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...In November, a freedom of information request by Jack Shaw, a local government expert, revealed that just £243mn, or 5 per cent, of the £4.8bn levelling-up fund — for projects such as transport hubs and...
...With confirmation that global temperatures reached a new record in 2023 (Report, January 10), I am reminded of George Bernard Shaw’s observation that: “The longer I live, the more convinced I am that this...
...Inflation Reduction Act tax incentives and cash injections from the likes of subsidiaries of Berkshire Hathaway and quantitative hedge fund DE Shaw last year helped the US solar energy industry grow at its...
...George Steer Is the UK rebounding after slipping into recession?...
...Bernard Arnault, chief executive of luxury goods brand LVMH, is second on the list with a personal fortune of $201bn, according to Forbes....
...Pygmalion Old Vic, London The pipes and moustaches of Bernard Shaw’s Edwardian England may have vanished, but there is still no shortage of opinionated men keen to tell women how to behave....
...Cates is one of eight MPs being investigated by the Standards Commissioner, alongside Dame Eleanor Laing, Commons deputy speaker, and veteran Tory Sir Bernard Jenkin. Cates was approached for comment....
...The programme’s centrepiece features Pam Tanowitz’s Gustave Le Gray No 1, set to Caroline Shaw’s Chopin-esqe piano composition played on stage by Stephen Gosling....
...“That’s why not many want to take it,” Shaw said....
...Tory MP Sir Bernard Jenkin attended a drinks event in parliament in December 2020 when London was in so-called Tier 2 restrictions and gatherings of more than six people were not allowed indoors, according...
...A grand Art Deco building, originally designed by architect Bernard George for the department store Derry & Toms in the early 1930s, it contained womenswear, menswear and childrenswear from the Biba brand...
...BAE Systems’ Charles Woodburn, and BP’s Bernard Looney were paid more than £10mn each, as was Albert Manifold, boss of CRH, which is moving its listing to the US....
...“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton,” wrote George Bernard Shaw, “you may as well make it dance.”...
...Taylor is less incisive on Orwell’s political writings than Bernard Crick in his combative 1980 biography....
...The committee’s first presidents were Gaston-Louis and Georges Vuitton,” Chiambaretta says, of the influence of luxury brands on the avenue....
...The title character of which George Bernard Shaw play is a female officer in the Salvation Army? Which of the UK’s four national patron saints was one of Jesus’ 12 apostles?...
...When Henry Higgins agreed to transform Eliza Doolittle from “guttersnipe” to “duchess” in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, his first command was a new wardrobe from Whiteley’s....
...When Bernard Haitink conducted the score for the Royal Ballet in the late 1980s he insisted on an orchestra of 70-plus (the mandolins were wedged into the stalls circle); Davies manages with 16 musicians...
...Smart reads Growing influence Billionaire Bernard Arnault’s luxury conglomerate LVMH is seeking to grow his stable of media assets, rivalling other tycoons such as Elon Musk in building a media empire,...
...The critic Roger Ebert compared Sembène to George Bernard Shaw: “He made political films that didn’t seem political, and comedies that were very serious.”...
...Bernard Crick sets out these various letters in his masterful George Orwell: A Life....
...Philip Guston Tate Modern, London (to February 25) For its violent Ku Klux Klan imagery, Philip Guston was postponed following George Floyd’s murder and the surge of the Black Lives Matter movement....
...Dickinson never made waves outside his immediate circle — in the local council archive are letters from George Bernard Shaw and Walter Crane declining to read the manuscript of his memoirs....
...Sir Bernard Ingham, Thatcher’s former press secretary, said last year he “nearly had a fit” when he heard about Sunak’s homage to Lawson, asking: “Has the man gone mad?”...
...Bernard Ahkong, co-chief investment officer at UBS Asset Management’s hedge fund unit O’Connor, said: “We don’t want companies to boost dividends in an unsustainable fashion only to then have to cut them...
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