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...Despite the discomfort of King George V — whose cousin the Tsar had been executed by the Bolsheviks — Labour formally recognised the Soviet Union....
...Most recently, the Old War Office building on Whitehall, from which Winston Churchill led the defence of Britain against Hitler, has become the Raffles OWO hotel where bed and breakfast starts at over £1,000...
...It’s based on a tool used by none other than Winston Churchill to refinance the first world war debt during his spell as chancellor in 1927: to issue Consols....
...While following his father George V’s coffin in procession, Edward VIII recalled seeing “a flash of light dancing along the pavement”....
...Churchill also presided over the wartime Bengal famine that claimed 3m Indian lives. It is rare to meet an Indian who feels anything other than hatred for Churchill....
...Winston Churchill, secretary of state for the colonies, was the dogged son of Lord Randolph Churchill, a legendary champion of Ulster....
...The government — prolific cigar smoker Winston Churchill was prime minister at the time — aired caution....
...The show brings together 300 objects – including Winston Churchill’s despatch box (a splashy red man bag) and Virgil Abloh’s Off-White fanny pack – and includes bags for men as part of the overall narrative...
...King George V’s December message to the empire 88 years ago had families gathered around their radio sets....
...Klein’s Churchill Capital Corp IV, which is merging with Tesla-wannabe Lucid, had the largest short interest of any Spac, at $373m....
...Perhaps it will be a V-shaped recovery after all, where V stands for vaccine....
...Not the ones you might know, at Ascot or Churchill Downs....
...The celebratory label – which bears a “V” for victory – also marks the first in Mouton Rothschild’s famous artist- label series....
...What about Churchill?” he said....
...access to both a vibrant “vertical” community (with organic herb garden, curated cultural events and on-tap housekeeping) and East Bank, London’s major new cultural quarter, soon to house outposts of the V&...
...A sand- and wind-blasted quotation in French and English, employing the rhetorical energy of Henry V’s St Crispin’s Day speech, was manifestly forward-looking and filled with hope: “Men will be proud to...
...To further boost morale the Ministry of Information even helped transform Shakespeare’s Henry V into a glossy movie starring Laurence Olivier....
...apogee — directness, vigour, suggestions of contained power — was Titian’s “Charles V” and Velázquez’s “Philip IV”....
...I also did my own Post column this week, for book promo, looking at how Elizabeth Warren v. Big Tech is really a battle between nationalism and neoliberalism....
...There have been 14 in all — the first, Winston Churchill, the latest, Boris Johnson. The Queen has not divulged a word from these private encounters....
...The Financial Times has seen an imaginary draft of the non-existent speech — part Henry V, part Winston Churchill, part Marlon Brando in ‘On the Waterfront’ — in which the former foreign secretary positions...
...“The whole map of Europe has been changed,” Winston Churchill remarked in a speech....
...gideon.rachman@ft.com Letters in response to this column: Semi-detached approach that has never ended well / From Michael V Sternberg, 4 Paper Buildings, London EC4, UK Restoration of the English monarchy...
...This accounts for the contortions that successive presidents from William McKinley (war v Imperial Spain) to Wilson (war v Wilhelmine Germany) and FDR (war v Nazi Germany and Japan) went through in the search...
...Smart Reads Amazon hustle Founder Jeff Bezos and Winston Churchill, the UK’s wartime prime minister, agree on at least one thing: the value of a good memo....
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