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...“These guys keep raising the bar as everyone else is trying to catch up,” said Emily Field, an analyst at Barclays....
...“The developing conflict between Israel and Iran . . . is increasingly moving out of the shadows towards direct confrontation,” said Julien Barnes-Dacey, director of the Middle East and north Africa programme...
...The luxury cruise ventures are “more of a brand marketing loyalty play than a revenue play”, said Clayton Reid, executive chair of hospitality marketing agency MMGY Global....
...But he stressed he still believed Neat Burger could rival mainstream burger joints, such as Shake Shack and Five Guys. “We want to eat their lunch,” he said....
...Writers including Kate Atkinson, David Nicholls and Julian Barnes are fans; this month, three new editions of her books will appear in the UK....
...Danker said on Wednesday that he was being made the “fall guy” for the crisis and that his reputation had been “totally destroyed”....
...They added that Greidinger was “not the easiest guy in the world” to work with “but in terms of management, I don’t think there’s a better team anywhere in the world than what they’ve got there.”...
...Email Jo at jo.ellison@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Banter is better at the pub / From Judy Barnes, Swansea, UK...
...“It helped reassure customers that . . . these guys are not going to run off with my $50,” said Craven....
...It makes no sense, but we’ll just avoid having our guys sit on too many boards.” No company or director involved in resignations triggered by the DoJ has admitted liability....
...Guy Debelle, who gave up his role as deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia to join the green hydrogen division of Fortescue last year, also left the company last week....
...They love having signing ceremonies, and I noticed that there was a couple of guys who were appearing there... chief executive, chief marketing this, chief operating officer, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah...
...“If these guys understand that they’re going to have to be a little more humble then I think there’s a path. But if it’s the same approach in two years, it will be the same result.”...
...Ahead of Monday’s result Guy Hands, founder of private equity firm Terra Firma, warned that the British economy was “frankly doomed” and called for a renegotiation of the Brexit agreement....
...The practice known as “interlocking directorates” has long been illegal, according to section 8 of the 1914 Clayton Antitrust Act. But the law has rarely been enforced....
...To find out, don’t miss this all-dayer in leafy Barnes packed with mindfulness workshops, fitness, food and music....
...Danker said this week that he had been made the “fall guy” for the much more serious allegations....
...There are tales of espionage involving Anthony Blunt and Guy Burgess, rumours of hidden tunnels....
...But thanks very much, guys. Thank you very much, Henry. Thank you, Andrew. And thank you, Yolande Barnes. Claer BarrettOur thanks to Nathan Brooker, the FT’s House & Home editor....
...But it's really focused on the little guys....
...Not Julian Barnes, though I think he wrote a book or two that will outlast any of Amis’s. Not Kazuo Ishiguro, who had won more awards by 35 than Amis ever would....
...But, like David and Goliath, sometimes the little guy can surprise a giant by attacking in a novel way. And some of the Davos crowd think that ChatGPT could end up doing precisely that....
...She added: “The insurance industry has used their pull in a way that has really hurt the little guy.”...
...Following his highly praised Peter Grimes earlier this year, Allan Clayton showed again how free his voice is at the top, making light of challenges that make most tenors sweat, and his singing filled the...
...It was the last Barnes novel I really enjoyed — neither The Only Story nor Elizabeth Finch really worked for me....
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