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...The party will also pledge to clamp down on water companies polluting the sea, rivers and lakes by expanding the powers of industry regulator Ofwat....
...“It is about black Britain and what it is to be working class,” he says of his Converge gilet, for example, which was acquired by the V&A for its collection in 2021. “It is descriptive of urban life....
...I understood – for the first time, first-hand – that venturing beyond the safety of a pool into a lake, river or ocean is about volumes more than a mere physical challenge....
...psychologically intense bronze “Head of a Bearded Man”, with flowing locks and eyes raised to heaven: it may depict a condottiere mercenary nicknamed Gattamelata (“honeyed cat”), or a biblical prophet, or a pagan river...
...Not far beyond London’s M25 orbital motorway, the picturesque Henley-on-Thames transforms into a river racecourse, with crews of rowers in colourful club blazers....
...“As soon as I cross the river and enter the neighbourhood, I feel its distinctive atmosphere,” he says....
...Menendez, the son of Cuban immigrants, rose under the tutelage of William V Musto, the mayor of Union City from 1962 to 1982, with a four-year interregnum....
...The SS24 collection, “My Heart is a River For You to Bend”, shown in London, burnished Carzana’s growing reputation for inviting people into a world that is uniquely his own....
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...(In America it’s also called the Colorado River toad, for hopefully obvious reasons.)...
...Here, I have watched great plumes of starlings spiralling up into the darkening sky before swooping down to roost amid egrets and bee eaters on a tiny island in the river....
...(Pimco) — The PagerDuty CEO who quoted Martin Luther King in her mass sacking email is v v v sorry....
...v=iBALj_Um1fc – ‘In praise of book clubs – and how to do them well’ by Nilanjana Roy: https://on.ft.com/3xtmmjF – Nilanjana’s newest novel Black River will be published in June....
...“Children have always chosen animals,” says Katy Canales, project curator at Young V&A, which reopens today in east London following a £13mn renovation....
...2018, after a global campaign that included Arundhati Roy, Amal Clooney and Sharon Stone, his photographs, many focused on Bangladesh’s battle for civil rights, have travelled the world, including to the V&...
...There is a taste of the overcrowded towers of China’s Pearl River Delta in the seemingly random urbanism of Vauxhall-Nine Elms-Battersea, where approaching 20,000 mostly luxury homes have been built in the...
...the restoration was possible at all is testament to the masons who built the original four-storey tower sometime around 1545 for Murdo Mackenzie, a gentleman of the bedchamber to Scotland’s King James V,...
...What about dozens of rivers? What about fish? Only with time will we also learn about these real crimes of the Russians against ecology....
...In a lightly wooded area, a crystal-clear pool from the river Nadder sends water in two directions: classical and romantic....
...In contrast, George V and George VI died in winter: some of the 305,000 who saw the latter lying in state had to put up with light snow....
...Once the private chapel of Dona Rosa, the lover of 18th-century king João V, Mesa de Frades is now one of Lisbon’s more bohemian fado clubs....
...In the V&A’s latest annual review he also referred to talks with Ghana around the V&A collection of Asante court regalia, including gold ornaments, rings and badges, which entered the collection following...
...But he reserves his special scorn for Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum, mocking its approach to restitution and to decolonising the collection....
...I particularly liked Heuriger Glück, by the hamlet of Mitterarnsdorf on the river’s south bank opposite Spitz, reached by an engineless foot ferry that uses a combination of overhead cable and the river...
...A map of the river Ucayali, tributary of the Amazon, illustrating local communities along its stretch, was painted by indigenous artists collaborating with Franciscan missionaries....
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