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...Author George RR Martin composed the back-story for the much-admired 2022 game Elden Ring....
...Shari Redstone, the heiress of Sumner Redstone kind of sees in David somebody like her, and she kind of loves the idea of helping him and sees like he’s a young guy....
...Rory Lineker, George Stewart, Alistair Balls, they are all there. There are even two bands using the name, both of them featuring former Treasury advisers....
...People like Suella Braverman or Robert Jenrick, two former Home Office ministers, saying we’ve got to be much tougher on immigration, leave the ECHR....
...In the latest attack, on Monday, the Houthis fired two missiles at the MSC Sky II, a container ship operated by Geneva-based Mediterranean Shipping Company, the world’s biggest container shipping line....
...“In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people — the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me,” wrote George Orwell drolly in his 1936 essay “...
...On one side, a young woman waved a large Palestinian flag, taunting her foes with chants for “intifada revolution”....
...Individual works from his estate include three by Robert Ryman (estimated up to £2mn); Agnes Martin’s late “Untitled” (2001, £400,000-£600,000) and Andy Warhol’s early Shipping Label work, “Fragile” (1962...
...His official 1953 Coronation portrait of Elizabeth II was in fact taken at home, according to the royal biographer Robert Hardman, with a fake Abbey backdrop....
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...Nearly 40 years after it was first performed, it has reached the Met in a new staging by Robert O’Hara....
...Robert ArmstrongWe do let the young people out of the office once in a while. Katie MartinWhat the? Who’s gonna do all the work? Robert ArmstrongWe are kind and beneficent overlords....
...Being young(ish), in work and without dependants means that HMRC is one of the few bits of the state I regularly use....
...Messages recovered by Robert Shrimsley...
...In the mid-1950s, George Weidenfeld decided that his commercially fragile young business should publish a learned work of diplomatic history by an unknown German-American émigré....
...In the ballets of George Balanchine (1904-83), time and space meet on a heroic scale....
...Well, not everyone who sees them: the implacable George Grosz dismissed her as “teary-eyed”....
...Porch retired at the suspiciously young age of 51, but Spencer cannot link this to any scandal. He considered legal action against the school, but couldn’t face it....
...He even mentored and funded the young George Lucas before Lucas went ballistic with American Graffiti and Star Wars....
...For now, I’m joined in the studio by the FT’s Robert Shrimsley. Hi, Robert. Robert ShrimsleyHi, Lucy. Lucy FisherAnd the FT’s political editor, George Parker. Hi, George. George ParkerHi, Lucy....
...April Riding in Andalucia In 2019, George Scott pioneered riding trips through the Sierra Morena mountains of Andalucia and parts of Extremadura, where he was raised....
...Ute Lemper’s UK tour begins on April 24 at Bristol St George’s. ‘Time Traveller’ is out now, utelemper.com...
...Elizabeth II, opening the lions’ terraces at London Zoo (which he funded)....
...House prices (II). If you’re a young person who wants to buy a house, this is a terrible time....
...Christie’s top lot was Cy Twombly’s 2004 “Untitled (Bacchus 1st Version II)”, which went for $17mn ($20mn with fees), against an $18mn-$25mn estimate....
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