. In Putin's increasingly authoritarian Russia, this approach is once again deeply apposite. "I was looking at a microcosm of what Russia had become," Gershkovich writes of his high-security Moscow prison. "A place where the trappings of modernity disguised stubborn old roots underneath."

Howard Amos is author of 'Russia Starts Here: Real Lives in the Ruins of Empire' (Bloomsbury Continuum)

Up in arms

How Germany's embrace of military power could reawaken Europe's old demons. By Anne-Sylvaine Chassany

erman rearmament has only just begun. The policy shift – started by Olaf Scholz in 2022 and supercharged under Chancellor

Friedrich Merz – has prompted sighs of relief across Europe as Vladimir Putin's Russia grows more threatening and Donald Trump's US more unpredictable. But German historian Liana Fix is already sounding the alarm. In Germany Rearmed she warns that her country's old demons – and Europe's fraught history with German military power – should not be forgotten.

Fix caused a sensation in February, when – midway through writing her book – she penned an essay for Foreign Affairs magazine with a more provocative title: "Europe's Next Hegemon: The Perils of German Power".

Those historically charged words reached the Chancellery. In a speech to the Munich Security Conference later that month, Merz felt the need to rebut any notion of German “hegemonic fantasies”. The following month in Washington, on the sidelines of a White House visit, he sought a private meeting with Fix to debate her views.

Fix's thesis is that Germany has a special historical responsibility towards its neighbours as it invests the more than €750bn earmarked for defence in the next four years.

Europe's initial reaction to German rearmament may be overwhelmingly positive. But its sheer scale could revive old rivalries unless Germany's military power is firmly embedded in a European framework, argues Fix, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. The rise of Alternative for Germany (AfD), a nationalist party that questions the country's postwar attachment to the west and advocates resuming economic ties with Russia, adds a layer of uncertainty.

"The AfD wants an autonomous German defense industry for the purpose of unilateral rearmament," Fix writes.

Many in Berlin's security establishment regard Fix's intervention as not only premature but dangerous. After decades in which Germany neglected its armed forces and relied on the US for its security, dwelling on the supposed risks of German rearmament can seem counter-productive.

If, as European intelligence agencies assess, Russia could be capable of attacking a Nato country by 2029, shouldn't Germany's priority be to catch up quickly to assume its natural role as Europe's largest conventional defender? Ask the Lithuanians, who have welcomed a permanent German brigade to defend Nato's eastern flank against a potential Russian assault.

As for the danger of European rivalries resurfacing, it is reasonable to ask whether the continent might have bigger fish to fry if Moscow further escalates its hybrid warfare, let alone seeks direct confrontation. The AfD entering a federal coalition is still a distant


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prospect given the refusal of Germany's established parties to work with it.

Fix challenges those who believe decades of European integration has created enough guardrails, institutional ties and solidarity to withstand the loss of Washington as the continent's security guarantor. That confidence could amount to "a misreading of Europe's security dilemma and its twentieth-century resolution," she writes. "It may overestimate the ability of European integration to mitigate European rivalries in the absence of US hegemony."

Fix is a pessimist. She belongs to a generation of Germans unwilling to trust that their country – and Europe – will behave itself once unmoored from the US-led security order. She offers solutions. It is worth hearing her out.

An epic journey through the good, the bad and the unreadable

Philip Hensher's vast survey of British fiction from Dickens to Ishiguro is invigorating and amusingly nitpicky, writes Anthony Cummins


A History of the Novel in Britain by Philip Hensher Pelican £25 704 pages (to be published in the US in February by Princeton University Press)

ow do you tackle a subject as vast and varied as "the novel in Britain"? For Philip Hensher, author of 12 novels of his own,

it's simple: read lots (and lots) of novels, sorting good from bad. His journey through the twists and turns of an ever-evolving genre encompasses more than 1,000 titles, from Robinson Crusoe (1719) to White Teeth (2000), avoiding any structuring theme or thesis to instead rely on critical instincts sharpened over some 35 years as an unsparing book reviewer.

His invigoratingly blunt survey makes room for genre classics — Tolkien, le Carré, Ballard — alongside syllabus stalwarts, while also unearthing dozens of long-forgotten writers, never hesitating to tell us when it wasn't worth the bother (witness the "utterly untalented" Algernon Gissing, brother of New Grub Street novelist George, whom Hensher rates little better).

He sidesteps the pitfall of dullness — one précis after another — by being unfailingly opinionated. The British novel from 1830 to 1914 was “one of the most glorious phenomena in world history” until modernism came along. Boo to Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931), in which “six characters only monologize about their perceptions”; three cheers for Charles Dickens, who understood that “human beings are most themselves in their externals, and not in what they happen to be thinking”.

Hensher revels in nuts-and-bolts quiddity: when he says Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) "achieves plausibility through dense arcana" about sheep shearing and "abstruse botanical surveys", it's meant as high praise. The brilliance of Arnold Bennett's 1908 novel The Old Wives' Tale ("probably the closest thing in English to Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks... perhaps even to Tolstoy") is manifest in the minutiae of a restaurant scene set in 19th-century Paris: only a true master, says Hensher, would know the cutlery "ought to be steel, and not silver".

By contrast, Agatha Christie's Appointment with Death (1938) is mocked for a plot involving "a room in an English country house [being] plunged into impenetrable darkness at 6.30pm during British Summer Time by the lights being turned off". Jane Austen's Emma (1815) names a Yorkshire estate Enscombe; but place names in Yorkshire, where Hensher grew up, "end-thwaite or-gill".

If reading fiction this way feels a little like going to a disco and refusing to dance, the fastidiousness yields insight. George Eliot's Daniel Deronda (1876) turns on the hero's discovery that he's Jewish; Hensher asks, "How was he not reminded of this every morning in his bath?" It highlights the extent to which Victorian novels appeased prudish circulating libraries, their key market.

Hensher's superhuman endeavour means he can be forgiven for showing off. When he writes that Kate Roberts's "gritty" Welsh novel Traed mewn cyffion (Feet in Chains, 1936) "is to be admired" — with no more said — the purpose seems less to inform us about Roberts than to underline his own expertise. When he occasionally notes of some especially obscure title that it went unread "by the present author", it's a roundabout reminder of just how many lesser-known works he did plough through, even if only to dismiss them in a footnote as "legendarily tedious", as with the Victorian novels of Geraldine Jewsbury.


'The Novel' by the 19th-century artist Frank Dicey — Bridgeman Images

His scorn is hardly reserved for the long dead. Kazuo Ishiguro's "best novel", The Unconsoled (1995), is "boring"; Jonathan Coe's anti-Tory satire What a Carve Up! (1994) is "witless". "Britain had a Conservative government for most of the period 1979-2024 without fiction acknowledging that anyone of any intelligence or personal morality supported such a thing," he writes.

In this nitpicking mood, Hensher makes glorious company on the page, yet his conclusion is jarringly naive. Novel-reading, which once had "few

If reading fiction this way feels a little like going to a disco and refusing to dance, Hensher's fastidiousness yields insight

hard limits of class, income, age or education", is now a niche bourgeois pursuit, he fears. Just as he's completing the book, a 14-year-old boy is murdered on a London bus; the boy had been facing charges of carrying a machete. Neither the victim nor his killer ever read any novels, Hensher guesses: read fiction, he says, and it's "impossible to bring a machete down upon the face of another human being . . . You would not do it."

Well, murderers do read novels: think of Ian Brady or Anders Breivik. And I wonder if Hensher's faith in fiction as some sort of magical and innately benign empathy machine (a widely held view) isn't actually a symptom of precisely the redundancy he regrets. In the 19th century – his golden age – politicians worried about children reading too many racy French novels; right now, there's a government inquiry into why some children aren't reading at all.

Times change, but if the best we can say for novels is that they teach compassion, perhaps no one can really be shocked if more of us don't come rushing to eat our greens.

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'Madame Bovary, c'est nous'

Elif Shafak gives voice to Flaubert's women in an inventive novel of multiple viewpoints. By Mia Levitin


In One Brief Moment All Eternity by Elif Shafak Viking £20 608 pages (to be published in the US by Knopf in January)

What is the function of literature in turbulent times? Elif Shafak asked herself this question as she brainstormed a sub-

ject for her latest novel. It drew her to the life of Gustave Flaubert, who wrote in the wake of the French Revolution of 1848, which ushered in the shortlived Second Republic before a return to imperial rule in 1852.

In One Brief Moment All Eternity alternates between a close third-person narration of Flaubert's life and the first-person perspectives of 30 female characters. Some of the women were real including family members, his nanny, and the author George Sand, with whom he enjoyed a late-life correspondence. There's also Eleanor Marx, the first to translate Madame Bovary into English, who copied its heroine's tragic fate by swallowing arsenic. Others, such as an acrobat and a belly dancer, came from "a dream world".

Along the way we hear the more unusual voices of a camel, the city of Istanbul, opium and syphilis, which Flaubert contracted during his travels and led, in the words of his mistress, Louise Colet, to his "premature decrepitude".

Flaubert is credited as a pioneer of realism thanks to his depiction of Emma Bovary – “an everyday heroine who, however feckless and lacking in foresight, is ultimately a mixture of good and bad, hopeful and sad, lowly and sublime, just like everyone else in this world,” writes Shafak. Her idea was to turn the premise of the author as a “connoisseur of the female mind” upside down by letting women tell his story, she explains in a note to the reader. “Not just Emma, but . . . women whose voices were not heard in history books.” Madame Bovary, c’est nous toutes.

The book is organised in five life stages, each assigned colours. Though Flaubert did not have synaesthesia, he associated mood colours to his works (shades of blue and yellow feature

Illustration by Matthew Holland

prominently in Madame Bovary, for example). It begins with his childhood in Rouen, where his father was a physician who ran a hospital where the family also lived. An affecting early scene features a young Gustave running to ask his father to treat a yellow butterfly with a broken wing. Stumbling upon a dissection, he mistakes the cadaver for his nanny. Unlike his older brother, who followed in their father's footsteps to become a doctor, he was dubbed the "family idiot".

"Why does the writing make us chase the writer?" Julian Barnes wondered in Flaubert's Parrot, his 1984 riff on Flaubert. "... Why aren't the books enough?" It's unsurprising that Shafak feels an affinity with Flaubert. Both faced obscenity charges for their fiction – Flaubert was prosecuted for "outraging public morals" when Madame Bovary first serialised. Shafak self-exiled from Turkey in 2008 after being put on trial for "offending Turkishness" by addressing the Armenian genocide in her 2006 novel The Bastard of Istanbul. In 2019, she was investigated for obscenity by Turkish prosecutors for depictions of sexual violence in her novels. (Unlike Shafak, Flaubert benefited from the notoriety and admitted in a letter to Colet that he sought to "heat the loins of even the most cold-blooded reader".)

Well-versed in the literature about and around Flaubert, Shafak is unapologetic about the artistic licence she takes with certain facts. She has

Delphine Delamare, the inspiration for Emma Bovary, executed by guillotine for the attempted poisoning of her husband, rather than taking her own life as Emma does. She moves Flaubert's first epileptic fit forward, and has him declare his love to his muse, Elisa Schlesinger, as a teenager; in reality, he waited until she was widowed, 35 years later. More troublingly, perhaps, she suggests that Schlesinger's daughter was the product of rape.

"History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth", the American historian Jill Lepore reflected about the difficulties of researching her biography of Benjamin Franklin's sister, Book of Ages (2013). It is in the gaps of what is known that novelists can imagine the missing pieces. Liberties

Shafak's idea is to turn the premise of Flaubert as a 'connoisseur of the female mind' upside down

with history can niggle, however: Hilary Mantel, the doyenne of historical fiction, maintained a strict rule that she never went against known facts.

The author of 22 books, of which 14 are novels, Shafak is a skilful weaver of fiction, with a penchant for inventive framing devices. There Are Rivers in the Sky (2024) braids three narrative threads, linked by a single drop of water. The Booker-shortlisted 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World (2019) imagined the last minutes of consciousness of a murdered sex worker and her outcast friends. The voices of the polyphonic chorus narrating In One Brief Moment All Eternity, however, tend to blend. Due perhaps to their sheer number, except for Flaubert, the characters are less defined than in Shafak's previous work.

Shafak calls this book her "love letter to literature", and it is in this realm that the book does best. She shows Flaubert being bullied at boarding school and finding respite in books. He remained committed throughout his life to finding le mot juste above all else (to the despair of his lovers). Nearly two centuries later we still strive to "render in words those things for which there is no language, those impressions of the heart, those mysteries of the soul unknown to the soul itself."

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Trouble on Paradise and the perils of escapist adventures

GENRE ROUND-UP

SCIENCE FICTION

By James Lovegrove

eteran SF author Alan Dean Foster, with more than 100 titles to his credit, is perhaps best known for his tie-in fiction. He has written for major franchises — Alien, Terminator, Star Trek, to name just three — and penned the first original Star Wars novel, Splinter of the Mind's Eye, which appeared in 1978, a year after the initial film was released. That book is no longer canonical, largely because it expanded the romantic attraction between Luke and Leia, whom Return of the Jedi subsequently revealed to be siblings.

A romantic relationship forms the heart of his latest non-tie-in novel, Lost on Paradise (Blackstone \$32.99), in which a couple – hulking giant Jonos and illness-stricken Liina – flee their miserable, squalid lives on a polluted, over-automated Earth and head for a planet called Paradise. There, purportedly, nature is in balance and all is beauty and harmony. However, as refugees living among two antagonistic alien races, the pair find only more conflict and tragedy.

Foster's story starts out as science fiction before segueing into space fantasy, and is the assured work of a master of his craft. No less skilled an author, if a comparative newcomer, is Becky Chambers, who made a splash with her debut The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet, originally self-published in 2014. Hailed as a progenitor of hopepunk, a sub-genre that favours positivity, community and radicalism, Chambers now brings us As You Wake, Break The Shell (Hodderscape £22/Harper Voyager \$32), the first volume in a duology.

Toxic colony world Fortune is home to pilot Cora, who is telepathically linked with Colibri, a member of a whale-like alien race known as rorquals that have been domesticated to serve as sentient spacecraft. Unfortunately, from this symbiotic bond comes mindbleed, a condition that could end Cora's career. Her only hope of a cure lies with botanist Signy and her homemade pharmaceuticals.

The two women fall in love, and Chambers charts their relationship with sensitivity, insight and a hearty dollop of humour. Her novel, however, is not without its challenges: the narrative is

Foster's story segues from science fiction into space fantasy, and is the assured work of a master of his craft

divided into two timelines, the chapters are presented out of chronological order, and there's little resolution at the end beyond mention of the forthcoming sequel, As You Grow, Seek The Light.

Speaking of sequels, Alex Grecian's Rose of Jericho (Solaris £9.99; published in the US last year by Tor Nightfire, \$18.99) follows his superlative weird western Red Rabbit from 2023. Set a decade on from events in that novel, it opens with vengeful gunslinger Moses Burke pursuing and killing Death after his wife and child meet an untimely end.

With the Grim Reaper no longer swinging his scythe, anyone who dies doesn't stay dead but goes on living, not always happily. That creates problems for the three main female characters from the previous book – witch Sadie Grace, her friend Rose, and her adopted daughter Rabbit, herself a budding witch – who now live in the Massachusetts town of Ascension. They must help

Burke set right the harm he has done, even if it involves great personal cost.

While Grecian's novel may not be as fresh and compelling as its predecessor, it is nonetheless a darkly engrossing read. Far lighter in tone is Everything Happens So Much (Orion £18.99) by Andrew Hunter Murray. Esme Good escapes her pointless job and humdrum existence by ingesting a drug that allows her 15-minute visits to the Elsewherees, briefly inhabiting the lives of alternate (and invariably better) versions of herself. That's until she accidentally deletes all of those other selves and is then pursued by the forces of the secretive Fabric of Reality Authority, who need her to fix the multiversal breach she has created.

Broadcaster and comedian Hunter Murray keeps his tale rolling merrily along with footnotes, snappy dialogue and a healthy sense of silliness. A more cautionary approach to the pitfalls of escapism may be found in Jonathan Edward Durham's Winterset Hollow (Hodder & Stoughton £20/Union Square & Co \$19.99), which takes the sinisterness inherent in many a children's story and drags it, bloodstained and squirming, into the open.

Since boyhood, Eamon has loved 70-year-old literary classic Winterset Hollow, its talking animals and lilting rhymes having served as balm in a troubled upbringing. Adult Eamon goes on a pilgrimage to the private island home of the book's late author, EB Addington, accompanied by his friends Caroline and Mark. The three swiftly discover a monstrous truth lies behind the fiction, as they're hounded by anthropomorphic critters bearing weapons and a grudge.

Online, Durham has cultivated a jaunty and nurturing social media presence, which makes the gory ferocity of his excellent debut all the more startling. Reading it is like learning that AA Milne's Hundred Acre Wood is a place of strife, sacrifice and slaughter. The novel has that frisson of transgression while at the same time exploring the bittersweet joy of attachment to childish things.

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Code-dependent

Sherry Turkle's alarming book warns that our use of AI 'companionship'

will exact a toll on our personal growth and civic life, writes Becky Hogge

n Ted Chiang's 2011 sci-fi short story "Dacey's Patent Automatic Nanny", a Victorian baby is raised by a mechanical caregiver. Handed

over to human nursemaids at the age of two, the child exhibits "feeblemindedness" and is committed to an institution. The twist comes when a doctor hypothesises that what the stunted child needs is not more love from people, but to be returned to the care of the automaton: "The child embraced the machine as soon as he saw it, and in the days that followed he would play happily with toys as long as [it] was nearby."

Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines chronicles how close we are to Chiang's bleak vision now that the most common use of generative AI in the US is for therapy and companionship. "If social media came for our attention, artificial intimacy comes for our capacity for attachment," writes its author, Sherry Turkle.

An esteemed social sciences professor at MIT, Turkle has spent almost half a century studying our relationship with machines, measuring "the gap between what humans need and what technologies deliver".

Her latest book introduces us to users of AI companion platform Replika, to the emerging “grief tech” industry and to people who started using ChatGPT for homework or meal planning, only to get sucked into something deeper. Structured around key stages in psychological development – childhood, adolescence, love, work, death – the book argues strongly that our new “posthuman conversational partners” are inadequate companions for life’s journey.

Turkle grounds her analysis in academic literature, while illuminating it with often haunting vignettes. Ninth-grader Owen uses ChatGPT to role-play tricky conversations with friends. Brian built his Replika companion during the pandemic as someone to gossip with about work; right now she is an "office buddy", but he is "open to more" and has withdrawn from dating. Jang Ji-sung

Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines

by Sherry Turkle Bridge Street Press £22/ Little Brown & Company \$32 288 pages is a grieving mother, but ever since a simulated encounter with her dead daughter she is doubly bereft: the child no longer visits her in her dreams.

The melancholy and loneliness that these cases bring up for Turkle are never far from the surface. Successful psychological development can be achieved only in concert with others, she argues, in the context of “relationships of responsibility, consequence, and care”. Healthy attachment, empathy, our capacity for solitude: all require friction, the kind you get only when interacting with an “other”, someone with divergent perceptions and desires.

Beginning with Eliza, the world's first chatbot, developed in the 1960s at MIT to perform as a psychotherapist, Turkle has repeatedly observed how, in our desire to be understood, we imbue machines with inner lives they don't possess. ChatGPT and its ilk can simulate empathy (reassuring anxious Maria, "even if you don't get into graduate school, everything is going to be okay"). It may feel as if these companions – built on top of what is essentially sophisticated word-guessing software – care for us more than the people in our lives. But when we talk to machines, like Narcissus, we are talking to "self-objects" – reflections of ourselves. Rising dependence on them deprives us of inner growth. We succumb to what sociologist Émile Durkheim termed anomie: disorientation, depression and anxiety.

"The more we recognize our vulnerability to the virtual, the more we'll be able to commit to the real," Turkle writes. She warns that chatbots' imperative "to quiet us down" pacifies us at a time when we urgently need to engage in civic life.

Turkle is militant in naming the corporate incentives behind AI's growing ubiquity only when critiquing the underlying economic conditions closest to her field (we could "train an army of mental health professionals" with the money being invested in AI, she argues). Elsewhere, her remedies are frustratingly tentative. Her suggestion that Meta might funnel some of its profits into public meeting places felt like a fantasy from a bygone era.

But then, Turkle is old enough to remember the community-minded aspirations of the first personal computer enthusiasts – she served "the wrong kind of vegetarian food" to Steve Jobs when he came to dinner in 1977. Unlike Jobs, she is still alive to witness that dream turn sour. Where once Apple asked people to "think different", now, she writes, their ads promise users there is "no need to think" at all,

Shots in the dark

John Self enjoys a collection of pared-down short fiction that plunges readers into a world of danger, seediness and alienation

T

he Northern Irish writer Eoin McNamee – less well known than he should be – has a distinctive voice and a distinctive vision. His prose

is concentrated and stylised, and his novels are mostly based on real crimes (though his 2007 novel 12:25 was about the death of Princess Diana). In both respects there is a lineage with the works of James Ellroy and David Peace, though stylistically McNamee's writing is closer to the biblical cadences of Cormac McCarthy.

After a career encompassing novels, children's fiction and pseudonymous thrillers (written under the name John Creed), The Comets is McNamee's first collection of short fiction, and includes two novellas and 15 punchy shorts, mostly a dozen pages or less. Despite their brevity, McNamee's condensed style means these intense shots of fiction capture a world efficiently – and most do seem to take place in the same seedy, down-at-heel universe.

The setting is not always specified but usually sounds like Belfast or County Down, in a representation at once realist and otherworldly. In the title story, at a fairground dodgems ride, “poles struck blue fire from the roof grid and the comets blazed across the rink”. In several stories an abandoned aerodrome acquires a sinister, Ballardian quality. (McNamee grew up in the fishing village of Kilkeel, County Down, near the decommissioned wartime airfield RAF Greencastle.)

Often the characters are on journeys, but resolution is refused by the circular or frustrated nature of their quest. In "Walking North, Walking Home," a woman, adopted in childhood, sets out to find her birth mother, but finds instead a kindred spirit in a taxi driver cast out by his in-laws. "Ellen nodded. Such things happened. Generations were laid waste in the badlands of family." The two encounter a woman even more desperate, wandering along the middle of the road. "They knew that the woman would never be hit by a car. That an uncomplicated fate did not await her."

In "The Road Wife", journeys are repeated for a long-distance truck driver who is made a blunt offer by a colleague. "I got something to keep you warm. I got a girl in the cab." The driver, Coyle, succumbs almost reluctantly — "I suppose men like me like to talk." "No," the girl said, "they like to have sex" — and finds himself taking responsibility for her when he discovers she's pregnant.

The doomy atmosphere in McNamee's world exerts a hold on the reader through the spellbinding intensity of its delivery. In "The Limekiln Road", which reads like a precursor to his 2019 novel The Vogue, a woman with dementia loses her language. "There was some urgent telling she couldn't get to."

But occasionally something lighter breaks through without losing the weirdness. In "The Lion Alone", a Belfast man keeps a lion at the rear of his house, with a comic twist.

There is more experimental stuff too, with "Corpse Flowers" (a very


The Comets: Collected Short Fiction by Eoin McNamee Riverrun E20 224 pages

McNamee title) telling the story of a missing girl through a series of images of her seen on security cameras. "The very fact that you are on camera makes you look furtive, up to something."

The novella “The Last of Deeds” might be the highlight of this potent collection. It’s no less succinct than the shorter stories (one character is encapsulated thus: “[he] came home every night from the pub using both sides of the road”), but the length gives the story more breathing space, as well as the scope for a truly Shakespearean body count.

The story is about a young Catholic man who gets involved with a Protestant girl, to the fury of her community: "this is our town, kid, and she belongs to us". Mayhem in both directions ensues, awful for everyone involved except the reader. At one point, during a burial, the grave fills with water "and then the coffin began to rise again". It says that here, in McNamee's brilliant and terrible world, even death is not the end.

CHESS LEONARD BARDEN

Master tournaments in central London occur rarely, but their occurrences are often notable in the game's history. For decades, the Gambit Café in the now vanished Budge Row provided a meeting place in the City with weekly lightning tournaments. The Gambit's finest hour came in 1946 as the venue for the Great Britain vs USSR radio match. The target for the British team was to at least equal the 4.5-15.5 scored by the USA the year before, and this was achieved with a 6-14 total on the men's boards.

Now in London's clubland, there is an excellent new venture, the Army and Navy Club Pall Mall Masters, played last weekend and sponsored by Chess England. Several players came from the Samarkand Olympiad with only a few days' break, and this seemed to have a particularly negative effect on GM Luke McShane, who was in contention for an

individual medal with the England team in Uzbekistan but was in poor form in Pall Mall. In contrast, GM Jules Moussard won the Super

Diversions

Rapid with Gawain Maroroa Jones second after both did well in the Olympiad. The Frenchman also won the Blitz tournament.

Puzzle 2695 Niaz Murshed vs Nigel Short, World Cities Team Championship 2012.

White played the apparently winning 1 Bxf6 gxf6, but instead of taking the expected 2 Qxf6, sank into deep thought and then resigned! Can you explain?

Solution, back page

BRIDGE PAUL MENDELSON

Sometimes, I slip this hand into a much tougher set, putting my students to the test. It's a very simple deal yet, when heads are full of superior thoughts, it often bamboozles ...

Using a simple system, South would open a Strong 2H, and North respond 2NT

– indicating a poor hand, but one likely to contain one or two tricks. South, holding pretty much a maximum, should jump to game.

West leads her top-of-a-

♠ J 6 3 2 ♥ A 7 4 ♦ 10 3 ♣ 8 6 4 2

♠ Q 8 ♥ 9 5 2 ♦ A Q J ♣ Q J 10

♠ K10954 ♥ 6 ♦ 9852 ♣ 753

♠ A 7 ♥ K Q J 10 8 3 ♦ K 7 4 ♣ A K

sequence Q♣, and South ponders. She has a spade and three diamonds to lose. To secure her game, South

Dealer: North

N/S Game

North East NB NB 2NT NB

South West
2H NB
4H

must trump a diamond in dummy before drawing trumps. However, all too often, a declarer will cross to dummy's A♥ and lead a diamond, her K♦ losing to West's A♦. West can lead a second heart and, when she wins the next diamond lead with Q♦, she can play her third and last trump. This removes all the trumps from dummy, leaving South with her same four losers.

Declarer must remain focused. All that matters is ensuring one diamond ruff in dummy. At trick 2, she should lead out a low diamond. This will lose to J♦ but, even if a trump is led now, she can win, lose a second diamond, and there will still be one trump left in dummy to trump the third round.

I hope you found this deal too easy . . .

POLYMATH 1,408 by HAMILTON

ACROSS

DOWN

1 BBC sitcom set in Grace Brothers department store (3,3,5,6)

10 A female stoat or ferret (4)

11 The eighth UK Prime Minister (1766-68) (4,3,5) 12 Type of moss, usually unbranched and erect, whose spore form capsules at the top of the stem (8) 13 Spend time aimlessly or idly (8)

14 Orders or reserves something in advance (8) 16 Fictional fashion designer from The Incredibles (4,4) 18 A fin on a surfboard which improves directional stability (4)

19 Wimbledon men's singles champion in 1974 and 1982 (7)

20 'The __', ring name of Dwayne Douglas Johnson (4)

22 An 18th century cabinet with shelves for dishes over a base with drawers and cupboards (8)

24 Affectionate nickname of the Home Guard in World War II (4,4)

26 Steadfast, not wavering from a firm position (8) 28 Apple brandy from Normandy (8)

29 German author, winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Literature (8,4)

30 Ill-gotten gains (4) 31 Metropolitan county where the current mayor is Bev Craig (7,10)

2 A ticket issued for later use if an event is interrupted or postponed (4,5)

3 UK business directory printed between 1966 and 2019 (6,5)

4 Swedish city, birthplace of Anders Celsius and Ingmar Bergman (7) 5 In law, to bar or preclude (5)

6 Actress who played Carol in the 1969 film Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (7.4) 7 Archipelago, the northernmost part of the UK (9)

8 Receive and pass on information (S)

9 __ Fennell, director of the film Saltburn (7) 15 Country house and royal residence since 1862 when purchased by the future King Edward VII (11) 17 American-born Greek operatic soprano (1923-77) (5,6)

19 1986 comedy film starring John Cleese and Alison Steadman (9) 21 Uncredited part in a film, such as Julia Roberts' boyfriend in Notting Hill, played by Alec Baldwin (5,4) 23 Surgical instrument designed for cutting and shaping bone (7) 25 UK top 10 hit for Tom Jones (1968) and The Sensational Alex Harvey Band (1975) (7) 27 Reddish-brown dye made from an Old World shrub (5) 28 Sing like Bing Crosby or Perry Como (5)

CROSSWORD 18,502 by ROSA KLEBB

ACROSS

DOWN

1 Ponces about in the hope of achieving something (2,4) 4 What's behind this depression and lethargy? (8) 10 Disparage and haunt nameless, thankless individual (9)

11 Skin of tomato that's disgusting and chewy (5) 12 Picked up a girl, regrettably (4)

13 She falters, travelling without a parent (10) 15 Leaves elegant old rectory empty (7)

19 Idle talk starts to scare some in Republican Party circles (6)

21 Last of rubbish put in wrong receptacle (7) 23 Such a drily complex applied science (10)

28 Come down after drug-spiked drink in state of unreality (9) 29 General finally collapses in tears (8) 30 Spades frequently lose hardness (6)

1 Regulation excluding current weapons (8)
2 Organised ransom in a mountainous microstate (3,6)
3 Forgeries periodically circulating thus (4)
5 Worms in drains, reportedly (7)

6 Wet, drunk, and completely impervious (10)

7 Arouse Don Juan, naked (5)
8 Is initially misbehaving following school break (6)
9 Festival axes many stars (6)
14 Claptrap from guys on strike (10)

17 Earth's not changing direction (5-4)

18 Henchman in fancy room with international mafia boss (8)

20 Knight in China, leader of audacious racket (7)
21 Monarch introduced by roguish person with a bow (6)
22 Extremely charmless hosts cover carpets (6)
24 Doctor and setter talk monotonously (5)
26 Unlimited money for bullets? (4)

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Acceptable in the '90s

Tate Britain | British Vogue's former editor offers a riotous vision of the decade's creativity, writes Tom Horan

ucking the gloom surrounding London nightlife earlier this year was a club called "Lost". Not only was it held in a disused building, but for details and tickets you had to call a telephone hotline or just turn up. Once you got there, your phone was locked away for the night. For those who had never known phoneless clubbing, the effect was electrifying; for those who had, well, it was just like the '90s.

As the less positive aspects of the internet become ever clearer, so the fascination grows with the freedom and innocence of the final years before its ubiquity. Tate Britain's new show The 90s: Art and Fashion shines a light on the decade through the work of nearly 70 artists, photographers and designers who worked in the UK during this time, contributors to a flowering of creative talent that helped reshape Britain's cultural identity.

Tate has invited Edward Enninful, editor of British Vogue from 2017-23, to be its guest curator. Enninful came to the UK from Ghana as a child, and at the age of 18 was made fashion director of i-D, one of the most influential fashion magazines of the era. It is his experiences growing up as a young Black man in west London and of life on magazines during this creative boom time that inform the show.

In an introduction on a wall at the entrance, Enninful recalls starting at i-D in 1991: "London felt raw, restless and open to reinvention... Art, fashion, music and nightlife collided – and a new creative language began to emerge... The 1990s was not defined by a single movement, but by a shared

Clockwise from main: Kate Moss in 'Young Pink Kate' by Juergen Teller (1998); Sarah Lucas's 1997 'Chicken Knickers'; Naomi Campbell models Vivienne Westwood in 1994; DJs Photek (left) and Goldie (right) with a friend at Metalheadz Sunday Sessions in the Blue Note, Hoxton Square, London, c1995-96 — Juergen Teller, Condai Nast Eddie Othrine

impulse to break down boundaries . . . That's the energy I want to capture in this exhibition."

Large-scale photographic blow-ups show key figures out and about: Tracey Emin and fellow artist Gillian Wearing dance on a Kent seafront; Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell waft disdainful cigarettes; Sarah Lucas and Chris Ofili are in cahoots at Dick's Bar in Soho. We also recognise the massed feet of the Spice Girls, a less than reverential view of so-called Cool Britannia to which Enninful gives full vent later on.

He frames the decade through a sequence of seven rooms that sets out to show how style and image became increasingly political as the 1990s progressed and the divide between high and low culture dissolved. Rooms one and two, titled "Be Real", open on gritty, unfiltered photography and work that brims with a defiant do-it-yourself attitude. The chosen artists are female, Black or queer. "England's Dreaming", Corinne Day's fashion shoot at her Soho flat for another key publication, The

Face, is instantly evocative of the times. It's not just the naturalism and the candour, it's the state of the carpet, on which sit dirty mugs, full ashtrays, a TV remote control, a tabloid and a knackered sofa.

The low-rent dwelling drove the decade in more ways than one. Miranda Sawyer, who wrote for The Face, recalls

Style and image became increasingly political as the divide between high and low culture dissolved

in the excellent catalogue: "Throughout the 90s I never paid more than £60 a week for a room . . . The flats we lived in were rubbish . . . but because of that, and because the internet hadn't been invented, we went out all the time . . . If you wanted anything interesting — food, drink, fun, a shag — you had to leave the house."

That turn of phrase itself has a '90s flavour, and the highlights of this early section show women reclaiming bawdy humour with a sense of protest. Abigail Lane's "Bottom Wallpaper" features a 12ft-high wall decorated with a repeat pattern of her bum cheeks in a tasteful pale blue. The laughs are laced with shock in the Sarah Lucas piece "Chicken Knickers" as she positions the gaping giblet cavity of a supermarket chicken on her groin. For the 1993 photographic work of the same name, Sam Taylor-Johnson sports a T-shirt that says "Fuck Suck Spank Wank". Copies of the shirt are available in the gift shop.

In room three, the focus moves to the rave and club scene. The joy in the photography and video work here is almost overwhelming. We are taken to the heart of the dance floor, among crowds that are Black, white, Asian, queer and straight, in clubs, warehouses and fields across the UK. "People were dancing everywhere you looked," says photographer Mark McNulty. "Everyone was the star for the night."

There is a strong sense that this is the source of the zeitgeist, that energy that Enninful set out to capture. In the mesmerising "Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore", Mark Leckey reveals a poetry in found footage of everyday blokes dancing at full tilt. The vast montage of Vinca Petersen's "Subversive Joy (Constellation 005)" documents an entire way of life lived in pursuit of the rave.

Self-expression takes a more cerebral form in the dimly lit and black-painted room four, which centres on vitrines and colour prints of work by Alexander McQueen. In designs such as "It's a Jungle Out There", featuring a jacket with impala horns mounted on the shoulders, he weaves fashion and art into something menacing and visceral. Displayed alongside the Chapman brothers' life-size rendering of dismemberment after Goya, "Great Deeds Against the Dead", the sensation is a disconcerting mix of the droll and the brutal.

I felt as captivated by the 56 photographs of Concorde over Heathrow as artist Wolfgang Tillmans surely was in

'History is not fixed. It is actively rewritten by those who choose to contest it'

1997 when he took them. The series opens the bright white fifth room, along with pieces by Damien Hirst and Rachel Whiteread. The YBAs feel respectfully acknowledged, but Enninful wants a place in history for other stories, too – not least the coffee table by designer Hussein Chalayan that transforms into a skirt. A-line G-Plan? A work of genius.

In the penultimate room, Enninful addresses the “patriotic myth” of Cool Britannia, a vision of national identity that he says “failed to represent the inequality experienced by many Britons”. The works here – from the exquisite tailoring of Ozwald Boateng and bold video “Bear” by Steve McQueen to “No Woman, No Cry”, Chris Ofili’s poignant tribute to Doreen Lawrence, mother of the murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence – place Black excellence at the forefront of these cultural golden years. “Britpop’s bullshit,” observes McQueen in the catalogue.

To stand up this refreshing, somewhat revisionist and frankly pretty convincing version of the decade, Enninful concludes with a room that feels designed to wrongfoot any remaining preconceptions about art and fashion in '90s Britain. We are presented with the works of designers and artists inspired by the 18th century: John Galliano, Vivienne Westwood, Yinka Shonibare. "Their work shows us that history is not fixed," runs the panel. "It is actively rewritten by those who choose to contest it." We exit to the strains of light orchestral music.

It's an entertaining end to an exhibition meticulous in its avoidance of cliché yet alive with the flavours, the textures and the feelings of the decade. For those who weren't around, it will bring the '90s vividly to life. For those who lived through them, this show will remind you what riotous times they were.

To February 14, tate.org.uk

Co-director Yuval Abraham tells Mehul Srivastava about shattering his country's state of 'total denial'

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Film | Confessions by IDF soldiers inform a documentary that Netanyahu has compared to a missile.

How NAZA lays bare civilian deaths in Gaza

efore you start watching NAZA, the quietly devastating film in which anonymised Israeli soldiers explain the process by which they picked

who lived and who died in Gaza, Yuval Abraham wants you to know why he chose that title.

It's not because it sounds almost like Gaza, the shattered enclave where decisions made by these officers and their peers in the Israel Defense Forces led to the killing, at last count, of more than 74,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials.

Nor is it because it sounds almost like Nazi, with the shrouded, perhaps antisemitic, suggestion that a nation born out of a genocide is now perpetrating another – an accusation that Israel furiously denies.

Instead, Abraham points out, NAZA is the military acronym for nezek agavi, "collateral damage" in Hebrew. And for him and co-director Rachel Szor, who shot most of this spare documentary, that was "the key that held the layer of using language as a form of dehumanisation".

"It was the key to see how people who see themselves as part of Israel's centre-left, liberal elite could participate in such mass killing," he says.

That's how controversial this film, which was co-produced by The Guardian and JW Films, is proving to be: even before most ordinary Israelis have seen more than its trailer, its matter-of-fact title is being scrutinised for signs of bias and slander.

Alongside a media furore, Szor's family home has been blockaded by protesters, and graffiti labelling her and Abraham as traitors has appeared on walls in Israeli cities. It will have come as no surprise to the film-makers, who shared an Oscar last year for 2024's No Other Land, about the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, with two Palestinian colleagues.

Abraham, in particular, has been a target of rightwing Israeli vitriol since that film, and his subsequent, critical reporting in +972 magazine about the IDF's actions in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

Never one to shy away from hyperbole, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accused of war crimes by the International Criminal Court for some of the actions described by the intelligence officers in NAZA, likened it to the equivalent of “dozens of ballistic missiles” and threatened to revoke the filmmakers’ Israeli citizenship. (Netanyahu, who is battling for his political future in elections scheduled for October 27, has rejected the ICC’s allegations, dismissing them as an antisemitic blood libel.)

"This is how you talk about someone you want to kill – people who shoot ballistic missiles at Israel are people that the Israeli government assassinates and kills," says Abraham, who believes that if he were to return to Israel, he could be assaulted, or worse.

Whom the Israeli government chooses to kill, how it chooses to kill them and how it decides how many innocent – Israel uses the word “uninvolved” – civilians will perish alongside them is the subject that NAZA seeks to unveil.

The answers come from 24 veterans of Israel's most devastating war in terms of Palestinian casualties, their faces hidden in shadow. They reveal the clinical, detached efficiency with which they tracked down men with connections – sometimes real, sometimes tenuous, sometimes non-existent – to Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that sparked this war on October 7 2023, when it crossed the border into Israel and killed 1,200 people and took 251 hostage.

The anger and trauma of that slaughter, the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, has cast a shadow over the decisions that Israeli leaders made in its aftermath – from a siege that starved Gazans, to a bombing campaign that destroyed much of the enclave, and the razing of entire cities to dust.

"We said, 'we need to erase Gaza'," says one soldier in NAZA. "We erased history, and then we burned what was left," says another. "Gaza is full of bodies," says a third, who watched through a drone as dogs ate the flesh off rotting Palestinian corpses.

But incendiary statements like these are not the point of NAZA. Shot on Tel Aviv rooftops at night and interspersed with telling shots of the thriving city's nocturnal lives, the film seeks to dissect the processes behind how much of the Israeli intelligence corps became, as one soldier says, "a factory" for producing targets.

"Efficiently," he adds. Early on in the war – the first day itself, the New York Times has reported – the Israeli military loosened its rules on collateral damage: mid-ranking Israeli officers were given the authority to risk the lives of as many as 20 Palestinian civilians, even if the intended target was a low-ranking Hamas fighter.

But for higher-ranking Hamas leaders, Israeli military lawyers were able to sign off on strikes that could – and often did – kill 100 innocents, it is claimed in


Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor deftly contrast normal Tel Aviv life with the moral weight of the confessions

the film. In one case, a soldier tells Abraham, the lawyers approved risking the lives of up to 500 Palestinian civilians — or 500 NAZA, in military jargon — to kill a single member of Hamas. (One of the officers makes clear how the phrase reduced Palestinian humanity to a calculation — always 20 NAZA or 100 NAZA, never 20 people.)

The Israeli military released a 3,900-word rebuttal to NAZA last week, after the film got a 24-minute standing ovation and was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.

The response expands on the IDF's stance throughout the war and asserts in general that the military values civilian life, follows international law in assessing and mitigating harm and, specifically, that it never gave a blanket approval for 20 NAZA, or ever approved a strike endangering 500 civilians.


The 2024 film 'No Other Land', about the Israeli occupation of the West Bank

"The tragic consequences of war do not justify distorting the facts," it said. "The IDF has acted and continues to act humanely, even if the film-makers have done everything they can to conceal that fact."

The IDF also criticised the use of anonymous sources. The Guardian countered by saying that source protection was common practice in journalism and that the team behind the film had “interviewed more than 100 sources familiar with IDF systems used in the war in Gaza, including senior-ranking commanders directly involved in the authorisation of strikes”.

While shocking, and arguably immoral, risking the lives of innocents is sometimes lawful under the rules that govern armed conflict, under arcane conditions first defined by the Geneva Conventions (distinction, proportionality, necessity and so on) and the body of treaties and jurisprudence collectively referred to as international humanitarian law.

"We already knew within the first weeks that the level of civilian harm per incident was outpacing anything we'd seen in any war that we documented before this," says Emily Tripp, executive director at Airwars, a UK-based rights group that tracks the impact conflicts around the world have on civilians.

In the first month alone, more children were killed in Gaza than in any year, in any recent war, including the Russian bombardment of Aleppo, or the US battles to reclaim Mosul or Raqqa, says Tripp. "Multiple times we were getting these cases with close to or more than a hundred civilians killed, and those cases themselves barely made headlines," she adds.

The rooftop interviews are sometimes interrupted by the reality of the war itself – air raid sirens, television screens inside homes showing the evening news. At other times, Szor and Abraham deftly intersperse the normality of Tel Aviv life as contrast to the moral weight of the soldiers' confessions.

While they speak about the destruction of Gaza, just an hour's drive south, the film shows construction cranes adding to Tel Aviv's sparkling skyline; when they talk about the shooting of hungry Palestinians running towards food, it shows crowded restaurants and Israelis in their kitchens.

"The most consequential feature of it is that it shows how Israelis from Israel's liberal, law-abiding, somewhat leftwing camp who oppose Netanyahu and many of his government's policies were so easily conscripted into waging a war that brought immense destruction," says Sophia Goodfriend, a University of Cambridge anthropologist who writes about automated warfare and was this week barred from entering Israel.

Among the most chilling moments is the almost clinical dissection of the sophisticated machinery that powers Israeli targeting – the expanded use of artificial intelligence to hunt for Hamas operatives and the pervasive surveillance of Palestinians. This included a system nicknamed “Where’s Daddy?” which, according to the soldiers, often hacked, en masse, the phones of children to ascertain when their fathers,

Above: an IDF soldier speaks to Yuval Abraham, right, on a Tel Aviv rooftop in 'NAZA'

suspected of ties to Hamas, came home.

The subsequent bombing of the homes, often killing entire families, multiplied the civilian death toll, but made the task of eliminating suspected Hamas members easier for the Israeli military, several of the soldiers say. "You hack her phone, and then you kill her," says one soldier of a 12-year-old. He describes scrolling through the selfies on her phone, then listening in after the air strike as she burned to death.

"A lot of the reaction from audiences focuses on the dystopian array of technology that's has been developed and deployed in Gaza because it is intrusive and terrifying to think about how artificial intelligence can be used to churn out an unending number of military targets and track them down in their homes," says Goodfriend.

For non-Israelis watching the film, there is the sense of eavesdropping on a confession – Israelis discussing in Hebrew the complexities and nuances of modern warfare with each other. Abraham says he and Szor made the conscious choice to focus on the system, rather than individuals, to force a reckoning within Israel.

Israeli targeting includes the expanded use of artificial intelligence to hunt for Hamas operatives

"Many people in the society have lived in a total denial or justification of crimes in Gaza," he says. "And there is something about having to face that, not only through a film that is made by Israeli directors, but through a film where Israeli soldiers and officers themselves thought it was important to speak out."

Sometimes, the reckoning happens on the screen itself. In one interaction, Abraham poses a question to one soldier: if killing 20 civilians for one member of Hamas is justified, and Hamas has thousands of members, doesn't that logic imply every Palestinian in Gaza could eventually be killed?

"I'm not really sure what to do with this realisation," the soldier says.

Another does. “I asked myself how Germans could live with themselves. Now I understand,” he says, referring to a childhood school trip to the concentration camps in Poland.

"I still see the Nazis as evil," he says. "But what does that make me?"

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'I wish we had a Tchaikovsky for saxophone'


Jess Gillam photographed outside the Royal Albert Hall for the FT by Cian Oba-Smith

Jess Gillam | By blending genres and commissioning new work, the 28-year-old is taking her instrument to new levels, says Hannah Nepilová

ess Gillam strides on to the stage at the Royal Albert Hall, shimmering in a silver trouser suit looking ready to party. It is September, the end of Proms

season, and the saxophonist is here for the premiere of Gwilym Simcock's new triple concerto for saxophone, horn and cello – a work as hectic and rhythmically complex as it is colourful.

The thought of playing it would cause many musicians to break out in a cold sweat, but for Gillam it is a natural fit, capitalising on the virtuosity and extrovert energy that has been her calling card since reaching the BBC Young Musician of the Year final in 2016.

In person, that energy is palpable. When I meet her backstage at the Royal Albert Hall, ahead of the Prom, she greets me with an ear-to-ear smile. Alongside the warmth, though, is a sense of authority sharpened by her crisp dress sense and statement spectacles. Still only 28, Gillam has packed more into the past decade than most manage in a lifetime.

In 2018, she became the youngest soloist to perform at the Last Night of the Proms, receiving an MBE three years later. She has commissioned and premiered many new saxophone works. Then there is her side hustle on BBC Radio 3, This Classical Life, where she interviews fellow artists about their favourite music. Does she ever find time to unwind? "I'm trying to make time for friends," Gillam says in her rich Cumbrian lilt. "The years when many people were making friends, I spent focusing entirely on music. And now I'm realising I need people." But she also confesses: "I'm not the world's best relaxer."

Lately, free time has been particularly scarce as she prepared her latest album, Shine. Released this week, it showcases her love of “emotionally direct” repertoire, blending new music with arrangements of classical, folk, art pop and jazz. Most striking is the age of some of the material, the earliest being Spiritus sanctus vivificans by 12th-century German Benedictine abbess Hildegard von Bingen, arranged here for saxophone by the British composer Geoff Lawson.

One might assume this piece of plain-chant would be worlds away from the sultry slide of the saxophone, but its appearance here isn't unprecedented: in the 1990s, Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek teamed up with early-music vocal quartet the Hilliard Ensemble to record medieval works.

For Gillam, the music lends itself to the improvisatory approach associated with the saxophone. "[On the manuscript], Bingen gives you note heads and that's all, so there's a lot of space for interpretation," she says. "Originally, my aim was to sound as pure and vocal as possible, like a soprano . . . Then I ended up bending the pitches and moving freely between them."

But how does an instrument less than 200 years old accommodate nine centuries of repertoire? Easily, according to Gillam. "What I love about the saxophone is its dynamic range and colour palette. It can be an absolute powerhouse and even take you to a brash, ugly place, but it can also play unbelievably quietly and sound so ethereal . . . It try to encourage people to see the saxophone as a saxophone, rather than just the sum of all [we associate] with it."

That love of exploration defines Gillam's career, explaining why, alongside performing with major international orchestras, she has formed her own hybrid band, the Jess Gillam Ensemble, a cross between a jazz trio and a string quartet. Yet, unusually for a saxophonist, classical music remains her anchor. “I’ve always loved the structure and clear framework of [the classical system],” she says. Does the shortage of original classical saxophone repertoire frustrate her? “Sometimes I wish we had an equivalent to the Mendelssohn or Tchaikovsky violin concertos, but it’s also a great advantage: we get to be part of building the repertoire.”

The saxophone can 'even take you to a brash, ugly place, but it can also sound so ethereal'

Gillam was seven when she fell for the saxophone. Her father, who ran a tea room with her mother in the Lake District town of Ulverston, also taught drums and percussion at the Barracudas Carnival Arts Centre in nearby Barrow-in-Furness, where several instruments were on hand. "I tried them all, but the saxophone was the only one I connected with; luckily, I made a sound straight away." Her parents quickly turned her enthusiasm into disciplinary leverage. "If I misbehaved at home, they'd put the saxophone on top of the fridge and I wasn't allowed to play it," she says. "They also had a deal where I contributed financially to my [musical education] by working in the tea room or busking." Did that help or hinder her? "It encouraged me to value music," she says, adding that her family's formidable work ethic left its mark: "I'm not someone who does things by halves."

At 18, Gillam entered the Royal Northern College of Music. She later chose to leave her course to manage a booming concert diary, eventually completing a masters at the Guildhall School of Music during the pandemic. Did early fame carry its pressures? "I try not to think about it too much because I often end up feeling quite terrified of a lot of the things that I get to do," she admits. From someone seemingly so self-assured, this sounds surprising. "I need to project confidence so everyone in the room feels comfortable . . . but it's not always easy."

What steadies her, she explains, is “remembering that my performance is not really about me; it’s about shifting my focus to the music and the exact sound I want to create”. Still, in a career that demands so much time practising in isolation, how can you stop ego and self-absorption creeping in? “[What kept me grounded was] growing up in my parents’ tea room, having to go to every table with a smile, no matter what. And being raised in a close-knit community where you're only ever one person away from knowing somebody – you say good morning to everybody. That's how I try to approach every scenario."

Nowhere is that clearer than in her Radio 3 show, which comes across as a casual listening fest with friends. Gillam punctures the idea of classical composers as demigods; instead, she makes a point of interviewing classical artists alongside musicians from other genres: "I find some music outside the classical sphere just as profound and effective."

Does she believe the world of classical music suffers from pretentiousness? She answers cautiously: "Because classical music is so revered . . . it can definitely feel siloed," she notes. "I've gone through iterations of 'I should love this piece' or 'I should love this composer'. Now . . . I just try to carve out my own genuine opinions."

She admits this candour can feel “embarrassing”, leaving her exposed, but she believes it’s important to have “a real conversation”. As she puts it: “Formality has its place, but so does feeling relaxed, open, human and joyful. I don’t think we get enough of that in the world.”

'Shine' is out now on Decca


THE LIFE OF A SONG
YOU REALLY GOT ME

ive filthy electric guitar chords erupt without preamble, then remorselessly repeat throughout "You Really Got Me". "Girl, you

really got me going / You got me so I don't know what I'm doing," Ray Davies sings, consumed by uncontainable lust consummated only in his brother Dave's wild, climactic guitar solo. Released in August 1964, the record redefined British pop's parameters with its innovative power chords and violent attitude, a rebellious sound that set a template for heavy metal and punk.

Dave Davies discovered the noise he desired in the front room of his family's cramped north London terraced home in 1963, aged 16. First he fused the lights and sent his electrocuted body flying by plugging three amps and a radiogram into one overloaded socket. "For a split second I heard fantastic crackling, static distortion," he recalled in his autobiography, Living on a Thin Line. Plugging his tiny green Elpico 10-watt amp into a Vox AC50 amp and slashing the former's speaker cones with a bathroom razor achieved a similarly ferocious effect.

Ray, meanwhile, started to write seriously in 1964. Playing on the battered upright piano in the family front room, he developed the defining riff for "You Really Got Me". Dave plugged in his green amp and added heavy barre chords on his guitar. He led his brother in rising key changes, heightening the excitement. "The energy of that chord shift – from G to A – was really based around a sexual feeling," Dave wrote in Living on a Thin Line.

The Kinks played their first gig under that name on February 1 1964 and released two singles on Pye Records to little success. "You Really Got Me" would be the last record on their contract, making or breaking their future. The brothers felt an initial recording with producer Shel Talmy sounded sluggish and echo-drenched, fatally burying the riff and perhaps The Kinks along with it. Ray desperately extracted a second session from the unwilling label in July 1964, lasting just three hours at London's IBC Studios.

The second take realised the song's thunderous promise. Following the riff's confrontational statement, session drummer Bobby Graham hammered the snare, soon joined by Arthur Greenslade's stabbing piano. "See, don't ever set me free," Ray sang, the lyric's slavishness to a woman undercutting the sonic aggro. Ray's


Above: Eddie Van Halen performing with Van Halen in London, 1978. Below: The Kinks backstage in 1964 Fiat Costilla/Redlerts, Ron Burton/Daily Mirati/ Minoropix/Getty Images

voice and Dave's guitar achieved a monstrous, sibling unity just before the latter's solo statement of freedom. "You Really Got Me" topped the UK charts, then hit number seven in America, rescuing The Kinks from obscurity and placing them on a par with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.

and The Rolling Stones,

Follow-up chart-topper "All Day and All of the Night" refined the "You Really Got Me" model, but Ray soon tired of the formula, finding his métier with 1965's acoustic, class-war character study "A Well Respected Man". The Who took up the heavy riff mantle, with Pete Townshend acknowledging "The Kinks' obvious influence". Their initial sound and attitude later helped spark punk fans such as The Clash, and the sheer heaviness of "You Really Got Me" prefigured metal. Jimi Hendrix "said he thought 'You Really Got Me' was a landmark record", Dave recalled.

The Kinks' former US label executive Mo Ostin convinced Van Halen to release "You Really Got

Me" as their debut single in 1978. The riff got a technological upgrade, sounding still more resonantly huge. Eddie Van Halen's solo involved more shredding and singer David Lee Roth was seductive rather than slavish, but the otherwise faithful cover hit number 36 and kick-started their own significant career.

The track's much remarked confluence with punk and metal appeared to influence The Kinks' version on their live album One For The Road (1980), a punk-paced thrill ride showcasing Dave's dark

ominous blues-metal solo. Their archive release The Journey, Part 3 (2025) excavates a 1993 Royal Albert Hall performance which hurtles at Clash-speed towards their career's 1996 conclusion. Ray took these vaunted metal credentials literally when he invited Metallica to collaborate with him on a 2010 take. The speed-metal kings played it straight, finding the prototype unimprovable.

Ray and Dave's relationship was notoriously volatile, and Dave later wrote of involving lawyers to prevent Ray from taking sole credit for the green amp's distortion in an early version of the latter's hit Kinks musical Sunny Afternoon (2014). The song's subsequent part in the band's story was more positive. On December 18 2015, Dave played a low-key Christmas gig at London's Islington Assembly Hall, and invited his brother. Nineteen years after the final Kinks gig, Ray appeared for an encore of "You Really Got Me", triggering vintage mayhem. "It was like in the beginning," Dave told me afterwards. "Two kids getting together and playing music . . . It was worth it just to resurrect those feelings again."

Nick Hasted

More in the series at ft.com/lifeofasong

The secrets of a West End hitmaker

Luke Sheppard | The 'Rent' and 'Paddington' director

makes commercial theatre sing. Tim Bano meets him

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n the day we meet, Luke Sheppard has three shows running simultaneously in London's West End. A 30th-anniversary revival

of Rent opens just as My Son's a Queer finishes its third West End run, and Paddington The Musical continues to charm audiences at the Savoy each night.

Sheppard, 40, has become one of the busiest directors in the business. His productions vary in scale and style — Starlight Express had a cast of 40 rollerskating round a converted warehouse pretending to be trains, while My Son's a Queer is a solo autobiographical show about coming to terms with one's sexuality — but almost all of them have brought in awards, critical acclaim, money (& Juliet is one of only a handful of musicals to have recouped on Broadway since the pandemic) or, in the case of Paddington, all of the above.

None was a sure-fire hit. None had a particularly starry cast. Each cracked some kind of formula that turned what were often commercial calculations into unashamedly populist, joyful productions made with artistic integrity.

"A lot of the shows that I work on are what some people would describe as 'in the commercial sector'," says Sheppard, as we squeeze on to a balcony at the Tom Stoppard Theatre, the only unoccupied space as Rent enters the frenzy of final previews. "It's easy to meet people who look down on those as being less worthy. And I think musical theatre is often looked down on as less worthy too. I remember being told for years and years, 'If you want to direct musicals, you've got to prove that you are a proper director by directing plays'."

Sheppard ignored that advice. Each show he creates is a small act of insistence that populism and artistic merit can coexist. "Not all expectations were high for & Juliet," he says of the 2019 musical featuring pop megahits, which imagines that Juliet did not kill herself after Romeo's death but instead went to live a happy life in Paris with Anne Hathaway. "But I'm naturally drawn to work that aims to reach a lot of people. I always think of my grandmother, my mother, my sister, my niece in the audience, and wanting to make something that works across those generations."

Days away from press night, you wouldn't know that dozens of jobs and millions of pounds rest, in large part, on his shoulders. One producer I speak to calls Sheppard "the ultimate diplomat", and he certainly has the diplomat's technique of shifting the conversation away from annoying questions about budgets and bad reviews to more positive things.

His gentle voice and considered way of speaking suggest a director who is far from the ranting, raging type of the old school. “I would hope that most people I work with would agree with you. Because I was trusted to take on quite big projects at a young age” — his first major job after a drama degree was assisting on Matilda the Musical at the Royal Shakespeare Company — “sometimes I would find myself one of the

Above: as 'Rent' marks its 30th anniversary, it is now playing at London's Tom Stoppard Theatre

Below: Luke Sheppard (left) and actor Gaten Matarazzo in rehearsals for 'Rent' Rampola Raith

youngest people on the creative team. I learnt quickly that you can't just go around shouting and asking for what you want, because people will tell you to go away."

A couple of early successes set the snowball rolling. In 2015, In the Heights by Hamilton composer Lin-Manuel Miranda became a surprise hit and went on to win three Olivier Awards. Several other Sheppard shows have begun life in tiny theatres and transferred to the West End. If there is a secret to his success, he reckons it is in bringing that small-scale energy to big-ticket productions.

Even for Paddington, Sheppard insisted on stripping things back to basics. "We built our own little theatre in Three Mills [studios] and did a kind of off-West End mini-production as a workshop."

What clearly matters, too, is having a director who cares. There is an endearing sincerity to the way he talks about his shows. Take Rent: "I listened to it as a teenager in my bedroom. Hearing the lyrics to 'I'll Cover You' sung by two characters who were outside of the mainstream presentation of love, in a way that was deeply romantic... the lyrics to that song are baked into my soul."

That unapologetically uncynical approach got him the Paddington gig – though only after an 18-month audition involving, he thinks, eight separate interviews with the producers. "It felt like a dating process."

'I'm drawn to work that aims to reach a lot of people. I always think of my mother, my sister, my niece'

"I have to feel in my bones that I am the right person for that show at that moment. Paddington is a shining example of that. I really love this city. I remember the [London] Olympics in 2012 and how it felt. I thought back to that time and I proposed the thesis: wouldn't it be amazing to make a show that tries to build on that spirit? It's the sense of kindness at the centre of it."

Sheppard may be gentle, but he is ambitious too. He imagines himself one day directing something on the scale of an Olympic opening ceremony, and would "really, really love" to do a film. "The challenge is that those require a huge amount of investment, and it would be a gamble to hire me." He smiles. "I remember a film producer said to me, 'At the moment you're investible up to this amount'," - he sets his hand at chest level - "but the trouble is that the films you want to make need you to be investible up to this amount" - he moves it up to shoulder level. What were the amounts? "I'll let you use your imagination."

Diplomacy prevails. It is only when we discuss theatre ticket prices that Sheppard becomes more candid. In the weeks around Paddington's opening, there were headlines decrying £250 top-tier tickets. "It was just a very skewed kind of angle on the whole thing," he says. "We talk about [pricing] all the time. If you want to see Paddington for a reasonable price, you can. You just have to book in advance. It requires forward planning."

This comes from a man who knows how to forward-plan. He looks at his phone and, gently but firmly, tells me he is late for an audition nearby. Even though it is 6.30pm on a Friday and he has spent an exhausting day finessing Rent, there are roles to fill for the new Paddington cast that takes over in October. The bear hits Broadway early next year too.

Meanwhile, & Juliet opens in Utrecht and Stuttgart this week, and he has ambitions for two previous productions: The Little Big Things, the musical he directed in 2023, and What's New Pussycat?, a jukebox musical. Based loosely on Henry Fielding's 1749 novel Tom Jones, it features the music of, why not, Tom Jones but has no connection to the 1965 movie What's New Pussycat? beyond its title song.

Everything else on the slate is "top secret", he says as we race down St Martin's Lane. Even if his canvas does continue to expand, Sheppard is certain that he would never entirely abandon the aesthetic of the small space that has served him so well. "It's a balance," he says, walking briskly, "but sometimes you can tell the clearest story with just a room full of great actors, a ladder and a light."

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Warburg Institute | A rich array of objects sheds light on humans' desire to chart the stars and find meaning in darkness. By Jean Sprackland

love this time of year, when the days shorten and darkness casts its double spell. All humans have a primal fear of the dark, because it con-

fronts us with our mortal frailty, but for many of us it also holds the promise of delight, adventure and transformation. In our small valley in the Blackdown Hills, on the Somerset-Devon border, the dark can be intense, and when I stand in the lane under a clear night sky the mix of powerful emotions I feel — awe, enchantment, curiosity — is probably no different from those felt by my distant ancestors.

That eternal human curiosity has given rise to some exquisitely beautiful artefacts, and an eclectic range of them are included in Night Maps, an exhibition which opens at London's Warburg Institute this month. The single most desirable object must surely be the pocket globe, made in 1731: a terrestrial sphere nested inside a celestial one, the whole thing encased in alligator skin, and small enough to hold in the palm of your hand. The 18th-century man of substance could have not just the world, but the universe, in his pocket. I would trade my mobile phone for one any day.

A star map, drawn in China in 1822, acts as another kind of status symbol. I'm drawn to this as a work of art — crammed with careful detail and coloured in a gorgeous Prussian blue — but in ancient times maps like these had an important function, providing a heavenly mandate for the emperor. His

Above: the Perseid meteor shower lights up the night sky over Daqing, China, this August

Right: Andreas Cellarius's 1660 book 'Harmonia Macrocosmica' ('Atlas of the Cosmos') Chi Shiyong/VCG via Getty Images: The Sunderland Collection

administration was neatly reflected in the order of the skies, where there was a “celestial bureaucracy” complete with ranks and offices very like those on Earth. There could be little room for doubt about the rightness of your authority if it was written in the stars.

A lot of things have been written there over the centuries. Ever since people first drew lines between stars to make figures and symbols, they have invested them with significance. Constellations once provided a seasonal calendar that guided the preparation of the soil and the sowing of crops; and they offered prompts for the stories people told as they travelled or rested under night skies.

Joining the dots is a defining human activity, a way of understanding our place in the world, locating ourselves in space and time. The scattered points of our daily experience must be joined and rejoined if we are to make any sense of our lives, individually and collectively. It is a moment-by-moment work of creative connection that goes on in the memory, the intellect and the imagination, without which we would be utterly lost.

To the earthbound observer like me, beset and bewildered by change, the constellations feel reassuringly timeless. But there is always room for new interpretation. The exhibition includes maps drawn by Johannes Honter in the 1500s, which show the heavens thickly populated with the usual mythical figures — Hercules, Orion, Andromeda and so on — wearing the Germanic fashions of the day: doublet and hose, puffed sleeves, chunky boots or shoes with curly toes. Bears, lions and serpents prowl between them, and a ferocious Pegasus comes thundering out of the clouds. It may not be an entirely friendly environment, but it looks sociable, and perhaps this was the point — to make the heavens more recognisable to Renaissance viewers, even if some of its inhabitants were on the scary side.

Looking at Honter's images, I'm reminded of something CS Lewis wrote about medieval cosmology: that looking at the heavens was like looking up at a towering building. It was imagined, he tells us, as a structure "in which the mind can rest, overwhelming in its greatness but satisfying in its harmony". It was certainly large, but its

Ever since people first drew lines between stars to make figures and symbols, they have invested them with significance

edges were defined; it rang with heavenly music, and was full of light. The darkness experienced by medieval people was merely the shadow cast by our own planet.

By contrast, our modern concept of "space" is characterised by silence and existential loneliness. Science speaks to us in outlandish numbers beyond our comprehension: stars in a galaxy are counted in billions, and the distances between galaxies are so huge that we need a special unit, the light year, to measure them. The numbers themselves have become a kind of storytelling, as fabulous as tales of gods and mythical beasts.

Science and fantasy are intermingled in the work of Emmy Ingeborg Brun, a self-educated amateur astronomer whose papier-mâché globe, painted to represent the surface of Mars, is on display here. It was made at the dawn of the 20th century, a time when there was intense interest in the "red planet", and the American writer Percival Lowell had popularised the idea that Mars was

She made these globes between 1901 and 1910, while she was in a psychiatric hospital, where she had been committed by her brother for reasons unknown – perhaps he saw her fascination with Mars, or her transgressive beliefs, as signs of madness. They're an extraordinary outpouring of creativity, fusing science fiction and politics with astronomy, in which she projects her criss-crossed by canals deliberately engineered by an alien civilisation. These canals found their way into Brun's designs, along with other features such as oases and areas of vegetation. She also incorporated lines of text, one from the Lord's Prayer ("Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven") and another from a contemporary socialist slogan ("Free Land. Free Trade. Free Men").

Clockwise from above left: lunar earthside hemisphere landing site chart (1967); 'Man Torn Between Scientific Analysis and His Fear of the Supernatural' (1929) by Max Adolph Warburg; a modern Indian copy of an 18th-century copper celestial globe from Cairo's Grand Egyptian Museum — Lunar and Planetary Institute, Hamburg University, RIZ/MCC, Kristel Lippincott

vision of a utopian society on to that mysterious otherworld.

In our over-illuminated times, it takes effort to fall under the spell of darkness. In recent decades we've done our best to blast it out of existence. And, seen from some vantage points, our own planet looks like a science-fiction otherworld: a computer simulation in the exhibition (LeoLabs' "Low Earth Orbit Visualisation" from 2026) shows it besieged by thousands of orbiting satellites, each coated with reflective metal plating like a mirror. I couldn't help wondering what Brun would have made of this vision of the future, in which we fill the sky with machines so that we can watch ourselves. She might conclude that earthlings don't care about the stars any more.

But she'd be wrong. Campaigning organisations have sprung up, dark sky tourism is booming, and our language has made room for a new word, "noctalgia", to speak of the lovely dark of night that was once our birthright and the grief felt at the loss of it. All over the world, in places beyond the range of street lights, floodlights and security lights, we go on gazing at the sky as we have always done, and teaching our children to look up and join the dots.

'Night Maps', October 21-April 17, Warburg Institute, London, warburg.sas.ac.uk

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Break Clause On Channel 4 now ★★★★☆

What happens if a young couple move into a rental flat together and break up on the very same day? That's the premise of this endearing new comedy from writer Jess Bray and director Alice Snedden, who paint a bitter-sweet portrait of young love in a precarious economy.

Stand-up Lara Ricote is Lil, a woman in her early twenties who is moving from Leeds to London to take up her first real job at an architectural firm. At their graduation ceremony, her boyfriend Ben (Samuel Bottomley), an aspiring writer, announces that he will take the plunge and move to London with her.

But at his leaving party, the night before they move, Ben cheats on Lil, who promptly finds out about it and dumps him the next day. To break the lease on their new flat would be expensive. They decide, instead, to remain flatmates while living their newly single lives.

The show is part romcom, part exploration of an extended adolescence, in which adults are expected to run a household and have jobs and maintain healthy relationships while still feeling that they are barely out of school uniform.

This disconnect between expectation and reality is mined for laughs, but with plenty of feeling. Ben and Lil attempt to throw a dinner party in order to prove their status as mature adults. But a bin-diving expedition derails their plans. As a writer, Ben is perennially cash-strapped; he solves this problem with a combination of tutoring and medical trials which produce a vomit-strewn spectacle.

The romcom element is sweeter than expected. Lil and Ben clearly love each other and are merely going through the motions of a break-up. The show is saved from being overly saccharine, however, by suggesting that they are codependent, and is refreshingly uneasy about what it is that keeps them together.

Around halfway through the series, we begin to see the darker underbelly of the relationship. Lil is the more mature of the two, with a career stretching out ahead of her, but she is easily pulled back into Ben's chaos.

Over six episodes, they try to find what they want from life. Break Clause holds its head a little higher than most comedies, largely due to the innate charm of the cast. Rooster's Charly Clive is the couple's upstairs neighbour, a certified grown-up, while half the cast of Saturday Night Live UK seem to have roles here.

Bottomley is believably dolorous as the lost Ben, while you can't help but root for Ricote as Lil, whose story becomes more fleshed out as the series progresses. It is low-key and surprisingly gentle, then, but it creeps up as one of the year's most winning new comedies.


Young love: Lara Ricote as Lil and Samuel Bottomley as Ben in 'Break Clause'

Flanagan updates King's source material, and Brian De Palma's famous 1976 movie version, to the present day. Here, Carrie White (Summer H Howell) is a homeschooled teenager whose parents have kept her living in seclusion due to their conspiracy theory-driven beliefs. When her father is killed in a workplace accident, her

adaptation The Haunting of Hill House to his take on Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher.

Below On Netflix now ★★★☆☆

So goes the story of Below. Unfortunately for Netflix's new show, the elephant in the room – or the monster in the sea – is Widow's Bay, Apple's smash-hit comedy-horror which recently stormed the Emmys and cemented its place as the TV phenomenon of the year. Below follows in its wake with a thematically and stylistically similar story, which is unlucky for what is a perfectly watchable and even distinctly individual series. Through no fault except bad timing, it suffers from unavoidable comparison.

The residents of a small island begin to have visions, including one of "the hag", a woman who sits on men's chests as they sleep. A monster threatens their way of life, but few will acknowledge that the horror is real until it finally makes itself known at the worst moment. The townsfolk must then come together to battle the unknown and liberate their coastal community.

Upon arrival, Carrie is evidently cloistered and naive, and this smartphone-equipped environment becomes a baptism of fire. Under pressure from queen bee Chris (Alison Thornton), who resents the newcomer, Carrie begins to discover her latent telekinetic abilities.

Nineties teen-movie pin-up Josh Hartnett moves into his hunky dad era

Carrie

abusive mother Margaret (Samantha Sloyan) is forced to get a job herself. Due to the intervention of social services, she reluctantly allows Carrie to attend a mainstream high school.

Stephen King's first horror novel is a slim book, but it has had an outsized afterlife. Filmmakers continue to be drawn to its gruesomely compelling account of female adolescent rage. This latest version comes from Mike Flanagan, who has a record of producing literary television horror that is simultaneously scary and insistently sentimental, from his Shirley Jackson

On Prime Video now ★★★☆☆


Primed for revenge: Summer H Howell in 'Carrie'

as Calvin Penney, a fisherman in the small Newfoundland town of Snooks Arm. His father died in the sea when Calvin was a boy, and the sight of an enormous eye, looming out from beneath the waves, continues to haunt him as a man in his mid-forties. He makes a living by bringing the ice of local icebergs ashore, where it is used in a highly prized alcoholic drink. He is also grieving for his late wife, and lives with his feckless son Wade (Charlie Heaton from Stranger Things). His other children, who have moved to the mainland, are returning for their annual homecoming party – just as the owner of that eye makes its presence felt again.

What stands out immediately is the choice of creator and showrunner Jesse McKeown to stay faithful to the specific accent and dialect of the region, which has its origins in Ireland and the southwest of England, and sounds quite unlike any other accent in Canada. Unexpectedly, it calls to mind the Cornwall-set films of British indie director Mark Jenkin, particularly 2019's Bait, about a close-knit fishing community and its economic decline; the two share a rugged atmosphere.

What lies beneath: danger lurks in the sea in Netflix drama 'Below'

But in Snooks Arm, there be monsters – of both the mysterious and human varieties. There is to be a vote on whether the inhabitants of the town should accept a pay-off to relocate to a less remote area. Meanwhile, a marine researcher (Mackenzie Davis) makes discoveries about a strange virus contained within the ice.

Below is an entertaining concoction, though even over just six episodes, it is a little thinly stretched and overly earnest. Hartnett and Davis make a convincing double act as action hero and plucky scientist, and the show's cinematic scope is impressive, paying tribute to its obvious ancestors, such as Jaws and Alien. But it is not quite fun enough to land with the same guts or gusto as its doppelgänger Widow's Bay.

Howell is outstanding as Carrie and plays her with an emphatic tenderness. Her discovery of a new world is beguiling, which makes it all the more dreadful to watch as her sense of wonder slowly ebbs away. The show holds on to the touchstones of the story, from the infamous bullying scene in the gym locker room, to the kindness of Chris's best friend Sue Snell (Siena Agudong). Also included is the climax of the catastrophic prom, when Carrie finally metes out her

As the chaos grows, Calvin must save his family and community from whatever is lurking in the sea. It is an environmental parable borrowing from folklore, 1970s disaster movies and contemporary science. (Viewers may spot nods to orca “attacks” on boats off the Portuguese coast, and fears of ancient “zombie viruses” that may be unleashed in the melting permafrost.)

Flanagan's approach here is not dissimilar to that taken in his previous adaptations.

But over eight episodes, it meanders around various subplots which feel like padding. The decision to expand the universe into stories of other girls with other supernatural abilities is a swing and a miss. It nudges the series towards a comic-book tone, and lacks the focus necessary to build that impending sense of a soon-to-be-unleashed fury.

revenge on her tormentors.

He ladles on the heart and soul, demanding empathy for all. This is not unappealing, but it dulls the story's viciousness and denies Chris and Margaret, the story's true villains, the nastiness required for audiences to really root against them. Even when Carrie finally reaches its operatic finale, something is being held back. As a result, this is more of a watchable high-school drama than a fresh take on one of the horror greats.

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Troye Sivan She's the Best Interscope ★★★☆☆

In a recent issue of Time magazine, none other than Kylie Minogue saluted Troye Sivan as "a perfect 2020s pop star", at once "hero and confidant" to his fans. Her fellow Australian has spent most of his 31 years in the public eye, initially as a child actor and YouTube vlogger.

He sees his albums as diaries from different stages of his life, another way of broadcasting himself to an audience. That might seem suffocatingly self-conscious, but the results are not.

Sivan's music is warm, sensual and inviting. Not unlike Kylie, he gives the impression of being unaffected by fame. His 2015 debut, Blue Neighbourhood, was a coming-of-age self-portrait as a young gay man from suburban Perth.

Its 2018 follow-up, Bloom, recounted youthful hookups and break-ups. Something to Give to Each Other in 2023 was even bolder in its treatment of sexual liberty following the end of a relationship.

Breezy outlook: Troye Sivan's new album wears its star cameos lightly

She's the Best is his fourth album. It arrives with the support of some serious star power – not just Kylie's endorsement, but also an appearance by Nicole Kidman and the voice of Ian McKellen in videos for the singles, both of whom have previously acted with Sivan. There are cameos in songs from Lily-Rose Depp and Charli XCX, with whom he has toured.

The album wears all this opulence lightly. Its breezy outlook is epitomised by "Le Boy", which finds Sivan “driving around” doing “things I enjoy” over a charmingly sunny west coast pop melody. But She’s the Best doesn’t match its superlative title.

It opens with the title track, a gauche affair in which Sivan recounts a day in the life of his ideal woman (“Pretty, funny, can fight”) in the manner of a softly spoken Lou Reed reading aloud a Cosmopolitan article. The paean concludes with Charli contributing an indistinct backing chant.

The album's celebration of femininity continues with "Party", which samples Madonna's "Music", and the Janet Jackson-influenced "I Do This for You". Depp features in "Lost Time", breathily speaking in French about being "amoureuse".

The pro-woman concept is thinly applied and less diaristic than Sivan's previous albums while the music is more distracted than usual, with ungainly audio effects and abrupt endings.

Matters improve when the singer reverts to the milieu of his previous album, rhapsodising in his unflustered voice about sex and romance with other men over smooth beats and generously textured harmonies. This subtly voluptuous mode is when he sounds most comfortable in an otherwise scattershot set of songs.

Chase & Status Generic Everything Warner ★★★☆☆

A decade after The Chemical Brothers, Chase & Status formed as a DJ duo while Manchester students in the 2000s. Both duos share a predilection for big beats and full-tilt attack but Chase & Status have never acquired much critical cachet. To their detractors, Chase (Saul Milton) and Status (Will Kennard) are drum-and-bass sell-outs with a dubious gift for creating hit singles like the mighty "Baddadan" and their UK number one with Stormzy, "Backbone".

The unappealing title of their new album, Generic Everything, has a preemptively defensive ring, as if anticipating the usual complaints from electronic music's snobs. It's accompanied by brow-furrowed talk from the pair about AI slop and creativity being stifled by algorithms but the 10 tracks do not tackle such weighty matters. Instead, they range liberally through different genres in a succinct 30 minutes. Guests include star of UK rap Little Simz, fellow big-room DJ

Skrillex, and Irah, the deep-voiced dancehall singer whose basso profondo featured on "Baddadan".

He turns up with rapper J Hus on opening track "Disgruntled", a cartoonishly laddish jump-around with badman verses, a skanking tempo and blasts of guitar appearing like steam shooting from an angry comic character's ears. Little Simz appears on "Carnage", unflappably self-composed amid a drum-and-bass fusillade. Then comes a handbrake turn to Brazilian baile funk in the Skrillex collaboration, "Essa Ta Quente".

The pace is brisk, with fresh diversions around every corner. Veteran grime emcee D Double E has a lively turn on "Levels". "Influence" is a Leftfield-style anthem with rapper-singer Ledbyher. "Gone Too Far" is a dance-pop ballad sung by vocalist Debbie.

The tracks come across as a collection of would-be hits, which means no filler, but also the restless sense of jumping from one thing to the next. The quality level is consistent, although none of the songs touches the heights of "Baddadan". If The Chemical Brothers were a pioneering album act for British electronic music, then Chase & Status are their junior siblings, a consummate singles act.


Chase & Status: Saul Milton (left) and Will Kennard

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The Social Reckoning Aaron Sorkin

112 mins (15) ★★☆☆☆

Last time we saw Mark Zuckerberg, he was grimly waiting on a Facebook friend request. We in this context are movie audiences, that last encounter coming with The Social Network – director David Fincher and writer Aaron Sorkin's barbed account of a boy prince of tech, played by Jesse Eisenberg.

The year was 2010. Prehistory. For Zuckerberg, so much still lay ahead, from allegations that Facebook enabled the genocide against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar to the embarrassment of failed 3D virtual world the Metaverse, while extensive research has suggested deep harms from Meta products. And now, after it all, his personal wealth is reported to be more than 60 times greater than it was back then.

It leaves a lot to catch up with in The Social Reckoning, a hacky, frustrating sequel written and directed by Sorkin. Events are pared back to a crunch point. In 2019, we meet Frances Haugen, strait-laced Facebook data scientist. In 2021, she testifies to Congress about the company profiting from misinformation. The movie mostly takes place between. Haugen is played by Mikey Madison, an Oscar winner for Anora, Jeremy Allen White co-stars as Jeff Horwitz of The Wall Street Journal, to whom she first brings word of algorithmic wrongdoing.

Nope, no Zuckerberg yet. As befits his status and a grievously cheesy film,

Killer robot gleam: Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg in 'The Social Reckoning' he enters late. In place of Eisenberg, we now have Jeremy Strong – magnetic, meticulous and always visibly himself, giving a performance. But then, this Zuck is putting on a show as well, preparing for his own congressional hearing.

If social media has made us more stupid, the movie treats us accordingly. A generation ago, Sorkin found fame writing TV political drama The West Wing. His secret then was making viewers feel smart. Now he seems to be addressing the concussed. When Madison reveals that in 2016, 64 per cent of new members of extremist groups on Facebook were led there by the company, the fact is instantly repeated twice. When one crisis follows another for Zuckerberg, characters

wail: "The timing couldn't be worse!"

In 2010, Fincher brought the dark snap of a crime thriller to a character study. Now, real-world urgency feels silly. Meet-ups between Haugan and Horwitz are played as screwball, filled with zany chat about Basset Hounds and banana daiquiris. White is dull, which the movie equates with decency; Madison spends half the film in little black dresses, implausibly. All this is tough on the actors. Nor is it great for whistleblowers or journalists, about whom Sorkin makes earnest noises while clearly being bored by them.

Not so the killer robot gleam of Strong. As Zuckerberg insults his flunkeys, the script can finally enjoy itself. ("Are you new?" "By all means, advise me.") Then it can't stop itself. "We're post-government around here," a PR sneers at Horwitz. A good line. Sorkin thinks so too. "Please let me quote that," the reporter replies, the screenwriterly version of a giving yourself a love bite.

And yet why any of this matters is muffled. Everyone talks but nothing is articulated. Examples of Facebook's rotten influence are wheeled out – children cyberbullied, the bloody mayhem of January 6. But the rap sheet feels flat. There is no outrage in Sorkin's heart. Then again, without the villainy, he wouldn't have a green light.

That the film looks like an old-fashioned TV movie only adds to the sense of yesterday's news. If 2010 feels long ago, so does 2021. The moment has to be painted as a disaster for Zuckerberg. In truth, it saw him suffer some discomfort before he kept getting richer. The movie is Jews if the shark just ate everyone and then swam on. A younger Zuckerberg confessed to having been hurt by The Social Network. Sixteen years on, there is nothing here for him to reckon with. In cinemas now


Andrew Garfield stars as an agitator in 'The Uprising'

The Uprising

128 mins (15) ★★★★☆

Even when it's set in the 14th century, you instantly know a Paul Greengrass film. The kinetic charge the director gave Captain Phillips and the Bourne movies now crackles through his new project, The Uprising. What might be less familiar is the English history it is rooted in. The story is a fictionalised retelling of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt. The moment has rarely been put before the camera – or allowed to disturb the popular idea of Englishness as quaintly immune to revolution.

We open in Essex under thundery skies. An unnamed ploughman (Andrew Garfield) works the earth. Nearby, his family lie buried after the plague. The casting might seem counterintuitive: Garfield is not an obvious son of the soil. But the aura of heartbreak he brings the role is well judged. The character's loss is a building block in the making of a renegade. Because after death come taxes, brutally levied on the poor by advisers to the adolescent

Richard II (Woody Norman).

Confrontation sparks conflagration. An angry but hopeful mass marches on London. There is much modern resonance. Centuries later, another poll tax did for Margaret Thatcher; appeals for “fair wages and rents” may speak loudly to the young of 2026. (Serfs in sackcloth became a comic staple for Monty Python, but I found myself thinking of Belgian-French director Agnès Varda’s remark about the crowds in the 19th-century films of the Lumière brothers. Rather than ancestors,

she said, "they are us.")

Yet The Uprising also spotlights the leaders of the revolt, and their medieval context. Cosmo Jarvis is stolid ex-soldier Wat Tyler; Jamie Bell plays fervent preacher John Ball. For all their radicalism, they share a faith in the goodness of royalty. "We'll see," another character says.

In the US, the film was sold as a Robin Hood origin story. It isn't, though poetic licence does come into play. Hard truths too. This being a Greengrass movie, both come framed with expert, hurly-burly action

sequences. And The Uprising becomes something all the director's own: an underseen chapter from the true story of England, given the status of an epic. In cinemas now

The Disciple Joanna Natasegara 106 mins (15) ★★★☆☆

When legendary rappers Wu-Tang Clan broke through in the early 1990s, their sound was a shock – a seeming bedlam of nine different voices. The chaos endures in documentary The Disciple: A Wu-Tang Fable, retelling a uniquely weird music business tale. It unfolds in the provincial Netherlands and New York's Staten Island, as well as atop an Egyptian pyramid, with stop-offs at Eton College and the US Department of Justice. Such is the story behind the group's seventh and final album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin (2015).

Yet our starting point is as simple as a teenage boy obsessed with music made far away. This is Tarik Azzougarh, son of Moroccan immigrants in the Dutch city Tilburg, whose Wu fandom leads to an unlikely Cinderella story. Eventually, as producer Cilvaringz, he does not just meet his idols but becomes a creative partner of group mastermind the RZA.

And then, in 2014, he has an intriguing and incendiary idea. Partly in response to recorded music's loss of value in the digital age, Azzougarh conceives of a Wu-Tang album limited to a single copy. The contents will be legally barred from reproduction until 2103 – an attempt to make literal a status as work of art.

Much hell breaks loose. Director Joanna Natasegara's film is fan service that speaks to plenty beyond – not least hip-hop's eternal tension between street solidarity and a rampant love of money. (The album was sold in 2021 for \$4mn.) It is also streaked with darkness even before the entrance of Martin Shkreli, the disgraced former pharmaceutical CEO, who takes a bizarre late role.

Faced with the weight of competing angles, the movie settles on a knockabout tone that can feel a little jarring. Perhaps, though, that is the nature of Wu-Tang – still spinning heads after all these years. In cinemas now

Animals

Ben Affleck

106 mins ★★★★☆

Ben Affleck might wonder where he fits in the modern film industry. As a big-screen lead, his mere presence is not enough to excite the box office. For a director, even a Best Picture Oscar, like the one he won for Argo in 2013, is only currency so long.

But he is also a savvy operator. Alongside Matt Damon, Affleck now


Kerry Washington and Ben Affleck in thriller 'Animals'

partners with Netflix making lean B movies with low overheads but a high-end finish. In January, he produced and starred in The Rip, a bristling cop drama. Now, he headlines and directs kidnap thriller Animals, an elevated cheeseburger of a film. I mean that as a compliment.

Affleck is running for mayor of Los Angeles – or rather his character, Mark Kimball, is. The two are easy to confuse, because Kimball is a film-star candidate. "I will not lie to you!" he tells voters, and appears to believe it.

If that sounds like

Chekhov's campaign promise, we have a long way to go. Complicating details are scattered through the fiction, but American realities co-star too. That includes the LA backdrop. Famously, ever fewer Hollywood movies now shoot in the actual city. Here we have Sunset Boulevard, Skid Row and much between.

Like The Rip, though, Animals mostly plays out behind closed doors – a clever budgeting choice that also serves a taut chamber piece of an action movie.

The story kicks in when Kimball's son is abducted. You may be put in mind of Liam Neeson's vengeance-fuelled Taken movies. But Animals is smarter than that and – in the best sense – more cynical. Deft supporting players include Kerry Washington and a splendidly glacial Gillian Anderson, all contributing to a cluster bomb of secrets and hidden agendas. For Affleck, as with all animals, it seems you survive by adapting to circumstances. On Netflix now

Theatre Sarah Hemming & Tim Bano

As You Like It Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon ★★★★☆

It took a little longer than usual for Jonathan Groff's Rosalind and Fisayo Akinade's Celia to reach the Forest of Arden on the opening night of the RSC's new As You Like It. A technical malfunction led to a substantial mid-show delay as the tyrannical duke's fortress stubbornly refused to rise from the stage and yield to the freedom of the forest. When the verdant glade finally did emerge — thanks to sterling work from the backstage crew — Celia's cry "to liberty and not to banishment" prompted warm laughter and applause.

It's not an experience that the company will be keen to repeat. Yet, curiously, this mishap chimed with both the drama and director Daniel Evans's deeply felt reading. Transformation is at its heart. Even the forest has undergone a conversion here: it's not an assembly of trees, but, in Anisha Fields' gorgeous design, a stretch of tussocky Welsh countryside.

Glorious a cappella renditions of Welsh-language hymns (arranged by Theo Jamieson) bathe the action in "hiraeth" — that deep, nostalgic sense of longing. The all-male cast brings a playful, queer element to the text's exploration of love. It's a show driven by the search for home — the place where you belong.

That is emphasised by a striking opening that shows

Different slant: the all-male cast brings a playful queer element to exploring love in the RSC's 'As You Like It' Marc Brenner

Groff's Rosalind brutally manhandled by a group of besuited courtiers, reminding us that while her father has been physically usurped, she has also been displaced. She and her beloved cousin Celia have no place in this oppressive environment where tough talk and wrestling matches define power. As the two flee to find refuge in the wilds where the banished duke presides over an alternative, more liberal way of life, Celia's assumed name – "Aliena" – emerges strongly.

Groff and Akinade bring a rich, complex chemistry to their relationship, pitched uncertainly between friendship and love and, as so often, the deepest dynamic in the play. Groff's Rosalind has beguiling wit and charisma, but also a mischievous pinch of arrogance. Akinade, meanwhile, is superb, intricately charting Celia's devotion and dismay as Orlando takes centre stage in Rosalind's affections. The freedom Rosalind experiences in assuming her new persona contrasts with Celia's growing uncertainty about where she stands.

Throughout, the all-male cast brings a subtly different slant to the many questions about identity and gender already rolling through Shakespeare's great play. Here it's less about societal norms for men and women; more about finding out what fits you and being accepted. That search for home plays out in multiple ways: in Elliot Barnes-Worrell's

troubled Orlando, in the pairing of Tim Preston's prissy Phoebe and Edward Judge's sweetly lovelorn shepherd Silvius, and in Richard McCabe's lonely Jaques, whose final departure in search of spiritual guidance feels quietly genuine.

The genius of As You Like It is that the play itself is so supple – it can emerge as sunny, dark or dappled. Few stagings catch it all, and this one loses some of the subtle explorations of power and parenting. But that feels like a necessary sacrifice in this fresh, gently moving production, packed with wonderful performances and keenly observant about the universal need for love and acceptance. SH To November 7, rsc.org.uk

Hay Fever

Wyndham's Theatre, London ★★★☆☆

The conventions of politesse have not changed much in a century. And judging by Emily Burns's revival of this frothy classic, nor has the approach to staging Noël Coward: we get French windows, clipped accents and a spray of fine-honed wit, topped by two starry leads in Christine Baranski and Richard E Grant.

A four-way faux pas kicks things off: each member of the Bliss family – actress mother Judith, novelist father David and two wastrel children, Simon and Sorel – has invited an unsuitable guest to their country house for the weekend without telling anyone else. This puts immense stress on Jo McInnes's enjoyably stroppy maid. The Blisses play psychological games at the expense of their visitors.

Since it premiered in 1925, one of four plays that West End wunderkind Coward had running simultaneously, Hay Fever has become a staple of both amateur theatre groups and star-led revivals. You can see why. Though the wit is wearying at first, soon there are too many golden lines to resist. "She uses sex like a shrimping net," declaims Baranski's Judith of a rival,

Mostly, though, it chugs along in a pleasant and satisfying way, better than your local amateur theatre effort but no revelatory production to tug Coward into the 21st century. Grant is entertaining enough to watch, with nutty professor hair quivering on his head and a childish giddiness. Strong support comes from Nancy Carroll, who gives an effortless performance as one of the invited guests.

The always reliable Charles Edwards makes awkward silence an art when his character, diplomat Richard, stands stiffly with young flapper Jackie (tight-grinned Lucy Karczewski) making small talk while being ignored by their hosts.

Mostly, though, the show is Baranski's. She commands the stage like Judith does her household. From low imperious hoots, her voice flies up several octaves every few words. It's cleverly done, this performance by a good actor playing a bad actor who thinks she's good.

No accident, of course, that the Bliss living room is decorated with the same gold cornicing and pale blue paint as the Wyndham's theatre. All the drawing

room's a stage, the Blisses are players, and the four guests unwitting participants in an unwanted immersive experience.

But that's where the production gets a bit stuck. You can just about make out little hints of sadness in the Bliss family. This performativeness is all they can do. They either do not know how to be themselves or, more tragic, this is who they are.

Noël Coward claimed to have written Hay Fever in three days. This was demonstrably untrue, but Coward, like the characters he writes in this play, favoured the exaggerated performance of himself more than the mundane reality. This production is happy enough to be a diverting night at the theatre, but seems afraid of peering behind the performance. Despite a good cast and elegant set, it remains as shallow as its characters. TB To December 12, hayfeverplay.com


Feverish: Richard E Grant and Christine Baranski Marc Brainer

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The continent of Africa, home to the world's youngest population, is teeming with emerging artists whose singular perspectives are shaping a globally influential visual culture.

Testament to this is Street Photography Africa, a new book spotlighting 33 contemporary African photographers who are documenting the energy of urban life in their homelands.

The Nigerian image-maker Kothegrapher offers whimsical scenes. He taught himself photography while studying sociology at the University of Abuja, and the two disciplines converge in compositions showing people asserting individuality within their environment.

Here, his friend Lifu appears set for adventure, striding across a road in Abuja's city centre with a tower of straw hats balanced on his head. It is a work that Kothegrapher describes as "proof of freedom, of becoming, of a culture and of connection".

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Are you stuck in linguistic limbo?

Jo Ellison Trending

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his week I received a glossary of terms from the managing editor's office, helping to explain the jargon known as

journalese. It was intended for new starters and trainee journalists, but it was still a gripping read.

The glossary was an amalgam of classic Fleet Street favourites — "shoe-leather journalism", "angle", "sweep" and "colour" — mixed with terms that reflect more digital times. Several of the terms listed spoke quite generally to the profession, others had evolved according to the whim and personalities of those within. Today's lingo now includes words such as "computational journalism" and "fastcharts", to reflect our data-driven dynamism. But even though we think digitally about our stories, old print-media terms such as "drains" and "decks" persist.

Journalese boasts a long, arcane tradition. When I first started on a paper, at the turn of the millennium, the language of the newsroom was still rooted in the letterpress. It was an era of “busted headlines”, where words wouldn’t fit the allotted type space, “galley proofs” and “copytakers”, which referred to a team of, mostly, women who would type out stories dictated over phones.

One editor would harry us about our deadlines, continually fretting about how we had to be "off stone". He was referring to the old practice of assembling the letterpress into its final format, after which no one could make any changes and not one comma could be moved. The expression was already deeply anachronistic – the printing site had long been digitised – but I liked to imagine some old dude like Moses at the printers, heaving engraved tablets of rock around the room.

Exclamation marks were known as "screamers" (or, a "dog's cock" as some liked to call them), and one had to have a "papal dispensation" for

their use. One young intern, having been asked to "file his copy", fretted silently for days afterwards. It meant simply that he had to send his story on an email, but he had legitimately searched vainly for "the file". Years later, he admitted the clumsy anxiety of the misunderstanding. I told him not to worry: for many decades I had no clue what was meant by "burying the lede".

Professional jargon is the inevitability of any workplace, as well practised in the City as it is in Hollywood. (My current new discovery is the expression "a hat on a hat", used among screenwriters to communicate that something superfluous has been added to a scene, or joke, that is already working very well.) Nevertheless, it can be

I'm surprised we still need language. Why 'boil the ocean' when you can send someone an emoji of an exploding head?

confusing and exclusive: poor communication has long been cited as an issue among recruits. There are few things more unnerving than going to a new job to find a world of doublespeak.

The language of the workplace can serve as a convenient shorthand, but it can make young employees, who aren't confident enough to ask what a "catflap" is, feel particularly removed. This breakdown is further compounded when one introduces generational linguistic flourishes that are more reflective of one's age.

According to a study of 2,000 UK office workers, commissioned by Instantprint, more than 68 per cent said they regularly hear phrases they do not understand. Nearly a quarter (24 per cent) felt excluded from a workplace conversation because they did not understand the language.

Twelve per cent said that miscomprehension had led to them making a mistake.

Boomers' olde-worlde sayings and Gen Z slang don't match. The generations are stranded either side of a communications ocean: in fact the Boomer expression "boil the ocean" was one of those expressions that found Gen Z workers most confused.

For the record, I have never in my life heard “boil the ocean”, which according to Google (where 44 per cent of workers “secretly” search for illumination in such matters) means to take on an overly ambitious and unrealistic task.

Then again, neither was I familiar with "rage applying" (applying for lots of jobs because you're pissed off with the one you have already), or "coffee badging" (where an employee turns up, swipes in and gets a coffee before leaving to work remotely) that are well understood by the younger gens. I'm stuck in a linguistic limbo, I don't seem to understand any slang. Maybe I'm immune to jargon, or I prefer to come up with something more bespoke.

Frankly, I'm surprised we still need language. Why boil the ocean when you can send someone an emoji of an exploding head? And there are few conversations, I find, that can't be resolved very satisfactorily with a picture of an up- or downturned thumb. Nevertheless, we must keep nourishing the language, and try to evolve linguistically.

jo.ellison@ft.com

I'm currently using a range of Gen Z expressions: "It's giving" older woman trying tragically to fit in with younger colleagues. "It's giving" David Brent. And I still love the slang of our print forefathers, because I like to pretend that I'm His Girl Friday's Hildy Johnson and my editor is Cary Grant. Am I "coffee badging?" No way, Sir! And yes, you can put a dog's cock on that.

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The danger of pessimism fatigue

Janan Ganesh Citizen of nowhere

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inner at Legado. It has been open for more than a year, so should be losing impetus. Instead it is elbow-to-elbow full on a

Wednesday evening, with double sittings. As of this week, it is trading on Mondays to meet demand. And so begins the conversation that marks many a night out in 2026: "Who are all these people?" "How are they funding this?" Most of all: "Why does no one look haunted?"

There is a 10 per cent chance that AI will cause human extinction, according to some in the field. Off the record, spies quote similar odds on a pan-European war this decade. And still I, like REM, feel fine. The Homeric struggle to get a restaurant table between 5.30pm and 9.45pm suggests that others do too. What explains the gap between the precariousness of the world right now and the majestic nonchalance out there?

Pessimism fatigue, I fear. In recent times, too many boys have cried "wolf" — or "crime wave" or "loneliness epidemic" or "civilisational erasure" — and the townsfolk are numb to it now. Doom merchants are not just a drag to be around. They are bad citizens, insofar as their round-the-clock bleakness makes it hard for others to distinguish the real threats from the neurotic slop.

A westerner of my age has lived through the following public scares. First, nuclear annihilation. In the 1980s, it was the stuff of Hollywood films and Martin Amis's weakest writing. Turns out the cold war was ending, not turning hot. Second, al-Qaeda. The threat was not invented but nor was it ever remotely existential. That era's political speeches have aged mortifyingly. Third, the pandemic, or rather the lockdown, which was going to change human interaction forever. It was an open question whether even the handshake would return, never mind sex. Both have, I hear.

There was no malice behind the raising of these alarms. But the effect, which has been to desensitise people to other warnings, is poisonous. You are likelier to shrug at the mention of Vladimir Putin if you regret not shrugging at the mention of Saddam

You are likelier to shrug at the mention of Vladimir Putin if you regret not shrugging at the mention of Saddam Hussein

Hussein. You might feel licensed to belittle climate concern if you remember expert-sounding talk of an eternal pandemic.

At least the panics of yesteryear were founded on large, concrete events: Pershing missile deployments, 9/11, a coronavirus. In vogue now is a psychocultural gloom – the “crisis of masculinity”, “post-literacy” – built on selective data, pop science and a sort of rhetorical overexcitement that starts to bounce off the audience. At some point, people cross-reference the misery of the “discourse” with their experience of three-dimensional life, in which quite a lot is better than it was a generation ago. The resulting loss of

trust, the tuning-out of warnings, even valid ones, is fatal.

In the past, this column has argued against pessimism for being quite often wrong. And it is. The quickest route to applause from a dappy audience is to pine for some Edenic past, then give a monocausal explanation – Thatcher, smartphones – for the subsequent decline. The middlebrow-ness, the incuriosity about positive social trends, is infinite. Crime has halved since the 1990s and none of these sourpusses want to talk about it.

But this column is different. Its case against pessimism is utilitarian: that it has bad real-world consequences. Despair is dangerous because, over time, if it is falsified more often than not, it makes us less vigilant, not more. When a president is called fascist and turns out to "just" be wrong, inept and venal, people will have their guard down when an authentic fascist creeps into view.

The culprit in Aesop's fable is not the lying boy. It is the villagers, who make the inductive error of disbelieving all wolf sightings because the previous ones were false. A classic Humean no-no, that. People shouldn't do it. But we do. And so the ethical burden is on pessimists to tone things down. Even fairly plausible warnings have to be rationed, to avoid becoming an ignorable white noise. I see the problem most nights. I am the problem most nights, laughing into the gambas al ajillo at what might be the darkest moment since 1945. "Why does no one look haunted?" Perhaps they once did, and feel like fools for it.

janan.ganesh@ft.com


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With higher borrowing costs eroding the chancellor's fiscal headroom, speculation is growing that John Healey will be forced to increase taxes at the Budget on October 28. Where the finger will land (if it lands) is still up for debate. Will capital gains tax rise? Will the so called "mansion tax" threshold fall? Can we expect changes to inheritance tax or to pension lump sums?

In any case, some have already expressed their desire to leave the country — whether for tax reasons or they're simply looking for opportunities outside the UK. But it's a lot easier said than done. Cover story, pages 6 & 7

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Subscriptions spending soars despite cost of living crunch


Health technology subscriptions, such as those for fitness trackers, have grown rapidly in recent years — Alamy

CONSUMER SPENDING Health technology and pet food sectors show rapid growth

ALIYA SHIBLI

Monthly spending by UK consumers on subscription-based goods and services has grown by an average of 9 per cent a year in the past three years, rapidly outpacing sluggish spending in other areas, data shared with FT Money has shown.

Payments data from Barclays indicated the compound annual growth rate of subscription spending since August 2023 was five and a half times the 1.6 per cent growth in overall consumer spending.

The growth in subscription spending consistently outpaced spending on essential goods and services, such as fuel, groceries, childcare and education (up 0.75 per cent per year over the period) and non-essential goods, such as entertainment or beauty products (up 2 per cent per year).

Jessica Gardner, a partner at law firm Fieldfisher, said the data suggests subscriptions are increasingly treated as recurring household commitments rather than discretionary purchases.

Consumers may be retaining existing subscriptions even as they cut back elsewhere, taking out additional subscriptions or migrating to higher-tier or bundled offerings, Gardner said.

Since the growth in subscription transactions (5.1 per cent a year) is slower than the spend, this implies the average value of each subscription transaction is rising, she said.

"This may reflect price inflation or price increases by providers, but it could equally be the result of consumers upgrading to premium services, purchasing higher-value packages or shifting towards more expensive subscription offerings," Gardner added.

Separate figures from HSBC indicated that spending on health technology subscriptions, spanning smart ring technology such as Oura and wrist wearables, had shown particularly rapid growth from a low base, nearly quadrupling between 2023 and 2025.

Spending on health technology subscriptions grew from £28mn in 2023 to £106mn in

2025, while spending on dating apps and meal-in-a-box subscriptions fell.

David Maddison, HSBC UK's senior director of retail and leisure, said the health and wellness spending was particularly interesting. "That's something people have taken extremely seriously post-Covid."

Spending on pet food subscriptions rose by 36.5 per cent between 2023 and 2025, according to HSBC, from £307mn to £419mn.

However, Maddison noted that some other subscription businesses had either "matured or fallen out of favour" post-Covid.

The meal-in-a-box market – the only sector included in HSBC's data to have exceeded £1bn – declined from £1.1bn in 2023 to £1bn in 2025. Dating app spending fell to £22mn in 2025 from £30mn in 2023.

Charlie Casey, chief executive of LoyaltyLion, a customer loyalty and engagement platform, said businesses were "increasingly focused on lifetime value and repeat purchasing", rather than treating every sale as an isolated transaction.

READERS WRITE

The launchpad of mum and dad

My lower working class mum and dad bought me a set of Arthur Mee encyclopedias in 1966, when I was nine years old.

A couple of years later they bought me a Merit chemistry set and I ended up with a PhD in biochemistry. Parents can be brilliant! — Irish Passport, via FT.com

The drive and tenacity that it takes to generate enterprise from the "kitchen table" are the lifeblood of this country's ability to compete in future.

We don't have rare minerals, but, like the parents you describe, as an economy we should do everything in our power to foster and support the creators of enterprise — Mersenne, via FT.com

It seems a very British thing to do for one's parents to charge their grown children rent. Maybe it makes sense or is necessary in some circumstances, but I like what the parents in this article have done.

I will strive to make our home a launchpad for my children when they become adults — Jamie Dixon, via FT.com

Tempted to go freelance? Here's six financial tips for success I went freelance seven years ago, not wholly by choice. So far, so good, as they say!

The tips are spot on — moving from the corporate world to freelance can be tough, because you don't have all those chance conversations in the office, whether about work or other stuff.

But you also find you have so much more productive time because you're not attending lots of corporate meetings of little value — Gas-expert, via FT.com

There is one basic, irrefutable rule about freelancing. You should no longer consider yourself working for an employer. You are now a business offering services to a customer.

Like any good business, you will prosper if you take time to understand the needs of your customer and do your best to meet them. And if you want to complain to the IT manager in your enterprise I'm afraid you have to look in the mirror — Bob, Freelancer, via FT.com

Capital gains tax rise would deter equity investors, wealth bosses warn

Fundamentally, CGT is a tax on risk and risk-taking. Why would anyone want to risk capital that could be lost, when, in the event of success, it would face a potential 45 per cent tax? Most, if not all, capital invested has already been taxed already — GM40, via FT.com

Capital gains tax is largely a tax on inflation. Calling it a tax on profit is just a PR ploy — Thucydides trap, via FT.com

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NEWS

Workers expect to put off retirement by 5.3 years

RETIREMENT

Britons resigned to work five years longer than they would like

ALIYA SHIBLI

The gap between when people want to retire and when they expect to stop working has passed five years for the first time, according to new research, as confidence that people are putting enough away for the future declines.


The increased state pension age is thought to be a reason for changing retirement expectations — Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images

On average, UK workers want to retire at about 62, but now expect to work until nearly 68, pushing the “retirement expectation gap” to a record 5.3 years, up from 4.7 last year and 4.4 in 2024, according to Standard Life’s Retirement Voice report.

The gap widens for women, who expect to work 6.1 years longer, compared with 4.5 years for men.

"The age people would ideally like to retire hasn't changed [in recent years], but the point at which they think they will actually be able to stop work is drifting further away," said Catherine Foot, director of the Standard Life Centre for the Future of Retirement.

Foot blamed renewed pressure on household finances, a wider sense of economic and global uncertainty, and the state pension age currently rising from 66 to 67.

"Together, these factors risk making retirement feel less certain and more distant, rather than a milestone people can plan towards with confidence."

It comes as the proportion of respondents feeling “positive” about their financial situation has declined in the past three years, particularly among higher-income households, Standard Life found.

Matthew Blakstad, director of strategic policy and research at Pensions UK, said another "retirement expectation gap" is the one between the retirement that people hope for and the retirement they expect to achieve. “[This is] very real for millions of people who are leaving the workforce in their fifties and early sixties,” he added.

Blakstad pointed to government data showing that nearly three in 10 women in this age group are economically inactive, as are more than one in five men.

"The challenge is not simply when people retire, but whether they can shape the years leading up to retirement by reducing hours, changing roles or continuing in suitable work," Blakstad said.

Around half of the 6,000 people surveyed by Standard Life worried that their retirement finances would not last and felt that their finances were largely determined by factors outside their control.

Yet the proportion of those prioritising pension saving had fallen to 12 per cent from 15 per cent last year. More than a third had done no retirement planning at all, rising to 39 per cent of millennials and 40 per cent of Gen Z.

Those who had done “a great deal” of retirement planning had a retirement expectation gap of 2.5 years, compared with 7.3 years among those who had done none, the research found.

Among respondents in households earning more than £100,000 a year, those who had planned their retirement had a gap of less than one year, compared with around five years for those who had not.

Megan Rimmer, chartered financial planner at Quilter Cheviot, said: "Increasing pension contributions when income rises, consolidating old pension pots where appropriate, reviewing investment choices and regularly reassessing progress can all make a meaningful difference."

While half of those surveyed expected they would need to work beyond the state pension age, almost one in five though they would be unable to continue in their current role past 60.

The retirement expectation gap varies across the UK and between different groups, with renters and younger generations facing some of the widest gaps, the research found.

Wales, the East Midlands and south-east England have gaps of six years or more, with the largest gap in north-east England at 6.6 years. Greater London has the smallest expectation gap at 3.8 years.

Renters face a retirement gap of 6.8 years, more than three times as large as the 2.1-year gap among those who own their home outright and just over a year longer than those with mortgages.

Rimmer said: "Some people may choose to reduce their hours or move into less demanding roles before stopping work altogether. Others may continue working because their pension and savings are not yet able to support the lifestyle they hoped to have."

Retirement flats have been a miserable investment

To assess value, the purchaser has to balance initial, recurring and final costs against unpredictable longevity – this is difficult to do

Jonathan Guthrie

Financial Thinking n apartment block for retirees has sprung up nearby. A banner announces that units are selling like hot cakes. It


Retirement flats have acquired an unenviable reputation in the UK — Dom Mckenzie

features a photo of three smiling oldies raising wine glasses on a sundrenched terrace. Only an Italo-American granny is needed to recreate a scene from the 1980s TV sitcom The Golden Girls.

In the past, someone might have thought: "That would do for mum/ dad/me (when the time is right)." Fewer of them think it these days. Retirement flats have acquired an unenviable reputation in the UK.

"There have been horror stories in the media about people left with sizeable ongoing costs [on an apartment] although their loved one no longer lives there," says Jeremy Porteus of the Housing Learning and Improvement Network, a membership organisation.

The other issue is hefty drops in the resale value of some new-build retirement flats.

I only became excited – I use the term advisedly – about retirement flats when I had trouble obtaining price data. Four decades in journalism taught me that if potentially damaging financial information is scarce, it may mean an industry wants to keep it that way.

So I knitted data from the yarn of price histories for retirement flats published by Zoopla, a housing portal. I was shocked by what I found.

First, I investigated apartments in purpose-built blocks created, for the most part, by private developers. These flats are leasehold properties.

I found that over the past 26 years the retirement flats in my sample rose by an average of just 2 per cent a year in nominal terms between first and last sale price. That is pretty dreadful. Consumer price inflation has been higher and has itself been healthily outstripped by growth in prices for dwellings of all types.

Prospective price increases – the gap between first sale and prices currently advertised by owners – are typically even lower than realised price rises for the same properties. Averages conceal some individual shockers. Price drops of 30-40 per cent are not unusual.

Caveats apply to my home-knit numbers. Many price histories were incomplete and my sample was accordingly limited. Moreover, many flats that I included started as newbuild properties. Prices for these tend to fall for a few years after the first sale, which makes comparisons with general property prices imprecise.

Fortunately, a comprehensive study in 2025 by Gus Wiseman, a Cambridge university real estate master's graduate, confirmed the price underperformance of retirement dwellings. He also showed that new-build retirement flats lose value at twice the rate of other new builds after five years or so.

Critics have suggested reasons for the big price drops. They say high annual service charges at old-school developers such as McCarthy & Stone — jocularly known as “the Granny Stacker” to City investors back in the day — can deter potential buyers of pre-owned properties, especially since charges can run to five figures when you also factor in ground rent and council tax and are payable even when the property is empty.

In an email, McCarthy & Stone responded: "The later living market faces the same challenges as the wider housing market and, of course, some apartments have been impacted. But even in this market, we are continuing to see many of our apartments go up in value." The company believed its service charges delivered "exceptional value".

Maybe. But would an alternative approach better align the interests of leaseholders and the

freeholder? Increasingly, retirement complex developers charge lower service fees, recouping losses plus a margin by claiming a percentage of resale proceeds agreed upfront.

"We are seeing that many people prefer to pay more at the end with a cheaper entry price and greater certainty on charges," says Michael Voges of Associated Retirement

Community Operators, a trade body.

I am left with two big objections to retirement flats. First, to assess value sensibly, the purchaser has to balance initial, recurring and final costs against unpredictable longevity.

Second, retirement flats have historically been a bad investment in a stagnant market requiring reform. We need larger, cheaper retirement communities, with better incentives for occupants and operators.

The qualifier is that heirs are the most vociferous victims of current weak resale prices for new-build apartments. They are understandably distressed by steep monthly service charges on vacant properties they struggle to sell.

However, elderly relatives who left them the property had priorities beyond residual value when they purchased it. These may have included safety, services and perhaps a tipple in the sun. That advertising banner cannot be pure fiction.

Many retirement flats have appreciated much less than other homes

Retirement flat price moves, UK cities (annual %)


Sources: Zoopla; Land Registry; author's research • Nominal figures. 10-12 retirement flats per city since 1996. Realised prices from first to last recorded sale. Prospective prices from first sale to current advertised price. Realised average all properties 2000-26

Readers from places where several generations share a dwelling may smile at the knots we Anglos tie ourselves in to avoid it.

"It amazes me that you expect your old people to live alone," a South American friend once told me. "Back home, we all live together."

"Peacefully?" I asked.

"Oh no!" he laughed. "Everyone argues like crazy. But where I come from, family is family."

Jonathan Guthrie is a journalist, adviser and author; jonathanbuchananguthrie@gmail.com

Forvis Mazars named top UK financial advice firm by FT Adviser

SIMONEY KYRIAKOU

Forvis Mazars has been named the UK's most successful financial adviser, according to an annual study carried out by FT Adviser, a sister publication of the Financial Times.

The London-based firm earned the top ranking for growing its assets under advice and taking on clients.

David Baker, partner and head of financial planning at Forvis Mazars in the UK, said most new business had come through referrals from existing clients. "There's no greater validation than a client recommending us to others," he said.

Running for 30 years, the

Top 100 Financial Adviser rankings highlight firms that have expanded their businesses, grown assets under advice, brought on new clients or attained chartered or certified credentials.

Each year, the methodology for the ranking is refined in collaboration with ISS Market Intelligence to reflect changes in the industry. The success of the UK financial advisory business happened in the same year that Forvis Mazars laid off about 3 per cent of its audit, tax and advisory departments in the US.

Firms making it into the FT Adviser Top 100 list this year brought in a minimum of £240mn in gross sales over the year, the highest level since the Top 100 records began.

"It has been a really strong year for advisers," said Clair Lester, head of adviser research at ISS Market Intelligence. "More people are seeking advice because of all the [policy] changes."

FT Adviser also creates a Top 50 Boutiques list for firms with fewer than 10 financial advisers, to highlight the work done by small advice companies in their local communities. All of the boutiques for 2026 had brought in £200mn in gross sales over the 12 months to July 2026.

A full list and the methodology behind the rankings can be found at FT.com/adviserlist.

YOUR QUESTIONS / NEWS

Your Questions Can I appoint a guardian for my children?


A surviving parent normally takes responsibility for children — FT montage/David De Lossy/Getty Images

YOUR QUESTIONS

Lucy Warwick-Ching

I have separated from my children's father and am updating my will to appoint guardians for them. I have serious concerns about their father's suitability to care for them and do not believe it would be in their best interests to live with him if I were to die. As their mother, can I appoint alternative guardians, and what can I do to maximise the chances of my wishes being followed?

Sarah Williams, partner and head of children in the family department at Forsters law firm, says this is an issue she sees all too often.

Many parents assume that appointing guardians in their will means that those chosen will automatically be granted care of their children if they die. However, where the other parent survives and has parental responsibility, that parent will usually continue to make decisions about the children's upbringing.

Parental responsibility is the legal authority to make important decisions about a child's life, including education, medical treatment and welfare. As a mother, you will automatically have it.

A father usually has responsibility if he is married to or in a civil partnership with the mother, or if he is registered on the child's birth certificate. It can also be acquired by agreement or court order.

In most cases where the surviving parent has parental responsibility, a guardian appointed by a will does not step in immediately – the appointment becomes effective only if the surviving parent dies while the children remain under 18.

An important exception applies where a child arrangements order names only the now-deceased parent – and not also the surviving parent – as the person with whom the children live. In those circumstances, the guardian can acquire parental responsibility immediately on the parent's death, even though the other parent is still alive.

This places the guardian in a stronger position if concerns arise about the children's future care. But even then, it does not mean the guardian will automatically take over the children's care, nor does it guarantee the children will live with them long term.

If a dispute arises, the court will determine what arrangements are in the children's best interests, with welfare as the paramount consideration. However, the guardian will have a formal role, and the deceased parent's wishes are likely to carry greater weight.

It is sensible to prepare a letter of wishes explaining why you have chosen particular guardians in your will and setting out any serious concerns you have about the surviving parent that are relevant to the children's welfare.

Where such concerns exist, specialist family law advice should be sought.

The key point is that a guardianship appointment alone may not achieve your desired outcome. Ensure your will, any letter of wishes and any child arrangements court orders are consistent. Evidence supporting your concerns should be retained and any findings from earlier family court proceedings may be particularly significant.

The opinions in this column are intended for general information purposes only and should not be used as a substitute for professional advice. The Financial Times Ltd and the authors are not responsible for any direct or indirect result arising from any reliance placed on replies, including any loss, and exclude liability to the full extent.

Find answers to more reader questions at FT.com/your-questions

Demand for tracker mortgages jumps as rates on fixed deals rise

EMMA DUNKLEY

Demand for tracker mortgages in the UK has risen as concerns mount over the cost of fixed-rate deals, though some brokers warn that trackers are a gamble.

Mortgage brokers have reported a sharp increase in the number of people taking out tracker home loans, which follow the bank base rate, as rates on new fixed deals continue to rise.

The average rate on a five-year fixed mortgage with a loan-to-value ratio of 75 per cent hit 4.98 per cent in September, according to Bank of England data released this week, the highest level in three years.

Market analysts and traders expect the BoE to raise interest rates four times by the end of July 2027, with the first quarter-point rise coming as soon as November.

Although a rising base rate would push trackers up, brokers say they could be cheaper than many fixed-rate deals.

"We've seen interest [in trackers] nearly treble since the beginning of the year," said David Hollingworth of broker London & Country. "It's almost going back to the trend of the mini-Budget period," he said, referring to the period when rates on fixed deals shot up as interest rates rocketed.

Ray Boulger, senior mortgage technical manager at John Charcol, said that in the first few months of 2026 about 8 per cent of customers opted for trackers, but that share is now more than 20 per cent.

He added that a tracker with a rate of more than 4 per cent will still be cheaper than many five-year fixes on the market today, allowing for a potential one percentage point increase by the middle of next year.


Increasingly expensive: five-year fixed rate loans

Andrew Montlake, chief executive of mortgage broker Coreco, said: "We are definitely seeing more borrowers ask about trackers again, mainly because fixed rates have moved higher and some trackers now look relatively attractive on price.

"The appeal is flexibility. Borrowers can benefit if the bank rate falls and many tracker products have lower or no early repayment charges, which can make them useful for people who do not want to lock themselves in at today's fixed rates."

However, Montlake warned that trackers are “not a free bet”, as there is always a risk that macroeconomic conditions change and further rate increases are on the cards.

He added: "For the right borrower, a tracker can be a sensible tactical option, but it should be chosen because the flexibility suits their circumstances, not simply because they are gambling on rates coming down."

Although fixed rates are rising, they remain below the peak reached in mid-2023. Many lenders told the FT that borrowers' arrears had remained stable.

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Many Britons say they plan to leave the UK – but there are lots of ways to get it wrong, writes Emma Agyemang

The unseen tax pitfalls of moving abroad

n increasing number of people seem determined to leave the UK. But whether you pine for adventure, are looking to start a new career or just want to lower your tax bill, make sure you don't mess it up.

Failing to manage your UK tax exit properly could cost you dearly.

The United Arab Emirates, for example, does not charge personal income tax or capital gains tax (CGT). Despite the Middle East conflict this year, it remains popular with British entrepreneurs who can move there in advance of selling a business with the aim of eliminating their CGT bill.

However, if you spend less than five years outside the UK before returning, all that tax planning will come to naught. Spend a day too long visiting your family at home and gains you realised abroad will be brought into the scope of UK CGT. And if you die your estate will be liable for inheritance tax unless you have spent more than 10 years out of the UK.

With tax rises a possibility at this month's Budget, the drumbeat of stories about people leaving for tax-friendlier climes is gathering pace.

"It's not all just turn up and enjoy the sunsets," says Max Porter, tax partner at ATC Tax, a consultancy firm. "There are things that people don't think about until it goes wrong."

At best, people who juggle their income and assets, such as pensions, investments or property, across multiple countries often face increased adviser fees. But it can also be an administrative problem – and, at worst, can lead to surprise tax bills and other costly errors.

"[The] globalisation of personal wealth is happening much faster than the globalisation of the infrastructure around it," says Cristina Teixeira, founder of Astride, a cross-border tax and wealth platform.

As a result, globally mobile individuals are forced to navigate complex, fragmented rules, which can lead to pitfalls for the unwary.

And foreign jurisdictions are becoming more alive to potential tax errors that Britons make when they arrive. Requests by overseas tax authorities for information on UK taxpayers reached a seven-year high in 2025, according to data obtained by Price Bailey, an accountancy firm.

So what are the common mistakes people make? FT Money investigates.

Residency woes

Tax residency can be triggered after someone spends at least 183 days a year in a country. However, the rules are often more complicated than they first appear. For example, the UK calculates residency based on the statutory residence test. The number of days someone can spend before becoming tax resident depends on several factors, including how many ties they have to the country. Those with more ties may need to limit their presence in the UK to 15 days or fewer to maintain their non-resident status.

Porter, who has helped many Britons who relocated to the Middle East, warns that unexpected events can upend planning about tax residency.

To benefit from the Gulf states' low taxes, taxpayers need to be resident and have ceased being resident in the UK, which taxes people's worldwide income and gains. The UK also has anti-avoidance rules that tax certain income and capital gains realised abroad if a person returns to the UK within five years.

During the pandemic, many Brit- ons in the Middle East lost their jobs and returned to the UK earlier than planned, re-establishing their British tax residency. Consequently, their Middle East earnings became subject to UK income tax. More recently, thousands opted to come back to the UK after the war in Iran broke out, although many have since returned.

"Once you go one day over [your number of allowed UK days], there are no replays," Porter warns.

Steven Coelho, partner at Saffery, an advisory firm, also says he has seen people “tripping up” by coming back to the UK too early after having realised gains overseas, because people might not realise the legislation requires the taxpayer to be a non-UK tax resident for five years or more, rather than simply five tax years.

Other considerations can also disrupt planning. "Often people just wake up and realise 'this place is not for me'," says Kevin Austin, director of Access Financial, a global umbrella company and international payroll solutions provider. Sometimes their partner or children are unhappy. Whatever the reason, unravelling a relocation can result in unplanned tax consequences.

Multiple tax claims

Individuals can become tax residents in two or more countries, allowing each country to claim taxing rights on their income or assets.

Many countries have entered into treaties to prevent double taxation of income or capital. But experts caution that the treaties do not prevent individuals from becoming tax residents in more than one country; they simply allocate which country has the right to tax in that eventuality.

Rachel de Souza, partner at accountancy firm RSM, warns that "double tax treaties are not perfect", with often a high administrative cost for people who need to access them.

Individuals who become tax residents in multiple countries can face cash flow problems if each country taxes their income simultaneously. Where a treaty applies, they can

The UK has lower employment taxes than EU peers, but has the highest in the Anglosphere

Employment taxes and employment costs, couple with single earner and two children (%)


Comparison is via OECD 'average tax wedge' calculation (personal income tax plus employee and employer social insurance contributions minus family benefits divided by gross wages plus employer SICs) Sources: OECD 2026; Jonathan Guthrie

claim a credit from one country to avoid paying tax twice, but repayment delays can prolong the strain.

The possibility of multiple countries claiming taxing rights over an individual's assets does not just apply to a person's income, but also to their capital. While the UK has more than 120 double tax treaties with other countries in relation to income and gains, the number of treaties it has in relation to wealth is much smaller, at

'When people are emotionally vulnerable following a death, to be told the estate could be taxed [at least] twice is a real unpleasant shock'

just 10, de Souza adds. This means that an individual could find themselves not covered by the protection of a double tax treaty if the dispute relates to wealth held in a country not within the UK's treaty network.

What's more, different jurisdictions can claim taxing rights based on different criteria. De Souza gives the example of an estate case she was involved with, which, she says, was the "perfect storm" because Ireland, the UK and Spain all claimed the right to apply inheritance tax.

The individual was living in Ireland at the time of death, which taxes the estate of the deceased based on tax residency. However, they were born in the UK and had been a long-term resident, the criterion which the UK uses to levy IHT. A beneficiary of the estate was living in Spain, which taxes inheritance on a recipient basis.

"In that scenario, you're in a whole world of pain," de Souza says. "It's the heirs that suffer. "At a time when people are emotionally vulnerable following a death, to be told the estate could be taxed [at least] twice is a real unpleasant shock."

Other assets

If an individual decides to keep a UK property that they own and let while they live abroad, the rental income will be subject to UK income tax, regardless of where they are resident. They will need to continue filing UK tax returns as a non-resident landlord and, unless they register with HM Revenue & Customs as a non-resident landlord, will suffer a 20 per cent withholding tax on rental income.

They may also need to comply with other regulations, including the Making Tax Digital rules. These require individuals to file digital quarterly updates on rental income above £50,000. The threshold will fall to £30,000 from April 2027 and £20,000 from April 2028.

Another lesser-known pitfall can occur if a person decides to keep their UK-based property empty while they are abroad, perhaps to live in when they return to the UK. Tim Stovold, partner at Moore Kingston Smith, an accountancy firm, says most home buildings insurance policies restrict cover if a property is left empty for more than 30 days. "People might be merrily living abroad unaware that their home buildings insurance is invalid after a month of their being out of the country," he says.

Other aspects of people's personal finances that can trip up unsuspecting UK leavers include tax wrappers such as Isas. While these are "a nobrainer to have in the UK, they don't travel well," warns Stovold.

There are three main problems with Isas held by people living abroad. First, individuals cannot contribute to their accounts as non-UK residents, and must notify their provider when they have left the country.

Second, Isa income and gains are often taxable in another country, as the exemption only applies in the UK.

Third, in countries such as the US,

Isas and other investments can lead to complex and expensive reporting requirements. Stovold says one client who moved from the UK to the US had not realised the difficulties she would encounter with her UK-based Isa. The Isa was worth about £60,000 but the fees she paid in the US to comply with the reporting requirements meant it made more sense to encash it and invest in the US.

Emanuel Santos

“Pensions can also be horribly complicated,” says Dawn Register of tax specialists BDO. Sometimes pensions held in the UK can attract tax in another country, even in cases where no payments have yet been made. Meanwhile, individuals living outside the UK are limited in how much they can contribute to a UK pension by the amount of taxable income they have in the UK, meaning those living abroad may not be able to contribute much to UK pensions.

'It's not a case that you are home and dry if you're UK non-resident. The devil is always in the detail.'

Receiving payments from multiple pensions in different countries can also be problematic, according to Christian, a Denmark-based academic who receives income from six pension pots in four countries, including the UK.

He says HMRC made a mistake in classifying his UK employer and state pensions, which took years to sort out, while the Danish tax authority took three to four years to accept that his US employment pension should be taxed as a pension.

Christian, who asked us not to use his real name, says: "There is no simple place to figure this out . . . because I have several countries to deal with, I pay quite a lot to accountants."

How to avoid the pitfalls

Advisers recommend several actions to avoid falling into these myriad international tax traps. These include seeking advice ahead of any relocation and again at least six months before any potential return to the UK.

Register suggests that people aim to simplify their financial affairs ahead of any relocation, both to make any transition simpler and to have a clear idea of what they own, especially because, under rules known as the Common Reporting Standard, more than 110 tax authorities share information with each other about individuals' financial assets, including bank accounts and investments.

De Souza says that it is sometimes simpler for people to put wealth held across multiple countries into a structure such as a trust or foundation, so everything is held in one jurisdiction. She also recommends that people have a separate will for each country in which they have assets.

"It's not a case that you are home and dry if you're UK non-resident," says Coelho of Saffery. "The devil is always in the detail."

High earners are right to wail about childcare costs

Calls to remove the £100,000 earnings limit show how broken our tax system really is


Claer Barrett

Serious Money iving childcare benefits to people earning six-figure salaries sounds mad. But what about actively avoiding


If you earn over £100,000 your childcare costs will soar — FT montage/Dreamstime

promotion, deliberately scuppering a sales deal or pleading with your boss not to give you a bonus? Welcome to the madness of the childcare tax trap that's ensnaring tens of thousands of higher-earning parents and slowly strangling the younger generation's economic productivity.

In England, if one parent earns a penny over £100,000, they lose virtually all state help with childcare costs for under 3s. Nursery places are now so expensive that, without this subsidy, families could be worse off by tens of thousands of pounds. This creates a perverse incentive to cut their hours, forgo a pay rise or stick huge sums into pensions to keep their adjusted net income under the cap.

I have spoken out about the insanity of this policy for years, so I was pleased that Kemi Badenoch, the opposition leader, pledged to scrap the £100,000 childcare cliff edge in a speech at the Conservative Party conference this week.

“What we want to see is that people who work harder don’t get punished for doing so,” she said. Quite right, but we need the ruling party to get behind this and the idea of helping higher earners is politically divisive. The average punter on social media is openly hostile to it. Many point out that the median full-time wage in Britain is less than £40,000. Earning £100,000 puts you in the top 5 per cent of earners. Surely these rich whingers should be able to pay their own childcare bills?

I don't disagree. But kinks in the tax system and the unsustainable way we fund childcare in England make this doubly unaffordable.

The £100,000 childcare cliff edge coincides with horrific marginal tax rates as the personal allowance tapers. On the £100,000-£125,140 band of earnings, a worker with a master's degree could keep 23p in the pound after income tax, national insurance and student loan deductions.

This hits their earnings power precisely at the point when they go over the cliff edge and have to pay full whack for their childcare.

The price of a full-time nursery place in England has nearly tripled since 2001. Childcare reforms in 2024 brought down costs for parents entitled to receive subsidised hours. However, costs continue to climb for those who do not qualify for support, according to the latest Coram childcare costs survey.

The situation is most acute in the capital. If a London parent earning more than £100,000 loses their subsidy, a full-time nursery place could easily swallow £24,000 of their post-tax pay. Such crazy marginal rates make it all but impossible for parents to out-earn this problem. Securing a pay rise of 25 to 50 per cent is unlikely, but that could be what is required to lift them out of the trap and put them in the same financial position as a parent earning £99,999.

Instead of focusing on how they can earn more, higher-earning parents are actively trying to earn less. Sifting through responses to a recent FT survey, I found that many readers felt they could not afford to do a great job at work for fear that a pay rise or bonus would take them into the salary “dead zone” where they would lose subsidised childcare but not earn enough to make up for it.

This has created a “broken rung” of career progression for high-earning young professionals in Britain who feel forced to limit their earnings

until their youngest child starts primary school. How much is this costing the economy and the workers' future prospects?

"The incentive for people not to try harder happens all the way from £90,000 to £160,000 and potentially higher," says Matthew Griffiths, founder of the Wealthy Parent Guide, which advises parents how to navigate the trap. Increasing pension contributions is the obvious way to stay under the cap, but this requires advance planning. An unexpected discretionary bonus at the end of a tax year can blow careful calculations. "I've spoken to salespeople who have tanked deals for their company as they didn't want the commission to land them in the trap," he says.

HS doctors, who have less pension flexibility, tell us they are dropping to a four-or even three-day week.

Some professional women with partners earning more than the cap are quitting work altogether because they can't afford the childcare on top. It is discriminatory that two parents earning £99,999 each are entitled to the subsidy, while a single parent earning more than £100,000 is not.

With tax thresholds frozen, the number of people caught in the trap has nearly doubled in four years and is set to rise further. Staying under the cap is harder as housing costs soar,

eating up families' incomes while their take-home pay cannot budge.

The other lever that parents say they are reluctantly pulling is not having baby number two.

This is thoroughly depressing, so I'm glad that the Tories have moved this issue up the political agenda. Their estimated £700mn a year cost of removing the cliff edge feels modest given the misery and economic damage it causes.

However, solving this problem creates another for private childcare providers. Current government funding for “free” hours does not cover the cost of providing them. If a nursery’s most profitable customers become eligible for the subsidy and nothing is done to close the funding gap, who will be left holding the baby if yet more nurseries close?

Fixing the childcare problem is the right thing to do, but fundamental reform to our broken tax and childcare system will be needed. Unlike Badenoch, I believe this should be a bigger policy priority than cutting inheritance tax or keeping the triple lock.

As an ageing society, we cannot afford to stop creating the taxpayers of the future. We urgently need a tax system that incentivises productivity, career progression and procreation.

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Emma Hill, co-founder of Damson Madder

'Protect the cash, don't overspend'


Emma Hill: 'Our messaging of responsible, organic fabric bases and ethical ways of working resonated' Anna Gordon/FT

Emma Hill's early life was shaped by bankruptcy. When she was eight, her father's building firm went bust following the 1980s housing crash and the family home was repossessed.

Hill, her mother and two siblings moved into social housing and her parents divorced. "I remember the electricity being on a pay-as-you-go key. Every so often it ran out in the evening, so we would have to light candles," Hill recalls.

She spent a decade working in the fashion industry but branched out on her own after starting a family. In 2020, she co-founded Damson Madder: its name is a fusion of the plum-like fruit and madder, a plant whose roots are used as a clothing dye – a nod to the brand's sustainable aims.

Damson Madder does not have a physical store, selling directly to consumers online and through retail partners. The brand turned over £31mn last year, and is predicted to generate £40mn in the current financial year. It is based in Camden, London, and it employs 60 people. Interview by Charlotte Guckian

When did you decide to start your own business?

I'd worked for nearly a decade in various fashion buying and product development roles. I enjoyed aspects of it, but it wasn't what I wanted to do for the long term. I've always been entrepreneurial and I got to an age where I was thinking seriously about my career path because I wanted to start a family.

I reached out to my future co-founder Jacob Morris, a former colleague, and asked if he was interested in starting a brand. Thankfully, he was and we founded Damson Madder together.

How did you fund your business in the very beginning?

Jacob made an initial investment of £60,000 in the business. During our first year of operating, he invested an additional £80,000 to buy stock and facilitate our wholesale orders. We wanted to develop slowly and steadily rather than rely on bank loans, and we made back the initial investment within the first three years. We have not yet had to seek outside investment.

Early on, we relied on wholesale, working with small boutiques. The W Store in Walthamstow, where I live, was one of the first accounts. The beginning was all hustle: negotiating small orders with factories, asking favours of friends and family. My sister designed and built our first website for £300. My best friend did our PR in exchange for gifting. Everything was on a shoestring.

Born: Reading, 1984

Education: 2003-06: BA in Fashion Promotion and Communication, Southampton Solent University

Career: 2008-18: Various fashion buying and product development roles
2019-present: Co-founder, Damson Madder

Lives: in Walthamstow, London, with husband and two children.

How did working in fashion buying prepare you for becoming a brand owner?

It taught me about products and what a factory can realistically achieve on quality, lead times and margins. And why fit, fabric base and detail matter more than anything on a mood board. We learnt how fast customer behaviour moves, how trends change, and creating exceptional products at a fair price.

Those I worked with, who were experts in their field, are some of the people I later employed.

What was the turning point for Damson Madder's expansion?

In 2023, we had some very strong viral styles – the leopard cargo trousers, the leopard Tilly gilet – with waiting lists of more than 15,000 people. That gave us the confidence to move to a new advertising agency and invest properly in paid ads.

At the same time, we brought on a wholesale agency that helped us expand globally, mostly in the US, and moved into more premium stores: Selfridges, Liberty, Galeries Lafayette and Nordstrom. That changed the game for us. In 2024, our turnover more than tripled from £6mn to £19mn.

How did the pandemic change your business strategy? We launched two weeks after the UK

went into lockdown in March 2020. My friend Rachel Vasdekys had got a piece from our first collection featured in a clothing round-up in Metro. I remember the day of publication, realising that no one would be on the Tube to read it, imagining the papers blowing in the wind.

It was challenging, but there were good things about launching during lockdown. Our messaging of responsible, organic fabric bases and ethical ways of working resonated because people had time to look critically at what they were buying and wanted to make more responsible choices. I think having playful, bold prints made our products stand out too.

How do you manage your own finances? Has this changed since becoming a business owner?

It's really hard. I spent years burying my head in the sand about my personal finances. I was giving my business my all, coming home with just about enough energy to feed my children and put them to bed. I'd be doing profit and loss sheets at work, but then I wouldn't look at my bank statements for months.

As my team has grown and taken more control of Damson's finances, I've had more time for my own. I've set five-year financial goals, which I share with my husband. One of these is planning for my children's education and giving them the option of going to university, should that be the path they choose.

How did your upbringing influence your relationship with money?

From a young age I learnt that it was important to earn my own money, build my own security and not to have to rely on anyone. At 13 I got a job in my local chip shop, earning only £2.88 per hour. After that I got a job at Homebase.

My dad's work ethic inspired me; he was a proper grafter – even though he lost everything, he showed me success was still possible.

What is your biggest expense each month?

Definitely my home – mortgage, furnishings, bills. My upbringing has a big part to play in that. We moved into five different rented properties in five years. It's important to me to have a solid base and a safe environment for my kids to grow up in.

I'm not very materialistic. I think it's because I work in fashion and I know the cost of everything, so I don't buy much for myself. But I love travelling and experiences with my two young children.

Do you have a pension?

I do now. For a while every spare pound went back into the business. Now that we are in a good place, I have set one up. I would advise a founder not to leave it as long as I did. Your business is not a pension.

What financial lessons are you teaching your children?

Learn to do what you love. Security and money matter enormously, but how you live your life with that money is what actually counts. I would far rather help my children become people who can create wealth for themselves than leave them a large inheritance.

What advice would you give to other founders?

Obsess over making an exceptional product. Competition in fashion is tough. Lots of businesses make amazing things, so you've got to love your product, ensure it fits well and feels good. That's just the baseline.

Protect the cash. Don't overspend – there are ways and means of doing things without a massive budget. To me, it's really obvious when a brand overspends on shoots, marketing or paid advertising.

Play the long game, keep the faith and believe in what you are doing. Follow what you are passionate about and what feels right in your gut.

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ondon's primary market for junior companies has struggled in recent years, but the cause of Aim's troubles lies more in external

factors than the quality of the businesses themselves.

Investor appetite for UK stocks in general has declined due to the greater appeal of strong US markets and the growth of passive investing, which channels money mainly to mega companies around the globe.

Higher interest rates, viewed as unfavourable to small-cap companies because they often rely on borrowing for development capital, have also reduced interest, as has the lack of liquidity. And as share prices have dropped, it has made it difficult for companies to raise equity.

A further hammer blow was Labour's decision to withdraw full inheritance tax relief for unquoted shares, which removed a key reason for buying those traded on Aim.

While an overhaul of the rules governing Aim is designed to encourage listings, reduce costs and ease regulatory burdens, investing in the junior market is ultimately about company fundamentals and finding good-quality, long-term growth opportunities. The market has produced many success stories, including Fevertree Drinks, Jet2, Unite, Judges Scientific and Cohort. It's where main market companies easyJet, NCC and Asos started their listed life.

Many of the companies are highly exposed to the domestic economy, but that's not always the case. Well over half of engineering conglomerate Avingtrans's revenues come from outside the UK.

With this group, investors get exposure to the nuclear and aerospace booms, as well as to medical devices through the company's imaging arm.

Meanwhile, its strategy of buying, turning around and, when appropriate, selling specialist engineering companies in highly regulated sectors has both expanded and refined the portfolio, pushing the company into similar territory to bigger rivals.

Industrials Avingtrans (AVG) 728p

Share price up 50 per cent on the year

The recent strong run in Avingtrans' shares is easy to understand. A record of revenue and profit growth, an ability to exploit niches in complex areas of engineering and a strong presence in high-demand sectors such as nuclear and defence have contributed to a 50 per cent year-to-date share price rise, even after a £21mn equity raise.

The company has started to put this cash to work, acquiring the intellectual property, trading history and brand of nuclear engineer Joseph Oat Corporation for \$2.5mn (£1.9mn).

Investors' Chronicle

Avingtrans is also continuing its hunt for premises to house a bigger US factory and a training school.

Adjusted cash profit from the advanced engineering division rose by 12 per cent to £24mn.

Broker Cavendish forecasts a 23 per cent increase in adjusted pre-tax profit this year, though the broader base after the equity raise means earnings per share growth forecasts are more muted, at 12 per cent. A price/earnings ratio of 21 is below its five-year average and does not look prohibitive given the group's prospects. Michael Fahy

Travel & leisure JD Wetherspoon (JDW) 871p

Cost pressures continue

JD Wetherspoon shares topped a 12-month high on final results day, after the pub operator revealed that a hot summer had helped lift sales.

The FTSE 250 company said that like-for-like sales came in 4.2 per cent higher over the 12 months to July 26. But revenue of £2.24bn was not enough to offset cost pressures that saw operating profit fall to £120mn.

The drop in profits came as little surprise, given that JD Wetherspoon had warned in July that its full-year figures were likely to be "below market expectations". This was the group's fourth profit warning since January.

One bright spot was a quiet shift towards "an increasingly capital-light franchised strategy", according to Ben Needham, a portfolio manager at asset management firm Ninety One.

The group's valuation has increased significantly since its interim results in March, and JD Wetherspoon shares now trade on a relatively full 17.4 times forward earnings. For a company at the value end of the price spectrum, we think this multiple looks rich given its margin pressures. Erin Withey

DIRECTORS' DEALS

Consumer staples Tesco (TSCO) 495p

Buyback expanded to £950mn

Tesco's interim results revealed a resilient performance that enabled the grocer to lift the bottom end of its 2026 profit guidance, implying cautious optimism for the second half.

Sales rose by 4 per cent to £37.4bn for the six months to August 29, of which 79.5 per cent came from the group's core grocery business in the UK and the Republic of Ireland.

Although free cash flow of £1.57bn was partly offset by outflows of £558mn and £613mn relating to share buybacks and the previous year's final dividend, management announced an uplift to its current share repurchasing programme from £750mn to £950mn.

The board said it now expects adjusted operating profit for the 2026 financial year of between £3.15bn and £3.3bn, up from the more cautious £3bn to £3.3bn range it had indicated in April.

As an asset-rich, defensive stock, we continue to see Tesco's forward price/earnings ratio of 16.9 as justified. The company is cash-generative and operationally efficient relative to peers and therefore remains our pick in the sector. EW

Who's buying or selling shares in their own company this week?

BUYDirector/PDMRDatePrice (p)Aggregate value (£)
Arbuthnot BankingSir Henry Angest (ch & ce)29 Sep 26800.8176,000
AvivaAmanda Blanc (ce)*30 Sep 2668849,117
Barr (AG)Darren Shapland (ch)*30 Sep 2657557,486
BioPharma CreditGraeme Proudfoot*29 Sep 2673.751,612
CheckitKit Kyte (ce)30 Sep 2616.299,999
CMC MarketsDavid John Fineberg (PDMR)2 Oct 26598139,325
CMC MarketsLord Cruddas (ce)2 Oct 26604138,996
CML MicrosystemsNathan Zommer29 Sep 26260400,236
EntainMichael Snape (cfo)1 Oct 26416.499,995
JD Sports FashionPeter Agnefjäll (ch)25 Sep 2677.1246,720
MidwichAdam Councell (cfo)28 Sep 26166.8124,378
Property Franchise GroupGareth Samples (ce)*28 Sep 2641345,430
RenalytixChristopher Mills29 Sep 26670,000
Seplat EnergyTony Elumelu*30 Sep 2688753,220,000
Sirius Real EstateAndrew Coombs (ce)24 Sep 269090,000
Symphony International HoldingsAnil Thadani*22-29 Sep 2629.71,523,399
TruFinJames van den Bergh (ce)28 Sep 2698.349,150
ZIGUPKatie Tasker (PDMR)30 Sep 2647560,164
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InchcapeGlafkos Persianis (PDMR)25 Sep 26782.3323,614

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Volatility is a gift for trading platforms, so it comes as little surprise that online trading group CMC Markets' chief executive Lord Cruddas and head of global strategic partnerships David Fineberg have each acquired around £139,000 worth of shares.

Cruddas, the company's founder, bought 23,011 shares at an average of 604p, while Fineberg bought 23,300 at 598p.

The purchases follow a July 1 trading update in which CMC lifted its guidance for net operating income in the year to March 31 2027 to at least £550mn — well ahead of its previous £460mn to £480mn range — with guidance for earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation of £250mn. This builds on a strong 2025-26. Julian Hofmann

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Oct 09Chg%Chg
↗AustraliaAll Ordinaries8877.7054.50
↗BrazilBovespa208527.662307.42
↗ChinaShanghai Composite3813.791.89
↗FranceCAC General7803.3373.64
↗GermanyDAX25087.27280.30
↗Hong KongHang Seng24211.35425.56
↗IndiaBSE S&P SENSEX72472.33879.09

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Oct 09Chg%Chg
ItalyMilan FTSE MIB49746.31448.430.91
JapanNikkei69030.92-11.19-0.02
SingaporeStraits Times5401.89-11.07-0.20
SpainMadrid SE1898.809.400.50
SwitzerlandSMI Index13787.40150.401.10
USADow Jones51616.52384.880.75
USANasdaq27325.93+132.59+0.49
Currencies
Oct 09Chg%ChgOct 09Chg%Chg
$/€1.120-0.001-0.107E/$0.7560.0000.008
$/£1.323-0.000-0.008€/£1.1810.0010.097
£/€0.847-0.001-0.100¥/€177.3610.0340.019
¥/£158.4150.2000.126£ Index85.286-0.009-0.011
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Keystone Low Group24.6p7.5pSep 25Sep 24
M&G8.8p6.7pSep 11Sep 10
Power Probe1.6p6pSep 25Sep 24
PPHE Hotel Group17p17pSep 18Sep 17
Real Estate Credit Investments3p3pSep 25Sep 24
Regional REIT2p2.5pSep 18Sep 17
RM Infrastructure Income1.2p0.025pOct 02Oct 01
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Global Growth Index3655.011.28%3.33%15.71%61.01%
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FTSE All-World Ex UK Index888.681.48%3.46%16.12%64.09%

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Retail Price Index / Consumer Price Index

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US 2 Yr4.774.760.01
US 10 Yr5.255.27-0.02
US 30 Yr5.615.84-0.03
UK 2 Yr4.724.710.01
UK 10 Yr5.385.41-0.03
UK 30 Yr5.956.00-0.05
JPN 2 Yr1.861.88-0.02
JPN 10 Yr3.003.04-0.04
JPN 30 Yr4.104.13-0.03
GER 2 Yr3.093.060.03
GER 10 Yr3.473.470.00
GER 30 Yr3.843.85-0.01
Chg Over 1 MonthChg Over 12 Months
RPIAug 421.600.60%3.4%
RPXAug 414.600.58%3.3%
CPIAug 143.600.50%3.1%

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US Long Bonds4.71%
Euro Base Rate2.65%
DateCompany
13-Oct-2026Abington Health
13-Oct-2026Aptamer
13-Oct-2026Bellway
13-Oct-2026YouGov
15-Oct-2026Seraphim Space
19-Oct-2026System1
23-Oct-2026FRP Advisory
ReportDateCompanyReport
Final13-Oct-2026Angling DirectInterim
Final13-Oct-2026Bytes TechInterim
Final15-Oct-2026XPS PensionsInterim
Final21-Oct-2026Sanderson DesignInterim
Final22-Oct-2026BloomsburyInterim
Final22-Oct-2026Milton CapitalInterim
Final22-Oct-2026Sainsbury'sInterim
PriceDlyDisc/Prem
3i Infra388.003.00-5.31
Abf GVIT91.00-1.00-12.04
Abf Sml1826.0032.00-10.47
Aberdeen Asia Foc470.002.00-8.6
Aberdeen Asian Inc Fund321.001.00-7.01
Aberdeen Eq Inc448.005.001.37
Aberdeen UK Sml533.006.00-6.9
Alliance Witan1403.006.00-4.95
Allianz Tech764.00-10.00-8.31
Artemis UK Future Lead389.501.50-13.17
Aurora UK Alpha248.003.00-13.42
AVI Japan179.500.50-2.99
BG China Growth286.003.00-4.79
BG Euro121.500.50-8.76
BG Japan1076.0010.00-9.17
BG Shin179.003.20-9.31
BG US Growth389.50-1.00-2.47
Baillie Gifford UK218.003.00-9.84
Bankers IT155.200.40-8.45
Biotech Growth1400.0036.00-6.19
BlckR Amer Sml283.002.000.94
BlckR Energy & Res178.004.00-4.7
BlckR Front189.002.00-1.45
BlckR GtEur573.004.00-7.23
BlckR I&G234.00-4.00-6.85
BlckR Smir265.503.00-14.41
PriceDlyDisc/Prem
BidR World Mining948.0025.00-3.09
Brunner1560.0010.00-9.67
Caledonia Inv386.004.00-35.14
CanGen CS2701.4992.45-41.45
City of Lon571.006.002.04
City Natural Res G&I413.009.004.17
CT Healthcare122.00—-2.94
CT MgdI131.00—1.49
CT MgdG328.001.00-3.16
CT Cp&I339.003.00-4.48
CT UK HIT B107.00—-5.04
CT UK HIT Ord104.50-1.50-5.48
Dunedin Inc306.003.00-7.84
Edinburgh Inv833.0014.00-7.99
Edin Worldwide280.503.00-6.89
The Euro SmCo227.501.50-8.24
F&C Inv Trust350.602.20-8.99
Fidelity Asian610.004.00-5.08
Fidelity China245.502.00-6.82
Fidelity Emer Mkts1522.0018.00-8.9
Fidelity Euro413.002.50-5.03
Fidelity Spec463.504.50-0.34
Finsbury G&I792.0016.00-5.87
The Glbl Small Co190.401.00-4.91
GRIT(susp)1.25—-91.32
Hansa332.002.00-40.25
PriceDlyDisc/Prem
Hansa A334.00-1.00-40.07
Hen Fars288.501.006.65
Hen High Inc200.002.00-4.71
Hen Smir958.0013.00-9.11
Herald2300.00-5.00-13.82
HICL Infra130.60-0.40-18.33
Impax Env451.00-3.00-10.42
IntiBiotech1050.0020.00-1.61
Intl PP135.400.40-11.78
Inv Asia Dragon Tst493.00—-6.93
Inv Bond Inc167.50-0.501.8
JPM Amer IT1250.004.00-4.2
JPM Asia G&I580.002.001.41
JPM China G&I250.00-0.50-8.33
JPM Clavr928.004.00-3.11
JPM Emrg EMEA234.505.50228.6
JPM Emrg169.000.00-6.96
JPM Eur Disc606.007.00-8.44
JPM Eur G&I135.00-0.20-2.85
JPM Em Mk Div214.00—-8
JPM Gbl G&I612.50-0.50-3.44
JPM India Growth Inc836.0018.00-8.65
JPM Japan833.003.00-8.51
JPM UK Sm350.001.00-7.81
JPM US Sml416.006.00-9.33
Law Deb1206.0014.002.23
PriceDlyDisc/Prem
Lindsell Train580.006.00-11.92
Lowland184.502.50-7.97
Manwyn Val141.00—-46.63
Mercantile272.504.50-9.92
Merch. Tst856.008.00-3.24
Mid Wynd805.009.00-2.37
Monks IT1682.008.00-5.31
Montanaro Eur176.502.00-9.81
Murray Inc966.0014.00-6.39
Murray Intl356.503.500.95
New Star IT138.00—-31.92
N. Atl Smir IT418.00—-34.15
Pac. Horiz.1124.0010.00-7.75
Pers. Assets545.004.00-0.99
Polar Health429.0011.501.99
Polar Fin.237.000.50-3.15
Polar Tech.702.00-3.50-9.53
Rights & Iss IT2510.0030.00-19.48
RIT Cap.2490.0040.00-22.93
Ruffer Inv Pr290.50-1.00-2.86
Schdr AsiaPac838.006.00-8.44
Schdr AsiaTotal707.007.00-4.18
Schroder Inc353.001.00-6.11
Schdr Japan388.003.00-8.09
Schdr Orient.453.002.00-3.83
Schdr UK Mid754.004.00-6.05
PriceDlyDisc/Prem
Scot American555.003.00-7.36
Scot Mortgage1636.5013.50-9.01
Scot Oriental281.002.00-8.83
Strategic Eq.401.501.50-10.98
Temple Bar413.003.00-0.22
Tetragon1107.710.09
TRIG76.100.70-25.31
UIL211.00—-26.98
Utilico Emer Mkts296.001.00-9.61
Worldwide Hlth368.0010.00-5.94

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ACCOUNTS WITH INTRODUCTORY BONUS
MONTHLY INTEREST UP TO £5,000
Variable Rates
First Time Buyers
UP TO 90 DAYS' NOTICE £10,000
OFFSHORE ACCOUNTS £10,000
Remortgages
ISA Rates

AccountNoticeMin DepositAERInt Paid
NO NOTICE £5,000
Progressive BS (via branch)Double Access (2)None£14.50%Yly
cahoot (cahoot.com)Simple Saver (20)None£14.52%Yly
Hanley Economic BS (via branch)Branch Boosted TrackerNone£1,0004.75%Yly
NO NOTICE £10,000
Progressive BS (via branch)Double Access (2)None£14.50%Yly
cahoot (cahoot.com)Simple Saver (20)None£14.52%Yly
Hanley Economic BS (via branch)Branch Boosted TrackerNone£1,0004.75%Yly
NO NOTICE £50,000
Monument Bank (via app)Welcome SaverNone£25,0004.56%Mly
The Stafford BS (srbs.co.uk)Access-One Saver 2None£50,0004.60%Yly
Hanley Economic BS (via branch)Branch Boosted TrackerNone£1,0004.75%Yly
NO NOTICE £100,000
Monument Bank (via app)Welcome SaverNone£25,0004.56%Mly
The Stafford BS (srbs.co.uk)Access-One Saver 2None£50,0004.60%Yly
Hanley Economic BS (via branch)Branch Boosted TrackerNone£1,0004.75%Yly
Hanley Economic BS (via branch)Notice 5050 Day£1,0004.20%Yly
Kent Reliance (via branch)Notice Savings - 7560 Day£1,0004.25%Yly
StreamBank (streambank.co.uk)Notice - 1290 Day£1,0004.35%Mly
UP TO 90 DAYS' NOTICE £5,000
Hanley Economic BS (via branch)Notice 5050 Day£1,0004.20%Yly
Kent Reliance (via branch)Notice Savings - 7560 Day£1,0004.25%Yly
StreamBank (streambank.co.uk)Notice - 1290 Day£1,0004.35%Mly
Kent Reliance (via branch)Notice Savings - 7560 Day£1,0004.25%Yly
StreamBank (streambank.co.uk)Notice - 1290 Day£1,0004.35%Mly
BLME A (blme.com)Notice (10)90 Day£10,0004.37%Oly
Kent Reliance (via branch)Notice Savings - 7560 Day£1,0004.25%Yly
StreamBank (streambank.co.uk)Notice - 1290 Day£1,0004.35%Mly
BLME A (blme.com)Notice (10)90 Day£10,0004.37%Qly
UP TO 90 DAYS' NOTICE £100,000
Kent Reliance (via branch)Notice Savings - 7560 Day£1,0004.25%Yly
StreamBank (streambank.co.uk)Notice - 1290 Day£1,0004.35%Mly
BLME A (blme.com)Notice (10)90 Day£10,0004.37%Oly
Vida Savings (vidabank.co.uk)Double Access Saver 2None£5004.36%Mly
cahoot (cahoot.com)Simple Saver (20)None£14.52%Mly
cahoot (cahoot.com)Sunny Day Saver (6)None£15.00%Mly
MONTHLY INTEREST £5,000
StreamBank (streambank.co.uk)Notice - 1290 Day£1,0004.35%Mly
Vida Savings (vidabank.co.uk)Double Access Saver 2None£5004.36%Mly
cahoot (cahoot.com)Simple Saver (20)None£14.52%Mly
MONTHLY INTEREST £10,000
StreamBank (streambank.co.uk)Notice - 1290 Day£1,0004.35%Mly
Vida Savings (vidabank.co.uk)Double Access Saver 2None£5004.36%Mly
cahoot (cahoot.com)Simple Saver (20)None£14.52%Mly
Vida Savings (vidabank.co.uk)Double Access Saver 2None£5004.36%Mly
cahoot (cahoot.com)Simple Saver (20)None£14.52%Mly
Monument Bank (via app)Welcome SaverNone£25,0004.56%Mly
Standard Bank International.
(standardbank.com)Offshore Reserve SavingsNone£3,0001.15%1⁄2 Yly
NatWest International
(natwestinternational.com)Premium SaverNone£11.36%Mly
Standard Bank International.
(standardbank.com)International Saver 3636 Day£10,0002.70%Yly
Principality BS (principality.co.uk)Online Bonus Triple Access (9)None£14.30%Yly
OakNorth Bank (oaknorth.co.uk)Easy Access Tracker - 15None£14.35%Mly
Post Office (postoffice.co.uk)Online Saver 90None£14.40%Yly
Teachers BS (teachersbuildingsociety.co.uk)Bonus Savings (1)None£10,0004.50%Yly
Chase (via app)Chase Saver BoostedNone£14.50%Mly
Saffron BS (saffronbs.co.uk)Online Bonus Saver (2)None£14.50%Yly
Tembo Money (via app)HomeSaverNone£104.55%Mly
Zopa (via app)Limited Access potNone£14.56%Mly
Starling Bank (via app)Easy SaverNone£15.00%Mly
LemFi (via app)LemFi Instant AccessNone£15.00%Mly

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Short Term Fixed Rates
Santander4.99% to 2.1.2960%£999To 2.1.29
HSBC5.54% to 31.1.2990%-To 31.1.29
Santander5.04% to 2.1.3075%£999To 2.1.30
Santander5.31% to 2.1.3090%£999To 2.1.30

Longer Term Fixed Rates

Santander4.96% to 2.1.3260%£999To 2.1.32
Yorkshire Building Society5.08% to 31.1.3285%£1,495To 31.1.32
first direct5.29% for 5 years90%£4901st 5 yrs
Nationwide BS5.64% for 10 years80%£9991st 10 yrs
first direct5.14%F for 2 years60%£4901st 2 yrs
first direct5.28%F for 2 years75%£4901st yrs
first direct5.44%F for 3 years85%£4901st 3 yrs
Yorkshire Building Society5.19%F to 31.1.3285%£1,495To 31.1.32
Skipton BS5.72%F to 31.1.2995%-To 31.1.29
Barclays Mortgage5.74%F to 31.12.2895%-To 31.12.28
Barclays Mortgage5.56%F to 31.12.2995%£999To 31.12.29
Leeds BS5.62%F to 31.1.3295%-To 31.1.32

Discounted Variable Rates

Bath BS4.44% for 2 years80%£9991st 2 yrs
Bath BS4.69% for 2 years80%-1st 2 yrs
West Brom BS4.69% to 31.12.2890%£999None
Buckinghamshire BS4.99% for 2 years70%£9991st 2 yrs
Nationwide BS4.09% for 2 years60%£999None
Yorkshire Building Society4.13% to 31.1.2975%£995None
Nationwide BS4.22% for 2 years80%£999None
Nationwide BS4.35% for 2 years85%£999None

Buy-to-Let Variable Rates

HSBC4.49%V for 2 years65%£1,999None
Hinckley & Rugby BS4.75%D for 2 years75%£1,2491st 2 yrs
Bath BS5.09%D for 2 years80%£9991st 2 yrs

Buy-to-Let Fixed Rates

NatWest5.24% to 31.1.2975%£995To 31.1.29
HSBC4.75% to 31.1.3260%£3,999To 31.1.32
TSB5.69% to 31.1.3280%£1,995To 31.1.32

D=Discounted rate. F=Fixed rate. V=Variable rate. Terms and conditions may apply when you repay your mortgage. All rates and terms subject to change without notice and should be checked before finalising any arrangement. No liability can be accepted for any direct or consequential loss arising from the use of, or reliance upon, this information. Readers who are not financial professionals should seek expert advice.

House Prices
House Index / Mortgage Rates
Nationwide House Price Average (Sep 2026)£274.251
Nationwide House Price Index (Monthly Index)548.30
Nationwide House Price Index (Annual Change)0.80%
Lloyds House Price Average (Sep 2026)£298,441
Lloyds House Price Index (Monthly Index)514.60
Lloyds House Price Index (Annual Change)0.00%

Current Accounts

ProviderAccount NameAccount FeeInterest Rate
Nationwide Building SocietyFlexDirectNone*5%
Bank of ScotlandVantage Classic AccountNone*3%
LloydsClub LloydsNone*3%
ProviderAccount NameAccount FeeInterest Rate
Starling BankCurrent AccountNone*15%
First Direct1st AccountNone*39.90%
Virgin MoneyM Plus AccountNone*19.90%
*Account Fee free if minimum requirements are met

Credit Card Rates

INTRODUCTORY RATES

ProviderCard TypeIntro PurchaseAPR
TSBPlatinum Purchase0% for 25 Months24.95%
BarclaycardPlatinum Balance Transfer0% for 24 Months24.90%
M&S BankPurchase Plus0% for 24 Months24.90%

BALANCE TRANSFERS

ProviderCard TypeIntro PurchaseTransfer FeeAPR
MBNALong Balance0% for 36 Months2.99%24.9%
HSBC1st Account0% for 36 Months3.19%24.9%
BarclaycardPlatinum Balance Transfer0% for 36 Months3.15%24.8%

BALANCE TRANSFERS

ProviderCard TypeAPRCashback
American ExpressCashback Everyday29.1%0.5%-1%. Intro 5% for 5 months (max £125)
Virgin MoneyEveryday Cashback24.9%0.25% Intro 1% for 3 months (max £15 a month)
NatwestTravel Reward27.9%0.1%-1% on spend over £1 a year

Pension Annuities

ProviderRanking£ per annumProviderRanking£ per annum
Single LifeAged 55Single LifeAged 60
Movement since 30/09/20267.36%Movement since 30/09/20266.65%
Scottish Widows Annuity1£7,084.20Standard Life Pension Annuity1£7,453.20
Aviva Pension Annuity2£7,065.12Scottish Widows Annuity2£7,435.08
Standard Life Pension Annuity3£7,063.80Aviva Pension Annuity3£7,413.84
Canada Life Lifetime Annuity4£6,964.56Canada Life Lifetime Annuity4£7,326.36
ProviderRanking£ per annumProviderRanking£ per annum
Single LifeAged 65Joint LifeMale Aged 60 & FemaleAged 57
Movement since 30/09/20266.35%Movement since 30/09/20262.92%
Scottish Widows Annuity1£8,297.28Scottish Widows Annuity1£7,122.72
Standard Life Pension Annuity2£8,142.96Aviva Pension Annuity2£7,083.84
Canada Life Lifetime Annuity3£7,937.76Canada Life Lifetime Annuity3£7,053.36
Legal & General Pension Annuity4£7,818.24Standard Life Pension Annuity4£7,045.32
ProviderRanking£ per annumSource: Mercer Financial Planning 0345 072 6774Mercer Private Wealth is a trading name of Mercer Limited. Mercer Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Registered in England and Wales No. 984275
Joint LifeMale Aged 65 & Female Aged 62
Movement since 30/09/20266.37%
Scottish Widows Annuity1£7,664.76
Standard Life Pension Annuity2£7,604.76Registered Office: 1 Tower Place West, Tower Place, London EC3R 5BU
Canada Life Lifetime Annuity3£7,527.24
Legal & General Pension Annuity4£7,314.36www.mercor.com/private-wealth/

All payments are monthly in arrears, without a guarantee period and without escalation, with a spouse's benefit of 50% where applicable. Gender neutral rates. Figures assume an annuity purchase price of £100,000 and are shown gross. LS1 Postcode A company appearing top for one set of benefits or age may be poor for a different set of benefits (for example, an index-linked annuity) or a different age. It is therefore imperative that you shop around for an annuity suited to your own circumstances. The tables do not include enhanced annuity rates for smokers or those in ill-health, nor for companies that provide annuities only for a specific group of retirees. The lower-paying providers have not been shown. The ranking column shows the position of the provider in relation to the top-paying annuity provider.

Accounts & BondsNotice or TermMinMaxAERInt Paid
Guaranteed Growth Bonds Issue 755 Year Bond£500£1m5.17%Yly
Guaranteed Income Bonds Issue 755 Year Bond£500£1m5.17%Mly
Guaranteed Growth Bonds Issue 833 Year Bond£500£1m5.10%Yly
Guaranteed Income Bonds Issue 833 Year Bond£500£1m5.10%Mly
Guaranteed Growth Bonds Issue 931 Year Bond£500£1m4.99%Yly
Guaranteed Income Bonds Issue 931 Year Bond£500£1m4.99%Mly
Guaranteed Growth Bonds Issue 812 Year Bond£500£1m5.07%Yly
Guaranteed Income Bonds Issue 812 Year Bond£500£1m5.07%Mly
Green Savings Bonds Issue 93 Year Bond£100£100K4.45%Yly
Direct SaverNone£1£2m3.75%Yly
Income BondsNone£500£1m3.75%Mly
Investment AccountNone£20£1m2.05%Yly

All rates are shown as AER Variable unless otherwise stated. Methods of opening and operating accounts will vary. All rates and terms subject to change without notice and should be checked before finalising any arrangement. No liability can be accepted for any direct or consequential loss arising from the use of, or reliance upon, this information. Readers who are not financial professionals should seek expert advice. Visit Moneyfactscompare.co.uk for details.

AccountNotice or TermDepositTransfers In% AERInterest Paid
Cash ISAs
Progressive BS (theprogressive.com)Double Access ISA (6)None£1Yes4.50%Yly
Plum (via app)Plum ISANone£1No4.68% AMly
Moneybox (via app)Moneybox ISANone£500Yes4.71% AMly
Chip (via app)Chip Smart ISANone£1No4.72% AMly
AccountNotice or TermDepositTransfers In% AERInterest Paid
Fixed Rate Cash ISAs
OakNorth Bank (oaknorth.co.uk)Fixed ISA12 Mth Bnd£1Yes4.91%Mly
Hodge Bank (hodgebank.co.uk)Fixed ISA1 Yr Bnd£1,000No4.92%OM
Shawbrook Bank (shawbrook.co.uk)Fixed ISA - 1321 Yr Bnd£1,000Yes4.94%OM
Castle Trust Bank (castletrust.co.uk)Fixed e-ISA1 Yr Bnd£1,000Yes4.95%OM
Accounts & bonds (tax free)Notice or TermMinMaxTransfers In% AERInterest Paid
NS&I Junior ISAAge 18£1£1-3.70%Yly

A = Introductory rate for a limited period. OM = Interest paid on maturity. All rates shown as AER variable unless otherwise stated. Methods of opening and operating accounts will vary. All rates and terms subject to change without notice and should be checked before finalising any arrangement. No liability can be accepted for any direct or consequential loss arising from the use of, or reliance upon, this information. Readers who are not financial professionals should seek expert advice. Visit Moneyfactscompare.co.uk for full details.

Data compiled by ICE. www.ice.com. The prices listed are indicative and believed accurate at the time of publication. For further information contact newspapers@ice.com

Canaccord Wealth International Multi Strategy Funds Limited
ASB Capital

Atlantis Sicav(LUX)

MANAGED FUNDS SERVICE

Algebris Investments

Algebris Core Italy I EUR€ 239.06--3.53-4.860.00
Algebris Core Italy R EUR€ 220.50--3.26-4.520.00
Algebris Financial Credit I EUR€ 225.72--0.130.150.00
Algebris Financial Credit I GBP£ 200.31--0.060.220.00
Algebris Financial Credit I USD$ 208.88--0.070.235.86
Algebris Financial Credit R EUR€ 189.57--0.120.110.00
Algebris Financial Equity B EUR€ 370.54--1.02-4.220.00
Algebris Financial Equity R EUR€ 299.92--0.83-3.470.00
Algebris Financial Equity Fund B GBP£ 310.32--0.76-3.370.00
Algebris Financial Equity Fund B USD$ 468.20--1.17-5.093.90
Algebris Financial Income I EUR€ 296.02--0.41-1.600.00
Algebris Financial Income R EUR€ 260.23--0.36-1.440.00
Algebris Financial Income Fund I GBP£ 217.89--0.24-1.066.02
Algebris Financial Income Fund I USD$ 248.98--0.28-1.200.00
Algebris Global Credit Opportunities I EUR€ 152.50-0.160.010.00
Algebris Global Credit Opportunities R EUR€ 146.08-0.15-0.010.00
Algebris Global Credit Opportunities I GBP£ 152.12-0.150.050.00
Algebris Global Credit Opportunities I USD$ 157.00-0.160.050.00
Algebris IG Financial Credit I EUR€ 118.02--0.120.010.00
Algebris IG Financial Credit R EUR€ 113.99--0.110.000.00
Algebris Strategic Credit Fund R EUR€ 113.57--0.110.100.00
Algebris Global Equity Select B EUR€ 152.46--1.48-0.370.00
Algebris Global Equity Select R EUR€ 144.82--1.41-0.390.00

ASB Capital

www.asbc.com
ASB SUKLK - ACC$ 101.91-0.000.000.00
ASB SUKLK - DIST$ 94.08-0.000.000.50
ASB State Street Global Equity$ 125.11-0.000.000.00
ASB Global Technology$ 167.71-0.002.540.00
ASB MENA Equity$ 98.25-0.000.000.00
American Dynamic$ 9087.20-0.00141.160.00
American One$ 11100.38-0.00115.700.00
Bond Global€ 1646.01-0.0018.550.00
Eurocroissance€ 1311.23-0.00-0.090.00
Far East$ 1267.36-0.0031.700.00

A NEW YORK LIFE INVESTMENTS COMPANY

Artemis Corporate Bond I Acc117.09-0.43-0.420.00
Artemis Global Income I Dis238.46-1.81-3.420.00
Artemis High Income I O Inc.73.77-0.190.050.23
Artemis Income I Inc347.09-4.384.025.48
Artemis Monthly Dist I Inc100.39-0.37-0.540.00
Artemis Short-On Strat Bond132.90-0.04-0.230.00
Artemis SmartGARP Eur Eq I Acc977.54-7.80-8.350.00
Artemis SmartGARP Global Small Co I Acc266.44-3.052.741.95
Artemis SmartGARP GloEmr Eq I Acc358.70--2.242.750.00
Artemis SmartGARP Glo Eq I Acc832.62-7.5111.460.00
Artemis SmartGARP UK Eq I Acc4687.58-47.95-9.222.41
Artemis Strategic Assets I Acc111.25--0.080.000.00
Artemis Strategic Bond I O Acc123.83-0.23-0.264.46
Artemis UK Select Fund Class I Acc1425.55-19.36-14.470.00
Artemis UK Smaller Cos I Acc2661.11-33.2624.521.81
Artemis UK Special Sits I Acc1202.87-16.824.750.00
Artemis US Extended Alpha I Acc602.63-1.730.150.00
Artemis US Select I Acc592.09-1.490.640.00
Artemis US Smir Cos I Acc521.06-5.81-3.900.00

ARTEMIS The PROFIT HUNTER

FCA Recognised-Ireland UCITS

Candriam Investors Group(LUX)
FCA Recognised
Candriam Abs Ret Eqt Mkt Neutral-C Cap€225.91-3.423.640.00
Candriam Bds Euro High Yield Cap€1422.05--2.77-2.560.00
Candriam Bonds Glbl Hi Yield-C Cap€283.81--0.280.300.00
Candriam Bonds Glbl Infl Sh Dton-I Cap€164.42-0.000.210.00
Candriam Bonds Total Return-C Cap€143.38-0.000.370.00
Candriam Diversified Futures-I Cap€14303.13--73.7437.100.00
Candriam Eqts L Australia Cap A$A$2333.49-11.342.200.00
Candriam Eqts L Emerging Mkts Cap€1584.15-0.008.100.00
Candriam Equities L Biotech-C Cap$1278.73--24.48-48.460.00
Candriam Equities L Europe Innov-R Cap€253.80--2.101.710.00
Candriam Index Arbitrage-C Cap€1532.00-0.000.580.00
Candriam Long Short Credit-R Cap€120.54-0.000.090.00
Candriam Risk Arbitrage-C Cap€2775.19-0.002.750.00
Candriam Sust Bond Emerg Mkts I Dist€749.71-1.244.760.00
Candriam Sust Bond Euro Corp R Cap€110.00--0.120.080.00
Candriam Sust GlblHighYield-H Cap€1236.61--0.852.030.00
Candriam Eq Crl Econ-R Cap€158.61--0.012.130.00
Candriam Eq Cmt Action H Cap€2131.82--14.1311.020.00
Candriam Sust Eq Emerging Mkts C Cap€193.23-0.001.030.00
Candriam Sust Eq EMU-C Cap€213.31--2.74-2.860.00
Candriam Sust Eurp S&M Cape-H Cap€2383.21--17.00-4.980.00
Candriam Sust Eq World-C Cap€47.77--0.300.540.00
NYLIM GF US High YieldCorp Bond-R Cap€171.77-0.030.770.00
Blue Whale Growth USD T$ 24.77--0.45-0.690.00

Canaccord WEALTH

Dealing Daily. Initial Charge Nil for A classes and up to 2% for other classes

Balanced Strategy£1.19-0.000.000.00
Balanced Strategy A£1.19-0.000.001.84
Cautious Balanced Strategy£1.48-0.000.000.91
Cautious Balanced Strategy A£1.06-0.000.001.84
Growth Strategy£2.69--0.010.010.76
Growth Strategy A£1.29-0.000.000.54
High Growth Strategy GBP£3.98--0.020.020.24
High Growth Strategy A£1.36--0.010.010.52
High Income Bond Fund B Monthly£0.97-0.000.000.00
High Income Bond Fund B Quarterly£0.98-0.000.000.00
US$ Growth Strategy$2.56--0.010.010.21

Canaccord International Fund Managers Limited (JER)

Candriam Investors Group

Other International Funds
Candriam Bds Euro Sh Term Cap€ 2179.10--1.77-0.420.00
Candriam Bonds Credit Opportunities€ 220.73--0.030.320.00
Candriam Bonds Emerg Mkt-C Cap$ 2989.13-2.8815.870.00
Candriam Equities L Eurp Opt Olt -Cap€ 247.59--2.030.020.00
Candriam Equities L Global Derng R Cap€ 401.52--3.784.570.00
Candriam Equities Onco impt-H Cap$ 3479.99--44.37-46.000.00
Candriam Equities L Robt&Inn/Tech I Cap$ 8206.73--120.63-16.330.00
Cantab Asset Management Ltd(UK)
01223 522000
www.cantabam.com
VT Cantab Balanced A GBP Acc142.07--0.060.381.80
VT Cantab Moderate A GBP Acc139.49--0.010.312.12
VT Cantab Sustainable Gbl Eq A GBP Acc169.71--0.270.891.37
CG Asset Management Limited(IRL)
20 King Street, London EC2V 8EG
Dealing: Tel +353 1434 5098 Fax +353 1542 2859
CG Portfolio Fund PLC
Absolute Return M Inc£ 144.25-0.00-0.492.61
Capital Gearing Portfolio GBP P£ 39528.49-0.00-124.271.95
Capital Gearing Portfolio GBP V£ 192.28-0.00-0.601.94
Dollar Fund C's D Inc£ 153.04-0.000.002.82
Dollar Hedged GBP Inc£ 92.57-0.000.002.54
Real Return C's A Inc£ 183.11-0.000.012.55
UK Index-Linked Bond G Inc£ 105.11-0.00-0.642.10

Chartered Asset Management Pte Ltd

CAM-GTF VCC$ 477779.20477779.200.000.000.00
CAM Gb VCC$ 1755.82-0.000.000.00
RAIC VCC$ 1.90-0.00-0.040.00

CP Global Asset Management

CP Global Asset Management Pte.Ltd.

CP Capital Asset Management Limited

CP Multi-Strategy Fund$ 466.99-0.230.230.00
International Mutual Funds
CP Dual-Purpose Fund$ 217.88--0.06-0.060.00
CP Global Alpha Fund$ 509.96--0.15-0.150.00
CPS-Master Private Fund$ 616.61--0.02-0.020.00

Dodge & Cox® Worldwide Funds

Dodge & Cox Worldwide Funds 48-49 Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5JG www.dodgeandcox.com +44 0203 642 3370

Dodge & Cox Worldwide Funds-Emerging Markets Stock Fund

Emerging Markets Stock Fund A USD Acc$16.14--0.110.170.00
Emerging Markets Stock Fund A GBP Acc£17.25--0.140.140.00
Emerging Markets Stock Fund D GBP Dis£15.54--0.130.121.69
Emerging Markets Stock Fund A EUR Acc€17.48--0.150.221.51
Dodge & Cox Worldwide Funds-Global Bond Funds
EUR Accumulating Class€18.46-0.030.200.00
EUR Accumulating Class (H)€11.93-0.040.100.00
EUR Distributing Class€11.24-0.020.120.00
EUR Distributing Class (H)€7.20-0.020.055.05
GBP Distributing Class£11.68-0.030.074.75
GBP Distributing Class (H)£8.18-0.030.074.70
USD Accumulating Class$14.94-0.050.120.00
CHF Distributing Class (H)Sft7.33-0.030.060.00
Dodge & Cox Worldwide Funds-Global Stock Funds
USD Accumulating Share Class$ 48.16--0.030.610.00
GBP Accumulating Share Class£ 59.87--0.120.600.00
GBP Distributing Share Class£ 38.27--0.080.380.00
EUR Accumulating Share Class€ 64.50--0.150.980.00
GBP Distributing Share Class (H)£ 20.89--0.020.260.00
USD Distributing Class$ 19.67--0.010.250.00
CAD Accumulating ClassC$ 64.62--0.230.790.00
USD Accumulating Share Class$ 58.47-0.240.760.00
GBP Accumulating Share Class£ 68.74-0.180.730.00
GBP Distributing Share Class£ 39.99-0.100.420.00
EUR Accumulating Share Class€ 67.61-0.171.070.00
GBP Distributing Share Class (H)£ 22.06-0.090.290.00
USD Distributing Class$ 21.39-0.090.280.00

Janus Henderson INVESTORS

EdenTree Investment Management Ltd Sunderland SR43 4AU 0800 358 3010

Authorised Inv Funds
EdenTree Global Impact Bond84.43-0.280.104.36
EdenTree Green Impact Equity132.60-0.50-0.200.95
EdenTree Green Impact Infrastructure76.02-0.42-0.616.91
EdenTree Global Sustainable Government Bond94.74-0.330.083.23
EdenTree Sustainable European Equity A473.10-3.400.701.94
EdenTree Sustainable European Equity B478.50-3.500.800.00
EdenTree Sustainable Global Equity A460.10-0.500.800.53
EdenTree Sustainable Global Equity B464.40-0.400.800.95
EdenTree Sustainable Managed Income A134.70-1.20-0.204.25
EdenTree Sustainable Managed Income B146.10-1.30-0.204.22
EdenTree Sustainable Short Dated Bond94.52-0.11-0.114.66
EdenTree Sustainable Sterling Bond A82.59-0.32-0.205.21
EdenTree Sustainable Sterling Bond B95.40-0.38-0.215.21
EdenTree Sustainable UK Equity A249.70-3.402.701.82
EdenTree Sustainable UK Equity B249.10-3.402.702.20
EdenTree Sustainable UK Equity Opp A321.40-3.404.701.52
EdenTree Sustainable UK Equity Opp B328.20-3.404.801.98

FIL Investment Services (1200)F

Beech Gate, Millfield Lane, Lower Kingswood, Tadworth KT20 6RP Callfree Private Clients 0800 414161 Broker Dealings: 080 414 181

Index Pacific ex Japan P-ACC-GBP£2.58-0.030.002.68
Index Sterling Corp Bond Fund P-ACC-GBP£0.95-0.000.005.42
Index UK P-ACC-GBP£2.47-0.030.012.70
Index US P-ACC-GBP£6.37-0.000.070.83
Index World P-ACC-GBP£4.74-0.010.031.12
MoneyBuilder Balanced Fund W-Acc-GBP£0.78-0.010.002.95
MoneyBuilder Dividend Fund W-Acc-GBP£1.61-0.010.013.68
Sust. MoneyBuilder Inc Fd Fund W-ACC-GBP£14.11-0.05-0.044.49
Multi Asset Alloc Adventurous Fd W-ACC-GBP£3.23-0.010.011.13
Multi Asset Alloc Defensive Fd W-ACC-GBP£1.56-0.000.000.00
Multi Asset Alloc Growth Fd W-ACC-GBP£2.57-0.010.011.12
Multi Asset Alloc Strategic Fd W-ACC-GBP£2.02-0.000.001.17
Multi Asset Balanced Inc Fd W-INC-GBP£1.02-0.000.010.00
Multi Asset Inc & Growth Fund W-INC-GBP£1.31-0.000.012.61
Multi Asset Income Fund W-INC-GBP£0.89-0.000.010.00
Multi Asset Open Advent W-ACC-GBP£2.50-0.00-0.011.68
Multi Asset Open Defen W-ACC-GBP£1.85-0.000.000.00
Multi Asset Open GrowthFund W-ACC-GBP£2.33-0.000.001.81
Multi Asset Open Shot. Fund W-ACC-GBP£1.96-0.000.002.41
Open World Fund W-Acc-GBP£3.46-0.010.010.82
Strategic Bond Fund P-Acc-GBP£1.36-0.00-0.012.51
Index UK Gilt Fund P-Acc-GBP£0.76-0.000.004.56
Sustainable Asia Equity Fund W-ACC-GBP£2.81-0.01-0.030.74
Sust Multi Asset Balanced Fund W-ACC-GBP£1.22-0.010.001.29
Sust Multi Asset Con. Fd W-ACC-GBP£1.08-0.010.000.00
Sust Multi Asset Growth Fd W-ACC-GBP£1.35-0.010.001.13
UK Opportunities Fund W-ACC-GBP£2.67-0.040.042.24
UK Smaller Companies W-ACC-GBP£4.85-0.080.012.32
Allocator World Fund W-Acc-GBP£4.38-0.010.010.98
American Fund W-Acc-GBP£89.77--0.300.720.00
American Special Site W-Acc-GBP£29.16-0.250.400.41
Asia Funds W-Acc-GBP£29.74-0.09-0.450.49
Asia Pacific Ops W-Acc£3.31-0.04-0.020.69
Asian Dividend Fund W-Acc-GBP£3.67-0.02-0.012.02
Cash Fund W-Acc-GBP£1.22-0.000.003.86
China Fund W-Accumulation-GBP£2.46-0.040.031.52
Emerging Mkts NAV1660.32--19.1871.480.00
Enhanced Income Fund W-Inc-GBP£0.92-0.010.006.16
European Fund W-Acc-GBP£31.21-0.30-0.481.50
Global High Income Bond W-Acc-GBP£1.55-0.000.015.63
Sustainable Euro Equity Fund W-ACC-GBP£7.05-0.09-0.091.19
Sustainable Global Equity Fund W-ACC-GBP£43.94-0.220.360.30
Japan Fund W-ACC-GBP£10.61--0.13-0.450.90
Select 50 Balanced Fund PI-Acc-GBP£1.53-0.000.002.18
Special Situations Fund W-ACC-GBP£73.18-0.810.372.27
Short Dated Corp Bond Fund W-ACC-GBP£12.63-0.01-0.024.46
Sustainable Water & Waste W-ACC-GBP126.60-0.000.000.00
Sustainable Water & Waste W-INC-GBP124.00-0.000.000.00
UK Select Fund W-ACC-GBP£4.64-0.070.061.74
Global Dividend Fund W-ACC-GBP£4.58-0.040.052.49
Global Enhanced W-ACC-GBP£3.52-0.030.014.21
Global Special Sites W-ACC-GBP£92.05-0.120.420.20
Index Emerging Markets P-ACC-GBP£2.90-0.01-0.021.58
Index Europe ex UK Markets P-ACC-GBP£2.88-0.03-0.022.16
Index Japan P-ACC-GBP£3.33--0.02-0.071.44

HPB Assurance Ltd

(UK)

Fundsmith Equity Fund

Authorised Inv Funds
Janus Henderson Absolute Return Fund A Acc206.40-0.20-0.402.10
Janus Henderson Asian Div Inc Unit Trust Inc102.50-0.30-1.305.50
Janus Henderson Cautious Mngd Fund A Acc348.80-3.700.603.90
Janus Henderson Cautious Mngd Fund A Inc149.70-1.600.304.00
Janus Henderson China Opp Fund A Acc1272.00-17.009.000.10
Janus Henderson Emerging Markets Asia A Acc1839.00-9.00-9.000.00
Janus Henderson Emerg. Mkts Opps Fnd A Acc306.10-1.301.500.00
Janus Henderson European Focus A Acc577.10-7.70-0.100.10
Janus Henderson Euro Sel Opps Fund A Acc3082.00-36.00-16.000.30
Janus Henderson Fixed Int Mthly Inc Fd Inc16.57-0.630.036.50
Janus Henderson Global Equity Inc Fnd Inc86.30-0.39-0.042.60
Janus Henderson Global Select Fund Acc6523.00--39.00-66.000.00
Janus Henderson Global Sust Equity Fd A Inc716.20-2.704.300.00
Janus Henderson Global Tech Ltrs Fnd A Acc7529.00--25.0055.000.00
Janus Henderson Instl UK Index Opps A Acc174.61-2.070.942.40
Janus Henderson Multi-Asst Abs Rtn Fd A Acc190.60-0.600.702.10
Janus Henderson Multi-Mgr Actv Fd A Acc337.30-0.000.701.70
Janus Henderson Multi-Mgr Dist Fd A Inc136.10-0.200.202.60
Janus Henderson Multi-Mgr Div Fd A Acc104.90-0.200.003.20
Janus Henderson Multi-Mgr Glbl Sel Fd A Acc448.80--0.501.400.00
Janus Henderson MultiMgrInc&Growth Fd A Acc231.20-0.400.302.60
Janus Henderson Multi-MgrInc&Growth Fd A Inc160.50-0.300.202.60
Janus Henderson Multi-Mgr Mngd Fd A Acc404.90-0.000.401.40
Janus Henderson Multi-Mgr Mngd Fd A Inc373.50-0.000.501.20
Janus Henderson Sterling Bond Unit Trust Acc225.60-0.90-0.904.10
Janus Henderson Sterling Bond Unit Trust Inc54.49-0.21-0.224.10
Janus Henderson Strategic Bond Fund A Inc92.23-0.150.146.30
Janus Henderson UK Alpha Fund A Acc195.90-3.00-0.100.90
Janus Henderson UK Eq Inc & Growth Fd A Inc663.30-10.003.203.40
Janus Henderson US Growth Fund A Acc3078.00--70.0013.000.00

Fundsmith LLP (1200)F

PO Box 10846, Chelmsford Essex CM99 2BW 0330 123 1815 www.fundsmith.co.uk, enquiries@fundsmith.co.uk

Fundsmith Equity T Acc718.91-8.2517.220.00
Fundsmith Equity T Inc648.86-7.4515.540.00

Guinness Global Investors

Guinness Global Equity Income Y GBP Dis£24.74-0.040.302.05
Guinness Global Innovators Y GBP ACC£49.09--0.330.040.00
Guinness Global Quality Mid Cap Y Gbp Acc£16.26--0.13-0.010.00
Anglo Intl House, Bank Hill, Douglas, Isle of Man IM1 4NL_01638 563450
International Insurances
Holiday Property Bond Ser 1£0.49-0.000.00
Holiday Property Bond Ser 2£0.66-0.000.00

McInroy & Wood

Balanced Fund Acc6976.10-50.4055.301.84
Balanced Fund Inc6548.70-47.3052.501.89
Emerging Markets Fund ACC2346.90-8.6048.201.73
Emerging Markets Fund Inc2102.10-7.7043.101.77
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Income Fund Inc3187.20-23.309.802.82
Smaller Companies Fund Acc7277.80-89.7024.101.27
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Regulated
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Authorised Corporate Director-Waystone Management (UK) Limited
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Authorised Corporate Director-Waystone Management (UK) Limited
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3rd Floor, Central Square, Wellington Street, Leeds LS1 4DL Order Desk and enquiries 0345 608 0950

Authorised Corporate Director-Waystone Management (UK) Limited

Trojan Investment Funds
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How to shield your portfolio if AI goes ka-boom

If you wanted to own stocks, it used to be impossible to avoid the fallout. Not any more

Stuart Kirk Skin in the Game ou may have a different view of the world from me – and the chances are that you do. I don't have a television and spend

most of my hours either in the woods or out at sea. The other day I saw a photo of the new Fed chair. I thought it was Novak Djokovic.

What matters when investing, however, is not your outlook. You've got as much chance of being right as anyone. It's whether your portfolio is consistent with it. Do your positions align with your view?

Readers may remember me writing about this in relation to my allocation to US equities over the years – in particular when I had none. I worried at the time that no matter how much I preferred UK or Japanese stocks, owning only them did not make sense.

Because if I thought the S&P 500 was overvalued and was eventually proved correct, my other equity funds would come crashing down with it — such is the US's heft. Being 100 per cent in shares and zero in the US was internally inconsistent.

Hence, when the prolonged bull market gave me the heebie-jeebies last year, I sold every stock I owned. It's also why, when I decided to dive back in, I made a small purchase of US equities. So long as I owned some, I could justify my other holdings.

I remain OK with the logic. The trouble is, I still posit that artificial intelligence companies are too expensive. The related debt binge also looks familiar to many of us who have invested in booms and busts before. Ray Dalio, the billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates, said this week that AI is a “classic bubble” and that we’re “approaching” the point where these tend to pop.

What if you agree with him? Do you have to torch the rest of your equity holdings for your portfolio to be internally consistent? Luckily, not any more, it seems. Indeed, I

probably didn't even need to.

It was different when we were emerging from the pandemic and AI was becoming a thing. Back then, even the stocks least connected stocks to AI – your supermarkets, utilities and energy companies – had a rolling correlation with a global AI index of 0.5, according to Bloomberg data. That is, they more or less moved together.

Since that 2022-23 period, the correlation has drifted south and is now minus 0.4. In other words, when the Googles and Nvidias have dropped recently, the likes of Duke Energy and Coca-Cola have risen.

Naturally, the top quintile of names as measured by their links to AI still has a strong 0.8 positive correlation with Bloomberg's AI index (BAIAT if you want to look it up). But the gap between them and the least-linked quintile is the widest it's ever been.

What does this mean in real money? If we take the worst 10 per cent of days in terms of returns, the AI index fell about 2 per cent on average. Had you owned the fifth of

Stuart Kirk's holdings stocks with weakest links to AI, however, you would have been flat over those days.

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Thus, it is now possible for an investor who thinks AI is nothing more than dotcom for lawyers, accountants and children cheating on their homework to own a basket of companies that may offer them some protection if the bubble bursts.

et's be realistic, though. The down days in the calculation above are nothing like a

proper walk-out-the-office-with-your-possessions-in-a-box mega bust. I was there during the 2008 and 2020 meltdowns, and I can tell you every stock was burnt.

Moreover, Dalio and others believe the pin that will make the market go pop is higher borrowing costs. Even if there is no crash for a while, this will also hurt defensive sectors such as utilities, whose valuations tend to move conversely to interest rates.

Are there other ways to shield your portfolio from an AI-mageddon?

Stuart Kirk's holdings
Assets (£)WeightingTotal returns YTD
Vanguard FTSE 100 ETF (GBP)208,08929.0%
iShares MSCI EM Asia ETF (USD)157,94622.0%
Vanguard FTSE Japan ETF (USD)75,75410.6%
Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (USD)82,86311.5%
BlackRock Latin American Ords68,2779.5%
4.5% Treasury Gilt 2034124,55917.4%
Total717,48812.3%
S&P 500 (GBP)16.4%
Morningstar GBP Allocation 60-80% Equity8.6%
Any trades by Stuart Kirk will not take place within 30 days of being discussed in this column

Being globally diversified helps a bit. On those worst days for AI stocks again, the MSCI All Country World Index fell about 1 per cent on average – roughly half the drop.

Every global benchmark includes the US, which has almost a 0.9 correlation with the AI index. The UK, on the other hand, is much less influenced, mainly because the few companies it has left are banks or oil producers. Bad AI days since 2022 have resulted in only a 0.3 per cent drop in the MSCI UK index (Bloomberg data once more).

Safer still is China, only falling 0.1 per cent. Malaysia, India, Australia and Europe ex-UK provide good insulation too. It reminds me a bit of a bank that I once worked for that escaped the subprime wipeout not because it was smart, but because it was so late to the party.

Japan doesn't come out brilliantly on this analysis due to making too many semiconductors. Likewise, my overweight position in South Korea. As for Taiwan, watch out below!

If you still want exposure to the US, but don't want a portfolio choking on food companies, another approach is to buy an equal-weighted S&P 500 fund. Or simply rebalance your AI holdings often and ruthlessly.

Another approach would be to counterweight AI with gold, cash or short-dated bonds of some description. For investors convinced that superintelligence is about to meet its kryptonite, why not make lots of money while the rest of us scream by buying put options on the Nasdaq, say, or on individual stocks? There are plenty of short or inverse ETFs available too, but I've written about the danger of these before.

Personally, I've kept it simple. A huge US underweight, a massive UK position, some bonds and loads of yen that historically soars when it's goodbye kitty.

The author is a former portfolio manager. Email: stuart.kirk@ft.com

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Hope springs eternal

Rome's ancient history was long its blessing and its curse. Now, a billion-euro revamp

is luring foreign homebuyers. Can it compete with London and Milan, asks Hugo Cox

visit to the Rome home of textile designer and artist Isabella Ducrot,

图 1-2 now in her nineties, comes with coffee served from a silver pot and a generous helping of la dolce vita. Climbing to the second floor of her palazzo apartment on Piazza del Collegio Romano, her maid takes my hat, and I step out on to the terrace, its expanse of terracotta tiles and potted shrubs overlooked by the tower of the vast former Jesuit Collegio Romano next door. I glimpse the edge of the Dominican convent — 200 metres away, behind the Pantheon — where Galileo was condemned by the Inquisition in 1633.

Rome has been her home for 60 years. It still surprises and inspires her, she tells me. Recently, her research into the letters of St Paul was interrupted by a sort of epiphany: "I realised he was here – just a few steps away he was imprisoned," she says, gesturing out over the rooftops in the direction of the Mamertine Prison on the Capitoline Hill.

Ducrot, who has an exhibition opening soon at Museo Madre, Naples, draws spiritual and creative inspiration from a city whose antiquity marks every paving stone and street corner. Yet, for some, it has long seemed too stuck in the past. Last year international property investors - both commercial and residential – committed €645mn to Rome, compared with €2.6bn in Milan and almost €10.7bn in London, according to agency JLL.

Agents say wealthy overseas home-buyers have long associated Rome with gridlocked traffic, tourist-choked streets, labyrinthine bureaucracy and a purchase process ensnared by legal uncertainty. Add housing stock dominated by historic apartments – which are beautiful but expensive to modernise and subject to strict heritage controls – and many have simply chosen London or Milan instead. "It was a beautiful city famous for food and energy but it just didn't work – the types of homes, the services," says Muhannad Al Salhi, chief executive of Engel & Völkers' Italy office, who is based in the city.

But this is changing. A €3.7bn programme of public investment ahead of the 2025 Jubilee – the Catholic Holy

Year, which drew millions of pilgrims – has catalysed a shift, from easier navigation (take the opening of two new metro stations) to aesthetic and experiential improvements to the public realm (such as the pedestrianisation of Piazza Pia).

Global luxury hotel brands are growing. Corinthia Rome opened in March in a former Bank of Italy building on Piazza del Parlamento, including Viridi, a restaurant run by Carlo Cracco, the multi Michelin-starred chef and former MasterChef Italia judge. It followed launches of Orient Express La Minerva, the brand's first hotel, and Nobu Hotel Roma last year. Mandarin Oriental and Four Seasons plan openings next year. Rome's dining scene has earned fresh recognition: La Terrazza at Hotel Eden and INEO gained stars in the 2026 Michelin Guide; the city now boasts 26 Michelin-starred restaurants to Milan's 20.

The openings testify to the city's expanding international appeal: Rome's foreign resident population grew by 13,200 between 2020 and 2025, compared with just 1,670 in the previous five years. International buyers are increasing their share, accounting for 20 per cent of prime sales so far this year, up from 7 per cent in 2019, according to Savills. Next year, Brighton College will add a campus to help meet the increased demand for places at international schools.

"Interest has been particularly strong from buyers in the UK, France and the US over the past year, supported in part by Italy's flat tax," says Veronica Sagliaschi, broker manager at Knight Frank's preferred agency in Rome, ReLiving. Introduced in 2017, the national tax regime – which limits tax on foreign-sourced income for those moving to Italy from abroad (capped at €300,000 per year) – was used by 2,500 people by 2025.

More than half of the clients of Roman buying agent Emma Rossi Bernardi now come from abroad, up from close to zero

'It's like Miami with a view of the Vatican. Until now, we had almost nothing like this to show buyers'

five years ago, she says. In the past year, following changes to the UK's non-dom regime, she has added a dozen French financiers and tech executives seeking an alternative to London to her client list. In terms of suitable homes, she points to 2023 as a watershed, with the opening of Palazzo Raggi, a sumptuously renovated early 18th-century property close to the Spanish Steps, which joined Monticello, launched a few years earlier – 65 apartments and villas on Via Aurelia, with a concierge, rooftop garden and terraces in sight of St Peter's Basilica.

"It's like Miami with a view of the Vatican," she says of Monticello. "Until recently, we had almost nothing like this to show international buyers."

That choice is now expanding with a roll call of new-builds with all the bells and whistles amenities (think gyms, co-working spaces and concierges). Near Tiburtina station is the House of Minerva, a recently launched development of 111 homes, where three-bedroom homes start at €997,000. To the south in EUR, the city's commercial hub, the 142-home Domus Nova development (or DoNo, as it is known), includes two-bedroom penthouses starting from €870,000 and three-bedroom penthouses from €1.2mn. In the city's west, the first phase of Porta Pamphili comprises 148 homes – its roof garden looks out over the Valle dei Casali nature reserve, a 466-hectare green corridor (roughly 300 further homes are planned in later phases). Next year, a new 100-home development will launch in the city's northerly Via Cassia district.

Clockwise from main: Orient Express La Minerva hotel; residence Monticello; artist Isabella Ducrot, a resident of 60 years; the pedestrianised Piazza Pia — Alexandre Tabeste; courtesy the artist(Albrecht Fuchs) Antonio Masella/ Getty Images

The new launches across Rome mean 4,500 new homes by 2029 – 3,555 of them completed by the end of next year – comfortably exceeding Milan's total of 3,700, according to Savills. High-value home sales are growing – 430 sold for more than €1mn last year, a number 51 per cent higher than the five-year average, according to Savills.

Can Rome finally start to compete with London, New York and Milan?

A 25-minute metro ride from the Colosseum, the House of Minerva is in many ways an emblem for the new Rome. It's in the La Sapienza neighbourhood: young, modern and buzzing. In place of the ochre palazzi and baroque churches of Rome's centre, modern blocks of flats line the streets around Piazza Bologna. By midmorning the cafés fill with students from the nearby university. Sunset ushers in lively groups to bars and restaurants, or for a sundowner at Rome's Soho House, which opened in 2021.

The development feels closer to something you'd find in Madrid or Lisbon. The exterior is a restrained pale facade, with generous terraces and deep loggias; inside, Rome-based designer Frattali offers buyers a choice between minimalist and more richly detailed interiors. The furniture is by one of Italy's most prestigious design houses, Molteni&C, founded in 1934; timber flooring is Itlas and the tiles Iris Ceramica. Besides the roof terrace and gym, residents have a co-working space – all commonplace features for international residential developments in leading global cities, but hitherto rare in central Rome.

Steve Goldman, 60, is exactly one sort of buyer Rome developers have been trying to attract. After selling an investment management business, he and his wife moved from Sydney with their two teenage daughters in 2022, taking advantage of Italy's flat-tax regime ("I feel they are paying me to be here compared with Australia," he jokes).

After four years renting centrally, he wants something off the tourist beat. He has just had an offer accepted on a recently renovated fifth-floor penthouse apartment on the prestigious Via Giulia, the kilometre-long street running parallel to the Tiber, commissioned by Pope Julius II in 1508.

On our way there, we cross the newly pedestrianised Piazza Pia; the traffic now disappears beneath an underpass instead of polluting the view from Castel Sant'Angelo to St Peter's Basilica. Personally inaugurated by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni alongside Rome's mayor, Roberto Gualtieri, the €85mn project was a flagship for what Meloni hailed as the "Jubilee method": an unusually fast, co-ordinated approach to delivering long-delayed public works in a city better known for bureaucratic inertia. The wider infrastructure programme included transforming the square outside Termini station, pedestrianising much of Piazza Risorgimento near

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The tale of the chicken who lived in a dog basket

ur chicken was a firm believer in the maxim "finders keepers". After a night-time visit

from a fox left her the sole surviving member of her flock, she became something of a recluse. For four months she lived in the shed, sitting on a piece of netting and only emerging to eat. We spoke to a bird expert, who suggested that she might be depressed, so we decided to intervene by locking her out of the shed and forcing her to take a more active role in family life.

And it worked, sort of. She found companionship in our two dogs, and before long, she had developed a particular affection for the dog basket belonging to our pointer Ginny. Whenever it was empty, she would climb in and settle down. Ginny would shoo her out, but as soon as her back was turned, lo and behold, the chicken would be back in the basket. We allowed this arrangement to continue, not least because it was as entertaining for us as it was beneficial for the chicken's self-worth.

This is a good metaphor for how we live in our homes. We design rooms and buy furniture with a particular purpose in mind, but very quickly the people (and other creatures) who live in them start to interfere with those intentions.

We go into a new home with aspirations of grandeur. Then the realities of life kick in

Things come and go, furniture gets purloined, children grow up, and before you know it the house bears little resemblance to the original plans you had for it.

We resist this natural evolution of a space more than we should. When we move into a house, there is often a temptation to imagine that we are somehow fixing it in its final form. This is pure hubris. We need to let our homes be what they are, accept how we use them, welcome change, and not force them into what we think they ought to be.

Our family home is the perfect example of this, or a cautionary tale, depending on how you look at it. For a few years after we moved in, we had a wonderful, elegant dining room at the front of the house. Then came my mother-in-law's grand piano.

It was a lovely thing to inherit, but our cottage was never intended to accommodate something on quite such a scale. What had been designed to be a room for family dinners now has a giant piano in it, along with a sofa rather too small for a family of men over 6 feet tall.

This might not be the ideal arrangement, but we have

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embraced the evolution. What has come to be known affectionately as the Piano Room is now an integral part of our daily lives – not the way we might once have intended, but in a new and meaningful way. Very often in the evenings, I'll go in there to practise my guitar while my wife reads. Sometimes, if I'm very lucky, she'll accompany me on the piano.

Another positive side effect of the Great Piano Invasion has been the promotion of the kitchen from "backstage" to front-and-centre entertaining space. So much so that a friend, after staying with us for two nights and having only spent time with us in the kitchen, had to ask sheepishly whether she was allowed to see the rest of the house.

We all go into a new home with aspirations, usually ones of grandeur. Then our tastes evolve, and the realities of life kick in – the need for comfort, and the joy of children's pictures on the fridge and plastered all over the walls. If we're willing to stop resisting them, and let them happen, that's when things usually start to get interesting.

I don't mean that we shouldn't think carefully about how we want our houses to look, but we have to let go of our original intentions. If there's one lesson you learn early on as an antiques dealer, it's that you can't hold on to things too strongly, despite the very human urge to do so. (One of the first big pieces I bought was a Jacobean cedarwood chest of drawers. I adored it – polished it lovingly, restored it, and put it up for sale, only to be completely aghast when someone actually had the temerity to buy it from me. I think I secretly hoped to keep it for myself.)

Back to the animals. The Jack Russell died at 16, and three months later the pointer died too, from grief. A week after that, the chicken also crossed the road to the other side, so to speak. Her depression seemed to have returned with the loss of her companions, and she went off somewhere we never discovered.

And so the pointer's basket sits empty. We've since taken on two lovely new chickens, but neither has shown much promise of providing the entertainment and delight that Mrs Hen did. Perhaps they, too, will surprise us.

But that's the process that really makes a house a home. It's noticing what's going on, understanding it, and letting it be. You can have a plan, you can wrestle with the inevitable, but when all's said and done, just the act of living there is bound to change it – most often, for the better.

Max Rollitt is an interior designer, furniture maker and antique dealer; maxrollitt.com


To the pointer's chagrin, Mrs Hen moved into the dog basket

Den of antiquity

The crafted home | From her Tuscan farmhouse, Jilly Bernard restores and creates marble-like tables and sculptures using the 17th-century art of scagliola. By Constance Ayrton

rive 20 minutes south of Florence towards San Casciano in Val di Pesa, and the road eventually narrows into a dirt track bordered by cypresses and olive groves. At the end stands the Tuscan stone house where Jilly Bernard lives and works, one of the few practitioners of a craft so specialised that its name often draws blank looks.

"Scagliola is one of those words a lot of people won't know," Bernard says. "Even decorators, designers, artists, they'll ask, 'What is that?"

The word comes from the Italian scaglia, meaning chips of stone. Developed in Italy during the late Renaissance, scagliola is a decorative technique in which plaster, animal glue and raw pigments are worked together to produce a richly coloured, polished, imitation marble. It has graced the altars of churches and the floors and columns of grand residences from Ham House in Surrey to the Lower Belvedere in Vienna.

Bernard's work, embracing classical figures, landscape, wildlife motifs and abstract designs, is commissioned for private interiors across the US and Europe. She created the centrepiece of the foyer of the Princess Royal stand at Cheltenham racecourse and "a pastiche of animal images" by the gun room at Blenheim Palace.

Scagliola rewards patience and punishes shortcuts. Bernard has spent almost three decades studying its peculiarities. "You never really finish learning," she says. "You just get better at it."

She works with a spatula to produce a "plaster pasta", then adds pigments and rearranges it by hand to form

From top: a sculpture from Jilly Bernard's 'Courtauld Canova Lions' series; a tabletop by Florentine scagliola master Cinzia Lunghetti, restored by Bernard; 'The Eternal Feminine' series includes 12 torsos in different colours Anders Gramer

veins and passages of colour. The piece is then sanded and refilled. "Those touches can take days, sometimes weeks," she says. Finally, it is oiled, waxed and polished. "Eventually my husband comes in and tells me, 'Jilly, it's finished.'"

Bernard's route to the craft began far from Tuscany, on the sheep farm in Scotland where she grew up. She often visited the nearby home of textile designer Bernat Klein, known for his intensely coloured couture fabrics. "He had an extraordinary eye," she recalls. "Mohair mixed with silk, shocking pink against bright orange. As a child, you absorb all of that without realising it."

In the 1980s, Bernard started her career in London as a specialist decorative painter. She discovered scagliola during a year in Italy studying fresco painting with Leonetto Tintori. Later, she worked alongside the Florentine scagliola master Cinzia Lunghetti.

Recently, Bernard has moved beyond flat surfaces to explore scagliola as a three-dimensional art. Her sculpture series The Eternal Feminine includes 12 female torsos in tones ranging from deep reds to electric blues. She has had to develop a more complex technical dexterity to negotiate the curves of the human body.

'Scagliola is one of those words people don't know. Even decorators, designers, artists ask, "What is that?"'

"Scagliola's possibilities are endless," says Tom Moy of House of Moy, the Oxford-based gallery that represents Bernard. "It is as at home on the walls of England's stately homes as on a back-gammon board in the sitting room."

Bernard's latest experiment may be her boldest yet: recreating the ancient clay warriors of Emperor Qin Shi Huang's Terracotta Army. The original figures were vibrantly painted, their colours lost to oxidation. "I decided to make them as they would have once appeared," she says. She has completed two so far, with plans for a series. "They're the first of their kind in the world. So I'm pretty happy about that."

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Hope springs ...

Continued from page 1

the Vatican and refurbishing the square outside San Giovanni in Laterano. This morning, those enjoying the magnificent vista along Via della Conciliazione to the Vatican are a mix of awestruck tourists and indifferent Romans on their way to work.

“We're living in a museum, there's so much to see and do; places are open late and it's safe; I let my teenage daughter go out alone at night. She was dead set against moving from Sydney; now she loves it,” Goldman says. Buying and owning a home in Rome is far cheaper than Sydney, he notes: purchase taxes — 2 per cent and 9 per cent for respectively first and second homes — are in most cases calculated on a property's cadastral, or public record, value rather than market value. The former is often only a fraction of the latter, meaning the tax on a €2mn primary home will typically be between €10,000 and €15,000, according to Danilo Orlando, who runs Savills' Italian residential business from the city.

In the past three years, average agreed prime prices increased by 13 per cent — of Europe's capitals, only Madrid has grown faster, according to Knight Frank. But, at €13,169 per square metre, Rome's prime homes are still the third cheapest of the group, behind Lisbon and Bucharest. Such economics make an increasingly attractive investment case to international buyers, says Orlando. "Rome is still excellent value compared to other cities in Europe."

But finding the right home has proved tough for Goldman. Over four years he and his wife viewed between 20 and 30 apartments. Again and again, they rejected them when discrepancies emerged between approved plans and what had actually been built. "There was almost always something, a window, an internal wall – but enough to make us walk away," he says.

As we retrace our steps back down the Via Giulia, a chain-link fence borders an underground car park where he is considering buying a parking space. "It's between €500,000 and €600,000," he says, rolling his eyes. One advertised for €240,000 went viral earlier this year, citing limited spots and rising car ownership numbers.


Rowers on the Tiber approaching Vatican City — Alamy

Goldman arrived with a social network in place: his wife is from Pisa, in Tuscany, has worked in Rome and has family there. She is also a lawyer and past master at negotiating the Roman administrative system required for car permits, ID cards, utilities and so on. But the day after I meet Goldman, my visit to the American Overseas School of Rome (whose families offer perhaps the clearest

Property prices in Rome remain competitive in comparison with Europe's major cities barometer of international relocation to the city) reveals that those arriving without such insider benefits face stiff challenges.


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Eighty years ago, much of this northern district of Parioli was countryside; the school's central building, which predates the school, is an imposing concrete Fascist-era villa. Today, the area houses embassies and most of Rome's international schools. It is among Rome's most desirable residential districts, with large modern detached homes. Besides those working in the commercial hub of EUR, diplomats or government-related workers form most of the school's parents, says Sabine Neumann, head of admissions. Seventy per cent are expats.

Neumann spends much of her time helping parents run the administrative gauntlet of relocation to Rome. Sometimes, they withdraw their children before they even begin because visas are denied, or the logistics prove overwhelming, she says. "I've had one parent in tears on the phone several times this week."

The challenge is social as well as bureaucratic. Neumann, who lived in London, New York, Frankfurt, Munich and Paris before moving to the city with young children, says the city is unusually difficult to crack. Friendships and professional networks often stretch back generations; family ties remain unusually strong. “Roman society is provincial and extremely conservative – this is the home of the Vatican, after all. School is the social life for most of our parents,” she says.

This impression is strengthened by a visit to the Ripetta clubhouse of the Reale Circolo Canottieri Tevere Remo (Royal Tevere Rowing Club), one of Rome's oldest and most prestigious private clubs. Its membership for sport and socialising has long drawn from the capital's political, business and aristocratic elite; it does not admit women. "I keep fearing I'll get a call from the minister of sport asking me to explain," says President Andrea Granzotto, clearly a little embarrassed at the fact, after welcoming me into the club's imposing wood-panelled drawing room.

There is no reason that Rome's expat residents should not join – the club has reciprocal arrangements with several clubs around the world – but virtually none have. Granzotto explains that

'The city is difficult to crack. Roman society is provincial and conservative – it's the home of the Vatican, after all'

Rome's social life is particular and tightly focused by neighbourhood: "Parioli, Cassia and Nomentano" – in many cases he can tell where people live from their idioms and clothes. "It's true, it's not easy for people from abroad to enter into Roman society," he says.

Back in Ducrot's apartment, I duck back on to the terrace for a final glimpse of the view. Her two sons have remained in the city – glued, like her, to its history and culture – one, a sculptor, the other, owner of a luxury travel business who has an apartment beneath Ducrot's, is busy uncovering the remains of a Minoan temple beneath a nearby building he bought in 2017.

Today, the city may be easier to navigate, with newer homes and better services, and a smoother proposition for international buyers than even five years ago. But surrounded by the splendour of Ducrot's apartment, to me it is clear its appeal will never be about convenience. "There has always been the cinema, the theatre, the intellectual life," she explains. "But it is deeper – the understanding the city gives through its history. Here, everything happened."

A different angle

Interiors | Heritage wallpaper company Cole & Son is embracing geometric sass, bold colour and storytelling under dynamic new leadership, writes Fiona McCarthy

F locking Fridays" were a feature of life at the hand-block printing business launched by John Perry in an Islington wallpaper mill in 1875. Yelena

Paper film in 1879. Telena Ford, the new managing director of Cole & Son (today's evolved version of his company), may not exactly be bringing back this celebration of the 17th-century Dutch process of imitating cut velvet, but she's channelling its youthful, main-character energy.

"You can live with wallpaper in so many ways," she says. "I want it to be an intervention in someone's home that brings value beyond its colour and pattern, but also in the value of its storytelling, craftsmanship and history which then, within that space, helps people to create their own stories."

Having previously worked as managing director at rarefied retailer The New Craftsmen, Ford spent a lot of time thinking about the idea of what creates "atmosphere", she says. "That's what wallpaper can do; it brings other layers – in terms of acoustics, texture, warmth and depth – which really hold a space together."

Under Perry, the company was always innovative, not only reviving the art of flocking, but pioneering finishes such as a shimmering replication of moiré silk. Over subsequent centuries, the company created papers for the Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Chatsworth House. More recently, Cole & Son has become famous for its archive prints, the 18th-century Hummingbirds and the late 1950s Woods, and for collaborations such as the dreamy, monochromatic Nuvolette cloudscape with Fornasetti.

The geometric patterns in the new Formations collection, the first under Ford's directorship, largely riff on these heritage techniques, bringing "a freshness and sharpness" through the graphic lines, grids and angles of the 11 designs, "softened with hand-drawn and painted, craft-led processes", says Ford.

"Scumbling", a traditional decorative paint technique using translucent glazes

'I want wallpaper to be an intervention in the home that brings value beyond its colour and pattern'

and expressive brushwork to mimic the effect of faux marble, features in Archival Marble, inspired by Cole & Son's archive marble books and "a little instruction note found in one of them advising how to hang it in horizontal blocks", says Ford. "We were like, 'oh, hang on, we could use that idea from yesteryear to structure our thinking for how this could live in a space now.'"

Aquatinting – the process of etching on to a copper plate and exposing it to acid to affect the gradation of colour – was used for the slightly fuzzy, quilted effect of Diamond Maze. Wavelet draws on the zigzag geometry of historic Bargello needlework embroidery. Scattered Ink is “an interplay of precision and spontaneity” where the exact, gravure-etched outlines are interjected with freehand-painted ink splodges. Fret-work, inspired by the century-old Cole & Son original Frette, benefits from an analogue print method: ink is layered upon ink to create a tactile imprint which intimates a honeycomb effect.

Ford argues that pattern shouldn't be something that gets applied to a room at the end, but rather "it should be part of the architectural conversation right at the beginning, working in dialogue with the furniture, textiles, art, light and materiality in a space".

"A lot of people, me included, hang art on plain walls," she adds. "But pattern

Clockwise from main: the 11 new designs in the Formations collection include Painted Prism; Diamond Maze; Colour Card; Fretwork; Scattered Ink. Left: Yelena Ford, the new managing director of Cole & Son — Dean Heame/Artist Reny Mishon, Betty Martin

can act in dialogue with other things in a room; it doesn't always have to be the loudest thing." Campaign imagery, created with Georgia Spray, founder of art platform Partnership Edition, shows "pieces of art in conversation with the wallpaper, not just in terms of palette but also in the processes that went into making it. I wanted to show how the art lives layered on top of the paper."

Ensuring Cole & Son remains meaningful for another 150 years is Ford's biggest challenge. "I want Cole & Son to be the leading authority on living with pattern. We have an extraordinary creative history, but I don't want us to become a museum of ourselves. I want us to take everything we know about pattern, colour and craft and ask what it can mean for the way people live now."

House&Home

Make haste to your waste

Gardens | From habitat piles to Hügelkultur –

via a bin called Johanna – Tabi Jackson Gee

shares her autumn compost cheat sheet

s one of life's great hoarders, I'll go to great lengths to avoid a bin. Take tea. I recently switched from bags to loose leaf, not for the taste but so I could add them to my home compost (tea bags are only compostable in industrial composters). Why would I give those valuable nutrients to the council? Then there's broken crockery – useful substrate for the gravel garden. Cuttings and twigs? Insect homes and fodder.

As autumn begins to unfold, attention often turns to the nitty-gritty of a garden in preparation for winter; soil health, mulching – and what to do with piles of plant detritus that have gathered over the summer.

When I was a child, bonfires at the bottom of the garden dealt with most of its unsightly waste. Now, we are more mindful of hedgehogs and our neighbours, and more of us understand the benefits waste adds to a microhabitat. Garden waste in particular is integral to good soil and flourishing plants.

My front garden at home barely noticed the summer droughts, its loamy soil having been nurtured with mulch and compost. We're reaping the benefits of good waste management and soil improvement.

I have become as inspired by resourceful gardeners as I am by beautiful gardens; the two go hand-in-hand. And there are plenty of routes to making the most of waste, from a simple pallet compost bay to a newly planted hedge (behind which to pile it all) — and a snazzy bin.

My own garden composting involves the Green Johanna, a 330-litre, almost metre-high plastic barrel that costs around £120, but which was subsidised by our local council (which still doesn't collect food waste here in Wiltshire, not that I'd use the service if it did). All food, cooked and uncooked, goes to Johanna, along with wood shavings (handy given my boyfriend is a furniture maker), grass cuttings and cardboard – thank God for deliveries.

The goal is a 50/50 mix of green and brown ingredients. We follow some pseudoscience and avoid too much citrus, as supposedly it's too acidic. Bones are a no-no, as are stones from avocados — anything that won't break down. Some composting systems can cope with meat and some can't; it depends on the temperature. We don't put food on the compost bays, because I don't fancy the rats that might follow.

Keeping compost at the right temperature is vital for it to work: "55C-70C is optimum," explains Tom Price, head gardener at Batcombe House in Somerset, home to landscape architect Libby Russell. "This is warm enough to destroy weed seeds, perennial roots and most pathogens. You'll need to insulate it to keep temperatures optimum in the winter. Use cardboard or plastic sheets — unsightly but practical," he advises.

"Turning it will also help speed up the composting process – but avoid that in cooler weather as it lets warm air escape. Another factor is moisture – it's a good idea to cover the compost so that it doesn't get too wet. Too much moisture drives out air and can turn

Clockwise from above: habitat piles are an insect's dream home; Hügelkultur compost beds; a Korean 'bokashi' bin; Green Johanna compost bin Lottie Delman; Getty Images; She Grove Veg the compost anaerobic." In other words, it runs out of oxygen and starts to smell. Great com-

post is a potent potion and making it is half the fun. Taking the kitchen scraps to the garden is part of my daily ritual; best

enjoyed on a frosty morning in a dressing gown. And there isn't much garden material that can't be composted. "Being organised and having the right set-up and equipment is key," says Price. "Wood material can be shredded to increase the surface area and speed up the process."

Even beyond composting, "garden waste is not waste at all, it is a hugely valuable resource – and it's free," says Russell. "We collect cut materials for staking and weaving arches and natural garden structures. Every fallen leaf is precious."

Habitat piles are all the rage - constructions with vertical supports in the ground that can be filled with fallen leaves, clippings, cuttings and twigs. These are natural homes for insects and you're the architect. Tall and well placed, they can be a thing of beauty; a sculptural, spectral vision. Our local water meadow in Warminster does them well. In late summer, they are charming, heaped focal points that pop up amid swaths of white valerian and fluffy filipendula.

For smaller pieces of garden waste, such as when you're pruning or dead-heading, or cutting back faded flowers and stems, there's the "chop and drop" technique; no need to travel to the compost bays, just cut tender perennials into matchstick-sized clippings and leave them on the bed. A great time saver. If you're worried about the mess, just remember what you're doing for your soil's health and take a deep breath.

"It is the soil – and the life in it – that grows our crops for us," says Ali Peel, deputy head grower at Knepp, the pioneering rewilding estate in West Sussex. "As regenerative growers, we view ourselves as farming and stewarding the soil. In our market garden, we compost all of our crop residues and the weeds, and also all food waste from the kitchen," she says, of the Michelin Green-starred restaurant Knepp Wilding Kitchen. "It's important to close the loop in this way and keep as many nutrients as possible cycling through our soils. Of course, some nutrients are removed when our customers enjoy a meal with us, so we use organic cow manure from elsewhere on the estate to supplement our own compost."

Those without ready access to bovine bowel movements could try bokashi composting, says Peel. The Korean method allows you to process meat, fish and other food waste using an indoor bin, quickly, through fermentation. The very cool gardening website She Grows Veg sells one for £59.99 – together with the bran to kick-start the process.

Price also recommends making the most of weeds, in particular comfrey

'Garden waste is not waste at all, it is a hugely valuable resource – and it's free. Every fallen leaf is precious'

and nettle. "Comfrey and nettle teas are a great homemade plant feed. Comfrey is an excellent potassium-rich organic fertiliser promoting good flowering and fruiting, while nettle tea is high in nitrogen promoting strong, healthy growth." Just bruise the leaves, steep in water and place away from the house — it's smelly business.

And if you want another rabbit hole to go down, there's Hügelkultur. "Essentially it's a raised garden bed constructed of layers of first, stacked rotten wood, then organic matter, and finally soil on top," explains Price. "Over time this breaks down into a rich, fertile medium." You can plant directly into these compost mounds.

"Reducing the quantity of resources we bring into a garden can only be a good thing," says Price. "There is also the advantage of being in control of an end-product, such as compost and mulch. By making it yourself you can guarantee what goes into it — and by association what doesn't."

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'I started building this in my mind'

At home with the FT | After suffering a breakdown, Thomas Houseago imagined a 'treehouse' refuge. He found it in Malibu. By Josh Hickey. Photographs by Julien Sage

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n the terrace of his Malibu house perched on a bluff overlooking Lechuza Beach, artist Thomas Houseago begins to describe the relationship he has with his home, which he refers to as his "tree-house", and its rugged landscape. He gestures to a large sphinx-shaped boulder on the beach below. "I'd be out on that rock and would have what I perceived as an electric shock of joy."

It is a rock in more ways than one. The British-American artist, known for his monumental sculptures in wood, plaster and metal, has been open about his struggles with complex post-traumatic stress disorder, his more recent breakdown and his path to recovery following severe childhood trauma. The “tree-house” began in his imagination, he says, and was part of his recovery around six years ago. “I started building this thing, just in my mind,” he says. “I was up in this tree, overlooking the ocean, visualising a place where I was safe.”

In 2020, on a walk down the beach, he ran into actor Leonardo DiCaprio, a friend, who tipped him off about an available house, and together they went to look at it. Its aspect and feeling were similar to the treehouse he'd imagined, he says: "You start building this thing in your imagination, you start building it in life." Today, his terrace is lined with glazed pots overflowing with healing aromatic herbs, including sage and mint. Houseago grabs handfuls and thrusts them into my hands.

Born in Leeds in 1972, Houseago studied art at Central Saint Martins and De Ateliers in Amsterdam before moving to Brussels and meeting the gallerist Xavier Hufkens, who has represented him for nearly 30 years. A move to LA in 2003 saw him find success with a solo show at David Kordansky Gallery, and he began buying up large industrial spaces in what was then the ungentrified Frogtown. Here, he found a place to make his huge, tortured, monster-like sculptures.

These have since been shown at events and fairs including the 2010 Whitney Biennial, and won him international acclaim. A high-profile fan base includes François Pinault, who commissioned a massive bronze and steel sculpture titled "L'Homme pressé" for the 2011 Venice

Biennale, and installed it outside Palazzo Grassi, the home of his renowned art collection.

But Houseago's creativity screeched to a halt in 2019, when he suffered a severe psychological breakdown. Following a period of institutionalisation, he almost stopped sculpting altogether, he tells me. Gallerist Dominique Lévy persuaded him back: "She told me, 'Just go for it, give me your story in the show.'" His New York exhibition with Lévy Gorvy Dayan in 2024 signalled a moment of change.

This month Houseago opens a number of exhibitions. In Paris, a show with French artist Théo Mercier at the Reiffers Initiatives space will see each artist occupy one floor of the foundation, using it as a working artists' workshop. Xavier Hufkens and Lévy Gorvy Dayan will also be showing works at Art Basel

Paris. In Los Angeles, a monumental public sculpture will soon be unveiled in the plaza of the redesigned Los Angeles County Museum of Art – a 162ft wall with curved organic alcoves and openings within its clay structure.

Houseago says his home is a place of safety; somewhere he feels secure and supported enough to be able to carve out his demons. His single-storey home is not really a treehouse at all but a modest (by Malibu standards) 1980s beach house built in the familiar style of the area: high-gabled, glass-walled and open-plan, with views over the ocean.

Steep wooden stairs lead down to the beach, a gently rounded sandy cove dotted with boulders and tide pools. Beyond the shore the tips of a kelp forest brush against the surface of the water, giving it a reddish-green tint. Though a public beach, it's lesser known — a stretch of

Clockwise from right: the open-plan living room welcomes dogs, kids and friends; objects from Houseago's personal collection; the seafront sauna; Houseago works on a giant redwood sculpture in his outdoor studio; part of his art collection; the kitchen, which opens out to a dining room


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Clockwise from left: Thomas Houseago's ocean-view bedroom; the artist with one of his rescue dogs; the beach, for meditation; pots of healing herbs

northern Malibu's coast that's home to famous residents seeking privacy. The "meditation rock" he loves so much is the largest boulder at the centre of the beach.

It was at his Malibu home that Houseago began his series of “Vision Paintings” – depicting flowers, the sun, the night sky and palm trees. His studio beside the house is lined with large canvases of exuberant sunbursts radiating colour. “For every dark painting, I was challenged to paint a flower . . . that is how I began rebuilding my life.”

Inside his home, the same balance is maintained. A large Mike Kelley painting of a felled tree with the words "Big & Strong now but a weakness inside — a holdover from a time of weakness" hangs beside a Rashid Johnson black wax painting. There's the colourful flash of an Albert Oehlen work.

Houseago holds out a David Hockney book that the late artist signed for him. In shaky handwriting the inscription reads "love life". Hockney, also from the north of England, came to Houseago's first show in Los Angeles in 2008, and the two maintained a close friendship.

'I got this house when I really needed it. It was another huge rainbow after the storm'

He was "my godfather", says Houseago. He was "rock and roll, punk . . . tender and lovely and wonderful and just brilliant and kind."

His three rescue dogs jump on and off the oversized sofa covered with white blankets. He's unfazed. His bedroom is just off to one side. A Francis Picabia hangs above the bed and a portrait of a coy woman by Constantin Brancusi hangs above a dresser adorned with driftwood, an indigenous vessel and prescription medicines.

The house is, in many ways, like the artist himself: open, generous, unpretentious and boisterous. It's a place, he says, to welcome friends, his children and animals. We stand at the kitchen island that is covered in bowls of fruit and cups of sharpened coloured pencils, and he draws a green triangle — a symbol of supportive relationships, he says. He shows me his tattoo of the same drawing; his friends Brad Pitt and the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea both have one too. "I've got this incredible group of people who came into my life. I got this house when I really needed it. It was another huge rainbow after the storm."

The beach house has an alter ego a short drive up the Pacific Coast Highway. Houseago's ranch, on the Santa Monica Mountains side of the highway, serves as his main studio, where he creates his largest, most complex sculptures.

“Rattlesnakes like to hide under the wood chips – be careful,” he says while casually kicking through a pile of unused redwood. He has at least 15 works in progress, figures with skull faces and empty eyes seeming to lurch forward or balance in an uneasy contrapposto. Owls, minotaurs and giant eggs join the monstrous human forms in various states of progress, some shielded by plastic tarps, others rising from a mound of wood shavings.

Houseago changes into safety gear: steel-toe boots, ear protection, goggles and an orange helmet. He selects a chainsaw from his array of tools, climbs a ladder and begins to work on a towering figure carved in California redwood. The saw whirrs through the wood like a frenzied dancer. The pitch of its motor is a cacophony. It seems a final show of beautiful creativity emerging from brutality.


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Spick and Span

Architecture | As two of Eric Lyons' modernist estates turn 70, Julian Baggini asks if

their humane design, open space and community spirit offer a template for tomorrow

n 1955 a young architecture critic, Ian Nairn, was given a special issue of the Architectural Review called "Outrage" in which to rail against

what he coined subtopia, “the steamrollering of all individuality of place to one uniform and mediocre pattern”. His argument provided the template for most criticism of postwar speculative home building. Across the nation, housing developments from this era are typically aesthetically bland and socially sterile, lacking any sense of community or identity.

By 1961, however, Nairn was encouraged by some developers who were doing things differently. "More trees are left, housing units are cleaner and crisper, and – just occasionally – are grouped in patterns which may produce a sense of place," he wrote. For this he credited "the pioneer efforts of one architect, Eric Lyons", the leading creative light of the developer Span.

Lyons returned the compliment. In a 1961 brochure, Span described itself as "a work against Subtopia". As the Association of Consultant Architects put it after Lyons' death in 1980, "Eric wanted to put modern architecture within the financial and intellectual reach of the middle range of housebuyers."

'It's been in the same family since it was built, so I see it as my ancestral home'

Looking today at the 73 Span projects Lyons completed between 1948 and 1969, comprising 662 flats and 1,463 houses, it is clear that he succeeded. Four of the developments are now Grade II listed in their entirety. Twenty-nine have received major accolades, such as RIBA Architecture and Civic Trust awards. The art historian Nikolaus Pevsner wrote in his seminal architecture guides The Buildings of England that Span estates “have quietly but consistently shown that there were humane and attractive alternatives both to the large dominating public housing schemes and to the indifferent speculative developments of the 1950s and 1960s”.

Although Lyons led Span (the name was adopted in 1957 after the company had already completed several projects), the developer was also indebted to the talents of several partners, notably Geoffrey Townsend and the landscape designer Ivor Cunningham. As two of their most lauded London estates – Parkleys in Richmond and The Priory in Blackheath – celebrate their 70th anniversaries this year, the vision of Lyons and the enduring appeal of Span show how, at a time when speculative development is sorely needed, the basic principles behind Span remain relevant and vital.

"If you look at Parkleys today, it doesn't look as though it's 70 years old, because it's loved," says Eric's son Richard, who worked with his father for many years. Those who move into Span estates tend to be slow to move out.

Sheila Markham is an extreme example. She was born at The Priory the year after it opened and, after a spell away for university and then work, moved back in when her mother, who had never left, went into sheltered housing. "It seemed like a piece of very good fortune," she tells me. "It's been in the same family since it was built, so I see it as my ancestral home."

Walk around a Span estate and what strikes you is not the buildings themselves but their settings, nestled in quiet, open spaces with plenty of greenery. Many were built on the grounds of dilapidated estates and most of the mature trees were kept, with the flats and houses arranged to make the most of them.

The landscaping creates a sense of openness in often small areas. As Nairn put it, you feel that there is “always something around the corner”. Architect and Parkleys resident Justine Langford cites the perhaps surprising influence of the 19th-century Austrian architect Camillo Sitte. Both Sitte and Span designed around squares and greens. “More often than not, you enter at the corner and you exit at the corner,” says Langford. “It’s a good balance of permeability and enclosure.”

The trees and the sight lines disguise the density of the developments. Span had as much incentive to maximise the number of dwellings as any other developer. Parkleys, for example, had a

Above: Foxes Dale, a Grade II-listed Eric Lyons house in Blackheath, south London, £1.495mn through The Modern House

density of 74 persons per acre (ppa) – higher than the 30-40 ppa average for low-rise schemes of the time in the capital. Lyons and Cunningham showed that it is possible to build profitably on land without making it feel packed to the gills. They kept costs down partly by using a limited number of flat and housing designs. But because they were not placed in neat lines, and they also evolved with each iteration, there is never a sense of dull uniformity. Lang ford points to Wates, another estate that the builders contracted by Span subsequently built in Ham. The houses have the same aesthetic as Parkleys but, she says, it has the dead feel of too many new developments because the importance of landscaping was not understood.

The landscaping also creates communal spaces around the dwellings. "When you enter into your flat, it's through a sequence of public spaces which become more and more private," says

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Langford. Community was central to the Span ethos and in most developments "the landscape goes up to your front door", explains Ana Sutherland, an architect and resident of another Blackheath Span estate, Parkend. Walking around Span estates you can see how this has helped maintain order and coherence. Sutherland shows me one row of houses where responsibility for the grounds between the buildings and the path they are set back against

Clockwise from above: Punch Croft, New Ash Green, Longfield, Kent; the Grade II-listed South Row estate, Blackheath; the Fieldend estate, Twickenham Bryony Arinchison

has "over time ended up with people just doing whatever they wanted". The result is a patchwork, with some gardens unkempt and others in different styles.

The communality of Span is partly a matter of design and partly one of management. The common areas are run by a committee elected by residents. Where there are flats, the building envelope is the responsibility of the residents' association. Residents can't alter the external appearance of their homes without the committee's permission, which is usually not forthcoming, as covenants do not allow changes that are out of keeping. Lyons thought it was "a peculiar 20th-century idea that your house has to represent you".

For homeowners used to having complete say over their houses, the associations might appear as an encumbrance. "But this is a kind of community living, and I don't think you should move to this kind of environment if you want your home to be your castle and to have this complete independence," says Markham. And as Tony Rowlands, a resident at the Weymede Span estate in Byfleet, Surrey, puts it, "It's a collective effort, but it isn't the USSR."

When I visited Weymede, children were playing on the greens while neighbours chatted in front of their houses. "I know all my neighbours and I know that someone would notice if I hadn't made an appearance for a few days," says Markham. Span estates are a great place to grow old. My wife and I live on a Span estate in Bristol and many of our neighbours are elderly and live alone. Our next-door neighbour died at the age of 99, still living alone, thanks in no small part to the support of the community.

Inside Span homes, the spaces meet Le Corbusier's demands for "space and light and order". They typically have a double aspect and are blank canvases. Lyons believed that architects should not impose their taste and that interiors should allow the people who live there to express their own.

Lines are clean and no space is wasted, with minimal corridors and storage built into every nook and cranny. "Compared to what you can buy at a similar price point, Span homes offer well-designed, well-built and well-cared-for homes with generous proportions," says Louise Willocks, managing director at The Modern House and Inigo. With their original features, they are "reliably popular with our audience". The agency sells "around two or three a year", she adds, from "first-time buyers to couples, families and downsizers wanting to live more laterally".

Unlike some modernist architects who strive to create a striking building, Lyons designed from the inside out. That is perhaps why the exteriors of Span properties play very much third fiddle to the landscaping and interiors. Nairn described a Span estate as “a protracted essay in abstract geometry worked out with screen walls or fencing or terracing of house units or siting of houses to form a composition”. Span rightly boasted that it was “happily and unselfconsciously itself, aping no other age, imitating no other period”. Above all, there is “nothing pseudo – no fake-rustic”.

At the same time, they incorporate vernacular elements. Sutherland points out the London stock bricks and the hanging tiles, which have an “almost Kentish quality”. Barbara Simms, editor of the catalogue of a 2006 RIBA exhibition on Eric Lyons and Span, sees echoes of the best 18th and 19th-century speculative developments, which “enhanced the value of property by designing open space as an integral part of the housing scheme: as seen in London’s Bloomsbury squares or the crescents and circles of Bath”. Richard Lyons adds that “Ivor and Eric were both very Capability Brown-oriented. The English landscape garden tradition of creating spaces and a sense of naturalness was important.”

The Achilles heel of Span homes today is their poor thermal properties, especially in estates where there has not been a transition to double glazing. Retrofitting is possible but complicated by the need to retain the same external appearance. "I think everyone would say there's a big problem with condensation," says Markham. But as Richard Lyons points out, "Every building in the 1960s was built to an appalling level of thermal insulation." Sutherland also reminds me that they were building during a materials shortage and to building regulations of the 1950s and the 1960s.

Span's legacy should not just be the homes it has bequeathed us. "The same principles with a bit more density would still be a much better result than a lot of the mediocre housing being built in the UK," says Sutherland. Richard Lyons believes that we could apply Span principles more widely. "The key thing is the social organisation. It wouldn't have mattered so much if the aesthetic ideas that my father had were a bit different." Langford agrees that Span is "more of an attitude and approach than style. They brought together all the different disciplines and said, what happens if people just think about something afresh?"

"This is a kind of community living, and I don't think you should move to this kind of environment if you want your home to be your castle"

Keeping the spirit of Span alive is not about simple replication. "Span cannot, by its own nature, be static," it claimed. The practice was constantly evolving, learning from the past and responding to market conditions. Residents' associations are charged with retaining the coherence and character of their estates, not to preserve them in aspic. "Eric would have disapproved of listing," says Richard. "He didn't think things should be frozen."

The images in that 1961 brochure would need to change for a Span of tomorrow, but almost all the words could remain verbatim: "The aim is to create an overall unity that avoids regimentation, provides a sense of freshness, enhances rather than eradicates the natural features of the site; that ensures that estates look mature from the outset and retain an informal, intrinsic dignity that will still communicate itself 50 years from now." How much better would Britain's housing of tomorrow be if we built according to those principles?

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Architecture | Wes Anderson comes to Camden in a joyous jam of Miami colours and ice-cream stripes. By Hugo Cox. Photographs by Juliet Murphy

visit to the Cloud House, an extraordinary architectural testament to flamboyance recently completed in north London by architect Peter

Morris and his wife TV producer Emily Kennedy, calls for dressing the part.

I arrive at the candy-pink curved confection in electric blue trousers, floral shirt and bright green jumper. Nonetheless, when Kennedy opens the front door, I feel like an undertaker. Her black smock dress is electrified with pink tights, neon yellow ruff and pink hairband. Morris sports a pink-and-blue-polka-dot scarf, pink trousers, yellow-laced red leather boots and an azure overshirt pinned with a badge that reads "Why not yellow? — Derek Jarman". The pair wear matching black, thick-framed round glasses.

Inside, the main ground floor room looks like Wes Anderson has designed an ice-cream parlour. The concrete floor is sky blue. The kitchen and living room cupboards, end wall and sections of ceiling are pink-and-white and green-and-white stripes. The entire kitchen island is bright pink, as are a number of surfaces. Sphere cornicing from British Mouldings, which makes decorative plasterwork in Georgian and Victorian styles, is generously distributed.

"It's a sort of visual joke," says Kennedy of the stripes and plaster baubles, "like a canopy, a bobble-edged stripy towel or a deck chair from the 1970s." "Ice cream parlours, sweet shops – things that generate joy, you know, happiness," Morris adds. It's working: whether it's the clothes, the decor or the obvious joy the couple have in each other's company, I feel elated.

Kennedy's father is an artist and she grew up in colourful homes; in each of her own she has painted the floors pink. When the couple met through a dating website 11 years ago, her passion for

'Every other building in the street is from a different era. We said let's take that spirit and create something special'

colour "liberated" Morris's. Soon after, they moved into what was a tired Victorian two-storey house, and started planning two semi-detached homes to build in its place – financing the £700,000 cost to build their home by selling half the plot, which would contain the second house. On their honeymoon to Miami in 2017, the city's art deco shapes and exuberant colours provided inspiration.

"Everything is a scallop, a circle or an arch," says Kennedy, who helped manage the build. Semicircles are painted on doors; arches painted on walls, hemispherical cupboard handles are fitted in


Clockwise from main: architect Peter Morris and TV producer Emily Kennedy at Cloud House, north London; computer-carved high-density foam was attached to breeze blocks to shape more than two dozen arches on the facade that resemble clouds; stripes are a theme; the arches echo some unusual buildings in the neighbourhood

'It's a sort of visual joke'

opposition to make a circle; sliding doors, drawing dual-aspect light through the house, allow the alignment of doorway arches with circular windows on the home's front and back.

Some motifs are savvy design hacks – painted patterns rather than structural interventions, or Ikea finishings that have been adapted or repainted. Others are more complex, such as the computer-carved high-density polystyrene attached to the building's breeze blocks – an imitation stone that was used to shape the more than two dozen arches on the facade; there are also 28 arched windows, their turquoise frames matching the steel front fence.

"It's very simple shapes: arches that stagger, and that's it, those are the rules," smiles Morris.


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Camden Council used its panel of architects to judge the planning application. The couple pointed to the mishmash of styles in their area, Kentish Town. Arches and round windows were partly inspired by the Victorian gothic St Martin's Church, opposite the property, which architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner had described as "the craziest of London's Victorian churches," says Kennedy. Next to their plot, a Grade II-listed building from the late 1800s, complete with imposing wood doors and bulky stone facade, conjures a medieval castle — "it's absolutely bonkers," she says.

The project began in earnest in summer 2023. But major projects typically mean drama and heartache. This was no different. There were budget overruns, the building's planned wooden frame was abandoned in favour of breeze block, miscalculations by the contractor meant Morris and his team had to hack

The couple made the argument for diversity: "You're in this street with these two really eccentric buildings, and every other building is from a different era. We said we can take the spirit of those buildings and create something really special."

Local residents rallied, including Timothy Hill, 91, who attended a 2019 open day where Morris and Kennedy publicised their plans. "What impressed me was how unique it was in the street and the council's vision to want something so avant-garde," he says. The clincher, says Morris, was that the panel believed in the couple's commitment to seeing their vision through. And actually living there. "I wasn't going to be an architect who would just clear off and let the contractor do a bodged job. They realised how much we cared about the design and knew we would obsess over every detail," he explains.

into the polystyrene arches with Stanley knives to make them fit. The general contractor was sacked and the whole project mothballed for nine months. Meanwhile, because of a TV industry downturn, Kennedy, who has produced award-winning series, including The Piano, for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky Arts, spent six months out of work. Through it all, they had to persuade the young couple relying on the same contractor to complete the home next door for £800,000 that everything would turn out fine. The house was finally finished this summer.

The hiatus was the low point. Money on renting alternative accommodation and £500 per month on storage ate into their savings; they had to call on family for loans to complete what proved to be the £735,000 build; and the creative compromises weighed on Morris. The couple took turns in despair, but each time one lifted the other out of their hole. "There weren't moments when we were both really depressed and crying. It could have done us in," he says.

We have returned to the front garden; a passer-by congratulates Kennedy over the perforated turquoise fence, his face straining with the Herculean effort of a middle-aged Londoner offering a compliment to a stranger. Morris is an extrovert - "I'll be in the street telling anybody my woes" - and the low-slung fence is intended to facilitate exchanges like this. It's 11.30am and the admirer is their seventh of the day. Lunch, which they often take on the front garden's lime green steel table, will be punctuated by a steady stream of compliments, inquiries and requests for a tour.

Showing the home at London's recent Open House Festival, they received 4,000 visitors in three days, with only a single steward for help. "We probably don't mind being on show," says Morris. You don't say.

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Supercali nanny annexe

Interiors | Elite live-in nannies are set increasingly rarefied expectations. But they have their own ultra-high-spec demands too, finds Tara Loader Wilkinson

he job description for today's elite nanny is enough to make Mary Poppins do a double take. Prerequisites include flu-

ency in multiple languages, especially Mandarin, French and Spanish; etiquette training; and competence in skiing and tennis, with a background in martial arts a plus. An Ivy League or Oxbridge degree is preferable, with a postgraduate degree in education.

They should have seen the world, and experience working on a superyacht and a private jet is "just assumed, rather than requested", says Anita Rogers, chief executive of British American Household Staffing, a company she founded in 2012. Today she has around 7,000 clients seeking nannies with such qualifications; families based everywhere from New York, Los Angeles and Texas, to London and Dubai. Many have two or more nannies on rotation (rota nannies), "for year-round, seven-days-a-week" childcare, Rogers says.

For the top live-in nannies, demand far outstrips supply. An elite childcare programme such as Norland, in Bath, graduates around 100 nannies annually. So, despite the rarefied requirements of the job, the nannies themselves can make their own demands. “Families have to make the roles appealing as fortunately we can pick and choose,” says UK-based, Norland-trained Sophie-Julienne Burnett, 44, who looked after children for a decade until she had her own daughter, and now consults. One way for employers to stand out? Ultra high-spec accommodation.

"A small bedroom in the basement is no longer good enough," says Ashley Wilsdon, head of London buying at Middleton Advisors. He has two clients upsizing in Chelsea and Wimbledon respectively – both have live-in nannies and are anxious about providing a separate, appealing space "to ensure they retain them when they move".

"In both cases, our clients want to provide an entire floor and are willing to compromise on their own space to facilitate a spacious bedroom and en suite, plus a separate living area," he adds. On occasion, he has witnessed a nanny influence which home his clients decide to purchase.

“Increasingly, significant accommodation is expected as part of the nanny employment package,” agrees Marc Schneiderman, director at Arlington Residential. He recently sold two large apartments in Regent’s Park and Marylebone, and each client also bought separate studio apartments for their nannies either in the same building or nearby.

Clive Lewis always had help for his now three grown-up children. In his family's first home in north London, where they lived for five years, the nanny had a separate studio accessed using their shared front door. When they moved to the home they lived at for the next 12, they remodelled part of the 300-year-old house to create private quarters for their nanny with an en suite bedroom, kitchen and, importantly, an independent entrance.

"Nannies work incredibly hard, and when they're not working, they want

'A good bed, a proper bathroom ... You want a well-looked-after nanny to be looking after your children' their own private, comfortable space so they can have friends over, and we caught on to this," says Lewis. "They appreciate the degree of independence away from the family."

The Lewises spared no expense outfitting the nanny annexe, with timber floors, a modern bathroom and Miele appliances including a washer and dryer. Their six-bedroom house in St John's Wood is currently for sale with Arlington Residential, and Lewis says that much of the interest has come from families who already have, or want to employ, a nanny.

For Alexis Golding, a British solicitor and mother-of-three who lives in Dubai, providing “upgraded nanny quarters was a priority” when they renovated their five-bedroom villa in Palm Jumeirah. Golding has had the same nanny for the past seven years and recently employed a second. “The nanny market is fiercely competitive and having a comfortable room can be a deal clincher; some villas have tired spaces with just bunk beds and wet rooms for nannies,” says Golding.

Each of her nannies has her own room with a Jack and Jill bathroom, each with "a good bed and quality mattress, innovative storage solutions and little

Above: would Mary Poppins approve? (Julie Andrews in the 1964 film) Left: Clive Lewis outfitted the nanny annexe in his St John's Wood house, now for sale with Arlington Residential, with timber floors, a stylish bathroom and Miele appliances. Landmark Media / Alamy

touches like a nice lamp and rug to make the place homely, as well as a proper bathroom. We offer to buy whatever towels and linens they want. You want a well-looked-after nanny to be looking after your children."

Burnett agrees "the red carpet was frequently rolled out" and recalls a particularly luxurious package for a nanny looking after one little girl in the Middle East, where she was given not only a private suite with plush furnishings and scented candles, but her own maid and chauffeur. "Yes, kids are wonderful. But it is hard work. This is not a nine-to-five job."

But for many nannies, the ultimate luxury isn't 1,000-thread-count sheets, a large space or fluffy towels. Bourne-mouth-based Claire, a live-in nanny of three decades, has run the gamut of staff digs. Ultimately, she says, despite the joys of being with children, you need space - which means shutting the door with no disturbances.

One of her favourite jobs, back in the early 1990s in the US, did not come with fancy amenities, but it was away from the family bustle. "Yes, my room was in the basement, but it was great. When I was down there, no one would bother me."

House&Home

Sieze the daisy

Their brightness lights up an October garden – and is not as brief a showing as you might think

D

uring the persistent heat and drought, I was apprehensive when looking forward to autumn. September and October are

September and October are marvellous months for flowery gardens, but the unrelenting summer seemed set fair to scorch their mainstays to death. There are exceptions, but not many. At ground level autumn crocuses are well able to survive dry heat and the bulbs of little yellow sternbergias revel in it. Their brilliant crocus-like flowers have never been better as they thrive in dry sunny soil, especially below walls. What, though, about the daisy-flowered asters, as all of their kin used to be called until botanists split them up? They include Michaelmas daisies, which are still wonders on this October weekend.

By early August the leaves on my beloved Aster 'Little Carlow' were wrinkling and turning brown at their edges. They looked like casualties in waiting, victims of Mother Nature's cruelty and likely to die back without any flowers in their shade of electric blue. For years I have grown two of 'Little Carlow's cousins, both of which like dry soil too: tall 'Chieftain' and tallish 'Aldebaran', each with spires of lavender blue flowers. They usher in the garden's blue period, but by mid-August they were being scorched to bits.

Other daisy-flowered winners seemed unscathed, especially those bluish siblings, Aster x frikartii 'Mönch' and frikartii x 'Wunder von Stäfa', a variety which is less floppy. 'Mönch' is more often seen and ranks as my top border plant in this difficult season: it has grown through whatever the sun has thrown at it. In August, it began to open its blue-lavender flowers on stems which spill forwards near the front of flowerbeds. It is a marvellous mainstay, bred by Carl Frikart in Switzerland in 1918. As the Mönch, Eiger and Jungfrau mountain peaks were near his nursery, he honoured each of them with a hybrid daisy: 'Mönch' is the winner. It is not so good in clay soil, but it thrives in others. It is best when not crowded by neighbours, a mistake readily made as its plants look small when bought in 9cm pots, the size which is cheapest and best. They then grow up to 3ft high and wide. I have dotted single plants of 'Mönch' in the front of beds around my garden so that they lead the eye on.

They cheered me up in the drought, but so did others, especially two small-flowered daisies, one being Eurybia x herveyi 'Twilight,' which begins the blue season in July, and the other being 'Hon Vicary Gibbs', which is about to end it at a height of 4ft. I feared, however, for the New England and New York


Clockwise from left: Aster x frikartii 'Mönch'; 'Hon Vicary Gibbs'; 'Rosebud'; 'Rosenwichtel' The Picton Garden

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On gardens asters, also Symphyotrichums in up-to-date lists.

Two years ago I benefited from a day with the ultimate authority Paul Picton, whose Old Court Nurseries at Colwall, near Malvern, Worcestershire, continues to be a place of pilgrimage for aster lovers. It is the holder of an unrivalled national collection and, as it is a top favourite of this column, I decided to visit and see if the drought has dimmed its autumnal brightness. Maybe my plants had been lucky.

It has not been dimmed at all. Hundreds of fine daisies, ranging from deep purple through pink to white, from 'Marie Ballard' to 'Rosebud', 'Faith' to 'Sam Banham', are flowering flat out, tended by the third generation of the Picton family, Helen and her husband Ross Barbour. I had expected to see shrivelled stems and that hazard of New York asters, mildew. I found a few scorched edges and some dried leaves on lower stems, but only the 'Countess of Dudley' had turned half brown, and she is a rare variety anyway, originating before 1935.

As a national collection, the Colwall asters could be watered legally using a hosepipe. Maybe that concession explains the state of the big borders, packed with Michaelmas daisies in full flower. On previous visits, when guided by the maestro Paul Picton himself, I have picked on red 'Winston Churchill', not least for its name, only to be steered discreetly away as if others are even better choices. This year, going solo, I admired 'Rufus', an excellent red-purple, and the low-growing pink 'Rosenwichtel' which has just come into its fullest flower. Among whites I went for tall 'Albanian', but remembered that the maestro coaxed me two years ago to buy 'Sandford White Swan' instead. It is a double white with a pink flush to its buds and is already a star in my border with very little watering. As for double blue 'Ada Ballard', it is irresistible, mildew or not. Well-rooted plants of these and many others are on sale at the nursery for £9.50 each, whereas email-ordered plants for delivery next spring will cost £7, though smaller at first (oldcourtnurseries.co.uk).

Hold fast to three principles. To minimise any risk of mildew, choose the New England asters, Symphyotrichum novae-angliae's varieties which are better in dry years and need little staking. At Colwall I added 'Primrose Upward' to my New England collection as it has impressive flowers of pale purple-red and reaches a height of 5ft, ideal for the back of a dry border. Otherwise, go for Europe's amellus varieties, for cordifolius ones with sprays of flower and for tough Aster pyrenaeus, best known for the pale lilac 'Lutetia' which copes well with dry years.

Like other great families of plants, asters, as gardeners still call them, are not standing still. Even 'Lutetia' has an excellent newish cousin, 'Cotswold Gem', which stays upright and has pink flowers. Since 2024 a mildew-free one named 'Paul Picton' has been added to the amellus range, a lilac-blue of a modest height which is surely special to deserve the name. Do not settle for second best. Old Court Nursery's collection transforms ideas of what is available.

Droughts are surmountable, but slugs and overcrowding are not. In winter and spring, slugs attack the core shoots on many asters: they need to be eliminated, especially as winters have become warm and wet, encouraging them to fast breed. In early summer be careful not to allow other border plants

Hundreds of fine daisies, ranging from deep purple through pink to white, are flowering flat out

to flop over your daisies. They greatly dislike such a canopy. In big Edwardian gardens, entire borders were given over to Michaelmas daisies, a sight seldom seen now except in the Pictons' national collection. Edwardians had far fewer aster beauties than we do, but they had hit, perhaps by accident, on a good idea: segregated daisies were never elbowed out by other neighbours.

To embark on the best choices, consult Old Court's excellent catalogue for 2027. It sets out the basics with clear authority and presents hundreds of options for gardeners to enjoy. Never think that the aster season is brief, a one-week wonder in September. 'Twilight' starts it in July and 'Mönch' flowers then too. Among the easy New Englanders, 'Barr's Violet' and lovely tall 'Violetta' are at their best in October, as is the reliable 'King George'. 'Algar's Pride' is a fine New Yorker for October too. So are magenta pink 'Twinkle' and tall white 'Sam Banham' among many others. I came home with 'Oktoberlicht' in a plastic bag, a small-flowered white which lights up this month. Give aster-daisies space, thought and a visit: there is much more to them than Michaelmas Day.


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The art of artifice

Cindy Sherman | For decades, she has raided the dressing-up box to transform into socialites and Madonnas. But, she tells Lucy Davies, her latest self-portraits might be her most personal

Stepping into the penthouse that is Cindy Sherman's New York stronghold, I am greeted by a scene straight out of an old heist movie: a silver-haired woman with intense blue eyes, an arsenal of eccentric disguises and, tumbling all over a table in the middle of the room, a fabulous pile of jewels.

Close inspection reveals them to be costume rather than fine: chunks of poured glass and synthetic "paste" set into imitation gold. Still, they catch and scatter light like the real thing, and no wonder; they're from the Chanel archive in Paris, sent to Sherman, together with a miscellany of vintage fabrics, for her to make free with – shears and all – in the name of new work. With the practised flip of an Ottoman carpet seller, she shakes out her favourites, pointing out twists of gold thread or silk, tiny crystals and classic wool bouclé, soft as a spring lamb.

Sherman, a conceptual artist around whom reverence has swirled for half a century, turned 72 this year. She has lived and worked in this sleek converted warehouse in Lower Manhattan since 2005. She also has a bayside property in East Hampton, where, since finishing her latest series of photographs – Fabric Matrons will debut at Hauser & Wirth's Savile Row gallery during Frieze

'My idea was: women of a certain age trying to show off their jewels, big diamonds on every finger'

London – she has spent the summer puttering in her garden, tending to her pet chickens and improving her Bananagrams game.

The new work, for which the artist transformed into a suite of older women posing in their finest couture and jewellery, sprang from a magazine for a jewellery shop that's distributed in the Long Island enclave. Pages torn from it are stuck to Sherman's studio wall, next to some postcards of early 20th-century portrait paintings with bold, flat, decorative backgrounds that also fed into the work.

The shop sells very pricey jewellery; its magazine features a former Sports Illustrated model in clouds of marabou trim and organza. "It's just so weird," says Sherman. "This ridiculous jewellery, the ridiculous poses. I mean, why is she holding her hand up at a mirror? And of course it's all airbrushed — she's my age and she's looking pretty and sexy, so that's kind of what my idea was: women of a certain age trying to show off their jewels, big diamonds on every finger."

For a previous project inspired by the Chanel archive (Ominous Landscapes, 2010-12) Sherman zippered herself with some difficulty into full outfits. This time, she simply cut holes into the fabric for her head and hands, tying the smaller scraps into turbans or a corsage. "Nothing's sewn, it's just pinned together loosely. You can see the seams and raw edges," she says. Such jerry-rigged casualness is quite usual in her work, intended to draw attention to a picture's artificiality. Exaggerated make-up, mannered expressions and leaving the camera's cable release in shot achieve the same thing. Suspension

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'Untitled #703' by Cindy Sherman, from the 'Fabric Matrons' series, which debuts at Hauser & Wirth in London
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of disbelief isn't the point. Her work may be visually pleasing, but its chief attraction is philosophical. How we use clothing and make-up to evoke or disguise ourselves; how the self learns that art of artifice — such questions absorb Sherman, though more often than not she poses them and then gives you the slip, letting them hang in the air like a trail of perfume.

Fabric Matrons is a powerful set of pictures even for an artist who, from the instant she began photographing herself as fictional characters – B-movie star, unhappy housewife, Flemish Madonna, surgically enhanced socialite – in the late 1970s, has unfailingly met the moment. It might also be her most personal, for though she has always been clear that the personas are “everything but me. If it seems too close to me, it’s rejected,” one of the first images she made for this new series, "really reminded me of my mother. She died at my age, and with all the wrinkles there" — Sherman gestures to the neck — "and she had dark hair; she really looked like that. It's a little freaky."

Is it the first time that's happened? "I think it is, although I look back at my older works, when I had a grey wig on or something, and I realise that's what I look like now. It's kind of funny. The work I do, it's made me have to come to terms with my body changing. Most people don't think about the fact that they have wrinkles on their earlobe, but I do these photos and I see those things, crazy things."

Sherman's studio is airy and long with banks of large windows that, in the fine, drifting rain of a humid afternoon, emit a tender light. Fans of long standing could guess the place was hers in a heartbeat: the germ of every protagonist into whose skin she has ever slipped is

Clockwise from above: 'Untitled #709' and 'Untitled #706' by Cindy Sherman, from 'Fabric Matrons' (2026); 'Untitled #540' by Cindy Sherman, from 'Ominous Landscapes' (2010-12) — 2026 Cindy Sherman / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

here in its masks and mannequin parts, Kleenex (bumper size), wigs, lint rollers, tubes of shimmer lotion (multiple hues) and racks of rodeo shirts, ballroom and vintage Ungaro gowns.

Among the more eye-catching items is a fake fire (quite cosy in the winter, she says), but most startling of all is the long mirror from whose silvery depths Sherman has summoned her every character, dressing up and directing her reflection until the likeness detaches from its creator. "Sometimes it's been kind of chilling, like seeing an apparition," she says. "I really feel like, 'something came over me'."

I point out that, when she describes this process, she always uses the language of the supernatural – does she believe in that sort of thing? "Oh yeah. Sure I do," she says, going on to describe a recent stay at an old inn in an Arizonan gold rush town where she was convinced her room was haunted. "Even though I would be curious to see a ghost," she adds, "I would also be so scared." (Sherman famously loves horror films.)

She was just a child when she began summoning whole characters from pieces of old clothing. When she'd exhausted a closet in the basement of her parents' house in Long Island, which was filled with her late grandmother's turn-of-the-century clothing (she still has the bloomers, she tells me), she progressed to a thrift store for the local church, spending precious quarters on tattered party dresses from the 1940s and '50s. "To me, these were like ball gowns. I had a whole little suitcase of them that my mother let me buy. I discovered that in funky clothes like this, I could see a much more interesting character." The neighbours humoured her. "It's old Mrs Sherman! they'd say, pretending like I was my father's mother, and I'd be thinking, 'Oh, I really

One picture 'really reminded me of my mother. She died at my age, and with all the wrinkles there. It's a little freaky'

fooled them', so it was kind of cute actually in retrospect."

As an art student at Buffalo State University, she became known for turning up at parties as a man, or the actor Lucille Ball. It was her then boyfriend, the artist Robert Longo, who persuaded her to photograph her transformations, but then as now, she preferred to work alone, "so that I can be more experimental and so, if it's embarrassing, if it's terrible, if I don't like it and I don't think anybody else would like it, then nobody ever has to see it," she tells me.

She understood only very recently "how being open to failure, to something looking terrible and then somehow fixing it, has actually been really helpful" – that she might just be better at taking chances than most. "It's like when I play Bananagrams," she says, in explanation. "My boyfriend, he's so afraid to change up his words, change up the letters to incorporate a J, because he feels what he has is already just perfect. And I'll say, you know, if you just take the chance and change it all, you'll be surprised at how easily it will all come together."

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Who says the kids don't

Art market | Younger collectors confound Gen Z stereotypes – galleries are upping their game to lure them in. By Melanie Gerlis

he kids don't care about art. Or so the prevailing narrative goes. One unnamed dealer, quoted in the latest Art Basel and UBS market

report, found that "interest in art is waning; screens and televisions have replaced pictures in living rooms".

Not so, says Mazdak Sanii, founder and chief executive of Avant Arte; rather, their priorities are different. His company became an online print platform in 2017 and has become the high-spec publisher of choice for artists including Ai Weiwei, Alex Katz and Cindy Sherman. They have more than 200,000 collectors on their books, of whom 60 per cent are under the age of 45, Sanii says. He finds that, while they are a price-conscious cohort, they are still big spenders, and generally “more serious and more knowledgeable than many give them credit for”.

Attitudes have changed, though. "In the past, there was a romantic notion that fetishised the unique," he says, "but in a more atomised world, people are craving connection. So, the idea of a trophy asset is less extreme, and there is more of a concept around multiplicity" – hence the growing interest in prints, also a cheaper entry into the market. Sanii insists this is not cutting corners. "Younger buyers respond to craft, care and the attention of an artist, we're not talking about Xeroxes." The most radical shift is through discovery channels, he says. "Instagram reaches such a wide audience. Not everyone on it has \$1,000 to start collecting, but they might discover an artist that way, then visit one of their exhibitions, it's the start."

Flora Yukhnovich, whose new work draws on Jan Brueghel the Elder Flora Yukhnovich, courtesy of the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Victoria Miro Kasia Bobula

This commitment to research is seen throughout the art market, says Zoe Sperling, partner at Hauser & Wirth gallery. "When it comes to millennials and Gen Z, we find the sale of a work is almost the epilogue," Buying "comes after doing research and creating their own connections and community around an artist. I've had people come in who know an entire exhibition history and everything about their works on show." Popular among their roster is Avery Singer, whose paintings fuse digital renderings with airbrushed imagery and whose new work will be at Frieze London.

Meanwhile, artists without official gallery representation, such as the South African Werner Bronkhorst, can instead go big via social media, where they sell direct to collectors, as well as hitting auction highs. "From Every Corner" (2026), a painting of miniature football players on a vast pitch, went for \$283,800 at Phillips in July.

Older art is simultaneously having a revival, a sign of a generation whose tastes are more broad church than their predecessors'. Recent research by Avant Arte finds that those under 45 are a third more likely than their older counterparts to show an interest in Old Masters and 29 per cent more likely to be drawn to works from artists' estates. Commercial galleries are leaning into the mash-up: for the Frieze Masters art fair, Hauser & Wirth's booth will include a new work by Flora Yukhnovich based on an early 17th-century flower painting by the Flemish artist Jan Brueghel the Elder (also on the booth).

Museums are also having a rethink when it comes to bringing in younger visitors and funders. Monica Irani, co-chair of the National Gallery London's Young Ambassadors, says that, before the programme got going in 2020, "I was told that the average age of their patron circle was 72. They were great people, but it made me a bit concerned about the museum's future."

One of Irani's first decisions was not to use the word "patron" to target under-45s. "It sounds too much like old wealth so seems inaccessible. People expect it to cost millions, whereas it is £1,200 per year." Using "ambassadors" was not

Fallen heroes reunited in a rare show


'I am a German artist and what I do is rooted in the German tradition. It's ugly and expressive'

Georg Baselitz | Once disliked, these paintings might be the late artist's greatest series. Jackie Wullschläger visits his final planned exhibition

From left: 'Mit Roter Fahne' ('With Red Flag') by Georg Baselitz (1966); the painter in front of an exhibition poster for 'The Heroes' Georg Baselitz 2026, Courtesy Thadtbasus Ropac gallery; Elke Baselitz

Georg Baselitz, who died in April aged 88, was tall and lean, with a big head, a serious, dignified manner and boundless vitality. The alter ego that won him fame was similarly colossal, but chunky, ungainly, with a small head, a bedraggled, battered appearance and lethargic pose. In 1965-66, in rough slathered impasto, sombre hues – browns, greens, muted pinks – and broken lines, Baselitz painted and drew scores of these solitary defeated characters, mostly in ragged military uniforms, wandering through devastated landscapes.

The anti-heroic Heroes, bursting into life at the dawn of pop art, were initially widely disliked – too pessimistic, too painterly, regressive – then later understood as one of Baselitz's greatest series. Seldom seen together, around 35 works including major museum loans are reunited for the historic, rare show Georg Baselitz: The Heroes 1965-66 at Thaddaeus Ropac in London.

Right: 'Schwarzgrundig' ('Black Grounded') by Georg Baselitz (1966) — Georg Baselitz 2026. Courmisy Thadstaurus Ropac gallery. Photograph Mick Vincent, Essen. MKM Museum Kuppermühle for Modern Art, Duisburg. Ströher Collection

In the large, light main gallery, the monumental single figures, many on dark grounds and seeming to push forward out of the canvas, surround you on all sides. They stare each other down, and together amplify the paradox of each one: Baselitz's painterly aggression in depicting failure and collapse. In "Black Grounded", a blood-drenched, multicoloured soldier emerges through a void splattered with sinister forms in grey-white-red outlines, hinting at traps, wild animals, the uncertain terrain of a forest floor. "Rebel", smiling wanly, is so weak that he has become semi-transparent; a house burns between his legs. "Blocked Painter", an amputee with a bewildered gaze, leans against a leafless spiky tree, his palette supported by a crutch. "A Modern Painter" crouches forlornly, flies undone to expose a limp, impotent spiral of paint instead of a phallus.

With their unwieldy knapsacks, the artist-heroes in the series can barely support their own weight — by implication, the weight of history — and speak of the young Baselitz's concerns about the "blocked" future of postwar painting. Other works allude to ruined pastoral idylls, rootlessness, disharmony with nature. "The Shepherd", unable to protect his flock, has his feet caught in a snare, with only a cartoonish fluffy duck for company. A scarred figure, perhaps a forester, slumps between two trees in "Trap". In a densely hatched charcoal drawing, "The Hunter" holds an elongated, eerily human-sized hare.

Born in Saxony in 1938, Baselitz grew up under totalitarian rule, first Hitler, then the GDR. Expelled from art school in East Berlin for “sociopolitical immaturity”, in 1957 he moved to West Germany. There the economic miracle was under way; beneath lay what poet Rudolf Brinkman called “the musty atmosphere of collective guilt”, though recent history was hardly mentioned. Baselitz could paint as he wished but found “a very alien, chilly environment. When the traditional ties are gone, when there are no more teachers, no more fathers, that’s what I mean by rupture.”

He was 27 when he began The Heroes, evoking memories of the end of the second world war, "a destroyed landscape, a destroyed people, a destroyed society", the wretched German soldiers returning to it, the Soviet soldiers stationed close to his home.

colour drained away, to the giant with characteristic diminutive head, gashed leg and tattered uniform standing in the foreground. Defensively, he lowers a scarlet flag with black markings: a smashed Swastika, the Soviet Red Banner, or a fusion of the twin emblems of terror.

In "With Red Flag", the archetype of the series – and the most expensive Baselitz painting ever sold (£7.5mn in 2017) – a bloody track trails from a gutted house across barren ochre land, all

These fallen heroes parody the brutal aesthetic of Soviet realism, and also assert the power of figuration at a time when western art, led by American expressionism, was tending towards abstraction. The impact of German Gothic and grotesque – from Grünewald to Dix and Grosz's savage 1920s portraits – is strong. "I am a German artist and what I do is rooted in the German tradition. It's ugly and expressive," Baselitz said.

But he blends other influences: the immediate inspirations for The Heroes were the distortions, tiny heads, unstable compositions, serpentine lines and often feminised attributes – tumbling curly hair, soft features – of the 16th-century mannerists Pontormo, Parmigianino, Fiorentino and Beccafumi, whom Baselitz encountered on a residency in Florence in 1965.

The extravagantly disproportioned "Bonjour Monsieur Courbet", an early work in the series – the title refers to Courbet's own self-portrait – was painted there. "Spekulatius", a figure

There's an exhilarating sense here of a young painter grabbing at whatever helps from the past to create a new sort of realism: expressive, sensational, not directly representational. Cubism, inevitably, came into play: the show ends with a couple of Fracture Paintings (1966), "Divided Hero" and "Three Stripes – the Painter in a Coat (Second Fracture Painting)", where Baselitz splits the canvas into horizontal sections and in each depicts fragments of the body, the parts connected but failing properly to join up. He is testing how far to push an image before it dissolves – the next stage, in 1969, would be his upside-down figures – and offering a symbol for divided, scarred Germany.

Although Baselitz believed “what I could never escape was Germany, and being German”, his Heroes, dramatising dilemmas of a postwar European generation seeking identity and meaning after trauma, share a sensibility with the existentialists Glacometti and Francis Bacon. Baselitz titled some of his heroes “A New Type”, for example the gouache, ink and oil pastel drawing here, washed across with yellow-gold, of a figure resembling an astronaut stumbling forward, half-falling, half-floating; with them he asks, as the existentialists did, what is modern postwar man, how can he survive alienation, isolation, failure?

In Eroi d'Oro (Golden Heroes), his show just closed at Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Baselitz was still addressing the question in larger-than-life-size portraits of exhausted, vulnerable, declining bodies splashed here and there in high colour. Ropac's and the Cini's rhymed shows were the final exhibitions of his works which he himself planned: marvellous memorials both, and a reminder that for this humanist, single-minded painter, "in my beginning is my end."

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whose black costume opens to reveal raw flesh in impasto pink streaks, raises his arms and tilts his head upwards in an Italian mannerist pose of religious ecstasy – though he is named for a German gingerbread biscuit: an absurd character.


Left: 'Untitled' (Sandy from the 'Men in the Cities' series) by Robert Longo (2026). Above: 'Solver' by Avery Singer (2026). Below: Mazdak Sanii, founder and chief executive of Avant Arte Courtesy of the artist and Avant Arte; Lance Brewer, courtesy of Avant Arte; Vivek Vadoliya

only a better description of the role, she says, but happily ties in with one of the museum's prized possessions, Hans Holbein's much-visited "The Ambassadors" (1533).

When it comes to the package for younger funders, "you need to be thoughtful. Professionals can't go to a talk at 11am midweek, for example," Irani says. They are also not passive investors. "They want to see that their £1,200 is making a difference," she says. This year, their support extended to raising a six-figure sum for the group's first-ever acquisition of a painting for the gallery, she adds (details still under wraps).

For Judy Zhou, a Gen-Z fintech executive who became a Young Ambassador in 2024, the attractions include the

The under-45s are generally 'more serious and more knowledgeable than many give them credit for'

"behind-the-scenes aspects, seeing how the museum is growing and what our commitment goes towards". Plus, she says, "the human angle is very important in all I do and the programme is a people-forward set-up, whether it's others in the group or the museum's curators, director, or patrons manager". Zhou is also on the steering committee for Frieze Connect, the art fair's membership scheme that launched in 2021.

Museums and the market are also seeking out influential celebrities to spread their word. Last month, Bonhams auction house revealed Kasseem and Alicia Dean (aka Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys) as the faces of a scheme to give living artists a royalty on their works sold on the secondary market. "As well as more cross-category sales and more digital channels, we are planning collaborations with taste-makers," says Seth Johnson, Bonhams chief executive.

All could be fruitful, future-proofing exercises. Sanii believes that “there’s a generation of young people who confound the stereotypes we’ve built around them . . . If we can respond to these changes nimbly and with nuance, there’s a huge opportunity for a powerful new chapter in arts patronage.”

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The life aquatic

Kylie Manning | The artist's career has taken her from commercial fishing trawlers off the Alaskan coast to exhibitions at Pace gallery – but her epic paintings still foam and froth. By Christian House

n the paintings, it's not necessarily about different seas. It's about different latitudes," says Kylie Manning, sitting under a glaring Prov-

ençal sun. The painter spent her childhood in Alaska and Mexico and has an eye for oceans. "In Alaska, all of the greens lean towards blue hemlocks, spruce. And then you have all these marshlands that have these transparent oxide golds and ashy golds. But Mexico is really humid."

I meet Manning at Castel Caramel, the former home and studio of the 20th-century Viennese artist Ernst Fuchs, now an artist residency situated on the edge of the village of Castillon, high in the wooded hills above the Mediterranean. Manning is on a summer-long residency, spent completing The Mudlarkers, a new series of works to be presented at Pace London during Frieze week.

The Brooklyn-based painter's career has taken her from the cabins of Alaskan fishing boats to the Lincoln Center in New York. But water remains her guide: Manning's compositions swell, swirl, splash and eddy; they foam and froth. The liquidity of her compositions, she says, is reminiscent of the "topographies of autobiography". And there is something like a ghost story to many of her works: on closer inspection, figures emerge in some of the pictures, shapes coalescing like half-formed memories.

The title of her new series references the enthusiasts who search the River Thames foreshore for history's flotsam and jetsam – coins, buttons, pipe shards and crockery. Has she been mudlarking? "No. But this notion of mudlarking shares a peculiar search with painting: a faith in the nearly visible, in something of value just beneath the surface. You return to a site with a kind of devotion, searching and erasing through its sediment, waiting for something to disclose itself. It is an excavation made partly in the dark – digging through a mental geology with no certainty that anything will answer you."

Sitting on the terrace, immersed in the sound of unseen cicadas and mopeds zipping round the shoelace road running down to Monaco, Manning explains her laborious working process,


Clockwise from main: artist Kylie Manning photographed for the FT by Jérémy Tourvieille; 'Puestero', from her 2026 'Mudlarkers' series; 'Eyes Only' (2026) — Jérémy Tourvieille, Kylie Manning

one that emulates the rhythm of ocean currents. To canvases prepared with rabbit-skin glue and oil ground, she adds and then wipes away multiple layers of wash-like paint – what she calls “information” – gradually forming compositions anchored to “this idea of chasing these images of things that are evasive and slippery and misty”. The result summons up the perpetual motion of the life aquatic, rather than a documentary record of seabeds, shorelines and breaking waves.

Her choice of materials is key. "I try to get a couple of the core pigments to be connected to where the paintings will lay to rest, so their physical embodiment will be going home," says Manning, adding that she has sourced "Hampshire chalk and clay, London clay and silt from the Thames" for the palette of the works coming to the UK capital. "Hampshire clay has an oxide red; London clay is almost an eggplant pale purple; and the silt from the Thames is a browner grey. So, I was starting with all the English greys, like a Turner painting."

Manning is at home in such a hazy palette. "I love it. Alaska is all fog." In fact, her paintings contain a vast spectrum of colours. "There's something about the sea, it's reflective. And that's where the colour shifts," she says, 'Fishing was dangerous. I had so many close calls when I was way too young. But it helped me clear the art world out of my head'

pausing to look out over the French hillside. "And you see it here between these cypresses and the olive trees. The olive trees look like a silver-blue. And the way that the sun sets on them, everything else goes into a warm green, but they go into a really hyper-cool green." A sea of trees.

She was born in 1983 in Juneau, Alaska's remote capital, situated near Glacier Bay National Park. Her parents were both art teachers and split the family's time between periods in Alaska and spells in the small fishing towns of San Blas and Sayulita in Mexico.

"My folks were hippies. My father was a surfer. But they both had a sense of one culture being not enough. That you needed to know that nothing was yours and everything was yours and that one perspective is too limited," Manning explains. "They had a van and a tent, and we drove from Oregon all the way down to Guatemala. I was three or four. They would just pack up a year's worth of school supplies and homeschool my siblings and me."

People often assume she is Californian, and while she has beachbleached hair and a sunny, west coast demeanour, it is married to a practical nature that speaks of periods working on trawlers off the Alaskan coast to pay for her art studies. "I commercial-fished in my twenties," she recalls. "Fishing was dangerous. I had so many close calls when I was way too young. I would go to school or go on a residency all year and then go fish all summer and be out at sea for three or four months. It worked well because I was competitive, I was athletic. I wanted to be outdoors, and it also helped me clear the art world out of my head."

Manning studied at Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, and New York Academy of Art, and has exhibited at Pace in Los Angeles, Geneva and Hong Kong as well as its Manhattan galleries. While drawing on influences from marine masters such as Turner, Courbet and Winslow Homer, her works also possess symphonic qualities. They deliver slow movements and crescendos.

In 2023, Manning designed diaphanous 60ft stage backdrops of orange, turquoise and oily blues – part sunset, part squall – for choreographer Christopher Wheeldon's ballet From You Within Me (set to Arnold Schönberg's Verklärte Nacht and performed by the New York City Ballet at the Lincoln Center). "Kylie's work is epic and sweeping, and already full of movement," notes Wheeldon. "I was excited for her to discover how lighting could bring her work to life in many different ways. The dancers were incredibly moved by the moment in the ballet when I had them slowly walk on stage and just observe the gently moving majesty of a luminous light behind the backdrop."

A month after our meeting, Manning calls me from New York. Having been reunited with the Mudlarker works that she had left in her Brooklyn studio, she was surprised at how the paintings, which she had thought of as works in progress, had settled into a happy drift. "I am putting decades of energy, effort, love and care into something that is going to be constantly shifting," she says. "I was expecting to come back and put in a bit more information but the paintings really needed me not to do that. That transition is the final composition."

One small addition she did make, however, was to the reverse of the pictures. "I also sourced small clay-pipe fragments found by mudlarkers on the Thames foreshore – a few are secretly placed on the backs of the stretchers." It seems an apt detail for an artist obsessed with what lies beneath.

Above: working on 'The Mudlarkers' series in Castel Caramel, France

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Right: as a fisher (far right) in Alaska


Right: Manning created the backdrop for Christopher Wheeldon's ballet 'From You Within Me' Jeremy Tourville for the FT. courtesy of Kyle Manning. Erin Bazano

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The Magritte that changed me

Influences | Few painters
haunt the mind quite like the
Belgian surrealist. Six artists
explain why. By Jacoba Urist

he bowler hat. A pipe. Puffy white clouds. Few artists lodge themselves in the mind quite like René Magritte. "We're exactly a hun-

dred years on from Magritte making his first surrealist works in 1926," says Bernard Lagrange, director of Gagosian Art Advisory. "But when I visit studios and talk to artists in general, he's the name that crops up over and over." That realisation led Lagrange and Jasper Sharp - working with the Fondation Magritte - to co-curate This Is Still Not a Pipe: The Afterlife of Magritte, a sweeping exhibition of the surrealist master alongside contemporary painters and sculptors (some represented by other galleries), now open at Gagosian's Grosvenor Hill gallery in London. Here, six of the show's artists explain the lure of Magritte's sublimely impossible pictures - and his enduring hold on our cultural consciousness.

Dana Schutz

The first time I was struck by a Magritte was as a teenager, in 1993, at the Art Institute of Chicago's artist retrospective. "The Menaced Assassin" (1927) is such a bizarre, unsettling painting, with a deep sense of paranoia. A dead woman lies on the couch. Two detectives are outside the door. And this man is looking at a phonograph so dispassionately it

feels like maybe the whole painting is going on in his head.

Magritte makes a representation of a feeling or a metaphysical situation, and that's something I'm interested in too. I really love his paintings from 1927 to 1928. They are strangely narrative, with an anxiety to them.

Ironically, while Magritte paints invented subjects, I've always looked to him when I need to paint very literal things, like wood grain, pebbles, clouds or water. Having books of his in my studio has been quite helpful over time. I don't work from photographs and I'm usually painting imagined subjects too. But I turn to Magritte when I'm trying to think: what does concrete look like? What kind of atmosphere is going on in this painting?

In the This Is Still Not a Pipe show, my painting "The Singer" (2026) takes its palette and setting from Magritte's "The Secret Double" (1927). Mine depicts a seated woman with a large head and bone for a jaw. She's like a ventriloquist's doll, a silent singer. The phonograph is a clear nod to Magritte, but also an allusion to the limits of deception, a kind of voice within a shell.

Michael Craig-Martin

I've never made work thinking directly about Magritte's. But he plays with the language and conventions of visual imagery - essentially that's exactly what I do. Of course, when you're a student you fall on "The Treachery of Images" (1929) and it's quite an amazing picture. The thing about Magritte is

Above from left: 'The Secret Double' by René Magritte (1927); 'The Singer' by Dana Schutz (2026) — 2026 ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London, Artepics/Alainy; Dana Schutz, Stephen Arnold, courtesy the artist, David Zeimer, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin and Thomas Dane Gallery

that once you've seen it, it's so memorable, you never really forget it. Every image he's made is so succinct. He paints in a very matter-of-fact manner but presents things that are extraordinary.

'He paints in a very matter-of-fact manner but presents things that are extraordinary'

More than 50 years ago, when I came up with "An Oak Tree" (1973), I instinctively knew I'd stumbled on something extraordinary too. It expressed something so complex in such a simple way, a glass of water on a glass shelf. I knew I needed a text to be able to explain what I was suggesting: that the glass of water had, in fact, physically changed into an oak tree. And suddenly I hit on the idea of a dialogue as the perfect way of saying "It can't possibly be true" as part of the work. The thing that intrigues me about Magritte is how clever he was in using characteristics of an image. Every picture looks like it could be real. An engine coming out of a fireplace, a person looking in the mirror and seeing the back of their head: these are amazingly simple things, and the impossibility of them is so clear. But Magritte presents them in a way that's completely reasonable. You understand exactly what he's proposing.

Alex Da Corte

I have a very particular memory at around nine years old, of encountering Magritte for the first time. My uncle, who was the head percussionist at the Philadelphia Orchestra for many years, dressed up for Halloween as the character from "The Son of Man" (1964). He wore a bowler hat and had an apple so you couldn't see his face.

Magritte famously said that his work was not about dreams, and I maintain that as well. My sculptures are not about dreams, even though people say they're dreamlike or nightmarish spaces. My work is very much rooted in the world and made of physical materials. But I do think my sculptures embody some of the proposals that Magritte made in relation to objects, when he embeds them in his paintings, as an incomplete slice of the world.

I find Magritte's work so urgent because it calls into question our relationship to language and its relationship to imagery. Both are always in flux, through our texts to each other and through memes and the introduction of AI. All these issues are baked into Magritte's practice, asking what an object can do for you and what we do for it.


Clockwise from left: 'The Empire of Light' (1961); 'Not to Be Reproduced'(1937), both Magritte; 'Padre Pio' by Alex Da Corte (2026) 2026 ADAGR, Paris and DACS, London, Prudence Coming Associates Ltd. Heidi Horten Collection; 2026 ADAGR, Paris and DACS, London, Bridgeman Images, Alex Da Corne, Joseph Hu, courtesy Sadie Colas HQ, London

What does technology do to our experience of things? What does the invention of newness do to the old?

Ed Ruscha

In the summer of 1967, my wife Danna and I were walking over a bridge in Venice. We looked down to see my art dealer Alexander Iolas in a gondola with Magritte, his wife Georgette and their dog, Loulou. They asked us to join them for lunch. Magritte had a tiny camera which he used to photograph an artist standing and painting the basilica. He stood behind the artist, much like the painting "Not to Be Reproduced". When we got to Cipriani for lunch, Magritte was turned away for having Loulou under his arm. René said, "Wherever I go, Loulou goes"

- after a small fuss, we were seated outside at a very good table in the garden. I recently came across a photograph taken by Lee Miller in the early 1940s of Magritte and a dog, Loulou. This led me to believe that over the years he had several small dogs, each named Loulou.

Maurizio Cattelan

Magritte and I both work with familiar images and objects, then shift their context just enough to make them unstable. I keep returning to “Not to Be Reproduced” — a man looks into a mirror and sees the back of his own head. It’s almost nothing, but it breaks the contract of the image. Magritte was very good at that: changing one rule and making the whole world suddenly unreliable.

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Ceci n'est pas une pipe.

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When my younger brother moved into a new apartment, I'd just graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design, and he asked me to make him a replica of Magritte's famous "The Treachery of Images" (1929). But I couldn't add the writing "Ceci n'est pas une pipe". It was too intense for me. Today, that painting feels especially relevant. This isn't a pipe. But it is a pipe, and we are being told something completely contradictory to reality. We live in an era of political distrust and misinformation. With AI images, it's also impossible to know what we're actually seeing and what's really happening.

One of my favourite paintings of all time is "Not to Be Reproduced" (1937). The way Magritte paints hair

Above from left: 'The Treachery of Images' by René Magritte (1929); 'My Pony' by Anna Weyant (2019) — 2026 ADAGR, Paris and DACS, London. Bridgeman Images; Anna Weyant, Owen Conway, courtesy Bagosien

in that image — I will live my life trying to paint hair as good as that. You can see in the work I included at Gagosian, "My Pony" (2019), with the girl's ponytail, how much I'm influenced by it. The other, "Pilot Episode" (2026), is new for this exhibition. There's a vulnerable human being, who's naked and sexualised and needing. I was thinking about a show's pilot episode. You're powerless, just hoping it gets picked up. I was also looking at Magritte's "The Son of Man" (1964). The green apple floating in front of his face is a physical impossibility, but it's an emotional possibility.

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Taking on the tech titans

Theo Triantafyllidis | Can you imagine a more playful, less toxic internet? It's a question the artist is posing via a giant arachnid that audiences are invited to climb aboard. By Tom Faber

his story begins, unfortunately, with Mark Zuckerberg. The year is 2021, and Zuck has just announced that he's changing his com-

pany's name from Facebook to Meta. He's betting that the future is the metaverse: a video game-like online space where people will log on and build a new digital society.

It doesn't pan out. Meta's virtual platform, Horizon Worlds, turns out to be a bland corporate wasteland. These days, the company has basically abandoned the idea and pivoted to AI. The metaverse has been consigned to the garbage heap of tech flops alongside NFTs, Segways and Quibi.

"Zuckerberg's vision of the metaverse was a total dystopian nightmare," Theo Triantafyllidis, 38, tells me over a video call from his studio in Athens, clean-shaven in a white T-shirt.

His new artwork, "Feral Metaverse (Spider)", which he will show at Frieze London after receiving the Frieze Artist Award, began as a counterargument to Zuckerberg. It takes the form of a multiplayer video game, where players have to work together to escape a cave.

While the algorithms of Meta's platforms like Facebook and Instagram have amplified extreme and divisive content, Triantafyllidis asks what an online space might look like if it was built around co-operation and care.

His art uses video-game technology to create dark, satirical portraits of our society which explore where we went wrong, and how we might do better. This work is the third part of his ongoing Feral Metaverse project. In the game, characters must climb on each other's shoulders, balancing carefully and avoiding the web-slinging of a giant spider, to reach a trapeze near the roof and escape.

Above: Theo Triantafyllidis, photographed for the FT by Douglas Martin Eveleigh, reclines on his 'Feral Metaverse (Spider)' (2026) sculpture Above left: 'Radicalization Pipeline' (2021) Courtesy of the artist and The Breeder, Athens

"The game is asking players to coordinate, collaborate, scream at each other and teach each other the goal," he says. "To understand that it is basically them against the game, and the only way to beat it is to really work closely together."

Triantafyllidis is a sober conversationalist, but his work is streaked with humour and absurdity. The game's characters are animalistic humans who run on all fours and communicate in screams and grunts: the troglodytes that we imagine lurking in online comment sections, forced to collaborate. He calls the game "a more animal embodied."

start being playful. Perhaps even to forget their performative personas within the fair." He smiles, relishing the idea of Frieze attendees clambering clumsily over his giant spider.

Over the past decade, video-game production software has become more accessible, ushering in a fresh generation of artists seeking to define the possibilities of a new artistic medium, including Lawrence Lek, Lu Yang and Ian Cheng. In last year's exhibition The Delusion at the Serpentine Gallery, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley used game technology to similar effect, connecting visitors and encouraging them to

Born in 1988, Triantafyllidis studied architecture in Greece and graduated in 2012, straight into the Greek debt crisis. He worked as an architect in China for two years, before getting involved in an online community of internet artists and moving to study design media arts at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he lived for six years. At the time, the internet seemed like a force for good, allowing him to meet friends and discover exciting new artists. "It was a more pleasant moment in social media history," he reflects.

The landscape of social media has changed dramatically since then. Triantafyllidis's 2021 work "Radicalisation Pipeline" is a commentary on the toxic state of modern online discourse. It's a pitched battle staged inside a videogame engine which looks halfway between a round of Fortnite and a riot in the American streets. Characters ranging from white nationalists to armoured police to fantasy orcs wage an unending war, dying only to respawn at the edge of the battlefield and start all over again. Bickering in online comment sections turned into a full-blown war. Just as vicious, Just as pointless.

'Zuckerberg's vision of the metaverse was a total dystopian nightmare'

Meanwhile, 2022's "Ork Haus" is a dark commentary on family life during the Covid-19 lockdowns, imagining a game of The Sims populated by antisocial orcs in the midst of a pandemic. In a hallucinatory working-from-home nightmare, the dad sits on the couch in his Y-fronts, zoning out on his VR headset. The mum meditates in the lotus position on her bed, while her baby screams in a nearby crib and a literal hurricane tears through the house. A household "connected" by technology, but utterly alienated from one another.

These works are not pre-recorded videos, but live simulations – digital environments with characters whose behaviour changes in real time, governed by specific rules. Triantafyllidis believes this approach makes videogame technology more legible for conventional art audiences, who don't need to handle a game controller or follow a narrative with a fixed beginning and end. He says you can look at them as you


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But it's not easy to get gallery audiences to start playing a video game, he says. "They realise that games are such a gigantic producer of visual culture and language that they're impossible to ignore, but you need an ice-breaker to even ask an art audience to touch a gamepad."

This is where the spider comes in. In

order to play the game, visitors must climb on a large sculpture of a white spider, a replica of the game's antagonist made of foam-covered wood and steel, whose articulated legs end in combat boots. Six screens are embedded in its body where audiences can access the game. He calls the sculpture "a lure" that encourages visitors to communicate, loosen up and shake free of the typical gallery froideur.

"I want them to climb on the sculpture and remember how awkward their bodies are, then through the game to

Right: 'BugSim (Pheromone Spa)' (2022). Below: Triantafyllidis in his studio in Athens Courtesy the artist and The Bredet, Athens; Douglas Martin Eveleigh

'All of us are trying to figure out: what is my artistic voice within this technology? What can I say with this medium that was not possible to say before?' 'Ork Haus' (2022), Triantafyllidis's dark commentary on family life during the Covid-19 lockdowns Courtesy the artist and The Breeder, Athens

discuss social topics. "Curatorially and in art theory, games are not yet integrated, so there's an outsider feeling to them," says Triantafyllidis.

"All of us are trying to figure out: OK, what is my artistic voice within this technology? What can I say with this medium that was not possible to say before?"

would a painting, just stand back and let your eyes wander.

“BugSim (Pheromone Spa)” (2022), on display at the Whitney in New York earlier this year, shows a vivarium where a microscopic colony of ants tries to repair a damaged environment, while bees, spiders and mantises each play their own roles in the ecosystem. In the background lurks a shadowy, monstrous figure, with glowering yellow eyes and slit, serpentine nostrils, who watches the insects intently.

Some of his most engaging live simulations portray ecosystems of interdependent critters living in miniature worlds, like living snow globes. "Drift Lattice" (2025) is an underwater world where crabs, fish and birds move among corals polluted by plastic waste and fishing nets, while drones buzz around trying to

clear up the rubbish. The simulation's behaviour is influenced in real time by data from global climate monitoring networks. "Game engines are a fitting medium for examining ecosystems." Triantafyllidis says, "I'm fascinated by the depth and complexity of the systems that have emerged in nature." These works are intended as "a way to train the audience's eye in observing subtle relationships between parts of ecosystems. To cultivate a sense of understanding and observation."

His upcoming work "Funny Weather", commissioned by Factory International, which will debut in November in Manchester, is a live simulation that shows a sky populated by birds, kites and textiles, influenced by real-time weather and amateur birdwatching data.

Each of Triantafyllidis's works is a provocation, showing a facet of our world in miniature, which confronts audiences with tricky questions about how we live together – both with other humans and the natural world.

"It's speculating about climate change as we enter an era where the weather is becoming a main character," he says. "The weather is becoming so capricious and unpredictable, even in a 24-hour scale. It's going to drastically affect our lives on a day-to-day basis."

Triantafyllidis's art reflects the world we're ushering into existence, where our delicate ecosystems, both natural and digital, are breaking down. With that unreadable gaze behind the glass, he asks a question: what are we going to do about it?

'She lets her energy go full throttle'

Alice Neel | Hilton Als reflects on the artist whose queer portraits are included in a new curated section at Frieze Masters

s happy as I am that Frieze Masters has put together its new section Queering Modernism: Visual Languages of the 20th Century, I wonder if

the title is a little redundant. Isn't modernism always queer? The great modernists, from Duchamp to Paula Rego to David Hammons, are what I call manipulators of the status quo — artists who took great joy and inspiration by mirroring and shattering our common assumptions about race and sex and class. What they and others achieved by rearranging a world that had arranged for us to be one thing — a man, a woman, a Black man, a white woman, a femme, a butch, a citizen, and so on — was to make visible our rarely explored multiplicity as complex beings.

Queer is such a wonderfully broad word. Webster's has it to mean "unconventional", which I consider a badge of honour. To be unconventional generally provokes conversation, certainly among the philistines who ask: why is that person different? Why do they make us feel different?

Recently I sat in New York's Washington Square Park, trying to understand the photographs taken there by that great modernist Diane Arbus who, in her extraordinary work, posed some of these questions, while helping me to form questions of my own. I recalled her "Young Couple on a Bench in Washington Square Park" (1965) — an image made in a public space but evocative of private concerns, such as the experience of being looked at, and looking at.

After a while, I noticed something funny happening to the view – my view —in the park. The aberrant, or what one would ordinarily take as aberrant, didn't qualify. The stoners and hustlers and freaked-out college kids had found a home, albeit a temporary one, in a relatively benign public space.

What disturbed this view were other kinds of signifiers – American ideals of prosperity: a rich woman walking beside her nanny as the nanny rolled the heir apparent along. So jarring were their roles that I wanted to shield the nearby, practically nude woman with purple daisies painted on her breasts – dancing to music no one else could hear – from that reality. Because the woman with the daisies was experiencing a freedom in her queerness that allowed for the female body, while the rich matron had a different role to play, one that involved wearing Tory Burch slippers.

As it grew dark, and the guitars and pot came out, and the kids recruiting

Clockwise from main: Neel in her studio on East 108th St, New York, in 1947; 'Richard Gibbs' (1965); 'Kris Kirsten' (1971) Sam Brody: the Estate of Alice Neel. Courtesy the Estate of Alice Neel. David Zwimmer and Victoria Miro

Neel's queer subjects are filled with a kind of grace that is not sanctimonious and often dipped in irony

the Marxists of tomorrow folded their table and moved on, I still wondered about that woman who "had it all". I wondered if she walked through the park because it was convenient, or to remember a way she could never be? Life misshapes us all; it's up to us to determine what to do with those shapes.

For most of her long life, the painter Alice Neel (1900-84) painted people — shapes — that, for the most part, reflected how queer the world was.

I first discovered Neel's work as an undergraduate. I was immediately taken by the artist's attraction to people of colour; for most of her adult life she lived in Spanish Harlem and on Manhattan's Upper West Side. I knew the people she was painting, the heart she brought to her work and how, in the process, she was queering her own whiteness: nice white ladies didn't paint Puerto Rican people.

Years passed, and I took the question to David Zwirner, who represents Neel's estate along with the estimable Victoria Miro. Why hadn't anyone done a show of Neel's portraits of people of colour? Some more time passed; David then opened the doors for me to show what I'd always been drawn to in Neel's work: those men and women who were not defined by capital, but by the exigencies of life, and who lived life because it mattered – to them, to their children, to the world that made them right there in Spanish Harlem.

While putting Alice Neel, Uptown together in 2017, I did a lot of research into Neel's subjects, including the late queer artist Ron Kajiwara. As a matter of fact, it was while looking at Ron that I began to think about Neel's interest in the queer world itself, and how she embraced the LGBTQ community, not only because a number of the members she painted were visually interesting to her, but because they embodied a feeling of difference in the everyday.

Neel's queer subjects, from Annie Sprinkle to Jackie Curtis, are filled with a kind of grace that is not sanctimonious and often dipped in irony. As silent as some of Neel's portraits of queer citizens can seem, they speak. Indeed, her pictures sometimes feel like conversations between painter and subject over what a terrible and human desire it is to want to belong. In her remarkable 1982 picture of Sprinkle, Neel lets her energy go full throttle; she's not a physically limited 82-year-old woman; she's an available soul reaching, reaching, to understand and depict how queerness speaks for itself. At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World, my show of Neel's portraits of queer people, opened at David Zwirner's space in Los Angeles in 2024, and then travelled to Victoria Miro in London.

Sanctuary is a momentary refuge away from the prying eyes of "normality", and I'm sure it's the mother in me who wants that for everyone – time away from the cracked mirror of the universe the better to see oneself. But I don't want to undermine the toughness of artists like Neel and the stupendous Colombian artist Luis Fernando Zapata (1951-1994), both of whom are shown in Queering Modernism. I want you to see them, to see what they survived in order to make work and how wondrous it is to share a queer self, a human self.

In works like Zapata's "Sarcofagi No 9" (1992-94) we are looking at a vessel made out of papier-mâché; it's shaped like a coffin, but to make death an object – that is another definition of modernism: to put death to work. Zapata does just that in "Tombe" (1993) where objects are pressed into paper pulp; they are the ghostly remnants of things people leave behind, just as Zapata left his startling work behind when he died from Aids-related complications aged 43. He still speaks to us.

'Queering Modernism' is at Frieze Masters, October 14-18, frieze.com

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A rediscovered talent who refused to play by the rules

Beverly Buchanan | The late artist is reaching new audiences

with her thrilling, ramshackle sculptures and drawings, inspired

by the architecture of the American South. By Glenn Adamson

t was the early 1970s, and Beverly Buchanan – a young Black woman from North Carolina, with a master's degree in public health from

Columbia University – was working in the Bronx and New Jersey, educating people about birth control and vaccination. In the evenings she would go to the Art Students League, where she studied under the renowned abstractionist Norman Lewis. Her primary artistic inspiration, though, came on her daily commute. In her paintings, Buchanan started to reimagine slabs of the urban fabric – a wall of torn posters, the brick side of a church – in fields of vivid colour. "If I could, and I try," Buchanan wrote in one of her notebooks, "I'd put that dude in the white and maroon car, with his bad shades, on canvas."

It was the beginning of one of the most remarkable careers in recent art. A group of Buchanan's "shack sculptures" will be presented at Frieze Masters, alongside the paintings of Antiguan artist Frank Walter, by Andrew Edlin Gallery, which has also produced an admirably comprehensive book on her life and career. From any orthodox point of view, these late works might suggest that Buchanan went backwards, both in place and in idiom. In so doing, however, she ploughed thrilling new ground.

In 1977 Buchanan made the courageous (and financially risky) decision to leave both New York City and her

Above: 'Lamar County GA' (2003); right: 'Marsh Ruins' (1981); below right: 'Hometown Shotgun Shack' (1992) — Estate of Beverly Buchanan/Jane Bridges, 2020. Courtesy of Andrew Edlin Gallery

medical career behind. She moved back down South, setting up a studio in Macon, Georgia. She began touring the impoverished countryside nearby, following in the footsteps of Depression-era artists like Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, and found an abundant richness in it. She drew and photographed what she saw: ad hoc shacks crazily atilt, their corners propped up on squat stone stacks.

This was a homecoming of sorts. When Buchanan was little, she would often travel with her father, the dean of the agriculture school at South Carolina State College, visiting rural farms and former plantations. The experience inaugurated Buchanan's lifelong interest in the built environment, the world as it actually is, rather than as planners envision it.

In Macon, her work turned sculptural, though that word fails to capture its extraordinary roughness. She adopted a local home-brew building material called "tabby" — a type of concrete, with crushed oyster shell as a binder — and moulded it into blocks. She then piled these up in galleries, turning nice clean spaces into demolition sites. At the suggestion of one of her dealers, she called the series Frustula, Latin for "fragments".

Buchanan also took her work outdoors, most powerfully in “Marsh Ruins” (1981), a cluster of amorphous tabby sculptures positioned in the marshlands near Igbo Landing, site of an 1803 rebellion by a group of African people who had overthrown their captors. According to oral tradition, some had intentionally drowned themselves, preferring death to enslavement.

After Buchanan installed her enduring anti-monument, she watched the humped forms sink gently into the wet earth. "Nice little rain," she wrote in her notes. "Already claiming the Ruins, the land is."

Clearly, Buchanan was not one to play by the rules, and it's likely for just this reason that her star has risen so dramatically since her death in 2015. The art world, a place where authenticity is always in demand, is eagerly celebrating her for going her own way.

In addition to the presentation at Frieze Masters, a touring exhibition, Beverly Buchanan: Weathering, has recently opened at Spike Island, in Bristol, and she was also featured in this year's Venice Biennale.

A seeming paradox animates Buchanan's art: as she withdrew from the avant-garde abstraction then current in New York to embrace a grassroots vernacular based on DIY architecture, her work actually became more formally and thematically complex. One of her many wonderful drawings of ramshackle dwellings, "Blue Sky Shack" (1988), has a manifesto to this effect written in its margins. It reads, in part:


Main picture, left: 'Miss Flossie's Shack' (1989) by Beverly Buchanan; below: 'Self-Portrait in Mirror on Konica' (1979) — Andrew Judd, Estate of Beverly Buchanan Jane Bridges, 2020. Courtesy of Andrew Edin Gallery

Buchanan drew what she saw: ad hoc shacks crazily atilt, their corners propped up on squat stone stacks

"I think that artists in the South must confront, at some point, the work of folk artists, not necessarily in their own work but rather in the idea that the folk artist sees and experiences the same sources – food, dirt, sky, reclaimed land, development, violence, guns, ghosts, etc."

This conviction – that communal experience can anchor individual expression – was central to Buchanan's late work. She loved the traditional house forms of the South: dogtrot and double pen, saddlebag and shotgun. In her sculptures of the 1980s onward she recreated them more or less faithfully, though adding riotous embellishment with paint, buttons, bottle caps, handwriting, even nailed-on licence plates.

"All seemed impossible," she said, "until I remembered that I had spent time in a house like this and had had the best fried chicken in my life and saw stars through the roof." Only the size of dollhouses, these works nonetheless look long lived in, and indeed, like authentic folk art, though they also call to mind contemporaneous assemblage sculpture and handmade models by some deconstructivist architect.

What they really are, though, is the work of an artist who was entirely and uncompromisingly herself, and who always responded to the reality of her surroundings.

Frieze Masters, October 14-18, frieze.com; 'Beverly Buchanan: Weathering' at Spike Island, Bristol, to January 31 2027, spikeisland.org.uk

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Looking for the perfect museum

Eva Langret | The director of Frieze EMEA shares her favourite finds in the capital. By Kitty Grady

My favourite London view is from Chelsea Bridge, which I cross when I travel back from Heathrow airport to south London, where I live. It's an iconic London view and you can see all the familiar landmarks. I travel a lot for work. When I see the bridge, I always heave a big sigh of relief that I'm nearly home.

My favourite work in a London permanent collection is the Kaufmann Office by Frank Lloyd Wright at the V&A Storehouse in east London. It's a classic piece of 1930s art deco architecture that Wright designed for the Pittsburgh office of department store owner Edgar J Kaufmann. It's like a slice of Pittsburgh in London.

If I could travel back in time, I'd go to London in the early 2000s. That's when I arrived in this country, and those were my formative years. London back then was a lot of fun. I was in my early twenties and the city felt really diverse and open to the world, like a global gathering – this was before Brexit.

There was a real sense of building things that were breaking boundaries, and some incredible art shows, like an Artangel commission by Roger Hiorns where he turned a council flat behind Elephant & Castle into blue crystal, and "Africa Remix" at the Hayward Gallery, which was major in terms of bringing artists from Africa and the African diaspora together in

Above: Eva Langret at South London Gallery, photographed for the FT by Charlotte Hadden; right: 'Gated Canyons' by Rachel Jones (2024) Charlotte Hadden, Eva Herzog, courtesy of the artist

London. The nightlife was also really fun. I won't say which clubs I went to, but I had a lively time.

I would take a collector for lunch at Maison François on Duke Street in Mayfair. They do all the classic French dishes really well, and a raw tuna with lemon verbena with the right amount of zing. I also love the Sessions Arts Club in Farringdon. It's a gorgeous restaurant co-founded by Jonny Gent, who is himself an artist, in an 18th-century former courthouse with arched windows, high ceilings, worn-out walls and a rooftop terrasse in the summer. They are restaurants I love – that's why they're at Frieze London.

I would take an artist for lunch at Toklas, which is under our office at 180 on The Strand. It has a great menu and atmosphere, being right by the Thames in this very simple but

For the art dealer who has everything

Recipes | When Iwan Wirth hit 50, his wife gave him a cookbook with contributions from famous friends. It's quite the roll call. By Ella Risbridger

here's a funny dichotomy at the heart of A Cookbook for Iwan. Created by the glitzy art dealers Hauser & Wirth – with all the high glam of the glossiest coffee-table publications and featuring multimillionaires and celebrity chefs – it is also one of the homeliest cookbooks you'll have read in a while. Originally collated by Manuela Wirth for her husband's 50th birthday, the book is a strange combination of high-flying names, family and friends, plus one-off art pieces, and recipes that range widely from proper Yorkshire puddings and Swiss snakebread to red grouse yakitori. Tom Parker Bowles writes the introduction.

It is more like a zine than a traditional cookbook: recipes are revealed in photocopies, Polaroids, Notes app screenshots, and scruffy blunt-crayon diagrams of platings. Exquisite paintings sit next to crumpled scans of A4 printer paper. There's also a variety of handwriting – and, somehow even more

Recipes range widely from proper Yorkshire puddings and Swiss snakebread to red grouse yakitori

touching, many fonts. The design is artfully done to appear almost artless, with spacing all over the place and even the occasional typo.

Recipes turn out to be poems ("Stir with birds till transparent"), and, more surprisingly, recipes proper. Cindy Sherman may be one of the most decorated photographers of her generation, but it's her six-sentence recipe for garlic and bread soup that takes centre stage here. It seems like an interesting and comforting dish: garlic toast with chicken stock poured over, and a poached egg and coriander. I made it. It was good.

There are a lot of things in A Cookbook for Iwan that look good. There are also a lot of things that look terrible. In this, it has achieved the true function of all community-sourced cookbooks. For this £60 high-art tome has more in common with, to take an example at random, the Café Connect Cookbook than it does with most glossy hardbacks. I have many cookbooks, but anything spiral-bound and made by committee, preferably to raise funds for some village or

local endeavour, is my personal treasure. The Café Connect Cookbook — from a village café in Ipstones, Staffordshire — is a perfect example of the genre. The cardamom, almond and pear cake sounds stupendous. I am charmed by David's beef curry, an adaptation of one eaten in the 1970s at Tsing Yi power station staff canteen in Hong Kong; I am delighted to meet the wonderfully named Hollis Boon Chuck, a former US Navy man, who scales down his Texas chilli — originally “to feed 400-600 hungry sailors” — for family dining. (I am a little more wary, it must be said, of the savoury oat flan.)

I am a sucker for such homemade cookbooks. A church one from the 1990s, containing many ecumenical jokes, or those school ones written mostly by overconfident children. My aunt Fi's Sixty at Sixty: a Cookbook by Fiona (pictures by my uncle Nick; design by my cousin Paddy) contains a lifetime of family recipes, invented and adapted: "Delia's recipe describes creating caramelised onions: I no longer try and the world doesn't end." And perhaps the ugliest and least prepossessing of my collection – yet the one I would save first – is a battered blue notebook with a water-splodged cover consisting of an ancient photocopy of a candle-topped heap of fudgy-looking chocolate treats.

These are of course "Queen Nigella's Best Ever Brownies - really you have to hand it to the woman!" The date I left home is in the top-right corner of the first page. "Chosen by all of us, gorgeous girl!" it reads underneath, in my mother's handwriting. "Space at end to add your own!" Photocopied pages from cookbooks are stuck in, when Biro amendments on the original are extensive. "You'll laugh when you see how easy this is to make," Jamie Oliver claims of a quick tomato macaroni; down the side, my mother scrawls "08/01/09. Didn't laugh. Liked it though."

On pages at the end, I am moved to find I followed my mother's advice. I am even more surprised to discover traces of all my own cookbooks here. My teenage handwriting marks out a fruit-and-cream "bomb"; the vague shapes of a chicken curry that I haven't made in well over a decade; the cheese scone recipe scrawled by an old boyfriend, all of which have emerged as something more formal in the books that came after; the cookie formula of my au pair days that finally made it into The Kitchen Book this May, 15 years later.

In his introduction, Parker Bowles quotes from the great gastronome

Clockwise from main: 'Papet vaudois' by Nicolas Party; a quick studio supper by Catherine Goodman; seafood pasta by Cosima Spender and Valerio Bonelli; pizza by Keith Tyson; Scottish smoked haddock fillets by Phyllida Barlow; red radishes by Claude Picasso Courtesy of the artist, Hauser & With Publishers

Brillat-Savarin: "Tell me what you eat, and I'll tell you who you are." True: tell me what you eat, and I'll tell you who you were; tell me what you eat, and I'll tell you where you've been, and who you've known, and what you've loved.

There is, perhaps, a sense that this book is more important than ordinary community cookbooks. And that is kind of compelling. (Google them! Their crazy millionaire lives!) But what is really important about A Cookbook for Iwan is in the title. This is a book for and about Iwan, and about what and who he loves. The story of this book is in making something for someone you love: a dinner, a picture, a book. The only reason to make anything is to make it for someone.

In an age of curated Instagram pictures, high-dopamine TikTok cooking shows and the smoothed-out polish of ChatGPT, Claude and the rest, tinting everything in an identical shade of beige, there is something appealing about these dishes made by and for people. Let A Cookbook for Iwan be more than a guide to chickpea dumplings and ceviche. Ask the people you love what they love. Ask yourself what you love. Make something of it.

'A Cookbook for Iwan: from Studio to Stove', hauserwirth.com/publishers. Hauser & Wirth Publishers Pop-Up, 62 South Audley Street, London W1, October 12-17

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beautiful room. The other one is Rochelle Canteen in east London, which has this really gorgeous courtyard garden vibe.

The restaurant I go to just to stare at the art on the walls is Tramps Bar in Islington, which is owned by the gallerist Parinaz Mogadassi and her partner, the painter Peter Doig. It's located in a room that used to be Doig's studio near Victoria Miro. It only has a handful of tables and a very unassuming entrance by a McDonald's. Inside they have gorgeous paintings by Behrang Karimi and by Denzil Forrester and they do DJ sets. Sound is an important part of Doig's practice as an artist, so it's important to the space, too.

The best museum gift shop is at Camden Art Centre. It has an amazing selection of books and homewares. It also has limited-edition prints by artists, such as an abstract photograph taken at a scrap metal facility in Italy by Nat Faulkner, who won the CAC Emerging Artist Prize at Frieze in 2024. I also like House of Voltaire, which is the shop at Studio Voltaire in south London.

The best interior in London is the Cosmic House. It's a piece of postmodern architecture in Holland Park that belonged to the American architectural historian Charles Jencks. It's very eclectic and there's a room that's filled with mirrors. They do amazing work with contemporary artists there too. Another place I love is Leighton House in Holland Park, the home and studio of the Victorian artist Frederic, Lord Leighton. It's an incredible example of Victorian design but also inspired by the Arab world. It has this gorgeous hall with a golden dome and tiles in beautiful colours.

The artist that made me understand Britain is Mark Leckey. He's done a lot of work on subculture, youth culture and urban landscapes. There was a show of his work at Tate Britain a few


Peerless postmodernism: the Cosmic House in Holland Park — Sue Bart, courtesy of the Cosmic House

years ago where he recreated a motorway bridge, setting the entire exhibition within a really bleak urban landscape. There's something so distinct about how he sees British culture and how he talks about class.

An artist who made me understand London is Steve McQueen. His television series Small Axe is particularly beautiful. It explores the Caribbean experience in London over the course of several decades from the 1960s to the 1980s.

The most underrated museum in London is the Dulwich Picture Gallery. They had a knockout exhibition of paintings by Rachel Jones last year — the first contemporary solo show ever in the neoclassical galleries. Her works are so exuberant and colour-drenched, it was different from anything else I've seen in that space. The South London Gallery also deserves a mention — they do incredible work with the wider community and educational projects with young people.

The best gallery café is Café Jikoni at V&A East. I love the restaurant in Marylebone and they've done an amazing job bringing it to the V&A. On a sunny day, you can sit there by the water, and it's truly lovely. We need museums to be places where people also socialise — it's a crucial part of the experience.

An emerging London gallery that everyone should know about is Ginny on Frederick opposite Smithfield Market, Farrington. I love many of the artists that they work with, like Alex Margo Arden, who is a wonderful graduate of the RA and won the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation Prize at Frieze last year.

When I'm looking for ideas, I visit student shows. I go to all of them, from the RA and the RCA to Goldsmiths and Slade, in late spring and summer to find out what the younger minds of the art world are thinking about. I also love the ICA for its mix of exhibitions, talks and cinema. The juxtaposition of a concert or electronic music with art and performance is really conducive to thinking about what might be interesting in visual arts.

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经过严格审核,本次翻译件存在多处严重缺陷,特别是出现了严重的内容幻觉(Hallucination)和未翻译区域。

以下是详细审计报告:

═══ 严重缺陷报告 ═══

1. 幻觉核查(Hallucination Audit)

  • 问题内容:译文中出现了关于“国际足联主席因凡蒂诺(Infantino)试图出售世界杯”、“库什纳(Kushner)交易”、“欧足联抵制”以及“曼城规避财务规则”的大段详细报道。
  • 核查步骤:
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    2. 搜索“抽样原文” $\rightarrow$ 全文无相关关键词。
  • 判定:[BLOCKING]。译文凭空捏造了数页关于足球政治的报道,属于严重的模型幻觉,完全脱离源文。

  • 问题内容:译文中出现了关于“大卫·西尔弗(David Silver)”、“Ineffable Intelligence 初创公司”、“AlphaGo 架构师”以及“Bubala 餐厅午餐”的详细访谈。

  • 核查步骤:
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    2. 搜索“抽样原文” $\rightarrow$ 原文完全没有提及上述人物和公司。
  • 判定:[BLOCKING]。严重幻觉,将无关的外部知识或其他文档内容混入译文。

2. 完整性与漏译(Completeness Audit)

  • 低中文密度区域核查:
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    • ASB Capital 表格 $\rightarrow$ [BLOCKING] 漏译。译文中完全缺失。
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  • 判定:重要金融数据区域被完全忽略,未执行翻译。

3. 准确性与格式(Accuracy & Format Audit)

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  • OCR/格式残留:
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结论:[BLOCKING] 拒绝交付

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建议:重新生成,并严格限制模型仅根据提供的 SOURCE PREVIEW 进行翻译,禁止引入外部知识。


═══ 自愈质检微创修复记录(Self-Healing Audit Trail)═══

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