Hints and tips:
...Swift is a dangerous tool of Europeanisation....
...I was most upset to see that at least 18 per cent of Americans did not read my Swamp Note about Taylor Swift....
...As rescue and recovery operations continued in sub-zero conditions on Tuesday, China’s president urged the swift delivery of relief supplies as well as infrastructure repairs and emergency accommodation...
...The film follows a masked serial killer, Michael Myers, as he returns to his hometown on a killing spree, and is 19-year-old Jamie Lee Curtis’ debut....
...OK OK, enough painful Swift references....
...Those two albums introduced a sombre, autumnal tone to Swift’s sound. They also came out within months of each other....
...Watch Chris Grimes with Jamie Lee Curtis, Rana with Chris Miller (of Chips War fame), Roula Khalaf’s leader conference, and my own fireside with Salman Rushdie. Watch them all on demand here....
...US politics: It is not guaranteed that a Biden second term would bring an end to America’s political malaise, argues Edward Luce....
...I’ve long been a fan of Edward Wilson, whose elegiac novels should be better known....
...Join Salman Rushdie, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Barbara Sturm, your favourite FT writers, and more on May 20 in Washington, DC, and online to experience our weekend paper come to life at our FTWeekend...
...A key accelerator for Swift and other systems that enable speed of light movement of capital around the world was the internet....
...Join Salman Rushdie, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Barbara Sturm, your favorite FT writers, and more on May 20 in Washington, DC, and online to experience our weekend paper come to life at our FTWeekend...
...Edward Luce Will 2024 surpass 2023 as the hottest year on record? Yes....
...Their swift advancement is part of Xi’s efforts to reinvigorate China’s long-running project of “military-civil fusion”, a policy that seeks to harness new technologies from the private sector for the benefit...
...After much back and forth they finally settled on Tyrian by Edward Bulmer; known as the “purple of the ancients”, it chimes with the regal atmosphere of the space....
...Curtis Mewbourne, who founded Mewbourne in 1965, had always been against selling what’s now the most active private driller in the Permian....
...“It’s a great challenge for us,” Luton manager Rob Edwards told reporters earlier this week. “To be here is amazing....
...Dismissing all grounds of the challenge, Mr Justice Jonathan Swift said the mayor’s decision was “consistent with his powers” and added there had been “sufficient information” provided in a public consultation...
...Aaron Dessner of US band The National is the main producer, a go-to guy for stars seeking a solemn, indie-adjacent air of gravity following his work with Taylor Swift....
...But galleries took it very seriously: LA Louver’s showing of work from the estate of Edward & Nancy Kienholz gave an immediately heavy-hitting feel (priced up to $1.8mn)....
...On Wednesday, Mr Justice Jonathan Swift refused an attempt by Naqvi to appeal against an earlier 2021 extradition ruling....
...A hallmark of his leadership has been expansion of the state’s draconian surveillance security apparatus and swift crackdowns on dissent....
...“Xi would like loyalists holding all the levers of power in the Chinese government . . . swift and complete compliance seems to be an important objective with these appointments,” said Victor Shih, professor...
...“We all wish for a swift end to the pandemic,” he said. “But as things stand, it is still lingering. That is the reality.”...
...Three years later, Department of Defence contractor Edward Snowden released more than a million pages of intelligence on military capabilities, sources and methods of collection....
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