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...The announcement of the settlement is the first significant move by Rupert Soames since he took over from McBride as president of the CBI on Thursday....
...A portrait of the bewhiskered duke — later George V — stares down at us....
...“Without reshuffling the top radically you might only have some ceremonial change and a blame game that keeps the same malpractices anchored in the organisation,” said Thomas Roulet, an associate professor...
...To address inequality, we need to think about this more broadly, not just using tax instruments,” McBride adds....
...Now in the V&A museum, but once housed in a Hertfordshire coaching inn, it measures more than 3m wide – nearly twice the size of the typical Elizabethan bed....
...The new BBC music studios in Stratford are planned to open in late 2025, and will form part of wider efforts to create a new London creative quarter, called East Bank, with the V&A, Sadler’s Wells, UCL and...
...“If we continue to have the support of the members, there’s no reason to be concerned,” McBride said at the time....
...You can get up close and personal with Trajan’s Column at the V&A, or at least with the remarkable plaster cast that’s been part of its collection since 1873....
...Additional reporting by George Parker, Judith Evans, Michael O’Dwyer, Anna Gross, Josephine Cumbo, Emma Dunkley, Kate Beioley, Daniel Thomas, Laura Onita, Hannah Kuchler, Owen Walker, Peggy Hollinger and...
...The V&A wisely acquired Thomas Thwaites’s “Toaster Project” — a physical record of his doomed attempts to build himself a working toaster, starting with the search for raw materials....
...Despite the discomfort of King George V — whose cousin the Tsar had been executed by the Bolsheviks — Labour formally recognised the Soviet Union....
...Or being given a Mk V Spitfire and doing a village fête display,” says Romain excitedly. “It’s fantastic.”...
...CBI president Brian McBride said the new allegations were “abhorrent” and that the organisation had not been previously aware of them....
...McBride has taken over from Cobra Beer boss Karan Bilimoria at the CBI....
...Moving up to the present day, Nigerian-Scottish designer Olubiyi Thomas has created a brand-new tartan for the V&A....
...A later artist, Ayana V Jackson, poses her “Anarcha” (2017) like an Orientalist odalisque, but the tender image of her turned back suggests not so much exotic allure as vulnerability....
...“Some people are expecting pots,” says Wood, but she highlights this year’s contribution by deaf artist Nina Thomas. “She’s responding to the experience of former deaf workers in the ceramics industry....
...That photographer is Thomas Ruff, with whom H&deM have been collaborating for decades....
...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”....
...That was the issue confronting the house museum of one of Britain’s most perennially popular artists, Sir Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88)....
...His other hand holds the rod with the Hand of Justice made for the 14th-century king Charles V, destroyed during the revolution and remade in 1804 for its new sovereign....
...A potential model of the single-engine hypersonic concept vehicle, Concept V, which might be as large as a Hawk trainer jet, was unveiled by the partners at the Farnborough air show in July....
...A number of designers have loaned pieces from their personal collections, including Nigerian Shade Thomas-Fahm, and the estates of Ghanaian Kofi Ansah and Malian Chris Seydou....
...The Harley-Davidson chief executive’s name still looms over the towering, tubey edifice, which is dominated within by a vaulting nine-storey atrium that Thomas Heatherwick, its designer, once likened to...
...The new cast is an improvement, although when I went, Russell Thomas was replaced in the title role by Rafael Davila, who performed respectably....
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