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...against the authorities in the US state of Texas last year who were accused of treating migrants “as if they were cattle” for fitting bar coded wristbands on asylum seekers who were being transported to New York...
...Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York, warned the government’s response to a rise in extremism “risks vilifying the wrong people” and creating “more division”....
...The Old Market is part-owned by Luke Cresswell, co-founder with Steve McNicholas of Stomp, a percussive theatre act that tours the world and has just concluded 28 years performing off Broadway in New York...
...Additional reporting by William Wallis in London...
...At FT Globetrotter, we are particularly excited about the Pompidou Centre’s big Brâncuși show in March, the opening of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson’s Paris bolt-hole, Villa Windsor, in the summer and,...
...Tomorrow’s coronation coincides with a rise in public support for the new monarch but declining interest in the institution, reports William Wallis....
...Veteran US police chief William Bratton made his name commanding both the New York and Los Angeles forces, reversing the tide when crime reached high-water marks and public confidence had dived....
...When the Duke of Windsor married Wallis Simpson at the 16th-century Château de Candé in the Loire Valley in June 1937, Simpson tasked Constance Spry with the floral decoration....
...An outpost on New York’s Fifth Avenue soon followed....
...Tartan’s sartorial reach spread fast: letters to a tartan manufacturer in Bannockburn in the 1820s come from New York, Baltimore, Montreal, Barbados and Rio de Janeiro....
...The government’s plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda have polarised opinion, with the archbishops of Canterbury and York, together with 23 bishops, joining the outcry and describing the policy on Tuesday...
...She may never have assumed the crown if the American divorcee, Wallis Simpson, had not caused her uncle, King Edward VIII, to abdicate in 1936 in order to marry her....
...The wearer confided to me that her garment was a $250,000 couture Dior which, now that it had been seen on her in Paris and New York, would be retired permanently....
...He was stunned when, in 2007, he made a low offer for a set of eight worn Omega chairs that had gone unsold at a Bonham’s auction in New York. “It’s hard to find a sleeper these days.”...
...Among those Popal rallied was an orthodox rabbi, Moshe Margaretten from the Tzedek association in New York....
...The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has funded research at York university into raising the amount of UK land used for industrial hemp from 800 to 80,000 hectares by 2030....
...That started a rapid curatorial rise through Tate Modern and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York....
...As my colleague and friend, William Wallis, shows in this piece, republican sentiment is running neck-and-neck with monarchism among Britain’s under-30s....
...It was obvious.” — Marshall Auerback, New York, New York...
...For Edward VIII, choosing marriage to the divorcée Wallis Simpson, a royal vocation took second place to the consummation of personal happiness....
...Wallis was self-taught and his style is very simplistic. I love the way he painted the sea....
...The online fashion retailer said it had made a strong start to its financial year following the integration of the Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton brands and the relaunch of the Debenhams website....
...Benjamin Doller, a chairman at Sotheby’s New York, has collected about 50 pieces of British art pottery over the past 20 years....
...The jeweller also played its part in the abdication crisis when Edward VIII proposed marriage to Wallis Simpson with a Cartier ring featuring an emerald of more than 19 carats....
...The pieces had previously been displayed in New York to entice interest — but not in England, where the duchess was still a contentious figure....
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