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...Canadian potter John Reeve created a community of Mingei-style potters in Canada, while New Zealand potter Len Castle, who had worked with Hamada in Japan, pioneered his country’s studio pottery movement...
...From early pieces by avant-garde British filmmakers such as Derek Jarman and John Smith and to new work by artist and curator Therese Henningsen, it unpicks the politics of space and artistic life in the...
...In June 2020, Cameron texted Zahawi: “Lex Greensill . . . says you are being v helpful over HMT and CBILS programme”, according to the former prime minister’s disclosures to the Treasury select committee...
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...It’s a discipline”, a concern that is also touched on in headings throughout the narrative, such as “Surface v depth” and “Real v fake.”...
...Former Tory party leader Iain Duncan Smith, one of the five sanctioned MPs, said it was “astonishing” that China had been invited given its “huge record of human rights abuses”....
...nonetheless signed on to the decision abolishing Roe v Wade....
...Fetterman added: “Send me to the US Senate, and I’d proudly vote to codify Roe v Wade into law.” Republican leaders largely embraced the ruling on Friday....
...“The big promises he made to build a more stronger, more stable economy are riding on these investments,” says John Podesta, White House chief of staff under Bill Clinton....
...Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine has an efficacy rate of 97.6 per cent, its developers said, based on data from almost 4m people....
...Neither did I troop along to the 1974 game-changing exhibition at the V&A, “The Destruction of the English Country House”, at which the images went on show of more than a thousand country houses, castles...
...Slovakia’s prime minister said he was ready to stand down to defuse a crisis over his decision to purchase Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, which has not been approved by Europe’s regulator....
...Hungary is the only EU member to have approved both the Chinese-made Sinopharm and Russian-made Sputnik V vaccines....
...A small style from this partnership ended up on the red carpet, worn with a tuxedo by Jaden Smith....
...The Factory is the cultural element of St John’s, a new adjacent neighbourhood backed by a private developer....
...(FT) Coronavirus digest Russia will supply 300m doses of its Sputnik V vaccine to the African Union....
...Russia’s Sputnik V jab has shown 91.6 per cent efficacy against symptomatic Covid-19 in clinical trials, a Lancet peer review confirmed....
...Saumarez Smith is an artist who began her making life working as a bookbinder, creating some of the most memorable and dynamic of contemporary bindings shown in museums including the V&A....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...“Cast your mind back to 1215,” he says wistfully, recalling it was the hereditary peers and bishops who forced King John to make his Magna Carta concessions at Runnymede....
...Meanwhile, the African Union announced that it had secured 300m doses of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, which has also been sold to countries including Algeria, Argentina and Brazil....
...(FT) The risk of a US double-dip depression With the US economy in effect already in depression, the temptation to go for a V-shaped recovery before the November election looks too great for Donald Trump...
...Should we expect the V&A’s exhibition to explore this difficult territory?...
...Kingston Polymath 1,011: Dr S Bailey, Swindon Crossword 16,099: Suzanne P Wilson, Windermere; D Barter, Cumbria; Jean-Marc Sellier, California Polymath 1,010: Robert Jelly, Warwickshire Crossword 16,093: V...
...After the Dow Jones index rallied 27 per cent in seven weeks from its March 23 low, John Cassidy of The New Yorker asked: “Have investors . . . lost their minds?”...
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