Hints and tips:
...If you like the sea, say kite surfing, beachcombing, snorkelling, scuba or bird watching, you’d be happy too....
...“The military has a saviour complex,” says Elizabeth Threlkeld, a former US official in Pakistan and senior fellow at the Stimson Center think-tank....
...Queen Elizabeth II often wore the gems as brooches....
...I’d like to put this to Elizabeth Hardwick, a writer and critic who later co-founded The New York Review of Books but is around this time living a bohemian life in a Midtown hotel, haunting jazz clubs and...
...In Mara Timon’s City of Spies (Zaffre, £8.99), Elizabeth de Mornay is an agent for Britain’s Special Operations Executive, posing as Solange Verin, a rich French widow of flexible political allegiance....
...I’m impressed, particularly by the material on paintings such as Sir Peter Lely’s 17th-century portrait of Lady Elizabeth Wriothesley, which parses the social context and symbolism of the image of a white...
...If you’re wondering about the foreign policy debate inside Bidenworld, read Hillary Clinton’s Foreign Affairs piece on how “Washington should think about power”, in which she kite flies (on Biden’s behalf...
...Hally recalls his excitement about flying a kite as a young boy with Sam but also his worry about being seen with a black servant....
...As he talked, a new obsession snagged as forcefully as the black kites which keen and hunt in circles beneath Dakar’s stunning cliffs....
...at a ceremony in Tehran commemorating the anniversary of the death of Fatima, Prophet Muhammad’s daughter Lift-off A young Afghan launches a kite on top of a hill in Kabul, Afghanistan Listen up Parent...
...Thousands of demonstrators turned out across the US to challenge President Donald Trump in a Presidents Day protest dubbed Not My President’s Day A boy flies a kite on the Red Sea beach near the Jeddah...
...I have Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout, the follow-up to My Name is Lucy Barton, which I loved....
...In this edition, almost as fascinating as Horace’s lines are some of the collected translators: Milton, Byron, even Elizabeth I....
...He is a senior treasurer of the Tory party and built his fortune as the co-founder of Red Kite commodities trading group, one of the largest of its kind....
...Lord Farmer, a founding partner of RK Mine Finance – which owns Red Kite, one of the biggest metals funds in the world – is the party’s treasurer....
...A founding partner of RK Mine Finance – which owns Red Kite, one of the biggest metals funds in the world – he is treasurer of the Conservatives....
...Downing Street was quick to play down any such campaign on Sunday, with one aide dismissing the idea as “kite flying”. But No 10 is trying to draw up other measures....
...Maybe a paper kite? Your episode reminds me of a lunch which the late Princess Diana gave my wife and me at her home in Kensington. There were just four of us, including a very young Prince Harry....
...Whatever comes next, it is not going to be Elizabeth I. “I can’t be doing with the woman!” she laughs....
...“This is just not a kite worth flying,” said one (married) female Tory MP. “And if they do want it, it should not be in the form of a transferable allowance....
...One Tory said on Thursday: “If this is kite-flying, things are much worse at the top of our party than I could have imagined.” Mr Boles has some form when it comes to incensing colleagues....
...Elizabeth Taylor was born in Wildwood Road and in the 1970s Ringo Starr bought a house on Compton Avenue, the road that Lulu lived on for many years....
...paintings and sketches produced by the many great artists associated with it: from the wonderful portraits of dancers, choreographers and composers by Léon Bakst, Pablo Picasso and the scene-painter, Elizabeth...
...The leaked documents are viewed to some extent as a kite-flying exercise to gauge industry vitriol as well as the ferocity of industry push-back, but it is also felt that where there is smoke, there is fire...
...It’s hard to meet the bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert without picturing her collapsed in tears on the floor of a suburban bathroom....
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