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...Owen Winter, of Stack Data Strategy, has done some interesting analysis of the impact of weighting a survey before vs after excluding “don’t knows”: removing them could be exaggerating Labour’s poll lead...
...Outside of a handful of trusted authors with new books out — Zadie Smith, Linda Grant, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett — I have confined myself to reading old loves and factual accounts....
...So this is the second time that Sarah Owens has resigned from the front bench. She resigned over spy cops, ditto Dan Carden. Lucy FisherRemind us who Sarah Owens is....
...To the strains of Kate Bush’s “Cloudbusting”, and “Femme Fatale” by The Velvet Underground and Nico, models strutted down the cream carpet in a collection that combined the house’s signature flou (floaty...
...“I may have to vote for Jeb [Bush] again,” says Rooney. Chris Redlich, a $1mn-plus Haley donor and retired shipping executive, is also aghast at the choice this November....
...Now try this I’ve just devoured Linda Grant’s latest novel, The Story of the Forest, an engrossing family saga that spans Latvia to Liverpool and the best part of a century....
...I strongly recommend it, alongside the other, very different book I reviewed alongside it: Linda Grant’s brilliant novel A Stranger City, which Suzi Feay reviewed for the FT here....
...I think the one that’s caught the most attention is Charlotte Owen, a 30-year-old who’s only really had a very limited experience of politics in a series of quite junior backroom roles....
...I also had a very enjoyable Saturday morning reading the FT Weekend: I particularly enjoyed Owen Walker and Stephen Morris’s brilliant account of the birth, life and death of Credit Suisse, Simon Kuper’s...
...stephen.bush@ft.com...
...Now try this I was at the Bush Theatre yesterday for A Playlist for the Revolution, a three hander between an unlikely couple and a university cleaner....
...Stephen Bush FT COLUMNIST AND ASSOCIATE EDITOR The Story of the Forest (Virago) is the story of a family of Latvian Jews aiming for New York who hit Liverpool instead....
...He was essentially a non-presence in Owen Smith’s campaign to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader and before the contest was over, he was discreetly putting out feelers about coming back to the shadow...
...He and Staple Street’s other founder, Stephen Owens, also spent time working at Carlyle, one of the largest buyout groups in the world....
...Alexandrovich Marchel and David Owen: No — but the trend will be in the right direction....
...York, LA and Amsterdam, vary from the kitsch (a 1983 cookery manual titled How to Garnish, £65) to the freaky (a 1980 book of staged photos of boy-mannequins at summer camp, £195) and the zany (a Kate Bush...
...Since last autumn — when Johnson’s administration was rocked by the Owen Paterson affair (when the government tried to overhaul the standards process to exonerate the former MP for North Shropshire), the...
...But then we have seen people who’ve jumped before they were pushed — Owen Paterson, of course, and Boris Johnson. So I think it is a very interesting dynamic....
...By chance they discovered a Japanese master baker in Shepherd’s Bush and the result is another pandemic-born success story. The sandwiches are enormous....
...The series opens with Beanie Feldstein’s Lewinsky being herded into a hotel room for questioning by hatchet-faced officials from the Office of the Independent Counsel, as her colleague and confidante Linda...
...Along the way he discovered Paula Jones, Linda Tripp, Monica Lewinsky and a semen-stained blue dress. The rest is tawdry and gratuitous history....
...Shane Connolly and Jane Owen will be discussing and arranging cut flowers at the FT Weekend Festival, Saturday September 4 at 11am Jane Owen is an FT Weekend contributing editor....
...There are examples in the Karshan gift of ravishing, significant outsider pieces such as “Beat” and “Bush” (1937-42) by Louis Soutter: processions of silhouette figures, dancing-twisting-writhing, made in...
...The explanation for this was given more than once by President Yeltsin in conversations with President George HW Bush: without Ukraine, Russia would have been outnumbered in Gorbachev’s Union by the Muslim...
...“I think Claudio will bring modernity,” says Simon Jablon, owner of eyewear label Linda Farrow, who has collaborated with the Demeulemeester brand for years....
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