Nor, where insulting the reader's intelligence is concerned, can Middleton compete with a number of affluent, alpha women whose books and websites now counsel followers on everything from throwing stuff away and drawer-tidying, to food-chewing, steam-douching, small talk and how to "assemble the perfect cheese plate", in the manner recommended long ago by Milton, in Paradise Lost.
The Law Commission, which advises the government on law reform, recommended as long ago as 1977 that marital coercion should be abolished as a defence – though a wife who committed an offence under pressure from her husband might still have a defence under the law of duress.
The Law Commission recommended its abolition as long ago as 1977.
Well, there was one a friend recommended to me not long ago.
While making a point about a passage of early Wallace Stevens, for instance, he explains Stevens's response to the impasse of modernism by recalling "what Donne long ago recommended: 'He who would truth find/ About must and about must go'".
The Body, Measured Re "A Dashboard for Your Body" by Farhad Manjoo (Home Tech, Aug. 4): Covert Bailey, an authority on fitness and nutrition, long ago recommended a much simpler, cheaper, less high-tech way to monitor your physical fitness: the bathroom mirror.
Milne came to the Guardian long ago, highly recommended by Andrew Knight at the Economist.
Such an approach was recommended by the Foreign Office as long ago as 2006 and it is the government's failure to pursue that option that has cost it and the taxpayer dearly.
Photograph: Sean Smith Not long ago I was recommended two novels by Michael Faber, The Crimson and the White and Under the Skin, both of which proved compulsive reading, the first being a period romp through prostitute-encrusted Victorian London, and the second an insidiously creepy sci-fi about a woman driving around Scotland in search of hitchhikers.
That is almost twice as much as some experts were recommending for a national stockpile not long ago, and is surely enough to contain a smallpox outbreak in any large city.
Henry Ford famously said, "If the elevator operator recommends buying, you should have sold long ago".
