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...These wild tulips are perennial, naturalising and have a delicate, beguiling beauty. botanic.cam.ac.uk Hever Castle, Kent The big draw at the former home of Anne Boleyn (and later of William Waldorf Astor...
...Ashtrays abound in the collection and for The Garden (on show at Sullivan + Strumpf’s Sydney gallery just as the biennale opened), he mixed the trademark flora of much-loved early modernist Margaret Preston...
...Privatised by Margaret Thatcher’s government in 1989, Thames Water requires substantial investment to overhaul its ageing infrastructure....
...., join Jake Sullivan, Gucci Westman, Jancis Robinson, Anne Applebaum and many more for our third annual FT Weekend Festival: US edition....
...Chief foreign affairs commentator Gideon Rachman talks to Pulitzer-winning historian Anne Applebaum about Russia’s threat to the continent....
...“You need a diverse workforce to make sure . . . that you find some way around any bias that is present,” said Athene Margaret Donald, professor emerita of experimental physics at the University of Cambridge...
...When the former prime minister Margaret Thatcher privatised the water monopolies in 1989, she wiped out their debt....
...Amid the glut of pandemic fiction, the best — Ali Smith’s Summer (2020), Sarah Moss’s The Fell (2021) — approach the virus as a springboard for commenting on wider political issues, or use it to focus on...
...Take a break from the news In an experiment in which proceeds will go to the Authors Guild of America, 36 authors, including Margaret Atwood, John Grisham, Dave Eggers and Celeste Ng, wrote a collaborative...
...FT editor Roula Khalaf introduces Democracy 2024 in her letter to readers today, kicking off our year-long series with films featuring authors Margaret Atwood and Elif Shafak....
...Saskia Diez sterling-silver Long Star earring, €105 for a pair Paul Smith silk shirt, £425, and matching silk tie, £110....
...Take a break from the news From 80,000 narcissi at Anne Boleyn’s house in Kent to Tom Stuart-Smith’s garden at Yorkshire’s Hepworth Wakefield, HTSI recommends 10 gardens to visit if you’re in the UK this...
...But she persevered, hugely helped by the scientist Anne McLaren, who was credited with a gift for clarifying complexity without simplifying it....
...Beckett, Labour MP for Derby South, became a member of parliament in 1974 for the seat of Lincoln, acted as party leader after the death of John Smith and later served in Tony Blair’s cabinet....
...What’s going on, asks Margaret Heffernan....
...Artworks include those by Tacita Dean and Paul Smith, but identities will be revealed only once sales have been finalised....
...They include Dame Margaret Beckett and Dame Margaret Hodge. While some former MPs struggle to adjust to life in the private sector those with previous experience in the commercial world can prosper....
...After all, as Anne L Murphy writes, these are qualities earned over centuries....
...Each creation possessed its own quirky energy, attracting admirers such as Margaret Howell, Paul Smith and Dries Van Noten, with whom they collaborated on a range of accessories in the mid-’90s....
...The consensus view that a smaller state and lower taxes are good, which rose to prominence in the 1980s under Margaret Thatcher in the UK and Ronald Reagan in the US, is starting to crumble....
...Jessie Roberts-Smith brings natural charisma and a Gentleman Jack swagger to our hero, Captain Sandy Rogers. At two solid hours (one short break), Pirates!...
...Anne Louis quit her job in 2019 shortly after the birth of her son, who is autistic and has a tracheotomy, to give herself more time to co-ordinate his medical care....
...Anne Krueger, who previously served as the first deputy managing director at the IMF, expressed “dismay” at what she characterised as the fund’s drift from “essential” mandates of financial stability and...
...Additional reporting by Ian Smith...
...supply chain in India, yields have increased 3 per cent while greenhouse gas emissions have fallen 20 per cent, and in Thailand yields have increased 18 per cent with a 36 per cent drop in water use, says Margaret...
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