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...Red Sea attacks: For decades, the world has relied on the US Navy to keep shipping lanes safe. But the latest Houthi attacks show the risks of this dependence, writes Alan Beattie....
...At worst, there is a real conflict of interest,” said Rodney Muse, managing partner at Malaysia-based Navis Capital, which in 2021 closed a $450mn continuation fund with investments in five companies....
...In doing so, they have created a significant challenge to the US and its western allies, which want to protect the region’s shipping lanes but are also wary of the Israel-Hamas conflict triggering a broader...
...Life and Art 🎧: In the latest episode of the FT’s new twice-weekly culture podcast, gardening columnist Robin Lane Fox shares advice on winter plant tending, indoors and out....
...Britain after Brexit is edited by Gordon Smith. Premium subscribers can sign up here to have it delivered straight to their inbox every Thursday afternoon....
...The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World by Karl Schlögel, translated by Rodney Livingstone (Princeton University Press) In a work of remarkable range and quality, Karl Schlögel explores the everyday...
...The Cut steakhouse at 45 Park Lane runs a Sunday service that includes what may be London’s most expensive nut roast (£65)....
...First test for red-green lanes Meanwhile, there are clouds gathering in Windsor framework-land. The first phase of operation of the red and green lanes began on October 1 and so far, so smooth....
...I also saw Rye Lane again. Go see it! It’s brilliant....
...Goods from Britain staying in the region will enter check-free via the green lane; customs and the red lane await EU-bound goods. So, will autumn also bring a restored executive at Stormont?...
...and a digital euro. “2022 was a year of a big pivot,” says Lane, “a big transition from accommodative towards restrictive policy.”...
...Now try this Before travelling to Aberdeen, I took a trip down memory lane by watching Jane McAllister’s documentary on the 2014 independence referendum....
...Live in the W Tower (“the first regional branded living in Britain”) and you are assured that you will be in striking distance of “world class dining”, in the shape of Sexy Fish, Gordon Ramsay’s Lucky Cat...
...A finance-heavy economy suffered a steep recession in 2008 (blame Gordon Brown); a slow recovery (blame David Cameron); more economic damage from Covid-19 (blame Boris Johnson); and the economic trauma of...
...The Gordon’s cheeseboard is the perfect accompaniment to its wines....
...The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World by Karl Schlögel, translated by Rodney Livingstone (Princeton) An impressively evocative look at material life in the USSR, from gulags and the planned economy...
...Chief risk officer Rodney Sunada-Wong sought to remove inaccuracies and misleading statements from Mashinsky’s YouTube broadcasts....
...And beyond their own offices, much-admired indie Rye Lane winked broadly at the memory of Bridget Jones....
...(April 19, 1-2pm BST — sign up here) Britain after Brexit is edited by Gordon Smith. Premium subscribers can sign up here to have it delivered straight to their inbox every Thursday afternoon....
...Gordon Onslow Ford, the English surrealist; the Beirut-born painter Etel Adnan; Bruce Nauman; Jay DeFeo, who achieved renown in the seminal 1959 MoMA show Sixteen Americans....
...Here’s the rest of the day’s news — Gordon. Five more stories in the news 1....
...himself with well-curated rails of genuine American stock and handwritten cards describing its origins, while the nickname “Harrington” he gave to bomber-style tartan-lined jackets – after the character Rodney...
...As will Gordon’s composition, Weather, which gives the whole project its name. “I like the ambient sounds in Gordon’s piece — sirens and thunder. They convey a sense of warning....
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