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...The first 21st-century touch is our Jekyll being a trans woman, played with gusto by Eddie Izzard. But this is scarcely the only collision of old and new....
...Dear do-gooders, where have you been?...
...It’s based on the Disneyland theme ride, previously translated into a 2003 Eddie Murphy vehicle that barely set anyone’s floorboards creaking....
...Dear reader, After a flurry of panicky movement in credit default swaps last week, markets are now acting as if the banking crisis is old news....
...The inclusion of the dear old Le Corsaire pas de deux, the prawn cocktail of many a gala menu, was presumably intended as a reminder of these juicy early years....
...An initial hunt collapsed in 2013 after Cumbria county council pulled out, ending the “uncertainty and worry” that the council’s leader at the time, Eddie Martin, said it had triggered....
...At times Eddie Redmayne seems to be ticking off a list of the most counterintuitive roles possible: the physicist Stephen Hawking, the transgender painter Lili Elbe, the emcee in the musical Cabaret....
...Dear reader, Thames Water has dominated UK business news lately. Lex titled the controversy over UK water companies “The Great Stink II” back in April when writing about United Utilities....
...The skincare staple I’m never without is SK-II Facial Treatment Essence. I have changed creams, but the Essence has stuck around for a dozen years....
...“My dear, let me repeat — we are in Paris, thanks be to the October Revolution, and all that twaddle has been consigned to the dustbin once and for all.”...
...He was speaking from St George’s Chapel, Windsor, where his mother, Elizabeth II, was buried in the autumn and where his father, the late Duke of Edinburgh — who died in 2021 — was also laid to rest....
...It was a depiction that was more dear, sweet grandmother than shining sovereign. And it was not meant to be the final image of Her Majesty....
...It reads: “The Sheet OFF MY dear x dear Lord’s Bed in the wretched Tower of London February 1716. Ann C of Darwent=Waters.”...
...On the bottom he had scratched two marks, II, beside “Tres Admittentur”. A ticket for two admitting three? Qwasi was better at Latin than maths. Truss Caligata?...
...Then, in June 2015: “My dear Leon. How are you? I need to meet with you. It’s both urgent and important.”...
...William of Orange, the Protestant leader of the Dutch Revolt, was assassinated in 1584 after Philip II of Spain put a bounty on his head....
...Dear reader, City minister John Glen told the Association of British Insurers what they already knew at the organisation’s annual dinner this week....
...Lex, itself 76 years young, was prompted by impending UK celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II....
...But Biden delivered some important commitments dear to European leaders. One was a plan to reduce Europe’s dependence on Russian energy imports....
...Performances including Hamilton, Hadestown, The Lion King and Dear Evan Hansen will all be dark through Christmas....
...This year will be remembered as the end of an era in Britain, due to the passing of Elizabeth II....
...It’s only the rear Palladian façade, added in the 1730s, that hints at the Grade II*-listed property’s opulent past life, when its 4,000 acres of farmland stretched all the way to Crowland Abbey and beyond...
...“We want to ensure we are paving the way for new craftspeople to learn the skills we hold so dear,” Blundell says of Craven Dunnill Jackfield’s investments in educational workshops and partnerships with...
...“So, the money – they’re holding on to it for dear life. My generation are now the ones that have to get jobs.”...
...Dear readers, Lex wrote last week about the unstoppable rollout of smart speakers, now glowing in the corners of millions of kitchens, living rooms and bedrooms worldwide....
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