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...Sir Bill Thomas, chair of Spirent, said its board intended to unanimously recommend the offer....
...Someone looking for a big Hollywood movie about clothes can, however, turn to Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread, from 2017, which I also just watched for the first time....
...It became a cult hit and was the inspiration for the purchase of non-league club Wrexham by Hollywood actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney....
...Austria’s far-right Freedom party — led by Herbert Kickl, a sworn enemy of Kurz who served in his first government — now leads the polls....
...At a meeting with union representatives on Monday, the head of the Volkswagen brand Thomas Schäfer warned that the flagship business was not making “enough profit with our cars to independently finance the...
...The Victorian purpose was to showcase lives worthy of emulation — a bricks-and-mortar equivalent of On Heroes, the manifesto for biography by Thomas Carlyle, instrumental in the gallery’s founding....
...In between Shostakovich and Mahler came Thomas Larcher’s Symphony No 2, Kenotaph, only heard once before in the UK, at the BBC Proms in 2016, the year of its premiere....
...In 2008, Charlie Munger convinced his business partner Buffett to invest $230mn for a 10 per cent stake in the then little-known Chinese company, arguing that in Wang they had a mix of Thomas Edison and...
...He was bound to bump into Sir Joshua Reynolds....
...Reynolds and her team look, too, at fascinating developments in optometry and dentistry (Marie-Antoinette, Reynolds tells me, was made to wear braces for several months before her marriage at age 14)....
...Additional reporting by Daniel Thomas, Stephen Gandel and Stephen Foley...
...Private credit co-heads James Reynolds and Kevin Sterling have also been named global head of direct lending and global head of investment-grade private credit and asset finance, respectively....
...The 1945 government was composed of towering figures: as well as Bevin and Bevan, it included Herbert Morrison, Hugh Dalton, Stafford Cripps, Hugh Gaitskell and Harold Wilson....
...Cariad was launched under former VW boss Herbert Diess, and the unit’s mounting issues were among the key factors leading to his departure last year....
...Aquind’s law firm, Herbert Smith Freehills, said the case had centred on the assessment of alternative sites....
...Eleanor Shanks has been appointed head of international private equity at Herbert Smith Freehills in London. She was previously a partner at Sidley Austin....
...They join from Herbert Smith Freehills....
...Jonathan Reynolds, Labour’s shadow business secretary, said: “This is yet another disappointment for businesses at a time when clear leadership and stability is a strict necessity....
...The chancellor’s Spring Statement was the last chance for the government to “decisively stick both feet in” behind its net zero emissions policies, Ruth Herbert, chief executive at the Carbon Capture and...
...My FT colleague Helen Thomas points out the heavy market concentration in global food trading, very much worth remembering for those of us who tend to assume commodity markets are perfectly competitive....
...Financial services rules need to be “simplified and clarified” under British law, according to Barney Reynolds, partner at Shearman & Sterling, who says that this now “needs to be done quickly and by people...
...Reynolds ended the membership structure, and Walker introduced new genres: sci-fi, fantasy, romance and YA....
...Lives Patrick VernonOBEWindrush Day campaigner and commentator Flora FraserWriter and historical biographer Ed VaizeyBaron Vaizey of Didcot, Minister for Culture 2010-16 Wilfrid DimsdaleDescendant of Thomas...
...The story begins on the opposite, north-east coast, in Hull, where clockmaker Thomas Kirk set up a business in 1798 that expanded into jewellery and silverware....
...Herbert Smith Freehills has named 32 new partners. BuzzFeed plans to shut down its news division and cut its workforce by 15 per cent....
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