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...Britain’s cetaphobia, boosted by Thomas Hobbes, persisted into the modern age....
...A week after January 31, former Flagstar CEO Alessandro DiNello took over as NYCB’s executive chair, in effect superseding chief executive Thomas Cangemi....
...The Winding Stair by Jesse Norman Biteback £20, 480 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...King Charles III’s younger son has three parallel legal cases against newspapers claiming phone hacking and other illegal behaviour....
...is an FT contributing editor Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter Letters in response to this column: A Welshman takes issue with coronation coverage / From Iestyn Thomas...
...He was enticed, too, by the incredibly ornate wooden chimneypiece and cornicing, which recalls the delicately drawn Chippendale-style of master carver Thomas Johnson, stripped back by the property’s owner...
...It awards €50,000 annually and this year’s other bursary goes to the Neue Galerie in New York for Egon Schiele’s “Town among Greenery (The Old City III)” from 1917....
...The FT’s Helen Thomas dissected the move neatly this week. Unlike eighties rock goddess Bonnie Tyler, I can’t say I’m holding out for a (new) hero....
...He was the first Polynesian to visit England and became an instant celebrity, meeting King George III, attending the state opening of parliament and travelling the country with Joseph Banks....
...Cook (Baptist) and the “chemist to the nation” Jesse Boot (Methodist)....
...These include a 1705 clock by Thomas Tompion, the most prominent maker of his day, and a mahogany-encased barometer by George Adams from the time of George III....
...Inside the ‘fiefdom’ of Sam Bankman-Fried Sullivan & Cromwell partner James Bromley did not mince his words during FTX’s bankruptcy hearing on Tuesday....
...HMS Endeavour, captained by James Cook, followed the Dolphin two years later....
...Charles III, the new king, is known to be more of a polo fan. Transition is something of a theme in this edition of the newsletter....
...“This is certainly the most exciting Roman mosaic discovery in the UK in the last century,” said John Thomas, the lead archaeologist on the project....
...To be frank, that sounds like a James Bond screenplay where the writers are just phoning it in....
...More of Fairport Convention convened than would fit into one band, even with Simon Nicol marooned in Greece by the collapse of Thomas Cook: Ashley Hutchings and Dave Pegg, Dave Mattacks on drums....
...Economics & Business Thomas Piketty, the French economist whose 2013 book Capital in the Twenty-First Century fuelled the debate about growing inequality, returns with another weighty tome....
...Two other deals, both involving Thoma Bravo, played out in the same way. After that, the activist set out to build up its own capabilities under Cohn’s leadership....
...Incidentally, James Dyson tells me that former EU commissioner Napoleon III would have blocked Crapper’s products under an 1855 directive, and forced him to sell those French hole-in-the-floor jobbies instead...
...“No, he is named after the outlaw, Jesse James, and Frankie after his elder brother, Frank,” says Zeitz, in all seriousness. “I’m fascinated by the Wild West.”...
...The king created a cathedral from the monastery, and within this episcopal seat the body of Mary Queen of Scots was lowered on August 5 1587, before James I spirited her away to Westminster Abbey 25 years...
...In 1688, the British had a Dutch king — William III — who, with his wife Mary, had come to replace the reviled James II during the Glorious Revolution....
...The article also reveals how some chief executives discover their company is in play: a 4.30am text message from Jesse Cohn, the young Elliott Management executive who is shaking up the sector....
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