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...Munro’s play imagines the conversations — between Patrick and Katherine, between Katherine and the court, between Katherine and James V....
...“This one’s for you, Rex,” he wisecracked to King George V during a royal command performance in 1932 in London....
...Measured in dollars, a lawyer named Douglas Wigdor would be the undisputed legal leader of the #MeToo movement....
...Richardson gleefully relates the snobbery practised by these women at their exclusive Wednesday night balls at Almack’s club in London’s St James at the turn of the 19th century....
...Roy Jenkins, Kenneth Clarke, Michael Portillo, David Miliband and George Osborne are just a few political heirs apparent who never clinched the top job....
...In Dundee, the most pro-independence city in Scotland, a new £80m V&A Museum opened in 2018, part of a dockside redevelopment....
...Staley’s predecessor, Antony Jenkins, tried to shrink the investment bank during his tenure, but Barclays’ directors got cold feet and Jenkins lost out in a boardroom showdown, which led to his firing in...
...In the autumn of 1978, an infant in a pink cap waddled on to the set of the Mike Douglas Show, then a staple of US daytime TV, to be cooed over by Bob Hope and James Stewart as well as the host....
...(FT) Warren v Wall Street? Elizabeth Warren is one of the country’s most prominent critics of Wall Street firms and big banks....
...Recognising the danger of monotony, James T Baily, a handicrafts teacher working on behalf of the Friends’ Emergency Committee, a Quaker organisation, helped internees set up workshops....
...This accounts for the contortions that successive presidents from William McKinley (war v Imperial Spain) to Wilson (war v Wilhelmine Germany) and FDR (war v Nazi Germany and Japan) went through in the search...
...BakerHostetler has hired Douglas Eingurt as a partner in the law firm’s mergers and acquisitions group and its private equity and venture capital team. Eingurt was previously a partner at Dentons....
...Best of the rest The truth about violent crime in London — Anoosh Chakelian in the New Statesman Speed Kills: Silicon Valley’s obsession with rapid growth — Will Oremus on Slate.com NHS SOS — James Meek...
...Siona Jenkins examines questions of the legitimacy of the Brexit process and the impact on our democracy of the bill currently going through parliament with Sionaidh Douglas-Scott, director of the Queen...
...James von Moltke: England 1, Germany 0 James von Moltke has had a mixed start in his new job as Deutsche Bank’s finance director....
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...(Politico) Easy listening Brexit unspun Siona Jenkins examines questions of the legitimacy of the Brexit process and the impact on our democracy of the bill going through parliament with Sionaidh Douglas-Scott...
...On display at the V&A is a panel of floral marquetry attributed to Marc Simon that once decorated the ship’s deluxe Beauvais suite....
...(Al Jazeera) MAGA v MOPGA French president Emmanuel Macron appears to be goading US leader Donald Trump....
...Douglas Flint, HSBC If ever there was a time for cross-party agreement surely it is now in relation to the Brexit negotiations....
...addiction The risk of boom turning to bust Brooke Masters: Debt v equity — why have IPOs fallen?...
...Rupert Murdoch and his sons, Lachlan and James (pictured), seem intent on finding out....
...It is less cool and more cumbersome than the fictitious alien fish in Douglas Adams’ novel but it promises to boldly go where no gadget has gone before....
...Patrick Jenkins and the FT banking team discuss Credit Suisse's full-year results with Berenberg analyst James Chappell and the Co-operative Bank's struggle to survive under its current ownership....
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