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...She alludes to that feeling obliquely in a street scene taken in Ho Chi Minh City....
...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com. Three episodes this week — in Germany, Greece and Spain — support the view that divisions on the left are becoming more acute....
...He uses the term “vibe dining” to describe venues such as their client, Italian restaurant/after-hours lounge Bambino in Ho Chi Minh City, where music is used to add “edge”....
...There were scurrilous songs and poems too, such as the anonymous verse about Mme de Pompadour, Louis XV’s mistress: “Louis le mal-aimé/ Fais ton jubilé/ Quitte ta putain/ Et donne-nous du pain” (“Louis the...
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...“Les Anglo-Saxons” had a history of treating French pop with lordly condescension, even contempt: a foreign country, not a paradise....
...— A commentary by Luisa Latella for the American-German Institute on mainstream parties’ attitudes to AfD Tony’s picks of the week The support for Israel voiced by Marine Le Pen and her French far-right...
...Lebanese entrepreneur Tony Salamé has bought several of Nkoth’s paintings that now hang at his Aïshti Foundation on the outskirts of Beirut....
...You can find me at tony.barber@ft.com. Birth rates preoccupy policymakers and polemicists across Europe, especially but not exclusively on the right....
...“What’s really important for me is to feel the momentum of cinema,” says Tran over a video call from Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam....
...France is embroiled in a row over the radical leftwing opposition leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s attacks on Israeli policies, as explained in this Le Monde article....
...But Tony Le-Britton, author of houseplant book Not Another Jungle, points out that this study, now more than 30 years old, is often misquoted or cherry-picked to support a narrative of air purification....
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...Like Le Carré’s Smiley, Merrick is an anti-Bond: physically unprepossessing, apparently unremarkable, but tenacious....
...But Minh Khoi Le, head of hydrogen research at Rystad Energy, a consultancy, said building hydrogen pipelines from the ground up would “take time and cost a lot more money compared to refurbishing existing...
...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com. Creepy-crawly fake news I’m guessing that every reader has their own favourite example of disinformation. My pick of the year so far is about insects....
...“Nou pa lé wè sa, nou pa lé viv sa”: we don’t want to see that, we don’t want to live through that. And then, in English, “We don’t need no commando.”...
...My colleague Tony Barber is away this week, so I have taken the reins....
...Tony Stebbings is a fifth-generation wine merchant who has worked in most aspects of the wine trade but also ended up as an importer, selling millions of cases of wine....
...Ricci will be chief executive while Liberum founder Shane Le Prevost will chair the enlarged group. Between them Atlas and Le Prevost will hold a majority of the shares....
...Apartments at Le Relais de la Reine, an Art Deco-style, 1990s building on the Croisette currently undergoing full refurbishment, are being marketed at around €40,000 per sq m....
...As a share of national output, Conservative “austerity” took it back to the level that was obtained in the notorious Dark Age we know as 2007, the year Tony Blair left office....
...In 2004, Tony Blair’s government tried to persuade Tanzania to let UK officials process asylum claims there, especially those claiming to be Somali refugees. (The Tanzanian government refused.)...
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