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...Occasionally, I would detox to focus on a project, but inevitably I’d return — and the compulsion made me hate it more. It wasn’t until Musk took over that the newly named X lost its appeal....
...I’d like to offer a Swiss perspective by comparing the financial situation in Birmingham, where the city council is now run by government-appointed commissioners after running up a budget deficit of £87mn...
...There was a time, at some point during the 1990s, when you could have lived a life almost entirely ensconced in a landscape of products designed by Sir Kenneth Grange....
...As with any social function that ends in murder, there are those you’d have liked to have spent longer with, and others whose survival you may find wearying....
...“Equities have been on a fantastic run,” he said....
...We had the Kenneth Branagh-fronted prestige drama, This England. Next came the fact-based farce Partygate. Then the televised Covid inquiry — and the cameo appearances on GB News....
...A new exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise: The Final Months, gathers the majority of them....
...The first collection was based on her own wardrobe of shirts, jeans and men’s jackets that she’d altered to fit. “I’ve always been a bit of a tomboy....
...Housed in the Unité d’habitation — the most famous of the Swiss-French architect’s modernist housing developments throughout Europe — the 21 bedrooms are a monument to a modernist utopia that might have...
...my college flatmate would say plaintively, referring to the 1992 film directed by Kenneth Branagh in which a group of friends gather 10 years after graduation, starring Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie and Stephen...
...While Kenneth Branagh imbued Johnson with a Shakespearean heft in This England, here the PM’s face is pointedly never seen and his voice is provided by the satirist Jon Culshaw....
...Leadership is a dominant theme of the FT news diary, whether you are Sir Keir Starmer trying to prove you’re a prime minister in waiting, a US House Republican in need of a Speaker or the head of a Wall...
...I have to negotiate with a tyrannical maître d’ to get a stage view. Someone at my table orders a shrimp cocktail; the table behind me drinking Martinis....
...“One couldn’t write a bestseller about Rah-file,” drawled the art historian Kenneth Clark, in a dig not at the painter, but at our own demand for inner torment and outer conflict in our heroes....
...June 28 to 30; further information and tickets here July Performance ‘L’Histoire de Manon’, Teatro alla Scala Kenneth MacMillan’s 1974 balletic adaptation of Abbé Prévost’s 18th-century novel Manon Lescaut...
...Not far from Vilakazi Street, where the house in which Nelson Mandela once lived has been turned into a museum-cum-shrine, Kenneth Khoza is canvassing for uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), a new political party named...
...Chan responds with a level stare and a studied pause: “Exactly. But then, I’d have to kill you . . . ” Only a slight dimple gives her away....
...Monday France, the Ballon d’Or award recognising the best male and female footballers of the year is announced US, Apple hosts its Scary Fast product-launch event, widely believed to be a new version of...
...Everyone would bring a dish. We’d kick back and moan about office Christmas party bookings and the price of bread. But a chef’s idea of “just a few of us” is as generous as a locust’s....
...If I could do it over I’d have stayed in the same (very large) organisation as long as I could. Kenneth Kohlrabi Switching jobs for the sake of it is overrated....
...“Things have really slowed down for us recently, because British [buyers] are having such problems getting mortgages,” says Kate Thompson, of France Property Angels, a buying agency for Britons seeking homes...
...But, he adds, “If you want to have a martini . . . go right ahead.” I decline to drink alone. I’d hoped he’d go for his own creation — a Diet Cokagne, which went viral on TikTok earlier this year....
...But it’s entirely possible that if I’d started in my twenties, I’d have been rejected as I’d have been very bad at it, and then given up for ever as it would have hurt too much....
...Would he buy a news organisation? “I’d love to own the FT. It’s a great brand,” he says, somewhat surprisingly, before acknowledging that he knows it is not for sale....
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