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...A portrait of the bewhiskered duke — later George V — stares down at us....
...Liane Wiggins, head of womenswear, says Studio Nicholson’s success is in its multipurpose staples. “Once customers start converting to the brand, they want to build a wider wardrobe from it.”...
...His other hand holds the rod with the Hand of Justice made for the 14th-century king Charles V, destroyed during the revolution and remade in 1804 for its new sovereign....
...While following his father George V’s coffin in procession, Edward VIII recalled seeing “a flash of light dancing along the pavement”....
...pro-Russian sentiment in the country by banning wearing the orange-and-black ribbon of St George, a symbol celebrating the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in second world war, as well as the “Z” and “V”...
...“There is not a problem of morale for regulars from the armed forces … they are holding up and executing orders, but they want to kill the enemy and not sit in position as cannon fodder,” Oleksandr V Danylyuk...
...Price was also the owner-manager of the Gambit, London’s crowded chess café off Cannon Street, whose basement hosted the Britain v USSR radio match in 1946 where the Bletchley codebreaker Hugh Alexander...
...With a trouser co-ord such as The Row’s or Jigsaw’s caramel ribbed knit V-neck sweater and matching flared trousers (£120, jigsaw-online.com), a pair of white trainers or classic loafers will work....
...V Ashok, the chief financial officer of GFG Alliance, a loose collection of Gupta-family owned businesses, emailed Kaushik De, finance director at Tata Steel Europe, twice in August 2020 offering smaller...
...Yet Merckx comes out in his jeans and V-neck jumper to wave us off. There is a genuine smile on his face as we roll into a downpour....
...Specialists including Rollo Whately and Arnold Wiggins & Sons in London’s St James’s, as well as a number of Parisian dealers such as Maison Samson, are the go-to places for gilt antique frames – a growing...
...Carlyle had experienced an “economic rebound in China [that] has been very V-shaped”, he told a Morgan Stanley investor conference last month, although progress in the US and Europe would come in fits and...
...Catch up on the court case in this story by DD’s Kaye Wiggins and the FT’s Sylvia Pfeifer. Still, at least one company appears willing to still lend to Gupta....
...We told you about it last week, but now DD’s Kaye Wiggins and the FT’s Kana Inagaki and Derek Brower have dug a little deeper on the $21bn gamble behind the deal....
...Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes tell the FT’s Jamie Smyth how they did it....
...Kaye Wiggins in London 57....
...“I don’t think it’s a V-recovery,” he says. “An elongated U is perfectly possible. I’m a conservative. I plan for the worst and hope for better....
...Xerox wants to give HP’s board its walking papers We’re all guilty of overusing the David v Goliath trope but in the case of Xerox and HP, it really does apply....
...(Forbes) Anna v Andrea It’s one of those boardroom battles that has captivated the global industry....
...NYSE v Nasdaq: may the best board win Next to the Red Sox and the Yankees, Nasdaq and NYSE have one of the most longstanding bitter rivalries in America....
...(FT) Stakeholder v shareholder debate Rodgin Cohen, who is a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell, makes the case for why boards should consider the public interest: it’s good for the business and for shareholders...
...Thousands of commuters pass through London’s Cannon Street station every day....
...While he pulls two rosy lumps of fat out of a plastic bag to demonstrate the difference between back and flare fat, Sean Cannon, who runs nearby charcuterie business Cannon & Cannon, shows me what it becomes...
...He has been fighting a four-decade battle to reclaim his ancestral properties in a Jarndyce-v-Jarndyce tale. I remark that Kaiserbagh was built in 1855, two years before the Indian Mutiny....
...a smart touch, with several military captains played by women, the French princess Katherine is also cross-cast, so that when Henry concludes his wooing, it is Terry who must rise on tiptoe to kiss Ben Wiggins...
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