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...And God, if prison was like it is for [my character] Bobby Glass — open air, barbecued steak — I’d be there tomorrow. Few people I’d like to iron out first, mind.”...
...Little-read and under-published, he’d be broke were it not for his day job as a professor of English literature, and he riles at sightings of his books in the black sections of bookstores....
...We'd love to hear from you. What do you like (or not)? What topics should we tackle? Email the team at workingit@ft.com or Isabel directly at isabel.berwick@ft.com....
...A picture paints a thousand words though, so when geographer Alasdair Rae posted a map this month showing what London’s new Elizabeth line would look like if you picked it up and plonked it in the north...
...“If those macro effects weren’t there you’d probably still have streaming services spending more and more,” said Tom Harrington, analyst at Enders....
...Thanks to Dan Harris, Nancy Doyle, Janice Rae and Emma Jacobs for this episode....
...So then I’d rather keep this whole thing.” As the first anniversary approaches of the February 24 invasion, some of the biggest names in international business have left the country....
...To quote every wellness guru ever: no one lies on their deathbed wishing they’d spent more time at work. But, I’m not sure the idea’s that much of a revolution....
...Up until then we’d done poetry at school and we’d dissected certain books, sometimes it felt just out of reach. There was something about that song especially that was more relatable and accessible....
...Issa Rae made an official playlist featuring old-school rappers Salt-N-Pepa....
...Perhaps he’d just hit up Oi Polloi in the city’s buzzy Northern Quarter in a pre-lockdown shopping spree....
...I hope she’d be happy and see I was in a good place. She’d probably think I would have made more records, but I’d have to explain my life story....
...On the few occasions my daughter has persuaded me to watch TikTok’s leading personalities, such as Charli D’Amelio, or Addison Rae, all I can see is incredibly well practised dance moves in 15-20 second...
...Marsh, East Sussex, England Crossword 16,377: John Bevan, London; TF & JM Marshall, Scotland; Rae Seelig, London Polymath 1,057: Bridget Symeonides, Cyprus Crossword 16,371: Mr B Miller, Guernsey; Mr...
...ALASDAIR RAE: That's right. So traditionally, you'd just expect to see a geographical gradient, where you don't really get these extremes next to each other....
...Rae Smith’s evocative set is a spacious garden room, once grand, now running to dilapidation....
...Then they realised the machine they’d handsomely profited from — the traditional TV box — was under threat of extinction....
...The market already consumes about 2.8bn cu ft/d on average....
...“I’d just written Suffragette and couldn’t believe how contemporary [the suffragettes’] voices were when I read their testimonials....
...Until recently, if you’d asked most business leaders whether they would like to participate in the annual United Nations General Assembly in New York, the answer would have been: “Ugh!”...
...Gillian Tett is away Illustration by Shonagh Rae...
...gillian.tett@ft.com; @gilliantett Illustration by Shonagh Rae...
...It would be comic if it were not so tragic; we’d better just hope those VA reforms fly. gillian.tett@ft.com; @gilliantett Illustration by Shonagh Rae...
...Charlotte Mendelson is a novelist and author of ‘Rhapsody in Green’ Illustration by Shonagh Rae...
...The writer is an FT contributing editor Illustration by Shonagh Rae...
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