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...The French mezzo-soprano Gaëlle Arquez is the titular heroine; Belgian conductor René Jacobs leads the B-Rock Orchestra....
...February 10 to April 6; further information here Jazz in the Gardens, Hard Rock Stadium One of the world’s key live jazz and R&B festivals returns for its 17th edition, with soul, funk, Afrobeats and gospel...
...August 16 to 25; further information and tickets here September Festival Golden Days An annual cultural festival that works across disciplines and mediums to explore what it calls the “B-side” of history...
...Spoken word, folk, hip hop and R&B are placed alongside traditional opera....
...Origin Coffee is cool too, a like-minded B Corp-certified business with its own roastery. With my children, aged four, seven and 14, we’ll go to a feast night at Nancarrow, a family-run working farm....
...He also had a vintage Alanda coffee table by Paolo Piva – a new version of which is made by B&B Italia (from $2,318)....
...I realised that a) I don’t have a brain for this, and b) I should just not have any investments in anything that requires me checking on a phone, because I become obsessed with it.”...
...Dear reader, Ex-bankers tend to look back on their careers in the following ways: a) with wry affection, b) with incredulous trauma, or c) both....
...That’s because he owns B shares, which have 50 per cent of the voting rights despite his family holding company only owning a 9.1 per cent stake....
...Amanda Kay Wong is our engineer. Music composition by Pascal Wise. Fact-checking by Andrea Lopez Casado. Our executive producers are Cheryl Brumley and Jacob Goldstein....
...“They don’t like having to explain to their kids what they do,” said Kay McCall, a former private equity energy investor who now heads the non-profit Renewable Energy Alliance....
...In the New Yorker, John Cassidy makes the point that the stimulus bill is positively Keynesian, a major shift for a Democratic president after decades of Third Way centrism....
...Alice B-B travelled as a guest of The Blonde Hedgehog (blondehedgehog.com), from £230....
...Kolodko, I.B. Tauris, RRP$21.66/£16.09 The rise of China is the greatest political and economic event of our era....
...In the ‘worse case’ where they lose sales of €1bn, gross margin & EBIT margin would decline (Scenario B). In both cases, EPS would be below ‘21/’22 consensus of €0.29/€0.33....
...This FT is no relation to Forrest Tucker the 1950s B-movie star, whom we old men without guns remember from The Abominable Snowman (1957) and such....
...Catherine Haddon of the Institute for Government outlines the ways in which the UK parliament is taking back control of the Brexit process What you’ve been saying Landed with the bill, letter from Peter B...
...We booked into Chilvers’ favourite B&B, Lince Casa Rural, with antique, sun-bleached chairs, a beautiful library and bedroom windows flung open to the sound of hooves and stables below....
...Wurtz, Lily van der Stokker, Kay Rosen, Lisa Beck and Nancy Shaver....
...“I didn’t want to see normal, everyday life in metric,” Mr Norman shrugged, as his wife and accomplice, Kay, served tea and carrot cake....
...John Kay is an FT columnist. His latest book, “Other People’s Money — Masters of the Universe or Servants of the People?”...
...You will know when this happens, because the discovery can be identified as being a) happy, b) high value, c) surprising and d) unintended....
...restriction as they can on Palestinians in Area C to keep as much land as possible for settlement expansion, so they can cynically manipulate the planning regime,” says Sarit Michaeli, a spokeswoman for B’...
...Today, I do not really want a phone in my pocket — to remember and carry it is a nuisance — but I do want to be able to talk to friends and colleagues, read books, find my way from A to B and share photographic...
...B: My wife works. I can’t imagine we’d both become unemployed. LO: I can....
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