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...A portrait of the bewhiskered duke — later George V — stares down at us....
...“I’m a very traditional, pencil-and-paper designer, which I then give to our craftspeople to make....
...The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan W&N £16.99, 288 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...V and N leave for Zaporizhzhia. The next day they will be reunited with their son. And the occupying Russian troops will enter the city of M....
...I’m dreading telling them both about the past decade and a half....
...“My father always said, ‘I’ll never do a retrospective while I’m alive because I’m not done working.’”...
...Magugu’s designs include a print symbolic of sisterhood that appears on a T-shirt, the Diorcamp bag and a silk scarf. charlizeafricaoutreach.org; dior.com N is for Ninety PercentThe Camden-based fashion...
...As ever, reach out to Imani (imani.moise@ft.com) or me (sid.v@ft.com) with your thoughts and suggestions. And if you haven’t already, please sign up to the FT’s new Cryptofinance newsletter here....
...V Vaccination Pretty much the only thing that stood between Novak Djokovic and this year’s Australian Open title. Oops....
...And the character says he’s not an N-word writing about N-words, he’s a fairy writing about fairies. That piece of dialogue, I thought, was really very good, which is why it stuck in my head....
...A ring of LEDs shaped like LV’s signature flowers lights up in a kaleidoscope of shades in time to the music, and a further circle of lights flashes “L-O-U-I-S-V-U-I-T-T-O-N.”...
...Born in Poplar in the 1920s to a Chinese father and Lithuanian mother, Hitchins became known as “The Flash”, igniting the dance floors of London with his jive, rumba, rock ’n’ roll and mambo moves – captured...
...“I had a letter from a Marxist professor at the Sorbonne, who noted ‘Il n’y a que le provisoire qui dure,’” he recalls....
...The V-shaped recovery in consumer spending feels too bullish in our view....
...“I don’t think it’s a V-recovery,” he says. “An elongated U is perfectly possible. I’m a conservative. I plan for the worst and hope for better....
...At the end of the day, I’m a banker and not an economist or a politician.”...
...Dr Sally Eyre will become the senior independent director. We also see this as a positive as Sally has a mining and geology background from the Royal School of Mines....
...Airbus – cut to N from OW; remove from AFL: AIR looks in a better position than Boeing, which is also dealing with the MAX grounding and a weak balance sheet....
...For S&N it all boils down to 2020 adjusted trading profit of $1,218bn to US$1.241bn versus a consensus of $1.243bn, so hardly a warning at all....
...M is for money printing — which is exactly what crypto is doing. N is for net present value — see “accountability”. O is for oligarchy — the new bankster mafia....
...The effect is drapey and decadent, something like Sally Bowles’s rooms in Cabaret....
...“[W]e prefer companies that: (1) have a diversified game portfolio; (2) use M&A to add proven IP to their portfolios and aid audience diversification, and (3) have a relentless focus on live services....
...How you change the world — that’s what I’m focusing on.”...
...With this in mind, investor focus has understandably turned to liquidity, leading to a strong sell-off in leveraged or cash-constrained stocks including ASOS (Buy), DFS (Buy) and M&S (Buy)....
...So I’m constantly changing stuff.’ Political correctness ‘I’m basically there to get laughs. I’m not really a message comic so maybe I’m less affected by it....
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