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...David Cule Punter Southall London WC2, UK...
...The lyrics, in Yoruba, update and modernise the riddles in ways that are uncompromising and uncomfortable....
...John-David Seelig is a senior data scientist at Rose Technology....
...His substantial tally, eclectic in style, includes thriller The Riddle of the Sands, vampire horror The Hunger starring Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie, and A Month in the Country with Colin Firth, as...
...The prime minister has sought legal advice from the barrister and crossbench peer Lord David Pannick, who stated the probe was “fundamentally flawed”....
...The longer the film plays, the more it lifts from David Fincher’s 1995 horror-thriller....
...David PillingLet us turn to aid....
...And it’s a really fun literary riddle, basically, about, about wealth and power and the idea of legacy as well....
...As ever, send your thoughts, queries and philosophical riddles to Imani (imani.moise@ft.com) or me (sid.v@ft.com). Happy reading!...
...American cinema is more likely to see old age as an opportunity for spectacularly redemptive final acts (David Lynch’s The Straight Story, Clint Eastwood’s The Mule)....
...The director is David Lowery, who made the mournful, lovely A Ghost Story (2017); the star is Dev Patel, cast as King Arthur’s nephew, Gawain. Early in the film, his head bursts into flames....
...Certain art-world stereotypes about stony-faced Balenciaga goths who speak in riddles and smile only during unfunny conversations about noise music could spring to mind....
...Sir Anthony Seldon, 67, has written and edited more than 40 books on contemporary history, including biographies of John Major, Tony Blair and David Cameron....
...Prime minister David Lloyd George had invited Éamon de Valera, the leader of Sinn Féin, to meet him for talks in London with the object of ending the war in Ireland....
...David Pilling is the FT’s Africa Editor Early on in his book, the Ghanaian economist and career technocrat KY Amoako, asks: “So why is Africa still poor?”...
...One senior minister in David Cameron’s administration says: “I’ve never heard of it.”...
...Having solved a scientific riddle in record time to produce a Covid-19 vaccine, public health authorities now face a more human conundrum: persuading minority groups that have been hardest hit by the pandemic...
...David McAllister, chairman of the European Parliament’s UK co-ordination group, said that “mutual confidence and trust is key” to the future relationship....
...Polymath 1,060: Liz Wicken, Cambridge, England Crossword 16,389: David Riddle, Woodford Green, Greater London; AH Harker, Oxford; Brendan Quigley, Brookline, Massachusetts, US Polymath 1,059: Malcolm...
...When David Cameron took over as leader of the Conservative party in 2005, he pledged to introduce a “green revolution”. He went into the next election with the slogan “vote blue, go green”....
...In his inquiry into the character of the great Victorian, Wilson sets out to solve the riddle of the mismatch between the Dickens we think we know, as readers of novels so rich with his experience, and the...
...This reshoring flies in the face of everything we learnt about comparative advantage from David Ricardo. Reshoring may well increase the security of supplies....
...A great deal more study is needed to solve the riddles of ‘how much’, ‘what parts’, ‘why,’ ‘when’.”...
...“Why are you talking in riddles?” “Well . . . Why don’t you ask David what he’s busy doing these days?” David winced, as though someone had kicked him under the table....
...“Leave them wanting more” is a showbiz riddle. The true showman wants to satisfy his audience, not leave it dissatisfied and baying for more....
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