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...Jacob Rothschild ultimately left the family business in a dispute over strategy with his cousin, Evelyn, selling his stake and forming RIT Capital Partners....
...This glittering set has inspired the fashion world for decades – designers seem incapable of quitting the works of Evelyn Waugh....
...Ian Dyall, head of estate planning at wealth manager Evelyn Partners, says: “Theoretically you can pay in after 75 but not get the tax relief on contributions.”...
...Widely regarded as a flop, this anomaly was introduced by George Osborne to boost peer-to-peer lending, attracting just £144mn of inflows in 2021-22....
...Evelyn Waugh doesn’t matter because he wrote Brideshead Revisited, he matters because he is the greatest stylist of the 20th century. You have no control over your myth....
...He comes from a family of comfortable but modest means; his father Jean was a craftsman and his mother Denise a formidable social activist....
...In the words of George Osborne, UK chancellor of the exchequer, crowdfunding – raising money from a large number of backers via the web – represents the “dawn of a new era” in how start-ups raise capital...
...The Tories will make for an incongruous Workers party as long as they are fronted by people who, with all their youth and privilege, can seem like strays from an Evelyn Waugh novel....
...The judges include Trevor Osborne, chief executive of the Trevor Osborne property group, Professor Denise Bower from the University of Leeds, and David Cowans, chief executive of Places for People....
...In April, UK chancellor George Osborne announced ambitious plans for London to become the next big offshore hub for trading in the Chinese currency....
...The core science budget, administered by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, emerged relatively unscathed from George Osborne’s 2010 spending review....
...An incident on a yacht with the current scion of the clan, Nat, almost destroyed George Osborne’s career before it even got going....
...The guest list included Debra Valentine of Rio Tinto, Friends Provident’s Evelyn Bourke, and Aviva’s Amanda MacKenzie....
...In Evelyn Waugh’s 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited, the main character, Charles Ryder, returns from France to London to fight against the striking workers....
...Investors are right to be worried about Mr Osborne’s tax raid on North Sea oil companies....
...Mr Osborne’s speech was – senior Tories acknowledge – the most important event of the week....
...It might have come straight out of an Evelyn Waugh novel: a tale of gilded youth, money and the strict code of honour linked to a life of privilege....
...14.32 (Jim) Cam is launching straight into his Good Cop stance – in contrast to Osborne’s Bad Cop fiscal hardman earlier in the week....
...Continuing our serialisation of Evelyn Waugh’s classic novel, The Honourable Gentleman The story so far: our comic hero, the Hon George Osborne, baronet’s son and political innocent, finds himself somehow...
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