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...Lisa Nandy, shadow international development secretary, said that if Labour won power it could codify in law the work of the official development assistance “star chamber” committee, which scrutinises spending...
...Who is the more convincing conductor: Maestro’s Bradley Cooper or Cate Blanchett in Tár? “Ha ha! Both of them did an amazing job,” he says, flatly refusing the bait....
...[Gallerist] Nina Johnson once gave me a Nicola L piece; it’s called Forest, and it was from a show that Nina had of Nicola’s work....
...“Bigger banks could facilitate this quite easily, whereas smaller providers like building societies could team up with the likes of L&G or BlackRock to offer a simple range of trackers,” suggests Jason Hollands...
...In a work of 1919, what did the artist Marcel Duchamp add to the Mona Lisa? Which US national park straddles the California/Nevada border?...
...stephen.bush@ft.com Letter in response to this column: UK success is not because it’s become multicultural / From Michael Winckless, Bangkok, Thailand...
...Logan Roy, SuccessionMétier leather Vagabond duffle bag, £2,950 Kendall Roy, Succession Rimowa aluminium Check-In L, £1,290 Tanya, The White Lotus Globe-Trotter fibreboard Carry-On, £2,245 Jack Ryan,...
...These included the top lot of the art auction, another Monet — “Peupliers au bord de l’Epte, temps couvert” (1891) — for $26.5mn ($30.8mn with fees, est $30mn-$40mn)....
...L’affaire Raac? Raac-gate?) continues to cause a political headache for the government....
...Plus, a classic Provençal mas in towns and villages like Ménerbes, St-Rémy, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Gordes (where Knight Frank is selling a seven-bedroom house for €2.35mn) and, of course, Cézanne’s native...
...She is an enigma not quite rivalling the Mona Lisa, but nonetheless one of the strangest portraits in all the Renaissance....
...In one, eight schoolboys cram into a red Mini Cooper, while in another a John Galliano-draped model holds a pair of swans up to one another, like two love birds....
...Cooper of Ninety One says the global EV market is dominated by China, which accounts for 60 per cent of plug-in electric car sales....
...That’s B-O-L-A underscore S-O-L. Claer Barrett And Damien? Damien Jordan If you just put Damien Talks Money into Google, or Making Money is the podcast if that’s more your thing....
...On my last pre-pandemic visit to the museum, I had walked into the room with the “Mona Lisa”, only to hit a ruck of a couple of hundred people taking photographs....
...But ultimately, Lisa Nandy’s tenure in the local government brief had made her the sackable available job....
...And Lisa Cameron, former SNP MP, now the newest Conservative MP, has defected. Now, in many ways this is not that surprising. She’s one of the most socially conservative SNP MPs....
...An Anglo-Saxon helmet found at Sutton Hoo featured a very precise bronze model, and the Mona Lisa gained one courtesy of Duchamp....
...“We definitely want to be better, no one wants to let customers down,” Lisa Tremble, a senior executive at British Airways, told the hearing....
...That’s the “L”, our elevated train system that connects the north, south and west sides of the city. You can see the trains cutting through and over the streets – it’s just surreal....
...“There have been a lot of promises made around biologicals and the fact that they can replace obviously incredibly active and effective synthetic chemicals,” says Alastair Cooper of agricultural venture...
...She stands there, one foot raised, arms stretched out, proffering something lost long ago, staring past me as inscrutable as the Mona Lisa. It feels new to be seeing beauty in Brescia....
...Yvette Cooper, currently chair of the home affairs select committee — and another former leadership contender — will become the new shadow home secretary....
...It owes its popularity in no small measure to Uxua, the all-cottage beach hotel created by Wilbert Das that has attracted, among others, Beyoncé and Anderson Cooper (who liked it so much he enlisted Das...
...Lisa Parkes, a private banker at Investec, describes a longstanding British client with a £3mn mortgage facility on a £5mn home....
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