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...He insists it’s still a good idea – he has actually donated the best of his collection to the V&A and the Fashion Museum in Antwerp. But “I do swing dramatically”, he admits cheerfully....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...Nasa has a two-hour launch window, starting at 08:33 local time (13:33 BST)....
...Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine has an efficacy rate of 97.6 per cent, its developers said, based on data from almost 4m people....
...If you missed it, this long read by our media correspondent Anna Nicolaou charts the drama of The People v Harvey Weinstein trial....
...But to a younger generation some of these objects are increasingly as alien as objects in the V&A or the British Museum.”...
...The results can be manipulated by the public and will be projected on to Nelson’s column....
...The figures come as the biggest proxy fight in history – Procter & Gamble v. Nelson Peltz – comes to a head next week with a shareholder vote....
...Allred has been representing one of his accusers, Beverly Young Nelson....
...Meanwhile, Coffeebeans Routes (coffeebeansroutes.com) offers half or full-day tours to the townships, to artists workshops, to listen to local jazz or to explore the culinary world....
...The surprise comes partly from how he has managed to become genuinely global by remaining unashamedly local....
...Making politics local The NDP won over voters in Alberta by selling itself as a defender of provincial traditions, promising to protect education and health programmes threatened by local practitioners...
...Each new pinnacle added to the old ones – Nelson’s Column, Big Ben – is the triumph of aspiration over murk and mire....
...It’s David v Goliath,” he says. The share price is up almost 50 per cent this year, against 10 per cent for Aim overall....
...“It used to be a writer’s town and it’s always been a fighter’s town,” Nelson Algren wrote more than 50 years ago in an essay from the sidewalk, and anyone who enjoys the clattering romance of the shadows...
...Cape Grace (www.cape grace.com; doubles £408) on the V&A Waterfront is a hotel that belongs to Cape Town. Following an overhaul by local designer Kathi Weixelbaumer, it is packed with period antiques....
...Opponents say the history lessons apparently include no reference to The Beatles or Nelson Mandela....
...library chair was made around 1810 by the London cabinet-makers Morgan & Sanders (whose prestigious client list had included Lord Horatio Nelson)....
...Twisted River By John Irving Bloomsbury, £20 An old master is back with a novel that takes readers from New Hampshire in the 1950s to contemporary Canada, as a maimed cook and his son escape the wrath of a local...
...Under the British empire, Nelson Mandela learned British sports at school, but in the American empire, that sort of thing scarcely happens....
...Today it’s taken for granted that Nelson Mandela is the greatest guy in the world, but it wasn’t then, and nor had most of us heard of him....
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