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...We’re all in a kind of fug of ideas and habits.”...
...Anthony Wells, director of political polling at YouGov, says he had not seen a government so “exhausted” since John Major’s Conservative administration in the 1990s....
...Tekiò Anthony Dickens (Santa & Cole) In addition to creating a more natural quality of light, new LED technologies allow for the regulation of colour temperature....
...Lily Cole, actor and activistThe Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut The best books I’ve read in the past year are all by Vonnegut....
...Now, they’re in the eye of the storm, the New York Times reports. Sign of the times Big changes are afoot in markets....
...He and director Anthony Almeida cleverly extend that to the audience with casting choices that pull the rug from under us, making us re-evaluate our assumptions....
...The incoming president’s father, Ferdinand Marcos Sr, was a dictatorial leader of the country for two decades until a revolution toppled him in 1986....
...Anthony Mangnall, elected MP for neighbouring Totnes in 2019, revealed hours earlier he wanted a no-confidence vote in the prime minister. “Standards in public life matter,” he wrote on Twitter....
...New York hedge fund stands to make over $5bn on Avis Budget share surge SRS Investment Management is sitting on well over $5bn in potential gains from yesterday’s leap in the share price of ailing rental...
...One of London’s best-known high-end estate agents, Gary Hersham, founder of Beauchamp Estates, decries how recent rhetoric has portrayed most property investment in London by Russians as illegitimate....
...“We’re on the front foot now.”...
...He was born in 1973 to George Floyd Sr and Larcenia “Cissy” Jones Floyd, one of five siblings....
...You’re in good hands,” she said; and the vodka martini proffered on my first visit years ago, while far from my usual tipple, was indeed the ticket....
...“We’re still in the midst of the pandemic — what’s going to happen as we get to the other side?”...
...“As much as you don’t like to say you’re elderly, well in fact I am,” he said....
...“It’s important to remember that most of the world’s great fashion designers grew up while sneaker culture was in the ascendant,” Coles says....
...In the news Gensler pledges market structure review Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the US stock market regulator, Gary Gensler, has promised a review of fees paid by large Wall Street firms to retail brokerages...
...merger talks (FT) Luminar rises in market debut, making 25-year-old founder a billionaire (FT) Clawbacks/Gary Cohn: asking nicely (FT Lex) CaixaBank shareholders pave way to create Spain's biggest bank...
...(FT) What else we’re reading The future of America’s local newspapers Small regional newspapers, once swimming in cash and an essential service to those living outside New York or San Francisco, have been...
...Joe Biden has unveiled his team to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, bringing in a host of medical experts and promoting Anthony Fauci, the infectious diseases doctor with whom outgoing president Donald Trump...
...“I don’t think we’re about to see a groundswell of 18-year-olds booking gap years in Thailand with their CTF proceeds.”...
...Hearn Sr has brought darts and snooker to new fans and financial heights....
...If you’re interested in reading more on this subject, my Big Read in FT Weekend was on how Biden would handle a gridlocked Washington....
...The film is due for release by Disney in September but that date is now in doubt because of the pandemic. “We’re all sort of in limbo,” he says....
...have a diverse portfolio; stick with it for the long term; and use your tax breaks, so that when we get an upturn, you’re in the best possible position to take advantage.”...
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