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...In 2008, Alan Bennett donated his archive to the Bodleian; here we see the way in which director Nicholas Hytner collaborated with Bennett first on the play The Madness of George III and later on the film...
...Stephen BushWell, I’m not saying that I’ve looked at any of them until I think you’re going to struggle....
...When the party head is unknown to most voters, as Ed Davey is, another element of the campaign is the introduction of the Lib Dem leader to voters....
...Coe styled it as a “commitment to empowering the athletes and recognising the critical role they play in the success of any Olympic Games”....
...So even if you are as remorselessly cynical as I am, you can see the attraction of working to end homelessness if you are the heir to the throne....
...Sturgeon’s WhatsApps | Nicola Sturgeon gave a clear commitment two years ago to forward all government WhatsApp messages and Covid communications to any subsequent public inquiries into how the pandemic...
...The Fraud by Zadie Smith, Hamish Hamilton £20/Penguin $29, 464 pages Stephen Bush is an FT columnist and associate editor Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...What he chooses and how it lands is one of the big known unknowns about the next election....
...Add in $15bn in pending deals and Stephen Schwarzman and Jonathan Gray’s deal machine is revving into full force....
...‘Known unknown’ As we laid out in some detail in a report that leveraged the FT’s network of European correspondents, the big “known unknown” here is a) how prepared EU exporters are for the new paperwork...
...Over the past decade there have been a lot of studies that indicate that if you adjust for factors such as leverage, sectoral and geographical skews and management costs, private equity does not do any better...
...Later, Cameron bought off-the-peg suits that any middle-class professional could afford....
...A senior figure at NatWest conceded that Farage, despite Coutts’s dim view of his politics, was unlikely to have been abandoned if he were a billionaire....
...So it has lots of kind of effects that rebound from it. Stephen BushYes....
...It is as if we see a painting in full colour called into being in the artist’s mind. Drawings, in any age, fascinate because they reveal an artist’s first thoughts, fresh and immediate....
...It could sabotage the status of the US dollar as a global reserve currency and send US borrowing costs and budget deficits to heights unknown....
...Patrick Dwyer, a managing director at Newedge Wealth Management, said: “Walk into any private bank in the world and ask if they have Blackstone products and they will....
...Here, at least until his fatal illness (Hudson died of Aids-related illness in 1985), was a bachelor pin-up who seemed happily at home in the bewilderment of film-goers (if there was any); a man able to...
...any kind of power over any budget in the entire country....
...Here, Morris and le Carré would probably differ. If a thread runs through every Morris film, it is the sense of a radically open stage....
...There’s been this sort of orthodoxy, at least from the Tories in Westminster, that there’s no love for Starmer and that people don’t vote for Labour with any enthusiasm....
...In recent years, hundreds of previously unknown UGRR sites have been authenticated and linked in the US National Park Service’s “Network to Freedom”....
...But if there are doubts about the 67-year-old’s ability to run an increasingly large and complex bank, there are many more about the (unknown) heir to his throne....
...And on the face of it, Daniel appeared like a good candidate to take over the family business. In 2010, he’s still mostly unknown. And surprisingly, he has no criminal convictions....
...Stephen Bush FT COLUMNIST AND ASSOCIATE EDITOR The Story of the Forest (Virago) is the story of a family of Latvian Jews aiming for New York who hit Liverpool instead....
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