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...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...Some of this he called “bell metal”: the Elizabethan authorities sought to turn a profit by taking bells and ornamental features stripped from churches during the Reformation, and selling them to the Sultan...
...One friend, talking about McBride et al blaming him for election-that-never-was....
...The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy, by Daniel Bell, Princeton University Press, RRP£19.95/$29.95 Bell, a Canadian philosopher based at Tsinghua University in Beijing, argues...
...Right, so standing on that Ygia platform, everything depends on the center – what the Federal Reserve et al do to interest rates. What next?...
...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...
...Fact v fantasy: How farfetched is it? “If you believe in spooks, clap your hands.”...
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? It’s all here....
...Although the modern setting is entirely familiar, it still yields a few welcome surprises, particularly the opening encounter with the Eastcheap trio, which paints Pistol et al as Little Britain-esque reprobates...
...He was a “working man of the theatre” - arguably (but not in every respect) superior to Dekker, Middleton, Jonson et al, and no different in kind. He lived in a real world....
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