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...The boss of one large company said: “If you pin me to the wall and made me go to one, I’d only go to Labour.”...
...Allan Baitel, a Panamanian native and the company’s spokesperson at the time, was busy providing quotes for journalists covering the event....
...Then I’d kick back with friends and contemplate the beauty of western civilisation. I’m in awe of Washington, this handsome city, the cultural capital of the USA....
...If I was prime minister I’d rewrite the Medical Act 1858, which outlawed quack doctors, so as to outlaw quack IT practitioners....
...“Back in 2021, before we’d even poured the first cubic metre of concrete, we’d already had offers on more than half the complex,” said the managing director of the Raab construction group....
...Nonetheless, if you’re Rishi Sunak, you know which one you’d rather have on your CV....
...He added: “Whoever is chancellor at the time of the next spending review . . . might wish they’d chosen a different line of work.”...
...Beer slyly reveals layer after layer of Nadja’s personality, while Schubert’s Leon balances the sympathetic and the downright rebarbative....
...A “short, quick, angry cross dashing of water in every direction” tucked between “howling and shrieking” surf, wrote Edgar Allan Poe in his 1841 short story, “A Descent into the Maelström”....
...It’s true that Vienna is where the string quartet was created by Haydn, around 1750, and then taken up by Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert....
...An indulgence I’d never forgo is being an artist. You’re continually solving problems and having conversations with yourself....
...British tenor Allan Clayton and soprano Sophie Bevan sing the tormented titular fisherman and the woman who loves him....
...“If you took away the Christmas element, these are beautiful objects you’d want to display in the home year round,” he says. He once gave glass dumbbells to the guy who runs his gym....
...Schubert immersed himself in Leon, says Petzold — almost masochistically so. “He bought himself really big headphones, to be alone in this world....
...(Laughter) I mean, I don’t really think I’d like to see a printed bookshelf on a high street outfit particularly, which makes me sound quite snobby....
...the Night), Palais des Congrès Giorgio Mancini’s Nuit Dansée and Angelin Prejlocaj’s Nuit Romaine will be danced by the Dior-clad ballet of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, to music by Philip Glass and Schubert...
...Now try this I listened to an old favourite, Franz Schubert’s sublime and exhilarating “Death and the Maiden”, after hearing a few bars of its rousing melody in an opening scene of The Sixth Commandment...
...You’d no doubt recognise his designs — the current HSBC logo is one....
...Finally, I’d like to thank David Hindley for expertly steering the Week Ahead guide for the last fortnight....
...Kevin Keegan, Allan Simonsen and Michael Owen all won Ballons d’Or as Europe’s best player, Keegan and Simonsen admittedly in a time when non-Europeans weren’t yet eligible for the prize....
...Alex BarkerDid he seem like the other kind of businessman you’d meet in the adult industry? Clement PicquetNo, no, not at all....
...Notable visitors ranged from Emperor Wilhelm I of Germany and King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia to Franz Schubert and William Somerset Maugham....
...He’d looked dubiously at my leather skirt, tank top and polyester sandals. There is no going back now....
..., John Murray £25/Knopf $35, 512 pages Ian Bostridge is a tenor and author of ‘Schubert’s Winter Journey’ (Faber) Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Tesco chair and former CBI president John Allan is to step down next month following allegations about his behaviour towards women....
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