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...Paul Smith cotton/silk socks, £41 Models, Adam Larkin, Alec Lermon, Boo Mehmet and Khari Madu at Xdirectn; Ayobami, Ayokunle and Ayooluwa Oyesanwo and Warren at Kids London Ltd; Bear Cox at Present; David...
...Not for him the response he quotes from Philip Larkin: “No, not without being someone else.”...
...Perhaps what we really want is to come together in mushy appreciation of the Queen’s platinum jubilee, Paddington Bear, and Paul McCartney at Glastonbury?...
...John Sutherland’s Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), a biography of the poet’s lover and muse, has generated keen interest ahead of its publication in April....
...As father Paul, he bursts in on his children playing in their bedroom and goes nuclear....
...James straddled high and low culture, now translating Dante or commenting sensitively on Larkin, now introducing the eccentric verbal stylings of the Cuban novelty singer Margarita Pracatan or candidly lusting...
...Physicist Stephen Hawking’s ashes were interred there last year, and poet Philip Larkin received a floor stone in 2016....
...I read Larkin’s poem “Deceptions”, in which the poet speaks of a drugged and “ruined” Victorian woman and concludes, “I would not dare console you/ If I could”....
...arrival at Faber in 1953, rescued William Golding’s Lord of the Flies from the slush pile after a publisher’s reader had assessed it as “absurd and uninteresting”; and he was to make approaches to Philip Larkin...
...The Only Story, a gentle, bleak, and brilliant novel, the kind of book Philip Larkin might have written had he continued as a novelist, is in some respects a return to origins....
...Rebecca Larkin, senior economist at the Construction Products Association, said the Help to Buy equity loan programme has helped to support housebuilding while early work on projects, including the Thames...
...Sir, John Paul Rathbone’s obituary of Hugh Thomas (FT Weekend, May 13) describes as a failure the famous evening when the historian attempted to bridge the gap with writers by inviting the Iron Lady to dinner...
...Letter in response to this article: Larkin was enraptured by the Thatcherite ‘blue flash’ / From Richard Wilson...
...’s 14th-century painting Christ Between Saints Paul and Peter and photographs of painted naked people on the streets of Hull taken by Spencer Tunick....
...He particularly likes DJ Taylor’s, for its imaginative speculations about Orwell’s agonised face, of which there were too many for one reviewer, Paul Foot, who found the book insufficiently political and...
...Colbon Chief Operating Officer and Director, Liverpool ChiroChem Dr Ken Larkin Chief executive, London BioScience Innovation Centre Cathy Yelf Chief Executive, Macular Society Deborah Laubach Operations...
...Mr Cameron cited the Housemartins favourably during PMQs, only for the band’s former singer Paul Heaton to bite back on Twitter....
...This was a surprise for a world in which sexual intercourse, pace Philip Larkin, had only just begun. But it was only a momentary state of innocence....
...Paul Flowers, a Methodist minister, has been suspended by the Methodist Church and the Labour party. brian.groom@ft.com...
...“Hollinghurst can spin yards of this soft stuff practically in his sleep,” he scoffs, quoting Larkin to cutting effect....
...Mr Larkin at Lloyds says: “The asset-based finance market in the UK started with factoring about 40 years ago....
...For their debut single Hull’s EBTG, Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt, played it straight enough to not disturb Hull’s Larkin, but also detected the song is an uncanny kind of prayer as much as a snazzy show tune...
...Since it is characterised by a dome and its floor plan, St Paul’s Cathedral in London could almost be classed as a basilica? Richard Dalberg, La Lucia, South Africa...
...Philip Larkin, in his poem “MCMXIV”, pins down the “moustached archaic faces”, farthings, sovereigns, tin advertisements of the last days of peace....
...Paul Newman, a French Paul Newman....
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