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...Peter Blake: Sculpture and Other Matters is at Waddington Custot, London W1, until 13 April; waddingtoncustot.com...
...Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist, gave $17.5mn to Blake Masters in Arizona and $15mn to JD Vance in Ohio — both of whom previously worked for him — to win Republican Senate seats in those...
...Simon Blake, partner at accounting firm Price Bailey, which submitted the FOI request, said a difficult funding environment has made the option of selling to employees with tax incentives more attractive...
...“HMRC always works a few years in arrears so we are yet to see to where it doesn’t like the ways businesses are using EOTs,” says Simon Blake, partner at accountancy firm Price Bailey....
...She was costume designer for James Blake’s 2019 music video for “Can’t Believe the Way We Flow”, directed by Frank Lebon, and is working on a show about clothes and nature with the artists Joel Kerr, Finlay...
...Once Roth had satisfied himself that “a gentile from Oklahoma” was the man to write the life of one of the pillars of the postwar Jewish-American literary tradition, he offered Blake Bailey some advice....
...I wish Philip Roth’s biographer, Blake Bailey, had displayed the same good sense and scepticism in his massive, 921-page account of the writer’s life, Philip Roth: A Biography....
...Still, miraculously few of the 900 pages in Blake Bailey’s new biography of Roth feel redundant or undeserved....
...The writer Blake Bailey tells an arresting story about Gore Vidal. The Sage of Amalfi was successful across all literary forms save poetry....
...The same day he wrote this to me, I happened to be nearing the end of the 800-plus-page biography of Philip Roth, written by Blake Bailey, which will be published in April....
...Similarly, Philip Roth (Jonathan Cape, April) by Blake Bailey is the first major portrayal of the novelist, who granted the author full access and independence before his death in 2018....
...Of the four chosen artists, only one — Peter Blake — is a household name today....
...Peter Blake, the pop artist who put Carroll on the cover of the Sgt Pepper album and later retreated to the countryside as a founder of the Ruralists, a group devoted to traditionalism in art, contributes...
...Hampstead Village, a small neighbourhood in north London beside the vast, eponymous heath, was once a haven for writers and poets, from Blake to Keats, Dickens to Margaret Drabble....
...Bailey....
...Biographer Frances Spalding is interviewed, as well as people who knew and admired “Johnny”, including Sir Peter Blake, the novelist Paul Bailey, and a bodybuilder who sat for a drawing Gatiss now owns:...
...Blake Bailey, his biographer, wrote on Twitter that Roth was surrounded by friends when he died and described him as “a darling man and our greatest living author”....
...His powers of advocacy led another famous barrister, John Mortimer, to include Hutchinson as one element in the character of Rumpole of the Bailey....
...Judith Blake, leader of Leeds City Council, insisted that, despite the delay, the project would go ahead....
...Judith Blake, leader of Leeds city council said the Burberry move would help revive the South Bank area....
...You can be pretty sure who some of them are (Angela Ahrendts and Christopher Bailey anyone? Jenna Lyons, left), but there are some startling omissions....
...Witty, dynamic and unpredictable, her art was included along with Peter Blake’s in one of the first Pop Art shows, at the AIA Gallery in 1961....
...We follow Old India hand, Jeremiah Blake, along with Lieutenant William Avery, on their hunt for Xavier Mountstuart, a poet obsessed with the Thugs....
...It may be familiar territory for the writer, but she commands it absolutely: this shrewd, warm, wryly humorous tale was on the shortlist for this year’s Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction....
...Knights Bachelor Quentin Blake, illustrator. Kenneth Grange, industrial designer. Peter Hendy, commissioner, Transport for London. Bernard Hogan-Howe, commissioner, Metropolitan Police....
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