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...People are responding positively: he recently met Robbie Williams on a weekend in Gstaad, and the singer instantly ordered some pieces, which he wore for his 50th birthday....
...The writer William Gibson’s famous line about the “future”, that it “is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed”, certainly applies to London....
...Tony Robbins is certainly a believer. What should NBIM do?...
...Trevor Williams: Reform of planning, both residential and commercial Tony Yates: Rejoining the EU either de jure or de facto. Costs almost nothing. Guaranteed to work....
...While Prince Charles seemed to be no great moderniser, his two sons by Diana, William and Harry, returned a more popular image to the royal family, epitomised in 2011 by Prince William's Westminster Abbey...
...her bereaved school-age grandsons, William and Harry....
...As the CBI boss Tony Danker said in a tough speech today, measuring the UK’s long-term prospects by the speed of the post-Covid bounceback — the upside of a V-shaped recovery — is kidding ourselves....
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...Antoine GodinUniversité Sorbonne Paris Nord, France Michael JacobsProfessor of Political Economy, University of Sheffield Ronan PalmerDirector Clean Economy, E3G Dirk EhntsPufendorf-Gesellschaft Berlin e.V....
...petrol-powered two-wheelers since the age of six — and with a collection of 15 of them currently jammed into my garage — I can’t say I’m looking forward to the day when the mellifluous bark of my Ducati’s V-Twin...
...The secret pact was sealed by Salisbury, Irvine and the Labour prime minister behind the back of William Hague, the Tory leader at the time. “Big mistake,” Salisbury recalls....
...It is based on “Manchester from Kersal Moor”, an 1852 watercolour by William Wyld — a forest of distant, smoking factories marching toward a bucolic idyll....
...Langfeldt, Birmingham; Saira Kamaly, London Polymath 1,036: Eamonn O’Riordan, Ireland Crossword 16,248: Nicholas JP Weaver, Manchester, England; Steve Clark, London; DIA Cohen, New York Polymath 1,035: Tony...
...of Orange and Shirley Williams) 4 and 7 (Lauryn Hill and Adam Hills) 5 and 9 (Evan Davis and Edith Evans)...
...Our house was built in 1889 by the heir to a steam-locomotive fortune, William Burnham of Philadelphia: all lathed cypress panelling, no expense spared....
...DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...The Giving USA 2019 report says that charitable gifts made by individuals in the world’s most generous nation are also in decline, from $302.51bn in 2017 to $292.09bn in 2018, a drop of 3.44 per cent....
...Tony Yates: This is hard to read, as two large and opposite things will be going on....
...Mr Trump is the last USA official who should be in discussions with North Koreans, but that is the situation that the USA finds itself in, so the world will see if anything positive materialises....
...UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s struggle to find the right response to the poison attack on a former double agent in the English cathedral city of Salisbury highlights an age old struggle,writes Tony Barber...
...Further reading Politics v policies The election has shaken up the Brexit conversation in the UK....
...And in Johannesburg, artist William Kentridge launched his privately funded Centre for the Less Good Idea to encourage experimental art....
...Another first is the USA Pavilion — look out for glassware by John Hogan and the rugged furniture of Fernando Mastrangelo....
...Noting that Simon Williams, the actor who plays Justin, had a recent bit part in TV soap EastEnders, she speculates what could happen if he was “killed off” in The Archers....
...‘Bit Rot’, Douglas Coupland’s new collection of stories and essays, is published by William Heinemann (£20)....
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