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...Answered Prayers: England and the 1966 World Cup by Duncan Hamilton, Riverrun, £25, 480 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Brian Friel’s tender 1990 play, one of his greatest, is set, like many of his dramas, near the fictitious town of Ballybeg (Baile Beag — “small town” in Irish) in Donegal....
...It is now owned by the deep-pocketed American investor Brian Sheth and NZ Master of Wine Steve Smith, the team behind Smith & Sheth wines....
...But Unhedged’s friend Duncan Lamont, who heads up the research team at Schroders, points out that the value breakout is even more extreme in Europe....
...Fans of Ian Rankin might particularly enjoy Brian Cox as the writer’s irascible Inspector Rebus, bridling under lockdown rules and reflecting on the irony, as a policeman, of being imprisoned within his...
...Norwich Crossword 16,182: Stephen M Tudhope, Oswestry; Oscar McKittrick, Edinburgh; Patricia Blakemore, Walsall Polymath 1,024: Linda Parry, Cheshire Crossword 16,176: John Edwards, Llanon; R Gill, March; Brian...
...Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones and other members of the 27 Club were all but centurions. As for Isadora Duncan, she is more or less eternal....
...The Great Romantic: Cricket and the Golden Age of Neville Cardus, by Duncan Hamilton, Hodder & Stoughton, RRP£20 Neville Cardus practically invented modern cricket writing, which before him consisted mostly...
...Caryl Churchill’s recent quartet of mini-plays at the Royal Court explored similar territory, as does Ian Rickson’s haunting revival of Translations by Brian Friel (at the National Theatre)....
...Claire Foy and Matt Smith, who played the Queen and Prince Philip in the popular Netflix series The Crown, drop the regal trappings to play a young, middle-class couple with a huge dilemma in Duncan Macmillan...
...“The rules have changed, and now rural America is losing,” testified Brian Duncan, a farmer from north-west Illinois....
...“It’s been a very good year for us . . . the resilience of the West End underpins this, as does the way we manage our spaces,” said Brian Bickell, chief executive....
...It brings the 57-year-old’s pay into line with that of Brian Moynihan at Bank of America and is just shy of Lloyd Blankfein’s deal at Goldman Sachs, which on Friday handed him a 9 per cent increase to $24m...
...• BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, has appointed Brian Deese as global head of sustainable investing....
...Iain Duncan Smith has been telling the EU this week to “back off” in the Brexit negotiations or the UK “will get on with other arrangements”....
...The interior, designed by Duncan Miller Ullmann, runs from exposed brick and pop portraits to leather booths, tropical Christian Lacroix upholstery, exposed piping and Hans Wegner-style chairs....
...“I wouldn’t have been able to make that a couple of years ago,” says Duncan Walker, a London-based independent developer behind Trashgames, who made the clip....
...“In 2010 you wouldn’t have seen Google and Facebook along the beachfront here,” says Duncan Painter, chief executive of Ascential, which runs the festival. “That used to all be the big agencies.”...
...Matthew Layton managing partner, Clifford Chance 47 Laurence Bret-Stern senior director, Marketing, LinkedIn 48 Simon Eaves senior managing director, Products Operating Group, Accenture 49 Alex Hoctor-Duncan...
...In Edinburgh, Amy and Duncan Findlater were also bitten by the cheese bug after a trip to the US....
...“This looks like a massive defeat for Turnbull,” says Duncan McDonnell, senior lecturer at the school of government at Griffith University....
...Pamela’s Scottish great-grandmother Melanie Duncan, we learnt, had married a nitrate bigwig, and had “flaming red hair”....
...A leaked internal memo written by senior NFL executives Brian Rolapp and Howard Katz in October warned against panic, saying similar falls happened during the presidential contest between George W Bush and...
...Letter in response to this editorial: Enough to make anyone vote in favour of Brexit / From Brian Lingard...
...“This is still something that neither the industry nor the government is fully focused on,” says Brian Twomey, managing director at Reverse Engineering Services, a decommissioning specialist....
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