Hints and tips:
...I couldn’t decide whether to buy or sell, but I’d just like to buy high-level headhunters. Because there are lots of Conservative ex-ministers out there looking to be placed in work....
...Healey was speaking to a woman named Louise, who claimed to be Nicholas’s widow. She asked Healey whether they could still hold a funeral service for Nicholas in his absence....
...The legendary DJ Readers Wifes will kick matters off from 3pm. 11 August; from £31, heritagelive.net Glyndebourne Festival, Lewes, East SussexDon Giovanni, Semele, Dialogues des Carmélites, L’elisir d’amore...
...“Before, you’d wait for six issues of a magazine to come out before a scallop detail became a thing. Now it can happen in a couple of weeks.”...
...Afterwards, we sat down to talk about what we’d heard. Some commentators talk about the storm clouds of war gathering over Asia....
...But the pandemic hasn’t proved the watershed he’d hoped: cross-party consensus never emerged and post-Covid policy has turned out to be crisis management....
...Its ELSA-d prototype successfully demonstrated in August how it could magnetically capture redundant satellites, with the aim of towing them away to disintegrate in the Earth’s atmosphere as they descend...
...There had been longer queues outside the new McDonald’s in Moscow’s Pushkin Square than at Lenin’s tomb, Denis Healey marvelled in the Financial Times....
...Below are just a few; Ed, I’m curious which of these you think will take priority and whether you’d add anything to the list of quick moves that the Biden administration can make....
...“Many towns and villages like Wath [the largest town in the constituency] feel betrayed by the big banks,” said John Healey, the Labour MP....
...“I enjoyed watching rallying as a youngster but I’d never competed – so my wife and I jumped in at the deep end and entered the Casablanca Challenge....
...Even as she moves restlessly about upstairs, Jen wonders “if they’d invited some stranger into the house, or some mythical creature, a unicorn or a griffin, which they had no idea how to care for”....
...I’d like a swig of her cough medicine. Sam Leith is literary editor of The Spectator and author of ‘You Talkin’ To Me? Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama’...
...Later the maître d’ of the since-shuttered restaurant tells us that he has had 140 emails in recent days from political types, mostly wanting a last supper....
...Merryn: I’d definitely head to Japan. Miles: I would go for shares in BlackRock....
...Instead he’d say: Annie, you look so memorable.”...
...Having lost its Bretton Woods raison d’être as manager of the exchange rate system, the fund was reinventing itself as a global economic firefighter....
...But John Healey, shadow housing minister, said the statement would disappoint millions of people struggling to cope with a “cost of housing crisis”....
...“I am not sure he’s ever been to Rotherham but we’d be glad to see him here,” said John Healey, the local Labour MP....
...An object I would never part with is my bright red, 1958 Frogeye Austin-Healey, which I spent three years restoring with my dad....
...When Auberon Waugh was invited to write about his life, he sent letters to all and sundry asking if anyone knew what he’d been doing for the past 30 years....
...But in reality I think the only other career I’d really want is connected to what I already do, and would focus on writing....
...He says he is a good delegator but also a believer in what the veteran Labour politician Denis Healey called “hinterland”....
...Former chancellor and deputy Labour leader Denis Healey famously talked of the need for every politician to have a hinterland. If modern politicians have them, we glimpse them all too rarely....
...– and eyebrows so heavy they make Denis Healey’s look positively size zero....
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