Hints and tips:
...The incendiary dealer responded to the savage colours of Matisse and his fellow Fauves with anarchic glee....
...Such savage encounters as those accompanying the Norway debate, which brought down the prime minister and caused MPs loyal to Neville Chamberlain, such as “Chips” Channon, to shout “quislings!”...
...Mandarins said the deal was off-limits, partly because RBS was coming down with toxic assets....
...An ageing Churchill spent too much time talking “irrelevant rubbish”, as his top Foreign Office mandarin observed in dismay, but Attlee was made of stronger stuff than many participants expected....
...To mark this milestone, Christie’s in Geneva is selling 50 on November 10 in its first themed sale for more than a decade, writes Rachel Savage....
...Ever the Diplomat: Confessions of a Foreign Office Mandarin (HarperPress) is stuffed with telling anecdotes and insights....
...The Chinese service will also be scaled back, with all radio programming in Mandarin Chinese being closed, although Cantonese radio programming will continue....
...I ask him whether school budgets aren’t taking the biggest hit from the savage cuts in every state across the union. Aren’t we wasting our seed corn? “Yes we are,” he concedes....
...Treasury officials talk of ministers brandishing “bleeding stumps” in an attempt to prove that such savage cuts are impossible....
...The influence of Jeremy Heywood, the tireless Downing Street mandarin who worked for Mr Brown and Mr Blair and now serves Mr Cameron, is also stronger than ever....
...The scale of Britain’s financial woes, Whitehall mandarins whisper, will allow little room for political choices. Whoever wins will be forced to make deep cuts in spending and raise taxes....
...Mr Bolton speaks no Mandarin or Cantonese and by his own admission has always been terrible at foreign languages....
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