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...Like her mentor Margaret Atwood, Alderman has a gift of seeing the world clearly and then setting her finger very lightly on the scales of the possible to alter everything that follows....
...A Story as Sharp as Knife, the first volume of these translations (published in the UK in a beautiful Folio Society edition with an introduction by Margaret Atwood) is a book that quite simply changed my...
...Margaret Hodge, a Labour MP who has helped lead a cross-party initiative to combat economic crime, said the acceptance of a gas bill in the name of a relative of a high-risk client demonstrated the need...
...John Major was perceived as more moderate in absolute terms than Margaret Thatcher — but less so than Tony Blair....
...While almost all of the UK’s coronavirus laws have expired or been repealed, legislation passed by Margaret Thatcher during the early days of the HIV/Aids pandemic in the 1980s remains in place, and as Wagner...
...The once stable utility that mainly serves London and the south-east of England, and was privatised in 1989 by Margaret Thatcher’s government, has fallen into dire financial health with the government scrambling...
...He offered them Wagner but gave them Offenbach. History’s verdict on Napoleon III serves also as a fitting epitaph for Boris Johnson....
...German directors must have their symbols — blame it on imbibing too much Wagner in the womb — and a giant black rook looks on, presiding like a winged harbinger of doom....
...(He knew the piece had been written to mark Wagner’s death — a timely reminder to BBC mandarins about the value of institutional memory.)...
...It is a vast tome on the multi-dimensional effect of Wagner’s music on the world....
...Unless, apparently, they don’t, which is how we all ended up with the wholly unsatisfactory result of both Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo winning the prize....
..., by Alan Garner, Fourth Estate, RRP£14.99, 208 pages Erica Wagner edited ‘First Light: A Celebration of Alan Garner’ (Unbound) Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...Chief Engineer: The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge, by Erica Wagner, Bloomsbury, RRP£20/$28 How Washington Roebling oversaw the creation of a New York landmark....
...It’s Me, Margaret, along with Blubber, Forever, Deenie, Tiger Eyes and many more — have, since the late 1960s, addressed youngsters’ concerns with an honesty that’s still rare....
...Newly installed as music director at the Bayreuth festival, Thielemann sets out his thoughts on Wagner the man and the artist....
...Between 9am and 10am, an organist plays uplifting music on the organ in the entrance hall (Haydn, Bach or Wagner in Carnegie’s time – a more eclectic mix today)....
...And Wagner?...
...His father, Patrick, he said, was a reticent man; his mother, Margaret, outspoken: this conflict between speech and silence might, he added, have been behind the “quarrel with himself” that gave rise to...
...A hair-curling paper could not be slipped between Meryl Streep and Margaret Thatcher....
...Margaret MacMillan’s monumental The War That Ended Peace (Profile) must rank at the top of the pile....
...For more ‘All the best’ round-ups from Andrew Clark: Lutoslawski Sergiu Celibidache Wagner’s Ring Carlos Kleiber Delius Goldberg Variations...
...The young Tony Hall was introduced to opera by playing a 78 recording of “bits of” Wagner’s Tannhäuser on a wind-up gramophone belonging to his grandmother....
...Getty’s one-act opera, based on a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, has been slotted into WNO’s new “British premieres” series alongside Jonathan Harvey’s Wagner Dream and Richard Ayres’ Peter Pan....
...Margaret Heckel believes that the chancellor’s background as a scientist is what makes her different to her fellow politicians....
...Richard Wagner: The Sorcerer of Bayreuth, by Barry Millington, Thames & Hudson, RRP£24.95 This is the plain man’s Wagner – a balanced and beautifully illustrated compendium of life and works, written in...
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