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...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....
...So, gallery owner Pom Harrington put them in touch with Chawton House in Hampshire, the former home of the novelist’s brother Edward and now a library of early women’s writing....
...A shimmering 1929 watercolour by Edward Hopper also features ($600,000-$800,000)....
...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....
...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....
...On the stump, DeSantis sometimes reads like Eve Harrington to Trump’s Margo Channing, an alluring understudy lacking the crackling presence of a star....
...London’s Ensemblier makes many good options — the curvaceous Erskine and restrained Harrington being two favourites....
...Edward Luce is on leave and will return in mid-July....
...The same applied to Ed Good, the 95-year-old second world war veteran, who said he would not be voting Republican for the first time in his life, and to the 13-year-old Brayden Harrington, whose acute stutter...
...Edward Hurst’s barn is a wonderful source of antiques and inspiration, and Bayntun Flowers is an artisan grower with impeccable taste. An indulgence I would never forgo is the ballet....
...One of the best-known and easiest to spot is the enormous mural next to the East Dulwich Tavern of two men in Regency dress having fisticuffs, by artist Conor Harrington (and not a reflection on what goes...
...Take Barbra Streisand’s guest list of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstein, Edward Hopper, Gustav Klimt and Fanny Brice....
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