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...A portrait of the bewhiskered duke — later George V — stares down at us....
...It was home to John Peel’s BBC Radio 1 show, and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, known for the Doctor Who theme tune....
...Despite the discomfort of King George V — whose cousin the Tsar had been executed by the Bolsheviks — Labour formally recognised the Soviet Union....
...The colour of Greenough’s V-neck stripe has gone from green to blue. “Going to plan?” I ask. “Errr no,” comes the reply. Mike Thomas, the race director, has a distant look in his eyes....
...In the landmark case, NCAA v Alston, all nine justices ranging from the liberal Sonia Sotomayor to the conservative Clarence Thomas, found that rules that forbid student athletes from getting paid tutoring...
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...A doctor and immunologist, he spent five years in the late 1990s at the US National Institutes of Health and previously led national projects to develop rotavirus and Sars vaccines....
...Strathclyde, or to give him his full name Thomas Galloway Dunlop du Roy de Blicquy Galbraith, recalls: “I said: ‘Just in case.’ And had another drink.”...
...Some in Mr Johnson’s cabinet fear that patients may be following the government’s rules too strictly: staying home when they should actually be visiting a doctor....
...s Cup, a Scots v English game organised by the parliamentary golf society....
...My mind raced for a suitable Indian name — any Indian name — beginning with V. Vikram? Vijay?...
...Even the most monstrous sitcom characters – Malcolm Tucker, the malevolent spin-doctor from Armando Iannucci’s The Thick of It, for example – are absorbed by the political mainstream as weirdly loveable...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Beginning at the source, among the dark rivulets of the Mallerstang Valley, I soon passed the castle of the slayer of Thomas Becket....
...In a corridor at the V&A a Cruikshank print lampoons the latest preposterous fashions in Hyde Park in 1822....
...Thomas Sadoski never used his first passport. “I had to get it renewed and I sent the poor old thing in completely unused,” the American actor remembers. “The spine was still uncracked.”...
...A judge in Regina v....
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