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More risk, fewer rules: the plan to revive the City of London
...Addressing City executives under the extravagant Edwardian ceilings in Drapers Hall in London last week, City minister Andrew Griffith was frank about the new philosophy that underpinned its financial services...
February 15, 2023
ReviewVisual Arts
Imperial War Museum seeks fresh perspectives on the atomic bombings
...Her parents, who had met during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, gave her Raymond Briggs’ When the Wind Blows, a novel, ostensibly for children, about a nuclear attack by the Soviet Union on Britain....
August 10, 2020
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
News in-depthBurford Capital Ltd
The billionaire, the sex tape and a lot of legal action
...In his review of the England and Wales civil courts system in 2016, Lord Justice Briggs called the enforcement of civil judgments and orders “the Achilles heel of the civil courts”....
September 6, 2019
FT SeriesThe FT guide to hands-on hobbies to boost your mental health
TV petrolhead James May on the slow joys of woodworking
...It’s part of a hall bench on which May will sit down to put on his wellies. May only uses hand tools....
January 10, 2020
Business education
Four ways to rescue a disastrous MBA internship
...“By the time he finished his internship, he had an offer,” Ms Briggs says....
July 11, 2018
ReviewLife & Arts
A Letter to My Nephew, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance CompanyMAC-Maison des Arts, Créteil, France — ‘Stunningly musical’
...Briggs, Jones’s nephew. A former dancer and model, Briggs, nicknamed “Pretty”, fell into drugs and prostitution before an illness left him paralysed....
November 18, 2015
FT Live
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Saturday, 7 September London, UK
ReviewLife & Arts
‘Pinkoes and Traitors: The BBC and the Nation, 1974-1987’, by Jean Seaton
...Briggs observed that if Northcliffe and Beaverbrook had seen the BBC in its early years as a commercial competitor, it “would have been strangled at birth”....
February 27, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
Shakespeare in Love, Noël Coward Theatre, London – review
...Viola (a lovely, impetuous Lucy Briggs-Owen), meanwhile, has her own plans....
July 23, 2014
ReviewLife & Arts
‘Shakespeare in Love’, London
...Tom Bateman plays Shakespeare with Lucy Briggs-Owen as the lovely Viola – who, at the end of the story, becomes the inspiration for Twelfth Night....
July 18, 2014
ReviewLife & Arts
A Celebration of Bert Jansch, Royal Festival Hall, London – review
...The last time Bert Jansch played in public was at the Royal Festival Hall....
December 4, 2013
Life & Arts
US ranches attract buyers seeking seclusion and room to roam
...Texas agency Briggs Freeman – part of Sotheby’s Realty and based in Dallas – reports that its ranch and land division has sold more than $31.5m worth of properties across the state so far this year, a 179...
October 11, 2013
ReviewLife & Arts
Other Voices, Wilton’s Music Hall, London – review
...Stornoway came, as singer Brian Briggs noted, in the middle of “this Laura sandwich”....
April 8, 2013
Music
Bach Day, BBC Proms, London
...Playing Bach on the voluminous Victorian Royal Albert Hall organ is never going to be an authentic experience and possibly for that reason organist David Briggs went to the other extreme....
August 16, 2010
Life & Arts
De Jérusalem à Cordoue, Théâtre de L’Île Saint-Louis Paul Rey, Paris
...Hidden away in the courtyard of a Seine-side mansion on the Quai d’Anjou, this small hall swagged in red velvet would be the perfect setting for a seance....
September 8, 2010
Life & Arts
Rachel and Becky Unthank’s new band
...There are songs by the folk singers Anne Briggs and Ewan MacColl. “At First She Starts”, by fellow north-easterners Lal Waterson and Oliver Knight, throbs with bowed double bass....
August 21, 2009
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Life & Arts
Green shoots
...“We think we have a bright future with the EI [environmental improvement] scheme being completed and hopefully a resurgence in our city centre,” says John Briggs, chief executive of Armagh’s city and district...
April 25, 2009
Uniting the new and the old in Denver
...The team drew 3.39m people in its first summer and the blocks around the ballpark were transformed into a high-energy maze of pricey lofts, beer halls and swanky cocktail joints....
July 7, 2007
Mixed blessings
...Biddy Briggs, in year 10, says: “We have learnt about the history of the school, and I hope children are still taught that.”...
July 21, 2007
UK schools
Workers want info ‘straight’ from the boss’s mouth
...But it represented the way he is, says Darren Briggs, a partner at The Company Agency, which advises corporate leaders on communications....
November 30, 2006
London fights for its future
A fruitless fixation on terrorist attacks
...At the margins of the conference hall, a number of corporate security chiefs quietly conceded that the focus on terrorism might not be proportionate to the scale of the threat – something they were not prepared...
June 27, 2006

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