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...Children squawked as they ran between the square’s manicured rose beds, parents in tow. A pattern emerged as I walked down the street....
...In a 2020 Guardian article by Aida Edemariam, Busby remembered being “treated as some sort of freak — ‘the girl from Ghana goes into publishing’ — as if they were saying: ‘Black girl can read.’...
...for working parents; fast-tracked infrastructure projects; deregulation of financial services; and the removal of unnecessary legacy EU laws from our statute books....
...The crimson-covered silver jubilee commemorative book was a prized item on my parents’ bookshelf as it was for millions of other Britons of their generation....
...A correspondent in the Manchester Guardian asked: “What can we say of a spirit which only breaks windows and throws furniture about? Is the gangster mind still at work after death?”...
...Simon Schama FT contributing editor The most memorable read for me this year was a re-read: Stephen J Pyne’s The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica (1986), a stupendous synthesis of natural and cultural history...
...One of the authors is Evaristo, the first black woman to win; the other, previous winner Margaret Atwood....
...It was a hard time to be young and African. I was born in London but for a few years as an infant my parents took me to Ghana, their home....
...They are cosmetic, an anti-infective and an eczema treatment. All work by boosting the skin’s role as a natural barrier to water and germs....
...Isaac arrived 15 months ago, “adorable, and a ton of fun”, and his parents were showered — as many parents are, in hospital or via mailing lists — with free samples of baby products made by Johnson & Johnson...
...US sales of J&J’s baby care products, including its “no more tears” shampoo and bedtime lotion, fell 14 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter to $95m, their lowest level in a decade, after parents switched...
...The competitiveness, stoicism and violence are not natural, but a production — a sort of drag act....
...Dr Chan said Brazil had raised the alarm as soon as Zika became prevalent last year but there was a natural lag of several months before the full extent of the crisis was revealed by the surge of birth defects...
...Barnes tucks in with scrupulous delicacy, as I contemplate my salsify. “What does it remind you of?” he asks. Macaroni, slightly, I say . . . not delicious in a conventional way....
...“When a child is an infant, the parents still think about leaving. It is like a disease,” he adds, shaking his head. “This is a tragedy.”...
...We were all leftwing and all forced to play with the same badly made Russian wooden toys, but his parents were the real thing — members of the Communist Party of Great Britain....
...for this novel about a poor community facing a series of natural disasters....
...So children who are adopted feel a greater need to demonstrate – whether by chalking up money, achievements or affection for their parents – that their parents didn’t invest all this time and care as a matter...
...Instead he confirmed our suspicions of elitism and nepotism.” Three giant portions of beef, chicken and rice arrive. We tuck in....
...Buying nappies, for example, will flag you up as a new parent and thus a potential customer for infant rice cereal, rattles or soft toothbrushes for barely existent baby teeth....
...Like that of parent and child over a lifetime, the relationship between painting and photography has been one of evolving dependency....
...What he tells me, in a conversation that ranges from Margaret Thatcher’s legacy to the process of ageing, suggests this book is likely to be no less a talking point than his previous 13 novels....
...I had no name and no identity number; all I had was a copy of the police report handed to John, as the official “finder”, and a mobile phone snapshot of the infant that he’d taken....
...years of Labour party rule that preceded Margaret Thatcher’s 1979 election victory....
...Lord Bell, once best-known as Margaret Thatcher’s favourite PR man, is unfazed by censorious coverage from the likes of The Guardian....
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