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...A fondness for European defence stocks has been a somewhat oddball hobby for most of the last decade or two, but like V-neck jumpers, the sector is firmly back in fashion....
...and Serbia 200th day of the Hamas-Israel conflict after Hamas launched an attack on Israel on October 7 last year UK: 100th anniversary of both the first radio broadcast by a British monarch, George V...
...Bowie’s archive includes letters, set designs, thousands of slides, contact sheets and transparencies from photographers such as Terry O’Neill and Helmut Newton, as well as costumes made by fashion designers...
...As his touring exhibition Wonderful Things – which first showed at the V&A in 2019 – opens at the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles next month, a new selection of Walker’s works will also be available to...
...Corin Mellor, creative director of David Mellor DesignRichard Batterham: Studio Potter by Tanya Harrod and Sarah Griffin This was published alongside an exhibition of his work at the V&A....
...The Scottish parliament looks set to pardon nearly 4,000 people convicted of and, in most cases, executed for witchcraft....
...The French director Agnès Varda, in her 1988 docudrama on Birkin, Jane B par Agnès V, notes this tendency and asks her subject why she doesn’t look at the camera....
...This energy (E) was dependent on both the mass (M) of the body and the speed or velocity (V) at which it moved and is written as E=1/2M times V squared....
...Published posthumously, they rivalled those of his friend Samuel Pepys and, says the V&A museum, are “perhaps the greatest record of morals, manners and tastes of the leading personalities in the reign of...
...In his departing letter, Richard V Spencer, the outgoing US navy secretary, reminded president Donald Trump that “the rule of law is what sets us apart from our adversaries”....
...What else we’re reading The People v Harvey Weinstein Only hours after Hollywood partied into the night, Harvey Weinstein hobbled up the steps to a New York City criminal court....
...Malta murder Joseph Muscat, prime minister of Malta, will consider a pardon plea for a middleman charged with the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia....
...The Black Panther Party later re-used the illustration for its campaign to free its co-founder Huey Newton from prison....
...Club des Sports: Hacks v flacks To the Club des Sports complex in Acton, where two teams of financial journalists squared off on Sunday against their PR nemeses, in two pulsating encounters....
...Indeed, institutions including the Met, the Palais Galliera in Paris and London’s V&A have approached Mugler about staging a retrospective....
...Congressman Steve Cohen, Democrat of Tennessee, has recently sponsored resolutions to abolish the Electoral College and restrict the President’s power of pardon....
...But just think of what followed their chosen span: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, wedding cake lawsuits, Brokeback Mountain, Ellen DeGeneres, Michael Sam and Obergefell v Hodges....
...When Sarkissian arrives, dressed in a grey pinstriped suit and a black V-neck jumper, he says he is fighting off a cold and orders a little cherry-flavoured vodka and a Coca-Cola....
...Wooden galleons are replaced by plastic; Long John Silver gets the Marvel treatment; and Robert Newton’s West Country burr gives way to the Keith Richards-inspired drawl of Johnny Depp....
...It will, says Mr Newton-Jones, complete the transformation started four years ago....
...But this tale about a UK fund house called Newton Investment Management and a portfolio manager called Paul Stephany has seen the tables turned....
...Even then he will demand a full pardon and ironclad guarantees against future prosecution. In this respect, the situation will not be fundamentally different in two years’ time....
...Still, tribalism trumps (if you’ll pardon the pun) facts when it comes to economic perception....
...Alan Moore has written some of the most influential graphic novels of our time, from the magisterial superhero deconstruction of Watchmen to V for Vendetta’s dystopian anarchistic howl for freedom....
...“It’s a design icon,” says Will Newton, assistant curator of furniture, textiles and fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London....
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