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...Qin was posted to the UK as China’s chargé d’affaires. They began a closer relationship nearly a decade later in Beijing, several people close to Fu said....
...Over the decades, he’d interspersed Shakespeare with Brecht, Pinter, Ayckbourn and Caryl Churchill, at the Birmingham Rep, then the Royal Shakespeare Company, then everywhere else that mattered....
...When Democrats were in the White House — starting with Franklin D Roosevelt and then under John F Kennedy, Lyndon B Johnson, Bill Clinton, and even Barack Obama — they favoured internationalist policies,...
...If you want a modern country house, I’d suggest The Find, designed by my architect friend Richard Found....
...On Saturday night, US defence secretary Lloyd Austin said he was sending a group led by the USS Dwight D Eisenhower “as part of our effort to deter hostile actions against Israel or any efforts toward widening...
...The USS Dwight D Eisenhower, an American aircraft carrier, is in the area. Greece and Denmark have said they will also send warships....
...Western powers are protecting the Gulf with such assets as the US aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower....
...Who’d be given coverage, and who wouldn’t. Churchill, like many in the government, was petrified that this labour instability would lead to revolution. This wasn’t entirely unreasonable....
...Well, I’d probably start out as a pilot, but a pilot from the 1950s – drinking whisky and smoking in the cockpit. So I’d probably get fired, and then I’d be an antiques dealer....
...There are traces of numerous writers: the brittle, highly charged dialogue of Simon Stephens, the formal ruptures of Sarah Kane, the surrealism of Caryl Churchill....
...I asked him how he’d felt afterwards. He grimaced. He’d had to leave promptly to get a train to Liverpool. All I had to do was walk home and slump in a chair....
...If I stopped to think, a mist would come down and I’d forget everything she’d taught me. At the end of three hours, we had created a small routine that lasted one and a half minutes....
...Then I took the mic and became the hype-man and I’d do that every Sunday.” The club is now one of the highlights of Cotonou, the coastal city in Benin....
...Audiences would really have enjoyed that well-documented moment when Churchill and George VI were visited by the ghost of Hitler, who was heard to say, “Gott in Himmel, Donner und Blitzen, you really messed...
...In summer 2019, he even invited Putin to the Côte d’Azur to discuss building “a new architecture of security and confidence between Russia and the EU”....
...I have just ordered Calvin Trillin’s new book The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press, which from the sound of this Dwight Garner review in the NYT will be unmissable....
...Georgie has mastered the art of trolling the system — recording voice messages to fool Social Services into thinking they are talking to her uncle, “Winston Churchill”....
...But, at this stage, I’d recommend that we focus on the car itself, both as an innovation and as a tool to transform society....
...That’d miss the point. Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture and design critic Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter...
...If nobody could get in, they’d form again in another guise. As for the Garrick’s women problem, it may be that it has a man problem....
...“I’d like [Argentina] to look like Ireland.”...
...Winston Churchill (while his full name does not have two “t”s, his last name does) 3. Tony Blair 4....
...Winston Churchill brought his paint brushes; others brought their cheque book and erotic peccadilloes....
...In 2017, she’d introduced her bosses to Stephens and persuaded them to write Anduril a cheque — a coup for someone so junior....
...President Franklin D Roosevelt would have dismissed him, and so too would President Dwight Eisenhower. President Harry Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur over careless talk of war with China....
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