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...The rest is branding; the ghosts of the names of wharves and canals linger, applied to investment towers and housing aimed at overseas students with wealthy parents....
...But rather than a sombre reunion, the event proved the latest flashpoint in a feud that has split the family as the late couple’s only surviving child Margherita clashed with her son John Elkann over her...
...John Kamoto Well, I think one of the main things in terms of trying to minimise fraud as a crime is talking about it....
...The characterful socialites and philanthropists, who enjoyed exploring the world aboard their yacht, commissioned architects John Seely and Paul Paget to restore the surviving 15th-century Great Hall and...
...“Youth emigration is a huge drain on the economy of the Arab world, which must be stopped if the region is to benefit from the youth dividend,” said Sunil John, BCW’s president for the Middle East and north...
...Robert ShrimsleyUK chief political commentator Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad by Daniel Finkelstein is a remarkable memoir of his parents’ miraculous survival of Hitler’s Final Solution and Stalin’s purges...
...than who had parents that could pay for a four-year degree....
...Work hard, play hard John Collison, the younger of the brother duo behind Stripe, is coming into his own at the payments group while enjoying an expensive “museum of passion projects”, The Information reports...
...Nicholas Cullinan is a precise man with a soft Yorkshire accent. He was born in Connecticut but his parents returned to Britain when he was four....
...The pizza oven is broken so it’s just got shorter. “The cod is always pretty good. The poussin as well — a fancy name for chicken,” he says, naming two of the four surviving mains....
...Among them was John Brett, a building site manager who needed to be in London to supervise the construction of a new Soho hotel....
...A new biography, Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell, by John Preston, published last year, brings the number of books about the late publishing magnate to at least 12....
...In 1969, the American writer John McPhee spent a year living on Colonsay....
...Koumjian is a veteran prosecutor, who has worked on many of the major war crimes tribunals in recent years, including the one that tried surviving leaders of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime....
...The crimson-covered silver jubilee commemorative book was a prized item on my parents’ bookshelf as it was for millions of other Britons of their generation....
...In describing Vladimir Putin and his inner circle, I have often thought of a remark by John Maynard Keynes about Georges Clemenceau, French prime minister during the first world war: that he was an utterly...
...This play-within-the-play is a slice of typical Williams Southern Gothic, with a brother and sister holed up in the family home as recluses since their parents’ violent deaths....
...“What is so fabulous about Billy Elliot is that it created a particularly British genre of drama in which really quite hardcore stuff is dealt with in a very digestible way....
...Nonetheless, she feels like she is just surviving, “working and creating a happy home at the detriment of my own mental health. It’s not sustainable.”...
...(FT, Economist) A bluffer’s guide to surviving Covid-19 The risks from contracting Covid-19 vary enormously: by a factor of 10,000 between the age of nine and 90. Tim Harford writes....
...It is this that gives racism its vicious quality. For every George Floyd and Sandra Bland in America, there is a Stephen Lawrence, a Julian Cole, a Nuno Cardoso in Britain....
...The company paid €120m last year for a controlling stake in France’s oldest surviving couturier....
...A woman has won an all-or-nothing inheritance battle against her stepsister after a court ruled it could not be determined which of their parents died first, in an example of a little-used English law once...
...A judge ruled this week on a highly unusual inheritance battle between two stepsisters over which of their parents had died first....
...The 1950s designs share a robustness that is reminiscent of the Shaker style, or farmhouse furniture....
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