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...The cuisine could have been West African or Welsh and it would have fitted just as well....
...A new crop of IPO candidates in CVC, General Atlantic and L Catterton may test the waters of public markets in 2024, while BlackRock continues to hunt for its “transformative” private capital deal....
...Website; Directions— Tim Auld L’Atelier Robuchon 6 Clarges Street, London W1J 8AE A particular joy in Paris is to sit at the counter of L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, watching in...
...To this day, if I’m planning a proper toastie binge, I’ll knock up a small soupe à l’oignon as an accompaniment....
...In a debilitating attack of l’esprit de l’escalier, I have since realised there’s no reason on God’s green earth I couldn’t have had both....
...“Il va faire très chaud,” they shouted, launching into “Voilà l’été”, twin trombones pumping, accordion blaring, Stéfane Méllino’s guitar thrashing....
...Problematic policy The cancelled takeover saga of Welsh semiconductor group Newport Wafer Fab highlights the shortcomings of the UK’s attempts at industrial policy, writes the FT’s Helen Thomas....
...From £105, jeakeshouse.com BS Hôtel de l’Abbaye, Paris This Saint-Germain-des-Prés stalwart is on the larger side of homely – 43 rooms and counting – but the quiet setting makes up for it....
...The surviving Grade I-listed building dates from the early 19th century and has a trompe l’oeil medieval appearance with a central tower....
...Also, the sailing regatta Cowes Week begins on the Isle of Wight and the National Eisteddfod, the largest and oldest celebration of Welsh culture, begins in the ancient market town of Tregaron....
...Despite challenging trading conditions, English and Welsh wine sales grew 30 per cent in 2020 to 7.1mn bottles....
...AntikBar has a 1929 Cassandre poster of Antwerp-to-Paris train L’Oiseau Bleu listed at £5,500, while in 2012 a limited-edition print by the coveted artist became the most expensive travel poster in history...
...This season the retailer is stocking voluminous silk-blend opera skirts by Erdem, from a collection inspired by the belle époque costumes in Luchino Visconti’s 1976 film L’Innocente....
...Not so, said Agathe L’hôte, a local journalist. “People have been really good,” she told me. “We look after each other in this city....
...England Polymath 1,064: Michael Foottit, London Crossword 16,413: James Leaver, Sydney; Ardeshir Dalal, Texas; Markos Komondouros, Athens Polymath 1,063: John Buxton, Chesterfield Crossword 16,407: J Welsh...
...Sitting in the heart of the Asturian mountains, it is often overshadowed by its more famous neighbour, the Alto de l’Angliru, but is a far more beautiful road....
...Tim Cook added via Twitter that Apple “will be donating to the rebuilding efforts,” and the French luxury and cosmetics group L’Oréal has pitched in another €200m....
...Specialists at Bonhams in London have discovered a painting by Queen Elizabeth I’s portraitist, Marcus Gheeraerts, while sorting through the hundred of items they are selling out of the Welsh stately home...
...Welsh students can apply for a non-repayable tuition fee grant of £4,954 from the Welsh government and a repayable tuition fee loan of £4,046, which also applies to those who study elsewhere in the United...
...It was going up Snowdon — Yr Wyddfa to the Welsh — on its venerable mountain railway (pictured below)....
...Addlands, by Tom Bullough, Granta, RRP£14.99/Dial Press, RRP$27 Seventy years on a Welsh sheep farm may not sound like a scintillating premise, but the FT’s reviewer found Addlands to be a “a quiet, rural...
...A purely hypothetical proposal to part-nationalise Port Talbot might then be no more than a costless attempt to bolster the Welsh “Stay” vote....
...This is why every industrial failure, such as that bringing down Tata Steel’s Welsh operations, “proves” the wisdom of a strategic state....
...“They’re very close to the Welsh and the Scots; they don’t really consider themselves French,” says Caroline Carver about the Bretons....
...The words authentically capture the tone of Bevan’s Welsh rhetoric. Perhaps he did say them. Or are they the fabrication of some malicious critic? Sometimes posterity forgets the context....
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