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...August 24 to 26; further information and tickets here Notting Hill Carnival Each year over the August bank holiday, revellers descend on Notting Hill for the much-loved Caribbean carnival dating back to...
...Bonds issued by some of the companies hit hardest by coronavirus, including cruise operator Carnival Corporation, have rallied vigorously over the past year, rewarding investors who were prepared to gamble...
...Plus, the FT’s capital market’s correspondent Rob Smith explains how Carnival Corporation managed to persuade investors to put their money into the ailing cruise company....
...with the Carnival Corporation share price....
...Noble Francis: There is unlikely to be a substantial levelling up in 2021....
...A reform of US corporation tax would reduce the competitive advantage of the UK’s present corporation tax policy....
...So Shakespeare wrote a speech for another play in that year of 1599: Henry V, in which the day of Crispin and Crispinian is reclaimed for God, for King Harry, England and St George....
...It means that small groups and networks – families, corporations, select universities – use their inside knowledge of how power works to work it to their own advantage....
...The eight triptychs on show at the V&A are a testament to Husain’s vision. They mix traditional mythological stories with scenes of everyday life, as if they were inseparable....
...Francis Breedon, Professor, QMUL Little in the short or long run....
...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...
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...Elizabethan England, in particular, became “the age of adventure”, of Walter Raleigh and Francis Drake and the trouncing of the Spanish armada....
...Francis Rossi, guitarist, Status Quo. Dick King-Smith, children’s author. Margaret Snowdon, chairman, Pensions Advisory Service. Rupert Soames, chief executive, Aggreko, the power company....
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
...Over in Kaycee Corporation’s warehouse, dusty sacks of medicinal herbs and spices fill every corner. Inside the dingy shops and offices of companies with names such as V.C....
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