Hints and tips:
...For me, the apparently simple practice of paying attention to what I’d read the previous year had unexpected ripple effects....
...Last, I must mention the pool at one of my favourite hotels, La Colombe d’Or in Saint-Paul-de-Vence....
...After I’d had enough of McAllister’s diktats, I dived into To Marry an English Lord (1989) by Gail MacColl and Carol McD Wallace, which partly inspired Fellowes’ previous series, Downton Abbey....
...One was that we’d get killed. The other was that we might have to kill someone.”...
...He reminds me of another Cork-born legend, the Irish midfielder-turned-football pundit Roy Keane. Both share the same congenital disposition to seem utterly nonplussed....
...But she does, passing off The Last Front as her own, changing her name to Juniper Song at her publisher’s suggestion, until she finally has the life she’d always wanted — even if it happens to be the life...
...Nonetheless, if you’re Rishi Sunak, you know which one you’d rather have on your CV....
...So you’d expect us to be out of that position sometime around then.”...
...Roy has also been surprised by Nice’s economy....
...Unlike some of the translations I’d read online, Helle’s translation feels urgent, incandescent, stripped of academic cladding....
...George Washington probably wouldn’t have been elected if he’d had to run for office. But Biden has to, and in the age of high-speed media to boot....
...“I’d like to take time to congratulate Ron DeSantis,” Trump told supporters on Sunday. “He ran a really good campaign. I will tell you, it’s not easy.”...
...I’d guess Pete’s age at 37, but he turns out to be 65. There’s a touch of Shane Warne about him....
...When Dubravka Ugrešić died at the age of 73 earlier this month, I felt a sharp stab of personal loss, though I’d only encountered her through her ingenious work....
...He’d need us on board. The suggestion here is that holding company has a very small number of powerful votes....
...For us viewers, at least, if not the warring Roys....
...Here, a Donald Judd chair, Roy Lichtenstein artwork and Le Corbusier lamp also reside....
...Roy Jenkins, a former UK finance minister and EU Commission president, once described inheritance tax as a “voluntary levy,” paid only by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the tax authorities...
...“It’d be nice to have a unified message instead of some of the chaos we’ve been living through.” The abrupt downfall of the former Speaker last week has created disarray in the House....
...I’d suggest there are two other factors at play. First, executive compensation schemes have increasingly blurred the lines between what is a personal and what is professional expense....
...Meanwhile, Shiv Roy, now reinstated in real life as Sarah Snook, flaunts her new pulling-power in a version by Kip William of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, a one-woman show at London’s 900-seat...
...The first event held at the hotel after its conversion from a private residence was the silver-wedding anniversary of Roy and Shirley Erskine (Murray’s grandparents) in 1981....
...Everything in her home is thought out, from the design of her couch (by Australian brand Jardan) to the sail-shaped light shade hanging over it (by French designer Paris Au Mois D’Août)....
...You'd bet... Hertfordshire. Hertfordshire. Again, places that could really worry the Conservatives if the Lib Dems do quite well in Surrey, as they may well do. The affluent doughnut around London....
...Nilanjana Roy is a Weekend FT columnist. Follow her on Twitter at @nilanjanaroy Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
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