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...“In England, I’d become too well-known as a Tatler photographer,” Jones says of his move to the US. “It was wonderful to be invisible again.”...
...“But we always knew we’d still do our work. And we would do it in our own way.”...
...In October, I’d taken up an offer from Octopus Energy, my avowedly “green” power supplier, to assess my 200-year-old Georgian house’s eligibility for a state-subsidised heat pump....
...He’d also spent four years waiting for the right house....
...But, to me, it was really a metaphor for the reality, no pun intended, of that hyper-news moment we’d all been living in.”...
...This being the Brexit watchers’ newsletter, you’d expect me to point out that there was a conspicuous absentee among Hunt’s list of reasons why the UK remains in the grip of a productivity slump that started...
...Further information here September ‘Tina Barney’, Jeu de Paume The first European retrospective dedicated to Tina Barney, who in the 1970s started photographing the worlds of her family and friends who...
...The reason for this is the end of the Tina era....
...As with any social function that ends in murder, there are those you’d have liked to have spent longer with, and others whose survival you may find wearying....
...As you’d expect, big bond house Pimco is very loudly trumpeting bonds....
...I’d say it’s worth it. There’s Bollinger Special Cuvée to start, naturally; it’s a Palace favourite. Then a roll call of seasonal best of British....
...You’d consider this average to low in kind of a previous era. And you know, there are disanalogies. It’s not exactly the same....
...“But Susan and I agreed that had we known him, we’d have fallen for him like a tonne of bricks!”...
...(If I offered refunds to dissatisfied customers, I’d bankrupt myself.) But for my money, there’s wonderment here if you stick with it....
...He also likened some longstanding moderators to “landed gentry”....
...Irene Valyraki and Ioanna Koutsoudaki are sisters who opened a small hotel in the former Austro-Hungarian consulate called Doma, filling it with Cretan artefacts and global objets d’art....
...The hitch for Yanks wishing to live out this reverie today is that, outside Oxbridge, most British men — even landed gentry — don’t bust out their boating blazers quite as often as they used to....
...She also spoke to our producer, Persis Love, and as was the case for Tina, Jane found that divorce proceedings were far more complicated than she’d anticipated....
...“I wasn’t getting onstage like, ‘I’m going to channel Tina Turner’; it was a lot of being shy and putting my foot in my mouth repeatedly....
...If the deepest fears of socialised humanity have ever been expressed better than “You can’t sit with us”, the most famous line in the movie Mean Girls, then I’d like to see the evidence....
...With a modest assumption of deal-related D&A, we estimate the purchase price to be a mid-single-digits EBITDA multiple....
...Coflein, the database for the National Monuments Record of Wales, describes it as “an ambitious gentry house of renaissance character”....
...Second City is majority-owned by D'Arcy Stuart, who inherited the company from his father, the late Len Stuart....
...Royals can’t get proper jobs; they can’t serve in the military as they’d like....
...Simon SchamaI, the only thing I’d add to what Tina says, and I share the view about perilousness, is that actually it’s very difficult to think of a viable alternative....
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