Hints and tips:
...June 10 to July 9; further information and tickets here ‘La bohème’, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées Lorenzo Passerini directs Puccini’s truly Parisian opera, with Selene Zanetti as Mimi and Pene Pati playing...
...He’d give you a task that was slightly too difficult, and throw you at it. I had no portfolio, no reporting experience, he just liked the look of me. Talk about a lucky break!...
...Bronwen MaddoxI’d be surprised. I think they would share her view that Putin must lose....
...I very quickly discovered that I’d had it wrong....
...“The noise of Elon Musk would be something we’d have to think about....
...Even now you’d be hard pushed to attend a house clearance that did not involve a Vernon Ward print....
...In a pub near Russell Square, security guard George Maddox welcomed the “long overdue” ability to order a pint at the bar, rather than by a smartphone app....
...While in college in the 1950s, he worked as a driver for former Atlanta mayor Robert Maddox. Maddox was shocked to learn Jordan was a college student, and once shouted “Vernon can read!”...
...(Bronwen Maddox, FT) Last call for Europe — meet the Brits buying homes before Brexit bitesResidency will become more complicated for Britons when the rules change on January 1....
...“If I was prime minister and I was in a hole, I’d want him next to me because he’s just so good,” Hennessy adds. “He’s calm, he’s clear, he’s thoughtful and he can see the relationship between things....
...Kanishka, 17-19 Maddox Street, London W1 (020-3978 0978; kanishkarestaurant.co.uk)....
...“There was a time when you’d be [either] entertaining or didactic in children’s programmes. But that was a long, long time ago.”...
...People round these parts want impressive yet unthreatening food, delivered by obsequious waiters, with a clubbable maître d’ and a kitchen that never rests....
...In the same year, Dr Muranaka was awarded the John Maddox prize for promoting evidence-based science in the face of adversity....
...It would be a black comedy, after all, if Labour got into power and demanded to take the contracts back — at just the point when companies concluded that the taxpayer was getting such a good deal they’d...
...One of the advisers who drafted it said sadly, “We thought we’d written a grown-up proposal to the nation.” Too much so, it seems....
...Sir, Bronwen Maddox, in “The collapse of Carillion is not an argument to end outsourcing” (January 20), says that government outsourcing usually works well if there is a market in the service, if the difference...
...E Marinella, 54 Maddox St, W1 (emarinella.com). Hermès, 155 New Bond St, W1 (hermes.com). Huntsman, 11 Savile Row, W1 (huntsmansavilerow.com)....
...In a rare, stunning “Nature morte à la tête de cheval”, painted during Gauguin’s brief experiment with neo-Impressionism, vibrant diagonal hatchings and blots represent the Horse of Selene from the Elgin...
...The British constitution can handle outcomes like this There is a danger in viewing a hung parliament as a rare event that threatens to paralyse politics, writes Bronwen Maddox....
...FT: If you’d been allowed to continue until February? SB: Yes. Not only February. They have stopped it. They have stopped the mandate....
...“We had a very small one-bedroom place in Maddox Street come on to the market for £895,000,” says Charles Lloyd at Savills, “and that sold in five days.”...
...and his wife, the writer Brenda Maddox....
...—————————- SHAUN HILL (Put Gidleigh Park in Devon and the Merchant House in Ludlow on the map; nows runs the Walnut Tree in Abergavenny, south Wales) Hibiscus Recommended for: High end Address: 29 Maddox...
...“I’d just had the twins,” she recalls. “I’d been in a nightgown for a very, very long time....
International Edition