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...February 30 and 31 actually show up more than you’d hope, which is to say they show up....
...He’d be sketching and having several conversations at once in Italian, French, English, German. I was completely dazzled....
...“A lot of people thought that I’d come here and be lonely, but T and the team and even clients have been so friendly and helpful,” he says....
...Palais de la Découverte, to Albert Thomas....
...Left hand, little finger: Hermès silver H Ex Libris signet ring, £1,100....
...I asked Gerard O’Hare, legal director for WorkNest Scotland, an HR services provider with many SME clients, to give an overview of what’s coming....
...Normally we’d say congratulations to you all for nailing it, but, well, given the volume of correct answers it’s probably not justified....
...But G goes on leave at this point, handing the file over to H, who drafts a minute, which is signed by D and returned to C, who revises his draft accordingly and lays the new version before A.”...
...Put it on anyone else and you’d be calling the authorities. The best book I’ve read in the past year is Faith, Hope and Carnage, the series of interviews Seán O’Hagan did with Nick Cave....
...helen.thomas@ft.com@helentbiz...
...Mark O’Connell in Slate asked what it is to play with cliché in Blarney and put-on Irishness....
...“I guess people think that because I’ve been there the longest that I’d have some knowledge or understanding of what’s going on, but . . . I just don’t,” Hannity said on his radio show on Monday....
...Kirkland & Ellis has hired senior private equity partners Ian Barratt and Sinead O’Shea from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in London, per Financial News....
...It was a gift from our interior designer, Claire Thomas....
...Thomas Hale is the FT’s Shanghai correspondent Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter...
...Additional reporting by Daniel Thomas This article was amended after publication to reflect the cost to the Exchequer of R&D support from 2014 to 2021....
...After abandoning a merger with Los Angeles firm O’Melveny & Myers in 2019 following a failure to agree a valuation, A&O has struck out on its own in the US in recent years....
...One of the first Carto scents to be released was She Was an Anomaly (€140) by Paris perfumer Etat Libre d’Orange....
...(Even the poet Thomas Chatterton, poster boy for the “Romantic” suicide, faced prosaic poverty when he chose to swallow arsenic in 1770.)...
...As one of 11 kids I value my personal space, so my first wish is to host my banquet in a castle, and there is only one castle- dwelling person on Earth I’d like to have dinner with....
...by packing so much in, the script has no time for proper detail; the women in the story get particularly short shrift (the show honours the strains Williams’s touring put on his wife, Josephine, but you’d...
...(The letter “n” is next to the letter “h” on a QWERTY keyboard, which explains the first typo. The “b” was a mystery.) Until I could fix this, I had to negotiate to get anywhere....
...Later, the Agnellis, the Siemens, Thomas Mann and Aldous Huxley, who wrote his first novel in Forte, holidayed here, ushering in decades of glitz....
...ViennaWill Cooper, co-founder of design firm Ash“Vienna, which I’d never been to and which, oh my God, I loved....
...Greg Jackson, chief executive and founder of Octopus Energy Group, said: “It’d be bonkers to raise customer prices and increase supplier profits when much cheaper alternatives would be at least as effective...
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