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...Irish Times sketch-writer Miriam Lord called it “the famous Bruton bray — like a donkey suddenly twigging the punchline of a risqué joke and hee-hawing out a thundering guffaw with a skittish falsetto whoop...
...Letter in response to this article: Coming second is no use to a political strategist either / From Julian Bray, London SE10, UK...
...Full flowerThe romantic botanicals of Rameau Fleuri wallpaper are being revived from the riches of the Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler archive (£696 per roll)....
...But there were several tables available, including ours, where we enjoyed the famous St John minimal experience....
...Inspired by an old paper sample, it also gave rise to a marbled wallpaper – which remains far and away her bestselling design – and recently took the eye of designer Adam Bray, who backed the bookshelves...
...This week, officers removed sound equipment from Steve Bray, a Stop Brexit protester who irritates everyone outside parliament, but is harmless. He now faces prosecution....
...Kate Darbyshire, director at John Bray estate agents in Hastings Old Town, has seen a “huge influx of people . . . who may have been [living and] working in Tunbridge Wells, London, Brighton”....
...Illustrations by Agathe Bray-Bourret Who offers your favourite shoeshining service? Let us know in the comments below Follow FT Globetrotter on Instagram @FTGlobetrotter...
...And, in A True Born Englishman (never previously publicly performed), we encounter Leslie Bray, a footman to the royal family giving a magazine interview....
...In the meantime, the rest of us seek guidance from experts at Harvard, Johns Hopkins or wherever we can....
...At decorating company Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler, archival designs include Fowler’s trompe l’oeil “Gothic Bedroom” painted for Nancy Lancaster’s home in the 1950s....
...Swampians might also enjoy my review of former House speaker John Boehner’s deliciously profane memoir....
...We are of course talking about John Malone. The last time DD checked on the US billionaire in October, we were left wondering whether the serial dealmaker had lost his mojo....
...As the late newspaperman John Junor said, “No one ever destroyed a man by sneering.”...
...Elliott said it welcomed the steps taken by the supervisory board, which included the appointment of John H. Beisner as special adviser to the new committee....
...(WSJ) We are home The FT’s John Gapper reflects on the publication’s return to Bracken House 30 years after it left its head office located by St Paul’s Cathedral....
...Ellie Laugharne, John-Colyn Gyeantey and Andrew Slater sing Polissena, Tigrane and Farasmene respectively, and Peter Whelan conducts the Old Street Band with buoyant style....
...Other views Nick Butler — Why $50 oil is now more likely than $100 John Kemp — Over-extended oil prices were primed for a fall Michael Liebreich — Vicar of Bray or sunset ride: oil & gas faces a decision...
...Ridgway, who started his career as a 19-year-old in 1975 at the Waterside Inn in Bray, will continue with his full sommelier duties until at least August 2018, after which he will concentrate on his close...
...in a baroque golden cradle, declaring de Bray’s Catholic identity in a Protestant state....
...In Liverpool, 91 apartments within a conversion of the former Reece’s Ballroom, where John Lennon married Cynthia in 1962, were sold off-plan....
...John Bray is marketing a four-bedroom terraced house in Rock, with the garden ending at the waterfront, for £2.75m....
...The Fat Duck High Street, Bray, Berkshire, SL6 2AQ 01628 580333; thefatduck.co.uk Photograph: John Carey...
...Mysterious, self-deprecating, impossibly learned and craggily photogenic, he attracted so much popular and scholarly curiosity that in 1967 his British publisher, John Calder, predicted that by 2000 only...
...gillian.tett@ft.com Illustration by Shonagh Rae Letter in response to this column: Your own bed is best / From Alice Bray...
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