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...Rory Clements is a veteran author of historical and second world war spy thrillers. His latest, Munich Wolf (Zaffre, £16.99), unfolds in Munich in 1935....
...But Starmer needs a seismic electoral shock at a general election — on a scale of Clement Attlee’s win in 1945 or Blair’s in 1997 — next year to even gain a House of Commons majority of one....
...As Clément Beaune, the French transport minister, observed on Twitter after Friday’s chaos. “France is not responsible for Brexit.” ...
...MAY Dresden Festival, Germany With 67 concerts spanning just over a month, this year’s Dresden festival is impressively inclusive, offering soprano Joyce DiDonato, jazz vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, Kent...
...A Prince and A Spyby Rory Clements, Zaffre £14.99/Pegasus Crime $26.95 Inspired by the death of the Duke of Kent, brother of King George VI, in a plane crash in 1942, this accomplished historical spy story...
...But Margaret Thatcher’s country was very different from Clement Attlee’s....
...This backdrop provides Clements with rich material....
...“Of course the signals that have been sent in the past few days are damaging,” said France’s Europe minister Clément Beaune, portraying as a likely deal-breaker the draft UK law undermining key parts of...
...Mr Shapps tweeted early on Thursday afternoon that of 2,367 drivers tested in Kent, three had tested positive....
...“He won’t go down in history as [Clement] Attlee,” he says, “but he’ll be able to say he built things that can last.”...
...Worth every penny. 14% Novum Chardonnay 2017 Marlborough £31.95 The Vinorium, Kent Debut vintage of a personal project of the winemaker at the admirable Fromm winery in Marlborough....
...Their TU104 jet left Moscow at 6.30am but bad weather closed Heathrow, and their flight was diverted to Manston, an American air base in Kent....
...Clement Crisp THEATRE Thom Southerland He’s hardly a newcomer....
...Linda Clement-Holmes Chief information officer, Procter & Gamble 67. Yin Luo Managing director and global head of quantitative strategy, Deutsche Bank 68....
...Gusbourne, Kenardington Road, Appledore, Ashford, Kent TN26 2BE. (01233-758 666; www.gusbourne.com). The site that inspires me is The Chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall, in Bradwell-on-Sea in Essex....
...THE STREETCLEANER Jeffrey Miah Originally from Kent, south-east England, Jeffrey Miah has swept the City’s streets for the past 21 years....
...The MP for Gravesham in Kent has never been in the Tory fast stream....
...These two very different traits, of eagle-eyed restaurateur and consummate aesthete, have marked Diffey’s career in Melbourne since he came here from Gillingham, Kent, more than 20 years ago....
...But at a much quieter BP petrol station on New Kent Road, London, customers were more sanguine. One bought just half a tank and others pulled in to purchase snacks, not petrol....
...Rick van der Ploeg, University of Oxford Prof Rod Cross, University of Strathclyde Prof Paul Dunne, University of the West of England Prof Peter Howells, University of the West of England Prof Mike Clements...
...Superlative dancing from David Hallberg, beau ideal of classicists, with Herman Cornejo also a brilliant presence, and eager dancing from their companions, led by the sensitive Julie Kent....
...So at St Giles’s church in Shipbourne, Kent, there is now a regular farmers’ market with local produce sold on boards lying on the pew tops....
...It was Julie Kent, as Caroline, who told us Tudor’s truths: the rest of the cast seemed on day-release from a soap-opera....
...an art historian’s trade, and those practising it most successfully in the 20th century – Bernard Berenson in the splendour of his Florentine villa, Kenneth Clark, who bought himself Saltwood Castle in Kent...
..., brilliantly played by Jae-Hoon Lee, and a Clark Kent (mouse with spectacles on; lion with them off) son-in-law, a role taken with lightning-bolt bravura by Woo-Jin Byeon....
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