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...Philanthropist and businessman Robert Devereux also loans his Swahili townhouse there to African artists who come to teach at the local orphanage, Anindan....
...Robert Habeck arrived in Bayreuth, a small Bavarian town about four hours’ drive from Berlin, in an elegant slate grey suit and a white shirt open at the collar....
...Messages recovered by Robert Shrimsley...
...“It’s a bit more casual, which I think just relaxes people,” says Robert Godwin, the 34-year-old co-founder of this hotel in the leafy west London district of Chiswick....
...Fruit trees, herbs, lavender, kale and squash jostle for space. Farmers Craig and Melanie Johnson sip their coffee and “greet the plants” before their daughters get up for school....
...The 15-year-old New Jersey-based company, which sells rocket, watercress and baby kale sold under the Dream Greens brand, is one of the pioneers of indoor farming, where vegetables are grown without pesticides...
...Kale was a vital food source for livestock and humans, and planticrubs and kale yards are dotted all over the islands....
...They point out that everyone is free to eat kale if they choose, and that most people consume in moderation....
...was really serious about the battle of the bulge, perhaps the first step would be the replacement of The Great British Bake Off with The Great British Veg Out (I really love what you’ve done with your kale...
...Its wines are wonderfully intense, honest and earthy and I was paying about £6 a bottle for them in France until Robert Parker started giving them top ratings....
...For every Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s president, who has clung on tenaciously for more than three decades, and for every coup attempt (now far less frequent), there is an alternative tale of progress....
...The books on my bedside table are Napoleon the Great and Napoleon: A Life, both by Andrew Roberts....
.../ From Malcolm McIntosh Baffled / From Robert McCann...
...robert.shrimsley@ft.com Twitter: @robertshrimsley...
...Harding; Della Huff/Alamy; Robert Landau/Alamy; Instagram @rgarrahan; Susanne Kremer...
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