Hints and tips:
...“We will fight a presidential campaign,” says one Tory strategist, arguing that Sunak will flourish as the underdog, while Starmer could wilt under the pressure of being the favourite....
...“Potholes return, flowers wilt, and high streets face new challenges in a changing world,” says Tom Forth, head of data at the non-profit Open Data Institute Leeds....
...Now Paul Polman, the former Unilever CEO and co-founder of Imagine, has written a piece that will not endear him to all his peers....
...The courgette flower wilts in shame. Knowing that I might face that kind of criticism, I would never dare cook Leith anything, although she insists she’s quite happy to be catered for....
...Martin S Harrison Avebury-Trusloe, Wilts, UK...
...M Urdank, University of California, US The Corn Laws were re-enacted when we joined the EEC / From Paul Walker, Thatcham, Berks, UK...
...Lyristis, London, UK Frankly, the FT ought to be ashamed of itself / From Robert MacLachlan, Malmesbury, Wilts, UK...
...Paul Woolley is a Senior Fellow at the LSE and former chairman of GMO Europe....
...struggling to attract economists to its annual conference when it came up with the idea of hosting it in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, because the prospect of excellent trout fishing might lure then Fed Chairman Paul...
...Paul Donovan Codford St Peter, Wilts, UK...
...A willow wilts. Shoes and knitting fall to the ground, untended. The women slump into lassitude as a mood of luxuriant melancholy, even claustrophobia, presses down....
...John Paul Rathbone is the FT’s Latin America editor...
...“The heat is causing the plants to wilt,” says Paul Corbett, managing director at Charles Faram, an international hops trader based in the UK....
...The surge in prices for US farmland has started to wilt, and analysts are forecasting a drop in crop prices this year that could officially end the recent run-up....
...Paul Bunyan is also the name of the American lumberjack who in legend chopped down all the forests....
...Weiwei’s ceramic sunflower seeds, which engulfed Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in 2010, or Antony Gormley’s “Field” series featuring thousands of tiny clay figures, the poppies, conceived by ceramic artist Paul...
...Wishfully: 1968 Paul Newman. Realistically: 1968 Norman Fell. Do you keep a diary? I keep a writing journal but it’s boring because it’s basically free of news and gossip....
...The piggy eyes in the dumpling face are screwed up in the making of this very etching while the feather in his cap wilts over the labouring mind....
...favourite work in his forthcoming Royal Academy retrospective is “Tándaradei” – a monumental new painting in oil, emulsion and shellac where pink, red and mauve blossoms seem to burst into life, fade, wilt...
...Paul Knocker, East Knoyle, Wilts, UK...
...But he has also so far managed to avoid serious scrutiny and may wilt, just as other alternatives to Mr Romney have, once his campaign comes under sustained coverage....
...Jean-Paul Sartre denounced potential for the false comfort it gives us through thoughts of what we could have been if things had been different....
...Christopher Miller, Chief Executive, Investment Quotient, Shrewton, Wilts, UK...
...“Lending criteria remain tight, underpinned by caution on the part of both borrowers and lenders in the light of continuing economic uncertainty,” said Paul Samter, economist at the CML....
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