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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....
...The Hudson County taint followed Menendez into the Senate when Jon Corzine appointed him in 2006 to the seat he had vacated for the governor’s mansion....
...“Jon and Antonia have more than 50 years of experience in the auction world,” Hage says, something that plays to the financialised top end of the art market....
...“I like David Cronenberg movies, anyway.” His smile widened behind the vapour clouding his face. “If it’s anything like a David Cronenberg movie,” he replied, “we might both be squeamish.”...
...In Max Webster’s pulsating modern-dress staging of Shakespeare’s Henry V, with Kit Harington (Game of Thrones’ Jon Snow) at the helm, it becomes a piece about a leader gradually warped by power and calloused...
...UK ministers and media branded Monday “V-Day” as the first doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine were administered....
...V. A month in, the occupation in Zuccotti Park — or Liberty Plaza — was becoming more permanent. Problems were emerging too....
...Kingston Polymath 1,011: Dr S Bailey, Swindon Crossword 16,099: Suzanne P Wilson, Windermere; D Barter, Cumbria; Jean-Marc Sellier, California Polymath 1,010: Robert Jelly, Warwickshire Crossword 16,093: V...
...Bankers’ early optimism that the pandemic would manifest as a sharp economic shock followed by an equally rapid recovery — the ubiquitous “V-shaped” recession — has given way to pessimism....
...V&A, Cromwell Rd, SW7 (vam.ac.uk). The Wolseley, 160 Piccadilly, W1 (thewolseley.com)...
...The squad of Michael Adams, Luke McShane, Gawain Jones and David Howell is the same quartet as in Batumi, while the veteran Jon Speelman, 62, will double as team analyst and emergency reserve....
...A founder of Italy’s Five Star Movement, Grillo brought 2m protesters to the streets in 2007 for a “V-Day” rally....
...They are Joe Reece in the Americas, Javier Oficialdegui in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and David Chin in Asia-Pacific....
...The takeaway: Jeremy v Theresa What happens when two steamrollers collide? Neither side moves an inch....
...“They affirmed the conviction, which is a victory for the government,” said Jon Eisenberg of K & L Gates in Washington. “But they made it clear the government’s burden is a heavy one.”...
...“It’s potentially the most important case for market professionals in over 30 years,” says attorney Jon Eisenberg of K & L Gates in Washington....
...Sir Jon Cunliffe is clear that the remaining slack in the labour market is nearly gone....
...Senior figure, talking about Jon Cruddas role writing the manifesto: “At least with Jon we’ll have an uplifting narrative, with Douglas it would have been technocratic.”...
...David Chase, he says, showed him how important it is to stay true to your principles. “David didn’t like people having contempt for the audience,” he says....
...Jon Reynolds and Ben Medlock Swiftkey British SwiftKey is among the most popular Android apps in the world....
...He sports a dark jacket, V-neck sweater and white shirt and, most strikingly for Manhattan in winter, the deep suntan that he apparently maintains year round....
...In the Tate exhibition, Jon Savage’s photographs of “Uninhabited London” are an indictment of contemporary life: the ruin as failed economic policy....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...However, the 1990 case of Caparo Industries plc v Dickman established that a duty not to cause pure economic loss may arise where: the advice is required for a purpose that is made known to the adviser at...
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