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...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com. First, the result of last week’s poll....
...The Second Woman Young Vic, London When Ruth Wilson took to the Young Vic stage for a nine-minute standing ovation at the end of The Second Woman last Saturday afternoon, she was wearing slippers....
...Ruth’s arrival blows open their blustering inadequacies and pathetic power-games....
...The earlier part of the book may feel familiar to some readers; the interest of Voltaire, Coleridge and Thoreau in Asian thought has been well covered over the years, and Ruth Harris’s Guru to the World...
...Vogue dating columnist Annie Lord, author of the memoir Notes on Heartbreak, tells me the opposite is often true of women’s toilets....
...In her memoir I Remain in Darkness, the 2022 Nobel literature laureate Annie Ernaux acutely summed up the parallel destinies of mothers and daughters in her description of her own mother in old age: “She...
...Before long, a major newspaper was proclaiming him the “Babe Ruth of Bodybuilding” after the legendary American baseball player....
..., but Ruth Scurr has managed it....
...Economists were in no doubt about the importance of the statement, noting that the permanent cuts in taxes were the largest in a Budget since Anthony Barber’s in 1972....
...January 15 is Ruth Slenczynska’s 97th birthday....
...The BBC: A People’s History by David Hendy, Profile £25, 638 pages Lionel Barber is a former editor of the Financial Times Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café Letter in response to...
...$500-$700) – the year she joined the faculty as the school’s second female tenure-track professor – her annotated copy of the 1958 Harvard Law Review ($1,000-$2,000) and a copy of the photo book Women by Annie...
...Napoleon: A Life in Gardens and Shadowsby Ruth Scurr, Chatto & Windus £30 Exactly 200 years after his death, it might seem an impossible challenge to write something new about Napoleon Bonaparte, but Scurr...
...A pair of musical centenaries were celebrated with Malcolm Arnold’s sparkling Variations for Orchestra on a Theme of Ruth Gipps, Arnold and Gipps both having been born in 1921....
...Ada Walsh Student T-shirt: Annie, opened 21 April 1977 at the Alvin Theatre (now Neil Simon Theatre), New YorkMusic: Charles StrouseLyrics: Martin Charnin “Annie was the first musical I saw....
...His first wife Enid, with whom he had three children, Ruth, Kate and Michael, died in 2013; he is survived by Tina and their two children, Izzy and Georgie....
...(Robert Shrimsley, FT ) Michel Barnier rebuffs UK pitch for ‘permanent equivalence’ (Mehreen Khan and Sam Fleming, FT ) Ireland’s election result is bad news for Brexit (Ruth Dudley Edwards, The Spectator...
...Thus, the Merchant-Ivory film of EM Forster’s A Room with a View, for which Ruth Prawer Jhabvala won a screenwriting Oscar, appeared in 1985-86 as Margaret Thatcher shook up Britain....
...Obituary section These are some of the people we said goodbye to this year: Jan Morris, Diego Maradona, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John le Carré, Lee Teng-hui, Sean Connery, Eddie Van Halen, Valéry Giscard d’...
...Annie Leibovitz orders in sushi to have Lunch with the FT. The world’s best-known photographer talks shooting pictures on her phone and taking it easy in lockdown....
...By far the most concerning development at the weekend was the apparent threat to quit their posts by David Mundell, the Scottish secretary, and Ruth Davidson, the Scots Tory leader . . ....
...(Ruth Fox, director, and Joel Blackwell, senior researcher, of the Hansard Society, in The Times) The Single Market is harmful to the UK — and Chequers only compounds the damage “The Single Market is skewed...
...Connoisseurs of the ludicrously overripe might enjoy Elizabeth Ashley’s lash-flutteringly flamboyant turn as Ruth, a therapist, and it’s also worth waiting for Chloë Sevigny’s late arrival....
...Lionel Barber, FT editor and chair of the judging panel, called Bad Blood “a brilliant piece of enterprise journalism” that “reads at times like a thriller”....
...Hereditary could almost be a pseudo-sequel, with Annie a matured and hardened update of Mia Farrow’s Rosemary....
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