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...Caledonian Road, the Scottish novelist and journalist Andrew O’Hagan’s seventh novel — a Dickensian doorstopper laced with the kind of satire we might more readily associate with Thackeray’s Vanity Fair...
...(JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon couldn’t make it because he’ll be in Paris with the bank’s International Council, a group chaired by former UK prime minister Tony Blair.)...
...Several made the successful transition from junior analyst or associate to partner....
...As one ally puts it: “How can you associate the Conservative brand in the last three years with security and control?”...
...Second, Unilever is already part way down the road. The maker of Dove shampoo and Hellmann’s mayonnaise is dismantling its intersecting geographic and category silos....
...We see recently at the G20 an agreement on the sort of alternative to the Silk Road between the US, the EU and the Middle East and no UK....
...But the move risks frustrating some lawyers who feel that the introduction of a new rank merely lengthens the road to becoming an equity partner....
...However, it still faces some challenges, including a global minefield of antitrust issues and stiff competition on its road to spearhead the region’s digital transformation....
...She was previously a managing associate in the financial regulatory practice at Linklaters....
...Black venture capitalists said they often hit a “glass ceiling” when attempting to join the industry’s most established firms, rarely advancing past the associate or principal title....
...‘Taken by surprise’ Manchester university’s Oxford Road campus, on the edge of the city centre, would on an ordinary November afternoon be packed with a significant portion of its 40,000 students....
...Most poignantly, why can’t a company that has been on the road talking to investors already for weeks — if not months and years — open up on the price it is seeking from them?...
...Racism in VC Imagine you’re an entrepreneur visiting Sand Hill Road, eager to pitch your start-up to venture capital’s most prestigious investors....
...A future referendum will be fought on issues of identity and national self-determination, with few voters likely to be swayed by a few flags on bridges or roads....
...(FT, NYT) Bridgewater’s forecast on gold prices Greg Jensen, co-chief investment officer of Bridgewater Associates, says gold could surge to a record high above $2,000 an ounce on geopolitical tensions...
...“It’s an area which is ripe for development,” says David Ruddock, associate director at Marsh & Parsons’ Marylebone office. “It’s undeveloped at the moment; it’s scruffy....
...What 2016 demonstrated was that large groups of voters have turned against the globalised model and all they associate with it....
...Previous associates have included Willem Dafoe and Frances McDormand, but there is also a steady flow of interns and associates, many of them in their 20s....
...Current spending increases planned are not large in macroeconomic terms, and bigger projects are well down the road. Jonathan Portes: To a limited extent....
...Shorting China James Chanos Founder of Kynikos Associates and famed for betting against Enron, the fraudulent energy company that collapsed in 2001....
...Take Wimbledon Common, the wide plateau of heaths and bogs that, along with Richmond Park, forms London’s largest green space, a heaving city lung that begins right at the end of my road....
...(Politico) Hard numbers As part of its series, The Road to Brexit, the FT looks at the UK economy since the Brexit vote in four charts....
...Mr Navalny says the levy could be modelled on the windfall tax the Blair government introduced on privatised UK utilities in the late 1990s....
...Among his students was Peter Hain, former Northern Ireland secretary in Tony Blair’s Labour government....
...Hungary’s Viktor Orban touched a nerve with his “no road back from a multicultural Europe” speech, which in turn built on his warning over the bloc “staggering towards moonstruck ruin”....
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