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...Gordon Brown, who as prime minister appointed Taylor a special envoy on youth violence and knife crime, praised a “very effective and principled campaigner” on X....
...Gordon Lish’s drastic and fastidious work on Raymond Carver’s prose created the author’s stripped-down style....
...Tim Harford’s new book for children, ‘The Truth Detective’ (Wren & Rook), is now available Follow @FTMag to find out about our latest stories first...
...Some of the most satisfying puzzles are those grouped under “Secrets”, whose comic strips involve demanding royalty, resentful butlers and good old-fashioned detective work....
...He may be a witcher (the franchise’s term for a monster slayer), but he is better thought of as a detective: a man of facts in a world whose senseless wars lay waste to common people, custom and the land...
...In a book of art writing published in 2009, Gordon Burn, another great British chronicler of working-class disintegration, likened Billingham’s interests to those of Raymond Carver, observing that both portrayed...
...Tim Harford’s new book for children, “The Truth Detective” (Wren & Rook), is now available Follow @FTMag to find out about our latest stories first...
...Her grandson Gordon was causing the family grief with his drinking and pot-smoking, so she decided that her nice caddie might be just the person to straighten him out....
...From Raymond Chandler to Peter Temple, crime has produced writers who combined both style and substance, shaping memorable sentences as they ratcheted up the tension....
...She paid the young Raymond Dallolio to befriend her grandson, inviting him to family parties and even paying for a six-week trip through Europe for the two of them, hoping that the Links Golf Club caddie...
...As Boris Johnson himself put it on the morning after the 2016 referendum: “Oh shit, we’ve got no plan” (See Johnson at 10: The Inside Story by Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell that was serialised in The...
...Played by the likes of Chloë Sevigny and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the killers are often desperate — with petty motives and careless execution....
...A finance-heavy economy suffered a steep recession in 2008 (blame Gordon Brown); a slow recovery (blame David Cameron); more economic damage from Covid-19 (blame Boris Johnson); and the economic trauma of...
...One study, by the economists Erik Brynjolfsson, Danielle Li and Lindsey Raymond, examined what happened when an AI-based conversational assistant was rolled out across a workforce of more than 5,000 customer...
...Tim Harford’s children’s book, “The Truth Detective” (Wren & Rook), is now available Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...After some detective work by his solicitor identified the current owners, he made an offer and, today, the sale is about to complete....
...What’s the only film in which Humphrey Bogart played Raymond Chandler’s detective Philip Marlowe? In 1727, who became the first scientist to be buried in Westminster Abbey? Click here for the answers...
...For Raymond Chandler, advertising agencies were the acme of the “waste of human intelligence”. But the century-old tradition may have died with Weldon....
...When I started as a journalist at The Times 20 years ago, I was surprised to find that any meeting we had in Downing Street with Tony Blair, Gordon Brown or their aides would involve questions about The...
...Finally, looking a little dishevelled, in walks Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled detective....
...The cliché of the maverick chef is now as familiar as the maverick detective....
...De Armas and Craig also starred in Knives Out, the 2019 detective romp Netflix liked so much it bought two pending sequels for another $450mn....
...A good example would be Detective Constable Colin Saysell. If the BTP is the Gotham City Police Department, and Turner is Commissioner Gordon, Colin Saysell is Batman....
...Perhaps because of that embarrassment Gordon Brown also left office in 2010 without this nod to tradition....
...Sherlock Holmes (many writers have taken up metaphorical residence in Baker Street, post-Conan Doyle) and Raymond Chandler’s tarnished knight-errant Philip Marlowe....
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