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...The Late Show host Stephen Colbert will moderate a conversation with the trio of leaders, and the event will feature appearances by Queen Latifah and Lizzo....
...In a concurring opinion, Clarence Thomas, who has argued that Grutter should be overruled, described affirmative action as a form of “discrimination based on race”....
...“Any sophisticated person could reasonably have been expected to know that these schemes were unacceptable to HMRC,” said Sir Edward Troup, formerly the most senior civil servant at the tax authority....
...Edward VII’s crown was set on his head the wrong way round....
...Which, as it turns out, is what happens when The Expert pairs me with Chris Graves of Clarence & Graves, whose former London house I had greatly admired in House & Garden last year....
...Edward Luce is on book leave and will return in mid-February. Your feedback And now a word from our Swampians . . ....
...Edward Luce is on book leave and will return later this month. Recommended reading Cory Doctorow’s piece on “The ‘enshittification’ of TikTok” (what a headline!)...
...A cursory reading of the leading conservative Supreme Court justices, notably Amy Coney Barrett, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, shows a religiously-inspired revulsion against modernity....
...He was influenced, as Hockett points out, by European thinkers and leaders like Jean-Baptiste Colbert and his ideas about nation building....
...Edward LuceI take them pretty seriously....
...When London restaurateurs Jeremy King and Chris Corbin – founders of The Wolseley, The Delaunay, Brasserie Zédel, Colbert, Fischer’s, Bellanger and Soutine – lost control of the company that bears their...
...After Diana’s death, Charles’s team at Clarence House found itself fending off calls for the succession to skip a generation....
...And in the FT, don’t miss former NYT executive editor Jill Abramson’s must-read profile of Clarence Thomas and what he says about today’s Supreme Court....
...Under Clarence Thomas, this brand of conservatism will shape the court for decades to come, writes Jill Abramson, author and former New York Times executive editor....
...Edward Luce responds Brooke, here is one plausible version of how events will unfold. Democrats will lose control of Capitol Hill in November....
...King has denied all knowledge of allegations that he had his brother drowned in a butt of the aforementioned wine, but off-licences near the vicinity of the Tower have reported clear notes of the Duke of Clarence...
...Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas are both hardline opponents of the right to choose....
...The Cambridges will potentially move to Windsor, and Clarence House will be reassigned. A veritable merry-go-round....
...Edward Luce responds Rana, I agree that Kevin Rudd is a first class observer of China and I look forward to reading his book....
...I freewheel down Half Moon Street, five minutes early for my lunch with Edward Bonham Carter (yes, Helena’s his sister) and slightly surprised by the choice of venue....
...It seems like it would generate a lot of hissing for not that many feathers, to borrow from Jean-Baptiste Colbert....
...Take Barbra Streisand’s guest list of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstein, Edward Hopper, Gustav Klimt and Fanny Brice....
...But Edward was needled by his tetchy brother George, Duke of Clarence, whose secretive execution for treason in 1478 gave rise to the story that he had been drowned in a butt of his favourite sweet white...
...Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, why have you asked us here today?...
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