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...— not a minor feat....
...Brown, son of a church minister, recently gave a memorial lecture in honour of his late friend, the UK’s former chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks. It was a defence of faith in public life....
...Monica grew up in Bolivia, one of 10 siblings. She was a strong and diligent child. On weekends, she swept hot red dust out of the local church....
...Britain won’t be one of them, for as long as it is a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights. Albert Pierrepoint was born in March 1905, the middle child of Mary and Henry Pierrepoint....
...Before and during this galloping narrative of hope and dread, Thrall paints a group portrait of the Salama clan, its friends and foes....
...J Hus was a friend from primary school days, and it was Bah who persuaded Hus to pursue a music career in 2014....
...I first met Allen in 2006, when she was 21. We’ve been friends ever since. She is funny, smart and original, as widely advertised. Also kind, thoughtful and generous, as less widely advertised....
...“In my generation we are three people, in the next generation there are seven, and in the next one there will be even more,” says Thomas....
...She was such a happy child, a happy teenager and happy adult. She was so adventurous, so loving, so caring....
...I drive home on the country roads I pedalled over as a child behind my father, when Forte was still a real-life Barbie land to me....
...A friend of mine describes it as a Vox Explainer, a reference to the US news site that specialises in making complex stories easily digestible, and that is the film’s strength and its shortcoming....
...“I know your died [sic] but people still care about you and I’m one of the people,” reads a letter from a girl in a child’s handwriting. Her “fav” song is “Rehab”....
...One possibility is that, like many survivors of sexual violence, she felt empowered by #MeToo. Or Wigdor may have convinced her she could win a public victory as well as a financial one....
...While the multimillion-pound multihulls could finish in 24 hours, for amateurs like Bull, it might take as long as a week. There was just one minor problem – my lack of experience....
...“I’ve always talked about [my wife], and as soon as we had a child, I talked about him and our family unit....
...He and his partner Karl Allen met in 2000 and, as soon as it was legally possible in the UK, began the complicated processes of having a child, finally succeeding through gestational surrogacy in the US...
...No one knew who I was, as I was just starting out, working on both a novel and a story collection. I had won a couple of prizes and published sporadically here and there....
...And when Olga was in Paris, his mistress Marie-Thérèse would visit Boisgeloup.” “I saw him with the eyes of a child....
...He squirmed over to look at the friend lying beside him. Gross was sleeping like a child....
...As nurses in England and Wales gear up for their union’s first strike in more than a century next week — part of a winter of discontent involving paramedics, rail staff, postal workers and university lecturers...
...To do this as an adult takes a lot of focus and time....
...Two fingers to the teacher who once compared me in front of the whole class to a barrel, or the rangy mother of a school friend who told me next to their George III rocking horse, “Talking to you, no one...
...Princess Elizabeth’s shy, stammering father became King George VI. He described it as a dreadful moment. For Princess Elizabeth, it was a fateful one. From then on she was heir to the throne....
...One of his skills was as a painter of ladies’ fans, an art which was already popular in Italy and France....
...One man keeps pulling his vest off and cooling his bald head with a Guinness. He and his friends beckon me over. One of them rolls me a cigarette, and I ask them how they voted....
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