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...Bottega Veneta wool cape, £2,240, matching blouson, £1,440, matching trousers, £1,170, and leather belt, £350. Paul Smith cotton shirt, £250. Gianvito Rossi leather Harris loafers, £514....
...India’s general election, which is taking place over staggered rounds of polling that will end on June 1, enters its next stage this week....
...At capacity, if there are 1,000 guards, that would mean a ratio of inmates to prison officers of about 40 to 1 before dividing them into shifts....
...June 1; further information and tickets here Royal Ascot Dust down your hat — it’s the big one....
...Smith and I are on a grouse hunt....
...Designed for Swedish glassworks Orrefors in 1957, Äpplet has a place in design history – the V&A museum has one in its collection....
...John Lobb suede shoes, £1,235...
...Paul Smith wool jacket, £850, and matching trousers, £360. Sandro cotton mesh shirt, €225. Loro Piana cotton T-shirt, £590....
...In total, including a £285,000 leaving bonus, he earned at least £1.3mn....
...It quickly sold out and is now being resold on AbeBooks for £1,995....
...Ultimately, he sold Mindbody to Robert Smith’s Vista Equity Partners for $1.9bn in 2018....
...“There is a lot of focus on the finished system in the industry and among the public,” said Phil Smith of US-based consultants BryceTech....
...“I represent a private military company,” he tells the inmates in black uniforms surrounding him in a circle. “You must have heard of Wagner?”...
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...The marketing dream of a Messi v Ronaldo World Cup final is still alive, at least for the next few hours....
...This article has been amended since original publication to clarify Sam Smith’s representation in the V&A exhibition Follow @financialtimesfashion on Instagram to find out about our latest stories first...
...Even among Tory voters the positive differential has nearly halved, shrinking from around plus-44 to (67 ‘well’ v 23 ‘badly’) in January 2020 to plus-23 (58 ‘well’ v 35 ‘badly’) today....
...Ingenuity had reached Mars attached to the underside of the Perseverance rover, which had left Earth on an Atlas V rocket in July 2020....
...“The bumper sticker would say, we’re past the V,” says Michael Gapen, chief US economist at Barclays, referring to the shape of the recovery since the shocking collapse last year....
...Aigis’s collapse could have caused “severe social and economic consequences” were it not for its peer Banca Ifis’s agreement to buy its assets and liabilities for €1, according to the Ifis chief executive...
...Or the other way to think about it is if like, your list is like, I want a black V-neck cashmere sweater, it’s like, well, what is the best version of that black V-neck sweater?...
...Our editor is Jess Smith. We had help this week from Joanna Kao, George Drake Jr., Gregory Meyer, Gavin Kallmann and Michael Bruning....
...Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine has an efficacy rate of 97.6 per cent, its developers said, based on data from almost 4m people....
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