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...“I think all countries are built on something beautiful,” he says. “Most people believe that their countries are beautiful, that their nations and cultures are worthy of love and sacrifice....
...You could almost hear the sound of scalpels being sharpened on the Lido as the critics gathered the most scabrous of remarks....
...Before their 1997 landslide victory, he and Tony Blair won over Tory voters by promising not to increase the top and bottom rates of income tax....
...And she’s been thinking about this since this joy of taking up challenges later in life. Recently, she wrote another piece for us on musicians debuting on major stages in their eighties and nineties....
...Contributors can donate the cost of a whole cake (£40) or any amount at lilyvanilli.com. Each child can customise their cake and have a personal message piped on top....
...The Mirlases were “aware and duly informed” of the transactions Benjamin made on their behalf, the lawyer added....
...There is something of Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones in Marianne, too, as she observes herself closely (and disparagingly), heaves gusty sighs and finds a way of just getting on with life....
...His most inspired and successful team-up, however, was also his riskiest bet he ever made on behalf of what’s now the world’s most valuable fashion brand....
...The one minor surprise in the Budget — and that will be welcomed by many middle-income families — is the review of this notorious cliff edge in the tax system where your child benefit begins to be removed...
...M-O-U-R-N-I-N-G....
...But also Hydra after Leonard Cohen, the Côte d’Azur of F Scott Fitzgerald and the myriad Mediterranean places that had been unspoiled repositories of legend until the moneyed landed there with their elephant...
...There was a series of minor compromises, one after another, where they let it go to win or they let it go to shore up their vote....
...Separately, you may have claims on behalf of your children....
...I don’t think the public care if they think you’re trying on their behalf. I think the attack line surely is a degree of anger that this is the state of our country. You’ve been in charge for 14 years....
...Saw these big murals of Mickey Mouse on the wall and said it had to be painted over, apparently because it was too welcoming and friendly for the child migrants....
...Then, on the third day, they deciphered the word “Walsingham”. In cryptography terms, they’d hit the jackpot....
...First introduced by Stalin, it will give women a one-off prize of £13,000 on the first birthday of their 10th child....
...Learning Chopin’s formidable Ballade in G minor has shown me that, if it might one day be possible for me to play octaves, I suspect I won’t ever have the time to make that happen....
...But from such ostensibly minor slaps of repression, barely registering on the scanner of state security, outrage can swell, gather and finally erupt into uncontainable mass disobedience....
...Lucy FisherI was interested in the way that Keir Starmer was sort of politically positioning himself. He sort of quoted Michael Gove with approval, saying, you know, he’d been on to something . . ....
...The Christmas presents we’d just opened on her behalf felt like they had somehow been mislabelled....
...Every time Gross and Hildebrandt stepped out of their houses, briefcases in hand, they found a flock of internees waiting to unload their problems, minor grievances and major, including the lack of medical...
...Mobius, the company that Jon works for, essentially acts as a stand-in regulator for pornography, doing the work that governments aren’t doing, on behalf of Visa and Mastercard....
...So I’d walk to school, I’d be hearing sounds, and there’d be radios on in the supermarket or, you know, waiting at the dentist surgeon and you’d hear the radio playing and also as well as music on, at home...
...The art of eating it lies in not “tossing” the salad but by languidly trailing the ingredients through the cream on their way to your lips. We’ll eat on the terrace....
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