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...In The Rumor Game (Abacus, £21.99/Minotaur, $29) Thomas Mullen unpeels the dark side of wartime Boston, where Nazi propaganda swirls and Jews live in fear....
...Age of the City: Why Our Future Will Be Won or Lost Together by Ian Goldin and Tom Lee-Devlin (Bloomsbury Continuum) “In 1800,” note Oxford’s Goldin and The Economist’s Lee-Devlin, “there were 1bn humans...
...In its huge 5,000 sq m building in the Allapattah district, there are interactive digital displays and rooms full of foam; a mirrored maze by the British artist Es Devlin; and a space suffused with light...
...The writer is a professor at Oxford university and the author, with Tom Lee-Devlin, of Age of the City The year ahead will bring continued economic misery to the US and UK, as high interest rates drag down...
...helen.thomas@ft.com@helentbiz...
...Last week, rival Barratt Development’s chief executive David Thomas called for a levy on the sector as they had a “collective responsibility to be a part of the solution”....
...“To fix its problems, it needs to have materially higher institutional inflows and materially lower retail outflows, then the balance might change,” said ShoreCap’s Alan Devlin....
...So can the battle to change this culture — which Mr Devlin seems keen to fight — be won?...
...She was recruited in August as part of chairman Roger Devlin’s efforts to reconstruct the business, following controversies over build quality and executive pay....
...The curious pairing of minimalist John Pawson and maximalist Es Devlin — known for her extravagant stage designs — produced an elegantly restrained design for St John at Hackney (with Thomas Ford & Partners...
...It took 42 years for Michael Marks and Thomas Spencer’s successors to ask themselves: “Might any of these customers buying soap and scrubbing brushes need new pants?”...
...Adapted by David Farr from the 2012 Danish film of the same name (by Thomas Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm), it brings the queasy unease of a Scandi-noir thriller to the stage....
...It will take centre stage in Britain’s pavilion at the World Expo to take place in Dubai in 2020, under the direction Es Devlin, the stage designer and first woman to be asked to design the British pavilion...
...The full wing, which sleeps 15, can be rented from £2,750 per week Mure Dickie is the FT’s Scotland correspondent Photographs: Angus Bremner; Getty Images; Alamy; Devlin Photo...
...● Matthew Lonsdale has moved from Psigma Investment Management to become the new head of intermediary business development at Thomas Miller Investment....
...We would anticipate that there will be other investment transactions involving London designers in the coming 12 months,” Mr Devlin said....
...Engaging support came from Thomas Allen’s sympathetic Music Master, Michael Devlin’s pompous Haushofmeister, Tony Stevenson’s witty Dancing Teacher and Vasili Ladyuk’s gutsy Harlekin....
...Ramón Vargas was her mellifluous Alfredo, Thomas Hampson his stern yet suave father....
...Military prowess, work, wealth, reputation, friendship and fame were all important, Thomas shows....
...Thomas O’Doherty, from estate agency BTW Cairns, says that the majority of the apartments have already been sold. “The interest in The Bakery was unbelievable....
...But Es Devlin’s unit-set is too realistic and far too uniformly lit (Wolfgang Göbbel) to lead the eye and stoke the imagination....
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