Hints and tips:
...If I was prime minister I’d rewrite the Medical Act 1858, which outlawed quack doctors, so as to outlaw quack IT practitioners....
...We meet Turing when he is an ingenious but under-appreciated schoolboy, bent on solving elaborate mathematical conundrums while his exasperated teachers wish he’d knuckle down and focus on his Latin (a refreshing...
...Not in any conventional sense where we’d have a sense of self or resemble who we are now. Which is more puzzling, the existence of suffering or its frequent absence?...
...As anyone who has ever seen a Harold Pinter play knows, the scene is just waiting to explode....
...“I’d go with our own English sparkling wine,” says Hirsh, “but some people prefer to move to heavier wines like our 10-year tawny port.”...
...“It is a huge turnaround from where we were at in the 1970s,” said Harold Hamm, chair of Continental Resources and a shale pioneer....
...I once worked for a slow-talking manager and nearly gnawed my knuckles raw in a futile bid to stop myself from finishing their sentences....
...Public brass-knuckle fights that earned this cohort of investors the nickname “boardroom raiders” have become rarer. The action is now often happening backstage. The reason is twofold....
...And then I left the place and I realised that my stomach was swelling, with the incredible amount of the stuff that I’d consumed because it was so delicious....
...I’d order her a glass of, say, Australian Sémillon, and she’d rate it for me....
...At new wells in the Permian, average oil production per drilling rig has increased to 1,319 b/d. A decade ago the figure was about 183 b/d....
...Harold Hamm, founder of Continental Resources — one of the industry’s most vocal Biden critics — has contributed just over $200,000 to Trump groups, although he initially backed Haley....
...Our eyes wide and knuckles white, we finally turned on to Rattlesnake Pass Road, down which the hunters had travelled, now barely visible beneath the gleaming snowdrifts....
...Now Harold Fry makes another fine English eccentric....
...I’d travel anywhere for a good charcutier. Even Newington Green. George Jephson is the man. A talented hand whose work I’d admired via his website, meatfishcheese.com....
...For more on this idea, see a recent Prospect piece by Harold Meyerson. Trump is about to become his own worst enemy....
...He says that, if he’d taken Sherborne’s advice, “there’d still be a News of the World on Sunday and no hacking claims.” “It’s not true!” says my guest, smiling....
...I’d rather give my money to underprivileged kids than do that.” “I give my money to make a difference.”...
...They were picked both under- and over-ripe and they weren’t by any means the best local tomatoes I’d eaten that week....
...Next year’s, which is opening in January at the Harold Pinter Theatre in the West End, is The Hills of California, with Sam Mendes directing....
...“But we always knew we’d still do our work. And we would do it in our own way.”...
...Alongside Continental Resources boss Harold Hamm, Hess transformed the state from producing fewer than 100,000 barrels of oil a day in the early 2000s to a peak of 1.5mn b/d in 2019....
...Back before the turn of the century, like many other architecture nerds, I went in through the bust door behind a hoarding on Midland Road, knuckles white round a big police flashlight....
...Production has recovered to just over 12mn barrels a day, down from the record high of 13mn b/d hit in 2019....
...This would be an extreme outcome, but it takes only a little imagination to see how we’d get there....
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