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...It didn’t help that former German chancellor Angela Merkel regarded Borisov as a useful ally from the same centre-right family of political parties....
...“We also have a fantastic portrait of Angela Merkel by Elizabeth Peyton — probably one of the most influential artists in contemporary portraiture, who really draws on the legacy of historical painting,”...
...“Every week can be different on Chesil Beach” explained Angela Thomas. “Every time you set out on to the shingle you see something new.”...
...Meanwhile I’m a political obsessive who is only just emerging from a long stretch of disenfranchisement. I’m British but lost my vote there after I’d been away for 15 years....
...Head gardener Dave Boyd kindly sent me home with one of the agave’s pups, and once it has gained a bit more heft, I shall plant it out in my south-facing, gravelled front garden....
...This area is a true walker’s paradise.”...
...What Boyd remembers noticing that night was that, “Angela was willing to talk to people.” A year later, in 1971, Flowers gave Boyd & Evans their first solo show....
..., Wiltshire Crossword 16,117: Mary Aclandhood, London; Rev T K Hole, Sheffield; Robert Smith, Norfolk Polymath 1,013: Bob Walker, Nuneaton Crossword 16,111: Magnus Chisholm, Ross-shire; J Verge , Dorset...
...Greetings from the FT’s London newsroom, where I’m writing at the end of an era: Lionel Barber’s final day as editor....
...‘A tightrope walker without a safety net’ Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer insisted — many times — that she didn’t want a cabinet job....
...But, for some European capitals, the worry is that for all her resilience and strengths as a political fire-walker, Mrs May’s chances of building a House of Commons majority for her Brexit deal still look...
...In conversation, the 56-year-old likens herself to a tightrope walker without a safety net. And a glance at her CV reveals a rare capacity for risk....
...“I think he’s a brilliant speaker,” says Caoimhe Boyd, a 17-year-old student. “He’s more down to earth than I expected.”...
...Brain surgery, that’s the most remote thing for me, I don’t know anything about it, and as it is with everything I’m ignorant of, I trust completely the skills of those who practise it, and tend to forget...
...Paul Walker, managing director, Malvern Instruments, producer of technology for materials analysis. Alison Williamson, Olympic archer....
...Tim Walker: Story Teller, by Robin Muir and Tim Walker, Thames & Hudson, RRP£45 A gorgeous coffee-table tome devoted to one of fashion’s newest photographic stars....
...Ian Dyson, who will be Spirit’s chief executive, used to be finance director of Marks and Spencer, while incoming chairman Walker Boyd hails from WH Smith....
...A Little, Aloud For Children, edited by Angela Macmillan, David Fickling Books, RRP£9.99, 448 pages Absolutely impeccable anthology of short poems and prose excerpts designed for self-contained readings...
...Just hours later, Mr Daniels was at the Connaught bar in Mayfair, sipping his habitual Johnny Walker Black Label and talking his advisers through his idea....
...“I’m very analytical,” she told CNN....
...What we need is someone who can instil confidence in consumers and corporates – is that Obama, Angela or Gordon?...
...“It’s Alright Ma, I’m Only Bleeding” would have said it all....
...PR is for a certain type of person who wants to stand in the limelight and say ‘I’m wonderful’. For others, it can be self-degrading.”...
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