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...Bernard Arnault, chief executive of luxury goods brand LVMH, is second on the list with a personal fortune of $201bn, according to Forbes....
...With confirmation that global temperatures reached a new record in 2023 (Report, January 10), I am reminded of George Bernard Shaw’s observation that: “The longer I live, the more convinced I am that this...
...Bernard Aryeetey, international affairs director at WaterAid, a charity, said the government was creating a “death trap” for people in some of the most deprived parts of the world....
...Cates is one of eight MPs being investigated by the Standards Commissioner, alongside Dame Eleanor Laing, Commons deputy speaker, and veteran Tory Sir Bernard Jenkin. Cates was approached for comment....
...Tory MP Sir Bernard Jenkin attended a drinks event in parliament in December 2020 when London was in so-called Tier 2 restrictions and gatherings of more than six people were not allowed indoors, according...
...A grand Art Deco building, originally designed by architect Bernard George for the department store Derry & Toms in the early 1930s, it contained womenswear, menswear and childrenswear from the Biba brand...
...BAE Systems’ Charles Woodburn, and BP’s Bernard Looney were paid more than £10mn each, as was Albert Manifold, boss of CRH, which is moving its listing to the US....
...Taylor is less incisive on Orwell’s political writings than Bernard Crick in his combative 1980 biography....
...The committee’s first presidents were Gaston-Louis and Georges Vuitton,” Chiambaretta says, of the influence of luxury brands on the avenue....
...Smart reads Growing influence Billionaire Bernard Arnault’s luxury conglomerate LVMH is seeking to grow his stable of media assets, rivalling other tycoons such as Elon Musk in building a media empire,...
...Bernard Crick sets out these various letters in his masterful George Orwell: A Life....
...Philip Guston Tate Modern, London (to February 25) For its violent Ku Klux Klan imagery, Philip Guston was postponed following George Floyd’s murder and the surge of the Black Lives Matter movement....
...Sir Bernard Ingham, Thatcher’s former press secretary, said last year he “nearly had a fit” when he heard about Sunak’s homage to Lawson, asking: “Has the man gone mad?”...
...Bernard Ahkong, co-chief investment officer at UBS Asset Management’s hedge fund unit O’Connor, said: “We don’t want companies to boost dividends in an unsustainable fashion only to then have to cut them...
...The latest twist comes via Lucy Fisher and George Parker, who have dug up an embarrassing scoop for the government....
...“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton,” wrote George Bernard Shaw, “you may as well make it dance.”...
...Data visualisation by Steven Bernard and Patrick Mathurin...
...The title character of which George Bernard Shaw play is a female officer in the Salvation Army? Which of the UK’s four national patron saints was one of Jesus’ 12 apostles?...
...When Henry Higgins agreed to transform Eliza Doolittle from “guttersnipe” to “duchess” in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, his first command was a new wardrobe from Whiteley’s....
...George Moris never imagined that his teaching job on the picturesque Greek island of Santorini would force him to sleep in his car, crash on a colleague’s couch or spend the night in empty classrooms....
...When Picasso passed away in 1973, Bernard’s father, Paulo, inherited the estate. But just two years later, Paulo died, leaving Bernard, then only 14, at the helm....
...(Financière Agache, the family holding company of LVMH boss Bernard Arnault, was one of the main investors in the IPO.)...
...Bernard JenkinI know that but it’s what you said about it to the House of Commons is what matters. George ParkerYes....
...Sir Bernard Jenkin was among those to voice scepticism on the former prime minister’s justifications, at one point in the session stating: “I don’t think we agree with your interpretation of guidance.”...
...The critic Roger Ebert compared Sembène to George Bernard Shaw: “He made political films that didn’t seem political, and comedies that were very serious.”...
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