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Where will we live?

James Meek: The Housing Disaster, 9 January 2014

... raspberries, strawberries, lettuce, onions, peas, beans, radishes. ‘Very optimistically a gentleman is trying to grow kiwis,’ she said. ‘The cherries aren’t quite ripe enough to give you one … there’s an aubergine there but I don’t think it’s going to make it.’Only three of the ten flats still belong to the council. The rest have been ...

Ghosting

Andrew O’Hagan: Julian Assange, 6 March 2014

... Guardian. He said it would come from journalists he’d worked with there. He was obsessed with David Leigh and Nick Davies, two of the main reporters. ‘Davies is extremely hostile to me,’ Assange said. ‘The Guardian basically double-crossed the organisation in the worst way.’ (The Guardian denies this.) ‘We left them with a cache of cables – to ...

The Suitcase: Part Two

Frances Stonor Saunders, 13 August 2020

... young Austrian (25 years), smart appearance, of excellent Jewish family, seeks post as Chauffeur, Gentleman Servant, &c.: well informed in automechanics – Franz Leeb, Vienna XIV, Pillergasse 5.’4 July 1938: ‘Very efficient Viennese Cook (non-Aryan) of good family seeks position as Housekeeper; 17-year-old daughter seeks position as Nursemaid; both ...

A Feeling for Ice

Jenny Diski, 2 January 1997

... remembered Mrs Gold. ‘He was so handsome. And charming.’‘Absolutely charming. A perfect gentleman.’‘He did have something about him,’ cooed Mrs Gold.The three old ladies lost themselves in a rhapsody to the charms of my father.‘Where did your mother find him?’ wondered Mrs Gold jarringly, a little rasp in her voice.‘He could talk anybody ...

The Tower

Andrew O’Hagan, 7 June 2018

... waving cushions and towels, and some were leaning out. It happened that one of the firefighters, David Badillo, knew two of the uncles, Carlos and Manfred Ruiz, from the sports centre – they had all worked there as lifeguards – and Melanie gave Badillo her keys to their flat, 176 on the 20th floor. (They still hadn’t heard from Jessica.) Badillo went ...

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