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...Additional reporting by Nian Liu in Beijing and Barney Thompson in London...
...“London has been touted by successive governments as a leading financial and legal centre and welcomed Russian money with open arms,” said Maya Lester QC, a barrister specialising in financial crime and...
...(Daley Thompson and Jessica Ennis-Hill might be said to be the exceptions that prove the rule, but only if you do your all clothes shopping at Sports Direct.)...
...Jamie Lester, managing director of Haus Properties, says the market in Chiswick has revived since October after a slow summer....
...Danny Thompson recalled how Jansch “was an enormous Charlie Mingus fan”, and played “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat”, Mingus’s lament for Lester Young, now in lament for Jansch, the double bass solo resonant as a...
...Anne Ganley, managing director, Thompson Building Centres. Polly Gibb, director, Women in Rural Enterprise. Rabbi Herschel Gluck, founder, Muslim-Jewish Forum....
...From William Hazlitt to Hunter S Thompson, Robert Hughes and David Foster Wallace, the strut of the ego is part of the pleasure....
...The Further Tale Of Peter Rabbit, by Emma Thompson, Frederick Warne, RRP£12.99 Actor and screenwriter Thompson turns in a very creditable pastiche starring Beatrix Potter’s best-loved character....
...The Beatles ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ (1964) Playwright Alun Owen spent several weeks on the road with John, Paul, George and Ringo before writing the script for Richard Lester’s cinematic celebration of Beatlemania...
...Kent’s variety of “kamikaze journalism”, as he calls it, gave a British slant to the New Journalism of Tom Wolfe and the gonzo style of Hunter S Thompson....
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