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...While following his father George V’s coffin in procession, Edward VIII recalled seeing “a flash of light dancing along the pavement”....
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...George W Bush missed red flags in the build-up to al-Qaeda’s Twin Towers attacks. But he was only once explicitly warned of a possible plot a few weeks before it happened....
...His first book, My Amazon Adventure, includes a foreword by Lt Gen Edward “Teddy” Norton, Mallory’s close companion and the leader of the 1924 Everest Expedition....
...Woman At Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi, a radical Egyptian feminist provocateur; Sarah Bakewell’s At the Existentialist Café, on Sartre, Camus, Simone de Beauvoir et al....
...Of course, the university’s alumni are a prime source of the rarities here....
...a “little university” in which “the studies of women were thriving”....
...… No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State, by Glenn Greenwald, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£20/Metropolitan Books, RRP$27 Greenwald, Edward Snowden’s journalistic collaborator,...
...Part of him was the bent figure avid to be the true chevalier sans peur et sans reproche, though Donatello’s St George he was evidently not....
...His elucidation of works such as the St Matthew Passion makes you want to listen to the music afresh....
...If Edna O’Brien et al turn up next year, this festival will be worth attending....
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...al at a national level....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? It’s all here....
...Modelled on St Peter’s in Rome, it has a larger area and a higher dome....
...This appears a common state of mind in current rightwing circles, viz Limbaugh, O’Reilly et al. An honourable man would have resigned by now....
...It ends in tears with Edward VIII’s abdication....
...FICTION Angel Gurria-Quintana MOTHER’S MILK by Edward St Aubyn Picador ₤12.99, 288 pages There was an abundance of maternally themed fiction in 2006, but this sequel to St Aubyn’s Some Hope trilogy was...
...One day Richard is in Tampa, Florida, followed by a short stint in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, en route to St Louis, Missouri....
...During the attack on Iraq in 2003, Warcrime, David Williams’s play about civilian casualties, opened in the crypt of St Andrew’s Church in London, and Justin Butcher’s The Madness of George Dubya transferred...
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