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...A former teen tennis star, Duncan is injured and becomes a rich, successful coach instead....
...A portrait of the bewhiskered duke — later George V — stares down at us....
...Puzzle 2532 Artur Davtyan v Vladislav Kovalev, Dubai 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...June 20 to September 8; further information and tickets here ‘Naomi’, V&A South Kensington An ode to the life and work of supermodel Naomi Campbell....
...Other pieces are held by the V&A and the Courtauld Gallery in London. I knew all this because I had seen — and written about — a nearly identical bowl for the FT last year....
...In the V&A’s latest annual review he also referred to talks with Ghana around the V&A collection of Asante court regalia, including gold ornaments, rings and badges, which entered the collection following...
...The house has won prizes at the V&A Illustration Awards, as well as being recognised in the book trade for its bindings, production and indexing....
...Former Tory party leader Iain Duncan Smith, one of the five sanctioned MPs, said it was “astonishing” that China had been invited given its “huge record of human rights abuses”....
...As ever, reach out to Imani (imani.moise@ft.com) and me (sid.v@ft.com) with your thoughts, suggestions and comments. We’ll be back again next Monday. Happy reading!...
...Duncan Forbes, the V&A’s director of photography, was appointed two years ago....
...Even among Tory voters the positive differential has nearly halved, shrinking from around plus-44 to (67 ‘well’ v 23 ‘badly’) in January 2020 to plus-23 (58 ‘well’ v 35 ‘badly’) today....
...his first large command, over three battalions of the 101st Airborne Division, based in Fort Campbell, Kentucky — and moved to the Pentagon during Jimmy Carter’s administration as an adviser to Charles Duncan...
...“There is a similar one in the V&A; it’s now worth in excess of £5,000.”...
...“The chances of a full V-shaped recovery in services activity this year still look slim,” he said....
...She noted that the fall in the PMI employment index was “particularly worrying” because it “provides further support to our view that a perfect V-shaped recovery is extremely unlikely”....
...Kingston Polymath 1,011: Dr S Bailey, Swindon Crossword 16,099: Suzanne P Wilson, Windermere; D Barter, Cumbria; Jean-Marc Sellier, California Polymath 1,010: Robert Jelly, Warwickshire Crossword 16,093: V...
...Duncan and I visited friends a few weekends ago, but found ourselves running late and without time to select a thoughtful gift....
...Attending the England v India cricket Test match in London on Saturday, he was booed when his image flashed up on a big screen....
...Email: duncan.robinson@ft.com Twitter: @duncanrobinson Elsewhere in Europe: King Macron I Sun King: The sequel Anne-Sylvaine Chassany examines Macron’s evolution from candidate to president....
...Email duncan.robinson@ft.com Twitter @duncanrobinson Email paul.mcclean@ft.com Twitter @psmcclean...
...You will find no end of interesting bits and bobs under the letter “v” such as VAT, vendor placing, and mentions of a “gunslinger” fund manager called Peter de Vink. What you won’t find is volatility....
...Mr Schrems founded the organisation Europe v Facebook, which he is funding from small donations from “many concerned citizens” across Europe....
...Duncan Wilson, chief executive of Historic England, said the theatres “are where some of the world’s greatest stories were first told…....
...This has echoes of the 2001 Tory leadership contest, when the experienced Ken Clarke was backed by 59 MPs but 61 per cent of the membership chose Iain Duncan Smith, a eurosceptic rebel, to lead the party...
...Iain Duncan Smith, another Outer, dismissed Lord Heseltine as a “voice from the past”. It was not always this way....
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