Hints and tips:
...Marks and Spencer and Aldi have called a truce to their caterpillar cake war, after the high street stalwart settled its lawsuit with the German discount supermarket....
...Marks and Spencer’s “Colin the Caterpillar” cake is a children’s birthday staple and the supermarket is in no mood to let rivals crash the party....
...Laura, the “Treasury boffin, 50 years old, sometime Fellow of All Souls,” who spills secrets over dinner, has a touch of Connie Sachs, mother confessor of the Circus and ally of George Smiley....
...The Chatsworth selection spans a century: from Matthew Smith’s 1915 “Connie Martin” (“fauvish”) to Leon Kossoff’s 1972 “Portrait of Father” (“I love that painting!”)...
...Mr Peltz, along with fellow parvenus Carl Icahn, Ronald Perelman and Meshulam Riklis, features prominently in Connie Bruck’s classic account of the 1980s takeover wave, The Predator’s Ball....
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