Hints and tips:
...Years later, having launched a business making bespoke curtains, a mill from the same town asked her if she’d want to work with a silk mill....
...If I stopped to think, a mist would come down and I’d forget everything she’d taught me. At the end of three hours, we had created a small routine that lasted one and a half minutes....
...“I thought I’d joined a drinking club. [We] were actively encouraged to drink at lunchtime. Every night we’d get wine, drink and smoke at our desk.” For others, it was a release or reward after work....
...Can you see if Gavin Williamson is interested? Messages recovered by Robert Shrimsley...
...I’d never heard of Marion-Bosser before. Google gave the house a 4.8 and its Premier Cru gets a 4.2 rating on Vivino....
...The legendary DJ Readers Wifes will kick matters off from 3pm. 11 August; from £31, heritagelive.net Glyndebourne Festival, Lewes, East SussexDon Giovanni, Semele, Dialogues des Carmélites, L’elisir d’amore...
...“We want the government to stop tinkering with things, such as changing the rules on R&D tax credits, and provide stability for funds to plan ahead for multiyear investments,” said Wright....
...She’d first read the 17th-century novelist as a teenager, in Samuel Putnam’s (then new) translation....
...Recently divorced from Marion Ravenwood and freshly retired from Hunter College, he is finally ready to hang up that famous fedora....
...That’d be bad news for CMC Markets, whose CEO Lord Peter Cruddas has a 59.2 per cent stake....
...But they try to make a pleasant life for Ida, Patrice and Marion’s daughter....
...Richard Watts and Nick Williamson, the managers of the Chrysalis investment trust, are leaving asset management group Jupiter....
...The sale was to a group of existing investors, included Chrysalis investment trust, which is run by Jupiter fund managers Richard Watts and Nick Williamson....
...Winemaking equals “financial suicide”, said my brother — after informing me he’d rather I didn’t write about the family business....
...Founded in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1951 by warlock and screenwriter Cecil Williamson, it moved to the Cornish coast in 1960....
...A place that means a lot to me is my best friend Marion Motin’s house in Normandy....
...“Sometimes when things were moving very fast, you’d not want to wait until they were available on the phone.”...
...The aim is to settle the situation by the autumn, says Marion Papillon, a gallerist and president of the CPGA....
...So in a sense, if it was just a numbers game, you’d think that Sunak would pay more attention to their concerns....
...They’d like investment zones, they’d like the planning reforms, and they’d like more capital infrastructure spending. I think we might hear something on planning....
...“Right now I’d rather eat.”...
...Good times for Keir Starmer, you’d say. Some thoughts on the challenges facing Sturgeon and Sunak in today’s note. Inside Politics is edited by Georgina Quach....
...Allies of Mordaunt claimed that Sunak’s campaign was being secretly driven by Sir Gavin Williamson, a former chief whip seen as an expert in Westminster’s dark arts. Williamson denies this....
...There were people like Suella Braverman, who’d basically had to resign a week earlier for breaching the ministerial code. Gavin Williamson, who had to resign previously in a scandal....
...They would certainly not be the kind of person you’d want to put in charge of anything. “My list was meant to start the conversation, not end it,” Schwartz told me....
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