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Lucy Worsley: Bringing the Past to Life
Books are the carriers of civilisation. Without them, history is silent, literature dumb, and science crippled. That certainty has changed, quite a bit, since US historian and author Barbara Tuchman (1912-1989) celebrated books as vessels of – and portals to
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Boris Johnson
Former mayor of London Boris Johnson (53), burning with ambition to seize the moment and make Britain great again, still has his eyes set on replacing Theresa May in Number 10. Jockeying for power in the chaotic days following last
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Michel Barnier
His job requires the patience of a saint – and an ability to repeat the message ad nauseam. Michel Barnier (66), the European Union’s chief negotiator in charge of ushering the UK out of the bloc as per its own
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David Davis
He had promised “the battle of the summer”, yet the argument-which-never-was ended seven minutes after it had started with a technical knockout. Before heading off to Brussels for the first round of Brexit talks, David Davis (68) had promised to
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Guy Verhofstadt
He is the one European politician almost all Brits love to hate – and he knows it. Guy Verhofstadt, however, gives as good as he gets and visibly enjoys yanking the chains that tie Brexiteers to their grand project. Throwing
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Jacob Rees-Mogg
Tipped as the conservatives’ answer to Jeremy Corbyn, the aristocratic Jacob Rees-Mogg (48) suddenly appears as one of a dwindling field of contenders for Prime Minister Theresa May’s job. Whilst Mrs May has no intention to step down, her inconsistent
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Jean-Claude Juncker
Dismissed and ridiculed as a failed small-town administrator with a penchant for fine wines and cognacs, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker represents to some all that is wrong with the European Union: a faceless apparatchik given to bullying people and
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Catherine Abel: Stretching the Canvas of Art Deco
A young lady from the Australian outback, determined to become part of the famed Paris art scene, Catherine Abel has managed to shape her world into a refined cubist and neoclassical image reminiscent of Polish-born painter Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980)
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Marcus du Sautoy: What We’ll Never Know
He poses questions that may never be answered and argues that the field of human knowledge is finite – confined by seven edges beyond which the truly incomprehensible resides: the nature of time, the source of human consciousness, and other
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Michael Lewis: Explaining Human Foibles
Few writers can match Michael Lewis’ uncanny sense for capturing, and explaining, the zeitgeist. After detailing the inner workings of capital markets and showing how they appear rigged for failure, the US author has turned his attention to behavioural economics
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