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...Nicholas Lyons, the City’s Lord Mayor, told the Financial Times last month that he had held talks with the Treasury about forcing pension funds to invest in a proposed £50bn growth fund....
...Joined by bassist Nicholas Eden, drummer Douglas Frost and guitarist Lewis Whiting, Fontaine’s lyrics are witty and unobvious....
...In a cinema history filled with femmes fatales, Rock Hudson may be the great, enduring homme fatale: the still centre of screen whirlpools, some of them still stupendous (especially if directed by Douglas...
...Data visualisation by Ray Douglas...
...The list of advisers includes Sir Douglas Flint, chair of Abrdn; Sir Ron Kalifa, independent director at the Bank of England; Baroness Shriti Vadera, chair of Prudential; Sir John Kingman, chair of Legal...
...LGBTQ+ was an unheard-of and unimagined conjuration of rallying codes, it now seems a stolid sexual issues drama; on screen it has the sober kitsch we expect from the Far from Heaven director in his retro Douglas...
...“Alan’s endings often take time to emerge,” Hytner wrote in his memoirs; a sequence of revisions shows how director, playwright and actor Nigel Hawthorne found the finale the work needed....
...The investor surfaced this week, urging Foxtons to exit the public markets in a letter sent to the company’s chair, Nigel Rich, and seen by the Financial Times....
...Prominent business figures, including Sir Nigel Wilson, head of the insurer Legal & General, and Nicholas Lyons, the City of London mayor, have pressed Hunt to take the radical step of compelling some pension...
...Nigel Lawson told me that in his experience all radical ideas had come from the political side of the Treasury. He’s probably right. Politicians inject direction and urgency....
...In a piece titled “On Number Numbness” in the 1980s, the scholar Douglas Hofstadter asked (in a sentence I wish I’d thought of): “Are we growing ever number to ever-growing numbers?”...
...This is now the view of Nigel Farage, the man who arguably bears more responsibility for the UK’s decision to leave the EU than anybody else....
...City of Intellect: The Uses and Abuses of the University by Nicholas Dirks (Cambridge University Press)A former chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, reveals how administrators, faculty and...
...But this is a rally standing on top of some very slender stilts, write my colleagues Katie Martin and Nicholas Megaw in this Big Read....
...Alongside Smith, outdoor pursuits are headed-up by 29-year-old Nicholas Raby, a former gamekeeper who — in Gleneagles’ eyes — embodies the future of shooting sports....
...Conservative commentator Douglas Murray, who has previously described London as having “become a foreign country”, echoed Farage in blaming the declining numbers of British Christians on immigration....
...For other prime ministers, such as Macmillan, Alec Douglas Home and Edward Heath, “the belief that Britain’s future safety and wellbeing depended directly on developments in the Middle East was deeply ingrained...
...Douglas Cifu, chief executive of market maker Virtu Financial, said the SEC had provided no proof that the existing system was not working. “All you have is innuendos and hearsay....
...Sir Nigel Wilson, head of the insurer Legal & General, warned last week that the long-term decline in equity investment by the pensions sector was a significant factor in companies’ “perpetual drift” away...
...The three major documentaries on the Chelsea move from the confident, grimy pomp of Nigel Finch’s 1981 BBC Arena film Chelsea Hotel, with Bard blithely in charge, Warhol and William Burroughs suspiciously...
...Some professors have already filmed courses: James Orr on Plato; Oxford theologian Nigel Biggar on colonialism; as well as Peterson....
...I think you have to go back to Alec Douglas-Home. He was not the last prime minister who came back as a . . . Stephen BushIn Heath’s cabinet....
...As Nigel Gould-Davies of the International Institute for Strategic Studies says: “There are abundant reasons for China to be very unhappy.”...
...The Reform UK party, the successor to the Nigel Farage-led Brexit party, stood in only a smattering of areas and won just six seats in the council elections this month....
...The result, according to Nicholas Eftimiades, a China expert and former CIA officer, is “a new paradigm on how intelligence activities are conducted”....
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