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...If you’re looking for that ideal present — an orange cord jumpsuit or Meri Meri dinosaur costume — HTSI has the list. Keep sharing your priorities for the week ahead....
...“We were the rebel generation,” he says, with reggae serving as “a kind of umbilical cord” to the Caribbean and fostering “a subculture of resistance to racial hostility”....
...In a nod to Picasso’s “Guernica”, the 7.5 metre long mural, created with Tam Joseph and destroyed in the mid-1990s, variously spotlights a police boot on a face and the poet Linton Kwesi Johnson....
...“My love of hats started in the ’80s when I spent a lot of time in St James and became beguiled by hatmakers like Lock & Co, Bates and Herbert Johnson,” King tells me on Zoom....
...Ralph Lauren Purple Label waistcoat, £420 Chloé cotton-mix trousers, £1,184, farfetch.com The Socialite Family Milano chair, €560 Zegna cotton shirt, £540 Dents Malton fleece-lined gloves, £42 Ulla Johnson...
...He stood inside the lift as an assistant cut the hoist cord with a huge pair of shears. When the car stayed put and didn’t plunge down the shaft, the crowd was amazed....
...Some good news A wireless “digital bridge” between brain and spinal cord has enabled a paraplegic patient to walk naturally, just by thinking about moving his previously paralysed legs....
...As well as wood and tubular steel, one recurring feature was rope cord....
...Cord-cutting can only accelerate from here, I predicted....
...Because that’s now become the kind of the pull cord of when things go badly wrong at PMQs and you say, “Yes, but the right honourable gentleman, he voted for Jeremy Corbyn and all the things that came with...
...It flowed directly from the hardline Brexit Johnson’s government insisted upon....
...But for the dozens of pro-Brexit first-time Tory voters I met in places such as North West Durham, the 2016 referendum cut an umbilical cord with Labour....
...In early 2019, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease that can interfere with the brain and spinal cord, making everyday tasks difficult. Then the pandemic struck....
...Julian Smith, former Northern Ireland secretary, said the EU had “pulled the emergency cord” without following the proper processes that had been agreed over years of negotiations....
...Alternatively, you could go a little off-piste with a linen or pinwale cord tuxedo from Brunello Cucinelli — there’s a certain low-key élan to its off-kilter jackets, which fit like a glove....
...Unionists want Mr Gove to use the same “emergency cord” provisions to remove border controls on trade with the rest of the UK....
...The result is a celebration of the multiplicities in women, with postcard-sized pieces by artists including Chila Kumari Burman, Claudette Johnson and Anita Klein....
...Industrial ceramics “The British ceramics industry is on a cliff edge,” says Emily Johnson, whose forebears founded the now-defunct Stoke-on-Trent pottery Johnson Brothers in 1882....
...But he said the “umbilical cord” with England meant Wales’s case numbers would inevitably closely track its larger neighbour....
...Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s chief adviser, was last week pictured setting out from his home in urban Islington as though off to tend a flock of sheep....
...His “sagging cords, ragged tweeds and haystack coiffeur [sic]” were markers of old-fashioned eccentricity....
...The UK government is reviewing plans to allow spectators to attend live sports events from October, as prime minister Boris Johnson fights to limit the virus....
...Does that mean you're going to let Boris Johnson carry on?...
...Large pharmaceutical companies including Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca and GSK are also joining forces to train their own machine learning algorithms for drug discovery on each other’s data....
...The ban remains on British beef from cows older than 30 months and on certain body parts such as the spinal cord which are considered to have a high risk of transmitting BSE....
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