They draw you in from a distance, promising sheer aesthetic pleasure: pastel tutus, pretty girls. Once you’re there, you look closer. You notice the darkness around the edges; you wonder about the battered foot inside the pointe shoe. Degas’s dancers mesmerise for the same reason as ballet itself. A new …
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When General Sir Mike Jackson had an audience with the Queen, he would ask his staff to request a midday slot. “Because after half an hour or 40 minutes, the Queen would ring a small bell and say, ‘Time for a sherry, I think.’” Just one tiny insight into royal …
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Whatever the other glories of the second Elizabethan age, it included a period in the 1960s and 1970s when British art entered a black hole and stayed there. There were exceptions: Lucian Freud, Henry Moore and David Gentleman, in the visual arts; the odd good feature film, mostly by Lindsay …
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It was World Radio Day on Sunday. Not that there was much fanfare. A fleeting mention on Broadcasting House and a documentary, about tiny community radio stations in far flung places, on the World Service. That was about it. This year’s theme was “Radio and Trust”, in recognition of a …
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Texts claiming to be from Royal Mail were lighting up my phone screen every other day, asking me to pay an extra fee for a missed delivery. Source link
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In amongst all the dark clouds that have gathered over business in the UK … when Covid cases were sky-rocketing, and Royal Mail was in chaos. Source link
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