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...When Prime Minister William Pitt declared that Britain would remain neutral after the Revolutionary National Assembly passed the first French constitution in 1791, the cartoonist James Gillray depicted the...
...At this rate, we’ll have to revise our “it’s not a bubble” view to “well, it wasn’t a bubble until you all went nuts”. Email us: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com....
...If your child has a Frozen II Nerf gun they used once and never again, email us: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com....
...If you know which stock will get whacked next, by all means email us at once: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com....
...Zombies aren’t real, part II We wrote yesterday about fears of a corporate zombie apocalypse — the idea that legions of half-dead companies kept alive by easy money will soon die off en masse, killed off...
...His official 1953 Coronation portrait of Elizabeth II was in fact taken at home, according to the royal biographer Robert Hardman, with a fake Abbey backdrop....
...Mifid 2 already It is starting to feel like at least parts of Mifid II were a really weird dream....
...But for now, email us: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com. Trump’s second term We don’t write about politics much at Unhedged, because we don’t have political expertise....
...the Great Pyramid of Giza (itself visible from the museum’s panoramic windows); the Merneptah Pillar; and, in the soaring atrium, the 3,200-year-old, 83-tonne, 11-metre-high monumental figure of Ramesses II...
...House prices (II). If you’re a young person who wants to buy a house, this is a terrible time....
...“I didn’t want to be influenced,” he says. “It’s important for me to stay fresh and stay original.” princegyasi.com; pirelli.com...
...Which comedy drama of the 1990s starred Robert Carlyle as a Scottish policeman with a dog called Wee Jock?...
...The boom time didn’t last for Coppola; it didn’t really outlast the 1970s. What great seers sometimes fail to see is their own best interest and potential as artists....
...“When I bought my first flat in London [in 2015], I wanted to decorate it with African art and couldn’t really find any....
...The pub is named in honour of Charles FitzRoy, who was the first to lay out this section of the capital during the 18th century and whose father was an illegitimate son of Charles II....
...(I think it’s likely to happen this autumn as I still can’t believe Rishi Sunak will go to the country in May.) Of course, I can’t actually answer that question....
...The time may come when — if Putin won’t change his policy and behaviour or won’t go quietly — they will prove they have the collective temperament to show him the door. It wouldn’t be easy....
...Deep access is the luxury, which is where the shallow-draft Charaidew II comes in....
...Let us know what’s on your mind: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com. Crypto regulation: a counterargument On most debates in finance, Unhedged tends to speak with one voice....
...It was an attempt to make the magazine seem a less sensationalist platform for Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein, two of its most successful authors....
...There are some things he won’t roll with....
...Her inclusion in Queen Elizabeth II’s new year’s honours for 2020 and her marriage to high-profile economist Sir Robert Chote gave her wider fame than most of her peers in the retail sector....
...Email us: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com. Bear market rally redux Markets are feeling better all of a sudden....
...And here he is mourning the death of Queen Elizabeth II in the Scottish local press. Here he is writing about money laundering in Switzerland....
...“They don’t need to appeal to the meme stock trader.”...
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