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...Sir Tim Barrow, Britain’s former ambassador to the EU and now Sunak’s national security adviser, is said to have played a key role in “calming nerves”....
...Known as No 43, the former Hackney home of Ron Hitchins – the abstract sculptor, ceramicist, barrow-boy, one-time tailor and accomplished flamenco dancer – is a testament to a rich and colourful life that...
...“We are used to V-shaped recessions in Turkey but with the policy options as they are, we don’t see any chance of a swift recovery.”...
...Classical music and opera by Richard Fairman Opera: Passion, Power and Politics, edited by Kate Bailey, V&A Publishing, RRP£25 A strong coffee table is needed for this handsome volume....
...A green V-sweater was oversized, trackpants sat slouchy. All well and good, but there’s a sticking point....
...The directorship of London’s V&A museum came up and there is no better berth for such a proud and talented follower of John Ruskin, the art critic....
...“We think this is the site of a Bronze Age barrow and henge,” Gardiner says, as he opens a scrapbook history of the farm....
...It harks back, too, to Shakespeare’s famous opening to Henry V, in which he calls on the audience to work their imaginations. “Great acting is always about what you don’t do,” he says....
...The Fed is mistaken if it shifts to a market-dependent strategy, says Steven Barrow, foreign exchange G10 strategist at Standard Bank....
...The public’s is David Tennant, who played the Doctor between 2005 and 2010, according to a RadioTimes.com poll. But such polls are dominated by recent viewers....
...Kim Wilkie, who designed the V&A’s renowned John Madejski Garden, will discuss his life and work at the V&A on Monday June 18, 7pm-8.45pm £15 (including reception and book signing), tel: +44 (0)20 7942 2277...
...v=DDS1YJsfvio) “It couldn’t be better put,” Ricks said of Dylan’s line. Fry reduced this to generalisation: “In a sense, that’s almost the definition of poetry…‘this is so well put’.”...
...“Their chemistry is incredible,” says Josie Rourke, who is directing Tennant and Tate....
...breakfasts with Kevin Spacey, the American artistic director of the Old Vic Theatre in London, who was moved by the idea of “theatre as an international language and a bridge between nations”, and Joseph V...
...The notices pinned up in the shop windows hinted at the cultural divide: “Eymet Cricket Club v Bordeaux CC. Dimanche, 13.00hrs. The a l’anglais. Boissons fraiches.”...
...Deborah Devonshire’s granddaughter, the model Stella Tennant, says: “When I wore a Helmut Lang vest with a bit of tulle wrapped round it at my wedding, my grandmother called me ‘the bandaged bride’....
...The absence of the V word in Mr Trichet’s commentary ruled out a rise next month in the ECB’s benchmark rate from 3.75 to 4 per cent....
...Someone once said that for V.S. Naipaul’s characters, the most difficult question was always “where are you from”? I felt – still feel – that....
...Riat Chairman The Bremic Hotel V....
...Today's equivalent, the Gulfstream V with its television sets and gold taps in the bathrooms, is considerably more at £26m....
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