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...Financially and emotionally drained, victims of abuse feel powerless to leave, and our secrecy about money as a society plays into the hands of abusers....
...More than 1,000 officials are on hand to assist people struggling with waiting times of up to 30 hours as they seek to say goodbye to the Queen....
...Paradox underpins the piece: our appreciation of the world’s beauty goes hand in hand with our destruction of it....
...Meanwhile there’s a knock-out performance from Nadine Higgin as Paulette, the beautician, whose soaring voice must surely reach the passing planes....
...Likewise, Mr Solomon, who lets off steam by doing a spot of DJ-ing at weekends, rejects out of hand the idea that sloppy dress leads to sloppy work....
...The Paris-based jeweller has been in the same family’s hands for more than 400 years, during which time it has supplied pieces to many of Europe’s most prominent royal families....
...As his regular British director Paulette Randall says, “Those stories just weren’t out there. When he realised what he was doing, he just pursued it.”...
...In fact, I’d started that day alongside just one such, gathering by hand....
...In a Savile Row tailors’ workshop arguments rage between the two master craftsmen as to which is better: the hand-sewn or machine-made suit....
...They needed torches because candles burnt their hands as they climbed up the stairs to their flats....
...“It is not my hand,” he says, “that passes sentence upon those who choose the indulgence of opium....
...Now, in the final play (in each sense) and Paulette Randall’s fifth Wilson production at the venue, her house and her descendants inform the 1997-set action....
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