Patrick Kidd
Diary Editor and Senior Writer at The Times
Scribbler for whoever will pay me. Author of The Weak Are A Long Time In Politics: https://t.co/zg1eoouBh6. Also churchwarden at @asblackheath
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1 week ago |
observer.co.uk | Patrick Kidd
The Czechoslovakia-born musician who made London his home inspired younger players with his intense approach and ‘colossal intelligence’ “The better we know a work,” Alfred Brendel said, “the more it surprises us.” That may explain why one of the best-loved postwar pianists kept returning to pieces, such as making three recordings of Beethoven’s 32 sonatas. He thought afresh about every dot and slur, hoping to be delighted by a new understanding.
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1 week ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Patrick Kidd
Yet the chief secretary to the Treasury was full of aspiration and ambition. He is fond of alliteration and promised to go "further and faster" and act more "effectively and efficiently" than the Tories. Tall, bespectacled, with a neatly parted hairstyle and a slightly unsettling grin (imagine him played by Mark Gatiss), Jones is not a man who lacks belief.
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2 weeks ago |
observer.co.uk | Patrick Kidd
American publisher whose early recordings of Dylan Thomas kickstarted a global phenomenon If Barbara Cohen and Marianne Roney had written to Dylan Thomas under their full names, rather than using their initials in the belief he’d pay more attention to men, the Welsh poet might have been less elusive. Especially if they had revealed that they were two single, 22-year-old women desperate to make him a proposition.
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2 weeks ago |
aol.co.uk | Patrick Kidd
There was not much headroom, fiscal or otherwise, as the Tory leader spoke on the economy in the cramped basement of a City hotel. The ceiling was low but Kemi Badenoch’s hopes were high as she addressed a conference of bankers who seemed under-enthused by the Chancellor’s spending review. Tax Freedom Day, the point of the year when we stop working for the Exchequer, had just dawned, six days later than last year, and there was little sign of relief.
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2 weeks ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Patrick Kidd
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