Hints and tips:
...“I thought I’d help out and then go back to work,” Grace recalls....
...Robertson also won a scholarship to Florence, and came back with a trust in a “language of paint; you really felt how much Fra Angelico believed in God”....
...[TYSON FURY ON JOE ROGAN’S PODCAST] “I’d wake up and I’d think why did I wake up this morning....
...(Under-investment, bad management — I could go on.) Then I talk to FT correspondents in countries at the top and bottom of the productivity tables — Richard Milne in Oslo and Leo Lewis in Tokyo....
...I don’t really read books, but I do love looking at imagery. Richard Batterham was a potter who supplied all our shops from the ’70s until his death in 2021....
...Ganieva’s monthly bank statements showed a payment from “E Trust”, with no further identification of the sender....
...“I had earned $17mn in the first 18 months. And $330,000 is what I’d taken up until that point,” she says. “Am I a thief? Yeah, a pretty bad one.”...
...I too look forward to reading Matthew Desmond’s book....
...I trust the MPC will make the right choices. Matthew Ryan: We do not see a return to the Bank of England's 2 per cent inflation target in a sustainable manner in 2024....
...“I have respect for their non-negotiable terms. I don’t like it, especially when I have to write them a big cheque every month, but I respect it.”...
...D (growthflation): commodities. Several of our picks overlapped with those of Matthew Klein at The Overshoot. He picked Tips under stagflation; John says buy precious metals....
...“I’m not exactly sure why, to be honest with you.” Senior dealmakers, meanwhile, have little sympathy for the banks. As one noted to DD, buyouts generated strong underwriting fees for a decade....
...Richard Davies: I don’t expect this, no. A lot of work was done in the autumn and I expect HMG to want to stick to that path....
...Is carbon capture a help or a hindrance? From my point of view, it's a little bit of column A and a little bit of column B....
...“We’d love not to be here,” says Maytom. Clark, who grew up in Michigan, takes a slightly different stance....
...The playlist – Benny Goodman one minute, Eric B & Rakim the next – is always a pleasant surprise....
...When she is on stage, the sun seems to shine — a good example is her bubbly Adina in Donizetti’s comedy L’elisir d’amore, a role she has sung in New York and London....
...He’s been a high-profile entrepreneur from the beginning. He’s like Richard Branson — he used his profile to build his business.”...
...Even at $35 a barrel, output would end up 3m b/d lower, said Mr Sheffield....
...“I enjoyed watching rallying as a youngster but I’d never competed – so my wife and I jumped in at the deep end and entered the Casablanca Challenge....
...I’d expect similar trends in other advanced economies. Richard Portes, professor of economics, London Business School: No. Badly. Adam Posen, president of the Peterson Institute: No....
...“I think a lot of people are waiting to see if there is any attacks or direct involvement of tankers,” said Richard Matthews, head of research at Gibson shipbrokers....
...In nonfiction, try what I think of as the finest account of a modern US election, Richard Ben Cramer’s What it Takes....
...(Matthew d’Ancona, The Guardian) Is this June election talk a ploy to scare MPs into backing Theresa May's appalling deal? “Going to the polls now is every Tory politician's worst nightmare....
...She’d been given a camera in her teens, and began to photograph her friends....
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