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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...
...The former security minister will become a senior adviser to LetterOne, which owns the retailer Holland & Barrett, and which has restructured itself to comply with the sanctions regime....
...Emma Holland-Lindsay, the Lib Dem candidate, insisted she is the true local candidate, with ancestors going back generations....
...There was no brief from Bausch, he says, “but we were talking at the time about Holland in springtime, fields of flowers – where it looks as if God has become a painter.”...
...“New buyers in private equity with decent bonuses are fed up with treading water for the past year and want to press on with the election looming,” says Miles Meacock of the agent Strutt & Parker....
...from Henry V, “Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood”, an exhortation to action....
...This month, it’s Dutch National Ballet’s turn to throw its hat in the Forsythe ring, with a triple bill that is part of the country’s Holland Festival....
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...“Employers are getting asked by staff if they can get back into the pension,” said Andy Parker, partner with Barnett Waddingham, the pension consultants....
...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....
...LetterOne, which owns retailer Holland & Barrett, has been seeking to sever links to its founders to prevent sanctions, including cutting out its owners from decision making and freezing their shares and...
...Who Strutt & Parker House, Amsterdam, €6mn Where On Vondelstraat in the south of the Oud-West neighbourhood....
...Holland and Sons, Whytock and Reid, Hampton and Sons and Cornelius V Smith are also good names to type into your search browser....
...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....
...All three principals are past members of the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera, which is proving a happy hunting ground....
...Once successful for his industrial and railway work, only a few small buildings survive, including his green shelters for cab drivers — there is one rather battered version outside the V&A....
...“It will have performance spaces and rehearsal rooms; it’s next to Westfield Stratford and the V&A East – it’s going to be a cultural quarter almost,” says Bargh....
...Studio Tudor medium earthenware vase, £225, matchesfashion.com The Backward Vendor leather Hubbard Basket V, £2,880, thenewcraftsmen.com Brunello Cucinelli hourglass timer, £400, harrods.com Jil Sander...
...Sebastian Payne George Parker, welcome back to the pod. We’ve made it through party conferences....
...It’s the holiday season in Moscow, where the city has put up symbols of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine outside the entrance to Gorky Park: the Latin letters Z, V and O in throbbing neon, looming over...
...The world’s big museums, including the V&A in London (which is building a large accessible archive in the Olympic Park with architects Diller Scofidio & Renfro), seem to have suddenly, collectively, decided...
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