Hints and tips:
...The boss of one large company said: “If you pin me to the wall and made me go to one, I’d only go to Labour.”...
...Allan Baitel, a Panamanian native and the company’s spokesperson at the time, was busy providing quotes for journalists covering the event....
...“He’d been open about depression in the past and [spoke about] how ketamine had helped.”...
...If I was prime minister I’d rewrite the Medical Act 1858, which outlawed quack doctors, so as to outlaw quack IT practitioners....
...Of course, I’d known that the early months would be difficult. But knowing and understanding are not the same....
...He added: “Whoever is chancellor at the time of the next spending review . . . might wish they’d chosen a different line of work.”...
...A “short, quick, angry cross dashing of water in every direction” tucked between “howling and shrieking” surf, wrote Edgar Allan Poe in his 1841 short story, “A Descent into the Maelström”....
...An indulgence I’d never forgo is being an artist. You’re continually solving problems and having conversations with yourself....
...“You’d have one ship on patrol like you saw in [the Tom Hanks movie] Captain Phillips and so when there was some kind of problem, they’d come respond,” says Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute...
...That’s the piece of work advice I really wish I’d known at 21. I’d love to hear what you wish you’d known when you started out. Email me at isabel.berwick@ft.com....
...“If I were a Taylor Swift fan I’d be camping out because the hotels are going to be a mess,” Kurt Petersen, co-president of Unite Here Local 11 union, told the Financial Times....
...British tenor Allan Clayton and soprano Sophie Bevan sing the tormented titular fisherman and the woman who loves him....
...“If you took away the Christmas element, these are beautiful objects you’d want to display in the home year round,” he says. He once gave glass dumbbells to the guy who runs his gym....
...Petersen actually went bankrupt as a result....
...(Laughter) I mean, I don’t really think I’d like to see a printed bookshelf on a high street outfit particularly, which makes me sound quite snobby....
...Finally, I’d like to thank David Hindley for expertly steering the Week Ahead guide for the last fortnight....
...The writer Anne Helen Petersen, author of Out of Office (I recommend subscribing to her Culture Study newsletter) popularised this concept....
...Petersen said: “We haven’t learned anything....
...Kevin Keegan, Allan Simonsen and Michael Owen all won Ballons d’Or as Europe’s best player, Keegan and Simonsen admittedly in a time when non-Europeans weren’t yet eligible for the prize....
...Alex BarkerDid he seem like the other kind of businessman you’d meet in the adult industry? Clement PicquetNo, no, not at all....
...He’d looked dubiously at my leather skirt, tank top and polyester sandals. There is no going back now....
...“I’d outgrown my joy a little bit,” he told Forbes magazine in an article about the move to Flexport....
...Tesco chair and former CBI president John Allan is to step down next month following allegations about his behaviour towards women....
...I’ll be honest, I know little of Irish politics, nothing of football and even less of fighting so if I’d ever entered the Auld Triangle, I don’t imagine I’d have got out with my teeth....
...There was a fiscal event, a long-end intervention and a coup d’éTruss....
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