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...Moeen Ali, the England cricketer, and Rio Ferdinand, the former England footballer, are made OBEs....
...It can take up to 10,000 years for a raised bog to grow, according to Ali Morse, water policy manager at the UK’s Wildlife Trusts....
...Manchester’s leader Richard Leese, Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson, Judith Blake from Leeds, and Nick Forbes from Newcastle submitted a five-point plan that they said would work better....
...A 17-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday after two people were killed near protests in Kenosha over the police shooting of 29-year-old Jacob Blake Jr....
...Celebrity activism Athlete activism has existed in the US for decades, ignited by the influence of Muhammad Ali, the heavyweight boxer, and sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos in the 1960s....
...She and fellow nurses have protested on the kerb in front of their hospital, Blake Medical Center, just outside Tampa, Florida....
...tub-thumping melody, Roald Dahl-like lyrics and second line strut of “Gizzards All Gory” with the overlapping brass drones and Latin-rock guitar of “Juxtapositions” — at one point, David Beckham, Muhammad Ali...
...In November last year, the Tehran news agency FARS announced that the Iranian culture minister Ali Jannati had asked Christie’s to start sales in his country....
...It’s a waxwork model of Sonny Liston, the heavyweight boxer whose fights with Muhammad Ali in the early 1960s made him one of that decade’s most controversial sporting celebrities....
...Justin: it’s a new world where the champ (we want to believe) is not the man with the best chemist, but the one with the most talent and also the best shtick, the Muhammad Ali of the 21stcentury....
...A case in point: Edun, the trade-not-aid fashion brand launched to great ballyhoo in 2005 by Bono and his wife, Ali Hewson....
...It was his son Blake’s favourite painting when he was two....
...Further, even, to Foot’s left was Tariq Ali. The American neoconservative commentator Edward Luttwak thundered from the right....
...Ali G and white hip hop DJ Tim Westwood are not the only culprits. President G. Bush also has form (Exhibit One: “Yo Blair!”)....
...Even Ali, after all, needed Foreman and Frazier....
...THE PURE LANDby Alan SpenceCanongate ₤12.99 (August 24) This novel is based on the fascinating real life story of Thomas Blake Glover - the so-called “Scottish Samurai”....
...Indeed the whole week promises to be something of a Freud family affair, for the same auction includes a portrait of his son, Ali, which he painted in 1998 (estimated at up to £1.8m), while the next night...
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