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...We had help this week from Joanna Kao, Josh Gabert-Doyon, Breen Turner, David da Silva, Michael Lello, Peter Barber and Gavin Kallmann. Our executive producer is Topher Forhecz....
...The last items I added to my wardrobe were two pairs of Dior Birkenstocks – one black, one grey felt – that were a gift from Kim Jones....
...literature to word of mouth, historian Robert Darnton’s new book The Revolutionary Temper provides a very fine account of how 18th-century Parisians received and interpreted public events, writes Tony Barber...
...I’m all the happier to fill in for Tony Barber this week....
...Institute for International Political Studies tony.barber@ft.com...
...They mention, for example, Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un....
...Hair, Charlie Brock at Goodmans barbers using Uppercut Deluxe. Photographer’s assistant, Robin Bernstein. Digital operator, Luke Bennett. Fashion assistant, Mitja Olenik....
...Times editorship from 1967 to 1981, Evans pioneered hard-hitting investigative journalism that produced a string of world class scoops: the Bloody Sunday killings in Northern Ireland, the unmasking of Kim...
...Proprietor Simon Kim of Cote told me that the meal boxes “have blown up” and the product will be part of the business after Covid has passed....
...Tony Barber is the FT’s Europe editor Books of the Year 2019 FT commentators, critics and guests select the titles of the year that you need to read. Explore the series here....
...“With the decrease in community transmission, [Singapore] will progressively ease the tighter circuit breaker measures over the coming weeks,” said Gan Kim Yong, Singapore’s health minister, in reference...
...Everyone is on camera all the time, but the barber is the one who knows and loves it....
...Kim’s gift to North Korea was Juche thought, usually rendered in English as “self-reliance”....
...Tony Barber is the FT’s Europe commentator For a look at the best summer books across genres, go to ft.com/summerbooks2019 Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...Her novel, Kim Ji-young, Born 1982, has become one of South Korea’s most popular, selling more than 1m copies since it was published four years ago....
...diplomacy Late last month, Michael Kovrig, a former diplomat who was working for International Crisis Group, a think-tank, and Michael Spavor, a North Korea focused entrepreneur with personal ties to Kim...
...North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said last week that his country would deal a “serious blow” to those imposing sanctions, according to state media agency KCNA....
...Sign up here with one click The first designers he hired were Ed Barber and Jay Osgerby....
...Here’s who else will be there, including Angela Merkel, who recently spoke to departing FT editor Lionel Barber (find his own exit interview below)....
...One barber offered free haircuts to anyone willing to sport the styles of Mr Trump and Mr Kim. Mr Kim held bilateral meetings with Vietnam’s leaders on Tuesday....
...missile launch Pyongyang fired two missiles early on Wednesday, just days before US and North Korean officials are scheduled to hold denuclearisation negotiations for the first time since Donald Trump and Kim...
...The list includes JPMorgan vice-chairman Noah Wintroub, Goldman chief executive David Solomon and partner Kim Posnett, as well as Skadden partner Ryan Dzierniejko....
...“I feel that I must personally have a face-to-face talk with chairman Kim Jong Un and both of us must be ready to break the shell of mutual distrust,” he said....
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