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High Speed Two Ltd
HS2 faces more delays and cuts as UK government seeks to rein in costs
...Mark Harper, transport secretary, last week met John Glen, chief secretary to the Treasury, to discuss plans to cut billions of pounds from the department’s capital budget after 2025....
February 7, 2023
News updates from October 27: IDF expands Gaza ground operations, Fed’s preferred inflation gauge hits 2-year low
Farage describes review of his accounts closure as ‘a whitewash’
...Farage, a prominent pro-Brexit politician, said law firm Travers Smith took a “very mealy-mouthed approach to this complex issue”....
October 27, 2023
FT Live
Inside Politics: who will win the UK general election?
Exclusively for FT subscribers
Wednesday, 8 MayDigital Conference
UK society
Falling birth rate highlights UK’s demographic challenges
...This has “broader national public policy” implications explained Travers....
August 17, 2023
News in-depthUK economy
Can towns fund arrest decades of decline of UK provinces?
...It focused on rebuilding the downtown areas and letting the wealth spread outwards from there,” Travers added....
October 25, 2023
Due Diligence
The final Credit Suisse postmortem
...Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has hired Travers Smith’s Katie McMenamin as a partner in its fund finance practice, based in London....
December 20, 2023
News in-depthVisual investigation
Did Israel bomb a civilian evacuation route in Gaza?
...Additional reporting by John Reed in Jerusalem....
October 15, 2023
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
Due Diligence
Ken Griffin’s $16bn profit-palooza Premium content
...She joins from Travers Smith. Goodwin has hired Jacqueline Eaves as a partner in its private equity and private funds practices, based in London. She joins from Kirkland & Ellis....
January 24, 2023
News in-depthUK local elections
Can the Conservatives hold on to their flagship London council?
...“Wandsworth looks tough for the Tories to hold on to,” said Sir John Curtice, professor of politics at the University of Strathclyde....
May 3, 2022
News in-depthUK economy
Johnson’s interventionist approach to industry defies election vow
...Travers said the interventions were taking place against the context of a much bigger state with higher taxes....
December 1, 2021
HS2
Johnson’s revised rail plan faces backlash in northern England
...Letter in response to this article: Green public mass transit requires active government backing / From John Miles and Mark Carne...
November 18, 2021
News in-depthLondon mayoral election
Sadiq Khan bucks national trend as Labour set to dominate in London
...But London, for years a barometer of voters’ mood, “has shifted towards being a Labour city”, according to Tony Travers, director of the London School of Economics’ London research group....
April 30, 2021
FT SeriesSummer Food & Drink special
The woman who revolutionised home-made ice-cream
...In 2003, Travers landed a job as pastry chef at St John Bread and Wine. The first ice cream she made there was fresh mint....
May 30, 2020
HTSI
When does a fabric swatch fetch £8,750? When it’s by Omega Workshops
...In 2018, the house sold a gramophone cabinet painted by Grant – and owned by economist John Maynard Keynes – for £62,500; a chest of drawers painted by Fry went for £32,500 in 2013....
September 25, 2020
ReviewFilm
XY Chelsea — a documentary about Chelsea Manning that can’t make up its mind
...XY Chelsea, a documentary by Tim Travers Hawkins, can’t seem to decide. Treachery? Courage? Moral and social contract bravely honoured? Patriotism unforgivably betrayed?...
May 22, 2019
News in-depthHS2
Boris Johnson’s HS2 gamble sends signal on levelling-up
...Tony Travers, professor in the school of public policy at the London School of Economics, said the plans had the ring of compromise about them....
February 11, 2020
FT Live
Financial Adviser Service Awards 2024
Who gives you 5 star service?
Thursday, 21 NovemberNatural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
UK politics
HS2 decision to be delayed until after general election
...The Oakervee review’s 10-member panel included Andy Street, the mayor of Birmingham and an HS2 supporter, as well as John Cridland, the former director-general of the CBI, Tony Travers, a transport economist...
November 3, 2019
HS2
UK government launches review into HS2 railway
...Cridland, civil engineer Michèle Dix and academics Tony Travers and Stephen Glaister....
August 21, 2019
ReviewNon-Fiction
Mad, Bad and Dangerous by Colm Tóibín — like father, like son
...In Wilde Senior’s case, the libel action — brought by Mary Travers, a patient and family friend, against his wife Jane — also involved a claim that Sir William had drugged and raped Travers....
November 16, 2018
FT Books Essay
What can kids’ books teach the post-Harry Potter generation?
...Mary Poppins, by PL Travers, for example, can be seen as pro-hippie and anti-capitalist. Edith Nesbit, author of The Railway Children, founded the Fabian Society....
August 30, 2019
Film
‘She’s kind of a superhero’: Emily Blunt on playing Mary Poppins
...He lives at 17 Cherry Tree Lane with his three children: Annabel, John and Georgie (Pixie Davies, Nathanael Saleh and Joel Dawson, respectively)....
December 13, 2018
UK local elections
Conservatives ‘to fall to record low’ in London at local elections
...Mr Travers said it was “rare” for a party of national government to still dominate local government eight years after coming to power....
March 19, 2018
UK outsourcing
Fall of Carillion should herald end of outsourcing, says Corbyn
...“Most people in Britain are endlessly using contracted-out services without really noticing it,” said Tony Travers, a professor at the London School of Economics....
January 17, 2018
International tax
Queen’s offshore investments revealed in document leak
...John McDonnell, the UK’s shadow chancellor, on Monday declined to single out the Queen for criticism. But he said the documents had revealed “widespread, massive tax avoidance”....
November 6, 2017
Property sector
Businesses face ‘astronomical’ rise in rates bills
...Tony Travers, an expert on local government at the London School of Economics, blamed the imbalance on political pressures....
February 13, 2017
The Big ReadJohn Gapper
Grenfell: the anatomy of a housing disaster
...“Nothing in this country is more riddled with layers of history and ideology than housing,” says Tony Travers, a professor at the London School of Economics....
June 29, 2017

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