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...Fra Fee’s Edmund is a bruised villain: the sharpest person on the stage, scanning any given situation for advantage, he orchestrates much of the action, but he also conveys a deep sense of rejection....
...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....
...England’s “glorious revolution” of 1688 was literally crowned by Holland’s William and Mary of Orange, who were invited to become sovereigns by London’s elite....
...John Williams’ grinching be damned, last week’s Fed pivot was a bona fide Christmas miracle....
...Snacks by William Blank (ex-Lyle’s) will include oysters, salt beef sandwiches and burnt butter affogato. There will also be a 20-seat terrace that I’m sure will be packed, come summer....
...Rachel Solomon Williams, head of the Aldersgate Group, a green alliance of business and civic leaders, said the measures were an “absolutely critical element of delivering net zero”....
...In 1858 the journalist Edmund Yates was expelled from the Garrick for writing an unflattering portrait of the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray....
...Jefferies subsequently hired at least 50 people from CLSA, including its former global head of research, Edmund Bradley, and Christopher Wood, one of CLSA’s top-ranked analysts....
...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....
...Was Reynolds, scholar, friend of Dr Johnson and Edmund Burke, too cerebral, literary, historicising, to be a truly great painter?...
...To conservative notables such as William Buckley, editor of the National Review, Welch was a liability. Buckley thought liberals, not Russians, were undermining America....
...Additional reporting by Jennifer Williams in Manchester and Lukanyo Mnyanda in Edinburgh...
...There’ll be exhibitions too, the first featuring work by Axel Salto and Edmund de Waal....
...NZ$810 (about £400), boatshed.co.nz MS The Happy House, Solukhumbu, Nepal Owned by an elegant Sherpa family, The Happy House in Nepal’s Solukhumbu was originally the haunt of mountaineers, including Edmund...
...Objects from the Edward J Williams Collection — “Black Boy Eating Watermelon”, “All White Mammy Cookie Jar” — are juxtaposed with the Wedgwood “Am I Not a Man and a Brother?” medallion....
...Soon another liar backed up Oates’s story — William Bedloe, “a Bristol-born counterfeiter, swindler, petty thief and jail bird”, writes Stater....
...William Blake was his in-house engraver, while Henry Fuseli decorated the wall of his dining room....
...Trucks and SUVs accounted for 73 per cent of US light vehicle sales in 2021, up from 41 per cent in 2009, according to Edmunds, the automotive research group....
...William Hazlitt’s test for a political progressive was whether they could admit that Edmund Burke, a conservative, was a great man....
...The area’s low-key charm and fine links golf courses are an attraction for a growing number of wealthy individuals seeking rentals, says Edmund Parker, who runs a concierge company....
...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...
...Trevor Williams: No — it may have gone too far in raising taxes....
...Poets have responded as much as novelists to the river from Edmund Spenser — “Sweet Thames, run softly” — to William Wordsworth on Westminster Bridge to TS Eliot watching the numberless commuters flow over...
...Thus Edmund de Waal’s elegiac account of the “confiscation” of his Jewish great-grandfather Viktor’s library....
...Philosophers, political thinkers and authors of the 18th and 19th centuries who criticised aspects of British imperialism, including Edmund Burke, Lord Byron and John Stuart Mill, may have thought they were...
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