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...Bristol’s Colston Hall was one of the UK’s most important music venues, hosting everyone from The Beatles and David Bowie to Bobs Dylan and Marley to Rachmaninov and Rubinstein....
...Now try this This week, I mostly listened to David Bowie’s excellent 2013 record The Next Day while writing my column. It really is a great album (“Where Are We Now?” is the standout track, I think.)...
...The first minutes include clips of Brexit rhetoric and a statue of the slave trader Edward Colston being tipped into Bristol Harbour....
...In Bristol, the statue of slave trader Edward Colston — which was felled in 2020 — has not been put back up....
...Colston’s monumental presence was deeply offensive to many residents of Bristol....
...But having worked through the Conservative party’s political machine — from Tory central office to David Cameron’s Downing Street — he has brought a sharp-edged political message to the fight, often to the...
...In Britain, with its scarred history of colonialism, the statue of slave-trader Edward Colston was toppled and thrown into a river in Bristol....
...On June 7 in Bristol the statue of the 17th century slave trader Edward Colston was toppled and thrown into the city’s docks....
...David Isaac, chairman of the EHRC, said the Windrush scandal and hostile environment policies had “cast a shadow” across the UK and its values....
...When Caribbean nations proposed a summit to discuss reparations in 2015, David Cameron, the then Conservative prime minister, said it would be better “to move on”....
...The dunking of the statue of slave trader Edward Colston into Bristol harbour and the graffiti that have appeared on Confederate, Churchillian, colonial and generally racist commemorations across the world...
...The modern castle was begun in 1821 by David Hunter Blair, who, official records show, co-owned the Rozelle sugar estate in Jamaica....
...In a submission to the court, Jane Colston, a solicitor for Sir Frederick and Amanda, said: “There does not seem to be a reasonable or innocent explanation for this behaviour.”...
...We cheered as the statue of the slave trader Edward Colston was toppled in Bristol and pushed into the city’s harbour....
...(FT) Society’s values are not set in stone By the standards of his day, Edward Colston was a model English citizen who bequeathed vast sums to Bristol....
...David Cannadine’s In Churchill’s Shadow: Confronting the Past in Modern Britain crisply charts how this changed in the 1920s and 1930s, as the countryside became venerated as a source of “spiritual values...
...In the book, she writes witheringly of the policies pursued by David Cameron’s Conservative government....
...“Over the next two months, we’ll sell almost 5,000 Colston Bassett Stiltons,” says Percival, as we arrive at our first stop, Colston Bassett Dairy....
...Director Roger Haines, revisiting his 2011 regional production of Richard Taylor and David Wood’s adaptation, admirably refuses to inflate things for Shaftesbury Avenue....
...David Honigmann barbican.org.uk, 020 7638 8891 Photograph: Getty...
...Antonio Pappano conducts; the production is by David McVicar....
...David Honigmann scala-london.co.uk, 020 7833 2022 Photograph: Getty...
...David Honigmann barbican.org.uk, 020 7638 8891 … Neil Cowley Trio, Colston Hall, Bristol, then touring The popularity of Cowley’s jazz piano trio is founded on catchy lines, disciplined arrangements...
...Colston’s Girls’ School Academy in Bristol was hit by a 15 per cent slide in the four years before it declared plans to turn into a state school in 2007 – with numbers dropping from 429 to 366....
...Mr Speirs said Bristol’s Colston’s Girls School and Bristol Cathedral School, which are in the application process to become academies, were in a place with more independent schools than wealthy parents...
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