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...The mid 19th century saw the arrival of Italy’s big breweries — Peroni, Moretti, Poretti, Menabrea et al — as well as the grape phylloxera blight that drove demand for alternatives to wine....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...There’s not much precedent to support the idea that Shina et al can walk away based on a MAC clause: WPP was forced against its will to buy Tempus in 2001, Guy Hands couldn’t scrap a bid for East Surrey...
...on 400 years of opera, in partnership with London’s V&A museum....
...rate in the past quarter-century....
...At Wyeth, I always want to buy everything – it specialises in vintage, mid-20th-century, modernist furniture....
...“There’s less to fight for in LA,” she told me. As I looked around the room at Allen, Andy et al, I thought about how they fought for the cultural and political freedoms that we enjoy today....
...Shares in Viacom, owner of MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon, are down 30 per cent since mid-2015....
...Now it’s much more al desko.”...
...Serious Sweet, by AL Kennedy, Cape, RRP£17.99 Set over the course of a single day, and travelling from Piccadilly to Chiswick via Knightsbridge, AL Kennedy’s latest novel is an ambitious, perambulatory...
...I think right now the Uber situation is like the Teamsters and garburators in the mid-20th century. There’s no real argument to not have Uber drivers. They are superior to taxis in all possible ways....
...… All the Rage, by AL Kennedy, Jonathan Cape, RRP£16.99/ New Harvest, RRP$24 Billed as a set of love stories, Kennedy’s sparely written collection is more a study of the alienation, dismay and misery...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...DNA profiling has shown that Pignola Valtellinese and Pignolo from Friuli are completely distinct (Fossati et al. 2001; Salmaso et al. 2008)....
...“What’s great for a playwright is that they [Cromwell et al] were all at each other’s throats.” Intrigue is a recurrent theme....
...French et al, The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System (SLR), Princeton University Press, 2010....
...Inside it was furnished with antiques as if a mid-18th-century governor had been living there....
...Nick Hornby et al followed. Davies deserves this reissue under a new title....
...CAA’s dominance was briefly threatened in the mid-1990s when the founding partners began to leave....
...What Becomes By AL Kennedy Jonathan Cape, £16.99 Twelve stories from the manic mistress of comically vitriolic observation....
...colours inspired by the oriental palette known as famille rose. $3,800. www.skinnerinc.com v Pagoda figure Meissen Made by Meissen in the mid-19th century, this is the female half of a pair of “pagoda”...
...Lebanese designers Huda Baroudi and Maria Hibri of Bokja reclaim and restore mid-century furniture (which was very popular in Beruit during its heyday as the “Paris of the east”), recovering them in richly...
...began in the late 18th century but proved particularly popular in early and mid-19th century Victorian Britain....
...Tall-case clock Jacob Godshalk The long-case clock (known as a tall-case in the US) was developed in the mid-17th century....
...But we’ve gotten caught up in the political game in a way that’s just not healthy. It’s dividing our country in ways that are preventing us from meeting the challenges of the 21st century....
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