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...We had one, but it’s not a short book, but it’s beautifully written by a historian called Christopher Clark. It’s called Revolutionary Spring, and it’s about the revolutions of 1848 in Europe....
...Laura also loved The Fraud by Zadie Smith – Fred’s picks for history lovers are Revolutionary Spring by Christopher Clark and King: a Life by Jonathan Eig; Laura’s is Red Memory by Tanya Branigan – For...
...The chair this year was the FT’s own Fred Studemann, so you know the winner (Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World) must be good....
...It was probably worse at Royal Bank of Scotland under the lender’s former boss Fred Goodwin....
...Pilita Clark tells us that the former Royal Bank of Scotland boss Fred Goodwin once told off his catering staff for bringing in “rogue” pink wafer biscuits with the executives’ afternoon tea (“A manager’...
...Find a photo of Miles Davis or Clark Gable from the middle of the last century to see what a longer waist can do for a man. Fred Astaire knew that a high waist provided freedom to move, as well....
...My style icon is Fred Astaire, because he was very elegant. By the way, there’s a very thin line between elegance and arrogance....
...Ma is a symbol,” says Duncan Clark, head of business advisory at BDA China....
...Links and mentions from the episode: –Roula Khalaf recommends Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe –Pilita Clark recommends The Hydrogen Revolution by Marco Alvira and How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas...
...It is a unique voice that has not gone unnoticed: collaborators have included brands such as Fred Perry and Harris Tweed....
...Hollywood was equally uninspiring: yes, George Clooney personifies the smooth-talking Coward-esque attitude of yesteryear, but his Clark Gable schtick seems slightly passé....
...In Alibaba, insider Duncan Clark traces the rapid rise of the Chinese internet group and its founder Jack Ma....
...pilita.clark@ft.com Twitter: @pilitaclark...
...After all, like Ginger Rogers — who did everything Fred Astaire did, only backwards and in high heels — they often do the same work as the boss but without back-up....
...Off location: Fred Studemann puts up a sterling defence of Battersea and Nine Elms, areas of London disdained by Donald Trump....
...It’s a library of sorts, displaying the fruits of an ongoing collaboration between Tsang and the poet and theorist Fred Moten, including films, sound works and printed texts....
...Fred Lambert of Electrek said the prototype “met and then crushed almost all of our expectations”, and the new truck already has a — very small — order from Walmart....
...You could meet “American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman)”, stiff, haughty, hideous as their Indian totems, at Frieze 2017....
...“All indications suggest many more filings will occur this year,” said Buddy Clark, a partner at the firm....
...My first Iowa election was in 1978, when Democratic Senator Dick Clark, who had made a name for himself in Washington by showing an interest in Africa, lost to Roger Jepsen, who, it came out later, was heavily...
...Immersed in free improvisation, free jazz and experimental rock, his collaborators have included one-time Henry Cow guitarist Fred Frith and saxophonist Evan Parker, while in 1996 he recorded an admired...
...This was Gordon Matta-Clark encountering Nosferatu on the way to the builders’ merchants, an architecture of hacking — perhaps that’s why Gehry appealed to Zuckerberg....
...“We don’t see balance sheet risk, but we do see earnings risk,” said Fred Cannon, global director of research at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, summing up the outlook for 2016....
...His name was Fred Goodwin. Clark McGinn Ballsbridge, Dublin, 4, Ireland...
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