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...“A tree should be eclectic,” says Michael Horner of Horner Antiques....
...Michael Sheen stars as Bevan. February 24 to May 11; Find information and tickets here....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...Angela Rippon, the newsreader, prances gaily in a chiffon dress; Margaret Thatcher smiles as only she can....
...Likewise Colin Farrell, an actor with the looks of an Adonis who can radiate masculine vulnerability like no other actor on the screen....
...Hillary Clinton, Angela Merkel and Theresa May have all had their style choices criticised....
...German chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday that she had spoken to Russian president Vladimir Putin about the possibility of “joint production” and “applications” of Sputnik V....
...The plinth has been empty since King George V’s bust was removed in the 1960s. Some wanted to erect Mohandas Gandhi’s statue there....
...Angela Merkel has expressed opposition to the Biden administration’s proposal to suspend intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines, saying it would have “serious implications” for vaccine production...
...German chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet meetings tend to be sedate affairs, however one gathering in early February was anything but....
...It’s a destination for high-end, investment-level kimonos, three of which feature in the V&A’s show....
...The fact that some are still there almost 25 years later is a particular tribute to one man: Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil, seventh Marquess of Salisbury....
...Several other Covid-19 vaccines in development, including the Russian Sputnik-V and candidates from Johnson & Johnson of the US and CanSino of China, use adenoviruses....
...Michael Skapinker considers what happened to the revolutionary fervour of his own generation, the baby boomers....
...In other Apple news, former Burberry chief Angela Ahrendts is leaving the company after five years running its retail stores....
...A compromise over migration policy has kept German chancellor Angela Merkel in power....
...After Sunday’s aperitif, Thursday will be the real summit to “save Angela Merkel”....
...Email: michael.peel@ft.com Twitter: @Mikepeeljourno Email: mehreen.khan@ft.com Twitter: @mehreenkhn...
...Google v EU The US search engine giant has come under fire for urging publishers that use its services to oppose Brussels’ planned copyright reforms (FT)....
...The FT’s Michael Peel in Brussels has also dissected the latest EU plot to keep migrants at bay — to be discussed at Thursday’s summit....
...The FT’s Michael Peel has more. Homage to Mario ECB president Mario Draghi still has over a year left in the job but the tributes are already flooding in....
...Emmanuel Macron has been waiting for eight months for Angela Merkel to give a detailed answer to his agenda for reforming the eurozone, and this weekend he finally got one....
...Fresh from his Sorbonne speech, French President Emmanuel Macron won Angela Merkel’s backing for his reform agenda, in the first time the pair have met since the chancellor’s election result....
...(The Atlantic) Man v machine Sensitivity to “gut feelings” is a strong predictor of success in financial trading, according to research led by Cambridge university....
...In the news Merkel: Russia damaging Europe’s security German chancellor Angela Merkel has blamed Russia for undermining European security....
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