a global recession is all but inevitable. and, the first woman to win the booker prize twice, have condemned the referendums being held in parts of ukraine to decide whether they want to join russia. it added the votes, which are being organised by moscow backed officials, are a breach of the united nations charter. these are the four areas where voting is being held. they include occupied parts of luhansk and donetsk in the east, and zaporizhzhia and kherson, in the south, and cover around fifteen% of ukraine s territory. voting is expected to run until tuesday, and the result seems almost certain to go in moscow s favour. these pictures, filmed in russian occupied donetsk, show representatives taking polling cards to people in their own homes. here, at least, it is not a secret ballot. meanwhile russia is continuing to mobilise its reserve troops, which isn t going entirely smoothly. with the latest, here s our russia editor, steve rosenberg. it was the moment the kremlin t
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of course, there again, the cromwell story is the perfect vehicle for that because she is so interested in cromwell as a person who acquires such a tremendous amount of power and uses it to act on people. so, of course, the first two novels of the tudor trilogy show him wielding the power, using it first on catherine of aragon and then, ironically, on anne boleyn as well, so she is interested in both the power equation. and she evokes it in a very brilliant way. the imagination side of it, does that inbue the fact or does it not matter in terms of what she is presenting as a historical account? well, this is why these tudor novels are more than, as it were, mere historicalfiction. they are novels that stand