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...My pear tart is neat and a little bland, but the cinnamon ice cream served with it is delicious. We turn to less controversial subjects as the meal nears its end....
...Bland and non-ideological: Simon Kuper explains why Dutch premier Mark Rutte is the frontrunner to hold together the conflicting interests inside Nato....
...The FT’s Laura Hughes is following the inquiry and joins us from there. Hi, Laura. Laura HughesHello....
...what is at stake, you get a generic response on how the law aims for platforms which are “safe, transparent, and respectful of existing laws and values, including privacy and fundamental rights”.But the bland...
...Others have found correlations between bland architecture, crime and suicide rates....
...In the 1980s, architects were wrestling in the mud over postmodernism and “High Tech” but the people were watching country-house dramas, shopping at Laura Ashley and Ralph Lauren....
...“Open markets only work if everybody is playing by global rules,” a senior executive at a UK bank tells financial regulation editor Laura Noonan....
...Even for a die-hard red carpet apologist like myself, it was more than a little depressing to see celebrities get dolled up just to join a Zoom meeting from a couch in a bland hotel room....
...Additional reporting by Laura Hughes in London...
...“You still have people like [Fox News host] Laura Ingraham who tell LeBron to ‘shut up and dribble’”, says Mr Griffin....
...It is also decently sung and played, but too bland, mining neither much of the humour nor the heartbreak that enables this opera to touch the funnybone and the heart at the same time....
...Victor Cha, managing director of HKRI, which is 48.3 per cent owned by the family, is married to Laura Cha, who chairs the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and is a member of the Hong Kong government’s Executive...
What to look for in the year ahead from journalists on the spot around the world
...Janet McTeer plays her like a late-career-change Medusa, and all Marty’s got to defend himself is his bland, blue-eyed, who-me?-I’m-just-trying-to-help shtick....
...But almost two weeks after the Washington Post columnist walked into the bland six-storey consulate building in a backstreet of one of Istanbul’s financial districts, few know exactly what....
...Additional reporting by Ben Bland in Hong Kong and Laura Hughes in London...
Programme carries privacy risks but comes at urging of China
...The evening kicked off with Sandrine Monin’s bland but workmanlike Calyx, danced to a score by Roberto Rusconi which put one in mind of an owl and a woodpecker fighting over a rainstick....
...In her overnight interview with the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg, she said she did not believe the UK would have to choose between Europe and the rest of the world....
...It’s a strangely bland description for something this wild at heart and weird on top. Still, like so much right now, strange but true....
...Michael also lacks a worthy antagonist as his younger sister Sharon (Maria Dizzia) offers only bland platitudes by way of rebuttal....
...From a bland café in a shopping mall on the outskirts of Izmir, on Turkey’s Aegean coast, he explains that he was working long hours as a lorry driver and then returning home to an increasingly abrasive...
...As Laura Kennedy, an executive vice-president at Lionsgate, put it: “Streaming started with DVDs....
...“The Hong Kong room had a glass bathroom wall here,” he adds, pointing to a bland wall featuring an obligatory hotel watercolour....
...He depicts the porn world not as a moral miasma but as a manufacturing business for a form of digital entertainment as bland as any other....
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