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...Ivan Jablonka, Allen Lane £25, 368 pages Men After #MeToo: Being an Ally in the Fight Against Sexual Harassment by Kenneth Reinicke, Palgrave Macmillan £22.99, 267 pages Stephen Bush is an FT columnist...
...Presumably the MeToo movement was the spur for HBO’s Allen v Farrow, because the material disinterred for this four-part docu-series is antique....
...In his testaments, emperor Charles V advised his young son — who became Philip II, head of the great Spanish empire in the 16th century — never to identify with only one faction at court or make decisions...
...“All Lies Matter” reads an image in Just Us with the “v” in ‘lives’ blacked out....
...In due course, the young Habsburg army officers of 1914 became the Wehrmacht generals of 1941....
.../ From John V Baldwin, Cernobbio, Italy...
...(FT) Obituary: software pioneer Paul Allen If history gives you only one shot at making a real difference, then Paul Allen, the Microsoft co-founder who has died at the age of 65, seized his with both hands...
...Young was a corporate communications director at Tesco....
...To read the news outside Russia, you’d think that any political jokes would fall flat in Moscow and that theatre listings must be full of one-man shows extolling the greatness of one V Putin....
...David Allen Green notes that Britain has already passed a glut of anti-terror legislation. What other powers can the government ask for? Elsewhere in Europe Labour wins! In Malta!...
...Polling 1-2,000 people representative of the entire ~45m registered UK voters in 1-3 days w/small budget is v hard https://t.co/HEI91BXVzv— Kate Allen (@_Kate_Allen) June 20, 2016 It’s not as though pollsters...
...The Rolling Stones spent years trying to get out of their contracts with former manager Allen Klein....
...Luther was excommunicated by Pope Leo X, then outlawed by the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, at the Diet of Worms....
...I flew back with a just-published copy of V Is for Vegetables by Michael Anthony, the chef who put seasonal vegetables at the heart of the Gramercy Tavern menu....
...Hulyer was married to McQueen’s eldest sister, Janet, who was also “beaten senseless” by her husband: a violence that the young McQueen was witness to....
...In Woody Allen’s Match Point (2005), a callow English go-getter (Jonathan Rhys Myers) moves up the storeys of ambition and perfidy....
...Judge Cred The British judiciary has failed badly in the case of Rihanna v Topshop....
...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...
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...Two other books, V is for Vulnerable – described as “an ABC for grown-ups” – and a volume of his online writings, are to be published soon....
...Robert Hands’s Leontes is unreasonable but never psychopathic in his jealousy; the all-male set-up means that Ben Allen can double his roles and so suggest that the young prince Mamillius lives again in...
...Her schoolgirl nickname of “clever sticks” was earned, she says, because she was “smart and quite thin when young”....
...The film was set in Paris, and so the producers shipped him over and put him up in the Hotel George V for eight months. Allen loved Paris....
...Read her review of the V&A’s new show ‘The Cult of Beauty’ ………………………………………….....
...Lucky Kunst: The Rise and Fall of Young British Art By Gregor Muir Aurum, £14.99 Muir’s lucid, lurid and indiscreet memoir is an unrivalled record of how it felt to be young in the gilded gutters of Shoreditch...
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