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...Freshfields has appointed Mary Lavelle as a partner to its private capital team and global transactions practice in London. Lavelle joins from Akin Gump....
...It’s a response I’m familiar with. Embarking on a career in journalism I alighted on housing as a vital social policy area that seemed to receive little coverage....
...Anthony Lavelle is the FT Weekend Magazine’s chief subeditor Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...“I’m going to kick back here and catch my breath a bit.” Favourite thing Lavelle chooses a 12-inch single record from Beat Bop by rappers Rammellzee and K-Rob, released on Tartown Records in 1983....
...In Neil Blackmore’s The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle (Hutchinson RRP£12.99, April), set earlier in the Georgian era, brothers on the Grand Tour are wickedly beguiled by the proto-Wildean adventurer of the title...
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...Best of the rest Ireland, the EU is playing you like a fiddle — Brendan O’Neill, Spectator I'm a millennial who bucked the trend and bought my own house....
...“I think I’m going to win the Hispanic vote. And I frankly don’t think it matters,” he declared this week....
...At which point she decides that I’m ready to give a 10ft wall a go. First, though, she shows me what she wants me to do....
...Mr Lavelle says you need to be objective and specific, rather than personal. “Use ‘what I expected to see was . . .’ and ‘what I’m actually seeing is . . . ’.”...
...“Self-employed people are a real growth area and I’m doing more and more small businesses,” he says....
...That’s why I’m so comfortable on the pommel horse now, because I can circle nearly every area.”...
...Defying expectations in the City that he would be stepping back from the frontline, he is one of the bank’s main advisers for Glencore’s IPO alongside Michael Lavelle and Tom Reid....
...I’m afraid it sounds glib to say that perhaps he needs to take more of an interest in writing plays....
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...Thirty seconds in and my heart rate seems to have tripled, I’m breathing heavily, pouring with sweat and, yes, feeling panicked....
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