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...My hunch is that George Osborne, who sequentially reduced the levy last decade, cut business taxation more in real terms than Hunt has....
...It is very rare for any fashion boss to intuit what customers want for more than a few years, though George Davies managed to do so for decades at Next and elsewhere....
...Stuff I enjoyed this week The FT’s Jim Pickard and George Parker produced a compelling Big Read on Sir Keir Starmer’s ruthless remaking of the UK Labour party....
...The second is an article on Anglo-Greek wrangling over the return of Parthenon Marbles hoarded by the British Museum, written by George Parker et al....
...George Fiawoo, a traditional African storyteller and dance teacher, relates how Anansi hoarded the world’s wisdom in a pot....
...Scott Guthrie, executive vice-president of Microsoft’s Cloud and AI unit, will take a seat on LSEG’s board....
...Matt Vella, FT Weekend Magazine Editor Even in a year marked by outstanding foreign reporting, George Packer’s Atlantic piece The Betrayal from January stuck with me....
...She has nevertheless been convicted of fraud, making the likes of Henry Kissinger and George Shultz look suitably foolish....
...Finally, hats off to Henry Kravis and George Roberts, who announced their departure from KKR, the buyout group that bears their names....
...Jonathan Guthrie writes that economic warfare cannot be fine-tuned to spare the energy sector....
...Lex pointed out that the low headline rates fetishised by the CBI and other business lobby groups had allowed Sunak’s predecessor George Osborne to stealthily widen the tax base....
...The so-called stakes of activist investors need greater scrutiny, writes head of Lex Jonathan Guthrie....
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...Global Black Lives Matter protests triggered by the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police made it doubly incongruous in a diverse, modern British city....
...At one point he dismissed Ms Guthrie as “so cute”....
...“It’s a super-exciting time for engineers at the firm,” said co-chief information officer George Lee....
...A later landlord was gangster George Francis, linked to the Kray brothers and the notorious Brink’s-Mat robbery; legend has it this is where the audacious heist was planned....
...Smart reads The multi-trillion takeover The $4.5tn global bailout will rank among the world’s largest takeovers — and it is a takeover, writes the FT’s Jonathan Guthrie....
...Back in Smith’s day, the biggest network advantage was to hang out with George II and his friends and was described as cronyism....
...Sir Richard and former chief of the defence staff Charles Guthrie said they were concerned about Mrs May’s commitment to a “deep and special” defence relationship with the EU....
...Joseph Lattanzi, a light baritone, rose to his big number, and Devon Guthrie, a soprano, had the strongest voice as the sympathetic Mary....
...jonathan.guthrie@ft.com This article has been literarily amended since original publication...
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