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...You can find me at tony.barber@ft.com. All four countries belong to the so-called Visegrad group, and in certain respects it is useful to compare their politics, culture and history....
...“When a kid draws a bird, they do a V. And you don’t want to ski alone, you want to be in a group....
...tony.barber@ft.com...
...A new exhibition — Plastic: Remaking Our World — at the V&A Dundee explores how we have come simultaneously to depend on and disparage plastic, and looks at how we might learn to throw less of it away....
...The marketing dream of a Messi v Ronaldo World Cup final is still alive, at least for the next few hours....
...Peter Barber’s clay and concrete model for a proposed housing development in the Thames Estuary makes it look like a kind of colourful kasbah....
...There was also the “pretty scary moment in 2014” when they suspended a revolving metal, mirrored installation the length of a Boeing 737-700 for BMW in London’s V&A Museum....
...Eventually, he was stabbed to death in a conspiracy backed by Charles V, and his body was hung from the window of his Piacenza palace....
...With merciless sarcasm, he asked if the EU planned to punish the UK by firing a few missiles from the history museum at Peenemünde in Germany, where the Nazis designed the V-2 rockets used to attack southern...
...Read more Seasonal appeal Investors v poachers Wildlife conservation finance, for decades the preserve of wealthy donors and governments, is now attracting institutional investors....
...Some museums, including the Barber Museum, Birmingham Art Gallery and Watts Gallery, have now approached Procter to run tours officially....
...A sand- and wind-blasted quotation in French and English, employing the rhetorical energy of Henry V’s St Crispin’s Day speech, was manifestly forward-looking and filled with hope: “Men will be proud to...
...Or as Europe editor Tony Barber puts it: “Everyone in the 27-nation bloc is in the same damaged boat, but the water levels at the southern end are rising faster.”...
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...This is the transcript of a speech given by Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times, for the annual James Cameron Memorial Lecture on November 22 2018 at City University, London....
...This accounts for the contortions that successive presidents from William McKinley (war v Imperial Spain) to Wilson (war v Wilhelmine Germany) and FDR (war v Nazi Germany and Japan) went through in the search...
...The other quarter-final matchups on Saturday pit Italy v the Netherlands and Germany v Sweden. The tournament has revealed which countries are most welcoming to women’s sport....
...Bensaid Samir at Coiffeur Le Prince cuts my hair once a week; it’s a very old-style barber shop in Geneva and I don’t have much hair, but he cuts it so it looks like I have more....
...Law firm Pinsent Masons has hired Andrew Barber as a London-based partner in its financial services practice. He joins from Womble Bond Dickinson....
...(Guardian) Video of the day Steve Bannon on populism The FT’s editor Lionel Barber talks with Steve Bannon about economic nationalism and rising populism. (FT)...
...BoE v Treasury The FT splashes on in-fighting between the UK’s Treasury and Bank of England over the City’s access to the EU after Brexit....
...Amsterdam v Airbnb Amsterdam, which is expecting 18m tourists this year, wants to ban the accommodation sharing service from parts of the city....
...But, argues Brendan Barber, the Libor rate-rigging scandal showed that regulation by itself is not enough....
...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....
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