Hints and tips:
...Before his death in 2010, McQueen regularly supported creatives and arranged to fund scholarships at Central Saint Martins and The Slade....
...But Tim Knowles, a former Cumbria county councillor who worked on the first search process in Cumbria, said people needed better access to independent information and advice....
...The marketing assistant said Peter Martin, who was then her boss and is now the firm’s chief executive, explicitly told her not to agree to any shopping trips....
...But our capital markets are fragmented by country risk, writes Martin Wolf. The only solution is for rich countries to underwrite a substantial part of that risk....
...Queen Elizabeth II was laid to rest yesterday, but I don’t, in truth, have much to add beyond recommending Robert Shrimsley’s column on it....
...Arguably the most important signal is from chairman Tim Martin, in whose image the bellicose pub operator was created....
...After all, the value of a meeting is less what happens there than what comes after, Tim Harford writes....
...It doesn't take Sir Martin Sorrell to tell you that young and rich are demographics advertisers love....
...Tim Harford draws Brexit lessons from the wreck of the Torrey Canyon oil tanker. Sometimes the idea of changing tack becomes literally unthinkable....
...Martin Fletcher Discovery: It was late autumn. I was appalled by Brexit, horrified by President Trump, and dismayed at the state of the world....
...“We haven’t got a Priips or a Mifid II coming down the line,” says Martin Davis, chief executive of Kames Capital and head of asset management in Europe for Aegon, the Dutch group that owns Kames....
...How we lost America Martin Wolf’s clear-eyed economic commentary was one of the first things that got me reading the FT when I was a student....
...I do think that the regulator is partially to blame for that (think of the new Mifid II rules with 16,000 paragraphs!)....
...Costly distraction: In his Saturday column Tim Harford looks at the wider impact of technology on the economy....
...We must up our game on China while we still can — letter from Tim Clissold: “China is not a democracy, nor is it a dictatorship....
...Roger Martin, who heads the Rotman management school’s Martin Prosperity Institute, says he would ban the word “proven” from organisations that wish to innovate....
...I had a quick chat earlier with Tim Martin, chairman of pubs chain JD Wetherspoon and a prominent Leave campaigner....
...Liz Martins, UK economist, HSBC We see growth slowing from 2.1% to 1.2%....
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...(i) Eminem (ii) the Rolling Stones had a vocabulary of 2794 words, compared to the Who’s 1794. 31....
...Read Martin Wolf’s Lunch with the FT with Tim Geithner...
...Martin Wolf is the FT’s chief economics commentator....
...However, when Martin Burvill, executive lead on the Verizon project, was asked whether the new system would replace his lawyers, he laughed....
...His father’s cars included a Jaguar SS and Jaguar Marks VII, IX and X and he has owned over 60 Jaguars and Daimlers, himself, beginning with a Mark II at the age of 17....
...So Ray called him Tim....
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