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...“I’ll be in a lot of meetings where Minister X or Deputy Minister X is presenting a strategy,” said one Saudi professional who has worked both in the government and at a top consulting firm....
...London had its moment in 1851 with the Great Exhibition, the ghastliness and excess of which proved the trigger for improving design through institutions such as the V&A....
...But if, as I do, you think that we are probably about a year away from the next election, then what Starmer needs to do is deliver the big picture stuff — my national missions are to fix x, y, z....
...The walls are raw pink plaster, sealed. Glass, plaster and plywood meet on an X, Y, Z axis, light playing off the surfaces. The weather sweeps in, the view changing in minutes....
...Ahmed denied that recent protests held outside MPs’ offices were intimidatory: “We’ve written to them, we’ve demanded X, Y, Z and they haven’t listened....
...Reach us at energy.source@ft.com and follow us on X at @FTEnergy. Catch up on past editions of the newsletter here....
...Before we get into it, engage your favoured extremely American podcast bro voice: Hold up, y’all — what’s a flapjack?...
...It is up there as the best equipped of any spin bike, with a space-saving footprint of 1.2m x 0.6m....
...Take a break from the news V-necks have been verboten for as long as most of us can remember, writes Teo van den Broeke....
...Mr Fish) and his Gibson Flying V guitar....
...Unorthodox adds gold hardware to its structured burgundy carrier with adjustable straps, and sustainable label Mono+n.a.v.y’s two-toned canvas and vegetable leather bag can be embossed for a personal touch...
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...Our minibus was not in Southampton to pick up a Model Y; we had to come to see the world’s newest cruise ship....
...“But no nation wanted to provide us with the resources to stop the bloodbath,” he wrote on X, just ahead of the anniversary. “Indifference had sealed Rwanda’s fate long before we tried to save it.”...
...Equally evocative is Robina’s Dinner Party, a design reinterpreting ceramicist Robina Jack’s handpainted folkloric plates surrounded by intricate patterns....
...Puigdemont wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that the Speaker vote was “in no way” linked to the choice of a new prime minister....
...Menendez, the son of Cuban immigrants, rose under the tutelage of William V Musto, the mayor of Union City from 1962 to 1982, with a four-year interregnum....
...Now almost nothing remained of our constant and benevolent star, to which all humanity had turned its face: we were being sealed off from the glory of heaven, and darkness had followed the moon....
...Jonathan Black Well, there’s Theory X and Theory Y, and Theory X is originally about we just measure inputs and we put you on the clock and begin to measure that....
...I didn’t set out to create a brand and attract people by working with X, Y and Z — that’s just my peer group.”...
...You said X, Y, Z. If you create an audit trail of what’s been said, people will often back off....
...That is how a hermetically-sealed universe helps to perpetuate some of the resentments that fuel Trump....
...Thai politics: The party of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has sealed a “Faustian” pact with the country’s military, experts say, as Pheu Thai mends ties with its former foes....
...They’re to give Microsoft a stake in the commercial bit while wearing no responsibility for the Asimov-y stuff that concerns the management layer. This seemed to suit both parties....
...As a journalist, I’m instinctively sceptical when told that ‘x’ piece of software will save ‘y’ billions — since it rarely ever seems to — but there appeared to be quite broad levels of agreement that digitisation...
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