The only person who was really upset was my 11-year-old daughter who came home from school and was horrified to find Bin Laden – whom the whole world was then hunting – seated grinning at our dining table. I'll be visiting Nigeria soon to see how we can share Singapore's successful public policies and other market-based solutions into Nigeria. I still managed to find a delicate figurine of Mahatma Gandhi in Exmouth market (near the Guardian’s old office on Farringdon Road), a tiny statuette of Paul von Hindenburg (the German chief of staff during the first world war and its interwar president) in Brighton, and an Abraham Lincoln bust while visiting New York to cover the UN general assembly. Thank you to all of our incredible vendors who sold out the exhibit floor in mere hours ( Lisa Snyders, P. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centres that host Etsy. I was made aware of multiple examples of a lack of respect and poor treatment of security and cleaning staff,” Gray said. GAG GIFT / HOUSEWARMING/ SECRET SANTA ITEM: You will make someones day with this ideal housewarming accessory.Skills training can both attract foreign investments as well as develop domestic economy and generate jobs and prosperity. So why not pass laws that no one can hold a party, then go to a big stack of them yourself and hey presto! On holiday near Ljubljana, the Slovenian capital, I acquired a bust of Marshal Tito, the founder of Yugoslavia. It was not easy covering the EU because of its institutional complexity – and it certainly wasn’t a barrel of laughs.

The Waterloo flea market, south of Brussels, became a favourite destination: there, I found a copper bust of France’s interwar prime minister Raymond Poincaré, a stone one of an unsmiling Adolf Hitler (illegal in Germany) and a resin one of the Belgian king Leopold II, the brutal imperial ruler of Congo.The secret is not allowing a man like him into high office unless you want mayhem and disaster to follow. I laid what can only be described as a 4 wheel drive bazooka poo in the bowl, turned to my right, grabbed my friendly BJ toilet brush and got to work.

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Boris Johnson is used to brushing aside tough questions, but he has come clean about his notoriously messy hair. Bin Laden was a gift from Alan Rusbridger, the then Guardian editor, in October 2002, just over a year after the 9/11 attacks. The Middle East is also the part of the world where I spent much of my working life as a journalist, including 36 years at the Guardian. He has listened to you tedious people whining on for six bloody months about rules and investigations in — as he phrased it to Sir Keir Starmer — your “sanctimonious obsession”, and he really has had enough.

But he is not alone: Vladimir Putin, generating global headlines because of his widely condemned invasion of Ukraine, exists in the formal plaster or bronze bust commemorating Soviet-era leaders from Lenin and Stalin onwards – as well as in traditional matryoshka (“little matron”) dolls that have been available of Russian leaders since Mikhail Gorbachev ushered in perestroika.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I actually have a fine Leon Trotsky bust, bought in New York, though I’m sure it can’t have been made in the USSR. I also came across a silver metal bust of the Bulgarian president Todor Zhivkov, who ruled his country for 35 years, while reporting on an eastern European tour by Robin Cook, Tony Blair’s first foreign secretary. From Alexander the Great to Nelson Mandela, these giants of history have left behind their wisdom and strength – and Boris Johnson is no different.