It is 104 years this month since Mark Sykes, a UK diplomat, and François Georges-Picot, his French counterpart, agreed on how to divide the old Ottoman provinces in the Middle East (excluding the Arabian Peninsula) between their respective countries. The Sykes–Picot line was drawn across the
. Back in 2008, Ford took apart a Ford Focus and had several of its parts strung as musical instruments, among them a 'clutch guitar' and 'window harp'. In the ensuing TV advert, a 15-strong orchestra played a piece together. "Beautifully arranged", proclaimed the advert's sign-off. At
He might be able to quote Cicero and Catullus, but last week Boris Johnson seemed keener to borrow a few lines from Donald Trump's playbook. The prime minister told his new Cabinet that they should be unafraid to talk of themselves as a "people's government" and
It is 101 years since the Representation of the People Act delivered universal suffrage for all UK men aged 21 or more – and for a much larger number of women over the age of 30. Prior to 1918, men could only qualify for the
Getting the family together at Christmas is something many of us look forward to and dread in equal measure. It’s a time to reconnect with relatives we haven’t seen all year, and can be good fun - until someone mentions politics. It seems last week’s
“Well, I don’t know how it gets better than this.” Taylor Swift wasn’t singing about the stock market at the time but, last week, she could have been. She certainly wouldn’t have been singing about herself; the singer now finds herself in the curious position
In 1789 French parliamentarians attending their National Assembly gravitated to one side or other of the Assembly President; those who sat to his right sought to defend the king and the established hierarchy; those to his left supported the French Revolution and further reform. Over
Back in 2004, Blockbuster Video boasted 9,000 stores worldwide. Today, a single franchise in Bend, Oregon is all that remains. As the company’s longstanding advertising jingle had it
“Deal or no deal?” was the question on investors’ minds this week, as they waited for confirmation that two leaders had finally agreed a way out of the deadlock that has weighed on the global economy for nearly 18 months. Brexit? No. These days, all eyes
The late Gianni Agnelli was the richest man in modern Italian history and a style icon to boot. The grandson of Giovanni Agnelli, founder of Fiat, Gianni himself took the helm of the Italian car manufacturer in 1966, and thus controlled 4.4% of Italian GDP.
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