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...That description is not, strictly speaking, Toby Lloyd’s, but Hannah Rosenthal’s....
...He had studied in Vienna under Otto Wagner and made the transition from Secession to Modernism via a Japanese-inflected artsy-craftsiness. But there is nothing twee or nostalgic here....
...Reznikov argued the past weekend’s insurrection by the Wagner paramilitary group had laid bare the fundamental weakness of President Vladimir Putin’s regime in Moscow....
...US defence secretary Lloyd Austin has played down the significance of a potential Ukrainian retreat from the eastern city of Bakhmut, as Russia’s months-long offensive came closer to encircling the city....
...Others have joined more independent fighting forces such as the Wagner paramilitary group....
...Prigozhin, leader of Wagner, has not been seen in public since he agreed to end the attempted coup in return for exile in Belarus....
...US defence secretary Lloyd Austin this week said a Ukrainian retreat from the city would not be an “operational or strategic setback” and the head of Nato Jens Stoltenberg said it would it not be a “turning...
...Results: Earnings season rolls on with reports from Airbus, Banco Santander, British American Tobacco, Carrefour, Danone, Deutsche Bank, GSK, Lloyds Banking Group, Meta, Rio Tinto and UniCredit....
...The documents also contain detailed insight into the paramilitary Wagner group, which allegedly sought to covertly buy arms from Turkey....
...Wagner defector: A former Russian paramilitary fighting in Ukraine has promised to spill the beans on the notorious Wagner group after fleeing to Norway....
...Need to know: business The UK put fresh sanctions on Russian companies and individuals including Mikhail Fridman’s Alfa-Bank, the Kremlin-linked Wagner Group of mercenaries and Herman Gref, head of Russia...
...(He knew the piece had been written to mark Wagner’s death — a timely reminder to BBC mandarins about the value of institutional memory.)...
...Erica Wagner FT contributor Ann Patchett’s The Magician’s Assistant is my choice. A book about love and grief and the redemptive power of kindness; surely what we need now....
...Erica Wagner March 25, 2pmSt Cross College, £7-£12.50 Erica Wagner, author of Chief Engineer, examines the career of Washington Roebling, who built the Brooklyn Bridge....
...“Because of the power of the West End, it is absolutely normal for a top director like, say, Trevor Nunn to be doing a Shakespeare play one day and Lloyd Webber the next....
...Jade Anouka is short-changed by making Wagner a mere plot device....
...Ghosts of the Tsunami, by Richard Lloyd Parry, Jonathan Cape, RRP£16.99 Reports from Japan’s disaster zone by an award-winning foreign correspondent....
...Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman examine another global crisis — that of climate change — in Climate Shock....
...Carney’s speech was at Lloyd’s of London; it makes sense he’d talk about it. Finally, Carney didn’t actually call for action on climate change....
...Newly installed as music director at the Bayreuth festival, Thielemann sets out his thoughts on Wagner the man and the artist....
...René Pape brings crisp, conversational tone to Gurnemanz’s monologues, while veterans Willard White (Klingsor) and Robert Lloyd (Titurel) dominate their scenes....
...You would have to present it as a time-lapse evolution saga: something dark, stirring and momentous, possibly set to Wagner. Both on screen and in history London has had the same story....
...The Libor-rigging scandal, which prompted the resignation of Rabobank boss Piet Moerland on Tuesday, is the City’s answer to Wagner opera....
...Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet, by Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman, Princeton University Press, RRP£19.95/$27.95 We insure our lives against an uncertain future; so why not...
...Harrison Birtwistle’s Gawain, premiered in 1991 at Covent Garden and revised several times in the ensuing eight years, is an unlikely piece to find at the Salzburg Festival in the year of Wagner, Verdi and...
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