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...Birmingham once pioneered a form of “municipal socialism” under Joseph Chamberlain in the 1870s and the city owned its own gas and water suppliers. Now, the council is deeply indebted....
...Joseph Saina, chair of the Australian Horticultural Exporters’ & Importers’ Association, said: “The government [was] paralysed in its ability to act in the wharf dispute because of the relationship with...
...Inspired by Baldwin’s idea, the curators — Jayden Ali, Joseph Henry, Meneesha Kellay and Sumitra Upham — are, Kellay tells me, “aspiring to bask in the moonlight”....
...Philosopher Hannah Arendt called it the “most cruel form of rulership”; novelist Joseph Conrad, the killer of “anything that breathes the air of human endeavour”....
...Over a six-year renovation, the mansion at 1 Sloane Place was completely overhauled (though the Edwin Thomas Hall-designed building’s façade remains unchanged); a sixth floor, complete with cupola, was added...
...Joseph Henry, the final member of the winning team, is the capital development manager of the culture and creative industries unit of the Greater London Authority....
...The “antelope” will stare down Sir Edwin Landseer’s bronze lions and gaze on the figures of Sir Henry Havelock and Sir Charles Napier, Victorian commanders of the empire’s wars and occupants of other plinths...
...Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Men, Charlotte Smith’s Beachy Head, Joseph Priestley’s Letters to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke — all had Johnson as their impresario....
...I also discussed the rise and fall of financial dynasties with Joseph Sassoon. There were not only political and economic stars but many cultural ones in attendance, too....
...Like Mai, he glided through the upper echelons of society, befriending figures such as Samuel Johnson, the statesman Edmund Burke and the actor David Garrick....
...To protect the grain from rain, a wooden roof was added in 1783, which was later replaced after a fire by François-Joseph Bélanger’s iron version, a wonder of its age....
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture and design critic Follow @FTProperty on Twitter or @ft_houseandhome on Instagram to find out about our latest stories first...
...That version endured under the guidance of Colley Cibber, David Garrick and Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Joseph Grimaldi was the in-house clown) until 1791 when Sheridan knocked it down and built an enormously...
...“Obviously the chances of escalation have increased,” said Edwin Walczak, a portfolio manager at Vontobel....
...Rupture four is where Fischli came in, with Joseph Beuys telling his students to stop painting and Jörg Immendorff’s scrawl on canvas “Hört auf zu malen”, the “Stop Painting” of the title....
...Its Crystal Palace, an architectural and engineering marvel designed by Joseph Paxton, ushered in a new world, a bubble of production, consumption and colonialism....
...Soane was the architect who designed the Bank of England and had it depicted as a ruin by the painter Joseph Michael Gandy....
...Michelle Burke is a merchandise buyer from Bronner’s Christmas Wonderland in Frankenmuth, Michigan, which bills itself as “World’s Largest Christmas Store”....
...The Best stores reverberated with Joseph Gandy’s drawings of John Soane’s Bank of England as a ruin, suggesting an institution as durable as the Roman empire....
...Rousseau and Burke were powerful influences on Wollstonecraft, whose ideas about society and gender were forged in direct and outraged opposition to theirs....
...On the morning of Friday October 11 1957, a terse message landed on the desk of Sir Edwin Plowden, head of the UK’s Atomic Energy Authority....
...edwin.heathcote@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Parkies are ‘the world’s only harmless police’ / From Geoff Smith, Huddersfield, W Yorks, UK...
...Mr Winters recalls that Cardinal Raymond Burke, who now leads the reaction against Francis, told the conference that “they could not apply the rules to bishops”....
...and Joseph de Maistre, to the voluble antagonisms of the present day....
...Joseph Roth described them as “the world’s only harmless police” in a lovely article about the Schiller Park in Berlin, in 1923....
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