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...Andy Hall, a labour rights campaigner in Asia, warned there were still “so many fake” social media posts encouraging Nepali workers to seek job opportunities in the UK....
...Andy Hall, a labour rights campaigner, warned some were being pushed into seeking illegal employment....
...Lunch with Judith Butler is much easier than lunch with “Judith Butler”. Butler’s new book Who’s Afraid of Gender? aims to be accessible....
...programme included three novelties by women composers, the Schumann-inspired overture to the opera Jery und Bätely (1873) by Ingeborg Bronsart, the atmospheric tone-poem Trencrom (1978) by Cornish composer Judith...
...“You’ve still got probably another six months before [raw material costs] start to ease off,” said Hall....
...(I particularly enjoyed Judith LeClair, standout bassoonist, and Matt Zucker, whose stellar viola da gamba playing was a delight.)...
...Recent stage versions of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy and Robert Harris’s Cicero trilogy (Imperium) wrangled those mammoth texts into drama....
...Beyond its quaint pubs, market hall and memorial garden, Amersham abounds with good restaurants: across the street is Michelin-starred Artichoke (open for dinner from Wednesday to Saturday), which leans...
...Truncated by a couple of weeks, the programme was missing visiting international orchestras but there were enough homegrown pleasures for some smaller-scale celebrations in the Royal Albert Hall’s 150th...
...Speaking to the FT, Sadiq Khan, London’s Labour mayor, argues that Brexit unsettled many migrants from the EU, describing migrant workers at City Hall as “traumatised not just by the Brexit result but by...
...As the concert halls tentatively reopen, these two books are more than timely....
...Could Houchen imagine standing for parliament, mirroring the journey of Johnson from London’s City Hall to Westminster?...
...Fifty years ago, when Belize-born composer Errollyn Wallen was growing up in London, her uncle took to her to Wigmore Hall in the West End to hear a Chopin piano recital....
...Images from Romania’s Cluj airport at the weekend showed people crammed into its departures hall awaiting flights to Germany, which is chartering planes to fly in thousands of workers....
...In Curse The Day (Head of Zeus, £18.99) Judith O’Reilly, a veteran former journalist, delivers Tarantino-esque carnage from the get-go....
...But students are stuck in halls and rented houses, or queueing in the street for Covid-19 tests at pop-up testing sites....
...Duty-free halls stood empty. Supplies of alcohol (the base ingredient of nearly all perfumes) were diverted to satisfy the demand for sanitisers....
...That deal entailed a £320m cash sale of the Japanese arm to TKP, a Tokyo-listed provider of rented conference rooms and banquet halls, which will operate its 130 flexible working centres using IWG’s brands...
...That hall of mirrors is expertly portrayed in Mai Jia’s The Message (Head of Zeus £18.99)....
...That’s why this landmark report sets out a detailed blueprint of what the government must do to overhaul tenancy laws, and what powers City Hall needs from them to bring rents down.”...
...There was more sense of craftsmanship in Judith Weir’s Oboe Concerto....
...Judith Owen played organ so nice-and-sleazy it could have had a dripping sump, and Thompson fired off riffs with a grin on his face. Hugh Cornwell’s band hit it big in 1977....
...The tenants will share an unusual 100,000 sq ft of communal space including a food hall, terrace, spa, meeting rooms, auditorium and gym with 25th-floor climbing wall, along with the capital’s largest bicycle...
...Other composers include Dai Fujikura, Colin Matthews, Brett Dean and Judith Weir. The work as a whole is varied and entertaining, if not exactly celebratory....
...“From Wren churches to banking halls and livery halls, the City is a very rich piece of London’s tourist culture and it’s desperately underused from that point of view,” he said....
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