Hints and tips:
...Following a refurbishment last summer by the owners of The Pelican in Notting Hill, the pub now has a menu of oysters, Dover sole and ox cheek and shin pie in the restaurant, and a warren of rooms upstairs...
...It’s lunchtime and I’m on the terrace of Miami Beach’s Pelican Hotel gazing over the top of a martini at passers-by....
...There’s also an outdoor cinema projected onto the back of the prison, which is a bit odd. Monaco can often be slightly surreal....
...The restaurant’s menu includes fish caught daily in nearby Sussex Bay (“If there’s a storm, fish will be off the menu,” says Burrell of their sustainable ethos), Norfolk oysters and a rainbow of seed-grown...
...“The move of our detainees out of prison and to home detention is not linked to any other aspect of our Iran policy.”...
...Adisa watched the zombie apocalyptic series The Walking Dead in prison. Now, he is frequently reminded of it....
...Two hours from Manhattan, Fire Island can feel like a state of exception....
...These vessels are symbols and products of their eras, and Bibby Stockholm tells a penetrating tale of the state of Britannia, her ports, her peoples and her political captaincy....
...by Richard Overy (Pelican)What leads humans to wage war?...
...When the company went out of business, none of them took anything from their investment.” Holmes had faced a maximum of 20 years in prison....
...None was more adept than Jacques-Louis David, sobered from his radical Jacobin passion by a spell in prison following the fall of Robespierre....
...No one told him how long he would be in prison....
...Critics, however, say they have ended up representing a gangster who has tried to use western courts as a tool of asymmetric warfare on behalf of the Russian state....
...The operation against the Pitittos was just one part of a broader crackdown by the Italian state on the Calabrian ’Ndrangheta....
...We both go for the crab cake eggs benedict and she adds a side of Old Bay chips, Chesapeake Bay’s crab-seasoned version of salty crisps — “You can’t come to Maryland and not eat those,” she says....
...States countries — all of them for more than $5mn....
...In 1889, Shternberg was exiled to the Sakhalin penal colony to serve a 10-year prison sentence....
...He attempted to hold a moment of silence for the Queen in court, and shouted at his lawyer, claiming that he was being tortured and mistreated in prison....
...Then a few years later came an influx of people from new EU member states attracted by relatively free labour market access....
...“The real epidemic is poverty,” a friend offers, in one of many conversations about the state of the city....
...Life for an expat in Hong Kong during Covid has been one of dizzying contradictions: where closed borders and the threat of state quarantine centres loom over daily life, but where each weekend is a blur...
...Wardens have refused to let him see a doctor of his choosing for severe nerve pain from two herniated discs in his back....
...By public transport, bring your bike on the ferry across the bay to Larkspur Landing — enjoying a view of the old prison on Alcatraz island as you pass — then join the route in Ross....
...of reoffending, receiving stiffer prison sentences from judges....
...Every glowing morning the coast of Snowdonia and Cardigan Bay were remade Mediterranean....
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