Hints and tips:
...“It’s what [cookery writer] Elizabeth David called theatre on a plate. It’s not about real cooking. It’s not what I want to eat.”...
...Now, first-time screenwriter David Macpherson has made it the setting for an Amazon Prime series that combines spectacle, supernatural mystery and explicit environmentalism....
...Managing director David Ridley said the high end of the market could be worth as much as $4.3bn. In July, the company reported a “standout” 50 per cent rise in sales in China at its interim results....
...Modern Art and Jupiter Artland — most recently Barbara Hepworth and Tracey Emin, respectively — and an innovative restaurant, bar and arts scene at Leith where Amazon recently invested in a film studio....
...Take Leith’s Cookery School cookery book, published in 1985....
...Leith Greenslade, co-ordinator of the Every Breath Counts Coalition, which advocates for improved provision of oxygen, said the response of the World Bank and donors had been fragmented and inadequate....
...First-time buyers will often look east to the regenerated port district of Leith, where flats in converted warehouses are listed from £150,000....
...Sam Leith is literary editor of The Spectator and author of ‘You Talkin’ To Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Trump, and Beyond’...
...Sam Leith is the literary editor of The Spectator and author of ‘You Talkin’ To Me? Rhetoric from Aristotle to Trump . . . and Beyond’...
...Her son, Danny Kruger, a former speech writer for David Cameron, has been appointed as Boris Johnson’s political secretary....
...The rules of golf, first drafted in 1744 by the Gentlemen Golfers of Leith in Scotland, have been steadily revised over centuries to reflect the changing times....
...Sam Leith is literary editor of The Spectator and the author of ‘You Talkin’ To Me?...
...Public schoolboy politicians such as Tony Blair and David Cameron were much mocked for their estuarine glottal stops....
...“The special committee is confident that this transaction represents the best path forward for HBC and the minority shareholders,” said David Leith, who chairs the committee....
...Sam Leith is the literary editor of The Spectator and author of ‘You Talkin’ To Me? Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama’...
...A special committee, chaired by director David Leith, says Catalyst’s proposal is “not reasonably capable of being consummated” because Mr Baker’s consortium is “not interested in any transaction that would...
...The story twists and turns — almost all in these loopy, hesitant multiply-qualified sentences; a Larry David-style interior monologue given extra torque by the implication that we’re reading her version...
...Sam Leith is literary editor of The Spectator and author of ‘You Talkin’ To Me? Rhetoric From Aristotle To Obama’...
...Sam Leith is the author of ‘Words Like Loaded Pistols: Rhetoric From Aristotle to Obama’...
...In the end, it is the David Copperfield version of his upbringing that displaces the speculations of any Dickens biographer: Copperfield rightly has the last word.”...
...Sam Leith writes that we are all shaken, if not stirred, by James Bond’s alcohol intake: 007 is a fantasy — he does things that we may wish we could do safely, but cannot....
...Smile , by Roddy Doyle, Jonathan Cape, RRP£14.99, 224 pages Illustration by David McConochie...
...“lurching down a nostalgic cul-de-sac of Brexit” is an inelegant expression; his Tory-baiting joke about “public schoolboys reliving their dormitory pillow fights” rehearses a familiar analogy; saying David...
...No: David Cameron’s resignation speech, ahead of his departure as UK prime minister a year ago this week....
...Sam Leith is author of You Talkin’ to Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama...
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