Hints and tips:
...Macron v Merkel Judy Dempsey argues that the French and German leaders desperately need to present a united front at next week’s EU summit. But that is much easier said than done....
...After a Michelin-starred lunch at Assa, a sun-dappled restaurant on the banks of the Loire, I visit Château de Blois, where Mary, Queen of Scots, spent years waiting for her dauphin to grow up....
...Behind this reared a hefty bluff, its loftiest crags engraved with colossal double digits by several generations of high-school graduate classes....
...(FT) US v China: the new cold war? David Pilling looks at the simmering tensions between the two superpowers....
...By Timothy Ash of Standard Bank The crisis in Ukraine shows no sign of abating any time soon....
...You can sit in front of a bank of TV sets, or be in any number of cafés, out of earshot of every screen....
...commissioned from the artist Joseph Gandy a bird’s-eye painting which depicted the bank as a future wreck....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
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