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...Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s deal to buy 25 per cent of Manchester United included a further $300mn investment dedicated to the stadium....
...Lord Christopher Geidt yesterday became the second ethics adviser to resign under Boris Johnson’s premiership, meaning the prime minister is in the market for a third ethics adviser....
...Over dinner, Sir Leicester had been “full of boring herbaceous enthusiasms”, but here I part company with the narrator....
...The change is evident as we walk into The Sir Norman Wisdom in Deal to find the rear area full of dining tables....
...Sir, Martin Wolf, in “Why banking remains far too undercapitalised for comfort” (September 22), makes a cogent argument for banks holding greater reserves....
...Smart Boston, MA, US Peter H....
...“This perhaps reflects the vastly different financial climate for development in many areas outside the south-east,” said Christopher Costelloe, the society’s director....
...Sir Patrick Stewart, a local boy turned Hollywood star, is just another supporter here. Fans feel part of the club in a way that’s rare in modern football....
...Herrick, a life-long royalist, was certainly with Sir Toby Belch and against the Puritan steward Malvolio in his frank enjoyment of “cakes and ale”....
...Sir, We should all be grateful to Robert H Wade (Letters, August 20) for reminding us of the massive lacuna in the IMF and OECD forecasts in their 2006-07 model of the world economy, which contained no financial...
...From Prof Robert H Wade....
...Sir, Christopher Caldwell ponders why Americans are “getting fonder and fonder of firearms”....
...Christopher Pincher noted that the line would run close to his constituency, and asked for mitigation....
...As a result the Ritz, which is owned by Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay, said spending by Chinese guests increased 25 per cent during 2011 as more customers opted for expensive suites rather than standard...
...… Remaking a Garden: The Laskett Transformed, by Roy Strong, Frances Lincoln, RRP£30/$50 Sir Roy Strong has reinvented the garden he created in the 1970s with his late wife Julia Trevelyan Oman....
...of colour (“Ambassadors who present their credentials in cash”, Christopher Caldwell, December 8)....
...Patrick Keiller’s quirky ordnance-survey odysseys (the Robinson films) and Peter Greenaway’s pre-feature pastorals (A Walk Through H). But Kötting, here, has something even on them....
...Christopher Pissarides, LSE: He can certainly keep plan A if he wants to....
...When Kate Moss, the supermodel, was caught taking cocaine in 2005, many of the brands she then represented, such as H&M, the retailer, ran a mile – but other, differently positioned names, such as Sir Philip...
...Sir Christopher Mallaby, the then British ambassador in Bonn, earned Downing Street’s ire by wondering what all the fuss was about....
...Fortunately, the H&H Society’s outstanding cast demonstrated that Haydn’s characters are not made of cardboard....
...“The one landscape that we, the inconstant ones, are consistently homesick for,” wrote W.H....
...He even writes memorably about the rain – “the Sir Alec Bedser of rain: consistent, tireless, unrelenting”. Outstanding....
...Others thought to be interested include Cerberus, the private equity group; as well as Apollo and ING, the Dutch bank; Thomas H Lee, the US private equity company; a consortium led by Sir Richard Branson...
...Totemic victories included Blackpool, Chester and South Ribble – the first time these authorities have been Tory-controlled since Mr Blair swept to power in 1997....
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