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...Even David Foster Wallace’s 1000-page Infinite Jest might not detain you that long....
...Reviewers compared him to Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and John Irving. But Hill is very much his own man. If The Nix is a tough act to follow, Wellness proves he’s got the chops....
...ECB board member Elizabeth McCaul speaks on distributed ledger technology at a Banca d’Italia roundtable on sustainability in Frankfurt....
...Its decision is the latest in a chain of closures by businesses across the UK, after a bank holiday was announced to mark the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II....
...London is braced for the arrival of millions of people to mourn the passing of Queen Elizabeth II this week, with some warned they face queues of up to 30 hours at Westminster to pay their respects to the...
...London authorities are advising hospitality businesses to be “ready to open their doors” to serve huge crowds on the day of Queen Elizabeth’s funeral after companies raised concerns about a potential backlash...
...The New York Times’ David Wallace-Wells has an excellent primer on the floods that now cover a third of Pakistan — a statistic that I find hard to digest....
...London’s police force is mounting its biggest ever operation in response to the death of Queen Elizabeth II, culminating in her state funeral on Monday, according to a senior officer....
...Bishop Lodge’s main luxury resort competition in the area is the great Four Seasons north of town, first converted to a lodge by an Ohioan, Elizabeth Egan, who was so charmed by the site she called it Rancho...
...Sunak, to his obvious discomfort, has been portrayed by Truss’s team as a stuffy “mansplainer”, clinging to failed Treasury tenets.Mary Elizabeth Truss was born in 1975 in Oxford....
...Queen Elizabeth II was upheld as the Caribbean island’s sovereign, but African Jamaican historical figures who had been denigrated or ignored by the British administration — the rebel Baptist preachers Sam...
...A similar helmet with the same history is in London’s Wallace Collection, he notes. The arms and armour market has “loyal, established collectors who have bought from us for decades”, Finer says....
...“That is why we have sent the amazing carrier strike group to the Far East,” he said, referring to the Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier....
...A good example is Phyllis Nagy’s Call Jane, a late 1960s-set period drama that stars Elizabeth Banks as Joy, a pregnant housewife with a condition that could kill her if she reaches full term....
...The choice of the carrier’s first operational deployment was designed to “fly the flag for Global Britain”, said UK defence secretary Ben Wallace ahead of its departure this year....
...Ben Wallace, defence secretary, is said by senior government officials to be playing a neutral role and would be happy to work alongside any of the candidates for CDS....
...Ben Wallace, UK defence secretary, said HMS Defender was on a “routine transit” from Odessa to Georgia across the Black Sea....
...UK defence secretary Ben Wallace presented a different version of events....
...And then of course, it all came to a head with the kind of slew of resignation letters right at the end, where of course, you know, Liz Truss and Ben Wallace were able, I think, with quite a lot of justification...
...Ben Wallace, Britain’s defence secretary, told the Financial Times that he, alongside Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg, had tried to speak with “a number of key countries” who would stay in Afghanistan...
...Defence secretary Ben Wallace describes the carrier as “a warship, a mother ship, a surveillance reconnaissance ship . . . and a projector of Britain’s soft and hard power”....
...The entry-level fine jewellery might include an Elizabeth Gage zodiac band ring from the ’80s – which is less than £2,000....
...The aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth will cross the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean to uphold free navigation in the South China Sea....
...“In an area of constant competition, a global Britain has no choice but to step up,” Mr Wallace told the Atlantic Future Forum on board HMS Queen Elizabeth, one of Britain’s two new aircraft carriers....
...However, neither Mr Johnson nor defence secretary Ben Wallace would reveal on Thursday what older capabilities might be sacrificed to help pay for the new....
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