Hints and tips:
...It’s as if Holmes and his team want to remind us of a time when the sport wasn’t dominated by performance-enhancing drugs and the cyclists were proper athletes and stand-up chaps, albeit on a broad spectrum...
...“There was this one chap who read his own book and didn’t make a single mistake during a 10-hour reading. It was flat, utterly boring.” Barrett enjoys some jobs more than others....
...The orchestra, conducted by James Holmes, delivers the score with delicacy and depth and the final ensemble rendition of “You’ll Never Walk Alone” is tremendously uplifting....
...But don’t worry, old chap. My lips are sealed. It is the case of the cephalopod mollusc that now intrigues me. Who killed Paul the Octopus, predictor of those World Cup matches?...
...George Osborne looks like the sort of chap whose cultural horizons do not extend far beyond Trollope novels and the horsey paintings of Sir Alfred Munnings....
...You’re just upset because their communications chaps didn’t see fit to return any of your telegrams this month.”...
...Badger baiting One thing Sir John Holmes, British ambassador to France, is unlikely to miss when he starts his new job at the United Nations next month, is having to translate awkward repartee between the...
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