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...When Lily Jones, aka Lily Vanilli, was thinking how to mark 15 years of her East London bakery – which has made cakes for everyone from Elton John and Madonna to the V&A and 10 Downing Street – she knew...
...A century ago, the London Society, an influential civic group, produced a plan for London’s future made up of contributions from such leading Edwardian architects as Edwin Lutyens and Aston Webb....
...The furniture is a mix of old and (then) new: 17th and 18th-century pieces meeting bespoke designs by Webb and Morris himself....
...Italy, May unemployment figures plus May PPI data Japan, May industrial production data UK, final Q1 GDP figures and consumer trends report plus Nationwide’s June house price data Results: Walgreens Boots...
...Join us on Thursday May 5 in person or online for a discussion on the power of the individual investor with Merryn Somerset Webb and the FT’s Claer Barrett. Register here....
...Merryn Somerset Webb is editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek. Views are personal. merryn@ft.com. Twitter: @MerrynSW...
...“It’s an interesting circular economy story,” says V&A festivals curator Meneesha Kellay....
...I’d also been to the V&A and seen one of his famous japonisme sideboards: the earliest versions may date from the late 1850s but it is a spectacularly modernist piece of geometric design....
...Merryn Somerset Webb comments that as a fightback against Wall Street, the movement is hopeless: “The money that banks and fund managers make comes from trading commission and fees — not from their investment...
...Merryn Somerset Webb, the FT columnist, will be taking questions from investor readers at the FT Weekend Festival....
...Merryn Somerset Webb, by contrast, argues that the crisis should inject some reality into the debate around the energy transition....
...Both may be less a disaster-in-waiting and more a sign of the pent-up demand that, in normal life, would make a V-shaped economic recovery likely in the developed world....
...Claer Barrett, consumer editor (pictured below), discusses the question with FT columnist Merryn Somerset Webb and Damien Fahy, founder of investment website Money to the Masses. (FT)...
...From the safety of her home office, Merryn Somerset Webb is bucked by the sight of thousands of Londoners packed on Bournemouth beach and uses it to “hail the V-shaped recovery” (FT Weekend, Opinion, June...
...Certainly Merryn Somerset Webb’s FT Weekend opinion piece “Hail the dawn of a V-shaped recovery” (June 27) is an optimistic take on the hoped-for end to the current economic concerns, especially as cases...
...Merryn Somerset Webb Dividends are not dead but after a dire year for corporate payouts investors should take a closer look at earnings. Thanks for reading....
...When appointed head of Nasa by Kennedy, James Webb immediately urged the president to double the budget for the moon landing programme....
...In the UK, they visit the V&A museum, Michelin-starred restaurants, Shakespeare’s Globe theatre and Blenheim Palace....
...Merryn Somerset Webb is editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek. The views expressed are personal. merryn@ft.com. Twitter: @MerrynSW...
...(FT) The day ahead Walgreens and Nike earnings Walgreens Boots Alliance, which has just shunted General Electric from the Dow Jones index, is expected to report a rise in third-quarter revenue, which analysts...
...That is based on the 1990 case Barber v Guardian Royal Exchange, whereby the European Court of Justice held that pensions are pay and must be made equal between the sexes....
...Levete’s design for the V&A Exhibition Road Quarter is a courtyard, a space rather than an object....
...By punching through Aston Webb’s grandiose screen (which used to hide the boilers), the museum is reconnecting with its old friends, the Science Museum, Natural History Museum and all our neighbours on Exhibition...
...Smart reads Dumb pipes v bright lights Is AT&T savvy enough to understand the mischievous world of media?...
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