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...I’m on Giancarlo Giammetti’s sofa in Knightsbridge, sitting beneath three vast Francis Bacons....
...I asked Gerard O’Hare, legal director for WorkNest Scotland, an HR services provider with many SME clients, to give an overview of what’s coming....
...Normally we’d say congratulations to you all for nailing it, but, well, given the volume of correct answers it’s probably not justified....
...Palais de la Découverte, to Albert Thomas....
...Put it on anyone else and you’d be calling the authorities. The best book I’ve read in the past year is Faith, Hope and Carnage, the series of interviews Seán O’Hagan did with Nick Cave....
...helen.thomas@ft.com@helentbiz...
...Mark O’Connell in Slate asked what it is to play with cliché in Blarney and put-on Irishness....
...“I guess people think that because I’ve been there the longest that I’d have some knowledge or understanding of what’s going on, but . . . I just don’t,” Hannity said on his radio show on Monday....
...Kirkland & Ellis has hired senior private equity partners Ian Barratt and Sinead O’Shea from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in London, per Financial News....
...It was a gift from our interior designer, Claire Thomas....
...Thomas Hale is the FT’s Shanghai correspondent Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter...
...Additional reporting by Daniel Thomas This article was amended after publication to reflect the cost to the Exchequer of R&D support from 2014 to 2021....
...After abandoning a merger with Los Angeles firm O’Melveny & Myers in 2019 following a failure to agree a valuation, A&O has struck out on its own in the US in recent years....
...(Even the poet Thomas Chatterton, poster boy for the “Romantic” suicide, faced prosaic poverty when he chose to swallow arsenic in 1770.)...
...As one of 11 kids I value my personal space, so my first wish is to host my banquet in a castle, and there is only one castle- dwelling person on Earth I’d like to have dinner with....
...by packing so much in, the script has no time for proper detail; the women in the story get particularly short shrift (the show honours the strains Williams’s touring put on his wife, Josephine, but you’d...
...Later, the Agnellis, the Siemens, Thomas Mann and Aldous Huxley, who wrote his first novel in Forte, holidayed here, ushering in decades of glitz....
...ViennaWill Cooper, co-founder of design firm Ash“Vienna, which I’d never been to and which, oh my God, I loved....
...Greg Jackson, chief executive and founder of Octopus Energy Group, said: “It’d be bonkers to raise customer prices and increase supplier profits when much cheaper alternatives would be at least as effective...
...chief executive of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said events in Downing Street had risked seriously harming the economy by making the UK resemble “a corrupt authoritarian regime” that “exude[d]...
...But yeah, I’d say the jury’s out for now. Marc FilippinoSarah O’Connor is the FT’s employment columnist....
...More impactful than, say, 1896’s Thomas Edison-produced The May Irwin Kiss, these refreshing snippets capture black people’s longstanding desire for representation....
...If we realised what we had lost in nature compared to our ancestors, we’d be crying. It’d be devastating,” says Cropper. “And I think the same thing applies to paper....
...The trend was mirrored across a range of hospitality groups from Revolution Bars Group to D&D London, which owns upmarket restaurants such as Quaglino’s and the Coq d’Argent....
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