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...Labour’s manifesto will be finalised when Starmer holds a “Clause V meeting” attended by the shadow cabinet, union representatives and other senior party figures, but that cannot happen until Sunak calls...
...In that telling, the subject’s real partner was svengali manager “Colonel” Tom Parker, loudly played by Tom Hanks. The star’s wife Priscilla was less significant; a wafting support act....
...Caret is the marginal sign, like an inverted V, that means “it is missing” or “there is a lack”....
...An informal European Commission report into Japan’s economy described the “cage à lapins” of Tokyo as long ago as 1979....
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...Twenty years later the trend is gathering pace: the V&A is building an open storage facility in east London and the Boijmans van Beuningen opened its version in Rotterdam last year....
...Alexander McQueen appeared with Sarah Jessica Parker, both rather awkwardly swathed in yards of tartan, at the Met Gala in 2006. And so much more....
...Von der Leyen and Sunak made the announcement in front of a portrait of King George V, who inaugurated Northern Ireland’s parliament in 1921 with an appeal for unity....
...He’s only five percentage points behind Keir Starmer in the polls on who make the best prime minister as opposed to 20-something on the Labour v Tory one....
...The V&A’s Africa Fashion also has works by Ami Doshi Shah (pictured top), of Kenya, including her necklace of brass, sisal and salt....
...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....
...Her father, known as Bertie in the family, was the second son of King George V and Queen Mary. His elder brother, David, was expected to become king....
...He was present at the age of 17, for example, at a three-day convention in 1978 honouring the writer William S Burroughs, which featured performances by Laurie Anderson, Blondie, John Cage, Philip Glass...
...Sebastian Payne George Parker, welcome back to the pod. We’ve made it through party conferences....
...The Chromatica Ball brilliantly reflects her creative range; it also channels the clubby energy of her latest material through a rib cage-rattling sound system....
...Jessica Parker....
...Baby cages, on the other hand, did become a thing. Suspended from city windows, the wire cages contained a baby in a cot, giving a semblance of the outdoors to the apartment-dwelling infant....
...There is an amethyst-encrusted grotto by Anya Gallacio, a buried rusted cage by Anish Kapoor....
...After the 1755 quake that destroyed the city of Lisbon, architects and engineers came up with the Pombaline Cage....
...I would rather live an anonymous life on median income than inhabit her claustrophobic, gilded cage....
...This is “Chain Reaction”, speaking at once of connections, collectivity, and imprisonment, cages, cycles of enslaved labour....
...One noted he was appearing on Monday evening at the Tory winter party at the V&A, as well as doing a speech in the City of London and attending a crucial House of Commons vote on the government’s social...
...Among the institutions receiving more money would be the V&A, Tate, Natural History Museum and National Museums Liverpool, the Treasury said....
...Even among Tory voters the positive differential has nearly halved, shrinking from around plus-44 to (67 ‘well’ v 23 ‘badly’) in January 2020 to plus-23 (58 ‘well’ v 35 ‘badly’) today....
...George Parker is the FT’s political editor Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
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