Hints and tips:
...It has to be in Paris, as Samuel Beckett refuses to travel. Paris also suits the chef, Edouard Nignon, who hasn’t lifted a saucepan in earnest since he sold Restaurant Larue in 1928....
...The Journal, and Samuel Pepys’ diary of The Great Fire of London (Penguin Classics, £0.99) following swiftly on the plague, works for me right now....
...Samuel Tombs: 2022 will be the year of peak fiscal pain....
...Hodders, Hodder-Williamses and Attenboroughs (a branch of the same family) ran H&S from 1868 until it was bought by Headline in 1993; later, Hodder came to sit alongside Murray at Hachette....
...Allan Monks: The BoE’s communication strategy was criticised under Carney, with forward guidance offering insufficient clarity about the Bank's reaction function....
...There are four main options: i) May’s deal, ii) another deal (eg. Norway for now), iii) no deal or iv) remain....
...In a bar on the way I found Samuel Odermatt and Sandro Trauffer, who had completed the race on skis....
...Allan Monks, economist, JPMorgan Feel about the same as 12 months ago....
...For the title of his impressive and highly readable new study of Anglo-Islamic relations under Elizabeth I, Jerry Brotton has chosen to adapt the description in Shakespeare’s Richard II of “this sceptred...
...prize juries but I have found it a fascinating experience – and I have been lucky to be part of a panel chaired by the biographer Claire Tomalin and also including Alan Johnson MP, the philosopher Ray Monk...
...The 2014 panel of judges also includes Alan Johnson MP, Financial Times books editor Lorien Kite, philosopher Ray Monk and historian Ruth Scurr. The winner will be announced on November 4....
...Allan Monks, JPM Research, Economist d) will succeed in cutting spending and revenues will remain on target or better....
...Allan Monks, JPM Research, Economist Risks from the global environment and ongoing tightening in fiscal policy will present the main challenges for the UK economy in 2016....
...Samuel Brittan Yes. In the absence of shocks output normally grows in line with the growth of capacity Tony Dolphin, IPPR I think this is now the most likely outcome....
...Allan Monks, JPMorgan All the main parties agree on the need for further fiscal tightening....
...J H Plumb, who had been my professor at Cambridge, was its editor and he thought I was the person to finish it....
...After eight years of debate, Pope John Paul II asked the nuns to move into a building a mile away....
...The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One By Miranda Carter Fig Tree, £25 The parallel, interrelated lives of Kaiser Wilhelm II, George V and Nicholas II provide a grotesque...
...There is Samuel Pepys, the English diarist, who adored oysters; and Elizabeth I, who had the ”stomach of a king” and ate so much sugar her teeth turned black....
...Thenne this monke wysyly and deuoutely fulfilled the abbottys wille and gaue alle that money to t[h]e pore pepul and nedy....
...No sooner had he published Arden II than Arden III went into production....
...“I’m a bit wary of people who say open source is more secure,” says James Govenor, an analyst at Red Monk....
...On the other side of La Manche, a law banning the advertising of alcohol means that the tournament is known as the H Cup....
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