Hints and tips:
...Facing oblivion Next the bank turned to longtime executive Thomas Gottstein to steer the bank out of the crisis. But within a year, the wheels fell off spectacularly....
...And the young Deas, recently appointed fellow of All Souls College, Oxford university, was buzzing with the adventures he had read about in Joseph Conrad’s masterpiece Nostromo, set in the fictional South...
...(A better glimpse of Mandelstam’s magic is provided by the just-published edition of Tristia, translated into English by my friend Thomas de Waal.)...
...That heady interface between Instagram, TikTok and other platforms, mastered by the students I teach at John Cabot University and NABA, is not our language....
...Sharon White will step down as chair of John Lewis and Waitrose in 2025....
...The client turned out to be a Swiss fund controlled by John Magnier, owner of the racehorse breeding operation Coolmore Stud and one of Ireland’s wealthiest men....
...Earlier this year, it emerged he had been funding lavish vacations for Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas....
...Joseph Stalin annexed Bessarabia in 1940, lost it to the Romanians after the Nazi invasion of the USSR and then reannexed it in 1944....
...Thomas Pugh: Significant reform of the planning system....
...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....
...“Price is essential,” says Thomas Zabel of Savills in Berlin. “That is what the developers have to report to the banks who are funding [them].”...
..., Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett and Chief Justice John Roberts....
...Received letter of thanks from John Nicolay, Lincoln’s private secretary”....
...The broker was dealer Joseph Duveen, who recognised in American new money and European Old Masters a marriage made in heaven, especially when the new-world economy boomed and British aristocrats buckled...
...Instead, we get TV comedian Les Dennis, who needs to project more strongly as Sir Joseph Porter if he is to cut the mustard. John Savournin’s Captain Corcoran shows how it should be done....
...Thomas Pugh: Not in 2023, but it is likely to have to raise taxes further ahead....
..., the ambition of engineers like Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Joseph Bazalgette and liberal thinkers, as John Locke and Adam Smith — with not a peerage among them....
...The bicentenary of the death of John Keats falls today, and in a normal year, a new production of the play Lift Me Up, I Am Dying would have taken place in Rome, in the Keats-Shelley museum, located in the...
...A few years ago, the artist Thomas Thwaites tried to build a no-frills toaster....
...When I called up Vines to ask what had prompted this change of course, he referred to Thomas Kuhn’s theory of scientific revolutions....
...John Van Reenen: It will not....
...“We cannot make any predictions about how long this will last for,” said John Bason, finance director at Primark’s parent company Associated British Foods....
...The Amsterdam Gemengd Koor, an august choir of over 90 years’ standing, was giving its Easter performance of Bach’s St John Passion in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam’s leading concert-hall....
...A new book from Erica Heller, the daughter of Catch-22’s Joseph Heller, takes a similarly tasty premise as its starting point....
...now the military has been heavily focused on protecting the health of their own personnel and making sure the military takes care of its own,” said Joshua Michaud, an epidemiologist who lectures at the John...
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