Hints and tips:
...I thought to myself, ‘I’m going to go the full monty because I’ve got nothing left to lose.’”...
...To borrow from Monty Python, this could be a Dennis Moore tax cut: authersnote@ft.com...
...As in the Monty Python sketch, where a quartet of tuxedo-wearing businessmen compete to show how deprived their childhoods were, candidates would vie to boast about career calamities (“Bankruptcy?...
...After Enoch Powell’s famous/infamous anti-immigration speech in 1968, the subject was pretty much closed down by the politicians. Occasionally it would become unavoidably topical....
...Apart from the obvious difficulty that Monty Python made condolences about dead parrots impossible, I don’t know the correct anthropomorphic qualities to assign to a bird....
...Marcus Powell plays this role in a style closer to modest drag than the more usual pantomime-dame territory: he wiggles and flutes, and also gets a fine blues number just before the interval....
...Half the West Indies’ 14-man squad are left-handers and Graeme Swann may yet be preferred to Monty Panesar for spinning duties....
...“He’s a much better speaker than Powell.”...
...She has a soundbite for each castaway: the television gardener Monty Don was “the rebellious child of an affluent but frugal family”, while John Peel was “the eccentric public schoolboy who conquered his...
...three times (so too, as it happens, has Colin Powell, the former US secretary of state), and his successor, Michael Bloomberg, went along on New Year’s Eve....
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