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...Despite the discomfort of King George V — whose cousin the Tsar had been executed by the Bolsheviks — Labour formally recognised the Soviet Union....
...They begin with a sequel to the English King Henry V’s victory over the French at Agincourt....
...Timberlake Wertenbaker digs into history to explore corrupt leadership in a version of Racine’s Britannicus (Lyric Hammersmith from May 26)....
...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....
...The 9/11 attacks marked the only time Nato has invoked its Article V mutual defence clause — following an assault on America, not Europe....
...While Harry Potter waits to re-enter, she’s cooking up something new: RE:EMERGE, a programme of vibrant, small-scale “new plays for a new world”, to open at the Harold Pinter Theatre in May....
...Should the much-desired V-shape recovery arrive, Mr Sunak will be credited, but Mr Johnson will remain popular. If the downturn is severe, he is the one in charge of the finances....
...In May this year, an Argyle version worn by the singer during his last photo shoot with Nirvana sold for $75,000....
...We may never know what the real Queen says or said behind closed palace doors....
...John V Orth William Rand Kenan, Jr Professor of Law, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, US...
...Hardly, surprising, then, that Remain v Leave is also about Dave v Boris....
...May she rest in peace, though I know, for a fact, she would rather dance....
...Colleagues tell me I am just “being a guy”, and that may be so. But this makes it all the more interesting that so many Tory “guys” are suddenly concerned about the V&A’s exhibits policy....
...His first curatorial role at the V&A was in the East Asia department, where he began to introduce examples of fashion into the collection....
...19 The designer of the suit was the subject of an exhibition at the V&A in London in 2015, which proved the most popular in the museum’s history....
...Doctor Scroggy may not feature prominently in medical history, but Harold Gillies does....
...(This may have shown good taste). But there was a subtext....
...The format may be gimmicky but the exposition is excellent....
...The plan may not even be good for the Tories: the venom engendered among their own backbenchers whose seats will vanish may poison the second half of this parliament....
...An exhibition with the same title is at the V&A from October 18 ………………………………………....
...‘Little Eagles’ by Rona Munro, Hampstead Theatre, London, until May 7 www.rsc.org.uk www.hampsteadtheatre.com...
...and Washington Post were able to defeat President Richard Nixon’s extraordinary prosecution and publish extensive extracts from the Pentagon Papers that Daniel Ellsberg had stolen, partly on the way Near v....
...Harold Macmillan ran rings around R. A. Butler but is remembered as a “seedy conjuror”, while Rab is honoured for his educational reforms and reshaping the Tory party in the late 1940s....
...This may be the best of all....
...In May 1958 her play A Taste of Honey premiered at Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Royal Stratford East....
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