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...Vintage Yohji Yamamoto denim jeans, vintage Joseph corduroy bucket hat and vintage Drake’s silk tie, from stylist’s archive....
...FEBRUARY Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin (William Collins)The man who would be Britain’s next prime minister is put under the spotlight by a veteran Westminster political journalist in an authorised...
...Neither of the main parties has ever really predominated there, and as Vinen demonstrates, Joseph Chamberlain, the presiding spirit of Birmingham politics and the city’s shortlived mayor between 1873-76,...
...“Public funds play a key role in the success of the UK’s venture capital sector,” said Harriett Baldwin, Conservative MP and chair of the committee....
...The then director of the CIA Allen Dulles called Lumumba “a Castro or worse”, referring to the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro....
...Their new division, called Saatchi Yates Masters, will be run by Joseph Friedman, a former Sotheby’s senior director and an expert of more than 30 years experience....
...Inspired by Baldwin’s idea, the curators — Jayden Ali, Joseph Henry, Meneesha Kellay and Sumitra Upham — are, Kellay tells me, “aspiring to bask in the moonlight”....
...In Joseph Conrad’s novel Nostromo (1904), Charles Gould, the British proprietor of a Latin American silver mine, becomes dangerously dependent on his treasure....
...Paul Allen had much more art than Christie’s could offer in its recent two-day sale and works will continue to creep on to the market....
...Partly as a result of Joseph Chamberlain’s campaign to get the government to adopt tariffs, and partly because of Britain’s involvement in the Boer War — a foreign entanglement that, not for the first or...
...Lunch with friends My friend Ned Baldwin, whom I know from the North Fork of Long Island, is the chef and owner of Houseman, on Greenwich Street....
...I usually look at modern art or furniture auctions, as well as estate sales, such as Paul Allen’s recent one....
...The king’s speech was followed by an uncontroversial address by the new Congolese president, Joseph Kasavubu....
...Law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has hired Joseph Slights III, a former vice-chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery, as a member of its corporate governance practice in Wilmington, Delaware...
...The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty by Joseph Sassoon, Allen Lane £30, 448 pages Stefan Wagstyl is the FT’s Money and Wealth Editor Join our online book group on...
...For the persistent feature of Golden Ages — from our own ardour for the New Jerusalem solidarity of postwar Britain to prime minister Stanley Baldwin’s interwar summoning of a lost, bucolic England — is...
...Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe, by Ian Kershaw, Allen Lane £30/Penguin Press $30, 512 pages Philip Stephens is an FT contributing editor and author of ‘Britain Alone’...
...The Facemaker: One Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris, Allen Lane £20, 336 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...The warning, from foreign minister Joseph Wu, came as the People’s Liberation Army said it was extending joint air and naval exercises around Taiwan for a second day — they were originally scheduled to end...
...The former included Burgundy specialists such as Master of Wine Anthony Hanson, Allen Meadows (aka wine writer Burghound) and Linden Wilkie of The Fine Wine Experience who has recently moved from Hong Kong...
...UK ecommerce group THG has appointed former ITV chief Charles Allen as its new chair following the splitting of its executive chair and chief executive roles in October....
...The investigation was conducted by the law firm Allen & Overy working with EY auditors who had previously not been involved in the Wirecard account....
...There is COOKING by Peter Blake; a work by Joseph Kosuth featuring a chicken pecking at a KFC box; and a ceramic bowl by Urara Tsuchiya, commissioned by Pizarro’s psychotherapist fiancé, Peter, whose dome...
...Joseph Ritson, a Shakespeare critic, compiled what is still the fullest collection of the Robin Hood stories and legends....
...Now his influence can be seen in a new generation of designers such as Max Allen, Claire Barrow and Matty Bovan (with whom he’s collaborating on a capsule collection later this year) who share his passion...
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