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...“For the vast majority of people, diversification is a good thing,” explains Ben Seager-Scott, head of multi-asset funds at Evelyn Partners....
...He “wouldn’t have traders in his shop” (as he used to say) — thus avoiding the fate of Barings — and didn’t sell his “shop” to Chase Manhattan, like the Flemings....
...Yeoh plays Evelyn, a launderette-owner facing both tax problems and unexpected family issues — her daughter has come out and her husband wants a divorce....
...Additional reporting from Sam Fleming in Brussels...
...Whether you are Evelyn Waugh, lunching on caviar, grouse and peaches, King Zog of Albania, in residence with your entourage and weekly settling the tab in gold, or Margaret Thatcher in her final days, it...
...Beatrix Miller, Vogue’s editor-in-chief, had started out, it was rumoured, as a stenographer at the Nuremberg trials; while over at House & Garden, Robert Harling, in naval intelligence with Ian Fleming,...
...Evelyn Farkas, a former Pentagon official under Barack Obama now at the Atlantic Council, said Mr Bolton would, like the president’s first national security adviser, Mike Flynn, “enunciate and amplify the...
...But the president appears to relish being around current and former four-star generals, and there are some encouraging signs that he is willing to listen to them, said Evelyn Farkas, a former deputy assistant...
...“I’m a little bit afraid,” said Evelyn Farkas, a former Obama administration Pentagon official. “It doesn’t sound very coherent.” Possibly the most glaring discrepancies involve Russia....
...Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, the London Magazine editor Alan Ross (Commander Ross of The Man with the Golden Gun), Stephen Spender, Cecil Beaton and Anthony Eden all stayed there....
...He was a model for Ian Fleming’s James Bond, a celebrated gardener and friend who created a plantsman’s garden on a south-facing acre above Lake Lugano in Switzerland....
...There is a false and snobbish notion that the high watermark of travel writing occurred in the 1930s, with the work of Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, Peter Fleming, Robert Byron, Freya Stark and Rebecca West...
...Romantic and exuberant, he was also a friend to Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh....
...Hemingway and Chekhov are clear favourites while Evelyn Waugh’s trenchant snobbery and self-loathing earns him seven outings in this mammoth collection....
...Like Evelyn Waugh, Fleming was of a generation determined to poke fun at the conventions that had led Britain into the first world war, and from the off, his sense of the absurd is directed at the stereotypes...
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