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...Thomas Heatherwick, its co-designer, at the risk of ignoring the beam in his own eye, told the FT this week that modern architecture has left our cites suffering an “epidemic of boringness”....
...Thomas now wants to use finance as a weapon in this fight too....
...(NYT) Finance v tech The chief executive of Singaporean lender DBS, Piyush Gupta, said his biggest rivals are not other banks but Chinese tech groups such as Tencent and Ant Financial....
...“The groundwork for this case was set in two previous cases — Daimler AG v Bauman and BNSF Railway Co. v Tyrrell — in which the Supreme Court put limitations on the jurisdictions of state courts,” says Mr...
...Rachel Spence OPERA Thomas Adès It is 13 years since Thomas Adès’s last opera....
...Michael Hart, director, Ffestinog Railway Company. Andrew Herbert, managing director, Microsoft Research, Cambridge. Stephanie Hilborne, chief executive, the Wildlife Trusts....
...Inherent Vice By Thomas Pynchon Jonathan Cape, £18.99 A more approachable offering than earlier doorstoppers such as V and Gravity’s Rainbow, this Californian yarn featuring pot-smoking private eye Larry...
...We meet the Thomas Edison of the 21st century, a legendary inventor whose revolutionary work is already having a positive impact on the environment and the economy....
...His often hilarious memoir of getting fractious locals to co-operate is an antidote to western dreams of exporting democracy....
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