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...Nick Coleridge, chair of the V&A museum and former overlord of Condé Nast Britain, publisher of House & Garden and The World of Interiors, thinks that working from home and Zoom have made the Instagram generation...
...The town, the birthplace of Adam Smith and Gordon Brown, was a pioneer of linoleum flooring production in the mid-20th century....
...When she attended a meeting of the Judy Garland Club in London in 1964, members were enchanted to see a Marks & Spencer label peeping out from her neckline....
...John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford, in 1814....
...Who knew the Marks and Spencer’s Book of Football Quotations could prove so profound, for instance, or Combination Microwave Cooking so stomach-churning?...
....” ——————– Person in the News: Emmanuel Macron Simon Kuper: The battle for the idea of France Macron v Le Pen: battle of the policies FT French presidential election poll tracker ——————– The age gap...
...they would have been laughed out of town....
...In 1926, the Financial Times published a brief notice on the birth of King George V and Queen Mary’s first grandchild, adding the important detail that the “newly arrived little lassie” was the niece of...
...One of the hottest tickets in town is to see The Vote at Donmar Warehouse....
...Peter Spencer, professor of economics, University of York I don’t think the Prime Minister will want to face the electorate without having made substantial inroads into migration....
...Peter Spencer, professor of economics, University of York More pessimistic than 12 months ago I’m more pessimistic than 12 months ago....
...These “disloyal” customers are spending an attractive chunk of British household budgets, though. Less than 3 per cent of Marks and Spencer’s grocery customers are highly loyal....
...Chiswick High Road now gives the area the feel of a highly polished market town; there are speciality cheese shops and organic butchers but also high street brands including Baby Gap and Marks and Spencer...
...We need not just more houses built, especially in the southeast, but new towns....
...But out of devotion to the biggest mouth-makher of all – Winston Spencer Churchill – he made sure I was schooled in oratory before I was even in my teens....
...By the time they got to Doncaster a couple of months later, I couldn’t get into the town centre. It was colossal.”...
...Meanwhile, a 350-acre economic zone is planned in the area of Kilinochchi, a Tiger town that fell in January – once the landmines have been cleared....
...Sickert apart, this show consists of a dilute cocktail of British art at its most imitative: rooms full of earnest, well-meaning, post-post-impressionist cityscapes and interiors by Spencer Gore, Harold...
...Henry V never said beating the French would be easy....
...In the UK, Marks and Spencer is offering £199 suits by Timothy Everest, one of the stars of British bespoke tailoring, and shoes by Oliver Sweeney at £49.50 – a quarter of the price of the more sophisticated...
...The formula – historic town centre buildings, lively bistros, small rooms, huge shower heads – was rolled out across the country, proving a particular success in the most conservative of towns: Harrogate...
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