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...In the UK, a couple owning £2mn would just enter the top 5 per cent of households by wealth; £10mn would put them well into the top 1 per cent.)...
...Pentonville in London was built for 500 inmates but now has more than 1,000....
...Nairobi has committed to lead the operation by sending 1,000 police officers to Haiti, but has not revealed a timeline for their deployment or published details of the deal....
...★★★☆☆ In UK and US cinemas from December 1...
...Patterson points to a pewter beaker from the 1690s engraved with wrigglework portraits of William III and Mary II that sold at Christie’s for £14,400....
...India’s general election, which is taking place over staggered rounds of polling that will end on June 1, enters its next stage this week....
...It was a toad ceremony on 1 June 2019 that changed Cox’s own life....
...June 1; further information and tickets here Royal Ascot Dust down your hat — it’s the big one....
...BCB also estimates that in 2021 it generated around £1.33mn worth of economic activity in Stoke-on-Trent....
...The writer William Gibson’s famous line about the “future”, that it “is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed”, certainly applies to London....
...Overall, Northern Ireland attracted 3mn visitors in 2019, pre-Covid, up from 1.98mn in 2012....
...The highest is a late-17th century portrait plate of William III in English Delft (£1,400-£1,800); among the lowest is an 1831 jug featuring a portrait of William IV (£30-£50)....
...the piece is reset with the Cullinan III, IV and V diamonds from Queen Elizabeth II’s jewellery collection....
...In 1967 the US’s X-15 hit a speed of 4,520mph — 6.7 times the speed of sound — when Major William Knight piloted the rocket-powered experimental aircraft....
...It picked up sponsorship from Bulmers Cider then William Hill, the bookmakers, which offered £1,000 to the first runner to beat the horses, promising to add to the prize pot each year until someone won it...
...£1/€1 trial can be found here: http://ft.com/weekendpodcast Want to join us at the FT Weekend festival in London on September 3rd?...
...The FT’s US trade correspondent Aime Williams has more on what a delay in lifting the tariffs on UK metals means for the country....
...v=E317YWBFyws — Watch a lecture by UPenn law and philosophy professor William Ewald, on forgotten founding father James Wilson: https://vimeo.com/521928817 — Ewald’s published articles about Wilson: https...
...He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....
...Papermaking in Europe has been in decline for the past 100 years: where the continent used to boast thousands of mills, increased volumes and mechanisation have seen that number dwindle to fewer than 1,000...
...As ever, reach out to Imani (imani.moise@ft.com) or me (sid.v@ft.com) with your thoughts....
...The message from the V-A-C Foundation, which runs the recently opened and vast GES-2 House of Culture museum in Moscow, is more muted....
...That price could fall to $1,000, and perhaps even as low as $500, once Starship becomes fully operational, he predicts. Read more The Internet of (Five) Things 1....
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