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...The first series of Norma Percy’s excellent documentary Putin vs the West considered how occidental powers underestimated the Russian president’s expansionist ambitions in the decade leading up to the invasion...
...Percy denied such accusations, but this new programme tells the story of how the west underestimated Putin’s desire and capacity to “rock the foundations of European security”....
...Perhaps everyone who walks for pleasure and perspective seeks what Percy Shelley called “the secret strength of things / Which governs thought”....
...Climbing the plateau west of the Elan Valley, the expanse of this so-called desert revealed itself: sheep-speckled hills whose twilit profiles recalled Arabian dunes in the gentle rise and fall of their...
...The roots of Melbourne’s vibrant music scene can be traced to the Sunbury Pop Festival held to the west of the city in the early 1970s....
...“I think most people can see the beauty of it now,” said toshao (leader) Lennox Percy....
...the consolation prize of Hong Kong by prime minister John Major, is a genial and self-deprecating companion through the years leading up to the handover, a period he wrote about in his memoir East and West...
...Hellas: A Lyrical Drama, composed soon after the Greek war of independence broke out in 1821, is not generally considered one of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s best poems....
...In 2017, the actor Kate O’Flynn played Laura in John Tiffany’s exquisite West End production....
...In fact, this is Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, written more than 120 years ago, and brought to London’s West End earlier this year in a superb production by Ian Rickson....
...Maybe [they were] utopian, angry, excessive, like Percy Bysshe Shelley and everyone has been since we became aware of young people coming out with radical ideas....
...In Chelsea, the market for homes below £2m has been the strongest, driven by purely UK-based buyers, says Percy Lendrum of estate agents Dexters....
...Nodding to a blue plaque at the top of Poland Street commemorating the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, we reach our next destination, the John Snow pub in the heart of Soho....
...Thatcher was an important bridge between the two superpower leaders — “an agent of influence in both directions”, as Sir Percy Cradock, her foreign policy adviser, mischievously put it....
...The Medusa was taking passengers to west Africa to re-establish the French colony of Senegal in the summer of 1816 when it ran aground off the coast....
...His father Percy served as a Tory MP for two decades. He was educated at Oxford university and then became a barrister....
...This Is Happiness is about community, specifically the community living in the small, remote and usually rain-sodden village of Faha in the far west of Ireland....
...He rooted the speech in history, using as touchpoints the Representation of the People Act, the Peterloo Massacre, the foundation of the National Health Service, and poems by Percy Shelley and the Chartist...
...The villa that Percy Bysshe Shelley rented in 1822 (now a boutique hotel) is set back from the sea but, 200 years ago, was lapped by waves....
...He shouted at us to jump in and within a minute we were airborne, powering upwards along a wild ravine on the south-west side of the massif....
...Jake Berry, who replaced Mr Percy as Northern Powerhouse minister, was similarly optimistic on his first tour of the region last week, saying Mrs May wanted him to “reinvigorate” the project....
...Greater Manchester, the West Midlands, Liverpool and the Tees Valley are having elections in May and the West of England is likely to follow suit....
...Known for their mastery of disguise, Pinkerton agents chased outlaws across the Wild West and infiltrated Confederate lines in the service of Abraham Lincoln....
...“We’re expecting the flat to go to a banker, perhaps someone who needs to be in London two to three nights a week,” says Percy Lendrum of Dexters, who is marketing the flat....
...This is politically significant since northern powerhouse minister Andrew Percy has said that those areas that agree to have an elected mayor can expect greater funding....
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