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...As a child, reading my way through Saki, Jonathan Swift and PG Wodehouse, I thought (erroneously, as it turns out) of Britain as the natural home of funny writers....
...‘Quid pro quo’ | Fullbrook is understood to have been promised by Truss that his company would run the Tories’ next general election campaign if he joined as chief of staff, the Guardian reports....
...In some ways, Lansbury’s message was a natural evolution....
...The crimson-covered silver jubilee commemorative book was a prized item on my parents’ bookshelf as it was for millions of other Britons of their generation....
...The response forms a natural segue to one of Palihapitiya’s favourite topics, the purported melding of profit and social good....
...About an hour in, as Laffer is praising Tennessee’s low-tax regime, which has lured companies such as AllianceBernstein, the mention of Wood’s former employer provides a natural segue....
...It was a hard time to be young and African. I was born in London but for a few years as an infant my parents took me to Ghana, their home....
...Sure I suffered racist abuse, the P word and all the rest of it, but [I] went on and did the jobs that I did.”...
...There was bad news for another corporate giant as well, with S&P stripping ExxonMobil of its coveted, long-held triple A credit rating amid the prolonged oil rout....
...Anatomy of a Soldier, by Harry Parker, Faber, RRP£14.99/Knopf, RRP£25.95 Former British army captain Harry Parker’s semi-autobiographical novel about a soldier who loses both legs is a compelling addition...
...“When a child is an infant, the parents still think about leaving. It is like a disease,” he adds, shaking his head. “This is a tragedy.”...
...So children who are adopted feel a greater need to demonstrate – whether by chalking up money, achievements or affection for their parents – that their parents didn’t invest all this time and care as a matter...
...The words, he insists, were intended ironically, as a counterpoint to the old “state of England” literary genre, by the likes of C.P....
...Eighteen years on, the infant has grown to much-admired maturity and become one of the great fixed points of this newspaper, a Financial Times institution as important and as enduring as Sam Brittan or Lex...
...I had no name and no identity number; all I had was a copy of the police report handed to John, as the official “finder”, and a mobile phone snapshot of the infant that he’d taken....
...But the development of long-distance pipelines and the growth of liquefied natural gas (LNG) have turned natural gas into much more of a global business....
...He acted as if it were his right to take them over, as if they were already his characters. Two more boys, Michael and Nico, arrived before both parents died of cancer....
...“Pet” epitomised the very heights of affection and devotion, the unalloyed approval of a parent for a child....
...Meanwhile their half-sister is reunited with the mother who abandoned her as an infant....
...There were 5 or 6 of your pictures on show, including the one of which I have a p.c. [postcard]. I cd see more why I had been automatically reminded of Blake....
...As well as retail and consumer products companies, she says she is now thinking about property and construction. “I think that’s a very natural sector to add on,” Sir John concurs....
...FOOTPRINTS: The Life and Music of Wayne Shorter Michelle Mercer Jeremy P....
...The start of Botin’s career was as unremarkable as that of any other young, aspiring banker - two years of clerical work at J.P....
...BREAKING THE SPELL: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C....
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