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...Reading The Diaries of Henry “Chips” Channon, an account of the life and often outrageous times of this waspish insider to the world of the British elite, I found an honest confession....
...The funeral sector has been criticised by the Competition and Markets Authority in recent years for high pricing....
...“It is fantastic that this sort of thing can exist in this age,” confided Chips Channon to his diary of de Redé’s parties....
...The Office for National Statistics estimates that there was 664,000 deaths in Britain in 2021, up very slightly on 2020, which is high by historical metrics — annual figures hovered below the 600,000 mark...
...He yearned to be English and, possessed of an easy charm, powerful allies and a great capacity to spend money, he rejoiced in his ascent into high society....
...Once home to Sir Henry “Chips” Channon, a US-born Conservative MP whose diaries published during the 1960s were a source of scandal about British high society, in 2003 the Belgravia property, marketed for...
...Channon’s career may have been unremarkable; his social life was anything but....
...We are expected to produce high-quality work when there’s a pandemic going on. The stress of it all is definitely apparent.”...
...The world is fraught with danger for investors; Germany and China are slowing, US monetary policy is tightening and most valuations feel far too high....
...In his 15th novel, Boyd opens up another recondite world: that of high-end piano tuning....
...The diarist Chips Channon once said: “What is more dull than a discreet diary?” The same goes for discreet royal biographies — dull as ditchwater....
...Outside emerging markets, you’ll get pretty clear active management from Gary Channon’s Aurora Trust, which I hold myself (and so do family members)....
...Gary Channon of Phoenix Asset Management Partners has recently taken over running the Aurora Investment Trust....
...Mr Channon tells me that he doesn’t see any. He may be right – and I’d really like him to be. But we all know that there is at least some speculation....
...I started in Newmarket before moving to West Ilsley on the Berkshire Downs, where Mick Channon now trains....
...But what do we make of Channon, in the early days of his diary?...
...At Wedgwood, set in a historic building in Canongate, part of the Royal Mile, Paul Wedgwood and Lisa Channon are squeezed into a tiny working area....
...People were staggering around Westminster, high as kites but miserable too....
...He won a maiden in good style at Newmarket in April and has dodged some high-class engagements to come here on a lenient mark....
...Unbeaten in her four previous runs, Zarkava came out in the spring over a mile and outpaced two subsequent winners of high-quality Group One races....
...That could be a tough sell considering the high level of involvement family members have in the business, where three of them are non-executives....
...He floated Guinness in London, became high sheriff of Dublin, a baron, viscount and earl, chancellor of Dublin University and the richest man in Ireland....
...He is the first Derby winner to win another race of any kind since High Chaparral, the 2002 Epsom winner....
...Mick Channon’s charge has mostly been racing abroad, so lacks the high profile of some of the other runners. But on his best form he has a chance....
...So would a first Classic success for another of racing’s tell-it-like-it-is heroes, former footballer Mick Channon....
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