Hints and tips:
...Cleo Watson, an adviser to Johnson and before that Theresa May, promised a bodice-ripper after leaving Downing Street in late 2020....
...Victorian news reporting of the Jack the Ripper murders was sensationalist, and since police have never found the murderer, amateur theories abound....
...Zahedi struggled to imagine how what he did could be relevant to a gallery; he’d never studied at art school....
...and I’d go ‘no no no’. I met mine on a beach.”...
...He has written deep dives into the crimes of Fred and Rosemary West and Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, so his mood is understandable....
...Cant, who comes to two grisly ends as Humphrey and Lord Saye, beheaded by Cade’s mob, merrily returns as the pretentious King of France while resplendent Paola Dionisotti, the acerbically villainous Cardinal...
...She tells us early on “when my family emigrated it felt as if we’d been stood on our heads.”...
...EMI and CSOP are discretionary schemes, while SIP and SAYE are all-employee schemes....
...One year on, Simon’s charismatic boss assigns him to edit a steamy bodice-ripper entitled The Vixen, The Patriot, and The Fanatic, in which a thinly disguised Ethel — now Esther Rosenstein — is a reckless...
...It is not a bodice-ripper, but it’s still Mills & Boon. “The roaring of the waterfall became a roaring in her ears as their lips met,” reads one passage....
...They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper by Bruce Robinson is published by Fourth Estate....
...You half-expect a swipe at the fluoridation of tap water, evoking General Jack D Ripper in Dr Strangelove. But such moral absolutes are not rare in Washington....
...The idea I’d do anything to hurt them . . . You did have their uncle and half-brother executed, declared them illegitimate and cut them from the succession....
...There are moments of terrible poignancy; Tracy Browne turning to the weird man who’d chatted to her in the lane “to thank him for his company”; Richard McCann, dredging scant memories of his mother: “I remember...
...Her book has just been shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize, alongside Hallie Rubenhold’s pioneering book The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Bolinda Publishing)....
...When I joined the FT, I maxed out my pension contributions to make up for lost time, and also joined the company save as you earn scheme (SAYE)....
...“By reducing the Sip holding period from five to three years we’d make these schemes significantly more attractive to many employees, especially millennials, who tend to be put off by the long commitment...
...At the opening of LA’s Frieze art fair I’d seen sophisticates sidle up to ask Brad Pitt for a selfie, or go slightly slack-jawed at the sight of Jodie Foster. Fame evolves, of course....
...It’s Sherlock meets Jack the Ripper with a touch of Hannibal Lecter in the motif of a pursuer who must think like a killer to solve the crime....
...“There’s nothing wrong with carving marble, but it’s less obvious what you’d get out of being part of a community like this,” says Reekie....
...And they’d say, ‘Oh, right you are . . . ’ By 1979, he had dedicated four years to photographing the entire site....
...He’d never even met Robert Redford. Another Washington mystery was the search for the anonymous author of Primary Colours, the barely disguised novel about the Clinton campaign....
...“He’d tried it in the past and found it beneficial. He said he passed the centre every day and always wondered what it was about, and had only just had the courage to come in....
...We’d never have done that!”...
...Actor Matthew Macfadyen, 40, is best known for his roles in TV series such as Spooks and Ripper Street....
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