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...They opened with the distinctively curved notes of David Gilmour’s guitar-playing....
...On Thursday the electric car king jester tweeted this: So there you have it....
...If art market prices are enough to skew any sensible perspective, we need the court jesters for a reality check. But what happens when the prankster gets pranked, more harshly, by real life?...
...The court jesters are doubling as the town criers....
...He really was, in this case, more or less literally a licensed jester. Here was a version of the “roast” in which the whole audience was the target....
...From the very first scene, in which the bantering Jester is murdered, we stand hovering over the border between sensuality and brutality....
...Giridharadas is wary of becoming a court jester, a critic who entertains with uncomfortable truths but who fails to change behaviour. “There’s a big risk of that,” he says....
...Serious figure or court jester? What sort of prime minister would Boris Johnson be? In Birmingham, Johnson supporters are out in force....
...Whereas some of his fellow Brexiters in the cabinet — David Davis, the Brexit secretary, for example — understand the reality of an EU divorce bill, Mr Johnson has wandered off into fantasy land....
...His staying power is impressive: his tales are still beloved across the region, perhaps because, much like a medieval court jester, he is often used as a vehicle for veiled political criticism....
...Pressed for detail on his work by MPs last week, David Davis, the minister for exit, left them vaguer....
...Dov is the archetypal fool, a “treacherous jester”, as Avishai calls him, licensed by his trade to tell uncomfortable truths....
...Mr Johnson looks more comfortable in the role of court jester than thoughtful policymaker. He prefers the broad brush to irksome detail....
...David Salle’s rendering of a faceless woman in her panties, controlled from above by a claque of jesters and clowns, withstands time’s trials, its sinister sexual ambiguities creepily intact....
...(“Zustrom”), an ostrich with a human head and another wearing trousers and shoes strutting through a medieval fair (“Forderung”) and an assortment of jesters in horned hats, mermaids, angels, windmills...
...As Feste, the court jester, Taub herself performs many of these numbers with magnetic fluency while intermittently manning the keyboard....
...The show — rumoured to be among Iggy’s last — ended with a roof-raising “Success”, Iggy prancing like a jester and grinning like a loon. Wonderful. iggypop.com...
...In a move likely to provoke more anger from the government backbenches, David Cameron will accuse Leave campaigners of an “economic con trick”....
...Like them, the self-styed “tragicomic court jester of contemporary art” alchemises bile into hilarity, indicting schemers and frauds, and his own brittle ego....
...At least Michael O’Leary, its chief executive, isn’t wearing a jester’s hat this time....
...One such is David Gilmour....
...You can close the lid, but you cannot keep the jester down....
...Using his customary mix of serious points and painfully amusing puns, the mayor of London presented himself as a man who has got things done in London while managing to maintain the image of being the jester...
...The chancellor knows that he will only be David Cameron’s successor if the prime minister’s government is seen to succeed....
...His waxcloth was more like a jester’s motley than a priest’s robes, but he manned his Hammond organ like a pulpit....
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