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...This episodic film is rich in awkward moments and sharp character insights: Nick Holder plays a lugubrious coast-dweller whose moan about estate agents segues seamlessly into a jeremiad against lattes, macchiatos...
...And, perhaps inevitably, other writers of this emergent, postwar world come to mind, particularly the great Muriel Spark, with whom Tremain shares an elegance of style, a sharp perceptiveness, a clinical...
...The poll also revealed a sharp increase in concern about the price at the pump, with 52 per cent saying petrol had a big impact on their financial situation, up from 47 per cent last month....
...When Mann threatened to sue National Review, the publication’s editor, Rich Lowry, penned a public response in which he said he looked forward to “teaching him a thing or two about the law”....
...The top of the sloping site, mulched with 15cm of sharp sand, displays drought-tolerant plants, while shade lovers are planted into the clay at the bottom of the slope through a mulch of green waste from...
...A sharp economic slowdown in Italy is testing investors’ patience with the government after recent interventionist moves had raised serious doubts about the direction of policy....
...This is in sharp contrast to the mood in financial markets, where traders in federal funds futures believe the US central bank’s policy settings are restrictive enough to get inflation under control....
...Endearments to his two wives — Ann Sharp, whom he married in 1954, and then Jane — can sound forced....
...Kate’s boss, Sue, questions the validity of Elaine’s account: “Maybe it was all in her head?”...
...The artist has a sharp eye for history’s absurdities. The obelisk embroideries come from a 1980s colouring book Afrikaner parents might have used to explain the Boer war to their children....
...Top financiers in Davos predicted a sharp rebound in dealmaking this year, which may make Wall Street’s re-education for thin times short lived....
...All recipes from Second Helpings by Sue Quinn (Quadrille, £18.99) @ajesh34...
...The Israel-Gaza conflict has caused sharp divisions within the Labour party, with some quarters incensed by the leadership’s decision not to strongly criticise Israel’s siege and bombardment of Gaza....
...It allows survivors of violent sex crimes to sue their attackers in civil court, even if their allegations are not taken up by prosecutors working for the Manhattan district attorney....
...Under chief executive Sue Y....
...Card sharps and tricksters make money from the gullible and spend it in the clubs, mingling with toffs, minor royalty and soubrettes....
...Prigozhin had sought to personally sue Eliot Higgins, the founder of investigative website Bellingcat, for libel....
...It is possible that the SEC’s strategy is to ban crypto entirely by forcing exchanges to do the impossible and then sue them for not doing so....
...The surge follows a sharp increase in demand for mental health services....
...The tax was intended to capture some of the “exceptional” revenues made by renewables generators, who were unaffected by the sharp jump in input prices, as electricity prices soared....
...Homeowners with mortgages are facing a sharp increase in payments. In the US, 30-year loans are now 7 per cent. Naturally, home sales are down....
...The news that Sue Gray was set to join Keir Starmer’s team broke midway through the Conservative party’s away day....
...The chancellor at the time threatened to sue a newspaper that was preparing to report last July that his tax affairs were under investigation....
...This stance has prompted Grayscale to sue the SEC for its refusal to allow the $16.9bn Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), a private spot bitcoin trust, to convert to an ETF....
...The royal marriage endured in part because the couple shared a sharp sense of humour....
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