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...The mythological Helen of Troy maligns herself with this odd turn of phrase in Emily Wilson’s new translation of Homer’s Iliad....
...Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death by Laura Cumming (Chatto & Windus) Carel Fabritius, born 1622, and James Cumming, born 1922, are the painters at the heart of this lustrous meditation...
...The author has a fondness for antisocial characters: his 2017 bestseller The Stranger in the Woods chronicled the real-life story of Christopher Thomas Knight, a hermit who spent 27 years roughing it in...
...Troy Vaughn, the President and chief executive of Los Angeles Mission, who lived on Skid Row himself in the 1990s, says a lack of affordable housing is a big factor behind the homelessness crisis....
...Fed speakers: Governor Christopher Waller appears at an economics conference in Santa Barbara, California....
...I think Troy Bolton is in Iron Claw, then we get Joaquin Phoenix and High School Musical 4. Brooke Masters Yeah, I like that. Lilah Raptopoulos Brooke, what about you?...
...Society can know him no more,” thundered The Times after Gordon-Cumming lost his subsequent high court case for slander....
...Christopher Louney, commodity strategist at RBC, calls this the “long-running tug of war” between negative financial factors pulling down on gold prices and the metal’s attraction as a store of value during...
...Labour on Friday wrote to Lord Christopher Geidt, the government’s independent adviser on ministerial interests, to ask him to consider a “new or amended report” into whether Johnson breached the code over...
...He attended a dinner at the home of Christopher Monckton, a former member of her policy unit, where the idea of a referendum on Europe was discussed....
...Go overly tight, all hunched up on the shoulders, and you look like Dora the Explorer; go too slack and sloppy, it all gets a bit Dominic Cummings. The question becomes pressing: are you Dom or Dora?...
...Lord Christopher Geidt, the independent adviser on ministerial standards, cleared him of breaching the ministerial code in May....
...Well, look, I think he was bedogged certainly by the spectre of Dominic Cummings....
...Johnson has not ordered an investigation by Christopher Geidt, the adviser on ministerial standards. Downing Street said: “The correct procedures were followed.”...
...Conservative MPs shudder over what Cummings might reveal next. Johnson’s decision to brief several newspaper editors that Cummings was a serial leaker stoked the briefing war....
...The departure of Mr Cummings is less likely to make Mr Johnson’s government more “moderate” than to make it more Trumpian, and not in the best sense....
...And the clues might really work, given that they once helped unearth Troy....
...The itinerary will progress from explorations of Byzantine Istanbul and Bursa (the preserve of medieval Ottomans), along the Dardanelles and to the battlefields of Gallipoli and Troy....
...They blame his advisers for a series of mistakes in the handling of the Covid crisis and lament the communications strategy overseen by Mr Cain and Mr Cummings....
...Whitehall insiders, however, said there had been some uncertainty as to whether Geidt would take up the role after the publication of an incendiary blog post on Friday by Dominic Cummings, Johnson’s former...
...The fierceness of the media criticism of senior adviser and Brexit architect Dominic Cummings for allegedly violating lockdown restrictions raised eyebrows abroad....
...There was a backlash against an early designer version by Off-White (£70), but British designers such as Christopher Kane showed grace under pressure: he offered to send out free patterns and fabric so people...
...Read all our Geography picks here Politics: Graham Goodlad picks for Prime minister and cabinet: Dominic Cummings’ exit must end the discord at Downing Street....
...“We continue to see a broadening market rally at the expense of recent leaders,” Christopher Murphy, the co-head of derivatives strategy at Susquehanna said, referencing big tech....
...Dominic Cummings, Mr Johnson’s former chief adviser, had pushed hard to secure more money for cyber and space....
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