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...Mark Thompson, the former BBC director-general who went on to become chief executive of The New York Times until 2020, also receives a knighthood....
...France issues third-quarter gross domestic product, CPI and consumer spending data. Germany and Switzerland announce retail sales figures....
...Tanni Grey-Thompson, a former Paralympian who is a peer in the House of Lords, fears assisted dying would increase pressure on the old and disabled to stop “being a burden” on their families....
...He also recommends the bottlings by Thompson Bros – a filial outfit in the Highlands....
...But he at least found a future wife during the war, a petite Swiss acolyte called Annette, whose girlish lightness lifted his spirits....
...It also forms a major part of the UK’s military contribution to Nato, as one of the alliance’s three nuclear powers alongside the US and France....
...Microsoft’s latest hiring spree, following its $13bn investment in OpenAI and its more recent partnership with France’s Mistral, highlights the company’s intent to ally with ambitious AI start-ups and command...
...This acts as a disincentive to keep control of costs, as the chair of HS2 Jon Thompson told lawmakers this month....
...The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities was accused of downplaying institutional racism with Frances O’Grady, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, calling it “complacent”....
...The region-wide Stoxx 600 closed down 0.1 while France’s Cac 40 fell 0.3 per cent and the FTSE 100 finished down 0.2 per cent....
...Now the market’s lobbying of France’s government has begun in earnest....
...Also, September trade balance figures France: September CPI and HICP inflation rate data US: University of Michigan consumer sentiment survey Results: Ashmore Q1, BlackRock Q3, Citigroup Q3, JPMorgan...
...Monday France, the Ballon d’Or award recognising the best male and female footballers of the year is announced US, Apple hosts its Scary Fast product-launch event, widely believed to be a new version of...
...Parisian Days by Banine, translated by Anne Thompson-Ahmadova, Pushkin Press £16.99, 256 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...During his stay in Thailand Macron, who wanted to promote France’s involvement in the Indo-Pacific region, posted a tweet about the streets of Bangkok and how he interacted with Thais....
...“The undertone of his remarks was emphasising that Taiwan also lacks sovereignty and legitimacy under international law,” said Thompson....
...France and the UK hold exploration licences, as permitted by ISA, but do not currently support commercial mining, a stance that several other European countries share....
...“Things have really slowed down for us recently, because British [buyers] are having such problems getting mortgages,” says Kate Thompson, of France Property Angels, a buying agency for Britons seeking homes...
...Richard Moriarty is to take charge of the UK’s Financial Reporting Council, replacing Sir Jon Thompson, who leaves to become chair of the HS2 high-speed rail line....
...During a parliamentary hearing on Tuesday, Royal Mail chief executive Simon Thompson told MPs he had been informed “that to discuss any fine details . . . would actually be detrimental”....
...Highlights among the modern and contemporary art include a small Alberto Giacometti editioned bronze of his wife and model Annette, priced at €1.45mn (c1953-54, Kamel Mennour), Robert Motherwell’s France-appropriate...
...“Instead of putting them on a barge here, they should be putting them on boats and sending them back to France,” said George, a retired Royal Navy sailor....
...Fiscally, this means state funding to reduce rising energy bills by subsidising distributors, as in France, or transferring money to citizens to pay those bills, as in the UK....
...The address hasn’t been much of a secret for a while; the hotel has changed hands a couple of times (it’s now a Thompson), and the Joint itself has proliferated across the boroughs, with two more outlets...
...But criminally for a romance, the two leads — Lily James and Shazad Latif — have essentially zero chemistry, Emma Thompson’s character is grating, implausible and a waste of a talented actor, and plot threads...
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