Hints and tips:
...Pilita Clark (Business Life, February 19) hints at uncomfortable truths behind employers’ attitudes to remote working....
...Instead of celebrating the decline of the MBA (Business Life, February 5), Pilita Clark should be castigating universities for their failure to understand and teach what is important in running...
...What few realise is that a day flight to London going the other way from the same cities also creates little problem....
...In the works of Brazil’s Lygia Clark and Argentine-French artist Lea Lublin, bodies are fantastically imagined as spatial structures....
...“Great work on X and Y, I’ve been impressed with how you’re progressing....
...And it slightly blew my work-y mind 🤯. Duncan, a former accountant and finance director turned executive coach, has been researching why financial services teams are especially dysfunctional....
...Or the letter ‘Y’....
...As cities struggle to revive, some argue it’s time to recast central business districts as central social districts, writes columnist Pilita Clark....
...Double, from £189 Pilita Clark Ham Yard Hotel, Soho 1 Ham Yard, London W1D 7DT Good for: A super-central business lunch or breakfast away from the throng; people-watching in the stylish bar Not so good...
...This can be harmful — even dangerous — when it becomes widespread, as Pilita Clark has warned in the context of obfuscating climate change terms....
...pilita.clark@ft.com...
...Pilita Clark Yeah, absolutely....
...And that feels extremely intrusive, writes Pilita Clark....
...I’m Pilita Clark, an FT columnist based in London, filling in for Rana Foroohar, who is taking a well-deserved break. Admirably, Rana will be using part of her leave to finish her next book....
...isabel.berwick@ft.com Pilita Clark is away...
...The jargon-y word for the flexibility to work on our own time is “asynchronous work”....
...Terrence Clark, the Warnock campaign’s communications director, called it “one of our campaign’s first big moments.”...
...I do sympathise with Ms Clark’s frustration over buzzword bingo and political newspeak....
...Julie Cunningham’s sextet m/y took as its text The Lesbian Body by Monique Wittig....
...Jonathan Margolis has been judging the merits of Unico, Unobrush, Amabrush, HiBrush,Y-Brush and many other dental disrupters....
...But some were disappointed that the new Model Y mini-SUV, which will cost less than $40,000, will not be available until the second half of 2020....
...The nude had not been a prominent subject in Impressionist Paris, but after 1900, writes Kenneth Clark, “when art was once more concerned with concepts rather than sensations, the nude was the first concept...
...This delightful mushy mix is traditionally called Moros y Cristianos, Moors and Christians, an ecumenical twist that always makes me smile....
...“If you’re outside, it’s so much easier to say ‘Oh well, we don’t any longer have to think about things in that way and we’re already doing X, Y and Z, so why should we do A, B and C?’ ” he said....
...It is a good read but it comes close to the “Great Man” hypothesis, the Kenneth Clark rather than the John Berger approach to the urban....
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