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...Join Jamie Lee Curtis, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Alice Waters, your favourite FT writers and more on May 20 in Washington, DC, and online....
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...“Iran was regarded as a poor relation to Mesopotamia and Egypt,” says Curtis. “When the concept of the Fertile Crescent was invented in the interwar years, Iran wasn’t really part of it....
...The EU drug regulator will launch an investigation next week into whether clinical trials of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine contravened ethical and scientific standards....
...As Politico put it, Bloomberg’s carpet bombing of the airwaves would outdo Curtis LeMay, the air force general who came up with the idea of “systematic strategic” bombing. Yet give Bloomberg his due....
...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....
...Bronwyn Curtis, chair at JPMorgan Asian Investment Trust: No....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College I expect inflation to rise towards 3% in 2017 was import prices rise....
...“In the end,” said Bronwyn Curtis, from the Society of Business Economists, “it comes down to money....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Most unlikely....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Open question. Depends if he injects a major fiscal stimulus....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My guess is he will be too timorous to do the right thing....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College A fall in migration would have very negative effects on the public finances and growth....
...Bronwyn Curtis, from the, Society of Business Economists It will slow by from 2.1% in 2016 to between 1.1% and 1.6% in 2017....
...Curtis weaves the stories of individual lives into the mix of bombast and theorising. He gropes to find a thread of intimacy amid the epic claims being made....
...One way to picture the economic impact of a Brexit may be the shape of a letter ‘V’ or a ‘tick’....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...This is the $6.5bn case of Boris Abramovich Berezovsky v Roman Arkadievich Abramovich, which began this week – and London’s High Court has seen nothing quite like it....
...V&A Photography Gallery Victoria & Albert Museum, London There are two overarching themes that unite the new annual display of photographs from the V&A’s permanent collection: the evolution of the medium...
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