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...Marcus du Sautoy, mathematician and Oxford professor for the public understanding of science, agrees, arguing that while primary maths has been steadily improving in English schools, it all goes wrong between...
...Chart du jour: Widening inequality Rich people in the global north still own most of the world’s wealth, according to a report by Oxfam published today....
...While both were leading vibrant lives in London (they met in Berwick Street’s Bar du Marché), overwork burnout was hitting Short hard. Tristram was sympathetic....
...The trend for surrealistic stemware that mimics melting glass — as pioneered by glass artist Miranda Keyes’s hand-forged Ball Knoped collection for Fels Farm Shop at London Design Festival — will have guests...
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...Colour trends still sometimes follow the path described by Meryl Streep’s fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada....
...To May 8 Fragments (Bouffes du Nord) “Do you like tinned food?” That line from Samuel Beckett’s Rough for Theatre I has acquired a whole new topicality....
...Pietro Spagnoli makes an amusingly bumbling Sergeant and Miranda Richardson delivers a more dignified turn as the Duchesse de Crackentorp than her knockabout predecessors, Dawn French and (yes!)...
...Equipped with a water-filled penis and a range of human-looking behavioural programmes, Adam moves into Charlie’s flat, where Charlie and his neighbour Miranda begin to humanise him....
...“I found that a fascinating dance with the notion of WEB Du Bois [the academic, writer and civil-rights activist] of a ‘dual consciousness’,” he says....
...Pricing à la tête du client is back....
...Whimsical and theatrical, the show told the story of two girls dreaming of mermaids and unicorns (her rival as the mythological creature du jour)....
...” – Investigation du jour comes from Vice: Why does North Korea keep photoshopping Kim Jong-un’s ears? – 12,000 camels, sheep forced back to Qatar amid crisis....
...- Edifying spectacle du jour: Air India to ground ‘fat’ cabin crew....
...If you think cinema is dead, or its traditional delivery mode of giant images presented to communal adorers, come to the 67th Festival International du Film. Everyone else seems to have....
...A book about Buddhism by French author Alexandra David-Néel, Le Bouddhisme du Bouddha, 15 years ago or so. When did you know you were going to be a writer? I never knew....
...Ysmahane Yaqini takes a cowed Miranda through a finely judged romantic awakening....
...On the first night, Alen Bottaini dances the part of Prospero, Séverine Ferrolier that of Miranda and Wlademir Faccioni that of Caliban....
...fortress-thick walls in the heart of Santa, opened as a boutique hotel in 2005 under the guidance of its owner, Gwenael Allan, a Quebec-born theatrical producer who once helped set up the Montreal-based Cirque du...
...They further noted that the appeal of Gloria, in particular, was heightened because it is not near the favelas (shanty towns) that have blighted the former residence du jour, Santa Teresa....
...A Short History of Cahiers du Cinéma By Emilie Bickerton Verso, £14.99 The French New Wave directors all came from Cahiers du Cinéma, a magazine that turned film criticism upside down in the 1950s....
...Even before l’Artisan du Chocolate had its suave place on Lower Sloane Street, it had a stall in the market every Saturday....
...As for the rest of the family, if anyone offers you Miranda or Mousseline, accept them both with delight....
...(Check out Dunhill's store, now returned to its original 1920s style at 15 rue du Paix)....
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