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...edward.luce@ft.com...
...Et tu Brutus? Or in Boris Johnson’s case, Et pretty much everyone — Rishi, Sajid, even Priti for goodness sake (non-aficionados of UK politics should Google them)....
...It was started 15 years ago by the Eurosceptic business secretary, Jacob Rees-Mogg; Dominic Johnson, a former vice chair of the Conservative party; and fund manager Edward Robertson....
...Objects from the Edward J Williams Collection — “Black Boy Eating Watermelon”, “All White Mammy Cookie Jar” — are juxtaposed with the Wedgwood “Am I Not a Man and a Brother?” medallion....
...Mr Trump also halted L visas, which are used by companies to transfer employees to their US offices, and most types of J visas, used by au pairs....
...Back to the crosswords The following people are winners of the Monday and Saturday puzzles Crossword 16,425: Bill Stewart, Leicester; R Harpur, Herefordshire; Martyn Abbott, Lincolnshire Polymath 1,065...
...Eleven days later, Boris Johnson, Britain’s prime minister, contracted Covid-19. The disease nearly killed him. That was Johnson’s road-to-Damascus. Many hoped Trump had had a similar conversion....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...“What you’re seeing is an expectation of a V-shaped recovery and that may prove to be too optimistic,” said one equity analyst....
...Unlike Sondland et al, they did not buy their positions. Nor will most of them be able to monetise their experience when they leave government....
...Boris Johnson, UK prime minister, and Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s leader, will meet in Belfast on Monday....
...From my neck of the FT: House & Home columnist Luke Edward Hall muses on the country retreat and its decline, even among the tiny portion of people who can afford one....
...Edward Luce writes that Mr Trump’s Washington resembles the Borgias’ late 15th-century Rome, rife with corruption and nepotism....
...There’s not much precedent to support the idea that Shina et al can walk away based on a MAC clause: WPP was forced against its will to buy Tempus in 2001, Guy Hands couldn’t scrap a bid for East Surrey...
...Dakota Johnson....
...Across the landmarks of late Victorian and early 20th-century literature — in J M Barrie’s Peter Pan, Lewis Carroll’s Alice books, Milne and many others — the dominant strain is not moral uplift but rather...
...What you’ve been saying Banish long-haul jet lag with fresh air and exercise — letter from Michael J Higgins, Washington, DC, US “Sir, How to beat jet lag when flying long-haul economy?...
...At the height of the protest, South African author (and former Rhodes scholar) RW Johnson told one newspaper that removing the statue was akin to the destruction of ancient artefacts by al-Qaeda and Isis...
...Chief Executive, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity Jan-Uwe Claas Managing Director, Grunenthal UK Alby Pattison Managing Director, Hart Biologicals Dr Hytham Al-Masri President and...
...Serious Sweet, by AL Kennedy, Cape, RRP£17.99 Set over the course of a single day, and travelling from Piccadilly to Chiswick via Knightsbridge, AL Kennedy’s latest novel is an ambitious, perambulatory...
...(I rely on J H Johnson’s Venice Incognito.)...
...The name of his game, already evident in all the earlier Whitewater et al investigations which he encouraged, was to delegitimise Mr Clinton....
...… No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State, by Glenn Greenwald, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£20/Metropolitan Books, RRP$27 Greenwald, Edward Snowden’s journalistic collaborator,...
...While always consumed by personal ambition and notions of greatness (he was an avid student of Lincoln, Churchill, Napoleon et al), he started musing about a legacy that would benefit his and all other children...
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