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...During the V&A’s recent Gabrielle Chanel exhibition, London-based caterer Rocket organised a series of corporate events inspired by the show....
...In reality, “a lot of them ended up at the V&A”....
...From the lay-offs to the management cutting budgets for projects. The quality of meals in the cafeteria declined, and they stopped providing snacks and drinks.”...
...But, of course, there’s a reason why it’s widely called Shitibank; the sprawling, gormless Citi has for a v v v very long time proven adept at blithely ambling onto various rakes around the world....
...Some stripped off their clothes and lay against the cool of the grass, others wandered through the flowers....
...Herein lay one of the conflicts of late-Victorian Britain’s view of itself, which not even the fruity depths of the Christmas pudding could fudge forever....
...To my right lay Bosch and van der Weyden. Past the Flemish and Netherlandish galleries beckoned the luminous panels and cryptic gestures of the Gothic art section....
...Jellicoe wanted each V to make a different note as the water flowed over it: the lower down the cascade, the lower the note....
...But for those who want to dig deeper, we have published below the underlying court documents that lay out the issues in more granular detail....
...Last week, a verdict was passed down in the case of Walkers Snack Foods Ltd v Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, with first-tier tribunal judges Anne Fairpo and Sonia Gable ruling against...
...As always, drop your story ideas to me at sid.v@ft.com and have a great week....
...With an array of elegant 18th-century furniture (some on loan from the V&A), books, fittings and works by Gainsborough and his contemporaries, the rooms exude a quiet domesticity....
...Email me your thoughts at sid.v@ft.com. Latest news Amy Kazmin in Rome has a fascinating piece on why Giorgia Meloni is pushing back on Italy’s shift to digital payments....
...As always you can reach me at sid.v@ft.com....
...She was dressed elegantly in a V-neck white linen blouse, white trousers and a pair of trainers. But the signs of her injuries were everywhere....
...Ganieva met with prosecutors in 2021 to lay out her allegations....
...When we finally sat down together in a desolate KFC, as he picked at fried chicken, I noticed a strange chemical smell on his breath that I couldn’t quite identify....
...Just as war often proves to be an incubator of innovation, lay-off rounds provide a unique insight into the latest developments in the world of corporate comms....
...Li feared the worst, but the ticket collector merely waved him through, signalling his support for the protesters by making a V sign with his hand and smiling....
...Starbucks and Yum China, the local owner of the KFC and Pizza Hut brands, are among the multinational groups warning of falling sales as President Xi Jinping’s unwavering zero-Covid policy erodes consumer...
...Even among Tory voters the positive differential has nearly halved, shrinking from around plus-44 to (67 ‘well’ v 23 ‘badly’) in January 2020 to plus-23 (58 ‘well’ v 35 ‘badly’) today....
...She lays out why the end of Roe has been coming. She explains how we got here and what’s at stake....
...The artist charged with putting V-A-C on the map is Iceland’s Ragnar Kjartansson....
...We slept nine mandatory hours in a lay-by in “the corridor”, the Calais-Dunkirk road, muttering about being held legally responsible for refugees hiding in trucks....
...The keyword here is “serious”, because a lack of seriousness is the charge that business, often in private, most frequently lays at the door of Number 10....
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