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Our columnists enter the FT’s stockpicking contest, and are embarrassed. But they’ve got more ideas!
The FT’s wine guru answers 121 readers’ questions — including the ones you’d be embarrassed to ask her yourself
...In practice, Garland seems embarrassed by his own pitch. Half the time, Civil War is precisely what you’d think: extrajudicial executions set to a blankly jarring De La Soul needle drop....
...“Michelle Donelan should be embarrassed, she should apologise, and she should repay the full amount back to the taxpayer,” he added. Hamas is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK....
...On the second round of trumps, West won perforce, and found himself embarrassed. He tried a third spade. Declarer pitched a diamond from dummy and ruffed in his own hand....
...I also used a light tone, striking that tightrope balance of having a smile appear on your lips, but then feeling almost embarrassed by your reaction.”...
...Her comments come a week after a Russian wiretapping scandal embarrassed military leaders and plunged the government of Olaf Scholz into fresh political turmoil....
Kremlin embarrassed by two-day incursion on Russian territory
...Over the decades the Fung home gradually filled with his acquisitions and, as a teenager, Lynn admits, she was rather embarrassed to bring friends home....
...Bracewell simply looked embarrassed. Francesca Hayward is physically ideal for the teenage anti-heroine, with a skittish pas de bourrée and liquescent arms, wrists and shoulders....
...It also helps to have two embarrassed teenagers who could hold down the wood while their frazzled dad hacked them to the necessary lengths....
...We are embarrassed to have a country with this level of poverty,” he said. “But we can’t accept that the cost of reaching economic stability falls solely on the backs of workers and the middle class.”...
...“Too often in the last decade, British politicians have sounded embarrassed about the sectors we excel in,” she told the FT. “That will change with Labour....
...Lewis is “deeply sorry, embarrassed and apologises to the court, his family and all those who have come to rely on him”, he added....
...As Ciaran Driver, the Soas professor and author, notes in his paper for the Cambridge Political Economy Society, “macroeconomics does not seem embarrassed to ignore inconvenient findings.”...
...The images of parachutes of crates of food have embarrassed the Israeli government even as its police refuse to disperse the rightwing protesters who continue to block the passage of aid through the Kerem...
...He looked embarrassed before saying he only knew we had joined both world wars at the end, when we knew we would be on the winning side. Christopher Bellew London W6, UK...
...But maybe the other party was married, or would have been embarrassed if the details were known? “A gentleman never tells” goes the motto after all, one which I will drum into my three sons....
...Abbott has declared victory, saying Democrats such as Johnson “should be embarrassed because it is utter hypocrisy . . . They say, ‘Oh, bring us your migrants’ . . ....
...The MP had told the court that he had “no idea” who Alwadaei was when the incident occurred and claimed he had been “goaded” and “embarrassed” by the activist....
...[In 2023] people were embarrassed to have that conversation, now everyone is becoming more constructive.”...
...He said he expected to feel embarrassed in a new job, but did I think he would get used to it? If I knew where he lived, I would write back with some encouragement....
...In the future, it may seem strange that anyone felt embarrassed for posting their traumatic stories online. If everyone shares their most painful secrets, the abundance will neutralise the shame....
...Such attacks have embarrassed the Iranian regime as it seeks to project its power and position itself as the patron of regional anti-Israel forces, including Hizbollah in Lebanon, Yemen’s Houthis, militias...
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