Hints and tips:
...And the “Captain Hindsight” thing comes back in focus groups. They say he just opposes, doesn’t he? He does the opposite to the Conservatives....
...He doesn’t like the alternative, B&Q. Too many friends have been nicked there. “The security guards are going on like the fucking Viet Cong,” he says....
...“[Former government adviser Professor] Neil Ferguson was talking about 20,000 deaths and I remember saying: ‘Oh yeah, that would seem like a reasonable figure — like a bad flu season.’...
...Baldwin signed a first edition of his book No Name in the Street, “For Horace, my brother,” from “Jimmy B”....
...“It wouldn’t be surprising — it’s all that Captain Beefheart in the 1970s.”...
...There is no Plan B,” vowed Gleisi Hoffmann, current head of the PT. Similarly heady dramas will play out across Latin America this year....
...Cissy Houston had a respectable R&B hit with her account of the song, giving it a female voice and, by adding harmonica, a country-ish feel....
...The Poldark side of BT BT boss Gavin Patterson is as much a heart-throb to investors as Poldark’s Aidan Turner is to viewers....
...(BBC Magazine) Ditch Plan B Backup plans can have strange and unexpected influences on our motivation and behaviour, argues one psychologist....
...Neil Munshi is an FT reporter in New York Illustration by Seb Jarnot Letter in response to this column: Is there such a thing as a free drink? / From Neil James...
...neil.collins@ft.com...
...It is now a B&B in the best American tradition, and guests wander over the road to eat dinner in another Darish-owned property, the McCarthy Lodge....
...Photograph: Neil Lupin...
...Additional reporting by Ed Crooks in New York, Hugh Carnegy in Paris and Neil Buckley in Moscow...
...” – Plan B’s nasal style proving ill-matched to the song’s rich curves....
...What will happen to it when the Turner Prize exhibition closes on January 3?...
...B at the Belvoir St Theatre) has earned him a reputation for producing vivid and original drama....
...Kingfisher led the blue chip risers after its first-quarter profits beat expectations by a wide margin due to a turnround at its B&Q stores in the UK....
...Their last great hit was “River Deep, Mountain High”, a chart-topper for Ike and Tina Turner in 1966....
...The profits warning from B&B also unsettled the house-building sector. Barratt Developments, which is widely considered as needing a rights issue, was worst affected, falling 8.2 per cent to 167½p....
...B orat is the film comedy you should take to a desert island. It will render you hysterical at each viewing on your solar-powered iPod....
...They are collected in this volume, one of 2006’s most satisfying page-turners....
...The Liverpool captain, 25 yards out, loped on to the volley and crashed home a breathtaking drive to complete a comeback that had seemed all but incredible at half-time....
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