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...He also has to complete a couple of projects, including his Queen’s Green Canopy, a tree-planting endeavour....
...Once the private chapel of Dona Rosa, the lover of 18th-century king João V, Mesa de Frades is now one of Lisbon’s more bohemian fado clubs....
...But you think he’s barking up the wrong tree?...
...Stephen King: 1973-74 or 1979-80....
...There’s a maze constructed of stones, piled into thin spiralling paths; a stripped-down car, propped up on bricks and with its bonnet gaping, ornamented in a thousand bottle caps like a pearly king....
...The magic money tree has set down deep roots....
...The light-sensitive processes that make analogue photography possible are echoed in the chemical action of photo-synthesis that will produce green leaves again in the spring....
...of the V&A’s Exhibition Road side will be revealed on June 30, ushered in with a week-long festival of art, music, fashion and dance....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Open question. Depends if he injects a major fiscal stimulus....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My guess is he will be too timorous to do the right thing....
...Thanks to the rule of the French king René d’Anjou and his successor, King Alfonso V of Aragón, a cultivated humanist, the city had become a magnet for art from Spain, Provence and the Netherlands....
...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...
...Eitz chayim hee la’machazikim ba, my remembrance sings, “A tree of life for those who hold on to it …” Somehow I still do....
...The patterned knit is also something that works well on the eco front (see People Tree’s hand-knitted Fair Isle cardigan, £95, www.asos.com – 100 per cent wool, 100 per cent worth it)....
...Commandment V: You shall pass early pension and health care reforms as current trends are unsustainable. Commandment VI: You shall be fair....
...Stephen King, HSBC Growth rates may be normal but the level of activity will not be....
...The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One By Miranda Carter Fig Tree, £25 The parallel, interrelated lives of Kaiser Wilhelm II, George V and Nicholas II provide a grotesque...
...This year’s V&A tree by Boudicca has a modern edge. The fairy perching at its green tip is the Little Match Girl, Hans Christian Andersen’s impoverished urchin whose Christmas dreams come true....
...Mohammed V’s return from exile and Moroccan independence....
...The tropical rain makes the place green and flowery. Everyone we spoke to was friendly and polite....
...“And you will very rarely see a professor at Burger King. So the town in some ways has a southern feel because of that.”...
...We need far more action on green taxes following the King Review.” “The NHS has done well today. But in the longer term, the NHS is going to have to ‘do more with less’....
...The Royal Golf Dar Es Salam was established in 1971 by the previous king, Hassan II, a passionate golfer....
...Located in Munich, Laue’s gallery resembles the great Wunderkammer built by Albrecht V....
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