Hints and tips:
...Last month 10 Catholic bishops signed a petition demanding the release of Lai, a devout Catholic....
...Many of the city’s leading democrats are Catholic, including media mogul Jimmy Lai, who is on trial for alleged national security crimes, barrister Martin Lee and Joseph Zen, former bishop of Hong Kong....
...Beijing installed Shen Bin, a member of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, as the bishop in Shanghai instead of the auxiliary bishop Thaddeus Ma Daqin, who was previously placed under house arrest...
...That certainly applies to Terry Gou. The founder of Taiwanese iPhone maker Foxconn, has trumpeted that he will take no orders from Beijing or bow to its threats....
...It does happen: Terry Hayes’s 2013 debut, I Am Pilgrim, was a panoramic epic that was translated into 30 languages. The tricky part, naturally, is the next book....
...There’s even a touch of Midsommar folk horror to this Midsummer, not least in Michelle Terry’s unnervingly unpredictable Puck, who bursts up from below the stage wreathed in smoke, her head clad in a thicket...
...Bishop Stephen Chow Sau-yan, the top Catholic cleric in Hong Kong, is the first senior church official from the Chinese territory to visit Beijing since 1994....
...William Cohan rightly questions generous retention bonuses for chief executives (On Wall Street, July 15)....
...The former prime minister has been mobilising supporters to demonstrate against new taxes signed into law last month by his rival President William Ruto....
...And finally, Penguin are releasing more instalments of their re-recordings of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series....
...The bickering rings true — as does the warmth — and it’s beautifully delivered by Alun Armstrong and Marion Bailey in a production co-directed by Richard Wilson and Terry Johnson....
...The apology by the National Police Chiefs Council and College of Policing was part of a long-awaited police response to a 2017 report by the Right Reverend James Jones, a former Bishop of Liverpool, on lessons...
...Hong Kong: A verdict is scheduled for Cardinal Zen, the 90-year-old former bishop of Hong Kong, and five others who are accused of failing to register a now-defunct fund set up to assist people arrested...
...Prince William, next in line to the throne, swore allegiance to his father, sealed by a kiss on his cheek....
...With reel-to-reel machines becoming more common, artists from William Burroughs to The Beatles began manipulating the magnetic tape by cutting and pasting, playing it backwards, or shifting speeds....
...says Philip North, the outspoken bishop of Burnley in Lancashire. “A far bigger problem for me has been the church seeming hypocritical. The child abuse scandals have been a disaster....
...Hong Kong: Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, former Catholic bishop of Hong Kong, and five well-known members of the Democratic Front are due to appear in court today, accused of failing to properly register...
...one queuer asks in a scene straight out of Terry Gilliam’s Brazil....
...Round on the Links The link was church titles and occupations Bishop Auckland Dave Sexton William Pitt the Elder Russ Abbot Edward the Confessor Blue Nun The Vicar of Wakefield Canon (in D) “The...
...They include not only the elements of a Christmas dinner, but crackers, Terry’s Chocolate Oranges and gifts for the kids, with a blank gift tag for the parents to fill out “so it’s not come from charity”...
...Bowie’s archive includes letters, set designs, thousands of slides, contact sheets and transparencies from photographers such as Terry O’Neill and Helmut Newton, as well as costumes made by fashion designers...
...Well, you’d think so, and I later talked to Cath Bishop, former Olympic rower and conflict diplomat (yes, really), now a leadership and organisational consultant....
...BPA-free and available in three colourways. clubmatters.com Pool throw by Siri Miri, £210 Made to order in Italy from organic cotton terry....
...Small plates include The Bishop’s Scotch egg served with vegetable slaw and tomato chutney (£12) or for mains The Bishop’s fish pie with smoked haddock, mussels and salmon served with peas and mashed potato...
...Tony Smith Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, UK...
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