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...Final leading scores were Adams 7.5/9, Steven Jones 6.5, Dan Fernandez, Harry Grieve, Matthew Wadsworth and Yichen Han 6....
...“You still have some rock stars like [TCI’s] Chris Hohn, but there just aren’t many of him around anymore.”...
...However, this success masks the fact that there are just four active grandmasters — Michael Adams, Howell, Luke McShane and Gawain Jones — rated over 2600, the level of the world top 250, and all four are...
...Deutsche Bank has hired former Citi banker Alison Harding-Jones as global head of mergers and acquisitions, based in London....
...Founded in 2017 by former pastry chef Adam Cross, Ten Four Bakehouse is an independent, community-focused bakery....
...Vick is terrific, giving a firecracker of a performance in Jerry Zaks’s staging....
...For the rest of August, my wonderful colleagues Claire Jones and Chris Cook will keep Free Lunch going — I will be back in the saddle in September....
...England’s current team of Michael Adams, Luke McShane, David Howell and Gawain Jones are all over 30, and since the late 1990s no new players have got anywhere near a world top 100 ranking....
...At the entrance I find Greenough shuffling about in a V-neck cricket jumper and a marshal’s jacket....
...Visual journalism by Cleve Jones...
...Claire Jones will be back next week. Related reading Adam Tooze on international power dynamics in inflation....
...My favourite website is Vitsœ, a furniture company run by a friend of mine called Mark Adams. The website is just so cleanly done; I can’t fault it....
...You don’t have to go to the Ben & Jerry’s, so you don’t have to go to the Baskin-Robbins. You got Mister Softee, kids.” Matt Vella Oh, my god. That’s my queen. Lilah Raptopoulos I know....
...Michael Adams for Baden-Baden, Luke McShane for Werder Bremen, and Gawain Jones for Munich, all played the No1 board for their respective teams....
...V for Victory. With the Bank of England set to raise rates, the sooner the government gets its act together the better. Disagree? Thoughts in the usual place....
...There was Nigel Adams, minister without portfolio and Johnson’s chief fixer, Conservative party HQ’s Ross Kempsell, chief whip Chris Heaton-Harris and his aide Charlotte Owen....
...This is not just a recent phenomenon: Adam quotes Mark Jones, former director of London’s V&A, on Richard Wallace (1818-90), founder of the Wallace Collection, who “was an outsider, because of being illegitimate...
...The efforts of two companies that dominate the way the world smells are exacting, almost Willy Wonka-like, writes Sam Jones 5....
...England will be represented there by the No1, Michael Adams, and by one of David Howell, Gawain Jones and Luke McShane....
...The benchmark S&P 500 index closed up 0.3 per cent while the Dow Jones Industrial Average had risen 0.7 per cent....
...Guildford will field Michael Adams, David Howell, Luke McShane and Gawain Jones, effectively the England national team....
...McShane scored 7.5, Adams 7, and Gawain Jones 6.5, while the youngest and lowest ranked player, the Cambridge economics student Matthew Wadsworth, 20, totalled a promising 5/11....
...I’m also a big fan of the documentary essayists Chris Marker and Adam Curtis, whose latest series, Can’t Get You Out Of My Head, I’m currently enjoying on BBC iPlayer....
...Gareth Jones, an idealistic journalist, sets up in Moscow ready to believe in the Soviet experiment — until reality intrudes....
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