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...But we can listen and try to craft a good outcome for everyone. The chair insists on fairness: the same rules apply whether residents live in miners’ cottages or manor houses. There’s no grandstanding....
...Why more executive careers should start in a parish council: A really lovely column from Margaret Heffernan, chief executive, author — and parish councillor....
...Margaret Atwood, responding to the fact that 30 of her books were lifted, tweeted: “That is so . . . cheap.”...
...Dramatic landscapes, artisan craft and a little blue‑blood glamour proved an intoxicating blend that attracted fashion houses to Bute Fabrics from its first days....
...Kestin Hare, who formerly worked at Nigel Cabourn and Margaret Howell, now turns Harris Tweed into workwear gilets and Black Watch tartans into cotton chore jackets (£229)....
...It lacked the romance associated with handknits, pottery and other crafts....
...Their manufacture was once a thriving industry in this corner of the City, and St Margaret was where the patten-makers thanked God for their good fortune....
...And there are also other brands that are craft-based, artisanal and fabulously expensive, and brands that are equally considered in their design....
...“I felt a deep affinity with British folklore — part old world craft, part local stories passed down,” he says. “Craft and skill are integral to my work, handed down from generation to generation.”...
...Margaret McGirr Greenwich, CT, US...
...She was a brilliant novelist, short story writer and critic, one who understood closely her own sense of craft....
...All profits will directly fund a Gee’s Bend community manager, hired to promote the artists and manage their craft as a commercial enterprise....
...Margaret Howell 2023 calendar, £15. All profits are donated to Open City, a charity dedicated to making architecture and urban design more accessible and equitable. open-city.org.uk...
...Together they have kept alive a traditional craft that, for a time, seemed destined to die out....
...She saw her historical fiction as different from the craft of a historian, comparing her writing to “a painting with the brushstrokes in . . . you wouldn’t mistake it for a living person”....
...David Sacks, general partner of VC firm Craft Ventures, who like Calacanis is a close associate of Elon Musk and has a large following on Twitter, warned of further bank runs....
...Is it to showcase taste, industry, craft, pop culture — or something else?...
.... £10.60 Tanners Dom de la Chauvinière 2021 Muscadet Sèvre & Maine Sur Lie 12%An unusually characterful white based on a grape variety that’s a member of the greater Pinot family grown round the mouth of...
...During the Depression, the US government dispatched 400 illustrators all over the country to discover and document a uniquely American approach to craft and its manifestation in ornament....
...This changed after Margaret Thatcher, when her disciples turned her calibrated instincts into dogma....
...Deciding to take evening classes in ceramics took her in a new direction, and today she crafts wheel-thrown wares, making limited-edition jugs and lamp bases for Margaret Howell’s stores, as well as expanding...
...Art and craft galleries have sprung up practically on every corner....
...Communications agency TB Cardew has named Will Tanner as head of public affairs....
...Look at Margaret Thatcher’s deceptively mumsy look: the pussy-bow blouses and structured handbags that softened her image and belied her austerity policies....
...But Margaret Thatcher’s country was very different from Clement Attlee’s....
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