Hints and tips:
...Murphy’s route to acting was one part accident, three parts drive: the eldest of four children to teacher parents, Brendan and Mary, he grew up in Cork city, in the south of Ireland....
...OK,” replies Mary-Kate. “For us,” says Ashley. “We love beautiful fabrics.” “No, we love quality things,” qualifies Mary-Kate (whom Ashley calls MK)....
...Persuading Mary-Kate and Ashley to be interviewed requires a long conversation: the designers’ reluctance to do publicity has arguably become a key part of their allure....
...Peter Barber is our Aesthete: the architect founded his practice in 1989 and has done much in the intervening decades to change the conversation regarding social housing....
...My grooming guru is an Algerian barber in the city centre. I usually go when someone in my family nags me to get my beard trimmed. He does it quickly and efficiently....
...Email Jo at jo.ellison@ft.com...
...of a trio of performers in this issue who talk about their passions: Peters’ longtime obsession is Broadway Barks, an annual charity event promoting the adoption of shelter animals that she founded with Mary...
...However, I do check in for an opinion from Dame Mary Beard, the rock star scholar of Ancient Rome....
...Additional help by Monica Lopez, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley....
...A tremendous initial contrast is Nathaniel Mary Quinn’s expressive, dislocated heads and Amy Sherald’s stylised realism of bright colours, clean lines....
...Additional help from Monica Lopez, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley....
...Additional help from Monique Mulima, Monica Lopez, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer....
...The earliest haircut I can remember was when I was four years old, round-faced, bronze-cheeked, chattering away as my father drove to the barber shop in the city of Jos....
...Nick Barber, professor of constitutional law at Trinity College Oxford, called the bill “an outrageous abuse of parliament’s constitutional powers”....
...Nurse Mary Seacole throws her arms open in wide embrace. Glittery drag queen Marsha P Johnson, Afro-Brazilian resistance fighter Zumbi dos Palmares and emperor Haile Selassie compete to hold court....
...Additional help by Katie McMurran, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley....
...While 59 per cent of chair Mary Jo White’s 22 proposals from 2013 to 2015 were mandated by the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform act and other laws, just 17 per cent of Gensler’s proposals were, and several...
...He has so far proposed 67 rules, the highest number since Mary Schapiro, who neared 100 during her tenure after the global financial crisis, and more than recent predecessors Jay Clayton and Mary Jo White...
...The NFL’s report, commissioned last year and overseen by former US attorney and SEC chair Mary Jo White, reveals a damning portrait of conduct within the organisation....
...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com. Predictions about the outcome of long, apparently evenly fought wars are fraught with risk....
...jo.ellison@ft.com...
...There is so much to learn from Mary Poppins: loving to laugh being top of my list....
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