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...Dogs napping on the floor, locals at the bar, Laurie Lee ephemera everywhere and the best pub food I know about....
...Jude Webber will chime in from Ireland on Monday. ‘Vote for Hong Kong 2024’ “Being a pro-democracy activist is increasingly self-isolating and marginalised....
...“This is a country with so much bad politics but a big, big heart for Queen and country,” said Lee Williams, who met her as a boy on a trip to Buckingham Palace where his father served as a Welsh Guardsman...
...Led by a tremendous performance from Rafe Spall, it’s a restless, probing, engaged piece of theatre that celebrates Harper Lee’s beloved book and scrutinises it....
...So a ruling this week by another European court might bring Brexiters some cheer, writes Jude Webber in Dublin....
...Looking back to Ireland in 1846 in the midst of a potato famine gives insight into the potential scale of the devastation, writes Jude Webber....
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...She works with two craft studios in Greater London – one on woodwork, the other on lighting collections – to realise designs that include her large-scale art-deco-inspired Jude pendant and wall lamps in...
...But, as Jude Webber found, many businesses in the province are profiting from the trading arrangements. Nicola Sturgeon set October 19 2023 as the date for a new independence referendum this week....
...City Lights, San Francisco Dave Lee The City Lights bookstore, in San Francisco’s once-bohemian North Beach district, has for almost 70 years been a pillar of the city’s cultural identity, with a publishing...
...Haaland told Senator Mike Lee of Utah: “I think that this pause is just that. It’s a pause. it’s not going to be a permanent thing.”...
...Though a doddery Klaus Kinski lookalike in a white suit is sadly no match for Christopher Lee’s majestic Lord Summerisle, The Third Day is super fun....
...Meanwhile in The Nest, Carrie Coon (The Leftovers) steals the show as a woman whose yuppie husband (Jude Law) drags his family down with him in pursuit of status and easy cash in ’80s Britain....
...“This is just a temporary step, and we’re hopeful we’ll prevail at the end of the day,” ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt said....
...There are good space creatures called the Krees, led by Jude law, and nasty ones, led by Ben Mendelson, called the Skrulls (though those alignments may change as hinted)....
...Jude Webber observes that Mexico’s incoming president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has his work cut out for him if he wants to keep both Mexicans and the markets happy....
...“Love is a Many Splendored Thing” by The Four Aces (above) was No 1 1958 “Great Balls of Fire” by Jerry Lee Lewis hit No 1 in 1958, the year when UK sales of 45s overtook 78s for the first time 1960s...
...“The rumours of Wang fading into the quiet night are not holding up,” said Jude Blanchette, a Chinese politics expert with The Conference Board in Beijing....
...ensuring investors are able to exercise the votes they are entitled to — and in practice have the powers that are their right — are basic steps just to ensure that the law operates as intended,” said Paul Lee...
...In the 1950s the “Primrose Hill set” comprised a gabble of poets — Louis MacNeice, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath — in the mid 1990s it was a cast of actors and models — Jude Law, Ewan McGregor, Kate Moss;...
...“Samsung’s announcement is the first step to show its effort to set a new path for recycling smartphones starting with Note 7s,” said Greenpeace campaigner Jude Lee....
...Jude Blanchette, an analyst at The Conference Board who is writing a book on modern Chinese politics, argues that Mr Xi’s eagerness to blur clear boundaries between the Communist party and Chinese state...
...Icy US-Mexican relations and a fortress border would not just be bad for sun-seekers or lovers of guacamole — most avocados in the US are Mexican — and Sara Lee bread, owned by Mexican brand Bimbo....
...The group’s non-Mexican brands, which include Sara Lee and Oroweat, already give it the largest market share in the US....
...Coetzee, Junot Díaz, Colm Tóibín, Noam Chomsky, Paul Auster, Margaret Atwood, Christiane Amanpour and Jon Lee Anderson demanded urgent action....
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