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...Stephanie Merritt’s Storm (HarperCollins, £14.99) finds the always reliable novelist (who also writes as SJ Parris) en pleine forme....
...It was claimed of the Danish footballer Michael Laudrup that good luck cost him greatness....
...@jimbrunsden; jim.brunsden@ft.com michael.peel@ft.com; @michaelpeeljourno alex.barker@ft.com; @alexebarker...
...(Matthew Parris in The Times) Hard numbers A cocktail of factors is giving the pound its mojo back....
...Leading Eurosceptic minister Michael Gove said on Friday the UK is willing to allow EU citizens to enjoy free movement for a transitional period after Brexit in March 2019, in a further sign of the cabinet...
...“Unless you have Michael Cohen wire me $130,000.” Everyone got the Stormy Daniels reference and laughed. So far, so funny. So safe....
...Conspiracy, by SJ Parris, HarperCollins, RRP£14.99 Parris’s 16th-century thrillers feature heretic and spy Giordano Bruno in vivid, sprawling canvases....
...Michael Westfallen, 40, an administrator for the construction and services company Kier, said he had “helped him out” with issues with the Department for Work and Pensions....
...Perfect period detail has our hero smoking Park Drives, worrying over a halfpenny and criticising the works of Michael Arlen and Warwick Deeping....
...michael.skapinker@ft.com Matthew Engel returns on June 23 ....
...I am sitting at the bar with Mike Parris, O’Neal’s uncle, who left his career as a Newark police officer to serve as his regular companion, personal assistant and business partner....
...He has had successors, but none of the first rank: Labour’s top leftists in the 20th century were “toffs”, such as Stafford Cripps, Michael Foot and Tony Benn. The strain died in the 1970s....
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