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...“We must not let in daylight upon magic,” wrote the constitutionalist Walter Bagehot....
...Martin Ford, ‘The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment’ (2015) Favourite: Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson....
...John le Carré took months to construct the opening of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974)....
...The other was John Currin, whose titillating “Nice ’n Easy” (1999) had been estimated between $7mn and $10mn. In 2016, this work sold for $12mn....
...Beijing Rules: China’s Quest for Global Influence by Bethany Allen (John Murray/Harper) An eye-opening chronicle of the multiple ways in which China’s Communist party seeks to exert its power abroad....
...A further item — Roxanna Panufnik’s Coronation Sanctus — harked back to the coronation of King Charles III in May....
...Clothes can’t be anonymous,” says French-Turkish designer Burc Akyol, 35, who trained under John Galliano at Dior and Nicolas Ghesquière at Balenciaga before launching his eponymous label in 2019....
...In Rob Howell’s set the chintzy B&B bedroom becomes a hellish prison, a humble cushion a horror....
...The funeral of the late Queen Elizabeth II and the accession of King Charles III have been planned in detail over several decades....
...He has co-written the series with Alice Nutter with whom he previously collaborated on Trust, about the abduction of John Paul Getty III. “Our mindsets have changed,” says Nutter....
...Jacinda Ardern, prime minister of New Zealand, Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese, Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro, Italy’s president Sergio Mattarella and Frank-Walter Steinmeier, president of...
...The governor-general, Sir John Kerr, saw it as a constitutional crisis which necessitated an election....
...John Ray III, the current CEO of bankrupt crypto exchange-cum-prop trading firm FTX, wrote to the Delaware bankruptcy court in November: “Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate...
...The most colourful lines came from John Ray III, FTX’s court-appointed chief executive, who trashed SBF’s management in a lengthy testimony before Congress....
...Married to a then more acknowledged artist, John Hultberg, and latterly reclusive, Drexler’s relative obscurity was the same old story, says Sukanya Rajaratnam, partner at Mnuchin....
...J Ray III, a restructuring specialist who oversaw the Enron and Nortel Networks bankruptcy cases....
...An early find for John Arnold, co-founder of A&B, was Pierre-Yves Colin, a grower in Chassagne-Montrachet who was ignored at first by France’s wine-writing establishment but is now revered....
...Boy soprano Walter Russell III sang the child Blow, lightish baritone Will Liverman the adult....
...Its popularity dates to a best-selling 1932 self-help book of that title by a curious American academic called Walter B Pitkin....
...Elizabeth I (45 years on the throne), George III (almost 60 years) and Victoria (almost 64 years) all presided over periods of national and imperial expansion....
...John.Plender@ft.com...
...All the expressive force of a body in tension is distilled into the fragment, studded with the pressure of the kneading, pummelling hand, in “Study for Torso of John the Baptist”....
...On Tuesday morning in London, Brent prices had softened back towards $68/b....
...Talent and studio executives have been fighting over pay since before Louis B Mayer. But for a disagreement to become so public is rare....
...In the New Yorker, John Cassidy makes the point that the stimulus bill is positively Keynesian, a major shift for a Democratic president after decades of Third Way centrism....
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