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...got the chance to take on the world’s best, private bankers Duncan Lawrie who sponsored the England team, plus other City backers....
...June 20 to September 8; further information and tickets here ‘Naomi’, V&A South Kensington An ode to the life and work of supermodel Naomi Campbell....
...As ever, reach out to Imani (imani.moise@ft.com) and me (sid.v@ft.com) with your thoughts, suggestions and comments. We’ll be back again next Monday. Happy reading!...
...You will find no end of interesting bits and bobs under the letter “v” such as VAT, vendor placing, and mentions of a “gunslinger” fund manager called Peter de Vink. What you won’t find is volatility....
...This is, roughly speaking, the area lying between the V formed by the forking tines of York Way and Caledonian Road, bordered by the Regent’s Canal to the north....
...(FT) Journalism v Silicon Valley The media has lost control of production and distribution to the opaque algorithms of Google and Facebook....
...And the clock is ticking. ——————————————- Dementia: science v demography Guessing whether you will need long-term care is even harder than trying to estimate how long you will live....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...she says, as a V-shaped crack in the island’s cliffs reveals the settlement of Jamestown. “And it’s British!”...
...Athena Duncan, one of the shop’s co-founders, tells me to go to Pratley’s – the last wholesaler to specialise in British flowers – at New Covent Garden, Britain’s biggest wholesale market....
...In 1980 the investigative journalist Duncan Campbell found a way in through a manhole on a traffic island in Bethnal Green Road....
...Read her review of the V&A’s new show ‘The Cult of Beauty’ ………………………………………….....
...Aguilar also weighed on the “sophisticated investor defense”, something of a hot topic in these post-Abacus and investment banks v munis days: there has been a faulty assumption that the markets underpinned...
...Cubitt for a span John Anderson, whose imminent departure from Royal Bank of Scotland was reported first in Mudlark, has a new berth....
...Should I hold off re-mortgaging until the next Bank of England rate meeting?...
...Michael Owen, financial planning director at the Duncan Lawrie private banking group, says: “This appears to be a ‘whole of life’ insurance policy....
...was one of the biggest stars at Small Wonder, the first literary festival in Britain to be devoted to the short story, held at Charleston in Sussex, the former home of Bloomsbury artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan...
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