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...He tells an enjoyable and interesting story, though, I’m not sure there is scope for much more. Politics, the cliché has it, invariably ends in failure....
...I have indeed been steeped in the past over the last few weeks — though the history I’m writing about is somewhat more recent than the Missouri Compromise....
...I’m struck by one bordered in a deep-button silk that is also pleated with burgundy velvet at the back. He points to another, in brassy gilt festooned with cherubs....
...There was The Lillie Langtry, the last inn on Abbey Road, which closed in 2022 and is due to be pulled down along with the neighbouring estate....
...I’m not the only American who’s been caught out copying English gents....
...“I’m making aprons from scraps of fabric,” the abbot explains, without looking up from the vintage Singer....
...More than 2,000 jars a day, hand-packed in straw-lined barrels for delivery to discerning grocers and thence the gentry. This was seriously aspirational stuff....
...But I think I’m scratching another itch there....
...Through the centuries, thanks to the influential lobbying of the nobility and the gentry, land taxes had gradually been whittled away....
...More than 30 years later, I’m back, staying two doors up the road at Beaverbrook Town House, a lavish new landmark on one of London’s most storied avenues....
...The new building included a W Hotel above a four-storey M&M’s store....
...“So I’m responsible for a multigenerational trauma,” says Dan. “Exactly,” Rebecca agrees....
...So I’m off to the bookstore, to find the new Eliot. Email Robert at robert.armstrong@ft.com Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...I’m telling you, you can take all those things, but if you get coronavirus, it’s too late.”...
...He said: “If she’s part of the team that helps make Newcastle great again, I’m a fan of hers.”...
...Returning to the details of the GDP report, construction leapt 23.5%m/m after its slump in April while industrial production and services showed gains of 9.3%m/m and 7.7% respectively....
...“Any time I’m not in the process of producing a show, I leave New York.”...
...FirstGroup’s US blues “So ride me to the station And I’ll be on my way, There’s a Greyhound goin’ somewhere And I just want to say: I’m leavin’ . . . ” So sang velvet-voiced US chanteuse Bobbie Gentry...
...I’m neither a reckless risk taker nor an irrepressible optimist, but I didn’t cancel my trip....
...“So I’m packin’ up and I’m checkin’ out,” she sang on its last track....
...It is where Edward VII and his mistress, actress Lillie Langtry, dined together in private....
..., I’m Her Willie....
...The interior is steeped in the eccentricities of the English gentry. Glass cabinets filled with smoking pipes are set alongside paintings of bulldogs....
...“He said, ‘yeah, good idea, I’m on . . . how much do you think you’ll put in?’,” Bikhchandani recalls. “We were under the impression the whole university would take $5m to do....
...I'm not convinced any other major brand out there would have seen me for a stroke. I think they would have tossed me out to scrap heap....
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