Hints and tips:
...And, if it came to it, who would be likely to blink first, the loose-cannon US president or his Chinese counterpart, bristling with ambitions for his nation’s enhanced global role?...
...Kenneth Grahame’s immortal love letter to the Thames, The Wind in the Willows, begins with gentle Mole encountering a spring river for the first time....
...Rudyard Kipling’s Kim sat astride the Zamzama cannon outside the museum, and we are staying at the Lahore Gymkhana Club, where you can eat a club sandwich with HP Sauce while watching the golfers....
...A cannon had been mounted on Magdalen College’s beautiful bell-tower and artillery had moved into its deer park....
...These developed swiftly, from the patrician tones of Kenneth Clark, in Is Art Necessary?...
...– one of four candidates in the running for the permanent Met chief post, due to be announced on Monday – also gave a robust defence of Scotland Yard’s handling of the rioters, insisting that the water cannon...
...Kenneth Clarke, justice secretary, has said he wants to see a “rehabilitation revolution’’ which would involve “extremely serious changes” to sentencing and result in thousands of offenders avoiding jail...
...Fiona Cannon, director, Lloyds Banking Group. Mike Catt, rugby union player. Adrian Coles, director-general, Building Societies Association. Margaret Constantine, co-founder, Lush Cosmetics....
...A nearby stretch of marsh grass several miles long has no one working on it, but is arrayed with glittering silver paper and red-barrelled cannons that fire at regular intervals to scare off birds....
...Two hundred years later we have an image of Haydn as the embodiment of 18th-century cheerfulness – a powdered wig framing what Kenneth Clark called “the smile of reason”....
...Kenneth Branagh’s film of The Magic Flute, in which a coloratura-crazy monarch disinforms a questing couple, is still to come....
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