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...Of about 160 verdicts tracked by campaign group Plan B involving environmental protesters since 2019, three-quarters resulted in either not guilty verdicts or hung juries....
...Sue Gray was back in the news last weekend....
...A buzzy but unobtrusive soundtrack of, say, R&B or soul complements dinner....
...Jonathan Gray at Blackstone has been waiting in the wings to take over from Stephen Schwarzman for years.But beyond this sector, more companies are choosing, or being forced to, think about the next in line...
...Blackstone president Jonathan Gray warned this week that it would take time for firms to return cash to investors, as the sector continues to sit on record amounts of unsold assets....
...He also had a vintage Alanda coffee table by Paolo Piva – a new version of which is made by B&B Italia (from $2,318)....
...Danielle Haim’s hair, Peter Gray....
...“Breath of fresh air” was applied to Gray more than once; “she gets it”....
...The company behind Oral-B toothpaste raised its revenues forecasts for the year to the end of June and now expects annual sales to increase on an organic basis by 6 per cent compared with a previous range...
...Results on Friday from the US-based company showed prices across its portfolio of consumer products, which include Fairy washing-up liquid, Oral-B toothbrushes and Pampers nappies, rose about a tenth last...
...Home improvement stores already source at least half of their goods from China, said Alisdair Gray, head of EU affairs at European DIY retail association EDRA....
...Sunak weighs Plan B | Rishi Sunak is refusing to rush Britain back into the EU’s €95.5bn Horizon science programme in spite of his breakthrough in relations with Brussels, raising the prospect of a tough...
...Even higher-quality companies are getting shut out, with single-B and single-B minus rated loan issuance in the US down more than 70 per cent from 2021 levels....
...Class B and C absolutely are.”...
...Perhaps the most amusing piece this year was James B. Stewart’s examination of the apparently dodgy goings-on at high-end New York wine seller Sherry-Lehmann....
...Williams cuts something of a Dorian Gray figure: he has just turned 50 but looks at least 15 years younger. In person, he is quiet, reserved, speaks precisely, exudes calm....
...Into the second power vacuum at least, enter bubblegum action thriller The Gray Man....
...others; conversations with the likes of rapper A$AP Ferg, Thelma Golden of Harlem’s The Studio Museum and Nigerian chef Michael Elégbèdé; plus a foreword by acclaimed High on the Hog author/academic Jessica B...
...Perhaps those with most to worry about are the civil servants, who Gray is likely to name, resulting in disciplinary action....
...I mean, there they are, they've got the famous Sue Gray joined Keir Starmer's office as the chief of staff. And they're beginning to think about what they would do......
...Here’s Gray talking about his “beloved BREIT” earlier this year....
...E-1027 (E for Eileen and code for the positions of her and Badovici’s initials in the alphabet, J, B and G) wears its nautical influence on its sleeve....
...The deluxe design company B&B Italia, meanwhile, has mined its past by offering a reappraisal of the Bambole chair series....
...Smart reads Plan B Rightwing tycoon Peter Thiel’s political donations have yet to spark the change he’d hoped for....
...We’ll first catch up on neighbourhood gossip – mostly about how many cruffins she ate the prior day from C&B on 7th Street – and then get to work....
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