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...Leafless birch trees look as if they’ve been chiselled into the mountains’ snowy skirts. “The weather isn’t always like this,” says Håvar as we head out on a boat for fishing....
...Alice Birch’s pungent new version also emphasises its psychological terrain....
...Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right by Matthew Dallek (Basic Books) Founded in 1958 by businessman Robert Welch, the John Birch Society was so fiercely anticommunist and...
...The John Birch Society was founded in 1958 by Robert Welch, who having retired from his candy-making family business set about saving America from a red takeover....
...A broad, brown river steers its way though slopes forested with spruce and birch....
...Reporting by Sujeet Indap, Joe Rennison and Ortenca Aliaj in New York, Mehul Srivastava in Tel Aviv and Robert Smith and Kaye Wiggins in London...
...Evergreens do not have to be green but can offer various colours, says Robert Brett, curator at the RHS garden Hyde Hall in Essex....
...I also have a review in this Weekend FT of Matthew Dallek’s book on the John Birch society, which he believes paved the way for Donald Trump....
...There are outsized windows, an on-trend birch plywood interior and a little wood-burning stove. Concessions to the great indoors include a fridge and crisp white linen....
...The 21-acre site is now home to a host of unique spaces, each thoughtfully outfitted with home comforts: the little casita boasts a midcentury birch kitchen and the space-age silver trailers have cosy beds...
...Edward Miller’s A Conspiratorial Life chronicles the extraordinary character and career of Robert Welch (1899-1985), founder of the hard-right John Birch Society and thorn of conventional Republicanism....
...No birch trees, samovars or cream muslin here: in Soutra Gilmour’s design, the story plays out in a brightly lit chipboard box with the actors sitting on plastic chairs....
...The devices are often discarded like cigarette butts outside the school gates, says Cleary, principal at Robert Smyth Academy in Leicestershire....
...In his 1998 book The Accursed Mountains, Robert Carver meets two missionaries who have set up a tourist office in Bajram Curri, the closest town to where I was standing....
...There are also deciduous trees, such as birch and poplar. An ecosystem under threat Today, the boreal forests are burning....
...Here is what the marketing blurb lists: maté, blackcurrant, ceylon black tea, violet leaves, birch, papyrus. Mixed emotions indeed. We were clearly flailing around....
...of them are backing a group of former employees of Greensill Capital, the supply chain finance group that collapsed in a financial and political scandal this year, to start a new venture called Silver Birch...
...When Robert Seethaler’s A Whole Life was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2016, it sparked something of a renaissance for novellas....
...“The increase in unemployment has been consistently over-predicted,” said Robert Carruthers at Consumercast....
...The year after McCarthy’s death, Robert Welch, a wealthy candy manufacturer, founded the John Birch society, which seeded today’s US conservatism. Welch was an ardent fan of McCarthy....
...Many alumni – Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenberg and Ruth Asawa, to name a few – went on to become giants of the contemporary cultural scene....
...Robert Frost said that love is like a poem. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. I hope there is some wisdom, but it is the delight that lingers....
...Mr Birch replied that Shop Direct was in “regular dialogue with all of our stakeholders” and that an equity injection from its shareholder was still an option....
...(Robert Shrimsley, FT) UK farmers win concession on post-Brexit agricultural trade policyThe UK has bowed to calls for an independent commission to advise on post-Brexit agriculture trade policy in a move...
...The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts is published by Doubleday on February 6....
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