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...Email me at jonathan.moules@ft.com or, if you are reading this from your inbox, hit reply. One more thing . . . Musician Joni Mitchell turns 80 on Tuesday....
...February 28 to June 7; further information and tickets here National Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Hall World-renowned conductor Gianandrea Noseda — who is also the National Symphony Orchestra’s music director...
...The majority of Bishopston Hardware’s stock has to come form the same kinds of national and international producers that supply larger DIY stores....
...Lucy FisherI’m buying Jonathan Gullis, who in the past fortnight has been made deputy party chair....
...Separately, more than 1,000 Welsh Ambulance Service members of Unite the union begin a second 24-hour walk out over pay....
...So far, car parts and bike seller Halfords has been the only conspicuous profit warning — easily outnumbered by upgrades from peers including Next, JD Sports and B&M....
...US, the National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony in President’s Park, Washington US, President Joe Biden hosts the White House Tribal Nations Summit....
...“They recognised that they needed to be in good retail locations with car parks....
...Its 2.5 miles of civil service linoleum-lined, cream-painted corridors have been turned into an oak-panelled evocation of a gentleman’s club-cum-country house....
...October 22 is the 60th anniversary of the National Theatre in London’s first performance under the leadership of its first artistic director Laurence Olivier....
...The brand has restored forests and national parks in Italy, commissioned public art and helped launch a social cooperative to improve the prospects of young people. fondazionezegna.org...
...The success of BREIT is a matter of some pride inside 345 Park Avenue....
...Fitch gave Laos’ debt a B- rating and downgraded its outlook to negative in May....
...Separate reviews last year by Jonathan Hill, the former European commissioner for financial services, and Ron Kalifa, the former Worldpay chief executive, have led to more relaxed rules on dual-class share...
...Severed ties Nowhere is that identity crisis more apparent than in the hills rising above Tiverton towards Exmoor national park, where Johnson spent part of his childhood....
...Jagjit Chadha, director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR): It will be a very difficult year for households, particularly those at the lower end of the income distribution....
...services and provide an easy place for returns....
...Pre-pandemic hospitality was the third-largest industry in the private sector and was estimated to contribute £133.5bn to national gross domestic product and employed over 3.2m people — about 10 per cent...
...Accommodation service activities grew nearly 70 per cent as caravan parks and holiday lets picked up, with similar rates of expansion registered in personal service activities, such as hairdressing....
...“The very simple and powerful maths is that, fundamentally, there’s too much shopping space,” says Mike Prew, an analyst at financial services group Jefferies....
...John Van Reenen, School professor & director, POID, London School of Economics: Lag behind — the impact of Brexit (especially on services) will hold us back David Vines, Emeritus professor of Economics,...
...“Before Brexit, Britons could just rock up in France and start a B&B or run a gîte business. But now they will need a work visa, requiring a business plan proving viability,” she says....
...Garden centres also face competition from DIY stores, such as Homebase and B&Q that had already reopened many stores, supermarkets and from discounters such as Wilko and B&M....
...The woman responsible for the corporation’s film-making arm is its director Rose Garnett. We meet outdoors on a chilly day in London’s Holland Park. The pandemic soon turns the conversation to cinemas....
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