Hints and tips:
...Britons failed to take this lesson to heart: they assumed that when German cities were bombed, German civilians would crack. They didn’t. These myths have fatal consequences....
...The country that offered couples the excitement of eloping to Gretna Green looks set to give its own residents a smaller tax advantage from married bliss....
...(This point was made forcefully by Jane Jacobs in her book Cities and the Wealth of Nations.) Far more sensible is to think about the economies of major cities and the regions that supply them....
...Among the city’s chattering classes, there is – with more than five months to go – almost no other subject worth discussing, not even property prices....
...I foresee a bleak post-partition future for us, spent in a camp for the displaced on the A74 near Gretna....
...Under the weight of homeless migrants from New Orleans, the previously sleepy state capital of Baton Rouge has, since last weekend, become the largest city in Louisiana, like some Middle Eastern border city...
...There is a perfectly honest explanation: most of the big US investment houses gave their input via the City's trade associations, which submitted collective responses....
...Today, the couple, who have been married for 25 years and have two daughters, still live in the university city....
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