Hints and tips:
...Helen Watson, chief executive of UK wealth management at Rothschild, says: “With inflation higher than for many, many years, it’s much harder to achieve real returns....
...I arrive at Brideshead, the stately home of Evelyn Waugh’s 1945 novel, with its wide staircases, marble pillars and unlimited wine cellar....
...Helen Watson, chief executive of UK wealth management at Rothschild, says: “One of the reasons we see industry consolidation is that rising costs make it more cost effective to be bigger.”...
...Each novel is only about 200 pages, and Powell has a light funny style similar to his contemporary Evelyn Waugh, so it’s not a deep dive....
...They had an almost symbiotic relationship with their work — Evelyn completed William’s novels, William devised new formulas for Evelyn’s paints — and this extended to politics....
...This time, she gets as far as “Elemental, mi querido Watson”....
...In 1700 gardener John Evelyn described the invention as “the most elegant, usefull and Philosophicall” of tools due to its ability to mimic rain....
...Bialetti’s stovetop espresso maker The Bialetti stovetop espresso maker was the first domestic coffee machine, writes Kate Watson-Smyth....
...The likes of Labour politicians Tom Watson and John Prescott, both adversaries of Mr Murdoch, in exploiting the web are cases in point....
...Patricia Guinn, who was managing director at the time (and remains in a senior role at the renamed Towers Watson today), was an early female role model, she says....
...In Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies (1930) the Bright Young Things – a pack of rich, aristocratic waste-of-spacers – briefly find themselves living in a house together....
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