Hints and tips:
...He’d see them in dreams....
...Take the decision to cut back the R&D tax credit scheme for start-ups that many have relied on to grow in recent years....
...Many in the tech sector also point out that the Treasury’s decision to scale back the R&D tax credit scheme will cause significant damage to the UK’s tech start-up ecosystem....
...Do you get the creativity, the buzz, the teamwork, the personal growth that you’d get if you were in an office? . . . You don’t.”...
...They said they couldn’t take the cost on their balance sheets, given it would be 15 years or so before they’d get their money back.”...
...Frankly, once that’s up and running, if the government says we’d like to put some money into there, that’s fine.”...
...“The first thing you’d see were these wafts and wafts of mimosa by the front door,” she recalls....
...The pub is named in honour of Charles FitzRoy, who was the first to lay out this section of the capital during the 18th century and whose father was an illegitimate son of Charles II....
...“We would go on holiday to Tuscany – he just knew all these interesting people and I’d be along for the ride....
...It’s uplifting to wear shades you’d once-over never be caught dead in....
...“He’d always have a tape measure in his pocket . . . he’d be busy measuring up how long other jewellers’ windows were and taking photos of what they were doing,” says Anthony’s grandson James Amos, a Boodles...
...I used to wish I could be one (like Queen Elizabeth II, it turns out). Horses make me feel real joy....
...Like d’Holbach, famous for hosting a twice-weekly salon that attracted Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, they entertain clients here....
...On the battlefield, Lord Hungerford is said to have captured a supreme prize, the Duc d’Orléans....
...Doge Vitale II Michiel of Venice was in a pickle. Under a dubious pretext, the Byzantine empire had in 1171 arrested all Venetian merchants in its capital Constantinople and seized their property....
...Well, the dial has shifted somewhat this year, with a majority of British voters now saying they’d vote to rejoin the EU, according to a new poll this week....
...He’d be slack-jawed with disbelief. Some days, so is 76-year-old me....
...This article is part of a guide to London from FT Globetrotter Skyline Afternoon Tea at Ting in the Shangri-La, The Shard Level 35, Shangri-La The Shard, 31 St Thomas Street, London SE1 9QU There’s nothing...
...Mifid II and Solvency II have been discussed by I think pretty much every chancellor since we left the EU....
...At DD we’d begun to wonder whether he’d broken the second rule as the pandemic put the famed stockpicker’s signature value investing philosophy through the wringer....
...Insurers, who’d chafed against the rules since their 2016 inception, responded gleefully — particularly London’s Pension Insurance Corporation, which promised to invest as much as £20bn extra in infrastructure...
...During the brief regency of Philippe II, duc d’Orléans (1715-23), a Scotsman named John Law urged the French monarchy to adopt his “System” of public credit and paper money....
...“If I was BaFin, I’d write immediately to them and ask where the prospectus is.”...
...Turn right up South Audley Street and follow it to Grosvenor Square, admiring the 19th-century Japonisant-Flemish extravaganza that is Thomas Goode and the almost New England simplicity of the Grosvenor...
...“If we really wanted to steal a march on our European friends, you’d make us the offshore [centre],” says William Jackson, managing partner of €26bn private equity group Bridgepoint....
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