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...Lai’s high-profile arrest was “emblematic of a much wider campaign against press freedom in Hong Kong”, said Fiona O’Brien, UK director of Reporters Without Borders....
...“The US, EU, UK and our G7 partners have made clear that we do not want any of our key partners to become places where our sanctions are circumvented,” James O’Brien, US assistant secretary of state for...
...“But then you get inflation and costs and all of a sudden your £40mn project becomes a £50mn project and you don’t necessarily have that [extra] £10mn,” says O’Brien....
...Or: “she’d struck so many poses as a journalist that she couldn’t recognise the difference between opinion and morality.” O’Hagan has a tendency to both show and tell....
...The best bit of advice I ever received was something Glenn O’Brien, the original badass preppy man, wrote: “Treat every business project like an art project.”...
...O’Brien tried to keep the discussion civil. “The only thing I’d say in response to that is, President Biden is my president as well,” he said....
...O’Brien calls it “scope creep”....
...Sotheby’s high-profile hires include Claire Reynolds, an 18-year veteran of Savills, Marcus O’Brien, right-hand man to Gary Hersham at the luxury specialist Beauchamp Estates....
...Actors will impersonate Blackpool landladies, whose catchphrases (according to mythology) included “All rooms to be vacated by 10am” and “No hot water till four o’clock”....
...In the 1950s, he used charcoal for economy, and because “I felt I’d been exposed, that in public I’d put on a costume of thick paint and earthy colours, I was imitating myself”....
...Normally we’d say congratulations to you all for nailing it, but, well, given the volume of correct answers it’s probably not justified....
...Thus when William Smith O’Brien refused to serve on a railway committee in 1846, the House had him detained overnight in the Clock Tower cell.”...
...On the opening page, Liebling explains how receiving a blow from ageing pugilist Jack O’Brien had tied him directly to some of the sport’s Victorian greats through “a series of punches on the nose”....
...Its most recent work was B.O.T. and the Beasties (2021), shown on the BBC’s CBeebies channel....
...“If I was in London I’d have been very stressed, because living costs are so high.”...
...The latest collection from Engineered Garments – a brand synonymous with navy twill – includes the D Sum jacket that is inspired by the Japanese double-breasted samue workwear jacket....
...‘Trittico Contemporaneo’ (Contemporary Triptych), Teatro dell’Opera di Roma An exciting trio of works: Playlist (Track1, 2) by William Forsythe, Windgames by Patrick de Bana and Women by Juliano Nunes....
...Stefan Brüggemann, artistIntelligence for Dummies by Glenn O’Brien This is a collection of essays and writing by the late American journalist and editor Glenn O’Brien. He was a friend....
...Released from Succession, Brian Cox is back on the West End boards in Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, the semi-autobiographical epic that won its writer a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1957...
...You’d think we would have figured this out by now.” — Angela Williams Letter in response to this article: Biden on AI — optimistic but cognisant of the risks / From Tim O’Reilly, Founder and Chief Executive...
...Mark O’Connell in Slate asked what it is to play with cliché in Blarney and put-on Irishness....
.../ From Michael Williams, Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, UK...
...Morley, who led the firm alongside then-managing partner Dejonghe for eight years to 2016 says: “Wim didn’t wake up yesterday and say: ‘it’d be great to do a merger’…....
...“They’re not dead, I see them — some are coming more in our direction,” said Gerry Corcoran, chief executive of the 104-year-old brokerage RJ O’Brien....
...For sports fans who’d like to add political smarts to their retelling of the Maguire anecdote, you can swot up on Ghana’s economic decline here....
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