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...Things went similarly smoothly when Motion was teaching English at Hull University, where he hit it off with Philip Larkin (“the greatest poet alive”) and, after Larkin’s death in 1985, Motion became the...
...One alternative was royal backing to become mayor and tilt the axis of City power towards the mercers and against their deadly rivals, the grocers and brewers....
...London’s exhibition season began with psychedelic tea parties and disappearing rabbits in the V&A’s immersive wonderland Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser and ended with translucent, spidery, electricified...
...A line from a Philip Larkin poem keeps running through my mind: “And that will be England gone.” In “Going Going”, Larkin was lamenting overdevelopment and pollution....
...Job moves Carlos Brito, who transformed a Brazilian regional brewer into the world’s largest beer maker Anheuser-Busch InBev, is to step down as chief executive after 15 years....
...If the economy bounces back and we have a V shaped recovery, as Morgan Stanley has suggested, oil demand will return without the necessary and corresponding investment in production....
...says a soldier, fearing a different enemy, in Henry V. “I would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety.”...
...This was symbolised by Queen Elizabeth’s visit in 2011, the first by a reigning British monarch since that of King George V in 1911. Brexit threatens to undermine these gains....
...Xerox wants to give HP’s board its walking papers We’re all guilty of overusing the David v Goliath trope but in the case of Xerox and HP, it really does apply....
...The brewing industry has become increasingly polarised between the very big and the very small (micro brewers) given scale efficiencies in production, distribution and marketing....
...All eyes at AB InBev now will turn to whether Carlos Brito, the longtime chief executive, can deliver an operational turnround at the brewer....
...The US boasted Wernher von Braun, the German ex-Nazi inventor of the V-2 rocket, a trophy from the second world war. Both were scarred by conflict and driven by a passion for space....
...Get in touch with the team: Due.Diligence@FT.com Peltz v P&G: D-Day The biggest and most expensive proxy fight ever seen is coming to a close today, when Procter & Gamble shareholders vote in Cincinnati...
...“Embroidery is special because it’s freehand, almost like painting with a needle,” says Clare Browne, co-curator of the V&A exhibition....
...Flæsketorvet 25, 1711 København V; warpigs.dk Photographs: Camilla Stephan/Rasmus Malmstroem...
...The aim is to devise production processes that avoid waste; keep high- and low-value materials separate; and, like Mr Harrison, enable spent goods to be remanufactured to their original condition, rather...
...It portrays itself instead as “the city that has brought you everything from LCD technology and world-class poets such as Andrew Marvell and Philip Larkin to Yorkshire puddings and boiled sweets”....
...But in spite of their regional differences, both brewers need more than just geography on their side to bolster growth. Email the Lex team in confidence at lex@ft.com...
...This was a surprise for a world in which sexual intercourse, pace Philip Larkin, had only just begun. But it was only a momentary state of innocence....
...readiness to fight, Amazon has hired Mr Olson, a conservative who this year persuaded the Supreme Court to overturn California’s ban on same-sex marriage and in 2000 fought the Republican corner in the Bush v...
...Instead of going forward, we’re moving backwards,” says Shannon Brewer, the clinic’s director. “It’s tiresome.” Mississippi is not alone in introducing tough new laws....
...There is also a dedicated “A/V bar” for those with questions about purchasing video art and the technicalities of displaying it....
...“The logistics of getting a package to a person requires constant tweaking,” says RBC’s Mr Brewer....
...Geraldine Larkin The highlight of this year’s Decorex, the interior design show, will be the launch of Geraldine Larkin’s home collection....
...Jocelyn Larkin, of the Impact Fund, a non-profit group arguing the claim, said the changes still left more than 1m women in the class....
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