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...Like the fact that there really was a first world war, and that women in 1920s Britain were largely expected to be demure and polite and not write anonymous poison pen letters that describe people as “fox-arsed...
...Fox News has shrivelled to a niche retirees’ broadcaster. The US has lost two-thirds of its newspaper journalists since 2005....
...Burncoose Nurseries supply passifloras, including a particular favourite, caerulea Constance Elliot, named after a great plantsman who first gave me a plant of it in my youth....
...It’s a process also observed by her friend, the actress Eileen Atkins, who has known Redgrave since they were both 19....
...Playful designs extend to children’s clothes – sleeveless coral sweater vests, black and white Mary-Janes – and handmade toys such as Zwickel the Fox, who comes dressed in a soft blue velvet jacket (about...
...Among the whites, Lilian Bassett and, again, Constance Rivett are top picks. Home Farm do not deliver by mail....
...In 2010 Sue Shepherd, then at the BBC, published The Surprising Life of Constance Spry, which lived up to its title....
...Transfer Market American football great Tom Brady will join Fox Sports as an analyst once his playing days are behind him, the company announced on its earnings call this week....
...Officially the departure this week of Gattegno, who was editor of both JDD and Paris Match, was decided by Lagardère CEO Arnaud Lagardère, and the head of the news, Constance Benqué....
...The garden of seven acres has recently been twinned with the famous garden on Mainau in Lake Constance. The two islands have lavish collections of half-hardy plants, 2,000 species on Brissago alone....
...One result was Constance Spry, a pink-flowered rose which is still excellent against a wall. It flowers only once, but has a superb scent....
...Umngazi (umngazi.co.za) costs from £70 per person per night; for more on the Wild Coast, see visiteasterncape.co.za Justin Fox is the editor of Getaway magazine; he is based in Cape Town Follow @FTMag...
...Further encroachment by Facebook and Netflix into sports rights, media and film production led Rupert Murdoch to sell much of his 21st Century Fox empire to Disney in a $66bn deal....
...Jubbawy Co-Founder and COO, Onfido Ed Dean Co-Founder, JETT customer experience Edward Ungar Chief Commercial Officer, Onfido Edward Wray Co-Founder, Betfair Efe Cakarel Founder and CEO, MUBI Eileen...
...Isabel Fox, head of venture at White Cloud Capital, has seen 2,500 presentations and met about 150 founders in the past year. Only a quarter were women....
...But Brer Fox has a habit of bettering his persecutors. Lombard recently installed a high-pitched “scarer” to protect his flower beds from an urban fox....
...Only three months ago, Fifa simply handed the US television rights to the 2026 World Cup to Rupert Murdoch’s Fox network and NBC-owned Telemundo without a tender process or explanation....
...There she was on BBC Woman’s Hour, Constance Spry herself, speaking crisply on the car radio as if from beyond the grave....
...Model Woman: Eileen Ford and the Business of Beauty, by Robert Lacey, Harper, RRP£20/RRP$29.99 A biography of the super-agent who built the Ford model empire, Lacey’s book provides a fascinating insight...
...One of Fifa’s biggest pay cheques comes from US broadcaster Fox, which is paying $400m for the English-language rights to the 2018 and 2022 competitions....
...Rescheduling the tournament could also force Fifa to compensate broadcasters, including US network Fox which paid $400m for the 2018 and 2022 rights and which would have to schedule a winter World Cup against...
...“Lawyers depend a lot on precedent,” argues Eileen Nugent, partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom....
...Kitty believed she still had two white vases, wedding presents to her mother from a Constance Spry catalogue....
...Watch the shadows on the sand, see the moon, study the ways of the black-backed jackal, the meerkat, the Cape fox or the honey badger....
...The very notion that foreigners who invested in the US were “all-knowing, all wise and going to out-fox us” was wrong, he said. Non-US investors could make mistakes, too, he noted....
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