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...Occasionally the influence is clear, as in J Robert Lennon’s 2021 novel Subdivision, in which a woman checks into a mysterious small-town guesthouse....
...tony.barber@ft.com...
...Tony Blair’s Labour government lobbied for a treaty to share the Parthenon marbles with Greece in 2003, accusing the British Museum of “blinkered intransigence” over the contested treasures....
...It was told that, even after he started working for Goldman, Zina worked at J Sainsbury at the weekends for a while....
...With the help of local carpenters Nick Simco and Jacob Habron, stonemason Gary Balman and his father Tony Short (a builder who specialised in historical homes), and 12 months of hard graft, Bonfield started...
...Two years later he founded J Rothschild Assurance Group — now St James’s Place, the UK’s largest wealth manager — with Sir Mark Weinberg....
...Sir Tony Blair, the UK prime minister at the time, issued a similar call for the DUP to end its boycott of Northern Ireland’s political institutions....
...overlooking the International Yacht Restoration School, fits in seamlessly with the rest of the 18th- and 19th-century waterfront; it has a bar, Studio Bar, that all but commands you to put on your navy J...
...Taira pointed out that the non-governmental organisations and proposing shareholders had not been able to garner much support, as institutional investors more or less agreed with the companies’ assessment...
...jemima.kelly@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Reason for Trump’s appeal is his outspoken bigotry / From Harold J Smith, White Plains, NY, US...
...“The strongest of us was the one who managed to stay inside for 10 minutes with ghosts,” says the Tony award-winning playwright....
...Until May 12; further information here Performance ‘The Almighty Sometimes’, Southbank Theatre Nadine Garner and Max McKenna star in Kendall Feaver’s award-winning play, which examines mental health,...
...Quite the opposite, says Tony Hall, head of temperate collections at Kew Gardens and author of the newly published Gardening with Winter Plants....
...The fact that J Robert Oppenheimer agonised over his part in the creation of the atomic bomb is not interesting. Was he meant to whistle to work?...
...Letter in response to this report: Listing HSBC Asia reduces risk if there’s a Taiwan war / From Tony SK Li, Hong Kong...
...Brookfield will hopefully garner greater credit as an owner than Cinven has at Eurovita. The Italian insurer has been rescued after crashing into administration....
...I’m standing in for Tony Barber, who will be back for next week’s edition. You can contact me at ben.hall@ft.com....
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
...I also like the look of a colourful 1930s still life by New Zealand painter Frederick J Porter, previously sold by Tony Bradshaw’s former London gallery The Bloomsbury Workshop (est £400-£600)....
...“Water is so unforgiving and this makes every project a challenge” says Garner....
...“We are going to be doing everything to maximise our share of that competitive space,” he said, while acknowledging that “we’ve got to be realistic — Pfizer is coming, and J&J and Moderna”....
...But with redesignation, a restructuring that failed to garner broad support can nevertheless be imposed on a subset of creditors....
...Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophyby David J Chalmers, Allen Lane £25/WW Norton $32 Tech companies are busily building an alternative virtual reality in the metaverse....
...Recommended reading Tony Blair has been far more popular among American political pundits than British ones in recent years....
...They're going to use the Afghanistan hearings to try and tie down Tony Blinken and others in the State Department....
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