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...Gordon Brown in 2010, John Major in 1997 and Alec Douglas-Home in 1964 all held on until the last possible minute....
...Alec Leamas is the main character of which 1963 novel? Which rapper was a member of NWA before becoming the president of Death Row Records?...
...in 1979 and Alec Douglas-Home in 1964 — all of that points to an election either very late in 2024 or very early in 2025....
...Alec Russell responds Rana, greetings from London....
Influential South Carolina Democrat dismissed concerns about the president’s age
...The period covered includes the Cuban missile crisis, the Profumo affair, the assassination of John F Kennedy, the fall of Harold Macmillan and the brief premiership of Alec Douglas-Home before the election...
...Alec Burt Manchester, UK...
...I think you have to go back to Alec Douglas-Home. He was not the last prime minister who came back as a . . . Stephen BushIn Heath’s cabinet....
...James Joyce is coming home. But why? A month earlier in September 1909, Joyce’s sister, Eva, was enjoying the cinemas in Trieste where Joyce had exiled himself....
...But most have taken the opportunity to publicly recognise those who helped them behind the scenes — even Sir Alec Douglas-Home, prime minister for less than a year....
...I have always loved this place – in both its early iteration, as a kind of surf camp, and now in its luxe version under Christopher Burch and James McBride....
...For those such as Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher, old enough to have seen the horrors of Nazism, attitudes were influenced by an attachment to Zionism and Israel....
...The former prime minister was forced to give evidence under oath on the King James Bible to the Commons privileges committee this week....
...Travel FT Weekend editor Alec Russell recently visited Athens to see 3,000 years of history on a tight timeline — just three days. Here’s what was on his itinerary....
...Hello, Alec, how nice to meet you. Very, very nice to meet you. Thank you for coming. It's a pleasure. Here we are at the FTWeekend Festival....
...One sizzling recent example was James Graham’s Best of Enemies at London’s Young Vic, which dramatised genuine debates between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley Jr....
...blank-cheque deals to date, the home loan originator United Wholesale Mortgage and healthcare group Multiplan, which went public in transactions with Spacs backed by billionaire private equity investor Alec...
...“LNG will remain tight,” says James Huckstepp, Emea gas analyst at S&P Global Platts. “So it will come down to industry cutting demand to balance the market if it’s a cold winter.”...
...It tells the story of Alec Leamas, an intelligence officer who is finally being called home by The Circus after years living in East Germany....
...Alec Phillips, a policy analyst at Goldman Sachs, wrote on Friday that the “renewed urgency” from the Trump administration did lead to an “actual narrowing in positions” but a deal was still unlikely....
...Gores Holdings IV, the fourth special purpose acquisition company (Spac) backed by Los Angeles billionaire Alec Gores, will merge with United Wholesale Mortgage after raising $425m in January....
...As a prancing, insolent, baying, magisterially delinquent Emperor Commodus, the thirtyish Plummer holds in his palms not just the audience but a cast of screen-epic veterans including Alec Guinness, James...
...It’s very far from a rubber stamp of the lower court,” says Alec Burnside, a Brussels-based partner at law firm Dechert....
...But Gavin & Stacey, written by James Corden and Brydon’s childhood friend Ruth Jones, was his first bona fide hit....
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