Hints and tips:
...One critic acerbically noted “the range of emotions that Brown displayed onscreen was no wider than a mail slot,” but added that he did not demean himself by playing the “comic patsy.”...
...Led by three outstanding performances — Paul Mescal, Anjana Vasan and Patsy Ferran (who took over at short notice after Lydia Wilson had to withdraw and is astonishingly good) — it has the feel of desperate...
...A human rights lawyer, Khan, 52, served as a transport minister under former prime minister Gordon Brown....
...Among Brown’s few props is a set of frisbees, which he randomly tosses into the audience to choose his patsies. That device seems to rule out the use of plants....
...If you can’t identify the patsy, or weak player, it’s probably you… Small and unsophisticated investors should build passive portfolios, with an emphasis on asset allocation and low cost....
...Additional reporting by John Murray Brown...
...(Dee tried the same when Patsy Cline and two other country singers died in another plane crash in 1963, but the record flopped.)...
...He’s a softly spoken 27-year-old with a mop of brown hair who built his first company of sorts aged 12, a website for hosting jokes that turned a profit of about $10....
...The way Clegg has matured from an overworked patsy in the early months of the government to the rather cunning operator he is now is there in outline but not detail....
...Spotted by Patsy Chapman, then editor, Wade was promoted to the main paper. Her efficiency there impressed Chapman’s successor, Piers Morgan, in his brief stint as editor....
...Mr Miliband could have spoken his mind and challenged Gordon Brown’s leadership on at least three different occasions. Instead, he shied away and waited....
...Indeed, Her Majesty seemed more spirited in her delivery than she was in November, when she was obliged to read out Gordon Brown’s final shopping list....
...There were Brown and Morgan, doing the business: Brown giving Morgan a week’s worth of publicity, Morgan giving Brown a human face....
...As a PR, it is Mrs Brown’s job to know what the public wants....
...Joanna Lumley, formerly best known for her role as Patsy in the television comedy series Absolutely Fabulous, described the prime minister as a “brave man” after a meeting on Thursday morning....
...Banning such outside interests made for a “parliament of whips office patsies”, argued Mr Carswell....
...We opened a franchise in Dubai that is doing quite well and in Brown Thomas in Ireland, but most of the time the shoes I like best are not the ones that sell anyway.”...
...But he added: “I haven’t been brought into this job to be someone’s footstool or patsy”....
...Yet Reid is unlikely to be the next prime minister, and Brown is....
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