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...A history of Gaza: Using maps and charts, Michael Peel and Alan Smith explain the history of the embattled enclave....
...“My grandparents used to work in the potteries,” says Simpson from her garage studio in Mow Cop, a village on the Staffordshire border....
...The V&A’s exhibition gives plenty of food for thought about all this....
...He points out that numerous artists have already taken the step, instead, of opening their own museums to showcase their work, from Gilbert & George to Damien Hirst, Glenn Brown and Anish Kapoor....
...In 1936, King George V died and David became King Edward VIII. But his decision to marry the twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson soon forced his abdication....
...The Republicans on his committee, especially senators Arlen Specter, Orrin Hatch and Alan Simpson, easily outmanoeuvred him....
...Alan Simpson, a former leftwing Labour MP, says: “Wes is a good media performer, and much more accessible than Keir. The problem with Wes is he’s stuck in the past and the legacy of New Labour.”...
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...Central to this widely ranging study is Alan Hollinghurst’s 2017 novel The Sparsholt Affair, in which David Sparsholt, the ruthlessly beautiful undergraduate whose remembered life provides a haunting presence...
...The same year that Mrs Simpson received her engagement ring, the Duke of York, later George VI, presented his wife, later the Queen Mother, with the celebrated London-made “Halo” tiara – last seen bedecking...
...Charted waters looks into the rollout of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine....
...FT family quiz Round One Jenny Agutter (The Railway Children) George V (Edward VIII and George VI) Christopher Robin Milne (son of AA Milne) Loving and giving Five (at home) The Diary of Anne Frank/The...
...Saturday puzzles Crossword 16,425: Bill Stewart, Leicester; R Harpur, Herefordshire; Martyn Abbott, Lincolnshire Polymath 1,065: P Johnson, Berwickshire Crossword 16,419: Paul Rock, Walden, England; James Simpson...
...Webber in the film 10 (with Bo Derek); and appeared the Beyond the Fringe with Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller, as well as Peter Cook....
...Perhaps as a result there are slips — a composite of George V and VI appears at one point, who manages to be at once married to Mary of Teck, have a debilitating stammer, and a brother who abdicates for...
...The consultancy predicts revenues across Europe’s Big Five leagues will drop by €1.5bn this season, but make a V-shaped recovery next season....
...As a young girl I studied with George Balanchine at the New York City Ballet Company....
...Even George Osborne, the former chancellor and longtime political foe of Mr Johnson, can see the writing on the wall....
...In the latter role she served under chairman Alan Greenspan, backing his view that the economy was capable of generating firm growth without stoking up inflationary hazards....
...Neither do we need to ponder the meaning of Father Dougal McGuire’s penchant for wearing a V-neck tank top over his clerical robes in Father Ted....
...Alan Morrison, associate dean at the George Washington University Law School, says the episode was “at least as controversial as the Clarence Thomas hearings”....
...For me, the highlight of the 75-minute service was the former senator Alan Simpson’s eulogy. He came to praise his dead friend. In so doing he described every virtue the current incumbent is missing....
...Attending the England v India cricket Test match in London on Saturday, he was booed when his image flashed up on a big screen....
...In 2011, she captured the nation’s attention after flicking a V-sign at a fellow Tory peer in the Lords chamber....
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