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...The dinner with Hunt and former chancellors Sajid Javid, Lord Philip Hammond and Lord Norman Lamont was won by Conservative donors Selva and Tharshiny Pankaj....
...“There is a glimmer of hope as the eurozone inches towards recovery,” said Norman Liebke, an economist at Hamburg Commercial Bank, which sponsors the survey, while warning that Germany was “acting as a brake...
...His heroes across the Atlantic were Saul Bellow and Vladimir Nabokov, but the American writer that Martin Amis — who has died aged 73 — most resembled was Norman Mailer....
...Norman Augustine, a former chief executive of US defence group Lockheed Martin, famously predicted in the 1980s that given the exponential cost of new military aircraft, by 2054 the entire defence budget...
...Martin Garred, a Churchill Fellow and town planner at Civity in Queensland, Australia, maintains that the city of Minneapolis was among the first places in the US to abolish single-family zoning, allowing...
...There is lots of good writing now — and not just, à la Norman Mailer, about human themes around sport....
...martin.wolf@ft.com Follow Martin Wolf with myFT and on Twitter...
...What’s clear, as the FT’s Harriet Agnew and Katie Martin write in this Big Read, is that the nationwide shift into safer asset classes has backfired on Britain’s economy....
...We drive on to the towerless Norman church of St Andrew, a lonely but lovely edifice that once served the tiny, long-vanished village of Langford....
...Instability ensued, culminating in “the north absorbed into a country called England, albeit ruled by Normans” — and ruled from the south....
...It was as if Johnny Rotten had said, after his group’s first concert at Saint Martin’s School of Art, that he wanted to play Wembley....
...Norman Lewis and Emma Amos, hewing to the black-and-white palette of the Spiral Group, responded with eloquent abstractions....
...Katie Martin in Davos and Jim Pickard, thank you very much....
...Airbus, Leonardo UK and Lockheed Martin are among the companies vying to replace the ageing Puma support helicopters....
...London took almost two years to fix Norman Foster’s wobbly Millennium bridge, while Venice and Bilbao resurfaced Santiago Calatrava’s footbridges to stop pedestrians slipping over....
...“Japan will continue to have a very close relationship with the US,” says Norman Bone, chair and chief executive of Leonardo UK, one of the existing industrial partners on Tempest....
...katie.martin@ft.com...
...They include The Cosmic Evolution Garden, which she designed after reading a book called Just Six Numbers by Astronomer Royal Martin Rees....
...Ireland’s Taoiseach or prime minister, Micheál Martin, has called the move “economic vandalism” as by “any objective data, Northern Ireland is doing very well”....
...Letter in response to this article: England’s buses need the Treasury to stay on board / From Norman Baker, Campaigns and Policy Adviser, Campaign for Better Transport, Lewes, East Sussex, UK...
...Martin Slumbers, chief executive of the R&A, argues that the game can grow within the existing structure. “I do not believe we need a disruptive event,” he says....
...It fell to Powell and General Norman Schwarzkopf, the field commander, to assemble the multinational military force, largely based in Saudi Arabia, that the US formed to evict Iraq....
...Take Seán’s unabridged Barnaby Rudge, Martin Chuzzlewit or Bleak House. I can’t ever remember thinking, ‘Ah, that’s the same voice from the last Dickens.’” Familiarity helps too....
...Then there is the Aurora International Golf Club, which sees the championship course – the island’s only one – redesigned by Greg Norman, who is installing a new nine-hole short course on premises as well...
...But on receipt of the email about a party, one of us would surely have asked Martin Reynolds, the principal private secretary who sent it, what on earth our dear leader thought he was doing....
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