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“... work at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris (until 21 January), is one of her biggest to date. Recent retrospectives in France, Switzerland and Japan, where the founder of a taxi company collected more than five hundred of her paintings and established a museum in her honour (it closed in ...”

“... told on 31 October 2018 that there was a high chance it would lose, but it did not concede until 8 January 2019, after senior counsel said the case had become ‘unstateable’. Waiting so long meant that the cost to the taxpayer rose to more than £600,000. By December 2018, it had become clear that there was information that had not yet been disclosed ...”

“... letter opened with a claim that the Lancet had warned of the virus spreading in China in 2019 – it hadn’t); and, circumstantially, for the transparency of Trump’s real motivation (to shift the blame for his weak handling of the crisis less than six months before the presidential election). In a way, the episode was extraordinary, a notable ...”

“... London, April 2019.​ Police have confined supporters of the environmentalist movement Extinction Rebellion (XR) at Marble Arch after more than a week of protests. The activists decide to disperse, but a mural remains at the site: a young girl with a spade has just planted a sapling; she is holding a plant label with the XR logo, an hourglass in a circle ...”

“... the better to increase beef exports. The logic isn’t new, and it’s not as if the incêndios of 2019 are unprecedented; according to Global Forest Watch, this year’s fires in the Brazilian Amazon are no more numerous than those of 2016. What’s changed is the short-term political calculus on which the lifespan of the planet’s most crucial ecosystem ...”

“... an artist’s death can be decisive in fixing ideas about their work. For Schneemann, who died in 2019, this ‘freezing’ was an ambivalent prospect. She would have liked the kind of institutional and financial support that might come from Gowing’s book, but it also posed a threat. She had learned, she told him, that ‘to become the fantasy image of male ...”

“... that it thinks opposing the strikes will be popular. Poll results vary, but a YouGov poll from 16 January found that 51 per cent of the public opposed the rail strikes compared to 42 per cent who supported them – 51 per cent is well above the Conservatives’ current position in the polls. But if political advantage were the only consideration, you would ...”

“... southerners, notably the group of army majors who spearheaded Nigeria’s first military coup, in January 1966.According to Major Chukwuma Nzeogwu, the leading putschist, the aim was to rid the country of ‘political profiteers, swindlers, the men in high and low places who seek bribes and demand 10 per cent, those who seek to keep the country divided ...”

“... conclude in November.Allegations of sexual misconduct against Scarlett were first made public in January 2020 in an article in the Times. Male students at the Royal Ballet School had accused him of inappropriate touching, commenting on students’ genitals in changing rooms, sexual messaging on Facebook and soliciting nude photographs (those who played ...”

“... of the Ulster Volunteer Force and a paid police supergrass, jailed for six and a half years in January 2018 after admitting to more than two hundred crimes over a sixteen-year period, including five murders, 23 counts of conspiracy to murder, and numerous counts of arson, kidnapping and assault. Haggarty was released in May 2018, after four ...”

“... setting the stage for Trump’s surprise victory in 2016.When Trump took over the White House in January 2017 there was anxious talk about the threat of populism. The GOP, dominant in Congress since 2010, had been throwing spanners in the works of America’s hegemonic machine: opposing stimulus, threatening to default on America’s debt, sabotaging quota ...”

“... 1 January 2020, Yorkshire. A bright cold day and not one to be hanging about on our local station’s single platform, even with its vast view over the fells and the occasional heron. A phone call down the line reveals that the 10.15 to Leeds has been cancelled (‘operational difficulties’), so we go back home for a cup of tea and come down for the 11 ...”

“... in The Kaiser’s Holocaust (2010), and by Juergen Zimmerer in From Windhoek to Auschwitz? (2019). The links between the genocide in South-West Africa and the Holocaust depend on something else that Zimmerer makes clear: the colonial dimension of the Nazi exterminatory war in Eastern Europe. As Timothy Snyder put it, colonial ambitions transformed the ...”

“... will.”’ Fraser didn’t receive an official reply.The BTP had already moved Ridgewell. In January 1973 he was transferred from Baker Street to BTP Force Headquarters, and in September 1974 he was sent to Waterloo. His anti-mugging squad was disbanded, but he faced no disciplinary action and was given a new job running a team investigating mail ...”

“... a pre-existing response to the common human adenoviruses; and nCoV-19 (novel Coronavirus 2019) because that is what we called Sars-CoV-2 in January, before it got its official name in February. The recombinant virus produces the notorious Spike, and the immune system recognises it as dangerous because it’s ...”