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...surveillance drone, and Lockheed Martin’s F-35 stealth fighter jet — has risen from £763m to £1.4bn, according to Defence Analysis data....
...“If you go for sole source, where is your negotiation position,” said Francis Tusa, editor of Defence Analysis. “There is no rush to make a decision,” he added....
...Although Britain has a role in today’s F-35 fighter jet programme — BAE Systems holds a 15 per cent stake and makes the rear fuselage section in Lancashire — it is led by America’s Lockheed Martin....
...The Obama Foundation (which received $1m in 2018) in Chicago is another major client, as is Washington’s John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts....
...asked Francis Tusa, editor of Defence Analysis. “There is no rush to make a decision,” he added....
...Celebration time Female supporters of opposition party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf shout slogans during a rally in Islamabad, Pakistan, to celebrate the removal of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Head of state...
...Related links: The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama – Guardian review, have a ctrl-f for “tyranny of cousins” In defence of cows as safe assets – FT Alphaville What exactly is in those Bible-based...
...The rise of the cosmopolitan metropolis, swollen by immigrants, produced the Populist party of the 1890s, led by Thomas E Watson, champion of the agrarian poor....
...Sydney Guilaroff, that’s G-U-I-L-A-R-O-F-F” — she has done a lot of this spelling out (I’ve spared you) although politely corrected more than once that we’re doing radio not print — “made our hair look great...
...More recent politics are reflected in a Sean Keating tableau from the Irish war of independence, and F.E....
...F. E. Wright, Monaco...
...… The Tupac Amaru Rebellion, by Charles F Walker, Harvard, RRP£22.95/$29.95 The Tupac Amaru rebellion began in the Spanish viceroyalty of Peru in 1780 and turned into the largest popular uprising in...
...However Francis Brooke, manager of the Trojan Capital Fund, swears there is another must read for the list....
...This volume spans 1958 to 1964, giving an unmatched psychological portrait of Johnson as John F Kennedy’s assassination catapults him into the presidency....
...One of his biggest regrets is not going for a Francis Bacon painting – his “dream” possession – when they were still relatively affordable....
...PhotoEspaña, www.phe.es/festival Visa pour l’Image, www.visapourlimage.com Noorderlicht, www.noorderlicht.com ParisPhoto, www.parisphoto.fr African Encounters in Bamako, www.universes-in-universe.de...
...In 2004 researchers at the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson air force base kept F-117 pilots awake for 37 hours and gave them the active agent in Provigil, modafinil....
...Works by Francis Newton Souza - who died a pauper - now easily fetch £50,000, more than 10 times their 2000 prices....
...This month alone two leading dealers, Nigel Bartlett, who specialises in chimney pieces, and continental furniture specialist O.F. Wilson, have sold off stock through Christie’s....
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