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...The row over the return of the sculptures has been rumbling on for more than two centuries after they were hauled from the ruins of the Parthenon temple in Athens by the Earl of Elgin....
...Johnson’s list of life peers includes Charlotte Owen, a former special adviser and now Britain’s youngest member of the Lords, who was born in 1993 and whose only experience of work has been a series of...
...And I interviewed the Earl of Devon, whose family have been sitting in Westminster since, I think the 1200s, and he argues that political fads come and go, but actually there’s a sort of continuity....
...The next play, Wars of the Roses, is loud, bloody and sometimes baffling; perhaps director Owen Horsley is making the point that debate, however rancorous, beats open warfare....
...While you take in Brooks’s Palladian façade by Henry Holland, think of how the sandwich was reputedly invented here by the eponymous earl not wanting to interrupt a particularly intense gambling session...
...Bird and writer Lisa Owens manage not only to mine repeated laughs from their basic gag — metal mayhem in Hornchurch Drive — but to do so sweetly rather than tweely....
...Jane Owen is an author, former deputy editor of FT Weekend, and Chelsea Flower Show gold medallist....
...But the FT’s Owen Walker and Peter Smith have delivered the ultimate tale on how Woodford’s empire imploded. As some might say, it’s a warning of what happens when you start to believe your own hype....
...Please post comments and questions at the end of this article, or email david.tang@ft.com David Tang is appearing in conversation with Richard Ovenden and Jane Owen at Oxford Literary Festival FT Weekend...
...Of note: a black silky puffa coat (£99.99) that wouldn’t look out of place at Rick Owens; a block-heeled over-knee boot in khaki suede (£125); and a metallic quilted mule (a wickedly cheeky homage to Gucci...
...Owen Jones, author of Chavs: the Demonisation of the Working Class, and at 29 perhaps the most influential of a new generation of leftwing commentators, tells me he is fond of Milton Friedman’s insight about...
...Earl Howe, a health minister, met Lord Owen yesterday as they tried to bash out a compromise, but the talks failed and Lords Owen and Hennessy tabled their amendment as planned, with one minor tweak: that...
...Earl Howe, a health minister, said he was disappointed by the “negative tone and content” of Labour’s amendment, which if passed would have blocked the bill....
...Lord Owen insisted the amendment was not intended to block the bill....
...Lord Owen is meeting Earl Howe and others from the government side at 3pm. It is clear that in him they have a powerful potential enemy....
...But Earl Howe, who is steering the legislation through the Lords, had written to peers just 20 minutes before they began debating on Tuesday, warning them not to vote for the amendment despite Lord Owen’...
...The sense of a language made from different voices and accents; some of them beyond England – the Welsh of Owen Glendower, the (cod) Irish of McMorris in Henry V, or the macho Geordie of Hotspur – all fed...
...John Owen-Jones gives the requisite powerhouse performance as Jean Valjean, living a virtuous life whilst pursued for parole-breaking by the too-zealous Javert (Earl Carpenter), and Rosalind James is also...
...Owen skilfully tells the story of these new squads through the lives of four pioneering bomb disposal officers. The most extraordinary was “Wild Jack” Howard, Earl of Suffolk....
...John Owen Jones is Jean Valjean, Earl Carpenter is Javert and Gareth Gates – the young English singer famous for being runner-up in television’s Pop Idol talent contest – is Marius, the idealistic young...
...“As a sporting nation, the Americans know what they like,” says Philip Patterson, account director at Karen Earl Sponsorship, a consultancy....
...Having been confined for years to the Earls Court area of west London, the virus – Strinisation – was spread by camper vans and is now threatening large tracts of the country....
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