Hints and tips:
...Michael Stott’s Global Insight column “Latin America beats the world at trading insults, but not trade” (Opinion, April 11), about the rather blunt language used by Latin American heads of state, was amusing...
...Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy was blunt when he addressed G7 leaders this week. “Russia hopes only for one thing: that next year the free world’s consolidation will collapse....
...Take a break from the news Pop’s most famous Household Cavalryman, James Blunt, returns with his new album Who We Used to Be, an emotive project full of efficiently assembled heartfelt clichés....
...Armitage, Lubaina Himid and Kerry James Marshall....
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...“I’ll be blunt, it’s failed.” He was also pessimistic about the course of the war, saying, “I’m not sure it’s winnable anymore.”...
...And Bob Dylan, James Brown, The Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson and, once you factor in who they inspired in turn, well, yes, “everything” is pretty much the size of it....
...Kelleher was more blunt. “It’s a historic day, and a day we hoped would not come,” he said....
...It’s a novel-length tale that serves as both billet-doux and poison pen letter to a medium — comics — in which Alan Moore, as the writer of such seminal works of graphic fiction as Watchmen, V for Vendetta...
...Its most powerful executive, Michael Milken, pitched “high-yield” bonds as an attractive alternative to debt issued by safer, investment-grade companies....
...Another portrait, from the court of James I, depicts Dudley, 3rd Baron North in an all-black outfit featuring a doublet and breeches that billow out....
...Thomas recalls a prize he won in the ’90s, for which the trophy was a selection of Michael Harding paints, which was presented by Harding....
...Volodymyr Zelensky’s message was blunt. Western businesses must leave Russia immediately “because it is flooded with our blood”, the Ukrainian president told the US Congress last week....
...This exhibition at the V&A invites us into the opulent world of master goldsmith Carl Fabergé and his London clientele....
...For Michael Kors, one of fashion’s greatest showmen, the shutdown was felt especially acutely....
...The EMA is conducting a rolling review of Sputnik V but has yet to authorise it for use across the bloc....
...It is not the mural of the nondescript, beautiful woman delicately holding a blunt from which a cloud of smoke arises spelling the word “community”....
...Mark WakefieldManaging Director, Walton St James Knut WyldeGeneral Manager, The Berkeley Ninai ZarachFounder, Manicomio and Canto Corvino...
...Reach out to us at imani.moise@ft.com or sid.v@ft.com....
...“The bumper sticker would say, we’re past the V,” says Michael Gapen, chief US economist at Barclays, referring to the shape of the recovery since the shocking collapse last year....
...Holding, the pundit, offers blunt opinions without bombast....
...Fifty years ago, on July 4 1971, Michael S Hart typed the text of “The Declaration of Independence” into a Xerox Sigma V mainframe at the University of Illinois....
...Linas Linkevicius, Lithuania’s foreign minister, also expressed shock at Bandarenka’s death, and condemned Mr Lukashenko’s regime for its “astonishing cynicism, cruelty . . . and blunt ignorance of people...
...Michael Mina, a Harvard assistant professor of epidemiology, also contributed...
...JacobsProfessor of Political Economy, University of Sheffield Ronan PalmerDirector Clean Economy, E3G Dirk EhntsPufendorf-Gesellschaft Berlin e.V....
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