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...and Serbia 200th day of the Hamas-Israel conflict after Hamas launched an attack on Israel on October 7 last year UK: 100th anniversary of both the first radio broadcast by a British monarch, George V...
...The quality of democracy enjoyed by an average global citizen in 2022 is back to the levels of 1986, according to the V-Dem Institute, which assesses democracies’ health on five principles: electoral, liberal...
...Run in two locations by the Westway Trust, a charity, the scheme is funded and staffed by volunteers from Hogan Lovells, a City law firm whose partners earn up to £1.8mn a year....
...I am a strong advocate of this universal vocation of a museum....
...Fifty years ago, on July 4 1971, Michael S Hart typed the text of “The Declaration of Independence” into a Xerox Sigma V mainframe at the University of Illinois....
...In Spain, the Universal Forum of Cultures in Barcelona and the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia were described as “cultural white elephants” in the European Planning Studies journal, in a 2015 study...
...This year, London Design Festival has played host to more than 300 designers from a smorgasbord of disciplines, promoting the city as “the design capital of the world”....
...What makes them universal in appeal is that they are about human beings.” And therein lies a paradox....
...The group launched in Berlin this week and has other cities, including Los Angeles and New York, in its sights, it confirms....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...The response has been a huge wave of solidarity — a desperate cry for respect for universal values in a regime that systematically dismantles long-established spaces of self-governance and independence....
...It has five finger holes, with a V-shaped notch for the mouthpiece....
...“I think markets are hopeful that we could get the V-shaped recovery that the president is hoping for,” he added....
...An influential 2013 paper by Berno Beuchel of the University of Hamburg explains illicit drug taking in sport is a universal problem....
...For all of Trump’s wishful thinking about a quick bounceback, most policymakers and economists discounted a V-shaped recovery a while ago, though strong housing data on Tuesday offered a glimmer of hope....
...Among long-standing favourites are The Universal, a bar with a small menu that far surpasses pub standards; Tartare, a lovely little wine bar-café; Anair, one of the city’s two Michelin-starred restaurants...
...But economists have cautioned against expecting a V-shaped recovery....
...Historically, economies frequently experience a V-shaped recovery after a recession....
...Robert Zoellick, the former World Bank president, argued that there would be “fumbling fragmentation”; Mike Wilson, Morgan Stanley’s chief investment officer, said “a V-shaped recovery is on track”; and...
...(FT) What do you miss most about your city? Tell us about the daily rituals you can’t wait to get back to....
...Now, helmets are almost universal and next year I may use inverted glass jam-jars to keep grey-leaved verbascums and woolly androsaces safe in wet weather....
...(FT) The European Commission has warned its staff in 11 Italian cities to remain quarantined by working at home for two weeks....
...Stephen Immelt Chief executive, Hogan Lovells Four years after the 2010 merger that created US-British law firm Hogan Lovells, Stephen Immelt was appointed the first sole chief executive, taking over from...
...Using this universal sign of political rebellion, the artist takes aim at symbols of power such as the American flag in the Los Angeles-inspired city of the game....
...Trump v the Squad The latest on Donald Trump (sorry)....
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