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...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, about a young boy growing up in a community affected by OxyContin....
...Having settled into the roomy, once-controversial house off Hampstead Heath, the excitable chit-chat at their dinner parties would no doubt quickly turn to how its architect became the inspiration for a...
...In her 2003 book Coal, Barbara Freese recounted a violent dispute between the Prior of Tynemouth, who owned coal reserves, and merchants from Newcastle, upwardly mobile ex-serfs who asserted rights to the...
...Close to Hampstead Village and Primrose Hill and equidistant between Regent’s Park and Hampstead Heath, it offers quick access into the West End via the Jubilee Line (from Swiss Cottage station)....
...black-tile-clad mansion in the Hamptons, the property is one of several in Paltrow’s portfolio, including an estate in Brentwood, California, and a “tranquil sanctuary” with basement spa in Montecito, Santa Barbara...
...Together with Artek, the ICA launched an artist’s edition of the stool by Barbara Kruger in 2019....
...My fantasy dinner party isn’t a dinner at all but a picnic on the meadow at Kenwood Ladies’ Pond, on Hampstead Heath in north London....
...Barbara Hatton was already frustrated with the bureaucratic challenges of business in post-Brexit Britain before her encounter in June with two officers from Border Force, the UK’s immigration enforcement...
...Saying goodbye to Tennant, backlit by the autumn light on Hampstead Heath, quietly interested in where I’m going and how I will get there (and not a mobile phone in sight), one could just as easily say the...
...“My parents collected modern British art,” she says, “and for their first holiday after the war they went to St Ives to see Barbara Hepworth and met [the sculptor] Denis Mitchell....
...Outside Kenwood House — where the FT’s inaugural Weekend Live Festival took place in September — visitors drift between sculptures by Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore....
...A year later, L&M Arts Los Angeles closed as well, leaving Sprüth Magers’ artists Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer in the same position....
...“If the police and the government didn’t want June 18 to happen, all they had to do was put road blocks in place,” says Barbara Jackson. “It was a set-up and a showdown....
...Their leading ministers were, and are, respected as outstanding politicians: Wilson, Callaghan, Roy Jenkins, Tony Crosland, Barbara Castle....
...He gave one share to his mother Barbara Stevens who was listed as secretary, records show. “He was a natural-born salesman,” recalls Alex Heath, a fellow broker....
...Her name is Barbara and she is your biggest fan....
...We were set for the night and with the sun coming down we drove into Santa Barbara for dinner....
...Barbara Castle, a minister in the Wilson Labour governments and a fierce warrior, her voice hardened by northern smoke, and too much nicotine, confessed reluctant excitement to her diary when Margaret Thatcher...
...This is to cheat the audience of the tragedy of the moment, rather as if someone were to pop up with an umbrella for Lear on the blasted heath....
...Vividly portrayed is the uncomfortable figure of Edward Heath, one of the grumpiest men ever to have occupied 10 Downing Street....
...James Callaghan v Barbara Castle. He killed her industrial relations bill, In Place of Strife, and ultimately killed her cabinet career. 10. Stephen and Matilda....
...Now, a quarter of a century later, Martin Pugh confirms this shift with his rather off-puttingly titled We Danced All Night (the quote is from the romantic novelist Barbara Cartland)....
...Under Secretary of State - Meg Munn MP Ministry of JusticeMinister of State - The Rt Hon David Hanson MPMinister of State - Michael Wills MPParliamentary Under Secretary of State - Lord Hunt of Kings Heath...
...The raw material used by Sandbrook was provided by ministers such as Tony Benn, Barbara Castle and Richard Crossman, who seem to have spent so much time compiling their diaries that it is a wonder they found...
...For Scargill it was about the very existence of the industry, and for Thatcher it was about the question Edward Heath had asked - only to get a dusty answer - a decade earlier: “Who rules Britain?”...
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