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...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...
...But Malcolm Freeman, chief executive of Kingdom Futures, a brokerage, wrote on LinkedIn that it was “appalling and would never have happened pre-HKEX.”...
...As a result Malcolm Chalmers, RUSI’s deputy-director general, said defence spending would decline in real terms over the next three years....
...Over a half-century career, he has also worked with an unlikely array of collaborators, from Keith Haring to Pope John Paul II, Lady Gaga to Hello Kitty....
...The museum’s founder, Elias Ashmole, was a university astrologer who worked for Charles II....
...In 1999, staunch monarchist John Howard held a referendum on the issue, which returned a “no” vote....
...Rather they are reminiscent of Philip II of Spain, for whom ‘no experience of the failure of his policy could shake his belief in its essential excellence’.”...
...The Rolling Stones recorded their first album here, Elton John worked here and David Bowie lived in a van on the street....
...As the FT reported in 1976, John Read, the then chairman of EMI, predicted that the Sex Pistols would eventually become mainstream....
...Malcolm Barr, JPMorgan: For Scotland it creates narrow energy dependence and uncertainty....
...Malcolm Bruce, MP. Clive Callman, judge. Tony Cunningham, MP. Charles Dunstone, chairman, Carphone Warehouse. Peter Fahy, chief constable, Greater Manchester Police....
...Professor John van Reenen, Centre for Economic Performance: Abolish Help to Buy....
...JAR Paris Vol II , by Pierre Genet and Joel Arthur Rosenthal, JAR Vol II, RRP$800 In 2003, Rosenthal published the limited edition 10lb-plus JAR Paris....
...Malcolm Barr, JPMorgan: Many argued this time a year ago that weakness in output would generate a shakeout in employment given recent productivity performance, and were wrong....
...Malcolm Barr, JPMorgan: We tend to assume that there would be some transitional costs, but the UK would still be able to negotiate access to EU markets. As such, people should not worry too much....
...ii) Larger companies tend to be cash rich and are now generally able to raise funds from non-bank sources....
...John Muellbauer, Oxford University: 2013 is likely to prove less terrible than 2012....
...Malcolm Barr, JPMorgan: No. I have always puzzled as to why greater use of the financial ombudsman is not made....
...John Muellbauer, Oxford university: The BOE has very limited control over inflation....
...(ii) Pray for a recovery in the eurozone. Geoffrey Dicks, Novus Capital: As demand picks up, so will productivity. The need to do something about the young, unskilled, unemployed is paramount....
...After all, in 1966, when the writer and broadcaster Malcolm Muggeridge interviewed John Heenan, then Archbishop of Westminster, for a BBC documentary in this house, he referred to the prelate’s role as a...
...Malcolm Barr, JPMorgan: The problem was the lack of flexibility built into the plans: beyond automatic stabilisers, it always looked like the two fiscal objectives would significantly limit any ability...
...A four-acre site in the centre’s conservation area that had been a mix of grade II-listed buildings, scrappy gardens and car parking has been transformed to achieve just that goal....
...Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand, by Malcolm Daniel, Yale RRP£25 In the work of this seminal triumvirate of American artists, photography aped painting only to break through to its own language: lyrical yet...
...Pope John Paul II 95. Benjamin Disraeli 96. Josef Ackermann, CEO of Deutsche Bank 97. Nelson Mandela 98. Gough Whitlam, Australian PM, 1972-75 99. George W. Bush 100. Fidel Castro...
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