Hints and tips:
...Women make up half of the 1,109 people on this year’s list, with 43 per cent of those receiving high honours....
...Christmas is almost here (and so is Hanukkah), and so it is time for the Long View to revisit the offices of Hindsight Capital LLC once more....
...My involvement with various institutions such as the V&A and the Serpentine has really opened my eyes....
...If Holt does decide to take the journalistic route to moderating, he may have his work cut out for him with Trump....
...New York City’s investment in hedge funds — $1.5bn in well-known firms such as DE Shaw and Brevan Howard — does not matter much for an industry that manages $3tn of assets....
...Pieter van der Does Adyen Dutch Van der Does is co-founder and chief executive of Adyen, a Netherlands-based payments company....
...It is time for the Long View to return once more to the offices of Hindsight Capital LLC....
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...‘How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One’ by Stanley Fish is published on February 1 (HarperCollins, £12.99) Adam Haslett is the author of ‘Union Atlantic’...
...For example: “Several stamps were singled out for investment potential, including the 1929 George V Postal Union Congress £1 and the 1939 George VI …and their price rose astonishingly within two years....
...Neither does Speed’s other example, Scotland, represent expansion....
...The 144th edition of ‘Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack’ will be published on March 28 (John Wisden and Co, £40)...
...Labour have been cut to 1/20 from 1/16, while the Conservatives drift from 7/1 to 15/2. Bookies are apparently also seeing plenty of money for turnout above 60 per cent, at odds of 2/5....
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