Hints and tips:
...For the swooning faithful, all the high-and-mighty talk of the rule of law is of little account compared with the hot flush, the racing pulse, the pure yee-haw MAGA-hellion USA high they get from glowing...
...There are hems and haws....
...At the time, he described the Serious Organised Crime Act — used by police to end Haw’s demonstration — as an affront to the primacy of Magna Carta....
...He was certainly the model for John le Carré’s Jack Brotherhood in A Perfect Spy....
...lucy.kellaway@ft.com Twitter: @lucykellaway Letter in response to this article: To the point / From Dr John Doherty...
...Owen John Dunn North Ayrshire, Scotland...
...John Plender...
...It’s what I want on my gravestone: ‘He wrote a novel about John Singer Sargent and designed jewellery.’”...
...“I’m picking up from where Hee Haw left off,” joked Conan O’Brien, the late night talkshow comedian, who joined Time Warner’s TBS channel....
...(John Thornton, ex-president of Goldman Sachs and an HSBC director, is one potential successor)....
...When he won the TS Eliot Prize, Heaney was interviewed by John Humphrys, who asked why he wasn’t more angry. Weren’t poets meant to be angry?...
...If I were you, I would listen politely to Mr Murdoch, hem and haw reluctantly, ask for $65 a share, and retire. john.gapper@ft.com...
...And Brian Haw, the celebrated anti-war protestor, appears in court over his demonstrations in Westminster square. Friday marks the fifth anniversary of his anti-war vigil....
...Recently, he has been pushing a claim to influence decision-making on terrorism, earning a put-down from John Prescott, Tony Blair’s holiday stand-in....
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