Hints and tips:
...Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg made considerable efforts a decade ago to reverse a Chinese ban on Facebook, learning Mandarin to speak to President Xi Jinping and taking his team on a well-publicised jog through...
...Mark Bishop is head of campaign strategy at Transparency Task Force, a group promoting transparency in financial services. He takes a special interest in the Woodford case...
...Letter in response to this report:Panmure Gordon’s Liberum deal is puzzling / From Tony Smith, Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, UK...
...An independent oversight group chaired by Bishop Rosemarie Mallett said that £100mn already earmarked to address “past wrongs” by the church was “not enough”....
...Its backers for 2024 include headline partner Burberry, the collector Shane Akeroyd (whose brother is chief executive of the fashion brand), the UK’s Art Fund and America’s Ford Foundation....
...In the Christian calendar, January 6 marks the Feast of Epiphany, which commemorates the journey of the Three Kings — or, as medieval theologians termed them, the “Magi”....
...Jude Webber’s excellent obituary of Shane MacGowan, the Pogues’ frontman, is here and I’ve added all those songs to the Inside Politics playlist....
...The man I’m here to meet, Mark Malloch-Brown, has taken many guises during a protean career in which the one constant has been the promotion of liberalism, democracy and globalisation — ideas that are now...
...Mark Meadows: At the same time in Atlanta, a judge will hear arguments on whether Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff, should be allowed to fight the charges against him in the Georgia 2020...
...On Tuesday the government dropped plans for a post-Brexit UK rival to the EU’s “CE” product-quality mark, after businesses warned that ministers were tying up companies in red tape....
...Shane Oliver, chief economist with financial services group AMP, said public anger over rising interest rates in a cost of living crisis was not confined to Australia....
...BDO insolvency specialists Shane Crooks, Mark Shaw and Emma Sayers were appointed by the court on Monday to temporarily oversee WealthTek’s affairs, and will remain pending a court hearing....
...Mark Lyons, who stepped into the CFO role when Shane Fitzsimons went on medical leave in early January, is leaving the company with a negotiated pay-off of $7.5mn, AIG said on Monday....
...But Mark Bishop of the Transparency Task Force, a group that has campaigned for Woodford investors, described the plan as an “insult” because it “doesn’t explain how most of the investors’ losses will be...
...However, Shane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Chain Federation, representing refrigerated food traders, pointed out that when similar customs checks were brought in on goods flowing from the UK to...
...The event also marks the opening of La Scala’s new season, with a fresh programme of operas, ballets, music and drama that will be announced later in the year....
...I rang up antique dealer Mark Punton of Ebury Trading in south London, who supplied the fantastic Irish rock crystal and glass mirrors in Lily Allen and David Harbour’s Brooklyn town house....
...There were still another 22 moves, including mutual time pressure mistakes, and as late as move 59 Nepomniachtchi could have forced perpetual check by sacrificing his bishop at g7....
...On the wall outside is a beautiful plaque created by Arp in 1966 to mark Dada’s 50th anniversary....
...“This decision will not mark the end of my parliamentary activity, particularly for the cause I care deeply about,” he wrote on Twitter....
...“I discovered the Pucci gallery and showroom in my twenties, straight out of art school,” says Bishop....
...“Politicians’ mood music doesn’t cut it,” said Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the PCS union, which called out around 100,000 members at more than 100 government bodies on Wednesday....
...adds Lucy Bishop, specialist and auctioneer at Kerry Taylor Auctions....
...The government plans to gradually return to a normal system of grading, with marks set at a midpoint between pre-pandemic levels and the record highs of last year....
...Chris Payne has stepped down as chief financial officer of F45 Training, the international chain backed by the Hollywood movie star Mark Wahlberg and once frequented by DD’s Mark Vandevelde....
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