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...Garrick Club votes to allow women members for the first time: Those bastions of old-school (literally) networking, London’s gentlemen’s clubs, are under threat....
...At the other, baths are part of a quasi-club culture, serving alcohol at “sparties”....
...It has the highest inflation rate of any G10 country, the weakest growth forecasts, and an external deficit that would make Argentina blush. That has led to an outpouring of angst over the UK....
...“K-S-I! K-S-I! K-S-I!” they chanted. At 10.30pm, after several other YouTubers-cum-boxers had taken their turns in the ring, KSI appeared. He wore a pink outfit and sang the national anthem....
...like, 2016’s All Man, a searing examination of masculinity, and 2018’s Rites of Passage, which showed people who had suffered loss and trauma how to create rituals to assuage their grief....
...The CRO position is an unexpected next act at the $183bn tech group for Mr Patterson, who at 52 is one of the FTSE 100’s younger former chief executives....
...The 30% Club has riposted with a statement of intent, to which all its fund manager-members must sign up or be expelled....
...’s clubs and stuffy restaurants....
...(FT) Time, gentlemen The Guardian looks at how long all-male clubs can fend off women members , as London’s Garrick Club prepares for a bitter struggle over the issue....
...Most nights the ballroom milled with Cunard-sponsored “gentlemen hosts” whose job is to dance with single women....
...The S&P 500 ended the session flat at 2,039.82, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.1 per cent to 17,634.74 and the Nasdaq Composite rose 0.2 per cent to 4,688.54....
...Standing across from us were two German gentlemen (nice denim, well-cut shirts and good footwear)....
...And that Italian immigrant Francesco Bianco, who set up White’s, London’s oldest gentlemen’s club, arrived in the 1690s. Those are people that make me proud to be called an immigrant....
...for Real – $1bn football theme park Real Madrid has lent its name to a $1bn theme park being planned on an artificial sand island in the United Arab Emirates in the latest brand extension by a football club...
...planned on an artificial sand island in the United Arab Emirates in the latest brand extension by a football club, the FT reports....
...will suddenly realise – there’s loads and loads of Coldplay but there isn’t a Radiohead, there’s loads and loads of ITV1 sitcoms, and things with Robert Lindsay in a house, but there isn’t a League of Gentlemen...
...Rosy-cheeked Aurora was chasing drear Night from the sky when Bertie Wooster, ex-Bullingdon Club member, Tory election strategist, and author of this memoir, awoke. “What ho!”...
...“It’s a marvellous book,” Auchincloss says in a patrician accent of broad “a”s and reedy “r”s that in its natural, inherited form has all but disappeared from America, “but not everyone thinks so.”...
...A s most of us sometimes do, I pined the other day for Provence and I found that, even before I left home to write an essay about the place, my mind was full of Provençeness....
...It took many weeks, for example, for me to be able to banish `Ladies and Gentlemen’ from his opening sentence.”...
...The S&P 500 index of leading US companies began in 1957. Forty years later, only 74 of the original 500 companies remained on the list. Something similar happened in Britain....
...There is no room for cosy gentlemens? clubs in UK banking.? HBOS said it was also concerned about each bank?s representation on the other?s board....
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