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...Colbert’s advice was enthusiastically adopted by Alexander Hamilton, the Treasury secretary of the infant US republic, and by most European nations as they industrialised in the 19th century....
...Also attending will be prime minister Narendra Modi of India and president Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus....
...Less than two weeks after Hindenburg’s report, founder Trevor Milton stepped down, and the company has been trying to get back on the front foot....
...This month sees the opening of a survey of the American street photographer Vivian Maier at MK Gallery in Milton Keynes – the first of its kind in this country....
...This article has been amended since publication to change Alexander Hanff’s work title....
...As Milton declared, “the mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven”. The pencil can be a tool in this act of self-creation....
...Alexander Chartres of Ruffer, a money manager, noted that a new Cold War between the US and China is clearly under way — the tough trade talk, the sharp rises in defence spending and the cyber and proxy...
...Over many years he has forged partnerships with Alexander McQueen, Jil Sander, Yohji Yamamoto and Gareth Pugh....
...The third was the sanctity of freedom of the press and all forms of expressed opinion; a principle most majestically articulated in John Milton’s Areopagitica....
...April 9, at Milton Court, the Barbican, London. Find out more and buy tickets here. What we’re reading Could AI replace human writers?...
...The economist Milton Friedman coined the adage that there is no such a thing as a free lunch....
...But Bannon’s answer to John Milton’s optimism in Areopagitica — “whoever knew truth put to the worse in free and open encounter?”...
...Photograph: Milton Avery Trust/ARS...
...These days, a section called Poet’s Corner — a cluster of Victorian streets named after Milton, Chaucer, Spenser et al — is a property hotspot....
...Not to mention Joseph Goebbels, Joseph Stalin and the totalitarian big lies dissected by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and George Orwell....
...So it was good to be reminded in this day-long Milton Court event, devoted to Shostakovich’s chamber and piano pieces....
...The big draw on Wednesday was bassist Eddie Gomez’s appearance with the Britten Sinfonia at the Barbican’s Milton Court....
...By the mid-1970s, she had amassed a trove of some 900 objects, which included works by Warhol, Tom Wesselman and Alexander Calder....
...Some of Labour’s biggest figures could be facing defeat — even Douglas Alexander, the shadow foreign secretary....
...Alexander Jan, director at Arup, the engineering consultancy, said the cost of bringing disused railway lines back into service is often cheaper than building from scratch....
...Alexander Easdale, one of two other board members is aligned with Mr Ashley....
...They are streets behind English literature’s greatest master of image manipulation (that is, manipulation of his own image), the 18th-century poet Alexander Pope....
...The atmosphere was electric as Labour delegates gathered this weekend for their one-off “National Policy Forum”: at least in lightning-filled skies above Milton Keynes....
...Alexander Pope earned about £5,000 for his translation of The Iliad in the 1710s, equivalent to £100,000 today....
...Would we be comfortable with Danny Alexander [chief secretary to the Treasury] in there? I don’t think so.”...
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