Hints and tips:
...Across from him in the courtroom is his nemesis: former confidant turned crown witness, Thomas Schmid....
...Chart of the day Boomers, once the target of millennial ire, are now a fading force demographically and electorally, writes John Burn-Murdoch....
...And, in what will no doubt go down as a historic gig, Elton John will perform his last ever UK show on the Pyramid Stage on Sunday night....
...James points to a series of objects placed neatly on an equally fabulous glass-topped coffee table – a piece from London dealer Schmid McDonagh....
...Blue and yellow Ukrainian flags fluttered amid posters of doves, while on stage a man crooned John Lennon’s antiwar song “Imagine”....
...The episode with Mark Gatiss is lovely – he talks about Aubrey Beardsley and John Minton....
...John Tomlinson brings searing pathos to the blind prophet Tirésias, Anaïk Morel lush vulnerability to Oedipus’s mother, Jocaste, Brian Mulligan a malevolent edge to her brother, Créon....
...“John F Kennedy said ‘I am a Berliner’. I say today: I stand alongside the citizens of Hong Kong”....
...Helga Maria Schmid, secretary-general of the EU’s foreign policy arm, discussed the tanker incidents with officials in Oman and both sides expressed “clear concern”, said an EU spokesperson....
...The last thing I bought and loved was a marble plinth from my favourite London antiques shop, Schmid McDonagh on Kensington Church Street....
...An aisle cuts through the chamber orchestra for the singers, while the balconies are exploited for entrances such as that of Mercury (John Taylor Ward), who announces to Seneca the day of his death....
...Upon the suggestion of Birtwistle, who himself conducted, numbers were interpolated with his arrangements of John Dowland’s Lachrimae....
...Young wind, brass and string players opened the day outside the KKL concert hall with the European premiere of John Luther Adams’ Sila: The Breath of the World....
...Bounding onstage at the Philharmonie in Berlin last weekend, the American composer and conductor John Adams cut a youthful, wiry figure....
...Mr Schmid said no....
...Works by John Adams, such as Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer have received prominent revivals in Europe and the US over the past five years, albeit to protest against the latter’s equivalent...
...In 1838, the botanist John Lindley was asked to report on the plan, but instead of closure, he proposed the government should remove the garden from royal control and run it directly....
...In Hans-Christian Schmid’s Home for the Weekend a family falls apart when depression-medicated mum stops taking her pills (and then disappears)....
...● Former UBS man Peter Schmid has been named chief executive of Merrill Lynch Bank (Suisse). ● Jenny Morton has joined Man Group as head of consultant relations....
...Speaking at the alliance’s military headquarters in Belgium, General John Craddock said he expected a drop in conventional attacks by insurgents as that strategy had proved unsuccessful against Nato forces...
...Last week, Nato’s commander in chief, General John Craddock, said the alliance got into deep trouble in 2004 when ethnic Albanian rioters caught Nato off-guard, with its troops hampered by operational restrictions...
...Additional reporting by Vincent Boland in Ankara and Fidelius Schmid in Brussels...
...Additional reporting by Fidelius Schmid in Seville...
...john.gapper@ft.com...
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