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...Joyce stayed in the upper chamber, modestly appointed with whitewashed stone walls, bare wooden floors, a naked table with two chairs and a hammock in the corner....
...For at least 15 years Joyce DiDonato has been one of a handful superlative singers equally at ease in comedy and tragedy, and equally eloquent in four languages....
...Scarf pleated dress, £5,450 Zimmermann poly-mix Junie swimsuit, £295, selfridges.com Vintage Chinese wooden sideboard, €2,918, pamono.eu Agua by Agua Bendita recycled-polyester bikini top, £220, net-a-porter.com...
...As its title indicates, Joyce’s lament is also a call to remember. There is no need for us to romanticise a world where near-unimaginable toil and suffering were woven into the fabric of daily life....
...“There is little evidence that Beijing has the policies to achieve the growth target it has declared,” the Financial Times editorial board summed up....
...Bitcoin euphoria is back, with fresh highs for much of this week, before falling a little. So what would Sam do?...
...At other times there is too little: everything happens in a single institutional room, the walls battleship grey. It’s too non-committal for the drama. Then comes the finale: De Rocher’s execution....
...“The best thing I can do under these circumstances is to bring forward my retirement,” Joyce said in a statement....
...Qantas posted its first annual profit since the onset of Covid-19, as long-serving chief executive Alan Joyce signed off his tenure with a financial recovery....
...I work full-time and earn an above-average salary, but with a family of five, being able to earn a little extra on the side from eBay has been a very helpful supplement to our household income....
...In the first vote, which called for a truce (not a ceasefire), eight EU states were in favour, four were against and 15 abstained....
...Luka Ivan Jukic’s review of Patrick Joyce’s Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World is surely right that there is no need to romanticise the world of “near-unimaginable toil and suffering...
...“This is a classic Joyce move: pretend to take responsibility while pocketing obscene amounts of money,” he said in a statement. Qantas would not comment on whether Joyce’s pay would be reviewed....
...They have not relinquished their mobiles but take regular selfies, which makes them look a little vapid....
...In A Nasty Little War, Anna Reid has written a thoroughly researched, stylish and entertaining account of a military intervention that has — in comparison with the two world wars and other conflicts — largely...
...The 65-minute “play for two” takes place on a stage lined with plastic sheeting and features two rubber octopuses, a silicone foetus, a goldfish bowl and a garden sprinkler that drenches both stage and performers...
...“If you look at James Joyce you see a very pure artist,” she says. “You can deduce a kind of a political leaning or sympathy in Joyce, but it’s not explicit . . . I don’t really like polemics.”...
...“Whether it’s a name we are aware of or not, many of us will have a little bit of Mien in our gardens,” writes Crawford....
...“These people have been sent and funded and supported by the state,” she said — sanctions on them as individuals would do little to stem the tide....
...Nijinsky’s heir twirled a pistol in each hand, black curls tumbling from a towering hat, a painted bodice of geometric shapes barely reaching his nipples....
...That a UK Isa won’t save the UK stock market on its own is self-evident, but every little bit helps....
...Although the company began selling in the region only a little over a year ago, it is already making inroads....
...The result is a curious little gem of an album....
...The first is that Starmer is prioritising shrinking Labour’s vulnerabilities to Tory attack lines and, relatedly, a categorical statement from the Labour leader is therefore worth very little....
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