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...being too expensive, the problem, argues Christophers, is that saving the planet is not sufficiently profitable....
...Laura also loved The Fraud by Zadie Smith – Fred’s picks for history lovers are Revolutionary Spring by Christopher Clark and King: a Life by Jonathan Eig; Laura’s is Red Memory by Tanya Branigan – For...
...The props for Cinderella are as central to the story as Siegfried’s crossbow or Sleeping Beauty’s spindle, but Christopher Wheeldon’s 2019 in-the-round version finds its own way to the happy ending....
...Chaired by FT literary editor Frederick Studemann, this year’s judges were historians Andrea Wulf and Ruth Scurr; Guardian theatre critic Arifa Akbar; journalist Tanjil Rashid; and Andy Haldane, chief executive...
...Christopher Rufo, the conservative activist who helped spark the campaign against her, wrote in the Wall Street Journal: “Gay was a scholar of not much distinction who climbed the ladder of diversity politics...
...APRIL Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World by Brett Christophers (Verso) In this follow-up to Rentier Capitalism, Christophers turns his attention to the new masters of the universe...
...Christopher Worrall, chair of the Poplar and Limehouse Labour party, is among his party’s most prominent advocates of “missing middle” developments and gentle density....
...“Carlos Acosta’s Classical Selection” will include pas de deux from La Sylphide and Swan Lake as well as an extract from Frederick Ashton’s Rhapsody, the 1980 masterpiece originally tailored to the genius...
...In The Lion House (Bodley Head, March), Christopher de Bellaigue offers a novelistic reconstruction of the rise to power of the Ottoman sultan Suleyman the Magnificent....
...The writer Christopher Hitchens, dressed in a crumpled cream linen suit, is acting as a garrulous sommelier....
...Christopher Beaumont, who inherited the old feudal title and property of the Seigneur of Sark when his father died in 2016, is at the meeting too....
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...TransAtlantic begins with the story of John Alcock and Arthur Brown, who made the first transatlantic flight in 1919, but that novel also takes in the abolitionist Frederick Douglass’s visit to Ireland...
...(Sir Frederick has not visited the 60-room castle on the private island for years, though Sir David is still understood to live there.)...
...Men such as Frederick Cook and Robert Peary clung desperately to their claims, often demonstrably false, even as they branded their expeditions indelibly with themselves....
...The composition is nevertheless, says curator Christopher Brown, “a crude, garishly coloured painting by an artist struggling with his medium”....
...English National Ballet now boasts two versions of the story thanks to Christopher Wheeldon, who has adapted his 2013 take on Prokofiev for the wide open spaces of the Royal Albert Hall....
...Frederick Ma Si-Hang has joined the international advisory board of Investcorp, the $27bn Bahrain-listed asset manager....
...Frederick the Great took a different view....
...successor Kenneth MacMillan to the three current resident artists, Christopher Wheeldon, Wayne McGregor and Liam Scarlett, with the young Charlotte Edmonds as token female....
...to Nazi Germany, Christopher Clark’s book focuses on how four rulers — the Great Elector, Frederick the Great, Bismarck and Hitler — understood historical and future time in distinctive ways that shaped...
...Balletgoers have unhealthily long memories, but the 30-year gap between Covent Garden’s revivals of Frederick Ashton’s The Two Pigeons (1985 and 2015) has made it a slightly hard sell despite alluring ticket...
...Four of these tenements were originally bought in Sir Frederick and Sir David Barclay's names, according to Sark's greffier — or clerk — but they were later sold to Sark Estate Ltd....
...We discuss the work of the late American scholar Frederick Streng, which Armstrong draws on in her new book....
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