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...He is stretched out on a bespoke sofa designed by Tyler Hays’ design brand BDDW in the airy sitting room of the Grade II-listed house....
...Questioned by MPs in November, secretary of state for levelling up Michael Gove admitted Whitehall’s “early warning system” for local government failure was “imperfect”....
...Founded by Geoff and Laura Souster in 1978 and relocated in 2004 to a Grade II-listed former coaching inn, the tailors has cut suits for clients including Eric Morecambe, Michael Bublé, Lenny Henry and James...
...James Detert, a professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, says evolution has hard-wired us not to deviate from our group....
...Michael Milken, who abhorred the limelight, oversaw the affair from the background....
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
...Revival only came with new-broom CEO Michael Eisner. In a graphic break with the past, the fairytale logo now took precedence above the founder’s signature....
...In 1953, a Britain still recovering from the trauma of the war was in desperate need of what the sociologists Edward Shils and Michael Young saw as “an act of national communion”, especially when its embodiment...
...With its black diamond-patterned flagstone floor, fireplaces, niches, pediments and busts by Flemish sculptor John Michael Rysbrack (including Sir Robert Walpole as a Roman in a toga), the Stone Hall would...
...Compared to the vast crowds and banks of flowers outside London’s Buckingham Palace, the tributes to Queen Elizabeth II in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh were noticeably more subdued....
...Its most powerful executive, Michael Milken, pitched “high-yield” bonds as an attractive alternative to debt issued by safer, investment-grade companies....
...“The Europeans post-World War II thought there would never be war on European soil again,” O’Neill said....
...James Walker, the managing director of Walkers Shortbread and Richard Walker, (no relative) the chief executive of frozen-food chain Iceland, are both knighted for their services to the food industry....
...Hill also enlisted photographer and art director James Harvey-Kelly to help create the brand’s modern visual identity....
...In this video, global China editor James Kynge and markets editor Katie Martin discuss whether opportunities in the country are worth the risks....
...James Rutherford, who also holds directorships at mining groups Centamin and Anglo Pacific, stepped down from the board last week....
...There is the ghost of colonialism too — the station was a pet project of King Leopold II. But the overriding sense is of a structure ecclesiastical in its splendour and scale....
...luxury property “A blue-plaque Belgravia mansion fit for a prime minister” is how Luxury London magazine described its July 2021 property of the month, which was once home to Stanley Baldwin and Henry Ford II...
...Michael Wolfson, a partner at Simpson Thacher, said he believed growing retail participation “might increase the costs of soliciting proxies and might delay some stockholder meetings”....
...Take New Bond Street to the corner of Bruton Street and admire the Time & Life Building (Michael Rosenauer, 1951-3), which integrates reliefs by Henry Moore on its Bond Street façade....
...Yale, RRP$28/£20, 304 pages China’s Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism, by Rana Mitter, Harvard, RRP$27.95/£22.95, 336 pages James Kynge is the FT’s global China editor Join our online...
...She was awarded this year’s Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design in a virtual ceremony....
...James Morris was born in Somerset in 1926, to a Welsh father and English mother....
...(ii) For the average citizen, I expect them to feel the same as today....
...A ‘golden age’ The upmarket London district of Mayfair — once an area of muddy fields before King James II gave permission in 1686 for an annual fair to take place in May — has long been synonymous with...
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