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...Britain’s cetaphobia, boosted by Thomas Hobbes, persisted into the modern age....
...In The Rumor Game (Abacus, £21.99/Minotaur, $29) Thomas Mullen unpeels the dark side of wartime Boston, where Nazi propaganda swirls and Jews live in fear....
...“Every week can be different on Chesil Beach” explained Angela Thomas. “Every time you set out on to the shingle you see something new.”...
...Both his father, the garrulous, often-drunken Henry, and his uncle Thomas were executioners for the British state....
...Sean Mackney, chief executive of Petroc further education college in Devon, said that it was unclear scrapping LEPs would lead to a more strategic approach to business investment....
...It appeals to both those buyers who want a holiday home more easily accessed than Devon and Cornwall, and those who want more than just a coastline, says Danny Rowland of Garrington Property Finders....
...The poet and playwright Dylan Thomas described it as “the loveliest village in England” when he lived here briefly in the 1930s....
...Dimsdale, English physician who treated Mai Helen RappaportWriter and historian, Devon, UK Lucy WardWriter, Cambridge CB10, UK...
...In another, two men from Devon were disqualified after taking £100,000 of bounce-back loans for companies facing liquidation....
...Her equivalent of Dover Beach is Clovelly, the North Devon tourist trap where she enjoyed “a lovely day in the midst of an otherwise disastrous relationship”....
...Thomas Lancaster, an academic at London’s Imperial College who studies the phenomenon, said the sector has “ballooned” since the mid-2000s....
...“Only last month I sat with her on a sunny afternoon in Devon, while she talked excitedly about the new novel she had embarked on,” he said....
...Her 12th book, Wolf Hall, the first in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, catapulted her to unquestionable fame. She was in her late fifties when it won her the Booker Prize in 2009....
...Now, a lot of them will say with a glint in their eye, Thomas Strathclyde being a good example of this, of course, we fully approve of a fully elected House of Lords....
...From £165, coldatnight.co.uk (Almost) On Chesil Beach West Dorset: good enough for PJ Harvey and Mark Hix (and Jane Austen, and Thomas Hardy), good enough for us....
...Jane Thomas Topsham, Devon, UK...
...Strathclyde, or to give him his full name Thomas Galloway Dunlop du Roy de Blicquy Galbraith, recalls: “I said: ‘Just in case.’ And had another drink.”...
...“Initially, we wanted France, then after Brexit we changed to Devon or Cornwall but found it too expensive,” says Jo, 57. So they started looking in Pembrokeshire....
...Devon, a gifted musician, believes in keeping his head down....
...Thomas Agar-Robartes — a Cornishman — is described in Colm Tóibín’s shrewd book review (Life & Arts, FT Weekend, April 3) as “a polo-playing Devon yeomanry officer”....
...England’s Tyrone Mings told Patel on Twitter: “You don’t get to stoke the fire at the beginning of the tournament by labelling our anti-racism message as ‘gesture politics’ and then pretend to be disgusted...
...William Gaffney, a policeman, was killed in a car accident while on duty in Tyrone....
...sent me back to our school journey in Devon when we were taken to a livestock auction at Newton Abbot. There were great slabs of lardy cake and hundreds of men in colourless tweeds....
...Flora Starkey, whose clients include Alexander McQueen, Dior and Sotheby’s, now has her own growing patch at Westhill Farm amid 30 acres on the Dorset/Devon border near Lyme Regis....
...However Colin Thomas, a builder who has done several barn projects in Herefordshire, says the main challenge is restoring the original structure....
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