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...Hunt’s Autumn Statement in November is expected to set out more details of the reborn industrial strategy, including a review of foreign inward investment by Lord Richard Harrington....
.... ★★★★★ To December 23, metopera.org Letter in response to this article: Wagner, the Jockey Club and a Tannhäuser debacle / From Harvey Clark Greisman, Wilmington, DE, US1, UK...
...Their popularity through the 1740s helped propel Oswald later to become a leading musician in the court of George III. ★★★★☆ ‘London Circa 1740: Handel’s Musicians’ is released by Harmonia Mundi...
...Harrington, a former business minister under Clark and a self-declared “Greg Clark groupie”, said the government should not pick winners but needed to “pick the race” it wanted to win and put muscle behind...
...No one remembered to supply chairs for George III and Queen Charlotte (or for that matter to bring the coronation sword), so there was a lot of wandering around. The snafus have not all been comical....
...Greg Clark, the former Tory business secretary whose “modern industrial strategy” was scrapped in 2021, has welcomed the government’s new approach....
...III with glitter cannon....
...This disc looks to the high watermark of the genre, the coronation of George II in 1727....
...Most sought after, he says, is the series of Wedgwood mugs designed by Eric Ravilious and Richard Guyatt to commemorate the 1937 coronation of George VI and the 1953 coronation of Elizabeth II....
...Richard Sharp was adamant he had done little wrong, insisting that an investigation into the circumstances of his appointment as BBC chair proved any breach of relevant rules was “inadvertent and not material...
...These anxieties stemmed in large part from a series of big and contentious events: the advent in 1760 of a new, problematic monarch, George III; the costs of British success in the Seven Years war (1756-...
...Pilita Clark Will the Israel-Hamas war trigger a full-blown regional conflict? No. The war has sparked violence across the region involving Iranian-backed militant groups....
...But what kind of king will Charles III be?...
...In 1995’s Jack & Sarah, the needs of his infant daughter force Richard E Grant’s devastated widower back into contact with the world....
...Sedwill, who clashed with Johnson’s advisers in 2020, receives a knighthood in the Order of St Michael and St George for his work in foreign policy and national security....
...“To be just a presence would be fatal,” he wrote in his diary in 1970, after talking with Richard Nixon at the White House....
...Charles has named George III, who reigned at the time of American independence yet became a symbol of British renewal, as the monarch he most respects....
...As Lawrence writes, with reference to Wesley Clark, overall commander of allied forces in Kosovo: “The issue was not so much whether commanders were political. That was unavoidable....
...Helen Clark, the former prime minister of New Zealand, was more hopeful....
...Antony Gormley at Hufkens Gallery: a timeline of exhibitions Body Field is at Xavier Hufkens, 6 Rue Saint-Georges, 1050 Brussels, Belgium, until 17 December...
...A committal service will take place at 4pm at St George’s Chapel, Windsor....
...Greg Clark, a former cabinet minister who was critical of Johnson over Brexit, said: “It is notable that Britain’s international approach during this crisis has been one of seriousness and leadership.”...
...The furniture here, beautifully ornamented with Islamic motifs, is the work of Turquoise Mountain, an NGO founded by King Charles III to encourage the revival of traditional crafts in Afghanistan....
...These include a 1705 clock by Thomas Tompion, the most prominent maker of his day, and a mahogany-encased barometer by George Adams from the time of George III....
...Elizabeth I (45 years on the throne), George III (almost 60 years) and Victoria (almost 64 years) all presided over periods of national and imperial expansion....
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