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...“I don’t mind the title of inventor,” he once told The Guardian. “Inventing things that don’t work is a brilliant thing, you know.” Rumours spread like heat....
...It was a hard time to be young and African. I was born in London but for a few years as an infant my parents took me to Ghana, their home....
...Beside her, Chinese President Xi Jinping watches like a proud parent as Merkel coos at the animals, loaned by the Chinese government to Berlin’s Tierpark Zoo for the next 15 years at an annual cost of $1m...
...Parents run the risk that their sprogs, sick on a diet of chocolate and chips, become fractious and unmanageable....
...Nancy, born in 1940 and the youngest of seven children (one died as an infant), grew up with five elder brothers in a household in which political campaigning was a part of life....
...Buying nappies, for example, will flag you up as a new parent and thus a potential customer for infant rice cereal, rattles or soft toothbrushes for barely existent baby teeth....
...Eighteen years on, the infant has grown to much-admired maturity and become one of the great fixed points of this newspaper, a Financial Times institution as important and as enduring as Sam Brittan or Lex...
...I had no name and no identity number; all I had was a copy of the police report handed to John, as the official “finder”, and a mobile phone snapshot of the infant that he’d taken....
...His vision of a “vast city, a city of refuge” where “there be pens and heads …sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas” utterly unchained by guardians of conformity...
...Yet as director of the Soil Association, he has led a small organisation to a position of real power: as one of the leading guardians of the ethos and rules of organic farming in Britain....
...Meanwhile their half-sister is reunited with the mother who abandoned her as an infant....
...Road and the colourful classrooms of Fulbridge Junior and Infant School where he has served as a governor for more than four decades....
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