Hints and tips:
...As Steven Johnson describes in his 2018 book Farsighted, America’s naval strategists had been given a glimpse of the risk of catastrophe at Pearl Harbor....
...Decades ago, the economist Arthur Okun — chair of the Council of Economic Advisors under Lyndon Johnson — advocated what he called a “high-pressure economy”....
...Not everyone was aghast at the prospect of a Johnson resurrection....
...Also present is a former business partner, Cassandra (Janelle Monáe), a time-bomb of disgruntlement....
...With hindsight, Fancy looks less like a heretic and more like ESG’s Cassandra....
...Johnson’s reluctance to introduce measures in the face of hyper-transmissible Omicron, despite expert advice, has left the NHS overwhelmed....
...That these are just the croakings of a Cassandra....
...Boris Johnson is struggling to ease the UK lockdown, with 18-year-olds soon allowed to go to pubs but not school....
...I had only one message from Boris Johnson in the campaign....
...East German author Christa Wolf, in her 1983 novel, Cassandra, brilliantly deployed a woman’s perspective to challenge political authoritarianism and patriarchal control of both texts and culture....
...By the age of 20 he’d released his first album; by 22 he’d recorded his first masterpiece — the love song “Uncertain Smile” — but his mid-twenties saw him adopt his longstanding Cassandra guise....
...Having endured years of jibes from the City of London (and Boris Johnson) about French bankers fleeing Paris, revenge will be sweet for the president....
...The new Bank of England £10 note being issued later this year to commemorate Austen will feature an adaptation of Cassandra’s sketch....
...“Today’s agreement is a turning point for the protection of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean,” said Chris Johnson, ocean science manager for WWF-Australia, a conservation group....
...Did Johnson get his reward?...
...Johnson, meanwhile, is unfettered by the responsibilities of national coalition government....
...In June alone three more companies moved from the full list to the junior market – Metalrax, supplier of specialist steel products; Johnson Service Group, which owns Johnson Cleaners and Jeeves of Belgravia...
...Never has chocolate sounded so invitingly just beyond reach or London’s music halls so close to the classic, Cadillac-coveting blues of Robert Johnson....
...Jane Austen may have worked alone (though he admits the room she shared with her sister Cassandra may have been the nursery for much of her writing), but plenty of his other examples worked with others....
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