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...‘Clement Crisp Reviews: Six decades of dance’ is available from Troubador Books, £30 Letter in response to this article: Bolshoi offers its own tribute to FT’s ballet critic / From Makhar Vaziev, et al...
...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
...Top of the agenda is who will succeed Queen Elizabeth II as head of the organisation (hint: probably Prince Charles, her son)....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College I expect inflation to rise towards 3% in 2017 was import prices rise....
...Charles Dumas, chief economist, TS Lombard It will add to growth, via US fiscal stimulus and locomotive effect Jan Eeckhout, professor of economics, University College London Little with high probability...
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My guess is he will be too timorous to do the right thing....
...Peter Spencer, professor of economics, University of York More pessimistic than 12 months ago I’m more pessimistic than 12 months ago....
...Charles Dumas, chief economist, TS Lombard Very little until Brexit is negotiated, which will not be during 2017....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My expectation is that growth will slow to below 1 per cent. Big issues are what progress is made in Brexit discussions....
...Peter Dixon, Economist, Commerzbank (a) Not very much....
...All Involved, by Ryan Gattis, Picador, RRP£12.99/Ecco, RRP$27 For six days in 1992, Los Angeles rioted, the police retreated and the city’s gangs ran wild....
...Impeccable (if overfamiliar) Charles and Ray Eames pieces, futuristic Finnish Eero Aarnio chairs and Peter and Alison Smithson’s laughably naff sub-B-movie house of the future all sit a little uneasily here...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...al were the way forward....
...The oligarch has spent heavily on art over the past five years – his former curator Peter Doroshenko says to the tune of €250m – although he seems to have slowed a little recently....
...While I have little time for Cameron et al, I have to admit that Osborne has done a brilliant job of (just about) keeping the markets onside....
...Nick Hornby et al followed. Davies deserves this reissue under a new title....
...al at a national level....
...UPDATE The rebels are still hoping that Caroline Flint (a friend of Blears, Smith et al) will resign as Europe minister to maintain the pressure on Gordon Brown....
...Of course, Grayson et al are fearful of losing their seats. They know there is growing anger over the perception that the Washington policy machine has been “captured” by Wall Street....
...Peter Roskam from the great state of Illinois. THE PRESIDENT: Oh, Peter is an old friend of mine. CONGRESSMAN ROSKAM: Hey, Mr. President. THE PRESIDENT: Peter and I have had many debates....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? It’s all here....
...peter.aspden@ft.com...
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