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...In recent years, otherwise unremarkable pieces have far exceeded estimates at auction, including cast-offs that once belonged to Joan Didion, Sir Michael Caine, Sir Roger Moore, John le Carré and many more...
...Link via journalist Helen Lewis’s excellent Substack. Enjoy the rest of your week, Elaine MooreDeputy head of Lex...
...San Francisco Elaine Moore is deputy editor of Lex, concentrating on Silicon Valley and the US tech industry. She has won several journalism awards for her contribution to Lex....
...“Weak consumer demand led retail sales growth to slow,” said BRC chief executive Helen Dickinson....
...Water minister Robbie Moore said the data showed “water companies must go further and faster to . . . clean up our precious waterways”....
...Tim Stovold, partner at accountants Moore Kingston Smith, said late filing “continues to be a windfall for HMRC”....
...helen.thomas@ft.com@helentbiz...
...Atlantic writer Helen Lewis’s Bluestocking newsletter has a nice list of writing tips. I liked the reminder to distinguish between plot and story. Enjoy your weekend Elaine MooreDeputy head of Lex...
...helen.warrell@ft.com...
...Malcolm Moore (@malcolmmoore) Editor, FT Edit In a week during which HS2, England’s ill-fated high-speed rail project, was back in the headlines, Helen Thomas’s punchy column on the British infrastructure...
...Malcolm Moore (@malcolmmoore) Editor, FT Edit Two interviews kept me reading this week, both with visionaries in their own ways....
...Not so for Tim Moore, who participated in the Mongol 100 bike race, pledging to traverse 160km of the frozen lake “by any means necessary”....
...A tense and bingeable sci-fi thriller, it stars Julianne Moore and Oscar Isaac as a psychiatrist and her patient who must join forces if they are to avert a pandemic....
...Top writers on Substack include Anne Helen Petersen, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Michael Moore....
...“I think it was a story she wanted to tell” said Helen. Look out for Helen’s article in FT Edit on Monday. Our favourite pieces • There’s a divide on our desk at FT Edit....
...Jeffrey Rosen, the former US acting attorney-general under former president Donald Trump, has joined Cravath, Swaine & Moore as of counsel in Washington....
...She describes them as “heroically boring” and “like reading an aggrieved version of Wikipedia.” 😬 Elaine Moore, Lex deputy editor I loved Katie Baker’s gossipy account of FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial...
...Helen Warrell’s unprecedented deep-dive into this fascinating world reminded me of the first time that I saw the huge SIS building in Vauxhall, central London....
...There is no chance of a Moore-style nocturnal pilgrimage today. Stonehenge can only be seen up-close via a pricey visitor centre....
...Farquharson co-chaired the jury with Helen Legg, director of Tate Liverpool....
...Malcolm Moore (@malcolmmoore) Editor, FT Edit • Russia has just launched a nuclear attack on the US and you’re the president — with your finger on the button....
...Helen Stephenson, chief executive of the Charity Commission, said: “The late Captain Sir Tom Moore inspired the nation with his courage, tenacity and concern for others....
...Moore also warned about Beijing’s attempts to set what he called “debt and data traps” for other countries, which he said could increase their vulnerability to political coercion....
...Richard Moore, chief of the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, warned in November that China was now the “single greatest priority” for his agency....
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