Hints and tips:
...The current editors are John Hillier and Roy Lancaster, as expert as anyone could wish....
...In 2017, JPMorgan advised Disney on its blockbuster $71bn acquisition of 21st Century Fox. Dimon’s decision to intervene in a sensitive matter is not a first for the veteran banker....
...“Logan Roy isn’t picking the material for his drapery, he’s got staff to deal with that,” he says....
...He pointed to a line from the HBO show Succession, when the media patriarch Logan Roy tells his children: “I love you but you are not serious people.” “Is Lachlan a serious person?”...
...Homer and His Iliad by Robin Lane Fox (Allen Lane) With a long-held adoration of the great epic poem, English historian and FT gardening columnist Lane Fox presents a many-threaded study of Homer’s work...
...Fiction perhaps, but it captures nicely the dark energy of Rupert Murdoch, chair of Fox Corporation and the closest real-life model for Roy....
...Claire Enders, an analyst who has followed Murdoch’s businesses for decades, described Carlson’s removal as “typical” for the media patriarch whose unsentimental nature helped inspire the character of Logan Roy...
...is the manifesto of the Filthy Fox Auction Club, which runs its second sale of work by art students and recent graduates this weekend....
...Internet searches under a shrub or tree’s name are one guide to size and spread, but I rely on The Hillier Manual of Trees and Shrubs, updated in 2019 by the expert Roy Lancaster....
...Ron DeSantis, the Republican Florida governor, told Fox & Friends that even after the deal “our country will still be careening towards bankruptcy”....
...However, DeSantis hardly sounded conciliatory this week when asked on Fox News about Iger’s comments. “Yes, they’re a big powerful company but we stand up for our folks,” he said....
...And FT columnist Nilanjana Roy talks about what makes a great book club....
...Made peace with Stanley Gold and Roy Disney. Made peace with Steve Jobs, which led to the acquisition of Pixar....
...NDTV’s founders, Prannoy and Radhika Roy, stepped down from its board last month. It is a sad tale and a barometer of where India is heading....
...James Murdoch quit News Corp’s board last year and has since taken potshots at his family’s Fox News....
...“Roy Lichtenstein: Monet’s Garden Goes Pop!”, to June 27, selby.org....
...After dropping out of Harvard, he started a hip hop record label located next to a porn shop in New York’s Tribeca — a tale that would help inspire the pugnacious Kendall Roy character in Succession....
...Whatever the result, this is a remarkable turnaround for a family who were pariahs (albeit very rich ones) when Marcos Sr was ousted in 1986....
...Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson claimed that sounded like “the behaviour of a sex offender”. Others have accused the company of producing content aimed at “grooming” American children....
...In America, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr presented the flower in his poem Astraea as “The spendthrift crocus, bursting through the mould/ Naked and shivering with his cup of gold.”...
...In the case of the Roy and Murdoch families, we should all crave gory succession crises. With the Roys it means more of the best HBO has to offer, which is saying something....
...Nobody would expect Sir Roy to plant his garden with shrinking violets....
...You’d still be talking about less than 30 per cent of this entire package and it’s an easily do-able 30 per cent,” Roy Blunt, the Republican senator from Missouri, told Fox News Sunday....
...There are fox furs; there are typewriters with damaged keys; there is much downing of alcohol on the rocks....
...The insidious nature of racism also underpins Simon Stephens’s Blue Water and Cold and Fresh and Roy Williams’s Go, Girl, though these two are set in recent months....
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