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...Rishi Sunak has called for an independent probe into a £200,000 donation to Welsh first minister Vaughan Gething’s leadership campaign from a recycling company within months of its subsidiary receiving a...
...The results were several: verse on subjects as diverse as veganism (of which he was a strong proponent) and his garden, to police brutality and the murder of Stephen Lawrence....
...and Mehul Srivastava’s harrowing account of the attack, James Shotter and Andrew England’s account of what it means for Israel’s intelligence services, Gideon Rachman’s lucid and compelling column, and Lawrence...
...Although her voice is not quite of mighty Royal Albert Hall dimensions, much was radiantly sung, including the final “Libera me”. She also blended well with Jennifer Johnston, the firm mezzo....
...Letter in response to this article: This water option merits Singapore-on-Thames tag / From Professor Robert Field and Professor Albert Weale...
...There will also be concerts marking Vaughan Williams’s 150th anniversary, new commissions and a splash of Latin American music, reflecting Hindoyan’s roots....
...Napoleon III’s portraitist was not Manet, the era’s radical figure painter, but the tame Franz Winterhalter, also lured to Britain by Prince Albert....
...There could be no better way to start than Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music....
...Here are pastoral strains familiar from Vaughan Williams and glitzy fanfares echoing Walton, put together in Gipps’s own businesslike style....
...In Rattle’s hands Vaughan Williams’s Symphony No 3, Pastoral, looked out over expansive, richly coloured, rural vistas....
...Ó Riada wanted to create a modern idiom for Irish folk music, as Ralph Vaughan Williams had done with English folk....
...Andrew Dickson is the founder of Albert Bridge Capital, a fund based in London....
...Albert Bourla has become the world’s most in-demand chief executive....
...These are mostly in the Royal Albert Hall, but with no audience present....
...She also exhibited Jacob Lawrence’s heroic 60-panel “Migration Series”, documenting the 1910s exodus of African Americans from the rural south to the urban north....
...Along those corridors are offices once occupied by Kitchener, Lloyd George, TE Lawrence, Churchill and Profumo....
...His eldest, Abdullah, renamed himself Albert and became a baronet. The English aristocracy sniffed at the Sassoons’ Jewishness but enjoyed the lavish hospitality....
...But this could be difficult, according to Jon Lawrence, an analyst with Wood Mackenzie's sub-Saharan Africa upstream team....
...But Albert Finney, who died on Friday aged 82, was an unlikely costume star — which perhaps gave that 1963 commercial mega-hit, directed by Finney’s early mentor Tony Richardson, its paradoxical appeal....
...He’s like the TE Lawrence of the carpet....
...Like Walt Whitman, one of the many writers who inspired him, Lawrence Ferlinghetti contains multitudes....
...It was a shame that the visual projections by 59 Productions proved a damp squib against the less-than-ideal backdrop of the Albert Hall organ....
...But, as somebody pointed out to me, Albert Finney turned down Lawrence of Arabia and gave Peter O’Toole his big screen break, so I understand that it’s just part and parcel of the nature of the job — don...
...Published to coincide with the sweeping exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, it looks at the premieres of seven key operas, examining people and places, sets, costumes and objets d’art....
...As Albert Hunt warns: prepare to see the GOP backtrack on taxes....
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