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...The show fares best when Murray’s monarch, possessed of lush costumes (Michael Taylor), a towering wig and an even huger sense of mischief, abandons the story in favour of ad-libbing and teasing the audience...
...But some are momentous, and with much at stake — even the preservation of a state, as Michael Kenny explores in Fractured Union: Politics, Sovereignty and the Fight to Save the UK (Hurst, £20)....
...Citizen of London: Richard Whittington — The Boy Who Would Be Mayor by Michael McCarthy Hurst £25, 432 pages Jonathan Guthrie is the head of Lex Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Fiona Hurst, UK alumni lead, says that more than 400 boomerangers have returned to Deloitte in the past two years alone....
...In June 2022, the planning application was “called in” by the Leveling Up, Housing and Communities secretary Michael Gove....
...Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann (Granta/New Directions) Available in English for the first time, Kairos is the story of a passionate yet toxic affair set in Berlin during the tail-end...
...The Rupture: China and the Global Race for the Future by Andrew Small, Hurst £20 Growing geopolitical rivalry between the US and China is disrupting and may even destroy the deep economic integration between...
...The latter is one of eight dealers who asked to return to the fair after a gap of a few years — among the others are Marlborough Gallery, photography specialist Michael Hoppen and furniture dealer Michael...
...Dercon quotes a study by Michael Spence, a Nobel laureate in economics, who concluded that there was no recipe for development, even if we know some of the ingredients....
...Non-executive director Michael de Picciotto, a former private banker at Union Bancaire Privée, has also been increasing his stake....
...Fowler, Bantam Press £12.99, 240 pages Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World’s Largest Dictatorship by Stephen Vines, OUP $29.95/Hurst £20, 352 pages Victor Mallet is the FT’s Paris bureau chief...
...The Dictatorship Syndrome, by Alaa al Aswany, translated by Russell Harris Haus Publishing, RRP£12.99, 160 pages Understanding Libya Since Gaddafi, by Ulf Laessing, Hurst, RRP£17.99, 240 pages The Arab...
...Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India, by KS Komireddi, Hurst, RRP£20 Written with passion and savagery, this is a polemical and highly readable short history of modern India from Indira...
.../ From Michael Hutchings, Sherborne, Dorset, UK...
...The reviewer is the FT’s political editor Control Alt Delete: How Politics and the Media Crashed our Democracy, by Tom Baldwin, Hurst, £20 Letter in response to this review: Newspapers make up stories...
...In 2016, he won a significant case contesting a death sentence in Hurst v Florida....
...The Addis Ababa Massacre: Italy’s National Shame , by Ian Campbell, Hurst, RRP£30 Over three days in February 1937, Italian occupation forces slaughtered as many as 20,000 Ethiopians in retaliation for...
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...Blood and Silk: Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia, by Michael Vatikiotis, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, RRP£20 Books on the rise of Asia tend to concentrate on China and India....
...Warlight, by Michael Ondaatje, Cape, RRP£16.99/Knopf, RRP$26.95 The first novel in seven years by the author of The English Patient....
...In a sign of how excess oil is sloshing around world markets, Laura Hurst and Javier Blas of Bloomberg told the story of the supertanker Saiq, wandering the seas with 2m barrels of crude that nobody wants...
...But it also required intellectual guides — such as Michael Lind, Maurice Glasman, Eric Kaufmann and Jonathan Haidt — who helped me to nail down my inchoate dissatisfaction with modern liberalism....
...American Maelstrom: The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division, by Michael Cohen, OUP, RRP£18.99/$29.95 This year’s presidential election campaign has revealed a bitterly divided and radicalised US....
...But bravos for the soaring, vivid Dane Hurst. To May 16, rambert.org.uk...
...Godfrey’s intricately plotted, tremendously gripping time-travel thriller evokes Michael Crichton at his best....
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