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...And at the centre is Walter’s granite Bernarda....
...More on this topic Playing with fire in Belgrade — an essay by Walter Mayr for Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine Tony’s picks of the week Gabriel Attal, appointed this week as France’s youngest ever prime...
...Delors’ contribution to the European cause rivals those of Jean Monnet, Walter Hallstein and Robert Schuman, the founding fathers of the European Economic Community, launched in 1958....
...But her appetite for romance remains unquashed, and at her brother’s funeral, she makes a flirty beeline for his biker friend Ron (Tony Pitts)....
...The French singer David Walters adds soulful Kreyòl vocals over the Congotronic distorted likembes of “No Commando”....
...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com. Russia and the world Let’s look first at the impact of Russian propaganda around the world....
...Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley by Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans (Torva/Henry Holt) Tony Hsieh turned Zappos, the Amazon-owned footwear etailer, into a case...
...Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State by Anna M Grzymała-Busse, Princeton University Press £25/$29.95, 256 pages Tony Barber is the FT’s European comment editor Join...
...After 15 years in political suburbia (if not outright wilderness), Tony Blair is back and, with Labour on the cusp of power, the party’s most successful leader has plenty to say....
...One can think of Tony Soprano in The Sopranos, Walter White in Breaking Bad, or Michael Corleone in The Godfather as examples of the huge cultural popularity of the anti-hero in the run-up to Trump....
...Elon Musk biography: Walter Isaacson’s much-hyped book is long on reporting detail but shorter on the meaning of the tech entrepreneur’s work, writes Rana Foroohar....
...From May 21; further information and tickets here ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’, Athenaeum Theatre Inspired by Sir Walter Scott’s The Bride of Lammermoor, Donizetti’s tragic tale of feuding noble families, doomed...
...Tony’s picks of the week British-German trade has fallen sharply since the Brexit vote....
...suffragette Mary Richardson, protesting against the violent arrest of Emmeline Pankhurst, took a butcher’s cleaver to the National Gallery in London and viciously slashed Velázquez’s “Rokeby Venus”; in 1974 Tony...
...The best example of this is David Cameron and George Osborne, though the early years of both Thatcher and Tony Blair were also successful....
...He quotes Walter Bagehot and impersonates Enoch Powell; he has a plaster statue of Clement Attlee in a storeroom....
...A nod to Donald Judd is as apparent, as are the kind of art spaces that Walter De Maria created in lower Manhattan....
...Ironically, it was a Labour prime minister and his chancellor — Tony Blair and Gordon Brown — who promoted the “light regulatory touch” that encouraged money from across the world to pour into London....
...Time’s Witness: History in the Age of Romanticism by Rosemary Hill, Allen Lane £25, 416 pages Tony Barber is the FT’s Europe editor Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Along with that came an ongoing difficulty in trying to adapt without destroying what Walter Bagehot, the 19th-century constitutionalist, described as the magic of monarchy....
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...In 1867, Walter Bagehot’s The English Constitution defined the value of monarchy as being intelligible to ordinary people, as well as the conductor of august ceremony and the embodiment of an ideal family...
...said Habiba Khatoon, director for the Midlands region at the recruiter Robert Walters, adding: “Clients are open to it because they see it is the only way to stay competitive.”...
...Large figures in a relatively small world, such as Sir Brian Souter, the bus and train entrepreneur, and Tony Banks, developer of a large care home business, have been enthusiasts for the cause....
...George W Bush was in the White House and Tony Blair in 10 Downing Street....
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