Hints and tips:
...Across the invisible border, the Malian and Burkinabe states barely function, the general says. Swaths of territory have been overrun by terrorists affiliated with al-Qaeda and Islamic State....
...Economists say a V-shaped recovery is unlikely. Even then it could be two Vs stuck together – a W, in other words....
...Serious Sweet, by AL Kennedy, Cape, RRP£17.99 Set over the course of a single day, and travelling from Piccadilly to Chiswick via Knightsbridge, AL Kennedy’s latest novel is an ambitious, perambulatory...
...Chinese herbal teas, which are typically dark brown and bitter in taste, are believed to help cool the system when the mercury rises....
...Contemporary photographs are juxtaposed with archive shots – Beatrix Potter at Hill Top Farm, for example....
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...It is obvious that he enjoys being in the company of soldiers and he clearly likes the fact that I am ex-SAS....
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...And why, now, doesn’t someone come along and eat Durant for lunch, in the way that Blockbuster has been laid low by Netflix et al? There are two answers (at least)....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...It is a journey that takes us back to a time before most of us were born, long before the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act, and Brown v....
...He began travelling the country in search of soldiers from the company mentioned in the tip-off....
...Bush’s “surge”, led by the charismatic commander David Petraeus, rocked back al-Qaeda insurgents. US casualties, rising at a fearsome rate earlier in the year, stabilised....
...Al-Qaeda is not the Provisional IRA; its structures and modus operandi mark it out and make western companies potential targets all over the world....
...THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GUILTY PLEASURES edited by Michael Moran et al John Murray ₤12.99, 352 pages Classic toilet material: its half-page alphabetical entries are eclectic, opinionated tilts at icons and...
...In total I can state that, since 2001, we have frozen assets of terrorists of nearly £80 million - including for over 100 organisations with links to Al Qaeda....
...We turn on to a long straight road, surrounded by vast emptiness, the odd shelled-out tank providing the only punctuation in the dull brown plains....
...And this means that until the Democrats rethink or repackage their proudest achievements - the welfare state, healthcare, the Voting Rights Act and, by association, Roe v....
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