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...Chair Ian Marchant described the plan as “one of the largest commitments of new equity in the UK water sector”....
...“We appreciate Jonson Cox’s constructive comments and intend to respond to them positively.”...
...In June, Jonson Cox, chairman of Ofwat, the water regulator, lashed out at the company and called for a “step-change” in the way it operates and behaves....
...It was written by Ben Jonson....
...Even edited by playwright Stephen Jeffreys, the text is pretty dense and wordy, Jonson piling plot on plot as if infected himself by the acquisitive bug....
...In the Royal Shakespeare Company gift shop in Stratford-upon-Avon you can buy a Shakespearean Insult Generator kit, but old Bill was as nothing compared with his near-contemporary Ben Jonson....
...Letters in response to this article: ‘Murky structure’ that has amply justified FT’s fears for water industry / From Max Wilkinson, Dedham, Essex, UK We take the regulation of Thames Water seriously / From Jonson...
...The fund is advised by Ofwat chairman Jonson Cox, who brings expertise to the group but whose presence prevents it from buying any water companies....
...Yet on many other occasions here Ben Jonson’s text is indeed updated....
...Ben Jonson, Shakespeare’s friend and rival, was on brink of becoming the unofficial poet laureate....
...Jonson Cox, chairman of Ofwat, has also suggested water companies could be making excessive profits to the detriment of customers....
...BT Group was down 1.8 per cent to 313.7p on the surprise news that Ian Livingston was leaving after five years as chief executive to become minister of state for trade and investment....
...Royal Court artistic director Dominic Cooke’s first production at the National gives a real sense that this is a city comedy of the kind more associated with the likes of Ben Jonson than Shakespeare....
...On Wednesday the company was fined £200,000 for health and safety breaches over the death of Ian Cameron at Kellingley in 2009....
...This is not a Gloucester who entices the audience to connive in his villainies; rather, he permits us to bear witness as he coldly pursues his aim, building a state in which, as Ben Jonson described the...
...In this respect, his artistic achievements (both hymned and excoriated by Ben Jonson in a drunken scene in Act Two) are no more relevant to the workings of the world than the bingo of the title....
...and for good measure a couple of Ben Jonson-style common-man commentators, named pointedly after the Muppets Statler and Waldorf....
...In Ian Hislop’s Changing of the Bard (BBC4, Saturday) the satirist cruelly brought up the ode Motion wrote to celebrate the marriage of Prince Edward to Sophie Rhys-Jones....
...The casting is de luxe, with Simon Russell Beale, Lesley Manville, Ian Richardson and others....
...Geffen has also learnt a lot from Ben Jonson’s 17th century play The Alchemist. He says this play about fraud perpetuated by Elizabethan conmen is amazingly contemporary....
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