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...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...Even among Tory voters the positive differential has nearly halved, shrinking from around plus-44 to (67 ‘well’ v 23 ‘badly’) in January 2020 to plus-23 (58 ‘well’ v 35 ‘badly’) today....
...But this is the landscape as it emerged after the December 2019 election at which Boris Johnson was triumphant....
...As Rob Ford, politics professor at the University of Manchester, puts it: “It’s about getting to ‘us v them’ politics, to stimulate ‘Leave’ partisanship.”...
...Many thought the Queen had been too harsh about her sister Princess Margaret's relationship with divorcee and commoner Group Captain Peter Townsend....
...“Johnson’s premiership has been largely spent sabotaging his own ‘oven-ready’ Brexit agreement with the EU and mismanaging Covid-19,” he writes....
...Her father, known as Bertie in the family, was the second son of King George V and Queen Mary. His elder brother, David, was expected to become king....
...In 1973, with the Roe v....
...She says it is back-to-front to depict the Johnson government as running a culture war from the right....
...The trio of exhibitions stretching from the V&A to the Whitechapel Gallery and White Cube also reveals a fearsome curator....
...Johnson & Johnson, which markets a single-shot vaccine, said its jab elicited a higher level of antibody activity against Delta than it had in tests against the Beta variant, first identified in South Africa...
...“He’s v bright, tough and politically savvy with a small p,” tweeted Rupert Harrison, the former Tory chancellor’s one-time chief adviser....
...Trials studying a combination of vaccines, including AstraZeneca’s and Russia’s Sputnik V shots, are under way....
...Kingston Polymath 1,011: Dr S Bailey, Swindon Crossword 16,099: Suzanne P Wilson, Windermere; D Barter, Cumbria; Jean-Marc Sellier, California Polymath 1,010: Robert Jelly, Warwickshire Crossword 16,093: V...
...Meanwhile the American drugs group Johnson & Johnson is putting $1bn into developing a specific coronavirus vaccine, in a project jointly funded by the US government....
...Boris Johnson’s allies admitted on Tuesday that any hopes the UK will strike a deal with Brussels at the meeting were effectively dead. Asian markets rallied overnight....
...If they are just here for our entertainment, it would be easier to write a cheque directly to The Crown’s writer, Peter Morgan....
...Eleven days later, Boris Johnson, Britain’s prime minister, contracted Covid-19. The disease nearly killed him. That was Johnson’s road-to-Damascus. Many hoped Trump had had a similar conversion....
...Rob Johnson, the head of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, talks about whether we are headed to a depression....
...“My friends, I am not a communist,” said Boris Johnson....
...Years later, in some guidelines for a proposed Hollywood version of Peter Pan, Barrie explained his thinking....
...In 1970 the avant garde author BS Johnson made a fascinating film about Robin Hood Gardens (easily found on YouTube) in which the Smithsons talked about their hopes, as well as their fears, for the estate...
...Across the landmarks of late Victorian and early 20th-century literature — in J M Barrie’s Peter Pan, Lewis Carroll’s Alice books, Milne and many others — the dominant strain is not moral uplift but rather...
...& Johnson in January 2017....
...Liberian legacy: As Ellen Johnson Sirleaf prepares to hand over power after 12 years in office, David Pilling looks at the legacy of the Liberian president....
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