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the undoing of Theresa May’s premiership; Neel Mukherjee’s novel of human connections; a twisted narrative of descent into terrorism; dark, fractured fiction from Jón Kalman Stefánsson — plus Nilanjana Roy
...Browsing suggestions last week from the FT’s book-loving readers for their favourite titles of the year, I often found myself in agreement with their recommendations....
...The registered owner of the Chester Square house is Chester Ventures, according to UK land records....
...PPE Medpro was awarded government contracts worth more than £200mn within weeks of its incorporation in May 2020....
...Scott Wagner, Never Back Down’s new chair and third chief executive in two weeks, is a longtime DeSantis ally....
...A few weeks back, I had the pleasure of listening to Peter Frankopan, British historian and author of The Silk Roads and The Earth Transformed....
...In 2021, the Boston Public Library was hit by a ransomware attack that shut down its systems for a week; the library took months to recover fully....
...such as Prince Harry’s Spare, a runaway success this year with sales of 1.4mn copies within 24 hours of its release, entertainer Britney Spears’ The Woman in Me, which sold 1.1mn copies in the US in one week...
...Last week, many celebrated as the Writers Guild of America ended one of the longest strikes in its history....
...Nonetheless, Luna Luna artists designed merchandise; T-shirts conceived by Haring and Roy Lichtenstein are on display....
...Iger has also drawn endorsements from heirs of company founders Roy and Walt Disney in recent weeks....
...To mark his birth centenary this year, I performed an appropriate ritual: I dusted down my copy of his 1961 classic, and spent much of the week laughing till my sides hurt....
...Texas businessman Roy Bailey, a top fundraiser for Ron DeSantis’s failed presidential campaign, said Biden enjoyed a “huge advantage” as president — but wall-to-wall media coverage of Trump meant he did...
...By contrast, Haley held 10 town halls across four days this week....
...“It is the perfect storm for retailers in France,” says Ananda Roy of consumer consultancy Circana....
.... ★★★★★ barbican.org.uk A week after the debacle of its production of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, English Touring Opera is soldiering on....
...As Iger battles Peltz, he has also secured endorsements from the grandchildren of Disney founders Walt and Roy Disney, who sent a letter to shareholders backing the chief executive....
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...Chip Roy, a Republican congressman from Texas, called the framework “terrible” and said it “gives away . . . leverage”. “As usual, we keep spending more money we don’t have,” he added....
...“I learnt a fluency in image and text at my $85-a-week job. Now it’s become organic to me. I wasn’t educated in the codes of art world production or discourse....
...Last week, Letby became the fourth British woman to be told she would die in jail for her “cruel, calculated and cynical campaign of child murder”, but she declined to appear in court for sentencing....
...Health secretary Steve Barclay last week told MPs that the government-commissioned Kark review, which examined a Fit and Proper Person test for board members, had in 2018 recommended powers to disbar directors...
...Now try this This week, I mostly listened to Harris Conducts Harris, a delightful recording of the American composer Roy Harris conducting some of his own work, while writing my column....
...The company’s chair David Thomson — Canada’s richest man with a wealth of tens of billions of dollars — heads the media empire founded by his grandfather Roy Thomson....
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