Accessibility helpSkip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footer

Cookies on FT Sites

We use cookies for a number of reasons, such as keeping FT Sites reliable and secure, personalising content and ads, providing social media features and to analyse how our Sites are used.

Accept & continue
Manage cookies
  • Sign In
  • Subscribe
Open side navigation menuOpen search bar
Financial Times
myFT
  • Home
  • World
    Sections
    • World Home
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • Americas
    • Middle East and North Africa
    Most Read
    • US launches air strikes against Iran-linked militias in Syria
    • Why global Covid infections have plummeted
    • ‘Their hair is on fire’: Trump fans await return to political stage
    • Scotland reaps dividend of Covid response that diverged from England’s
    • US removes stumbling block to global deal on digital tax
  • US
    Sections
    • US Home
    • US Economy
    • US Companies
    • US Politics & Policy
    Most Read
    • Nasdaq slides 3.5% as government bond rout accelerates
    • US launches air strikes against Iran-linked militias in Syria
    • Yuval Noah Harari: Lessons from a year of Covid
    • Treasury yields fall after savage bond sell-off abates
    • Why global Covid infections have plummeted
  • Companies
    Sections
    • Companies Home
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
    Most Read
    • McKinsey partners sacrifice leader in ‘ritual cleansing’
    • Amanda Staveley loses High Court battle against Barclays
    • Head of Canada’s largest pension fund quits after Covid vaccine trip
    • Jeff Immelt shares out blame for GE’s decline
    • Soho House plans to list in New York with $3bn valuation
  • Tech
  • Markets
    Sections
    • Markets Home
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
    Most Read
    • Treasury yields fall after savage bond sell-off abates
    • ECB signals rising concern about eurozone bond market sell-off
    • Australia sovereign wealth fund chief warns of stock market ‘clean-out’
    • Bond sell-off roils markets, ex-Petrobras chief hits back, Ghana’s first Covax vaccines
    • Return of the bond vigilantes: will inflation fears spoil the post-pandemic party?
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    Sections
    • Opinion Home
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
    Most Read
    • A Lucid sign of the tech bubble
    • Joe Biden has a lesson in democracy for Angela Merkel
    • Jay-Z created a hip-hop path to luxury influence
    • Let the market determine bitcoin’s value
    • Budget 2021: the knowns and unknowns
  • Work & Careers
    Sections
    • Work & Careers Home
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
    Most Read
    • Leaders’ Lessons: what can we learn from those at the top?
    • Forced mediocrity can boost your creativity
    • Delta’s Ed Bastian: building staff loyalty to survive a crisis
    • Toxic offices don’t change when they go virtual
    • The boardroom’s futile pursuit of purpose
  • Life & Arts
    Sections
    • Life & Arts Home
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
    Most Read
    • Yuval Noah Harari: Lessons from a year of Covid
    • Mexico’s Tulum is a buyer’s market
    • Budget 2021: the knowns and unknowns
    • Late greats: why some brilliant ideas get overlooked
    • Do Republicans even want government to exist?
  • How to Spend It
  • Sign In
  • Subscribe
MenuSearch
  • Home
  • World
  • US
  • Companies
  • Tech
  • Markets
  • Climate
  • Opinion
  • Work & Careers
  • Life & Arts
  • How to Spend It
Financial Times
  • Sign In
  • Subscribe

Sarah Sands

@sarahsands100 (link opens in a new browser window)
@sarahsands100 (link opens in a new browser window)

Add to myFT Digest

Add this topic to your myFT Digest for news straight to your inbox

  • Friday, 26 February, 2021
    Books
    An end to our enforced monasticism

    The important lessons of our self-isolation include patience, fortitude and compassion — but also humility

  • Friday, 18 December, 2020
    Life & Arts
    A year of going nowhere fast

    Exercise bikes have been a pandemic hit — but nothing beats getting outside

  • Saturday, 21 November, 2020
    Life & Arts
    Obama, Diana and the meaning of ambition

    Barack Obama learnt that politics was about conveying messages through emotion or rhetoric, rather than conducting public life as a seminar

  • Saturday, 31 October, 2020
    Life & Arts
    Books, the Beeb and our Tolstoyan times

    Diary: Sarah Sands reflects on a week in a divided, disrupted London

  • Friday, 4 September, 2020
    Life & Arts
    Sarah Sands: farewell to the baffling, brilliant BBC

    Bias, bluster and uncomfortable truths — the departing Today editor on three turbulent years

  • Saturday, 15 August, 2020
    Life & Arts
    Norfolk diary: lilies, silence and monastic life

    Sarah Sands builds a Monet-inspired pond and goes in search of some radical humility

  • Friday, 29 May, 2020
    Boris Johnson
    The Boris Johnson rules for life

    Why has the prime minister stood by Dominic Cummings? A former colleague has some theories

  • Friday, 29 May, 2020
    Life & Arts
    The Boris Johnson rules for life

    Why has the prime minister stood by Dominic Cummings? A former colleague has some theories

  • Thursday, 30 January, 2020
    BBC
    Sarah Sands to step down as editor of BBC’s Today programme

    Former London Evening Standard editor will depart as broadcaster embarks on reorganisation

  • Promoted Content
  • Friday, 17 January, 2020
    Life & Arts
    Harry, Meghan and Britain’s new culture war

    On the one side, wokeness — on the other, Queen and country

  • Friday, 20 December, 2019
    Life & Arts
    My search for the Queen of Sheba

    Sarah Sands walks in the footsteps of a Biblical enigma — and takes Latin lessons from Boris Johnson

  • Friday, 28 June, 2019
    Life & Arts
    Tokyo diary: On Buddhism — and Boris Johnson

    Sarah Sands pursues inner peace in Japan but cannot quite escape the Tory leadership race

  • Friday, 8 March, 2019
    Life & Arts
    London Diary — of culinary diplomacy and creative cities

    Are ‘female’ industries getting a raw deal in Britain?

  • Thursday, 3 January, 2019
    Big tech
    Mending our fractured relationship with Big Tech

    This year looks likely to be one of reckonings for Facebook and its fellow platforms

  • Friday, 19 October, 2018
    Retail sector
    My quest for self-sufficiency via a giant handbag

    No need to juggle work and home if you lug both around wherever you go

  • Friday, 5 October, 2018
    Workplace diversity & equality
    Views of masculinity change when women take charge

    While creating a fairer society, we should be careful about presenting a false one

  • Saturday, 22 September, 2018
    Opinion
    ‘Temples of fun’ are a hard sell for the church

    In the end, faith as comfort and community are more compelling than entertainment

  • Saturday, 8 September, 2018
    Next Act
    Five-generation families are our future

    Longer lifespans mean the ‘sandwich generation’ has company in the middle

  • Friday, 24 August, 2018
    UK politics & policy
    How to weigh the value of a good joke in politics

    Boris Johnson grew resentful at being treated as a figure of fun by Theresa May

  • Friday, 3 August, 2018
    Work-life balance
    Holidaying with millennials in digital isolation

    As if in a modern morality tale, without WiFi we began to have real conversations

  • Friday, 20 July, 2018
    Managing yourself
    The perils of pyjama paralysis

    Does the way you dress say something about the rigour that you bring to your work?

  • Friday, 6 July, 2018
    Audio articles
    Sleep deprivation is part of our productivity problem

    The on-demand economy and 24-hour news cycle are bad for mental health

  • Friday, 29 June, 2018
    FT SeriesSummer books 2018
    Summer books of 2018: critics’ picks

    FT writers and guests select their must-read titles

  • Saturday, 23 June, 2018
    Leadership
    Worrying sets us apart from the algorithms

    Leaders must take plunges, but it is good to have anxious types on hand

  • Friday, 8 June, 2018
    Opinion
    London adjusts to a less lavish new era

    One way to rebalance the economy is to allow the capital to sink a little

Previous You are on page 1 Next

Useful links

Support

View Site TipsHelp CentreContact UsAbout UsAccessibilitymyFT TourCareers

Legal & Privacy

Terms & ConditionsPrivacy PolicyCookiesCopyrightSlavery Statement & Policies

Services

FT LiveShare News Tips SecurelyIndividual SubscriptionsGroup SubscriptionsRepublishingContracts & Tenders
Executive Job SearchAdvertise with the FTFollow the FT on TwitterFT TransactSecondary Schools

Tools

PortfolioToday's Newspaper (ePaper)Alerts HubBusiness School Rankings
Enterprise ToolsNews feedNewslettersCurrency Converter
More from the FT Group
Markets data delayed by at least 15 minutes. © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2021. FT and ‘Financial Times’ are trademarks of The Financial Times Ltd.
The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice.
Financial Times

International Edition

  • Switch to UK Edition
  • Top sections
  • Home
  • World
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • Americas
    • Middle East and North Africa
  • US
    • US Economy
    • US Companies
    • US Politics & Policy
  • Companies
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
  • Tech
  • Markets
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
  • Work & Careers
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
  • Life & Arts
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
  • Personal Finance
    • Property & Mortgages
    • Investments
    • Pensions
    • Tax
    • Banking & Savings
    • Advice & Comment
    • Next Act
  • How to Spend It
  • Special Reports
  • FT recommends
  • Graphics
  • Lex
  • Alphaville
  • Lunch with the FT
  • FT Globetrotter
  • #techAsia
  • Moral Money
  • FTfm
  • Newsletters
  • Video
  • Podcasts
  • News feed
  • myFT
  • Portfolio
  • Today's Newspaper (ePaper)
  • Crossword
  • Our Apps
  • Help Centre
  • Subscribe
  • Sign In