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...Sam Fleming It’s led to an increase in shipping standard freight rates, as you’d expect....
...We’d help this week from Sam Giovinco, David da Silva, Michael Lello, Peter Barber and Gavin Kallmann. Our executive producer is Topher Forhecz. Cheryl Brumley is the FT’s global head of audio....
...There could of course still be some bodies that float to the surface, but the New York Federal Reserve’s Michael Fleming has now done some more data grunt work to show that the Treasury market’s liquidity...
...Ian Fleming chose the name Bond for his spy because he thought it was “the dullest name I’ve ever heard”....
...It could, but you’d have to go a lot further than what is currently planned. And as we see with HSBC moving on, those opportunities might not be around forever.”...
...I got EU, babe Ukraine’s meetings with a visiting phalanx of top EU officials in Kyiv were as technocratic as you’d expect from any get-together with the European Commission, writes Sam Fleming....
Brussels draft plan seeks to rebuild ties with common fronts on tech, Covid-19 and democratic interests
...So I have appointed Sir Michael Barber to advise me and my RHF the Education Secretary on the implementation of our skills reforms programme....
...Iratxe García Pérez, the president of the left-of-centre S&D group, echoed the need for solidarity, urging MEPs to put aside “Cassandra-type messages” and to work together....
...Worthy opponents over the years have included everyone from Grace Jones to Princess Michael of Kent....
...The EU official insisted he’d be confident about winning a legal ruling that AstraZeneca should send UK production to the bloc....
...“You’d have to be crazy to hit the brakes now,” said Chiche. According to BPI France, French fintechs have created over 25,000 jobs and most are actively hiring....
...Reporting by Sarah Neville in London, Hannah Kuchler in New York, Michael Peel and Sam Fleming in Brussels, Donato Paolo Mancini in Rome and Attracta Mooney and Oliver Barnes in London Letter in response...
...Take New Bond Street to the corner of Bruton Street and admire the Time & Life Building (Michael Rosenauer, 1951-3), which integrates reliefs by Henry Moore on its Bond Street façade....
...michael.peel@ft.com; @mikepeeljourno...
...Otherwise, there are gotcha moments: the shelves of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos bereft of books perhaps, or Holocaust denier David Irving’s work spotted chez Michael Gove....
...fellow at Bruegel and Sam Fleming, FT Brussels bureau chief....
...Having Michael Feinstein to present a survey of Cole Porter is self-recommending, but his own performances do not work well (piano too clangorous, voice too far from the microphone)....
...“Our whole raison d’être is the union,” she said....
...Sam Lowe of the Centre for European Reform said: “If I was Boris Johnson, I’d ditch the DUP for a Northern Ireland-only backstop. I think his party could live with it.”...
...There’s no place you’d rather be when gravity takes hold of a ray of martini while getting perfumed with Italian lemon zest in plain air....
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...You can email me on michael.mackenzie@ft.com and follow me on Twitter at @michaellachlan....
...You’re anything but a plain man yourself, and the very raison d’être of you all is that you’re little demons of subtlety.” We try to be, God knows....
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