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...Emma Thompson? Daniel Kaluuya? Because I have known people melt at the sound of each of these celebrities. No, what people like, when they like it at all, is the British voice....
...Floral still life from the golden age of Dutch painting has been having a cultural moment, inspiring a generation of floral designers (including Emily Thompson, Thierry Boutemy and Mark Colle), ad campaigns...
...“The critical goal must be to recapture the audiences which the BBC has lost in recent years,” says Mr Thompson, who ran the BBC for eight years....
...Coolness, detachment, decisiveness: judge Fiona Maye (Emma Thompson) has what it takes to rule on the knottiest family cases in The Children Act....
...Andy Thompson Worcester Park, Surrey, UK...
...As we survey the town from its south bank, Thompson explains how the impact of Darby, his son and grandson (all called Abraham) was so great that “the stages of the village’s history are referred to locally...
...Alex J Pollock Washington, DC, US Letter in response to this letter: Lincoln’s banking strategy will not work in the EU / From Andy Thompson, Worcester Park, Surrey, UK...
...Caroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK, said: “This devastating report from the nation’s market experts means we now have it on the highest authority that the care home market, a sector that many...
...Ben Thompson, BBC Breakfast presenter @BBCBenThompson My resolution is to “buy less, but buy better” through a mix of supporting local and independent firms, making fewer impulse purchases that I don’t...
...Even Emma Thompson, playing Harold’s latest wife, has a bit of Barbra Streisand’s Mother Focker about her, with her unguarded talk and outlandish boho outfits, though comedy alcoholism has been added....
...“The new report is therefore yet another warning to the government that they must commit more money to our country’s social care system to protect the older people who depend on it,” said Caroline Abrahams...
...Mr Trump claimed that Senator Orrin Hatch had called him “the greatest president in the history of our country”, including Abraham Lincoln and George Washington....
...Thompson disdained the tourists who showed up, looking for artists’ colonies and nudist retreats....
...In his timely book Enough Said, the former BBC director-general Mark Thompson surveys the play of rhetoric from Aristotle to its relentless vulgarisation in our own time....
...Picking up seven years on from Season 4, a Depression-hit 1931 finds Atlantic City bootlegger-in-chief Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) increasingly under fire, his brother Eli exiled to Chicago and at the...
...Steve Buscemi’s bootlegger-in-chief Nucky Thompson looks increasingly like he’s strayed in off the set of Dracula – nocturnal, bloodthirsty, pallid – even more so when he makes for Florida to negotiate a...
...Though I had never been to Esalen, I knew of it as the birthplace of Gestalt therapy; a place frequented by the psychologist Abraham Maslow, and the writers Henry Miller and Aldous Huxley; a place where...
...Arrival at Newport News of the Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft carrier due to undergo $2.6bn of refit and refuelling work, was delayed because of Congress’s initial failure to agree a federal budget for 2013...
...Egon Zehnder, the headhunter, is drawing up the shortlist for the successor to Mark Thompson, current director-general, who will step down after the London Olympics....
...by Mr Thompson’s successor....
...jennifer.thompson@ft.com...
...Leading internal candidates would include the head of television, George Entwhistle, and outsiders who have been tipped for the role include David Abraham, chief executive of Channel 4....
...Depp, who was a close friend of Thompson, starred in Terry Gilliam’s 1998 adaptation of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The Rum Diary was a labour of love....
...David Abraham, head of Channel 4, Mark Thompson, the director-general of the BBC and Mike Darcey, the chief operating officer of British Sky Broadcasting, who were sharing a platform with Mr Crozier, all...
...Mr Obama announced the appointment of Mr Sperling, who has previously used his knowledge of the inner workings of the White House to advise on the West Wing television series, as he toured the Thompson Creek...
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