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...Casey’s review was released almost a quarter of a century after the Macpherson inquiry sparked by the racially motivated murder of Stephen Lawrence found the Met to be institutionally racist....
...We Brits have always had a melancholic streak, preferring Keats to Wordsworth and celebrating DH Lawrence. The Smiths’ “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now” couldn’t have been a hit in any other country....
...It has also exposed the thinness of Britain’s armed forces, which defence secretary Ben Wallace has described as “hollowed out”....
...Stephen Lawrence, an 18-year-old boy, is murdered. The initial police investigation is bungled. Anthony Walgate, a 23-year-old gay man, is murdered....
...It retains two of its founding members — first violinist Marianne Henry and violist Diedra Lawrence....
...It’s desperate stuff,” said Lawrence Freedman, emeritus professor of War Studies at King’s College London and a nuclear weapons expert. “The west will not change its policy because of that speech.”...
...The new commissioner will take on a service that has been engulfed in scandals involving racism, sexism, misogyny and homophobia that have emerged since Wayne Couzens, then a serving Met officer, abducted...
...Finally, do read the always excellent David Wallace-Wells in New York Magazine on the west’s responsibility for its historic carbon emissions — and the case for climate reparations....
...When you think of those 25,000 dead, any other system would have just given up,” says Ben Wallace, the UK defence secretary. “But they’re just grinding....
...This comes on top of the truly horrific murder of Sarah Everard at the hands of a serving Met police officer, Wayne Couzens....
...Wayne Couzens was in the Met’s parliamentary and diplomatic protection command and used his police warrant card to trick Everard into his car....
...Sir Lawrence Freedman, doyen of British strategic studies, told me in my podcast this week that he thought Putin’s implied threat was to use strategic weapons — that is, the intercontinental missiles that...
...Saxophonist Joe Lovano and trumpeter Dave Douglas assembled their Sound Prints quintet in 2013 to mark saxophonist/composer Wayne Shorter’s 80th birthday....
...Wayne Kaylor knew his shipping container was parked somewhere in a Chicago rail yard. He just did not know where, and for 78 days, no one could tell him....
...Ball’s appearance came two months after Met commissioner Cressida Dick offered a similar apology outside London’s Old Bailey after the trial of Wayne Couzens, a former Met officer....
...General Wayne Eyre, Canada’s acting chief of defence staff, summed up the situation as he announced the end of Ottowa’s evacuation process on Thursday....
...The result is But Living, one of three performances dealing with isolation that the Lawrence Batley is making available online on September 28 (Jordan James Bridge of Studio Wayne McGregor and Daniel de...
...April 7 Acis and Galatea (Handel) Opera and ballet came together in Wayne McGregor’s production of Handel’s masque from 2009....
...The poet Wallace Stevens wrote: “You touch the hotel the way you touch moonlight” in Arrival at the Waldorf. It sounds romantic but, of course, you cannot touch moonlight....
...Aqua Blu left Bali six days before I boarded it, with a send-off lecture by Lawrence Blair, the documentary filmmaker whose five-part Ring of Fire introduced Britain to the powerful mysteries of Indonesia...
...Letter in response to this editorial: Employee ownership is not without some risk / From John Boothman, St Lawrence, Jersey, CI...
...And with pianist Lawrence Fields adding harmonic subtlety and depth, it is easy to picture Shorter as the guiding light....
...In 1970, Richard Nixon hosted the first state dinner to be held outside the White House in the Del’s Crown Room, where he was joined by Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Frank Sinatra and John Wayne....
...“He just brings so much energy,” says Wayne Fitzgerald, chairman of Peterborough Conservative Association....
...The towering Ramsay must have enjoyed seeing Lahr played by her own diminutive client, Wallace Shawn, in Stephen Frears’ 1987 movie about Orton, Prick Up Your Ears. If she saw it, that is....
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