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...A portrait of the bewhiskered duke — later George V — stares down at us....
...To find out, don’t miss this all-dayer in leafy Barnes packed with mindfulness workshops, fitness, food and music....
...Iain Smith hops through a patch of thigh-high heather, the barrel of a shotgun resting idly on his forearm. “If it looks green and mossy, don’t step on it,” he says. The only way forward is green moss....
...Investors love wealth management earnings — they don’t require so much regulatory capital and they don’t generate big losses, they just offer nice smooth, stable growth (with notably rare exceptions)....
...Holland and Sons, Whytock and Reid, Hampton and Sons and Cornelius V Smith are also good names to type into your search browser....
...Paul Smith wool jacket, £850, and matching trousers, £360. Sandro cotton mesh shirt, €225. Loro Piana cotton T-shirt, £590....
...“Sometimes I don’t have [a Folio Society edition] for more than a day before it’s gone.”...
...As ever, drop me a note at sid.v@ft.com if you’ve got thoughts and ideas for upcoming Future of Money newsletters....
...If you’ve got thoughts about this or a topic that would suit a future installment of the Future of Money, email me at sid.v@ft.com....
...That’s right, Kenny Smith shoved Shaquille O’Neal into a Christmas tree. Again. Don’t ask why it’s custom, who cares, just enjoy it. Or in the words of the NBA, “The fellas are in the holiday spirit.”...
...This article has been amended since original publication to clarify Sam Smith’s representation in the V&A exhibition Follow @financialtimesfashion on Instagram to find out about our latest stories first...
...Even among Tory voters the positive differential has nearly halved, shrinking from around plus-44 to (67 ‘well’ v 23 ‘badly’) in January 2020 to plus-23 (58 ‘well’ v 35 ‘badly’) today....
...“As far as I know, the history of the tank top starts from the 1930s, where men would wear a V-neck slipover that was often knitted at home,” says Paul Smith of the tank, from his Covent Garden headquarters...
...We don’t usually find ourselves in agreement with the Adam Smith Institute, but there’s a lot going for this idea....
...Or the other way to think about it is if like, your list is like, I want a black V-neck cashmere sweater, it’s like, well, what is the best version of that black V-neck sweater?...
...Let us know what fintech predictions you have for the rest of the year at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...I don’t say anything else. This is going to take two or three years in the recession. I said it’s gonna be V-shaped and very fast. Then six months later, they were ashamed....
...Similar examples can be found in London’s V&A and the White House, Smith notes....
...Neither did I troop along to the 1974 game-changing exhibition at the V&A, “The Destruction of the English Country House”, at which the images went on show of more than a thousand country houses, castles...
...But we don’t really know whether insecurity is on the rise because we are very bad at measuring it, writes Sarah O’Connor....
...But some don’t need to be convinced: among employees, “anti-union sentiment run[s] at least as hot as pro-union passions”....
...A small style from this partnership ended up on the red carpet, worn with a tuxedo by Jaden Smith....
...You can’t expect to just open if you don’t keep working on those neighbourhood connections. It’s all about not allowing the new venue to create a shadow.”...
...“Don’t tell me we know nothing about democracy,” he exclaims. “We invented it!”...
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
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