Hints and tips:
...Queen Elizabeth I reportedly had 18 so-called “bodyguards of the bed” in her chamber each night....
...One minister said: “I think there will be a moment when Rishi does some bold stuff and throws out some ‘red meat’, but this wasn’t that moment.”...
...I don’t think there is any other art form in the world where minds meet so beautifully....
...A Haunting in Venice: who wouldn’t want to experience one of those? As a title, it certainly has more allure than the more bluntly factual Poirot III....
...“I was delayed at the Star Chamber.” He grins, as if being on bail were something to be proud of. “They can’t seem to decide whether I am traitor or heretic. Now, which of you is my hostess?”...
...His alternative is wholesale reform: a codified constitution, an elected second chamber and, as in Ireland, a directly elected president....
...“It’s great to offer new career opportunities that aren’t locally available and see a skill thrive in an area it hasn’t before.”...
...But I think what’s reckless and irresponsible is the White House saying they won’t negotiate.”...
...Instead, to his dismay, the dinner was co-hosted by the US Chamber of Commerce, a powerful lobbying group with ties to the fossil fuel industry....
...It might also facilitate work by Joe Kennedy III, US special envoy to Northern Ireland for economic affairs, to foster more American investment in the region....
...What it should mean is if we can’t reach 1.5, we don’t pass 1.6.”...
...She spent much of her day sitting on a crimson velvet chair in her chambers, embroidering, reading, writing in the glow of candles that melted on to gilt chandeliers....
...Henry, the only Frenchman among this new roster of designers, was chosen by Sidney Toledano to helm the now LVMH-owned Patou in 2018....
...Conductor Jakob Hultberg does well to marshal a sprawling, mobile array of chamber orchestra, chorus, two dancers and 10 soloists, but the balance isn’t always held....
...Cooling tempers What’s Dutch for: ‘If you can’t beat them, join them’?...
...“Their ‘don’t vote’ strategy will cripple America.”...
...Don’t take my word for it....
...The 100 “chambers” and living quarters are dingy, and the sailors who originally lived here were chosen for their inability to swim in order to prevent their escape....
...“They don’t accept that a [one-party] government is a thing of the past.”...
...(iii) Such a property wealth tax would cause a large industry of tax avoidance....
...Even so, the figures “aren’t pictures of something”, but “something you have to make sense of . . . a collective image”....
...But that doesn’t make their portraits any less “real”, whether or not the truth was messier....
...In 1947, in a true-life murder mystery worthy of an Umberto Eco novel, the monastery’s prior was shot dead in his frescoed chambers....
...Suren Thiru , head of economics, British Chambers of Commerce Any bounce in UK growth would probably be shortlived....
...“They just haven’t figured out how to get the message across.”...
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