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...Murray is an unlikely laird of the manor....
...by Robert Shrimsley...
...In the pages of his evocative short book, The Crofter and the Laird, I drift into the essence of a community surviving on the Atlantic fringes....
...Robert Longo makes aggressive, powerful images. They are usually big. Sometimes very big. High-definition, high-contrast, high-octane. Stereotypically masculine, he’d be the first to admit....
...It was built by a duchess furious with her former in-laws, the Sutherlands, lairds of their eponymous county to the north....
...The exhibition brings together representations of masculinity from the 1960s to the present day from more than 50 leading photographers and film-makers, male and female, including Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy...
...And there’s a fierce, political energy in the verse of poets such as Nick Laird and Liz Berry that has found a contemporary resonance....
...“The new lairds are much more in tune than the old farts, who may not be so open to events like this. They’ve probably even been to Glastonbury,” he says....
...At least Advent likely did a bit more spreadsheet analysis early on than Comcast’s chief executive Brian Roberts....
...Several listed UK companies that do not have public credit ratings have tapped the Schuldschein market in recent years, such as Cobham, IWG, Kier and Laird....
...“We see the Type 31 as a big opportunity to do more than just supply modules,” says Linton Roberts, managing director of Cammell Laird....
...(FT) News Round-Up FT Scoop: Equitable Life hires Goldman Sachs to examine possible sale (FT) Laird agrees £1bn offer from US private equity group Advent (FT + FT Lex) Senior Tory politician calls for...
...“Good fences make good neighbours”, a line in Robert Frost’s poem “Mending Wall”, is a sentiment taken for granted by many now....
...Jean Urquhart, sometime politician, widow of the actor Robert, has created a sanctuary here....
...Robert Graves, wounded in 1916, came north to visit Sassoon too....
...There was no need to shush the young ones: we were the lairds of this castle, if only for the night....
...The response by local lairds to the widespread starvation of the peasantry at the time was to provide food only in return for work....
...Robert Peltier Robert Peltier’s “Grim Street SE1” looks beyond the surface bustle of Borough High Street and its surrounds....
...It would not surprise anyone if Gallacher or Laird won a major. But our guys tend to struggle in the big tournaments – we don’t know why,” Ritchie says....
...One was berated by poet Robert Burns as a reptile in a ducal crown for laying waste to the Drumlanrig woods....
...Tim Hayward Garden books A Natural History of English Gardening: 1650-1800, by Mark Laird, Yale University Press, RRP£45 Mark Laird, the great landscape historian, gives a superb narrative about the plants...
...The laird of Skibo was never to return. John Thornhill is the FT’s deputy editor; he was a guest of the Carnegie Club Photographs: Robert Ormerod; Getty Slideshow photographs: Robert Ormerod...
...Keel Watson is the majestic Dosifei, Jeffrey Lloyd Roberts a big-hearted Golitsyn, and there are strong contributions from Joseph Guyton, Paul Nilon and Stephanie Corley....
...The name Byass had come from an English importing agent, Robert Blake Byass, whose descendants gradually pulled out of the business, leaving it in the hands of the González family....
...Earnings Adidas Q1 €1.43 (€1.38) BNP Paribas Q1 €1.43 (€1.71) Continental Q1 €2.20 (€2.96) Inmarsat Q1 n/a (n/a) Trading and sales updates Direct Line Laird Man Group Rentokil Initial Royal Bank...
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