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...He had been brought up on John Buchan novels and stories of Jock of the Bushveld, “about a dog that ran wild in the bush”....
...I am half-French on my mother’s side, I grew up bilingual and we travelled to France from Sydney quite regularly as children....
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...“I know you will rejoice with me in the glorious revolution which has taken place in France,” he wrote in July 1789 to his friend, the doctor and naturalist Erasmus Darwin....
...Salisbury’s negotiations to keep the aristocracy in the upper house made him a figure of interest in republican France at the time....
...“We are one of the activities that has to function . . . we are the doctors of the economy.”...
...America declined to participate in a recent summit hosted by Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, to collaborate on a vaccine....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My guess is he will be too timorous to do the right thing....
...John Vickers, warden, All Souls College, Oxford I just don’t know....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...John Gapper is the FT’s chief business commentator …………………………………………………………….....
...“We have this phenomenon in the theatre that in the States we refer to as Doctor Footlights,” says Sadoski, laughing....
...John Lloyd is an FT contributing editor. Prime minister’s question time...
...Henry Hitchings is the author of ‘The Secret Life of Words’ (John Murray)...
...WORKING HOURS: Patients were safer at night, doctors claim At the National Health Service’s inception, doctors were expected to devote themselves single-mindedly to their patients....
...In spite of Fifa’s sanctions, Zidane remains a hero in France....
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