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...A “right-wing banshee” of a columnist caustically mocks her son’s eco-activism: “It must be so exhausting, darling. Like Germinal, but with oat milk and hemp slippers.”...
...She really is a darling of the party faithful. And I just think she’s played a good game, bided her time, keeping her powder dry....
...“I was madness’s accomplice, I didn’t know how not to desire you, you, my darling chosen one.” The narrator of this, Rijneveld’s second novel, is a Dutch veterinarian with a rural practice....
...The FT’s Robert Shrimsley there talking about the Labour politician Alistair Darling, who died this week. Also in this episode, Rishi Sunak whips up a diplomatic storm....
...Plus, the group reflects on the legacy of Alistair Darling....
...Last October, Truss was under fire from her cabinet, struggling to contain the fallout from her disastrous mini-Budget; on Monday she was the backbench darling of the Tory right....
...And as Jeremy Hunt recognised, Alistair Darling was one of the great chancellors, who will be remembered as doing the right thing for the country at a time of significant turmoil....
...Some of the reporters on the station were just very prominent, you know, running around, seeming to be real darlings of the activists....
...This week’s themes are German carmakers (Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and Porsche), online disrupters (Deliveroo, Moonpig and HelloFresh), British retail darling of the middle classes John Lewis and plastic...
...Lucy Fisher is the FT’s Whitehall editor Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter...
...Following Harman’s letter, Alistair Darling, then chief secretary to the Treasury, commissioned an interdepartmental working group, known as the Horizon Project Review Group, to address some of the problems...
...We’ll be back next week with Lucy once again hosting. Thanks to all of you for listening. [MUSIC PLAYING]...
...“Come and kiss me darling, before your body rots and worms pop in and out of your eye sockets,” cries Elyot to Amanda. He’s teasing, but it’s a line that zings out of this production....
...“’Tis the year’s midnight,” as John Donne’s poem “A Nocturnal upon St Lucy’s Day” reminds us, the time when “the world’s whole sap is sunk” — and an excellent moment to sink oneself into Katherine Rundell...
...Top lot was a 2005 Cy Twombly which sold for a within-estimate $36mn ($41.6mn with fees), but appetite waned for some of the art market’s previous figurative darlings, including Amy Sherald and Amoako Boafo...
...Lucy Wang finds herself at the sharp end of a crisis seeping through China’s property market....
...The leader of the pack emerges as Lucy de Bourne, a lusty noblewoman inspired by Lucy de Tweng, a historical figure from Yorkshire who “led a highly colourful life and fought a protracted, brutal and ultimately...
...“You can be charged additional penalties on your student loan if you fail to meet your obligation to make your repayments from abroad,” said Mr Darling....
Once the darling of Beijing’s overseas corporate expansion plan the group has fallen out of favour and faces a cash crunch
...Born in 1930, Colonel Darling himself ended up in a military convoy as a young teenager, bound for school in the UK....
...My Absolute Darling , by Gabriel Tallent, Fourth Estate, RRP£12.99/Riverhead, RRP$27, 432 pages Photograph: Reuters...
...The tech darlings of recent years were in the spotlight this week ahead of earnings announcements....
...you buy a contemporary work from a gallerist, they may well decide not to sell you anything else, any of the good stuff, if you do go ahead and flip the work because it's sort of-- It's just not done, darling...
...Mongolia was a darling among emerging markets during the commodities boom....
...When she followed these with an acclaimed performance in Girl with a Pearl Earring and roles in three Woody Allen films, it appeared that she would become a critical darling — maybe even the defining actress...
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