Joaquín Romero Maura
A one-time Oxford Don has been named as mystery beneficiary of a €10 million trust fund in the Channel Islands linked to the disgraced former king Juan Carlos of Spain.
Spanish prosecutors want to question Joaquín Romero Maura, 81, a respected author and former history professor at St Antony’s College, after discovering the Jersey fund while investigating Juan Carlos unexplained wealth.
But Mr Maura, who is the only person who could legally authorise a transfer of the funds, may not be able to testify after he was traced to a Zaragoza care home, where he is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.
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Should Amanda Gorman’s poem be celebrated as a poem?
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Performance of hope: Amanda Gorman recites a poem during the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States.
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Should Amanda Gorman’s poem be celebrated as a poem?
You can read the poem Amanda Gorman recited at President Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony celebrated by even snooty publications like
The New Yorker simply as a speech. It cannot be faulted there. It is full of the right sentiments and hopes, coming at the end of the long night of Donald Trump’s misrule. It does not come close to the great speeches of history by Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth or Martin Luther King but we do not live in an age that sets exacting standards in oratory. If we had, Trump would never have existed.
Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Jon Meacham’s latest book is “His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and The Power of Hope.” It follows his 2019 “The Soul of America: The Battle for our Better Angels,” which offers the hope to be found in conquering.