Hints and tips:
...edward.luce@ft.com...
...In a concurring opinion, Clarence Thomas, who has argued that Grutter should be overruled, described affirmative action as a form of “discrimination based on race”....
...“Any sophisticated person could reasonably have been expected to know that these schemes were unacceptable to HMRC,” said Sir Edward Troup, formerly the most senior civil servant at the tax authority....
...Edward VII’s crown was set on his head the wrong way round....
...Which, as it turns out, is what happens when The Expert pairs me with Chris Graves of Clarence & Graves, whose former London house I had greatly admired in House & Garden last year....
...Edward Luce is on book leave and will return later this month. Recommended reading Cory Doctorow’s piece on “The ‘enshittification’ of TikTok” (what a headline!)...
...A cursory reading of the leading conservative Supreme Court justices, notably Amy Coney Barrett, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, shows a religiously-inspired revulsion against modernity....
...Edward LuceI take them pretty seriously....
...After Diana’s death, Charles’s team at Clarence House found itself fending off calls for the succession to skip a generation....
...Juries have acquitted some climate protesters, just as they acquitted the protesters who toppled the statue of slave-trader Edward Colston in Bristol in 2020....
...And in the FT, don’t miss former NYT executive editor Jill Abramson’s must-read profile of Clarence Thomas and what he says about today’s Supreme Court....
...Under Clarence Thomas, this brand of conservatism will shape the court for decades to come, writes Jill Abramson, author and former New York Times executive editor....
...Edward Luce responds Brooke, here is one plausible version of how events will unfold. Democrats will lose control of Capitol Hill in November....
...King has denied all knowledge of allegations that he had his brother drowned in a butt of the aforementioned wine, but off-licences near the vicinity of the Tower have reported clear notes of the Duke of Clarence...
...Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas are both hardline opponents of the right to choose....
...The Cambridges will potentially move to Windsor, and Clarence House will be reassigned. A veritable merry-go-round....
...Edward Luce responds Rana, I agree that Kevin Rudd is a first class observer of China and I look forward to reading his book....
...Try Grosvenor Prints in London’s Covent Garden or Michael Finney on Old Gloucester Street....
...Take Barbra Streisand’s guest list of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstein, Edward Hopper, Gustav Klimt and Fanny Brice....
...But Edward was needled by his tetchy brother George, Duke of Clarence, whose secretive execution for treason in 1478 gave rise to the story that he had been drowned in a butt of his favourite sweet white...
...Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, why have you asked us here today?...
...We see his rise from page in the service of Elizabeth de Burgh — wife of Edward III’s son Lionel, Duke of Clarence — to soldier and official for kings, travelling Europe to broker marriages....
...Supreme Court of the United States Clarence Thomas, 70, appointed by George H W Bush John Roberts, 63, appointed by George W Bush Samuel Alito Jr., 68, appointed by George W Bush Stephen Breyer, 79,...
...They are the oldest two justices on the court, although the conservative, Clarence Thomas, is rumoured to be the most likely to retire. I am glad I am not Ginsburg or Breyer....
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