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...Brooks Macdonald, Darktrace and Kier issue half-year data....
...“People have the perception that Mingei is just brown pots,” says Roisin Inglesby, a curator at the William Morris Gallery in London....
...Despite the discomfort of King George V — whose cousin the Tsar had been executed by the Bolsheviks — Labour formally recognised the Soviet Union....
...“The Campbells, the Camerons and the MacDonalds were always doing terrible things to each other,” says Cameron....
...and Serbia 200th day of the Hamas-Israel conflict after Hamas launched an attack on Israel on October 7 last year UK: 100th anniversary of both the first radio broadcast by a British monarch, George V...
...Mel Morris, who made a fortune on the Candy Crush game and ploughed it into his boyhood club, no longer owns the team, which is now fighting to escape the third tier of English football....
...William Morris and the avid Indian miniature collector Howard Hodgkin hymned the Persian epic the Hamzanama....
...the piece is reset with the Cullinan III, IV and V diamonds from Queen Elizabeth II’s jewellery collection....
...“Children have always chosen animals,” says Katy Canales, project curator at Young V&A, which reopens today in east London following a £13mn renovation....
...William Morris called it the “noblest of the weaving arts”....
...King George V Park, the Scottish Gallery and Scottish National Portrait Gallery are a short walk away. What A second-floor flat with two to three bedrooms and about 1,060 sq ft of living space....
...She also often collaborated with writers such as Jan Morris and VS Pritchett – most famously shooting the photographs for Mary McCarthy’s seminal literary study The Stones of Florence....
...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”....
...Mr Tucker indicated that economic recovery would come more quickly thanks to recent breakthroughs in vaccine development — although expecting a “V-shaped” recovery remained “beyond stupid”....
...Grahame Morris, a Labour MP, told the House of Commons on Monday that families in his constituency had already lost holidays because the Passport Office had failed to meet its service standard times....
...“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...
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...Carla Morris, wealth director at Brewin Dolphin, says her female clients tend to doubt that they have enough wealth to qualify for financial advice....
...As ever, reach out to us with your thoughts (imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com). Thanks, and happy reading....
...Staff drive around in Morris Minors. Delusions of Downton Abbey pour from their exhaust pipes....
...“We are definitely at the point where investors are reassessing if they got it wrong last year when thinking about banks,” said James Macdonald, a fund manager specialising in banks at BlueBay Asset Management...
...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....
...“Curves and folds being visible seem far more acceptable these days,” says fashion stylist Kate Rose Morris. She says the majority of her clients want to “smooth” rather than “shrink”....
...As always you can reach me at sid.v@ft.com. Thanks for reading....
...Zara, poplin blouse, £29.99, zara.com Keep things simple with Zara’s blue V-neck blouse....
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