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...The muscular vocals of Hamid Al-Saadi, singing fragments of Iraqi poetry, were at the centre of the music....
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...“There are a lot of conspiracy theories, which I’ve heard my whole life,” says Janie Hendrix, the adopted daughter of Jimi’s father Al Hendrix following his marriage to her mother in 1966, when she was five...
...Now see the many state attorneys-general (acolytes, no doubt of Alito et. al.) who want to sanction corporations that adopt ESG....
...In this year’s final, it’s Manchester City versus London’s Chelsea, Pep Guardiola against rival top manager Thomas Tuchel; Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Abu Dhabi royal, against Russian-Israeli...
...“[Scrapping the test would be a] political band-aid [that] would not fix a single one of the [city’s] 480 broken middle schools,” says Kirsten John Foy — a former aide to Al Sharpton, one of the city’s most...
...(FT) NRA v San Francisco The National Rifle Association sued San Francisco on Monday over the city’s recent declaration that the gun-rights lobby was a “domestic terrorist organisation.”...
...Except, as Rose explained to City Insider, it’s Majid’s cousin Omar — boss of the unrelated Al-Futtaim group — who has done the M&S deal. Nothing to do with Rose’s Majid Al-Futtaim group....
...Awkward, then, that some of those who jumped or were pushed out (investment banker Mark Taylor, analyst Adam Lawson et al) ended up at N+1 Singer....
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...Serious Sweet, by AL Kennedy, Cape, RRP£17.99 Set over the course of a single day, and travelling from Piccadilly to Chiswick via Knightsbridge, AL Kennedy’s latest novel is an ambitious, perambulatory...
...Bilinski et al then took the foundation to court, saying it had destroyed the potential $40m value of their works by branding them as “fakes”....
...One friend, talking about McBride et al blaming him for election-that-never-was....
...chart from Cap Econ attempting to summarise China’s current position from a purely economic standpoint: And an extra large chart covering RMB promotion from Xi et al from Deutsche for those who can be bothered...
...Georgina Adam is art market editor-at-large of The Art Newspaper...
...Greene herself steers clear of criticising Amazon but she angrily sums up the challenge from Whistl et al like this: “This is not the kind of competition that drives efficiency....
...cities...
...Tracing suburbia since the 17th century, McKellar shows historic London as the forerunner of today’s culturally and architecturally complex, multi-faceted cities; she made me look at the layers of the city...
...While always consumed by personal ambition and notions of greatness (he was an avid student of Lincoln, Churchill, Napoleon et al), he started musing about a legacy that would benefit his and all other children...
...The Sydney art scene fizzed with arguments about what form Australian art should take, as arch-conservatives such as the figurative artist Norman Lindsay railed against Picasso, Matisse et al....
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Creation: The Origin of Life / The Future of Life, by Adam Rutherford, Viking, RRP£20, 272 pages Rutherford presents the “prequel and sequel” to Darwinian evolution, through a “flip book” of two halves....
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...Osborne praises the independence of the OBR – to laughter from the front bench – Chote et al have managed to overshadow today’s statement. 12.37 The OBR has reduced its assumptions about spare capacity...
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