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...Give a Noël Coward character a cigarette holder, a cocktail glass and a string of piercing bon mots and they can part your soul from your body without stirring from the chaise longue.So it is with Amanda...
...Best of Enemies Noël Coward Theatre, London James Graham’s brilliant play Best of Enemies had its premiere at London’s Young Vic in 2021: a year that had been rocked by the attack on the US Capitol....
...His preferred dressing gown coats are best worn by taller frames with V-shaped torsos like his, as the syrupy nature of the style has a tendency to drown those shorter in stature....
...It was designed by a friend of my father’s, Sir Michael Hopkins, and it’s a brilliant piece of architecture. I think it’s won around 15 awards over its time....
...valerie.hopkins@ft.com...
...A facility to pack and distribute Sputnik V will open in May, with plans for it eventually to be produced in Serbia....
...Hungary eschewed EU inoculation guidelines and relied on the Chinese-made Sinopharm vaccine and the Russian-made Sputnik V to become one of the world’s most vaccinated countries....
...Hungary was the first EU country to license and distribute the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine, which it agreed to buy for less than €10 a dose....
...Rivals AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Russia’s Sputnik V and new entrants such as Novavax make up the remainder of the market, which is forecast to double in value to $124bn next year....
...If both new vaccines are approved by Hungary’s National Health Centre, the total number of vaccines approved in Hungary will be seven, including China’s Sinopharm vaccine and Russia’s Sputnik V....
...Hungary has been testing Sputnik V since early December....
...Last week Hungary became the first EU country to start administering China’s Sinopharm vaccine, in addition to Russia’s Sputnik V and jabs developed by BioNTech/Pfizer, Moderna and Oxford/AstraZeneca....
...In Slovakia, Prime Minister Igor Matovic’s decision to buy the Russian Sputnik V vaccine without the agreement of his coalition partners has left his government in turmoil....
...Hungary has also licensed the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine, alongside the EU-approved BioNTech/Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Moderna jabs. “We are in a race against time. Get vaccinated!” he wrote....
...The Czech Republic, which is facing a surge in infections, could start using the Sputnik V vaccine, Prime Minister Andrej Babis said on Sunday....
...“An offset V-peak lapel, a signature shape first created by the legendary Huntsman head cutter Colin Hammick, cheats the eye and makes the wearer look well proportioned, and even athletic.”...
...Plus, the FT’s southeast Europe correspondent, Valerie Hopkins, explains the love-hate relationships that Serbians have with Chinese investment in their country....
...Hungary was the first EU country to approve the Sinopharm vaccine, along with Sputnik V, the jab developed by a Russian investment fund....
...Additional reporting by Davide Ghiglione in Rome and Valerie Hopkins in Budapest...
...It has the world’s fourth-highest seven-day moving average of daily cases, according to Johns Hopkins University data....
...The comments highlight tensions over Budapest’s decision to run clinical trials next month of the Russian Sputnik V drug, which has not yet been assessed by the European Medicines Agency....
...The vaccine was named Sputnik V in a nod to the Soviet satellite that sparked the cold war-era space race....
...Reaffirming a strategy set last year, chief executive Noel Quinn said “we will move the heart of the business to Asia, including leadership”....
...“The fiscal spending can really help them get a V-shaped recovery.” In the longer term, there could be other benefits of central Europe’s ties with Germany....
...Chief financial officer Ewen Stevenson told the Financial Times the bank was expecting a “much sharper” V-shaped recession, with any recovery pushed further out into 2021....
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