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...Lucy Wood, a former senior curator of furniture at the V&A, has recently overseen a project to restore two chairs designed by the 18th-century architect William Kent....
...It forecasts that China’s colour cosmetics market, which includes products such as foundations, lipsticks and nail polishes, will hit Rmb111.3bn ($15.6bn) in 2028, up from Rmb71.6bn in 2022....
...Like Xu, Ayana V Jackson is her own subject; she uses her body to question the history of photography....
...And I think this is yet another nail in the coffin, metaphorically speaking, for that wing of the party. [MUSIC PLAYING] Stephen Bush, Anna Gross, thanks for joining....
...“Children have always chosen animals,” says Katy Canales, project curator at Young V&A, which reopens today in east London following a £13mn renovation....
...Treasure trove: Tim Harford explains what the price of a 2,000-year-old Roman nail tells us about value....
...Hannah WhiteWe have often agreed with Dominic Cummings in his analysis of the problems. We don’t always agree with him on his solutions....
...His other hand holds the rod with the Hand of Justice made for the 14th-century king Charles V, destroyed during the revolution and remade in 1804 for its new sovereign....
...(WSJ) — Dominic Cummings unloads on Boris and Carrie Johnson. (Unherd) — The Bank of England attempts to predict financial crises with a neural net....
...It’s a discipline”, a concern that is also touched on in headings throughout the narrative, such as “Surface v depth” and “Real v fake.”...
...The tension mounts as the frontier draws nearer, and the scenes of their arrival are nail-biting. Moscow missed him the first time round, but almost 30 years later Kite is once again marked for death....
...Necklace, Angela Cummings for Tiffany & Co. (1970s) Her husband is “brilliant” at buying her jewellery, says Gestetner....
...The first would see Britain trying to nail down the details of Sefcovic’s “far reaching” offer in October to cut up to 80 per cent of checks on animal and plant-based products and halve the customs paperwork...
...“That is what he has got to nail over the next six or seven months. That is the big challenge. If he doesn’t do that he won’t win an election.”...
...The compacts, pencils and bottles look flashy and joyful in a red hue with gold details, such as the V logo, on the lipsticks....
...The V&A’s reconstructions of shabby but infinitely layered and complex ad hoc British mosques is very striking and among the most memorable displays....
...“He’s v bright, tough and politically savvy with a small p,” tweeted Rupert Harrison, the former Tory chancellor’s one-time chief adviser....
...The move from Budapest to order the Sputnik V vaccine is being seen by some as an attempt to curry favour with Moscow....
...The revelations that Mr Cummings broke lockdown rules may have hit confidence levels. Some other data, however, suggest progress in the last week of May....
...If you are looking to predict the shape of the US economic recovery — be it V, W, L or even K — don’t look at the markets....
...You can get your hair done but not your nails until Monday....
...The Office for Budget Responsibility this month modelled for a scenario with a “V-shaped” recession, with a 35 per cent drop in gross domestic product followed by a sharp rebound....
...(WSJ) What else we’re reading Just one in 10 fund managers expect V-shaped recovery V, U, W, L — just a handful of the letter-shaped recoveries that investors have put forward as possible paths for the...
...Earlier optimistic hopes of a sharp V-shaped British recovery seem to be fading as new coronavirus spikes appear....
...The poll takes place in the most noxious political atmosphere in living memory, with an electoral Svengali on the Tory side — Dominic Cummings — who showed himself in the 2016 referendum to be ready to adopt...
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