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...Many of these buildings survive, however — the schools and universities still accommodating students, the markets still sheltering stalls and the public spaces still defining the infrastructure of civic...
...Realistically, though, there are now fewer world class prospects than in the golden era of the 1970s, when the Bobby Fischer v Boris Spassky match sparked the interest of teenagers at grammar and public...
...There will also be a chance for large nation growth comparisons with the latest purchasing managers’ index reports for G7 countries and India, among others, on Tuesday....
...Rishi Sunak will shortly announce £500,000 government funding for English chess, along with plans to expand the game in state schools, plus 100 chess tables in public parks....
...There were also advances in public services, including a target for reducing primary school class sizes from 60 to 40....
...There is an awakened public in Bangladesh. The middle class was very, very protective of its comfort zone....
...Henry V....
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...In response to “Government by the people”: “I’ll add one more reason that the quality and dedication of our public servants have declined: student debt....
...Since then, it has funded philanthropic projects in Armenia, Lebanon and Syria, including restoring schools, providing education and funding cultural centres....
...For centuries, it was the unconsidered capital of an insignificant nation....
...In the BBC interview he cited the Shakespeare plays Henry IV and V and the changes in the young King Henry V as he becomes monarch....
...A disbelieving nation awoke to the news that the Princess of Wales had died in a car crash in Paris. The outpouring of public grief was on an unprecedented scale....
...It’s the holiday season in Moscow, where the city has put up symbols of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine outside the entrance to Gorky Park: the Latin letters Z, V and O in throbbing neon, looming over...
...“The fact it has got so far in a nation that almost doesn’t want it to work is remarkable.”...
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...The Welsh government has, for example, announced that colonialism and black history will be mandatory parts of the new school curriculum, set to be introduced in 2022....
...Powell followed a tradition of sorts — that soldiers could serve the nation out of uniform....
...But restrictions since have been less aggressive, as governments try to juggle economic pressures to keep businesses operating with the public health imperative to keep them closed....
...We are island nations, like New Zealand. If community transmission can be stopped, then border controls — plus contact tracing for the occasional outbreak — can keep the virus out....
...“Solidarity with Africa’s youngest nation,” India’s foreign minister S Jaishankar wrote on Twitter. “South Sudan receives Made in India vaccines.”...
...Tehran is struggling to convince Iranians to take Russia’s Sputnik V jab. The west should heed Moscow and Beijing’s use of vaccines to court poorer nations, writes Anne-Sylvaine Chassany....
...While nations such as the UK, the US, Israel and the United Arab Emirates forge ahead by immunising large numbers, many poorer nations are still waiting anxiously for their first doses....
...Letter in response to this article: If students don’t get zero rates, how will the public? / From Professor Costas Milas, Management School, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK...
...“We have to face the hard reality we’re not going to have a V-shaped recovery,” he said....
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