Hints and tips:
...A former teen tennis star, Duncan is injured and becomes a rich, successful coach instead....
...Indeed, Achilles levies it at Agamemnon in the very beginning of the poem. And Helen is not a bitch, a slut or a whore in Wilson’s Iliad....
...At a Brookings Institution event in September, Ryan called Moore v US a “misguided challenge” adding: “I’m not for a wealth tax, but I think if you use this as the argument to spike a wealth tax, you’re...
...A portrait of the bewhiskered duke — later George V — stares down at us....
...Puzzle 2532 Artur Davtyan v Vladislav Kovalev, Dubai 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Britain’s value-added tax regime slaps a 20 per cent levy on a large number of goods, but many foods are exempted. Recognised flapjacks are in this zero-rated group....
...June 20 to September 8; further information and tickets here ‘Naomi’, V&A South Kensington An ode to the life and work of supermodel Naomi Campbell....
...Andrew, the gambling minister, would not commit to a specific level for the levy....
...Other pieces are held by the V&A and the Courtauld Gallery in London. I knew all this because I had seen — and written about — a nearly identical bowl for the FT last year....
...Investors will be charged 2 per cent upfront and 0.4 per cent in annual management fees — comparable levies to those at conventional brokers on higher minimum investments....
...Sir Iain Duncan Smith, former Conservative leader, said the “political dial had shifted” after the exits from Downing Street of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, who both opposed a statutory levy....
...Thirty-six Conservative MPs, including former home secretary Priti Patel and former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, have in recent days thrown their weight behind the amendment led by backbenchers Miriam...
...In the V&A’s latest annual review he also referred to talks with Ghana around the V&A collection of Asante court regalia, including gold ornaments, rings and badges, which entered the collection following...
...The house has won prizes at the V&A Illustration Awards, as well as being recognised in the book trade for its bindings, production and indexing....
...Meanwhile, Sir Iain Duncan Smith, former Tory party leader, said: “I think they need to go further.”...
...Former Tory party leader Iain Duncan Smith, one of the five sanctioned MPs, said it was “astonishing” that China had been invited given its “huge record of human rights abuses”....
...Last month the chancellor said he feared the apprenticeship levy was not doing enough to “incentivise business to invest in the right kinds of training”....
...A vibrant, generous dramatisation of Andrea Levy’s great 2004 novel, it begins by making you smile and ends by breaking your heart. Part of the genius of Levy’s novel is its narrative style....
...As ever, reach out to Imani (imani.moise@ft.com) and me (sid.v@ft.com) with your thoughts, suggestions and comments. We’ll be back again next Monday. Happy reading!...
...She also notes a set of colourful men’s silk waistcoats from the 18th century pulled from the V&A collection....
...Duncan Forbes, the V&A’s director of photography, was appointed two years ago....
...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....
...Gilbert: Now there are maybe only two people in London that sell it: Michael Whiteway [of Haslam & Whiteway] and Martin Levy [H Blairman & Sons]....
...There is also a new focus on pay and career progression, says Duncan Brown, an independent adviser on reward management....
...and scheduled for release later this year — seems like a real departure: he plays Macbeth in a version scripted and directed by Joel Coen, with Frances McDormand as Lady Macbeth and Brendan Gleeson as Duncan...
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