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...These loans converted into equity at the company’s next fundraising, meaning the British taxpayer already has stakes in hundreds of businesses from Bolton Wanderers football club to Killing Kittens, a sex...
...Brad Stone, ‘The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon’ (2013) Favourite: Titan: The Life of John D Rockefeller Sr, by Ron Chernow....
...Bush Sr was defeated by Bill Clinton; Thomas Jefferson ejected Adams; Ronald Reagan trounced Carter; and JFK, who was murdered after barely 1,000 days in office, was followed by his vice-president, Lyndon...
...Some of the fund’s investments attracted attention after the taxpayer became an owner in companies as varied as Bolton Wanderers Football Club to sex party planner Killing Kittens....
...helen.thomas@ft.com@helentbiz...
...One of the stars alongside Tom Cruise in this year’s box office hit Top Gun: Maverick is the hypersonic fighter jet SR-72 Darkstar....
...of Haribo sweets, Tupperware, a yoga mat, a towel, cleaning equipment, an extension cable, a large number of books, eye drops, a tray, a mug and a coaster with a painting of the countryside surrounding Bolton...
...Bolton Wanderers said in a statement that it “took out a loan via the Future Fund during the pandemic which has now been converted in equity at approximately 8 per cent”....
...This has left the British taxpayer with stakes in hundreds of businesses from Bolton Wanderers football club to the Black Sheep Coffee chain....
...(Reuters) — About half of Japanese companies have an “old guy who does nothing” (Sora News 24) — The many lives of Thomas Corbett-Dillon (Twitter thread) — Recursive Doom (Ruetir)...
...But its funds have since been used by a wide range of companies, from the owners of Bolton Wanderers football club to a jazz-focused record store in north London....
...Others included a student in Scunthorpe who claimed a £50,000 loan for a used car dealership that did not exist, and a Bolton restaurateur who secured a £50,000 loan even though his business had ceased trading...
...The campaign launch on Saturday in Bolton, a town in north-west England, was cancelled after two venues declined to host the group....
...Other successful bids included a medical sciences college in Bolton; the reopening of the world’s oldest suspension bridge in County Durham; the redevelopment of Leicester train station; and an expansion...
...Labour also failed to become the largest party on Tory-led Bolton council....
...Whatever the result, this is a remarkable turnaround for a family who were pariahs (albeit very rich ones) when Marcos Sr was ousted in 1986....
...In Bolton, Dan Povey booked the day off work weeks ago so he could get to the pub on May 17....
...Alfred Heaton Cooper was born in Bolton, Lancashire, in 1863. His parents worked in the town’s cotton mills — but their eldest son had other plans....
...This was a few years after John Roberts had started online electronics retailer AO in nearby Bolton on the basis of a £1 bet....
...China’s president Xi Jinping and Olympics chief Thomas Back discussed the “closed-loop” system designed to inhibit the spread of coronavirus at the Winter Games as they met in person ahead of the event amid...
...Cases of the B.1.617.2 variant are mainly focused in hotspots such as Bolton, Blackburn with Darwen, and Bedford, although most parts of the country now have small numbers of cases, said Public Health England...
...Rockefeller, Sr. (1998) by Ron Chernow: “In these days of great angst about the free market, I recommend this captivating biography of an archetypical capitalist, who built a storied fortune on hard work...
...There are also tighter restrictions in place in Bolton, while Leeds and Middlesbrough are on the government’s “areas of concern” watchlist....
...Gareth Farrelly, a former Premier League footballer who played for Aston Villa, Bolton Wanderers and Everton, was hospitalised in 2008 after almost dying from a splenic aneurysm....
...John Bolton, former national security adviser, claims the president endorsed China’s Uighur concentration camps. Ms Trump says he paid someone to take his SAT exams....
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