Spot the ligger Photograph: Getty imgesSpot the ligger Photograph: Getty imgesLife and styleInterviewThe secret world of liggers: ‘Free booze is everywhere’Sam BungeyThe ‘eventing scene’ is all about blagging free food and booze at galleries, openings and other events to which you were not technically invited. So what are the tricks of the pros?
It’s a chilly Tuesday night in central London and the pro-smoking lobby group Forest is throwing a drinks reception at the Institute of Directors on Pall Mall. Read More...
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The US presidency was supposed to be something different, something novel, compared with the fossilised monarchical rule that it supplanted after the American revolution. Born of Enlightenment theory, settler colonialism and 18th-century warfare, the US constitution gave the chief executive primarily an enforcement role, with the authority to lead armed forces in the event of foreign encroachment or domestic unrest but stripped of the capacity to legislate or issue judicial decisions. Read More...
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