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...Few individuals since Christopher Wren in the 17th century or John Nash at the turn of the 19th have left such a personal footprint on the map of London....
...A quarter of a century ago, the behavioural economist George Loewenstein addressed that question....
...It says a lot that George Osborne, the UK’s chancellor from 2010 to 2016, attempted to remake the relationship between citizen and state, but is equally remembered for trying and failing to introduce VAT...
...Tim Harford’s new book for children, ‘The Truth Detective’ (Wren & Rook), is now available Follow @FTMag to find out about our latest stories first...
...His South African father, a Rhodes scholar, had cut short his studies at Oxford to join the war effort and his British mother was a navy Wren. “My father had been a scholarship boy....
...It was founded 180 years ago, and its creator George Carstensen secured the land by petitioning King Christian VIII, arguing, “When the people are amusing themselves, they do not think about politics.”...
...Tim Harford’s children’s book, “The Truth Detective” (Wren & Rook), is now available Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate Our Mindsby Susie Alegre, Atlantic Books £20/$29.95 George Orwell warned us about a future dystopia where “thought crimes” would be punished....
...Through his Royal College of Art-trained art teachers Crawford Mitchell and George MacCann, a pupil of Henry Moore, Clendinning learnt about modern art....
...From the path, I make an inland detour to St George’s church, built in 1766. Its elaborate exterior resembles Wren’s London churches; inside, its pulpit and box pews survive....
...This summer, Lightyear Capital funds bought UK-based Wren Sterling Financial Planning, and Flexpoint Ford acquired UK-based AFH Financial Group....
...Donations can be made until 27 July; spacehive.com A star-dusted fashion sale to support the L’Wren Scott Scholarship Known for her glamorous red-carpet creations, L’Wren Scott dressed some of the most...
...Wren House Infrastructure Management has appointed Philippe Busslinger as its chief executive....
...Mackmurdo, an admirer of Wren and proponent of conservation, published his defence of them, Wren’s City Churches, in 1883 and designed its cover with odd, swirling tendrils and stylised flower heads, and...
...For those wont to stop, central Greenwich — a Unesco World Heritage Site, thanks to the splendid architecture of Christopher Wren’s Royal Naval College — offers museums, cafés and restaurants....
...Foundation, London, UK Adam Tooze European Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, US Stephanie Kelton Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Stony Brook University, New York, NY, US Simon Wren-Lewis...
...coming back as a bird; there’s the close echo on his vocals, in the manner of John Lennon (another nod to The Beatles is the George Harrison-style guitar break on “Gwendolyn”); there are the stuttering,...
...Simon Wren Lewis, professor of economics at Oxford university, said it would be madness to raise taxes when the economy was weak and operating below normal capacity....
...In 1805 he wrote to his patron, Sir George Beaumont, after a tour in Scotland, that “painters and poets have had the credit of being reckoned the fathers of English gardening”....
...Along those corridors are offices once occupied by Kitchener, Lloyd George, TE Lawrence, Churchill and Profumo....
...Weaver, Manchester, England; Steve Clark, London; DIA Cohen, New York Polymath 1,035: Tony Mouler, Birmingham, England Crossword 16,242: Helen Hillier, Dorset, England; JP Bowman, the Netherlands; C Wren...
...Twenty years ago, Fred Goodwin was gearing up to lead the bank, on an expansionist ticket inherited from his predecessor George Mathewson....
...“Many migrants have had to fight hard to get where they’ve got,” says Maurice Wren, chief executive of the Refugee Council. “They are by definition entrepreneurial.”...
...The former site of that school is now the Baylis Old School development, a scheme of 149 homes, and Wren Mews, which includes 36 social housing properties....
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