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...Which Dickens-based novel by Barbara Kingsolver won the 2023 Women’s Prize for Fiction? Which island group, roughly 230 miles south of Cuba, is the most populous British Overseas Territory?...
...Several high-profile Democrats have launched campaigns, including House Democrats Adam Schiff, Katie Porter and Barbara Lee....
...“I got lucky with this record [“Ghosts Again”] because Richard Butler [of The Psychedelic Furs] reached out to me and that worked out really well,” says Gore. “I asked if he had any lyrics....
...Finally, a plug for the US edition of the FTWeekend Festival, happening in Washington on Saturday with a guest list including Hillary Rodham Clinton, Salman Rushdie, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Barbara...
...Left wingers Rebecca Long Bailey, Dawn Butler and Zarah Sultana will be worth watching, as wellas respected MPs Rosie Cooper and Barbara Keely....
...“Apart from Barbara Hepworth, name a woman sculptor, let me tell you, there are none.” Who is the dunce now?...
...Tide, Mariah Vineyard Chardonnay 2017 Mendocino Ridge $36 Flatiron Wines & Spirits, San Francisco DeSante, Old Vines White 2014 Napa Valley£39.99 AG Wines Paul Lato, Matinee Sauvignon Blanc 2016 Santa Barbara...
...An address book said to have been stolen by his butler included the names of several contacts in the French capital....
...Masculinity, as the influential gender theorist Judith Butler has contended, is a “performance” that becomes accepted as reality through the same shared actions and behaviours....
...As in the film, Adam Maitland (Rob McClure) and his wife Barbara (Kerry Butler) get killed off early on, whereupon Beetlejuice offers to help them scare away their rambling Victorian farmhouse’s new owners...
...“I must have a tumbler of sherry in my room before breakfast,” Churchill had told the butler on his arrival. “A couple of glasses of scotch and soda before lunch and French champagne....
...Aneurin Bevan used to eat here, as did Barbara Castle — and TS Eliot. In theory, politicians don’t frequent the Gay Hussar any more....
...“It is not good enough to treat this role as an afterthought,” said Dawn Butler, Labour’s shadow minister for women and equalities....
...A powerful article published at the beginning of July by the Brazilian journalist Vanessa Barbara describes “Brazil’s Olympic catastrophe”....
...Eamonn Butler, a director of the rightwing think-tank Adam Smith Institute, says: “Employees have been overpromised. Insisting on a gold standard is not sustainable.”...
...Other artists in the show include Lynn Chadwick, Reg Butler and Antony Gormley....
...Ms Butler is on secondment from the Prudential Regulation Authority for a year....
...The theme is British sculpture 1930-1957 – the year, following Lynn Chadwick’s prize at the Venice biennale (beating Giacometti), when artists from Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth to a younger generation...
...But there is much to be said for copperplate handwriting, too, and for having a butler. The world has moved on....
...Four months ago, he was promoted to house butler, looking after guests and in charge of catering for “the boss” – The Prince of Wales – when he visits....
...Dundeath James Fergusson Stanley Fink and Barbara Fink Daniel Finkelstein and Nicky Finkelstein Liam Fox MP and Jesme Baird Sir Christopher Gent and Lady Kate Gent Michael Gove MP and Sarah Vine Lucian...
...Recently, a buddy of mine, Nicky Butler (once one of the Leonard’s hairdressers and now a jewellery designer), reminded me of the tailors on the side streets who attended to the clothes and made fingertip-length...
...Novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford was born in Yorkshire, northern England, and started writing for the local newspaper in her teens. By the age of 22 she was an editor on a national publication....
...If O’Brien’s narrative about the journey of the studious, romantic Caithleen Brady and her feisty childhood friend, Barbara “Baba” Brennan, from their small rural hometown in the west of Ireland to a strict...
...Rhett Butler’s People By Donald McCaig MacMillan £17.99, 480 pages FT bookshop price: £14.39 A sequel to Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind told from Rhett Butler’s perspective....
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