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...The family and the banker The Barclay empire was built by Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay, London-born identical twin sons of a travelling sweets salesman....
...“The current cultural landscape of London is, to a great extent, a result of the UK’s complex colonial history. How we work and what we build from this point onwards [is what] matters,” she says....
...” — chief executive Stephen Schwarzman in a sparkly rainbow jacket and all....
...Stephen BushFT columnist Clemens Meyer’s While We Were Dreaming is the highlight of another strong year from what I think is currently the UK’s most exciting publisher of fiction, Fitzcarraldo: it tells...
...“Our big banks are too big, but right now it’s a matter of minimising the cost,” said Brad Sherman, a Democrat in the House of Representatives....
...Every Choice Matters: How I Found the Strength to Tell the Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook by Frances Haugen (Little, Brown) Woman versus Big Tech: Frances Haugen’s account of her role as the...
...But we live in a moment now when ideas obviously really matter.” The next morning, I walk into a room with French windows looking out on the Aegean....
...Captured in the soft light of a north window, with hog-hair brushes and in the manner of John Singer Sargent, the life-sized portrait is at once theatrical and calm....
...Anyone worried about the state of the world as we head into a new year will not be short of reading matter....
...Only a third of works put under temporary export bar end up staying in the country, and the UK’s arts minister Lord Stephen Parkinson recently suggested treating differently those “destined for public display...
...This is truly the most important election of our lifetime and in NYC’s history,” Stephen Ross, chair of The Related Companies, and de facto king of the city’s developers, wrote to fellow business leaders...
...I was struck recently by a piece by New York Times art critic Holland Cotter that looked at the growing debate, in the era of Black Lives Matter, over which historic statues and monuments should remain in...
...Philip Stephens writes....
...Touching the Void, Duke of York’s Theatre, London, to February 29, touchingthevoidplay.com Five more to see A Day in the Death of Joe Egg Toby Stephens and Claire Skinner star in this fine revival of...
...Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage, winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn (Liveright/Oneworld) is even better than her debut Here Comes The Sun....
...Dennis Zember of Ameris, who will be CEO of the $16bn combined bank, is 48....
...Darley is also aware of how times have changed, noting that in the Dictionary of National Biography, Leslie Stephen (Virginia Woolf’s father) wrote that Smith lived in a “mean house in Doughty Street”....
...This has been a characteristic of the Brexit process at every stage along the way so far, observes Philip Stephens in his column....
...Dennis Kelleher, chief executive of the advocacy group Better Markets, said that Wells directors had failed to take responsibility....
...Then there’s the tale of Candi Nehring, who married Stephen Nehring in 2001. The unconscious attraction of the Nehring name? Hardly....
...Stephen Hester, who piloted Royal Bank of Scotland through the aftermath of its near-collapse in 2008 and now runs UK insurer RSA, says taking pressure is “one of the attributes you probably need” to run...
...The speaker, Dennis Lynch, is stockpicking royalty....
...Stephen Gallo, European head of FX strategy at the Bank of Montreal, says all these factors have a knock-on effect on trade and growth in the North American Free Trade Association, which consists of the...
...In which case, pity theatre’s postman. “There’s a much bigger sense that the rest of the world matters more and we matter less,” Campbell goes on. “That’s a political development....
...Why Acting Matters, by David Thomson, Yale University Press, RRP£16.99/$25 In a book that is part manifesto, part historical guide, the greatest living film critic argues that acting — on screen, in life...
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