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...“It’s the least deadpan way to take in information,” suggests Douglas Gordon of the medium....
...Ross Douglas, founder and former director of the fair and a shareholder of Artlogic, says he is “delighted” that Sibeko is buying the fair....
...That’s why the biggest advances by Jean-Claude Juncker’s European Commission have been in trade deals, notably with Canada, Singapore and Japan....
...The import of Dutch optical instruments did change the way Japanese artists painted; in return, the revelation of Japanese woodblock prints in the mid-19th century transformed the art of Claude Monet and...
...Last week, while he was planning his fantasia on a theme of Brexit, European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker was also fantasising about European union....
...(LSE Brexit blog) He said, she said European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker and UK prime minister Theresa May have engaged in a public clash over who said what at a private dinner in Brussels...
...Jean-Claude Piris, the former chief legal adviser to the EU Council, said last month it would be “impossible” to conclude a trade deal in such a short time....
...The Frenchman who was EU financial services commissioner from 2010-2014 was handpicked by Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker as Brussels’ chief Brexit negotiator....
...Characteristically, Mr Farage has said that he will first see out his two-year term as an MEP, which will no doubt please Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission....
...Douglas Lute, US ambassador to Nato, said that the summit was taking place at a crucial moment for the alliance, given Russia’s “aggressive” behaviour in Ukraine and the impact of the Syrian civil war and...
...The reason for falling manufacturing employment, as Douglas Irwin points out, has at least as much to do with technological change as with trade....
...But Mr Farage faced his own problems on Friday, with calls for him to step down as Ukip leader from Douglas Carswell, the party’s only MP....
...Douglas Carswell, the UK Independence party MP, said the public would see through the “thin gruel” being offered by the prime minister: “The punters are astute,” he said....
...But occasionally she has failed to deliver — British officials believed they had her support for blocking Jean-Claude Juncker’s bid to become European Commission president in 2014, only to see her shift...
...These, in turn, served as decor for Douglas Gordon’s avant-garde action (also inaction) scheme....
...To cap a disastrous night for Labour, Ed Balls and Douglas Alexander, who had hoped to become chancellor and foreign secretary respectively on Friday, instead lost their seats....
...“Getting the right candidate is ultimately a test of David Cameron’s influence with our allies,” said Douglas Alexander, shadow foreign secretary....
...pacegallery.com, 020 3206 7600, Friday to January 24 Stan Douglas, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh From ETA Hoffmann to Hollywood, via Freud and Samuel Beckett, the Canadian artist disrupts narrative and...
...David Cameron will warn on Monday that European leaders are setting a “dangerous precedent” by deciding to back Jean-Claude Juncker as the next European Commission president....
...This week Jean-Claude Piris, the former top legal adviser to the European Council, said Mr Cameron’s demands could be met without changing the treaties – if there was compromise and good will on all sides...
...However, Jean-Claude Juncker, the new president of the Commission, might be more “sympathetic” to Scotland, according to reports....
...“One can only conclude that had Moltke walked into the French war ministry and dropped the Schlieffen Plan on Joffre’s desk, it would have made little difference,” writes Douglas Porch, a US historian of...
...Douglas, dapper, glowing, regal, directs the lives around him. It’s all huge fun....
...(In Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, “The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything” is 42.)...
...The Pale King, by David Foster Wallace, Penguin Books, RRP£9.99, 573 pages Claude Sylvanshine flies into Peoria, Illinois, for tough exams at the Internal Revenue Service where, it seems, he is being recruited...
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