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...China has slowly relaxed some of its zero-Covid policies since last week, with the southern city of Guangzhou lifting lockdowns in some districts despite near-record daily caseloads and a number of cities...
...Fagaly’s collection is being sold, partly through Christie’s, to benefit the city’s Prospect triennial....
...Beyond that is William Ellis, a boys’ school formerly home to assorted members of Madness, as well as Richard Thompson, once of Fairport Convention, Hugh Cornwell, once of The Stranglers, the producer Clive...
...William Taft, former president and chief justice, described the US judiciary in general as “high-priest[s] in the temple of justice”....
...John Van Reenen, Ronald Coase School professor, LSE: It will not regain its size....
...Professor Karel Williams, at Alliance Manchester Business School, says its economic and political unsustainability will soon be exposed....
...“Business monarchs are extremely difficult to replace,” said Morten Bennedsen, a professor of family enterprise at business school Insead....
...To be part of the biggest regeneration project in Europe, where you’re looking at the notion of the city, the notion of building, the notion of location, which is as much about schools and politics and healthcare...
...“As an ex-City boy, you would have thought Toby would have set up an Enterprise Investment Scheme to raise the money tax efficiently,” Mr Smith adds....
...Yet he was also known for his philanthropy and commitment to social housing: he took Westminster City Council to court, in a case known as Westminster v Westminster, in 1990 to ensure a group of homes on...
...The LDF has spread across the city in the years since its first incarnation in 2003, hoovering up emerging districts and destinations under its expansive umbrella....
...One his greatest achievements came in writing the majority position in District of Columbia v Heller, which ruled that the second amendment right to bear arms included all citizens, not just members of state...
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Open question. Depends if he injects a major fiscal stimulus....
...Unlike Cameron, whose children go to state schools, Osborne’s kids go to a private prep school....
...Further up the river, Braehead shopping centre stretches along the banks towards King George V Dock, which is still operational....
...Chief among these was anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce, who worshipped at Clapham’s Holy Trinity Church with a group of campaigners later dubbed the “Clapham sect”....
...But Spanish enterprise is alive in China....
...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...
...The most important scene in Henry V is not the battle itself but the encounter between the King and Michael Williams, a common soldier who warns that “if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy...
...They met at school in Brentwood, a wealthy district of Los Angeles, but he did not live in the area, being one of the children to be bussed in every morning from the other side of the city....
...The biggest chunk was on education, with sections on reviving inner cities, childcare and social enterprise (which eventually evolved into his vaunted, but little-understood, big society)....
...It was built in the late 1530s for King James V and his French wife Mary of Guise but it is doubtful that they ever lived there together as James died in 1542, leaving Mary to hold court at Stirling alone...
...Read her review of the V&A’s new show ‘The Cult of Beauty’ ………………………………………….....
...“What if it were the Republic of Ireland v Slovenia?” “Ireland”. “Northern Ireland v Slovenia?” “Slovenia”. A Protestant later gave me the reverse set of replies....
...The manipulative Henry V was no longer quite the hero that Laurence Olivier had portrayed in his patriotic 1944 film....
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