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...And FT climate reporter Aime Williams has an item on investment opportunities in climate adaptation....
...I think you have to go back to Alec Douglas-Home. He was not the last prime minister who came back as a . . . Stephen BushIn Heath’s cabinet....
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
...There is a fine duet for William Bracewell and Fumi Kaneko, although her late flurry of fouettés and chaînés felt ersatz and out of place on the McGregor menu and looked suspiciously like pastiche....
...I was amazed because it’s got such fantastic memories and such people in it: Queen Elizabeth II, Sir William Purves, who was the chairman of HSBC, Jim Clark and Graham Hill....
...Their historic, Grade II-listed mansion in Gloucestershire had made headlines years earlier when the couple sought to build a Palladian-style chicken coop at an estimated cost of £150,000....
...Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong called the Queen “the very heart and soul of the UK”. “On behalf of the Singapore government, I extend my deepest condolences,” he added....
...The 5,000-acre estate originally belonged to a branch of the Wynn family, and the present house was built for William and Kathryn Wynn in 1616....
...Former HSBC chair Sir Douglas Flint said that although axing the bonus cap “won’t impact the amount of pay” bankers receive, the sector would “have lower fixed costs because base salaries will not be as...
...“This is a country with so much bad politics but a big, big heart for Queen and country,” said Lee Williams, who met her as a boy on a trip to Buckingham Palace where his father served as a Welsh Guardsman...
...The character I play, Meilin Lee, is a 13-year-old Asian-Canadian girl growing up in Toronto in the early 2000s....
...And though the precinct is definitively manufactured, with a roster of shops from leading designers — Zimmermann, Lee Mathews, Bassike, Dion Lee, Sir The Label — somehow there’s the energy of a more natural...
...the Great Pyramid of Giza (itself visible from the museum’s panoramic windows); the Merneptah Pillar; and, in the soaring atrium, the 3,200-year-old, 83-tonne, 11-metre-high monumental figure of Ramesses II...
...Evelyn de Rothschild dies aged 91 The British banker, who advised the late Queen Elizabeth II on financial matters, has died “after a short illness”, the family said yesterday....
...Seen from the mainland, loyalist celebrations marking the Protestant William of Orange’s victory over the Catholic King James II several centuries ago look at best rather eccentric....
...“It was simply the greatest occasion of my life,” Lee wrote of their reunion....
...Housed on the top floor of the 18th-century Grade II listed former courthouse, the bright and airy dining room is set amid grand arched windows, sage green walls and crumbling pink plaster, lending an air...
...January sees publication of Ramachandra Guha’s Rebels Against the Raj (William Collins, January), the story of the foreign fighters who joined the struggle against the Raj....
...Letter in response this article: PM should let unionist case be made by Scots Tories / From Michael Williams, Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, UK...
...Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panthers, Frank Langella the fractious Judge Julius Hoffman....
...“It is probably the most volatile and challenging market we’ve ever seen,” said Douglas King of RCMA Capital, reflecting on the turmoil. ‘The markets are on a sugar high right now....
...“If we really wanted to steal a march on our European friends, you’d make us the offshore [centre],” says William Jackson, managing partner of €26bn private equity group Bridgepoint....
..., the former chief executive of US publishing group Dow Jones, and senior Amazon executive Douglas Gurr....
...In the mid-1980s Lee Iacocca, who has died at the age of 94, was one of the best-known people in the United States. He became one of the world’s few businessman “superstars”....
...What A Grade II-listed house with a lake, a walled kitchen garden and outbuildings. The main house has 10 bedrooms....
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