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...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...As we’ve covered previously, the US’s auto insurance rates have soared 24 per cent over the past two years (v BLS data)....
...David Lammy, shadow foreign secretary, sought over the weekend to add detail to Labour’s foreign policy vision, which he summarised as “progressive realism”....
...Despite the discomfort of King George V — whose cousin the Tsar had been executed by the Bolsheviks — Labour formally recognised the Soviet Union....
...Menendez, the son of Cuban immigrants, rose under the tutelage of William V Musto, the mayor of Union City from 1962 to 1982, with a four-year interregnum....
...But I can tell that, as a member of India’s Progressive Writers’ Movement, he is intrigued by Rooney’s views on capitalism and art....
...He drives a Tesla model S (with the paint stripped off to reveal the bare metal) and sails an 82ft Mark V special operations craft, a $3mn camouflaged Navy Seal vessel mounted with decommissioned machine...
...Discussions included the reversal of Roe v Wade, there was a talk on stress and gut health and a sound bath was held. There was also yoga, snorkelling and a shamanic blessing....
...“It promised the integration of art, architecture and design, and that was an experience that was progressive”. Rennie points out that Wedgwood’s 2023 coronation mug revives Guyatt’s 1953 design....
...One can only hope that today’s reactionary politics will be followed by a similar progressive wave....
...Chen, a former Democratic Progressive party staffer, spoke out about being sexually harassed at work by a filmmaker hired by her party....
...Reeves urges progressives to accept that gender inequity sometimes runs against males....
...This week, the base, which is the headquarters of the US Army’s V Corps, was renamed Camp Kościuszko after the Polish revolutionary who crossed the Atlantic to fight the British (gee, thanks Thaddeus)....
...So too, as Richard V Reeves notes in Of Boys and Men, his new study of the pressures facing males in the schoolyard and the workplace, do the Ivy League universities in America....
...But it alienated progressives, who complained of an authoritarianism at the top of the Vatican that widened the Church’s divisions around the world....
...gideon.rachman@ft.com Letter in response to this article: The west is right to call China’s bluff on Taiwan / From John V Baldwin, Cernobbio, Italy...
...In a collection inspired by the progressive artists of Berlin in the 1930s, Erdem offered a more modest take on the trend, with a series of embroidered V-neck slip dresses paired with long, sequin neck scarves...
...Many Democrats, particularly progressives, are pushing for Senate leaders to scrap the supermajority threshold in order to make it happen....
...As always, reach out to me (imani.moise@ft.com) or Sid (sid.v@ft.com) to share your feedback on today’s newsletter. Happy reading!...
...socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is due to be sentenced after being found guilty in a sex abuse trial Wednesday Belgium, the Ommegang festival, including a pageant re-enacting the historical entry of Charles V,...
...So after a couple of days of complaints, the progressives then embarrassed themselves even further by withdrawing their own letter to the president....
...We discuss how working in Russia sits with his progressive values....
...The case, Brnovich v Democratic National Committee, centred on two voting provisions in Arizona. The first banned “ballot harvesting”, whereby third parties collect and drop off early voting ballots....
...His Serbian Progressive party has a supermajority in parliament following an opposition boycott of recent elections, and critics accuse him of eroding media freedom and backtracking on democratic reforms...
...Antoine GodinUniversité Sorbonne Paris Nord, France Michael JacobsProfessor of Political Economy, University of Sheffield Ronan PalmerDirector Clean Economy, E3G Dirk EhntsPufendorf-Gesellschaft Berlin e.V....
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