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...The book follows Larry Devlin, a Californian who became a CIA station chief in Léopoldville, now Kinshasa....
...Age of the City: Why Our Future Will Be Won or Lost Together by Ian Goldin and Tom Lee-Devlin (Bloomsbury Continuum) “In 1800,” note Oxford’s Goldin and The Economist’s Lee-Devlin, “there were 1bn humans...
...Theatre (Lyttelton), London There are fireworks and fights aplenty in The Motive and the Cue, but the image that lingers from Jack Thorne’s brilliant, compassionate new play is of two household names, John...
...Initially, the visitor experience, which opened in 2012, was seen as “dark tourism”, acknowledges manager Phelim Devlin....
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...Pitzhanger also hosts a brilliant range of contemporary art exhibitions featuring artists like Anish Kapoor, Es Devlin and Rana Begum. This March, they open an exhibition of work by Anthony Caro....
...Three years ago, as boss of London-based energy firm InfraStrata, John Wood bought the company out of receivership for £6mn....
...Around her everyone else is scorched in the blaze: her mild husband Hugo (Paul Chahidi, quite brilliant), her well-meaning son-in-law (John Macmillan), her alienated daughter (Mackenzie Davis) and son (Archie...
.... ★★★★☆ To November 5, nationaltheatre.org.uk; in cinemas from January 26, ntlive.com John Gabriel Borkman Bridge Theatre, London Henrik Ibsen’s 1896 play John Gabriel Borkman takes us to Norway where...
...John Devlin Dublin, Ireland...
...I love the FT Weekend and read it most Saturdays, but John Gapper’s article on viticulture, climate change and the French compelled me to write (“Climate change tastes bitter to winemakers”, Opinion, FT...
...john.gapper@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Don’t mistake ‘froideur’ for climate complacency / From Janette Devlin, London SE13, UK...
...chris.giles@ft.com Letter in response to this article: For Ireland, Brexit is a time-consuming mess / From John Devlin, Dublin, Ireland...
..."When you are working from home, you use the products we sell more intensively,” said John Roberts, AO’s chief executive....
...But chairman Roger Devlin said that the company had “a clear duty to act to address this issue”....
...Musician Pharrell Williams and stage designer Es Devlin discuss technology and the need to elevate black entrepreneurs; Tilda Swinton, Edward Enninful and National Portrait Gallery director Nicholas Cullinan...
...“This is not the backdrop we would have wished as a newly independent company,” chief executive John Foley remarked as M&G reported a fall in pre-tax profit last month....
...CVC Credit Partners has hired John Empson as a partner and co-head of private credit, and Miguel Toney as a partner on the private credit team....
...At the start of this new musical adaptation of John Carney’s 2016 coming-of-age film, the teenage hero Conor (Brenock O’Connor) is removed from his private Jesuit school due to a downturn in his family’s...
...He was replaced by John Walden, a US citizen who previously ran Argos owner Home Retail Group before it was bought by J Sainsbury....
...The curious pairing of minimalist John Pawson and maximalist Es Devlin — known for her extravagant stage designs — produced an elegantly restrained design for St John at Hackney (with Thomas Ford & Partners...
...The staging is dominated by a looming globe, designed by Es Devlin, in which panels open to reveal mini-scenes and on to which striking projections are played....
...There are rich costumes (Catherine Zuber), updated to the mid-19th century (no great harm), but the principal impact is made by Es Devlin’s sliding panels bearing “rooms” of what looks like translucent glass...
...It’s a low-key, rather unfocused piece, which holds it back, but it’s lifted by fine performances in John Tiffany’s fluent production, not least from Lesley Sharp as the firebrand of a mother, and David...
...Created with John Marsden, professor of addiction psychology at King’s College London, it explores how visual cues can influence our behavioural patterns....
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