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...Army At South By Southwest (Defector) — Marks & Spencer’s archive is a window on 20th-century Britain (Economist) — What if China Manufactures a Sugar High?...
...It feels more like these three very idiosyncratic businesses are doing well or not for idiosyncratic reasons,” said Robin Zhu, games analyst at Bernstein....
...Instead, these grisly supernatural villains deploy deep cover, disguised as nice ladies in Marks and Spencer cardigans — the sort everyone ignores — so they can spellbind children at the rate of one a week...
...The pension schemes of Pearson, Marks and Spencer, Diageo, Unilever, BAE and Atlas Master Trust said that their members’ personal data was likely to have been accessed....
...FT Alphaville’s Robin Wigglesworth gave a good flavour of this in his review of The Fund by Rob Copeland. I cannot wait to read the book....
...TD Securities has expanded its global financial institutions group with managing directors Geoff Bertram and James Spencer to co-lead the team....
...How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures by Robin Dunbar Pelican, £22, 352 pages Nick Spencer is host of the ‘Reading Our Times’ podcast Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Okoro’s optimism, coupled with “Believe it or not”, Nick Spencer’s review of Robin Dunbar’s book How Religion Evolved, all point towards the universal truth happily acknowledged that meaning is retrospective...
...Businesses are also experiencing issues, including, as the Financial Times reports, supermarkets such as Marks and Spencer, Sainsbury’s and Tesco in Northern Ireland....
...My beauty guru is Christophe Robin, who used to do the hair colour of everyone from Carla Bruni to Catherine Deneuve....
...Species include the barn owl, kestrel, little owl, blue tit, house sparrow, robin, swallow and house martin; insects such as overwintering butterflies and lacewings; bat species including horseshoe, pipistrelle...
...These include John Vardy’s joyously flamboyant and quirky Spencer House (1756-66) with its wonderful statues of Bacchus, Ceres and Flora — well worth visiting its interiors by James “Athenian” Stuart, now...
...The façade of Spencer House with its oversized pediment almost recreates the portico of the Roman Pantheon....
...I like the look of Suttons’ new Patriotic series in red, white and blue, all as scented Spencer varieties. Fifteen plants cost only £11.99 and will arrive from May 18 onwards....
...But this time risks appear to have migrated from the banks into a sprawling, multi-faceted investment industry, writes the FT’s Robin Wigglesworth....
...In his view, Mr Spencer-Churchill “threaded the needle well” on membership....
...It turns out Spencer’s choice of restaurant was all part of the showmanship: Oswald’s — a sister club of Robin Birley’s better-known 5 Hertford Street — allows members to store their own wine in the club...
...As Christmas neared, Wigley sent a round-robin email to his City chums, urging them to stump up 59p for a recording of his rousing version of the hymn The Day Thou Gavest Lord is Ended....
..., Christopher Robin ....
...Robin Phillips, Mr Westerman’s co-head, will now be sole head of the division....
...Robin Harding is the FT’s Tokyo bureau chief Photographs: Ko Sasaki for the FT; Kyodo News via Getty Images; Richard Atrero de Guzman/NurPhoto via Getty Images; Cameron Spencer/Getty Images;...
...City bigwigs Michael Spencer (boss of NEX), Alex Wilmot-Sitwell (who heads Bank of America in Europe) and Simon Warshaw (of M&A boutique Robey Warshaw) were in attendance....
...Robin Saunders, a former West LB banker who helped finance Sir Philip’s acquisition of BHS, will appear on Tuesday....
...Robin Birley: Walking the walk Robin Birley headed east on Tuesday night to unveil a new venture....
...“If you get good news, people think it’s fake, and if it’s bad, it just goes to show China is in trouble,” says Michael Spencer, chief economist and head of research for Asia Pacific at Deutsche Bank....
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