Hints and tips:
...A portrait of the bewhiskered duke — later George V — stares down at us....
...Puzzle 2532 Artur Davtyan v Vladislav Kovalev, Dubai 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...June 20 to September 8; further information and tickets here ‘Naomi’, V&A South Kensington An ode to the life and work of supermodel Naomi Campbell....
...Among the more challenging shows was Mexican artist Sebastián Solórzano Rodríguez (a 2014-15 protégé) performing his work [÷] v.0.8 : Boléro, which involved him practising 15 minutes of amplified heavy breathing...
...Other pieces are held by the V&A and the Courtauld Gallery in London. I knew all this because I had seen — and written about — a nearly identical bowl for the FT last year....
...In the V&A’s latest annual review he also referred to talks with Ghana around the V&A collection of Asante court regalia, including gold ornaments, rings and badges, which entered the collection following...
...The house has won prizes at the V&A Illustration Awards, as well as being recognised in the book trade for its bindings, production and indexing....
...Former Tory party leader Iain Duncan Smith, one of the five sanctioned MPs, said it was “astonishing” that China had been invited given its “huge record of human rights abuses”....
...As ever, reach out to Imani (imani.moise@ft.com) and me (sid.v@ft.com) with your thoughts, suggestions and comments. We’ll be back again next Monday. Happy reading!...
...Duncan Forbes, the V&A’s director of photography, was appointed two years ago....
...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....
...In December 2020, Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuela’s vice-president, announced an agreement on vaccine supply that had been reached with Moscow....
...The average price of a home sold by E&V last year was up 29 per cent on the year before. New buyers and existing owners are using their homes for longer....
...His vice-president, Delcy Rodríguez, had just arrived back from Moscow bearing seasonal tidings of comfort and joy regarding Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine....
...his first large command, over three battalions of the 101st Airborne Division, based in Fort Campbell, Kentucky — and moved to the Pentagon during Jimmy Carter’s administration as an adviser to Charles Duncan...
...Antoine GodinUniversité Sorbonne Paris Nord, France Michael JacobsProfessor of Political Economy, University of Sheffield Ronan PalmerDirector Clean Economy, E3G Dirk EhntsPufendorf-Gesellschaft Berlin e.V....
...“If we had to make a bet today, we would say that it’s not going to be a V-shaped recovery, and it’s probably not going to be U or an L, but it’s going to be some other kind of shape,” said Carlos Rodriguez...
...“There is a similar one in the V&A; it’s now worth in excess of £5,000.”...
...“The chances of a full V-shaped recovery in services activity this year still look slim,” he said....
...(Article I, par (v).)...
...She noted that the fall in the PMI employment index was “particularly worrying” because it “provides further support to our view that a perfect V-shaped recovery is extremely unlikely”....
...struggle across the US over how to reduce racial segregation and discrimination in schools more than six decades after the Supreme Court ruled to end the separation of students by race in the landmark Brown v...
...(FT) NRA v San Francisco The National Rifle Association sued San Francisco on Monday over the city’s recent declaration that the gun-rights lobby was a “domestic terrorist organisation.”...
...Kingston Polymath 1,011: Dr S Bailey, Swindon Crossword 16,099: Suzanne P Wilson, Windermere; D Barter, Cumbria; Jean-Marc Sellier, California Polymath 1,010: Robert Jelly, Warwickshire Crossword 16,093: V...
...Duncan and I visited friends a few weekends ago, but found ourselves running late and without time to select a thoughtful gift....
International Edition