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...Spoken word, folk, hip hop and R&B are placed alongside traditional opera....
...I’m staying at Maison 76, Matthews’ luxurious, four-room B&B set in a former 18th-century apothecary. He tells me that the golfers are fewer now....
...This article is part of a guide to London from FT Globetrotter “London is too big,” the novelist William Boyd once observed from his home in Chelsea....
...Thus “Intoxication from the Jahvmonishi Leaves”, an ebullient mix of modern jazz and hard-hitting R&B, is followed by the ebb and flow of “Fete by the River”, a juxtaposition of gentle calypso and punchy...
...The Emperor Jahangir: Power and Kingship in Mughal India Lisa Balabanlilar, I.B....
...The bank, the sixth-largest in the UK, took over Virgin Money’s UK operations in October 2018 and is moving its brands — including Clydesdale Bank, Yorkshire Bank and the app-based B — to the Virgin Money...
...Eventually, the B cells turn into a memory device that can quickly reproduce the antibodies if a person is exposed again....
...Liverpool; Nik Morrell, London; Ian Dempsey, New Jersey Polymath 1,015: Richard Otley, Wakefield Crossword 16,123: Michael Baylor, France; Scott Forbes, London; Judith Hadley, USA Polymath 1,014: Peter Boyd...
...Last month M&S was relegated to the mid-cap index and the market value of the 135-year-old company is now less than that of B&M, a discount retailer that was only started in 1978....
...Additional reporting by Archie Zhang in Beijing and Michael Peel in Brussels...
...Toíbín finds in John B Yeats’s final self-portrait the picture “of someone who had been lit up by life”....
...Here is a boldly-going B-movie somewhere between Cheap Godzilla and Plan 9 from Outer Space. Black is surely being cheeky. We’re meant to giggle, aren’t we, at the dialogue?...
...But Ms Laury’s determination mirrors that of Archie Norman, the Marks and Spencer chairman who was once Kingfisher’s finance director and is now in the midst of his own five-year plan....
...Archie Bethel, chief executive, said he was “delighted” with the deal....
...Wesfarmers bought Homebase in 2016, despite being advised not to by Archie Norman, a prominent figure in British retailing....
...long-suffering retail correspondent and sarcastic news editors, as they brace themselves for yet more seasonal trading updates . . . this time from Marks and Spencer, Tesco, Debenhams, John Lewis Partnership, B&...
...Prize that a) it was a novel and b) it was good enough to be shortlisted....
...Fishermen, as academic Gregory B Poling of the Center for Strategic and International Studies wrote in a research paper this month, “serve on the front lines of this contest” as they fight for their livelihoods...
...Since turnround specialist Archie Norman was named M&S chairman last year, however, the pace of restructuring has increased....
...Weekend dilettantes preferred market leader B&Q. Archie Norman, who knows a bit about UK retail, told Wesfarmers as much. They ignored him, and the old DIY maxim to “measure twice and cut once”....
...Homebase, however, runs a distant second in the UK to Kingfisher, which owns the B&Q and Screwfix chains and has a market share of almost 40 per cent....
...“Archie has extensive experience as chair and a proven record in turnrounds and retail.”...
...The idea recurs through the 29 parts of this brick-sized beast, both a wide-angled panorama of American life between 1947 and 1971 and a vastly magnified chamber-piece, in which the same smart kid, Archie...
...Chains such as Poundland and B&M have thrived by tempting thrifty customers with inexpensive indulgences, while offering ways to save money on their regular shop....
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