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...A former teen tennis star, Duncan is injured and becomes a rich, successful coach instead....
...A portrait of the bewhiskered duke — later George V — stares down at us....
...Puzzle 2532 Artur Davtyan v Vladislav Kovalev, Dubai 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...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....
...Other pieces are held by the V&A and the Courtauld Gallery in London. I knew all this because I had seen — and written about — a nearly identical bowl for the FT last year....
...In the V&A’s latest annual review he also referred to talks with Ghana around the V&A collection of Asante court regalia, including gold ornaments, rings and badges, which entered the collection following...
...Treading the middle ground was Duncan Dick, a former editor of Mixmag magazine who since 2021 has been editorial director of the Devil’s Ivy Creative agency: It’s cheerfully competent and inoffensive, VIP...
...The house has won prizes at the V&A Illustration Awards, as well as being recognised in the book trade for its bindings, production and indexing....
...At the entrance I find Greenough shuffling about in a V-neck cricket jumper and a marshal’s jacket....
...Former Tory party leader Iain Duncan Smith, one of the five sanctioned MPs, said it was “astonishing” that China had been invited given its “huge record of human rights abuses”....
...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!...
...Duncan Forbes, the V&A’s director of photography, was appointed two years ago....
...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....
...If approved, Germany would then manage purchases from Russia directly, he said, because the EU would not be making any of its own contracts for Sputnik V....
...As ever, send your thoughts, queries and philosophical riddles to Imani (imani.moise@ft.com) or me (sid.v@ft.com). Happy reading!...
...But Unhedged’s friend Duncan Lamont, who heads up the research team at Schroders, points out that the value breakout is even more extreme in Europe....
...The US proposal received a more positive response from Vladimir Putin, who said Russia, which manufactures the Sputnik V vaccine, would support the move. “A pandemic is an emergency situation . . ....
...his first large command, over three battalions of the 101st Airborne Division, based in Fort Campbell, Kentucky — and moved to the Pentagon during Jimmy Carter’s administration as an adviser to Charles Duncan...
...Vladimir Putin said he would be vaccinated with the Sputnik V jab on Tuesday....
...Slovakia’s ruling coalition could be in danger of breaking up over potential purchases of doses of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine....
...But the sheer audacity that newly-public court documents reveal about the actions of V Ashok, the chief financial officer of Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG Alliance, is something else. Here’s the backdrop....
...“There is a similar one in the V&A; it’s now worth in excess of £5,000.”...
...“The chances of a full V-shaped recovery in services activity this year still look slim,” he said....
...But David Solomon, chief executive, said he did not view the improvement in trading conditions as permanent....
...She noted that the fall in the PMI employment index was “particularly worrying” because it “provides further support to our view that a perfect V-shaped recovery is extremely unlikely”....
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