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...John Edmunds, an epidemiologist and a member of the Sage scientific advisory group charged with supporting government decision makers during the Covid-19 pandemic, gets a knighthood....
...Richard III? Macbeth? The sly, double-crossing Edmund from King Lear? No, it’s Falstaff, the roguish old knight who hangs out with Prince Hal in east London’s less reputable taverns in Henry IV....
...Norman — Conservative MP, minister of state for decarbonisation and technology, biographer of Edmund Burke and Adam Smith — may have chosen the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I as the setting for his first...
...Two of Whatmore’s other characters are Irish — Edmund Burke and William Petty, the earl of Shelburne, a politician who created a kind of intellectual think-tank, the Bowood Circle....
...The timing of King Charles III’s coronation, in the immediate aftermath of the local polls, delayed a postmortem....
...He was soon presented to King George III at Kew Palace, after being fitted for a velvet coat, white waistcoat and satin breeches....
...Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition, by Edmund Fawcett, Princeton, RRP$35/£30, 514 pages The author of a much acclaimed history of liberalism turns his attention to another crucial branch of political...
...They have been excellently carved by Paul Jewby and his team in Bury St Edmunds....
...It treats that very English subject, a scene from Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, with charm and vivacity....
...What began in 1265 as an inheritance of baronial land from Henry III to his son Edmund has evolved into a £519m asset mix that is heavily concentrated in commercial, residential and agricultural property...
...Edmund Burke famously cautioned that “the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”...
...In fearsome matriarch Yetta Solomon he has created an epic role, part Mother Courage, part Medea, with a dash of Richard III....
...Photographs: Dana Edmunds/Getty Images; Xavier Testelin; Alamy; Jason Hawkes; villapisani.beniculturali.it; Dan Kitwood; Royal Collection Trust...
...Edmund Murphy III, president of Empower Retirement, says: “In the past five years, we’ve started to see a concentration of business with specialist advisers, or ‘heavies’, where 75 per cent or more of the...
...Diane Purkiss is professor of English at Oxford university and author of ‘The Civil War: A People’s History’ (Harper) ‘Civil War: The History of England Volume III’, by Peter Ackroyd, Macmillan, £14.99,...
...The black uniforms may be reminiscent of the ones used in the 1990 Richard Eyre/Ian McKellen production of Richard III, but this is less a fascist state than a Prussian one, with impressive statuary and...
...In a press release announcing the issuance of the ED, FASB Chairman Edmund L....
...Other characters may do terrible things – Edmund in King Lear lies, cheats and schemes, Richard III kills countless people and boasts about it, Macbeth, too, slaughters his way to power – but there is rhyme...
...His tendency to Shakespearean asides, confiding, self-congratulatory or – rarely – angry, underlines the character’s classical antecedents: Richard III, a dash of Macbeth, Edmund in Lear, Iago – “such smiling...
...Is it just my imagination or do I detect a faint grin of belated (about half a millennium belated) satisfaction playing about the long-jawed skull of Richard III?...
...As dramatic characters go, Cinna the poet has a pretty rough time of it. He makes his entrance in Act Three, Scene III of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar....
...Henry VII, the chancer with the weakest of claims to the throne he occupied for 24 years after defeating Richard III at Bosworth, is traditionally regarded as a stabiliser....
...Griff – to his family; more formally, Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707-1751) – was the eldest son of George II and father of George III; he should have been king but for being fatally caught out by a cricket...
...In the momentous week in 1953 when she was crowned and Everest was climbed by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, her horse Aureole came second....
...As at any gathering, you can only try to set up conversations – between, say, the austere yet lavishly sensual white porcelain of Edmund de Waal’s laquer cabinet “The Hours” and Tom Barnett’s lyrical painted...
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