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...Friday interview: Albert Edwards Albert Edwards, the provocative and voluble strategist at Société Générale, is known for two things: his long standing “ice age” theory, that the US and Europe will follow...
...I’m thinking they’d go nicely in the bedroom. The beauty staple I’m never without is a hot shower....
...If Rishi Sunak called me up and asked to go for a beer, I’d go with him. Claer Barrett Say he does, I’d love to be a fly on the wall if that was to happen....
...Albert Hammond Jr on coffee The Strokes’ guitarist loves the ritual of the daily grind I love coffee. I’m not sure if I’d call it an obsession – I like “ritual”....
...The massive glass-roofed nave was assigned to Henri Deglane; the middle section, the 17m-high gallery known as the Salon d’Honneur, to Albert Louvet; and the rear section, now a science museum known as the...
...“If I’m honest, I’m sick to the back teeth of it. But every now and then I’ll eat one and go, ‘Yeah, that is good.’”...
...Similarly confounding is the Sole Albert (€66), which releases a deluge of jagged crumbs that I’m perplexed by....
...In principle, I welcome that — but I’m worried that, despite its undoubted good intentions, the EU is indulging in a certain make-believe in its policies towards the troubled former Yugoslav republic....
...I’m on Giancarlo Giammetti’s sofa in Knightsbridge, sitting beneath three vast Francis Bacons....
...A week before I’m scheduled to meet David Byrne, I meet David Byrne. I’m on the floor of his Broadway musical....
...Or that pickling could transform a lärchen, the tiny, furry, you’d-have-thought-inedible pinecone of a larch tree (he is also a keen forager) into something arrestingly nutty and aromatic....
...I love outsider art, and photographer and writer Albert Grøndahl captured the work beautifully....
...The blue and white medina glowed in the same creamy light Albert Camus loved in Algiers....
...I chair the local tennis club and I’m a trustee and vice-president of the Royal Albert Hall....
...“I’m sure it’s fun to bargain with Mitsotakis, but it’s not the core job for a trustee chair,” says a senior trustee at another museum....
...“And he would reply, “Oh no, I’d rather call you Miss Smith because we have a professional relationship.”...
...I’m not a member, but I like the warm environment there and it’s good for kids because of its slide....
...“I’m trying to be very strict. Don’t bother me between 11am and 4pm because that’s when I’m at the bench and drawing,” she says....
...Maybe the only thing is that I’ve been involved with music for many years — I’m a vocalist — and looking back, I wish I’d grabbed the reins and learnt an instrument....
...“Pfizer is very good at selling but historically not renowned as having the R&D engine of a Merck or Lilly....
...Château de la Bourdaisière, which is set in 135 acres of gardens and woodlands, is owned by Prince Louis Albert de Broglie, a “friend of a friend” of Thomson-Jonville....
...I’m doing it all on my own, the best way, the only way, I can.” Hogg, a self-confessed motormouth, is also endearing....
...Shortly before the Albertville reverse, I’m sitting in the other dining car — the Côte d’Azur, which has blue upholstery and original glass wall panels by René Lalique....
...Many more have homes along the Côte d’Azur. There are a lot of them in the UK too,” he retorts. “In the past, it was seen as OK to accept Russian money....
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