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...Lord Chris Patten, the last UK governor of Hong Kong before the territory was handed back to China, said the choice of attendee showed China does not give “two hoots” about Britain....
...The last British governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten, said Beijing’s decision to send him was a “stick in the eye” for 140,000 Hongkongers exiled in the UK and was revealing of how the Chinese Communist...
...Porsche: all gas, no brakes Earlier this month at Formula One’s Italian Grand Prix, Red Bull’s Max Verstappen outsped Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc for first place, closing in on a second world title....
...Oxford university’s chancellor, Lord Chris Patten, and vice-chancellor, Dame Louise Richardson, met senior figures at Christ Church this week to urge an end to the stand-off with the dean....
...“The first thing people think about Edward is how clever he was,” said Lord Chris Patten, an immediate contemporary and life-long friend. “That was true. He was much the cleverest of our generation....
...For all his anachronistic pomposity, Prince Charles was right about the UK’s role in Hong Kong’s success....
...You have to decide whose side you are on,” says Patten. “This is particularly difficult where senior executives have foreign passports.”...
...According to Patten, new houses were designed with painted walls or cheap “sanitary paper” so they could be washed easily....
...Well, Lord Patten has his answer. On February 1 Brexit becomes the legal reality....
...It did not actually much matter what Tristan Garel-Jones said to Chris Patten, or when exactly Peter Morrison was fast asleep, or the degree to which John Major, her anointed successor, held himself ready...
...“It’s been called the golden era, but I prefer to call it the ‘golden error’,” says Charles Parton, a former diplomat and China expert....
...Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong, said on Saturday that the proposed extradition law was “an assault on Hong Kong’s values, stability and security”....
...Mr Patten said he wanted the event to be “as forward-looking as possible”....
...The handover ceremony at the hastily completed Convention Centre was a perfect tableau of the dignified end of empire; under giant Chinese and British flags, President Jiang Zemin and Prince Charles shook...
...Regulating the BBC is not easy, as Lord Patten knows....
...Kissinger himself rather exaggerated, in my view, the geopolitical wisdom of Charles de Gaulle....
...Charles Moore, her biographer, described it as “the bluntest official document ever seen in Downing Street”....
...He remembered seeing it filled with the courtiers and soldiers who followed Charles I to Oxford after the Battle of Edgehill....
...Chris Patten choked back tears as he made his final address before an assembled gathering of British dignitaries that included Prince Charles and Tony Blair, then prime minister....
...“I think that Chris Patten has made his mind up....
...Lord Patten said that the donation would help with funding for postgraduate study, an issue which occupies the sector....
...Lord Patten, now chairman of the BBC Trust and chancellor of the University of Oxford, was the last governor of Hong Kong...
...The EDF Energy panel – which also includes Lord Patten and Sir Simon Robertson – meets chief Vincent de Rivaz quarterly to debate strategic issues....
...Sir Anthony Bamford – JCB Malcolm Brinded – Royal Dutch Shell Richard Lambert – CBI Chris Patten – Chancellor University Oxford Alan Parker – Brunswick David Brewer – Former LM of London/Chair China British...
...Charles Dickens: A Life, by Claire Tomalin, Viking, RRP£30 Dickens has a place in the heart of the nation....
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