Hints and tips:
...By contrast, Albert Hammond Jr prefers the more meditative art of coffee making....
...“But we wouldn’t have any impact because we’d be choosing easy, meaningless cases — and that’s not the right thing for us to do.”...
...For those who love Hong Kong, as I do, Stephen Roach’s recent FT column makes for depressing and all too plausible reading: “It pains me to say Hong Kong is over”....
...Albert Hammond Jr on coffee The Strokes’ guitarist loves the ritual of the daily grind I love coffee. I’m not sure if I’d call it an obsession – I like “ritual”....
...Spoiler alert: everyone gets a happy ending, more or less, even the uptight monarch (none other than Stephen Fry)....
...That old lesson played out again last month as French director Justine Triet won the Cannes Palme d’Or for courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall....
...Finally, I’d like to thank David Hindley for expertly steering the Week Ahead guide for the last fortnight....
...But one of his MPs, Iain Paisley Jr, has repeatedly insisted that the framework “does not cut the mustard”....
...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
...candidate like RFK Jr or Cornel West....
...And I think as you’d expect from a man like Rishi Sunak, he’s very polite....
...Throw glitter on me. ...put glitter on Robert, that'd be great....
...But pick up a copy of D&D’s Monster Manual and you will find graceful elves, thuggish orcs and skilled dwarven craftsmen: the world that D&D players inhabit is the world that Tolkien made....
...who’s who of Trump’s most vocal allies, including former advisers such as Roger Stone, who was pardoned by Trump at the end of his presidency for his convictions relating to the Mueller investigation, Stephen...
...I’d love to rise to the highest levels of equestrian sport so that African-American girls can look to me for inspiration and know that it’s not impossible.”...
...When it comes to deploying this skill, though, one man has a decade’s head start on the rest of us: Stephen Foster....
...Philip Stephens is the FT’s chief political commentator....
...Mark C O’Flaherty thefrenchhouse.co.uk Luca Workshop, Florence If a Hollywood art director was creating an “Italian antique shop” set, the result would no doubt resemble Luca Rafanelli’s store....
...Wadsworth, London Crossword 16,212: Caroline Sproule, Moira; L Stone, Dorset; Nancy Cooper, London Polymath 1,029: James Birkett, Brighton Crossword 16,206: Enda Cogan, Dublin Patricia Cairns, Devon; JR...
...Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles, by William Quinn and John D Turner, Cambridge, RRP£18.99, 296 pages A lovely book....
...The always sharp Stephen Roach seems to agree with my take that we are headed for a post-dollar world....
...Other Hamilton alumni include Brian D’Arcy James, Josh Andrés Rivera and Ariana DeBose, who plays the key role of Anita....
...“No, I’d hesitate to,” he responds: “I think it’s a private family matter.” Three questions for Stephen Badger What was your first leadership lesson?...
...Along with his wife Melania, four of the president’s children will accompany him — Ivanka, Eric, Donald Jr and Tiffany....
...Pavillon Cambon Capucines — where Paris St Germain forward Neymar Jr held his birthday party — is about a mile away....
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