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...Take a break from the news Here are the six finalists for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award — including Walter Isaacson’s newly published biography of Elon Musk....
...So investors listened this week when London-listed Robert Walters proclaimed a slowdown had arrived....
...His piece (from which Mackay’s account above comes) was headlined “War hero or Walter Mitty?” “Mackay readily admits he has a poor recall of places and dates,” Harris wrote....
...He gained a first in PPE at Oxford and was one of the numerous clever Oxbridge graduates recruited to the Financial Times in the 1950s by then editor Sir Gordon Newton....
...More recently, Gordon Napier’s film 1745 shows two escaped Nigerian slaves in the Scottish highlands, rather grandly dressed all in tartan....
...Along with that came an ongoing difficulty in trying to adapt without destroying what Walter Bagehot, the 19th-century constitutionalist, described as the magic of monarchy....
...Alan Walters thought it was a crazy idea, but he was not somebody to be told what to do, and if the prime minister wasn’t going to give him her full backing, then it was a case of Walters goes or I go, and...
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...sujeet.indap@ft.com Letter in response to this article: Loose tongues on the golf course is not so surprising / From Gordon Bonnyman, Frant, East Sussex, UK...
...Under the technical eye of Gordon Summers, chief engraver at the Royal Mint, Jones’ designs are made in 18k gold, 9k gold, sterling silver and Britannia silver....
...Ironically, it was a Labour prime minister and his chancellor — Tony Blair and Gordon Brown — who promoted the “light regulatory touch” that encouraged money from across the world to pour into London....
...He quotes Walter Bagehot and impersonates Enoch Powell; he has a plaster statue of Clement Attlee in a storeroom....
...Round on the Links The link was Thunderbirds Jeff Bezos “Puppet on a String” (Sandie Shaw) The Man with Two Brains Walter Scott (Edinburgh) Trey Parker IR Virgil (The Aeneid) General Gordon Tracy...
...The more the Anglo-Scottish border seems to signify something beyond Walter Scott, the more natural a push for independence appears, writes Alec Russell, FT Weekend editor....
...Gordon Matta-Clark was there too and he set up a café on the corner where we all used to go for sandwiches and conversation....
...magnificent dinner — of whisky-kippered salmon, beetroot, salsify and lemon, Dunlop (Ayrshire) cheese, bread and butter pudding, roast beets, leek porridge and rhubarb pie with cream — sent to him by the Sir Walter...
...The word has a nice Global Britain our-proud-mercantile-maritime-tradition feel to it, a little bit Hanseatic League, a little bit buccaneering colonial trader-adventurers, myths of Walter Raleigh sailing...
...Others spotting opportunity in a crisis include former UK prime minister Gordon Brown with Seven Ways to Change the World (Simon & Schuster, June)....
...“My vocabulary is not even large enough to tell you the depth of my feeling and outrage,” said John Gordon, executive director of the Minnesota branch of the American Civil Liberties Union....
...But the last chancellor to resign over an overpowerful adviser was Nigel Lawson in 1989, protesting against Margaret Thatcher’s aide Alan Walters....
...Mike Walters, who was head of compliance at UK lender Barclays until he joined KPMG in 2013, and Harps Sidhu, KPMG’s head of capital markets consulting, will both leave the business at the end of this month...
...Russian sculptor Naum Gabo was one such escapee; Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus school, another; Piet Mondrian, Dutch pioneer of minimalist abstract art, yet another....
...(FT) Germany’s neo-Nazi threat The murder of Walter Lübcke, a member of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats who was shot dead in his garden on June 1, has shaken Germany’s political landscape, where some...
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