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...Mifid 2 already It is starting to feel like at least parts of Mifid II were a really weird dream....
...Back in 2017, John Wilson brought a semi-staged production of Oklahoma! to the BBC Proms....
...His official 1953 Coronation portrait of Elizabeth II was in fact taken at home, according to the royal biographer Robert Hardman, with a fake Abbey backdrop....
...What A newly renovated, Grade II*-listed town house, originally built in 1775 by architect Robert Adam....
...creation at the head of the Marshwood Vale, and a yew-and-sculpture garden belonging to British furniture maker John Makepeace in Beaminster....
...Her inclusion in Queen Elizabeth II’s new year’s honours for 2020 and her marriage to high-profile economist Sir Robert Chote gave her wider fame than most of her peers in the retail sector....
...The other was John Currin, whose titillating “Nice ’n Easy” (1999) had been estimated between $7mn and $10mn. In 2016, this work sold for $12mn....
...Here too, or hereabout, was where the poet John Dryden was almost murdered by rogues hired by the Earl of Rochester in 1679....
...Be self-disciplined Regular outings to see exhibitions in Los Angeles or New York by Mark Rothko (who crops up in Corita’s photographs), Jasper Johns and Robert Motherwell all fed into her practice....
...Stuart-era royal chef Robert May is on his feet. “Allow me to demonstrate what a real banquet means.”...
...The governor-general, Sir John Kerr, saw it as a constitutional crisis which necessitated an election....
...When Maurizio Cattelan sculpted Pope John Paul II lifelike in wax and resin, crushed by a meteorite, a pathetic fallen figure in his gleaming white cassock, clinging to his silver crucifix, his face crumpled...
...“May Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II rest in peace and rise in glory.”...
...With its black diamond-patterned flagstone floor, fireplaces, niches, pediments and busts by Flemish sculptor John Michael Rysbrack (including Sir Robert Walpole as a Roman in a toga), the Stone Hall would...
...The following year, in November 1978, Schwartz was due to be in Rome to photograph the new pope, John Paul II....
...The popular voice largely disappears, to be replaced by that of grand men such as Robert Hooke and John Locke, with very few women in sight....
...And, in what will no doubt go down as a historic gig, Elton John will perform his last ever UK show on the Pyramid Stage on Sunday night....
...The games console comes with 60 pre-loaded, from the marvellous (eg, Golden Axe II, Phantasy Star II) to the not-so marvellous (eg, Night Trap, widely acknowledged as one of the worst of all time). amazon.co.uk...
...Shankill Road, the centre of the largely Protestant, unionist community that cherishes its British identity, blinked back tears as they laid flowers at a giant mural to honour the late Queen Elizabeth II...
...When Queen Elizabeth II died on Truss’s third day in office, she struggled to find a register equal to the national mood....
...There is the ghost of colonialism too — the station was a pet project of King Leopold II. But the overriding sense is of a structure ecclesiastical in its splendour and scale....
...William of Orange, the Protestant leader of the Dutch Revolt, was assassinated in 1584 after Philip II of Spain put a bounty on his head....
...Issues include the implementation of Solvency II reforms, expected to reap rewards in terms of investment....
...King Charles III is not Queen Elizabeth II, obviously. It also reopens and reinvigorates discussions about the monarch’s involvement in politics, the topic of a great piece by Robert Shrimsley today....
...“He was a bull in a china shop,” Robert Dall, Ranieri’s boss at Salomon for a time, told The New York Times in 2013. But what made Ranieri’s name was not his persona....
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