Hints and tips:
...Sadly, the heat lasts longer than my holiday allowance, thus the remainder of summer is spent racing from air-con to swimming pool to G&T....
...Michael Metcalfe at State Street suspects inflation is the Bank’s main fear: There are two surprises here. The first is that interest rate markets had forecast more than a 70 percent chance of a cut....
...Mr Metcalfe could not be reached for comment....
...P.G. Wodehouse, Anthony Trollope, Roald Dahl, and comic books. But that’s not to say I write like them; Wodehouse is inspiring rather than influencing. Who would you like to be stuck in a lift with?...
...A manuscript of Geoffrey G O’Brien’s forthcoming People on Sunday – it’s one of the best books of poetry I’ve read in years; Michael W Clune’s brilliant and disturbing memoir about heroin addiction, White...
...At the same time, no single nation or bloc of countries appears to have the will or ability to drive an international agenda in what US political scientist, Ian Bremmer, has described as a “G-zero” world...
What is my current favourite word? It has always been the same one: disgruntlement
...Rites of Passage by William Golding; Troubles by J.G. Farrell; Lavinia by Ursula Le Guin; Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson; Fortress Besieged by Qian Zhongshu....
...Dickens, Rosemary Sutcliff, J G Ballard, P G Wodehouse – there are far too many. When did you know you were going to be a writer? When I was five or six....
...The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald. It’s in its own little universe. Which literary character most resembles you? John Shade in Nabokov’s Pale Fire....
...The BBC’s Ben Metcalfe pronounced the video move a “firm strategy” but was also wondering about the streaming vs downloading conundrum....
....” - Tony Woodley, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers’ Union (T&G) “This is a fantastic achievement, not only for London, but for the whole of the United Kingdom.” - Jonathan Metcalfe...
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