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...The gothic introductory paragraphs (flashing lightning, stormy seas) underscore the significance of the mock-gothic castle that the identical twins built on their private island off the coast of Guernsey...
...They were rarely photographed, refused to talk to the press and eschewed the London social circuit for a reclusive life on Brecqhou, a tiny island in the Channel upon which they built a £60mn mock castle...
...The judge found that this had meant Sir Frederick’s share of the freehold of Brecqhou, a tiny Channel Island off the coast of Sark “where a huge mock castle was built by them at a cost variously put to the...
...This one comes with an introduction by Roy Thomas, who wrote extensively for the company during its formative period and for a time was editor-in-chief....
...Silicon Valley schadenfreude FT columnist Jemima Kelly ponders why it’s so tempting to mock the Burning Man attendees trapped in the Nevada desert last week....
...The hall is a peach in the ambitious scheme for Houghton Hall attributed to architect Colen Campbell and built by Thomas Ripley in the then deeply fashionable Anglo-Palladian style....
...The building, erected in 1888 and designed by Thomas Verity, the man responsible for the exterior of the pavilion at Lord’s Cricket Ground, used to be a hotel, then a pub with rooms for staff....
...In recent months, private equity buyers like Hellman & Friedman, Thoma Bravo, Vista Equity and Permira have turned to private lenders to get deals done....
...She explained to me that her lawyer, Thomas Jervis of law firm Leigh Day, is helping her pursue a personal injury complaint against TfL....
...None of which is to mock. In fact, if there is a target here, it’s the romantic and faintly Marxian belief that it is the worst-off who bring about the great social ruptures....
...Yet some contemporary follies are indeed the work of well-known talents: take Thomas Heatherwick’s much-maligned Vessel in New York’s Hudson Yards, which opened in 2019....
...One good read Always read Thomas Edsall....
...The crystal mountain air, the shimmer of the stream, and the mock Tudor facades made me think of Tyrol or Switzerland....
...Two days later, I am having lunch a few mansions down from Mar-a-Lago at the home of Thomas Peterffy, founder and chairman of Interactive Brokers....
...Mock orange, or philadelphus, blossom is a delight to insects, pollinators and humans alike....
...DarkSide’s blog mocks the PR speak of the companies it hits....
...A couple of boys guffawed in mock hilarity. Classified as white by the apartheid government, we were receiving a privileged English-style education, with prefects, cricket and blazers....
...It argues that its staff fell victim to an elaborate fraud which involved corrupt bank employees, fake online shops and potentially even mock-up bank branches in the Philippines....
...Elsewhere, in “The Hard Crowd”, she mocks hippies for being “middle-class white kids who had stripped down to Jesus-like austerity, a penance that seemed indulgent and lame” and criticises Joan Didion for...
...She won best newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2011, and became a fixture on panel shows such as Mock the Week and QI....
...Some senior EY employees now suspect that actors might have been posing as bank employees during the video call, possibly in a mock-up bank branch....
...Ua livestreamed hers on Facebook, wearing a black “FUCK PRAYUTH” T-shirt and reading aloud from 18th-century US revolutionary Thomas Paine’s Common Sense as she was arrested....
...That campaign message was dealt a serious blow when photos and a video of Mr Trudeau in blackface and a mock turban emerged last month....
...Hans-Thomas Tillschneider, another senior member, wants theatres to return to classical German repertoire....
...Many others still resent the then senator’s one-sided handling of Anita Hill’s testimony against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas in 1991....
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