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...Óscar Pérez of Qualitas Energy, an investment group that buys, consolidates and repowers small wind farms in Germany, pinpoints the main cause of Europe’s regulatory bottleneck: a “dichotomy” between climate...
...Take a break from the news The past 12 months in cinema have brought a Tom Cruise megahit, Oscar shocks (and that was just the ceremony), and dissident voices from Russia and Iran....
...The organisers of the Oscars would love this weekend’s Academy Awards to be a comeback story after last year’s low-key (and low ratings) Covid-affected ceremony....
...FT economics editor Chris Giles penned a clear explanation, and much attention will be paid to the country’s quarterly and monthly GDP estimates, published on Friday....
...Final thought This year’s Oscar contenders highlight a year in which streaming has overtaken cinemas as the principal outlet for new titles....
...This new mood underpinned the looks on show at last night’s Oscars....
...In fact this solemn pronouncement is made by the British chef’s boyhood self, as played by Oscar Kennedy in the film of his 2004 memoir, Toast....
...How the Brexit deal can be done It is easy to disagree with London’s position, but for once its stance is clear, Chris Giles writes: the government does not want to take back control from the EU, it wants...
...The FT’s economics editor Chris Giles walks us through the data and explains why last year shows the lowest annual growth since the financial crisis....
...I posit that question to Giles Deacon. “It could,” he says. “I think there’s always some kind of social mirroring like that, isn’t there? There’s got to be. It does happen at every level.”...
...(FT) Oscar season is coming Netflix has scored 15 Oscar nominations, including a coveted best picture nod for its film Roma, signalling that the streaming service is disrupting the silver screen the way...
...We meet in bustling Central Saint Giles, London, a far cry from Barnard’s place of birth, the small town of Otley, 10 miles north of Bradford....
...Using a clever econometric model, Òscar Jordà and Alan Taylor of the University of California, Davis, are sure British output is now at least 3 per cent lower than it would have been without austerity....
...Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol, by Gyles Brandreth, John Murray, RRP£18.99, 352 pages Giles Brandreth’s period series of Oscar Wilde’s criminal memoirs, cleverly mixing fiction and fact, has...
...“We will have a continually evolving exhibition programme in pavilions designed by such architects as Renzo Piano, Oscar Niemeyer, Richard Rogers and Sou Fujimoto.”...
...Giles English, one of the two brothers who founded Bremont was also receptive to Grosvenor Estates’ suggested location....
...dramatic gown, such as the Versace safety pin-studded dress Liz Hurley wore to the premiere of Four Weddings and a Funeral in 1994 or the candy pink Ralph Lauren gown Gwyneth Paltrow wore to accept her Oscar...
...Later this month at the Oscars, six of the nine nominees for Best Picture are adaptations. Adapting works of literature for the cinema is not new....
...In The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde’s 1895 “trivial comedy about important people”, Lady Bracknell complains of duties that meant “land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure....
...Well, what do you expect when the early shows are sandwiched between last weekend’s Césars and this weekend’s Oscars? Performance is on everyone’s mind....
...In December Gucci Group (owned by PPR) divested its perfumes and cosmetics division YSL Beauté to L’Oréal (YSL, Stella McCartney, Oscar de La Renta, Boucheron and Ermenegildo Zegna products)....
...Giles Deacon – although his design headquarters is a converted Shoreditch schoolhouse – often resists the East London tag because, at 39, he is nearly a decade older than the rest....
...On Monday, I went to the Dorchester to interview the film’s director Ron Howard for a Newsnight Review special about the Oscars....
...The artist Leigh Hunt lived there, as did the essayist Thomas Carlyle, the writer Elizabeth Gaskell and Oscar Wilde. The atmosphere is both raffish and residential....
...The public may well be tempted to borrow from Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest and decide that the first letter was a misfortune, while the second looks like carelessness....
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