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...This season, highlights include super-pale wide jeans (from £350), zings of spearmint, a V-detail cut-out dress (£525) and a chocolate leather jacket with below-the-knee skirt suit (£1,195 and £795 respectively...
...Special thanks to Pierre Nicholson. I’m your host, Sonja Hutson. Our executive producer is Topher Forhecz, and Cheryl Brumley is the FT’s global head of audio....
...FY, General Electric Q4, Halliburton Q4, Invesco Q4, Johnson & Johnson Q4, Netflix Q4, Premier Foods Q3 trading update, Procter & Gamble Q2, Texas Instruments Q4, United Airlines Q4, Verizon Communications...
...I remember when the Supreme Court was just about to overturn the Roe v Wade abortion ruling in 2022. I spoke to the CEO of a large American business....
...The best gift I’ve given recently is a watercolour I did of the poet Linton Kwesi Johnson; when Linton saw it, he said: “Him flatter I.”...
...Honestly, guys, did you guys know who Eugene V Debs was before we started taping?...
...In parliamentary systems, members of parliament can also revolt, as they did in the UK against Boris Johnson and Liz Truss....
...Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock, and Barbie’s Ryan Gosling took it several steps — or buttons — further, displaying what is unfortunately known as “heavage”....
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...And you know, that cameras always trained on Biden and vice-president Kamala Harris and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. And Mike Johnson, by my count, stood up maybe only twice when he was clapping....
...Paul Johnson, head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a think-tank, said Labour’s plans to increase taxes on private schools, individuals with non-domicile status and private equity bosses, would raise...
...Lantink’s work has been acquired and shown by museums, including London’s V&A and the Costume Institute at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, while celebrities such as Beyoncé, Billie Eilish and Janelle...
...“In terms of the impact of globalisation and industrialisation, the nadir for Stoke was somewhere between 2005 and 2010,” says Tristram Hunt, director of London’s V&A museum and author of The Radical Potter...
...On TikTok, #grandpacore — a trend describing clobber synonymous with seniors, such as V-neck novelty knits, pleat-front trousers and tweed blazers — has had almost 16mn views....
...I think a lot of people were anticipating a V-shaped recovery . . . People are now waking up the realisation that volatility is going to be normal going forward.”...
...You have to wonder, though, what Jack Nicholson, picked by Stanley Kubrick for his unrealised biopic, would have sounded like....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...Von der Leyen and Sunak made the announcement in front of a portrait of King George V, who inaugurated Northern Ireland’s parliament in 1921 with an appeal for unity....
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...Johnson did not deny he had told other ministers he was prepared to “privatise the arse off” underperforming public bodies....
...The event was attended by Boris Johnson for around 30 minutes and was planned in advance, with staff invited to the event via an email from Reynolds....
...(WSJ) — Dominic Cummings unloads on Boris and Carrie Johnson. (Unherd) — The Bank of England attempts to predict financial crises with a neural net....
...David Cameron, the former prime minister who earned millions of pounds as a boardroom adviser to the controversial financing firm, told Zahawi via text in 2020 that he had been “v helpful” with Greensill...
...But Stokes’ leadership has been obvious; Prince Hal transformed into Henry V at a succession of Agincourts....
...Albert Johnson spearheaded racist legislation that closed America’s doors to Asians and eastern Europeans for decades. Better known American figures also come off badly....
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