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...But the real menace lies in the emotional journey in John Webster’s 17th-century tragedy: its depiction of brothers so depraved that they kill their sister to smother her freedom and of a society corroded...
...The carpets are so all-encompassing that they threaten to smother Elvis’s beloved “little one” almost entirely....
...Indeed, its “ever-tightening vice” may not feed but choke them, as the “permissions” regime smothers any engagement with other works....
...How To Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future by Maria Ressa WH Allen £20, 320 pages John Thornhill is the FT’s innovation editor Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...John Gapper is sadly right in his observation that the “British cup of tea needs a spoonful of sophistication” (Opinion, November 20)....
...They also smother the domestic production line where songs were passed from mothers to daughters....
...From 19 May, London’s Sir John Soane’s Museum is staging The Romance of Ruins, showcasing a group of watercolours produced by the English artist William Pars, who, when aged just 22, travelled with architect...
...So far the Moscow authorities have been able to smother festering discontent, but the same can’t be said in Mexico....
...(FT) Warning lights are flashing for Big Tech When bankers got too clever and businesses became too complex, we all suffered the consequences, writes John Flint, former chief executive of HSBC, of the 2008...
...They cite younger comics, such as John Mulaney and Sebastian Maniscalco who, like them, are doing old-fashioned but very funny straight comedy....
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...Gardeners are being criticised as if they smother the soil in chemicals, stuff birds full of slug bait, muddle welcome “natives” with non-native plants and do zero to combat global warming....
...John Hume, a former MEP and father of the Northern Ireland peace process, once joked that some Strasbourg colleagues appeared “wired up to the moon”....
...But this, in theory, ought to represent his last moment of meaningful reliance, the last official chance to smother him with parental involvement....
...But the one thing money cannot smother is electoral logic....
...But critics say the new law is so broadly drafted that it could be used to smother darker episodes in Poland’s history, even though it contains exemptions for artistic and academic work....
...They might suffice to smother a grey squirrel, but there are too few to stifle me. So I have been gazing at a painting of the subject instead....
...Hitchmough and Dunnett have been redefining urban horticulture in recent years through the creation of balanced perennial communities: dense, meadow-like plantings that smother the ground, preventing weeds...
...This has to be picked out, speck by tiny speck, or it will grow exponentially and smother just about every living thing. The terrace needs weeding. Plants need repotting....
...Based in London for 18 years, he has temporarily relocated his family, husband Richard Buckley and their four-year-old son, Alexander John Buckley Ford (“Jack”), from their John Nash house in Regent’s Park...
...His grip on power would be tight enough to smother dissent. The migrant dinghies would start washing-up on Greek shores once more....
...In an interview John McCain railed against the “sheer hypocrisy” of Mr Cruz who he has previously described as a “wacko bird”....
...John McAfee, the anti-virus entrepreneur, is one of them: “Things like Bitcoin are completely outside the control and the knowledge of anyone....
...The work sold for an astronomical £4,000 to engineer John Aird....
...John Redwood, a former Tory leadership contender, said: “The overwhelming impression is that we no longer have an independent government in many areas.”...
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