Hints and tips:
...Take a break from the news V-necks have been verboten for as long as most of us can remember, writes Teo van den Broeke....
...From £250 for a pair of rooms, gardenshavana.com Baya Simons The Lowell, New York It’s a real hotel, with 17 floors, 74 rooms and suites, and the patrician pre-war mien of the prime Upper East Side location...
...“There are a lot of conspiracy theories, which I’ve heard my whole life,” says Janie Hendrix, the adopted daughter of Jimi’s father Al Hendrix following his marriage to her mother in 1966, when she was five...
...Well, Robert, I'm glad you asked me that because the Labour party under Starmer with its ruthless dragging back to the centre, it's ruthless expulsion of the hard left, silencing of the Corbynites, et cetera...
...Barrero et al have been running a survey of working-age Americans since May of 2020, targeting those with a history of paid work....
...However, Bebchuk et al conclude that this throws the ball into the government’s court....
...(Incidentally, for my money, Cronenberg’s scuffed aesthetic has dated at least a little better than the gleaming postmodernism of Neo and Trinity et al.)...
...Only at Oxford did they acquire the qualities that Johnson et al already had: a ruling-class accent, rhetorical skills and the ability to feel confident in any establishment setting....
...A new individualised, globalised, irreligious society requires a new politics....
...Hounslow Heath; the melancholic pond in Harrow Weald where WS Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan fame drowned trying to save a young woman; Elizabeth I’s hunting lodge in Epping Forest, where she was reputed...
...(FT) The hypersonic arms race A new generation of missiles are capable of travelling more than 15 times the speed of sound....
...Inside Sixth & I, the Washington synagogue and events venue, former Starbucks executive chairman Howard Schultz was talking about his new memoir and his potential run for US president....
...Along the way they became global stars, a combination of their David v Goliath adventure and their supporters’ fearsome Viking-style chanting....
...they would have been laughed out of town....
...New labour laws take force next month, though Amnesty International is reserving judgment on whether they will improve things. Qatar’s exhausting ride continues. simon.kuper@ft.com....
...When I started working I used to go out for lunch a lot more. Now it’s much more al desko.”...
...following his recent highly publicised trip to Mexico, Ms Janer argues....
...“The news alert came up on my phone and my heart literally stopped. I had to be a part of it,” he says....
...Gallery, then home to Bacon, Pollock, Henry Moore et al, as saying, “I don’t collect art, I collect money.”...
...And I’ll read again Simon Sebag Montefiore’s stunning book about Stalin, The Court of The Red Tsar. Do you try to keep up with the news when you’re on holiday?...
...Anne Boleyn to the conquest of Mexico....
...When I read this week of Salter’s death, I wished I had met him, for all that he was....
...Selections by Simon Kuper … Lucy Kellaway FT columnist and associate editor In 1982 Nina Stibbe moved from Leicester to Camden Town to look after the children of Mary-Kay Wilmers, editor of the London...
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
...If Edna O’Brien et al turn up next year, this festival will be worth attending....
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