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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...
...The V&A’s exhibition gives plenty of food for thought about all this....
...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....
...Merryn Somerset Webb is editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek. The views expressed are personal. She is a non-executive director of BlackRock Throgmorton Trust and Murray Income Trust and holds Shell....
...Merryn Somerset Webb is editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek. The views expressed are personal; merryn@ft.com; Twitter: @MerrynSW....
...The wide mouth of the Rio Tejo (the Tagus in English) looked like the edge of the world, tipping away into oceans of light....
...Rhiannon HamamIf you’d like to go to another abortion provider, if you are an undocumented person in the Rio Grande Valley and you’re driving, when you’re leaving the Rio Grande Valley, you have to pass...
...The furniture is a mix of old and (then) new: 17th and 18th-century pieces meeting bespoke designs by Webb and Morris himself....
...Guedes, a former fund manager from Rio de Janeiro, regularly accuses foreigners and Brazilians of talking down Latin America’s largest economy, which he says has entered a “V-shaped recovery” following the...
...A former fund manager from Rio de Janeiro, Guedes regularly accuses both foreigners — and Brazilians themselves — of talking down Latin America’s largest economy, which he says has entered a “V-shaped recovery...
...Michael Webb rawcoffeecompany.com Gordon Street Coffee, Glasgow This small batch coffee roaster produces their own blends, “with the Glasgow blend being exceptional,” as well as a “a fantastic range of...
...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....
...started to come out of the closet, to start voicing that the values we are being forced to believe in are not the values that we have in South Texas,” says Luis de la Garza, chair of the Republican party in Webb...
...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....
...More festival triumphs followed for the rest of 2021 in Toronto, Rome, London and Rio....
...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...
...It also hopes to conclude a deal for 10m doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine. At no time had the federal government “been absent or abstained from its responsibilities”, the department added....
...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....
...“China has enjoyed a very steep V-shaped recovery,” said Rio chief executive Jean-Sébastien Jacques. “The demand for iron ore in China is very, very strong and all the books are full.”...
...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)...
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