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...the piece is reset with the Cullinan III, IV and V diamonds from Queen Elizabeth II’s jewellery collection....
...Speaking to banking editor Stephen Morris at the FT’s global banking summit last week, Anil also said that financial crime was an “industry challenge”....
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...“I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few or freedom for a few,” wrote Morris (the slogan appears on a V&A tote bag, £10) yet he ended up “ministering to the swinish luxury of the rich...
...I’d also been to the V&A and seen one of his famous japonisme sideboards: the earliest versions may date from the late 1850s but it is a spectacularly modernist piece of geometric design....
...As always you can reach me at sid.v@ft.com. Thanks for reading....
...A temporary stamp duty holiday that offers purchasers a tax saving of up to £15,000 has fuelled a V-shaped recovery in the housing market since May....
...Other companies reporting include Procter & Gamble and cigarette maker Philip Morris International....
...“President Trump has a habit of saying whatever comes into his head,” said Fred Bartlit, a Chicago lawyer who was on the trial team in Bush v Gore....
...Last week, Ms Botín said it was possible that Santander would see only a 5 per cent drop in earnings for 2020 if the impact of the virus followed a “V-shaped” scenario of a sharp shock followed by a rapid...
...Tit for tat John Springford, deputy director of the Centre for European Reform think-tank in London, joins us to answer three quick questions....
...Appearing via video link from a locked down Madrid, Ms Botin said those estimates were based on a “V-shaped” recession — a sharp shock followed by a rapid recovery, but stressed this was only one possible...
...John Pawson: Anatomy of Minimum by Alison Morris (£49.95, Phaidon)The latest in this Phaidon series explores the creative principles of the architectural designer John Pawson....
...“Philip Morris contended that the laws were devaluing cigarette company trademarks and adversely impacting investments [there],” says Prof Chen....
...The challenger v the banker EDWARD BRAMSON Activist investor, Sherborne Holds a 5.5 per cent stake in Barclays and is using it to try and force his way on to the board and engineer a shift in strategy...
...Barclays has hired Daniel Zimbaldi as a managing director in the financial institutions group M&A. Zimbaldi, who will be based in New York, was previously a managing director at Evercore....
...Director Joe Hill-Gibbins, to make sure we get the point, opens his otherwise lean-trimmed 100-minute version with part of this soliloquy (then reprises it in its proper place)....
...Paul Andrew did everything right in his debut as creative director at Salvatore Ferragamo last season....
...Sarah Sevier, commercial director at the V&A, says the museum hopes this year this strand will increase to £1.5m thanks to the new pavilion, a standalone area bounded by its glass display cases....
...“It is more than just killing someone,” said Patricia Lewis, research director at policy institute Chatham House. “This was a way of sending several messages.”...
...“The word ‘museum’ was very important to us,” says Sudjic, who took over there as director in 2006....
...Freemium v paid: Streaming competition swells YouTube is one of several Spotify competitors bringing streaming services to the market this year....
...V&A director Martin Roth seems to have brought the former journalist in as a kind of provocateur....
...“I think Sony is a great match for Simon and he is a peculiarly loyal person,” Doug Morris, chief executive of Sony Music, tells me later. “I want all of Simon here....
...Alongside the bands and camping, there are Morris dancers, tombolas, hot-air balloons and cake stalls....
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