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...Such is Bacon’s fate: in 1621, the former solicitor-general, attorney-general and lord chancellor was eventually undone by his enmity with judge Edward Coke, heavily fined and sent to the Tower of London...
...“Some people have compared it to the pogroms of the late 19th and early 20th century and I think that’s probably an apt description,” he said....
...Twenty state-funded nurseries or primary schools were closed or merged in the capital between 2017 and 2022, including five in the borough of Tower Hamlets alone....
...“Vigorous” and “action-packed” are equally apt descriptors for The Malevolent Seven by Sebastien de Castell (Jo Fletcher Books, £20)....
...At least some of the prospective buyers circling properties such as the penthouse at Central Park Tower, billed as the tallest residential building in the world, will be keeping a hotline open with their...
...That was Samer’s term for it, “cut”, and its rustle of evocation of the mother tongue was apt....
...From the window of his fourth floor open-plan kitchen, Oli scans the horizon above the roofs opposite for the landmark City skyscrapers — the Gherkin, the Walkie Talkie, the Heron Tower — two miles to the...
...German lenders are more liberal, the research found, with maximum LTVs of 80 per cent for good-quality assets....
...How apt. Fenwick is closing to “fund significant investment” in its online business and other stores. It makes sense, but it’s sad....
...Edwin Heathcote’s description of it as “a messy mix of craggy rock forms . . . a pixelated topography” is quite apt (“Strange power of Frank Gehry’s new tower”, Architecture, November 29)....
...It’s an apt description of the place – and the story she hopes to continue to tell there....
...“Speedbird One, contact London Control 119.780” says Heathrow’s tower controller, appending a quick “nicely done!”...
...The nursery-rhyme prompt seems apt, since the nation now feels itself orphaned....
...They look like tower blocks on speed....
...Fagan herself grew up in the care system; she came to writing relatively late and her storytelling has an urgency and — to use an overused but apt word — authenticity....
...“Lonely this Christmas” seems more apt. Thanks, Jason. I’m fine. No need to run over. Oh God, I’ve just remembered....
...Once you accept that all cultures are apt to seem weird, or “exotic”, to someone else, it makes sense to use the same tools in familiar settings too....
...We will gather in Montaigne’s library in the castle tower, with views over the Lidoire, a tributary of the Dordogne....
...Tracking CPI and LTV has become as much an obsession for games publishers as Roblox is for tweens....
...To the extent available, bank level data suggests that LTVs range between 60-70%, but not all banks disclose average LTVs, or the proportion of high LTV loans....
...The artist’s choice of glass as her medium is particularly apt....
...The date is May 1536, the place the Tower of London....
...The functional, albeit slightly aged, luncheon system is an apt metaphor for the state of central banking innovation more broadly....
...It’s a simple, generous gesture that gives me shelter — an apt farewell for an architect....
...The diminutive seems increasingly apt in the case of the eponymous French retail group. It is being crushed by the teetering tower of indebted businesses above it. A restructuring is urgently needed....
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