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December 21, 2023

...David Wreford, a partner at consultancy Mercer, says subsidising travel on a larger scale could be divisive, particularly as there is already a debate over whether pay for remote workers should be adjusted...

March 31, 2024

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News in-depthUK economy

Can towns fund arrest decades of decline of UK provinces?

...It focused on rebuilding the downtown areas and letting the wealth spread outwards from there,” Travers added....

October 25, 2023

Due Diligence

The final Credit Suisse postmortem

...Besties, assemble With trouble in venture capital paradise, self-proclaimed “besties” and “degenerate gamblers” Jason Calacanis, David Friedberg, Chamath Palihapitiya and David Sacks have diversified beyond...

December 20, 2023

Due Diligence

Metro Bank’s mad dash for cash Premium

...Job moves Law firm Fried Frank has named private equity head Kenneth Rosh as its next chair, succeeding David Greenwald....

October 6, 2023

Gardens

How to prune and train plants to create striking winter sculptures

...“Climbers can work but you’re more limited, particularly if they are the David Austin sort with very thick stems.”...

December 16, 2022

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InterviewLunch with the FT

Tom Hanks: ‘I was a pretty lucky guy’

...Emma Thompson, who starred as Mary Poppins author PL Travers opposite Hanks’s Walt Disney in Saving Mr Banks (2013), says that mega-fame “tends to change people....

November 24, 2023

UK politics

Civil service grows fastest in London despite ‘levelling up’ pledges

...“What you’ve seen in London is a remarkable growth of the civil service which has easily overcompensated for any officials moving out thus far,” said Professor Tony Travers, a public policy expert at the...

October 1, 2021

Legal services

Legal intrapreneurs drive changes from within

...Shawn Curran Head of legal technology, Travers Smith Shawn Curran is using his position at Travers Smith to encourage law firms generally to embrace open source technology....

October 14, 2022

The Art Market

Sotheby’s gains Richter, London loses Masterpiece fair

...In April, Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie opens a show of 100 of Richter’s works, while David Zwirner gallery, which recently took over the commercial representation of the 90-year-old artist, promises a solo...

January 12, 2023

The Art Market

Auction sales slide in Hong Kong

...Auerbach, now 91, was an associate of Francis Bacon and is a contemporary of Lucian Freud and David Hockney....

December 8, 2022

Due Diligence

‘Uli the knife’ has a plan to carve up Credit Suisse Premium

...He joins from Travers Smith. Kirkland & Ellis has hired M&A lawyer Sara Pickersgill as a partner in London. She joins from Allen & Overy....

September 23, 2022

The Big Read

The hyperlocal governments entrusted with reviving the English state

...The white paper has obvious echoes of previous Conservative attempts to turbocharge local democracy, such as David Cameron’s “Big Society.”...

March 13, 2022

HTSI

When does a fabric swatch fetch £8,750? When it’s by Omega Workshops

...Curator and dealer David Herbert has been smitten since seeing Grant’s lily-pond painted table and chairs, and a pair of pyjamas by Bell, at the Art Gallery of South Australia....

September 25, 2020

Law

Busy law firms repay state furlough cash

...“We’re a very successful firm and it didn’t feel right to take government money in the grand scheme of things,” said managing partner David Patient....

October 14, 2020

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UK economy

UK should avoid costly mega projects such as HS2, say academics

...Tony Travers, professor of public policy at the London School of Economics, agreed. “Smaller, immediate, projects would definitely be better....

October 25, 2020

Legal services

Pandemic widens gap between law firm winners and losers

...Managing partner David Patient said there had been “trading conditions unlike anything we’ve experienced”....

September 8, 2020

Camilla Cavendish

Boris Johnson is mishandling the northern lockdowns

...“Local Labour leaders are conscious that growing the economy is the best thing for their area,” says Tony Travers, a professor at the London School of Economics....

October 23, 2020

News in-depthUK Inequality

Levelling up: how wide are the UK’s regional inequalities?

...David Phillips, associate director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a think-tank, said the main difference between places is whether they have high paid jobs....

March 2, 2020

HS2

UK government launches review into HS2 railway

...David Begg, a transport economist, said a pro-Brexit government would be unlikely to cancel a big infrastructure project and “accept a railway that is inferior to our main European rivals”....

August 21, 2019

UK infrastructure

Questions arise over HS2’s future in a post-May era

...Some leading candidates for the top job are opposed to the scheme, including Boris Johnson, Andrea Leadsom, Liz Truss and David Lidington....

February 12, 2019

Transport for London

London’s Crossrail 2 in doubt after financial woes grow

...Tony Travers, director of the Institute of Public Affairs at the London School of Economics, said he could still see Crossrail 2 opening, but not until “2048 or 2050” — compared with its original scheduled...

December 11, 2018

Film

‘She’s kind of a superhero’: Emily Blunt on playing Mary Poppins

...In a script by David Magee, adapted from Travers, Mary Poppins comes back to help the next generation of Bankses find the joy and wonder that is missing from their lives after the loss of their mother....

December 13, 2018

Law

M&A activity and tougher regulation boost UK law firm profits

...David Snell, head of the law firm advisory group at consultancy PwC, said it had been a “strong year across the board”....

July 12, 2018

European companies

French retailers sold baby food despite salmonella recall

...Stephane Travers, the agriculture minister, called it a “major dysfunction in the withdrawal and recall procedure by operators”....

January 11, 2018

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