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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Shakespeare's lesson in race relations
Monday 23 April 2012
Today is St George's Day and Shakespeare's birthday. Both symbolise a global and expansive sensibility and rebut those other characteristics one associates with England – twitchiness, arrogance, snobbery and supremacy. St George's mother was from Syria or Palestine, his father was Roman. Shakespeare, who married a local Warwickshire woman, wrote so perceptively and eloquently about cross-cultural and inter-racial relationships that no playwright since has ever come near.
Matthew Bell: The curtsy is fighting for its very life
Sunday 23 October 2011
Our writer bows to the convention of bobbing to the Queen
Body found after dinghy off Whitstable capsized
Monday 15 August 2011
A body found after a dinghy capsized in the sea has sparked a police investigation.
Courtiers, By Lucy Worsley
Friday 22 July 2011
If tittle-tattle from the sober court of Elizabeth II is oddly compelling, it is watery stuff compared to her 18th century forebears.
Queen hails wartime codebreakers
Friday 15 July 2011
The Queen today hailed Britain's Second World War codebreakers whose vital work remained unknown for decades.
A travel bill fit for a Queen: Middle East flights cost £356,000
Tuesday 05 July 2011
The Queen last year reduced her cost to the British taxpayer by £1.8m, despite a substantial rise in the amount spent on royal travel.
Cost of monarchy down by £1.8m
Monday 04 July 2011
The Queen's official expenditure decreased by 5.3% from £33.9 million in 2009/10 to £32.1 million in 2010/11 according to the royal public finances annual report.
Video: Queen makes rare Number 10 visit
Wednesday 22 June 2011
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh arrive at Number 10 to attend a lunch to celebrate the Prince's recent 90th birthday.
Royals to mark Duke's 90th birthday
Sunday 12 June 2011
The Royal Family will come together today to mark the Duke of Edinburgh's 90th birthday at a special service of thanksgiving.
Queen hands Navy title to Philip
Friday 10 June 2011
The Queen made the Duke of Edinburgh the Lord High Admiral of the Navy today to mark his 90th birthday.
Queen opens fourth Welsh Assembly session
Tuesday 07 June 2011
The Queen will officially open the fourth session of the National Assembly for Wales today.
Diary: Piers: I'm through with Hugh
Thursday 19 May 2011
As a one-time golfing chum of Hugh Grant, the celebrated swordsman and saviour of celebrity privacy, I was naturally overjoyed to hear him phoning this very office to speak with our honoured guest, the Radio 5 Live presenter Richard Bacon, during his broadcast from The Independent this week.
Queen visits Croke Park stadium
Wednesday 18 May 2011
The Queen took centre stage at Dublin's iconic Croke Park gaelic football and hurling stadium today in a historic new act of Anglo-Irish reconciliation.
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