Hints and tips:
...I’m actually slightly more upbeat than Sam is, who notes that one factor here is the global reach of English: The UK looks much more like other parts of the English-speaking world....
...I’m not an expert and all I can say is that I thought that Kim Ghattas and Lawrence Freedman’s recent pieces for the FT seemed to be historically well-informed and depressingly plausible about what is likely...
...Bird’s Nest” stadium for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, an undulating doughnut swathed in a cat’s cradle of steel; the Elbphilharmonie concert hall cresting Hamburg’s Elbe River like a wave; the monolithic M+...
...Lisa Freedman has taken the first peek at what’s to come as it creeps towards completion: it will contain 139 luxury apartments, a new retail space and the UK’s first Six Senses hotel, with a 21,500sq ft...
...His planterly legacy lives on in Switzerland, and at Caerhays in the form of Magnolia Peter Smithers, a cross between M × veitchii and M × soulangeana Rustica Rubra, which has, as the Caerhays website says...
...But in The 100-Year Life, Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott argue that the three-stage life — education, employment and retirement — no longer describes how we live....
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Gaza war: US secretary of state Antony Blinken arrives in Israel today for talks with the new government. Follow developments on our live blog....
...How this will work out, I’m not sure....
...Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott in their book The 100-Year Life, they say the old days we had a three-part life — we had education, we had work, we had retirement....
...Lynda GrattonAs a psychologist, I’m going to use one of those awful psychological terms: affective forecasting. And the truth is, Isabel, we’re very poor at predicting what makes us happy....
...As he explained to the Durango Herald, “I’m not at all hooked in any high-tech internets.”...
...I’m standing in for Tony Barber, who will be back for next week’s edition. You can contact me at ben.hall@ft.com....
...“I am ashamed when I’m too drunk. I’m ashamed of lots of things I’ve done. But I think that’s where the fruit is: in the shame, and in not being ashamed of it. Life is rich and I feel everything....
...When I’m wakeful I need something to really concentrate on — something really good — otherwise my brain starts working....
...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com. First, the results of last week’s poll....
...There’s a reason Cardi B’s song “Wap” — “He got some money, then that’s where I’m headed/Pussy A-1, just like his credit” — opens the film....
...I’m in my thirties. What should I be doing now to make sure I’m healthy when I’m in my eighties?...
...And the employees I’m proudest of are those who went on to found their own companies — often in entirely different domains....
...I’m Isabel Berwick. This week we’re taking a look at how recruitment is changing....
...Lynda GrattonAs a psychologist, I’m going to use one of those awful psychological terms, affective forecasting. And the truth is, Isabel, we’re very poor at predicting what makes us happy....
...But I’m not sure they can cope with that....
...Thus far, my total earnings come to -$23, but I’m hopeful....
...And this, in the end, matters I’m sure far more to Putin and so on than the Donbas. Sonja Hutson Lawrence Freedman is an emeritus professor of war studies at King’s College in London....
...“I’m not convinced it’s the best use of that money given the deadweight costs, which could be spent elsewhere — for example, hospitals or schools,” says one influential Labour politician....
...The longer I’m here, the more people are going to pay attention.”...
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