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...Cruddas identifies Blair’s first term and the 1945 government as exemplars....
...But once you've decided... ...during the Blair era, but now......
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...Tony Blair, the Labour prime minister, had paid fulsome tribute to the "people's princess". I feel like everyone else in this country today. Utterly devastated....
...socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is due to be sentenced after being found guilty in a sex abuse trial Wednesday Belgium, the Ommegang festival, including a pageant re-enacting the historical entry of Charles V,...
...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....
...He’s only five percentage points behind Keir Starmer in the polls on who make the best prime minister as opposed to 20-something on the Labour v Tory one....
...Other people say ‘it’ll take wild horses to drag him out, like Thatcher or Blair’, but I really don’t think he has their staying power.” Additional reporting by Jim Pickard in London...
...The Courtenays arrived with Eleanor of Aquitaine in 1154 and one forebear, Richard Courtenay, was buried with Henry V in Westminster Abbey, after dying of dysentery in Henry’s tent at the Siege of Harfleur...
...From Margaret Thatcher to Tony Blair, governments have set the tone of policy for museums and galleries, filling their upper ranks with allies and their coffers with public funds....
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...Cat Rutter PooleyThe trade off isn’t necessarily growth v fairness. Everyone agrees that we need to get Britain growing. The problem is that you need the broadest ability to be able to do it....
...Dry cleaning is a guaranteed way to kill larvae: the best in the capital, in my opinion, is Five Star in Islington, whose list of celebrity clients have included Stephen Fry and Cherie Blair....
...The Office for Budget Responsibility this month modelled for a scenario with a “V-shaped” recession, with a 35 per cent drop in gross domestic product followed by a sharp rebound....
...FT family quiz Round One Jenny Agutter (The Railway Children) George V (Edward VIII and George VI) Christopher Robin Milne (son of AA Milne) Loving and giving Five (at home) The Diary of Anne Frank/The...
...The market hitting new lows “is possible”, said Tom Clarke, who has a low exposure to stocks at a macro fund at William Blair in London....
...In Dundee, the most pro-independence city in Scotland, a new £80m V&A Museum opened in 2018, part of a dockside redevelopment....
...Tony Blair hangs out with Vivienne Westwood and Hogarth amid compendiums on design and architecture. On the top row, The Catcher in the Rye shares shelf space with The Girl on the Train....
...I don’t expect the Brits will abandon their Queen easily, particularly with the threat of a President Blair or President Johnson to follow....
...You could even say that Sonia Orwell, who married him on his deathbed, was being attentive to his reputation in taking his pseudonym as a surname, given that his family knew him as Eric Blair....
...DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...Tristram Hunt, formerly a Labour MP and now director of the V&A Museum, added: “He’s a clever man but he also put the hours in....
...“I feel the hand of history upon our shoulders”, remarked Tony Blair, when he was negotiating the Good Friday Agreement....
...Miliband, the Labour party leader from 2010-15, Baldwin tries to fabricate an image around his boss with “ludicrous memos saying he should be seen striding purposefully through parliament at the head of a V-shape...
...In an interview, Centerview co-founder Blair Effron said: “Don’t think about Europe at all. Today there is too much uncertainty about what this will look like.”...
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