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...The 25-year-old, arguably the natural heir to Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, has been repeatedly linked to Spain’s Real Madrid....
...In this deep dive, my colleague Laurence Fletcher explores how Citadel has built its remarkable moneymaking machine....
...Email Jo at jo.ellison@ft.com...
...This exhibition at the V&A invites us into the opulent world of master goldsmith Carl Fabergé and his London clientele....
...You can email me on michael.mackenzie@ft.com and follow me on Twitter at @michaellachlan....
...Michael Bloomberg is clearly FirstFT readers’ favourite....
...Neither do we need to ponder the meaning of Father Dougal McGuire’s penchant for wearing a V-neck tank top over his clerical robes in Father Ted....
...Presidents of War , by Michael Beschloss, Crown, RRP$35, 752 pages Lionel Barber is the editor of the FT This article has been amended to correct an editing error in which a reference to Lincoln’s ‘House...
...Lionel Shriver will also join former Downing Street adviser Tom Fletcher to discuss “A Trumpian World”at 4pm, St John’s Auditorium....
...In 2009, the social drama Precious saw a black screenwriter, Geoffrey Fletcher, win an Oscar for the first time....
...Launching a fundraising drive on Thursday with the announcement that £45m of the target had been secured, some from hedge fund manager Michael Hintze, London mayor Boris Johnson quipped that the V&A museum...
...Martin Ellison, professor of economics, University of Oxford It’s a fairly mechanical calculation at such short horizons....
...Martin Ellison, professor of economics, University of Oxford Government immigration policy is already incoherent....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My guess is he will be too timorous to do the right thing....
...Martin Ellison, professor of economics, University of Oxford It’s going to be a rocky ride....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Most unlikely....
...Michael Dicks, chief economist, Wadhwani Asset Management The slowdown that the consensus is expecting — from 2.0% to 1.3% — looks too severe....
...Martin Ellison, professor of economics, University of Oxford More pessimistic than 12 months ago It’s depressing to feel more pessimistic....
...Fifty-Six: The Story of the Bradford Fire, by Martin Fletcher, Bloomsbury, RRP£16.99 Fletcher was 12 when he went with his father, brother, uncle and grandfather to watch Bradford City play football on...
...One way to picture the economic impact of a Brexit may be the shape of a letter ‘V’ or a ‘tick’....
...As Lionel Shriver wrote in the FT: “the author never allows his keen social satire to reduce the humanity of his subjects. We laugh with, not at....
...Meat and art After Alan Bennett v the National Trust last week, I am reminded by the death of Valerie Eliot, widow of the poet T.S. Eliot, of another story involving the playwright....
...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...
...Big Brother, by Lionel Shriver, HarperCollins, RRP£16.99, 384 pages How would you react if someone close to you became very, very fat?...
...The most important scene in Henry V is not the battle itself but the encounter between the King and Michael Williams, a common soldier who warns that “if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy...
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