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...Tim Reeve, V&A deputy director, said that, while the museum had benefited from record-high domestic visitor numbers, a drop-off in international visitors had held back demand....
...Race Roughan whittles it down to a troubled national psychodrama in which Oliver Johnstone’s brooding, uneasy king is haunted by his father’s deathbed advice to “busy giddy minds/With foreign quarrels” and...
...Abrams v United States in 1919 and when Louis Post, who briefly served as acting Labor Secretary, in 1920 refused to allow mass deportations of alleged anarchists....
...“The Duchess of Alba”, “The Clothed Maja”, kings, courtesans and witches preside at Basel’s Fondation Beyeler in the once-in-a-generation Goya, a pageant of flamboyance balanced by inwardness....
...As a student at Queen Mary University of London in 2016, she opposed a successful campaign to remove a foundation stone from the university’s library that was laid by King Leopold II, the Belgian king who...
...UBS has appointed Oliver Gaunt and Abudy Taha, managing directors on its leveraged finance team, as co-heads of leveraged finance for Emea....
...King George V’s December message to the empire 88 years ago had families gathered around their radio sets....
...FT family quiz Round One Jenny Agutter (The Railway Children) George V (Edward VIII and George VI) Christopher Robin Milne (son of AA Milne) Loving and giving Five (at home) The Diary of Anne Frank/The...
...When King George V stayed here in 1912, 40,000 people packed the gardens to watch him arrive. He was a guest of its former owner, the 7th Earl Fitzwilliam....
...Free, September 13-October 26; chelseaspace.org King’s Cross Design District This area, which is being transformed into a bustling creative and shopping quarter, is the latest addition to the London Design...
...I don’t have the complete set, which is in the V&A. But they were incredibly important for my development as a photographer....
...Only last month celebrity chef Jamie Oliver appointed administrators for his collapsed restaurant business....
...The arch Brexiter has described Mrs May’s Brexit deal as “the greatest vassalage since King John paid homage to Philip II at Le Goulet” — a reference to a treaty in which the king of England made territorial...
...After Oliver Cromwell and his puritan followers triumphed in England’s civil war and Charles was executed, Cromwell dispersed almost all the king’s art collection, which was unrivalled before or since in...
...Although PLDT chairman Manuel V....
...Henry V....
...How apt that the London opening night of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Henry V fell on Remembrance Day....
...Oliver Jones, economist, Fathom Consulting We expect inflation to rise to a little below 3% in mid-2017....
...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 Most unlikely....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My guess is he will be too timorous to do the right thing....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College A fall in migration would have very negative effects on the public finances and growth....
...Oliver Jones, economist, Fathom Consulting We expect growth in the UK to slow from 2.0% in 2016 to 0.8% in 2017....
...Stephen King, group chief economist, HSBC Investment Bank Feel about the same as 12 months ago I feel about the same as I did earlier....
...George V is described as “The Unexpected King”....
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