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...Where so many large houses were being destroyed — more than 270 in the three decades after 1945 were documented in the 1974 V&A exhibition The Destruction of the Country House 1875-1975 — Chatsworth confounded...
...The plinth has been empty since King George V’s bust was removed in the 1960s. Some wanted to erect Mohandas Gandhi’s statue there....
...Hungary is the only EU member to have approved both the Chinese-made Sinopharm and Russian-made Sputnik V vaccines....
...(FT) Coronavirus digest Russia will supply 300m doses of its Sputnik V vaccine to the African Union....
...When Sarkissian arrives, dressed in a grey pinstriped suit and a black V-neck jumper, he says he is fighting off a cold and orders a little cherry-flavoured vodka and a Coca-Cola....
...If you want more, don’t miss John Thornhill’s three tech trends that will shape this decade....
...A few months ago innovation editor John Thornhill told me (an Armenian-American) he had visited Armenia to see its thriving tech scene first-hand and interview President Armen Sarkissian for a Lunch with...
...WWW 30 years on “The time for watchful negligence may be over,” Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the world wide web 30 years ago, tells John Thornhill....
...Qubits v bytes: how quantum computing works Quantum computing taps into the quirky behaviour of sub-atomic particles, which bend our normal understanding of physics....
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...Whomever he chooses is likely to be a critic of Roe v Wade (though he or she will be tutored not to state that preference bluntly during confirmation hearings)....
...Improbable technology is transforming the gaming industry, writes our columnist John Thornhill....
...John Thornhill is the FT’s innovation editor Illustration by Harry Haysom Photograph: Getty...
...What we’re reading US v China Martin Wolf parses how the US-China rivalry will shape the 21st century....
...(FT) London v Uber London’s battle with Uber has intensified....
...how innovation is shaping everyday life A year of stasis for British politics If 2016 was the first album, the past 12 months were the follow-up that failed to move the needle Free Lunch: Banking union v...
...Driverless dreams: John Thornhill looks at all the deaths caused by motor cars and argues the arrival of autonomous and electric vehicles will save thousands of lives....
...(Reuters) Apple v WeChat The biggest rival to Apple’s flagship smartphone in China is a messaging app that allows users to pay for food, hail cabs, stream video and more....
...Then, in the 1940s, they began to become a reality as artillery shells equipped with radio fuses helped shoot down V-1 rockets during the second world war....
...The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority is well on its way to becoming the global regulator of reference for the industry, comments John Thornhill....
...The technology is feasible within a few years, writes John Thornhill, and this month, the United Nations held a further round of talks in Geneva between 94 military powers aiming to draw up an international...
...It is just the latest in a protracted $2.6bn dispute over capital gains taxes allegedly due in connection with Vodafone’s acquisition of Hutchison Essar back in 2007....
...Hazel Forsyth, curator of the exhibition, puts it down to a mixture of politicking among the big London institutions, such as the British Museum and the V&A – including a battle for custody – and interest...
...Hutchison China Meditech, which is trying to develop a global market for traditional Chinese medicine, should provide another example....
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