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...Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Zuzana Čaputová, presidents of Germany and Slovakia, review troops in Berlin....
...He was inspired by the way musicians such as Pharrell Williams dressed, alongside the work of designers, such as Raf Simons....
...The Garden Museum in south London’s current Frank Walter show (until 25 February) celebrates the artist’s Antiguan heritage....
...Simon supplements his office income with stints as a drag performer and by filming sex acts for punters online....
...One thing that was custom-made new is “Simon’s Bed”, created by the studio JamesPlumb in 2019 out of steel, ash, rope and sailcloth....
...Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson Simon & Schuster £28/$35, 688 pages Rana Foroohar is the FT’s global business columnist Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...The Austrian historian Walter Scheidel wrote: “For war to level disparities in income and wealth, it needed to penetrate society as a whole, to mobilise people and resources on a scale that was often only...
...Sign up to get Isabel’s free Working It newsletter in your inbox every Wednesday: ft.com/newsletters Credits: Presented by Isabel Berwick, produced by Mischa Frankl-Duval and mixed by Simon Panayi....
...Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster) Described by the FT as a “688-page quick read” for the TikTok generation, Isaacson’s biography of the South African entrepreneur races along at bone-rattling...
...Jean Walters takes the opposite view....
...Leah Williamson is the captain of the England women’s football team This special issue was led by Cherish Rufus, with assistance from Cordelia Jenkins and Baya Simons....
...“We must not let in daylight upon magic,” wrote the constitutionalist Walter Bagehot....
...Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations by Simon Schama (Simon & Schuster/Ecco) During Covid-19 lockdowns, the British historian and FT contributing editor was inspired to examine how...
...A Lange & Söhne was revived in 1990 by Walter Lange, the great-grandson of Ferdinand Adolph Lange, who founded it in Glashütte, a town in the then kingdom of Saxony, in 1845....
...Two designers took their final bows this week: Walter Chiapponi, who for three years has been creative director of shoemaker Tod’s and took a full lap of the catwalk after sending out a last collection of...
...Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster) From its cover (echoing the design of Isaacson’s earlier biography of Steve Jobs) to its size (nearly 700 pages), this account of the world’s highest profile...
...Bosses and WFH: Company managers may not like working from home but it is better for society and should keep getting more productive, argues Simon Kuper....
...The same cannot be said of Sean Campion, who struggles with the accent and never settles into the role of Victor’s older brother, Walter....
...Last, I have been following on Instagram the curator Simon Costin’s restoration and decoration of a very old house in Launceston, Cornwall....
...I devoured the books of Fritz Walter [Germany’s star of 1954]. 1954 was a symbol of resurgence. 1974 was less important.”...
...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...
...How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them by Barbara F Walter, Viking £18.99 Barbara F Walter, a professor at the University of California, draws on examples such as Yugoslavia, Syria, Libya and Myanmar...
...“Milan has always been a city of two very distinctive halves,” observed Simon Longland, director of fashion buying at Harrods, on the final day of shows....
...She ruled that Simon Enoch, Kesa’s general counsel at the time, and others “had a desire to ensure repayment” of a £115mn intercompany loan when they agreed the terms of the sale in November 2011 “and had...
...Next chief executive Lord Simon Wolfson said that with hindsight, availability may have affected sales more than he believed at the time, with a correspondingly beneficial impact in 2022....
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