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...Duncan Currie, a lawyer at the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition, an NGO, said that “it’s encouraging to see the UK has now strengthened their position and are saying no to deep-sea mining”....
...Indeed, a new book by the art historian Duncan Macmillan, Scotland and the Origins of Modern Art, says Ramsay’s portraits are one of the turning points in European painting....
...From May 21; further information and tickets here ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’, Athenaeum Theatre Inspired by Sir Walter Scott’s The Bride of Lammermoor, Donizetti’s tragic tale of feuding noble families, doomed...
...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”....
...“I’m the one who presented it on behalf of the United States to the world,” Powell told Barbara Walters in a 2005 interview after leaving government. “It was painful. It’s painful now”....
...Susie Blake, Richenda Carey, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston, Anne Reid, Daniel Rigby, Kate Robbins, David Threlfall, Julie Walters and Jane Wymark each take their turn at narrating Rees’s detailed account of...
...But I’m with the critic Walter Benjamin, who went from reading Goethe to reading popular culture. He mined meaning from shopping arcades, word puzzles, cityscapes and Russian toys....
...Of course, we knew that they were there, the veteran Eurosceptic MPs such as Bill Cash, Iain Duncan Smith and others, together with their apologists in the media....
...The move could also pave the way for Mr Schulz, 60, to secure a top German government post early next year by taking over as foreign minister from Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who is set to become federal president...
...Email duncan.robinson@ft.com Twitter @dunncanrobinson...
...Email duncan.robinson@ft.com Twitter @duncanrobinson Inside Baseball Edition Schulz vs Sarko The former French president gave Mr Schulz a rough time during his first European summit....
...Mr Johnson’s refusal to attend will add to an already difficult relationship with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who has told colleagues that he cannot bear to be in the same room as the...
...Walter Crane’s willowy “The Renaissance of Venus”, based on Botticelli, is a hermaphrodite fantasy, the goddess modelled on a boy: “My dear fellow, that is not Aphrodite — that is Alessandro,” exclaimed...
...Names in the frame include foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, from the social democrats, and finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble, of Angela Merkel’s CDU....
...Email: duncan.robinson@ft.com Twitter: @duncanrobinson...
...Duncan Kelly teaches politics at the University of Cambridge Realpolitik: A History, by John Bew, OUP, RRP£14.99/£27.95, 408 pages Photograph: Bridgeman...
...Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany’s foreign minister, said on Friday the bloc would need “to seriously consider” adopting a decision by majority rather than unanimity “if there is no other way”....
...There is Walter Plowden, appointed in 1848, who was a friend of the enigmatic Ethiopian emperor Tewodros; Duncan Cameron appointed in 1861 and whose imprisonment by the same Tewodros led to one of the most...
...Duncan Sheik augments his own 15 numbers with half a dozen 1980s standards (kicking off cheekily with “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”)....
...The company’s technology was created by Duncan Robertson, a Cambridge academic, who leads its research team in the city....
...Duncan Robinson...
...Duncan Kelly teaches political thought at the University of Cambridge...
...The shift away from the financial sector is proving painful for the recruitment group Robert Walters....
...Laura Sandys is daughter of Duncan Sandys, a prominent pro-European Tory of the 1950s. Until now, it has been left to grandees Ken Clarke and Lord Heseltine to press the case for Europe....
...Then, at the end of May, Malcolm Murray resigned as chairman to be replaced by former manager Walter Smith....
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