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...products and rococo art to the beginnings of a children’s museum, a mission which was concretised by V&A director Roy Strong in the early 1970s....
...When Lily Jones, aka Lily Vanilli, was thinking how to mark 15 years of her East London bakery – which has made cakes for everyone from Elton John and Madonna to the V&A and 10 Downing Street – she knew...
...An analysis for Social Europe by Vít Dostál, executive director of the Prague-based Association for International Affairs Tony’s picks of the week Western countries plan much bigger defence budgets because...
...Expo Chicago, whose roots are in the first stateside international fair founded in 1980, has been revitalised since owner-director Tony Karman took over in 2012....
...I almost always discover exciting local artists and makers here, such as pottery from Very Less, whose berry bowl is now on my wishlist....
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...Some renowned portraitists, such as Jonathan Yeo, who has painted everyone from Dennis Hopper to Tony Blair, have been working via Zoom – opening up the sitting experience to a much wider audience....
...Think Tony Judt’s Postwar for South Asia....
...As the CBI boss Tony Danker said in a tough speech today, measuring the UK’s long-term prospects by the speed of the post-Covid bounceback — the upside of a V-shaped recovery — is kidding ourselves....
...“In normal circumstances, most weeks of the year, there would be an MIF show somewhere in the world,” says John McGrath, artistic director and chief executive....
...To Tories such as Sir John Hayes, leader of the so-called Common Sense Group, it has fed “an almost obsessive interest in slavery”....
...And the only way the show could continue that evening was if the director stepped in and took my place....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former Labour MP Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
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...Nigel Williams, project director of the North Sea Link for National Grid, sees it as the “perfect landing spot”....
...John Philpott, founding director of The Jobs Economist: The UK economy will recover in 2021 but at too slow a pace to enable GDP to return to the pre-pandemic level....
...Further reading Politics v policies The election has shaken up the Brexit conversation in the UK....
...Only Tony Fretton had assimilated that strain of European modernity in London (his Lisson Gallery from 1992 still looks fresh) and Caruso St John’s design for the New Art Gallery in Walsall seemed like a...
...But if you walk down it it’s often a wall of red steel because it is back-to-back buses,” said John Dickie, policy director at London First, the business group....
...Sir, As the leaders of opera companies and festivals around the world, we are alarmed by the recent questions that have arisen regarding English National Opera and its talented artistic director, John Berry...
...It depicts the era’s clubbers, ravers and hip-hoppers as special forces, tagged with the legend “It’s better not to rely too much on silent majorities . . . for silence is a fragile thing . . . one loud...
...Making Canada safe for John Maynard Keynes has helped Mr Trudeau combat the suggestions that he is an intellectual lightweight....
...At Dunhill, John Ray started with a stream of morning jackets, complete with top hats and the like....
...Tony Barber Science The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way It Is?...
...He introduces himself as Matt, and is a bundle of energy in a dark jacket, white shirt and a dark V-neck sweater, white flecks of stubble on his face....
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