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...Freddie Scappaticci, a former senior member of the IRA’s “nutting squad” tasked with dispatching informants with a bullet to the head, is widely accepted as having been Stakeknife. He died last year....
...But the idea of a comic collection reeks a little too heavily of The Simpsons’ Comic Book Guy, or the insufferable vinyl snobs in Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity....
...So began the era of the rock ’n’ Rolls-Royce....
...At FT Globetrotter, we are particularly excited about the Pompidou Centre’s big Brâncuși show in March, the opening of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson’s Paris bolt-hole, Villa Windsor, in the summer and,...
...After slathering my flaxen strands with Nice’n Easy’s off-the-shelf dark brown dye every month for a decade, I sat down in Headmasters’ Mayfair salon 18 months ago and asked the stylist, Luke, to restore...
...“whether someone can identify as a different race and be allowed to use the N-word”. As the thread progressed, he defended his free speech credentials....
...Between 2018 and 2020 that shortage grew from 2.5mn homes to 3.8mn, the chief economist at US government-backed mortgage giant Freddie Mac estimates....
.... $20, studiomuseum.org And the best gift I’ve received recently is a Lorna Simpson merino-wool blanket....
...This lucrative air corridor has attracted ambitious new entrants since Freddie Laker’s Skytrain burst on to the market in the late 1970s. Few low-cost carriers have prospered though....
...King-N’da and Omari-Kinch, both alternately charming and callow, cleverly slide between accents mid-speech to convey their uncertainty about where they belong....
...Lorna Simpson Brooklynite Lorna Simpson’s work emerged from an interest in imagery taken from vintage Jet and Ebony magazines, titles published for the African-American market....
...We took to the air, Ravà and Simpson seated upfront. As we banked away from N’Djamena, a parched, endless plain of dust opened up in front....
...It’s certainly true of 30-year-old menswear designer Scott Fraser Simpson, who wears myriad silver rings across his fingers....
...Sound & Fury is more straightforward, although it still finds Simpson thinking outside the Nashville box. A “sleazy, steamy rock ‘n’ roll record” in his words, it has an accompanying Netflix film....
...With producer Andrew Watt on guitar, Duff McKagan of Guns N’ Roses on bass and Chad Smith of Red Hot Chili Peppers on drums, the songs are punchy and crisp....
...Mr Simpson said the airline must “prove the business model or go bust”....
...But the dominant tone is prudishness — a fleeting gimp mask aside, few tales of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll have so earned their 12A certificate. ★★☆☆☆...
...Simpson Thacher & Bartlett was the first to match Milbank’s rates, adding summer bonuses of up to $25,000....
...With Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, her books on Thomas Cromwell, she did for historical novels what Robert Caro did for political biography and The Simpsons did for cartoons: she elevated the genre....
...The first concert held at London’s Olympic stadium would see Aussie rock veterans AC/DC join forces with new frontman Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses, sitting in for the group’s hearing-impaired singer Brian Johnson...
...Alan Klein, a senior dealmaker at law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, says the drop in sterling would not automatically translate into a wave of inbound deals....
...From France it plucked Riyad Mahrez, who will sweep the player-of-the-season prizes, and N’Golo Kanté, another contender for those honours....
...“They filmed Boyz n the Hood around here,” Jay says wistfully, referring to the film that chronicled the harsh realities of South Central life in the 1990s....
...Last year the British journalist Mark Simpson declared dead the “metrosexual” male, for whom looking good was about clothes and skin products....
...He remains a big shareholder in mail order group N Brown....
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