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The Queen has made her chief art adviser redundant amid restructuring plans undertaken during the pandemic, axing the role created under Charles I.    It is understood Desmond Shawe-Taylor could be the last Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures after departing the role under the 'voluntary severance programme', the Times reported.  The Royal Collection Trust confirmed on Tuesday that Mr Shawe-Taylor, 65, and his assistant Rufus Bird would leave amid cost-cutting plans, with the roles 'lost and held in abeyance for the time being.'       The Trust previously said the pandemic would co...

Desmond Shawe-Taylor, who oversaw Masterpieces from Buckingham Palace, is leaving his role Credit: DT Alexander Pope, the 18th-century satirist, is not, I confess, a poet I think about all that much. Yet, something he once wrote has stayed with me since studying his elegant yet cut-throat neoclassical couplets at university: “A little learning is a dang’rous thing”.  That line, from “An Essay on Criticism” (1711), flashed into my mind upon hearing that the Royal Collection plans to hold “in abeyance” the time-honoured office of the surveyor of the Queen’s pictures, a post est...

Favourites of 2020: Women make excellent spies The UK Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell. Not pictured: spies (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty Images) Published 22 Dec 2020 12:00   0 Comments   An end-of-year series as the Lowy Institute staff and Interpreter contributors offer their favourite books, articles, films or TV programs this year. Look back on more recommendations and reflections. Okay, so 2020 wasn’t exactly a favourite year. I did learn how to bake a nice sourdough durin...

John le Carré & Smiley’s people December 21, 2020, 7:06 PM IST Dr (Prof) Sadhana Kala is a USA-trained robotic & laparoscopic surgeon, Uppsala University, Sweden, trained fertility specialist, and ‘National Icon Endoscopic Surgeon' of India. University topper and winner of several gold and silver medals and Certificates of Honor and the unique ‘Distinction’ in medicine in medical college, she is the youngest-ever Professor in any medical college anywhere, and the only-ever gynec Hon Consultant to the Army, Navy and Air Force. FORMER: President Family Welfare Found...

His comments come in contrast to current 'C' Richard Moore - who led tributes The celebrated spy author Le Carré died in Cornwall on Saturday at the age of 89 Spy author John le Carré tarnished MI6 and his novels were a 'stain' on the secret service, its former head has claimed. Sir Richard Dearlove blasted the writer - real name David Cornwell - for 'successfully tarring the moral reputation of his former colleagues'. ADVERTISEMENT His comments come in stark contrast to current 'C' Richard Moore, who called him a 'giant of literature' as he led tributes to le Carré after he died fro...