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...It will soon be 20 years since David McVicar’s production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte was first seen at the Royal Opera....
...Flimsy, real name Anthony Plumb, couldn’t resist a dig in April at the Covid party furore engulfing the Tories — No.10 character in miscalculated social gathering almost isolated (5) James Brydon, based...
...Business in the EU is doing relatively better, even if the UK continues to plumb new lows. Meanwhile, UK bankers’ counterparts in the Gulf had no shortage of cash to throw around....
...‘Ring Dance’ by Julian Anderson, performed by David Alberman and Clare Duckworth. Follow @ftweekend on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...No, the EU kept some negotiating space and expected the UK to come and plumb their true bottom line....
...Alan David is particularly funny as the quietly seething Mr Pugh, dreaming of poisoning his nagging wife (Cleo Sylvestre)....
...Then he plumbs the gossip about the disastrous portrait of a breastfeeding Jerry Hall (Freud scratched her face out, replacing it with that of his close companion David Dawkins to create a naked breastfeeding...
...He plumbs the river’s past as a conduit for music, for myths, for ideas, as well as gold, coffee, tobacco and cocaine....
...When David McVicar’s updated production of Handel’s Agrippina appeared at Brussels’s La Monnaie 20 years ago, reviews likened the opera’s Roman elite to Margaret Thatcher and the Clintons....
...By any measure, global earnings growth will plumb the depths for the past quarter, so any guidance over the coming weeks that bolsters expectations for a stronger rebound stands to affirm equity and credit...
...David Sassoli, president of the parliament, will write to Ms von der Leyen explaining the committee’s verdict....
...It seems SoftBank's fall from grace plumbs new depths each week....
...Your choice will depend on what style of design your beloved is most charmed by, but there are some fail-safe topics: anything by the British maverick decorator David Hicks, for example....
...david.gardner@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Back-channel influence on Saudi Arabia is a fiction / From David Alton, House of Lords, London, UK...
...More recently, the push for a full merger between the two partners and the arrest of alliance-architect Carlos Ghosn in November has seen the relationship between Paris and Tokyo plumb new lows....
...The negotiations come as Mr Macron’s popularity plumbs new lows . Some observers have suggested that this will make the president more amenable to union demands but others are more sceptical....
...Peter Plumb, the chief executive of Just Eat, is stepping down as the company comes under pressure to tackle growing competition, the FT reported....
...Mr Plumb said: I’m delighted to be joining Just Eat at such an exciting time....
...As the west’s relations with Moscow plumb ever lower depths, the UK is abuzz with calls to do something about its oligarch problem....
...He will take over the UK-listed company on September 18, six months after David Buttress stepped down after four years on the job for “urgent family reasons”....
...In the other major roles Sarah Connolly, Rod Gilfry, David Butt Philip and Jacques Imbrailo add up to a strong cast....
...Mr Plumb led price comparison group Moneysupermarket for eight years until this May, during which time shares in the group rose more than sixfold....
...These remain the favoured choice for the super-rich, says David Godchaux, chief executive of Core Savills in Dubai....
...Chief executive Peter Plumb said: “We saved nearly seven million families £1.8bn on their household bills in 2016, which helped us grow revenues by 12 per cent....
...“Insurance has had its growth spurt and its heyday,” says David McCann, analyst at Numis. “It’s a more mature part of the industry.”...
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