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...Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David Van Reybrouck (Bodley Head/WW Norton) In August 1945 Indonesia became the first colonised country to declare its independence after the second...
...Howard Davies: No. Inflation will remain noticeably above the 2 per cent target at the end of the year....
...In Howard Brenton’s Cancelling Socrates, we’re in the Athens of antiquity where the infant democracy is already feeling fragile....
...By necessity, one has to camp somewhere that a van can drive to; by definition, that is not somewhere I want to camp....
...How Oaktree captured Evergrande’s castle Howard Marks knows the value of investing where others fear to tread....
...No Howard Hodgkin — portraits reinvented as high-colour playful semi-abstraction. The abstract painters included instead — Alan Davie, Gillian Ayres — are less original and much less fun....
...Closed before and through the pandemic for a two-year refurbishment, the Courtauld Gallery relaunches in November, with its star turns — Manet’s “A Bar at the Folies-Bergère”, Van Gogh’s “Self-Portrait with...
...Trevor Williams: No — it may have gone too far in raising taxes....
...William Tyndale printed his epoch-making translations of the Bible here. In 1535, a spy lured him out of the secure “English House”....
...Scott’s, W1 This autumn, the Mount Street seafood institution beloved by the fashion cognoscenti will be taken over by a van Gogh-inspired sunflower installation, designed by “event imagineer” Tony Marklew...
...The warren-like 17th-century building has played host to readings by authors ranging from Allen Ginsberg and William S Burroughs to Zadie Smith and Dave Eggers, while some claim James Joyce to be buried...
...One bystander, security guard Donald Williams, told the court that, from his training in wrestling and mixed martial arts, he recognised Chauvin’s posture as a dangerous “blood choke”....
...William Howard Taft, the 27th US president, had choice words for describing what should become of former occupants of the White House once they left office....
...Woody Allen, Joel and Ethan Coen and Quentin Tarantino are justly famous for their clever, witty scripts, which also sell well as published screenplays....
...The gulf kingdom’s sporting ambitions are at odds with its treatment of Saudi women’s rights activists, Amnesty International’s Kate Allen told the Guardian....
...John Van Reenen: It will not....
...The ambitious absolutists Henry VIII and Charles I had enticed Holbein and Van Dyck from Europe....
...Clark, London; DIA Cohen, New York Polymath 1,035: Tony Mouler, Birmingham, England Crossword 16,242: Helen Hillier, Dorset, England; JP Bowman, the Netherlands; C Wren, London Polymath 1,034: Peter Van...
...Randy Clark joined K&L Gates from Moore & Van Allen as a Charlotte-based partner in the firm’s tax practice....
...John Van Reenen: Rise in unemployment to about 6 per cent....
...Van Hove’s 2014 staging (given its UK premiere here) is animated by the central debate about creative integrity....
...In a diagram made the following day, the wreck of Howard’s van is shown, along with an acetylene cylinder, a coil of hose, a switchbox and a crater six metres wide....
...Lionel Barber, FT editor The Light That Failed: A Reckoning (Allen Lane, RRP£20) is a brilliant, original book on the crisis of modern liberalism....
..., a fund he co-founded alongside Alan Howard and three others....
...This has been on loan to the Van Gogh Museum since 2011 and is the first work by the artist to be sold in France for 20 years, according to the auction house....
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