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...Kennedy 35 by Charles Cumming (HarperCollins/Mysterious Press) The third outing for Lachlan Kite, an operative for Box 88, a secret intelligence agency, moves seamlessly between Dakar, Senegal, in 1995...
...The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters by Benjamin Moser, Allen Lane £30, 400 pages Jerry Brotton is the author of ‘The Sale of the Late King’s Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection’...
...The legacy of the slaughter runs like a bloody thread through Charles Cumming’s Kennedy 35 (HarperCollins £18.99/Mysterious Press $27.95), out in October....
...Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s Oscar-winning script tells of an acid-tongued lady-killer who returns from his watery grave in search of someone who will mourn his passing....
...The irony is that while Montagu has the brass neck to take on the top brass, it’s the gangling Charles Cholmondeley (Cumming) who dreams up the plot and quick-witted secretary Jean Leslie (Hall) who spots...
...Back over in Charles Town, Full Moon Lover paid off handsomely at the top of my ticket....
...Having trounced rival candidates among Tory MPs, he will now be invited by King Charles to form a government....
...“I think it’s a shambles and a disgrace,” said one backbencher Charles Walker. “I’m livid.”...
...Of the others, Mari Askvik and Nick Pritchard make the best impression vocally as Bradamante and Oronte, and conductor Laurence Cummings keeps the speeds bowling along....
...Sir Charles Walker, a traditionally loyal Tory MP and former vice-chair of the 1922 Committee, told The Observer newspaper that Johnson’s departure had become an “inevitable tragedy”....
...Judas 62 (HarperCollins, £14.99) is Charles Cumming’s winning second outing for Lachlan Kite, an operative for Box 88, a secretive Anglo-American mini-intelligence agency....
...Dominic Cummings, former chief adviser to the British prime minister Boris Johnson, is among those who have flirted with these ideas....
...The newspaper, and in particular its columnist and former editor Charles Moore, were passionate supporters of Paterson....
...Well, look, I think he was bedogged certainly by the spectre of Dominic Cummings....
...There is no one in Downing Street with the stature of Charles Powell or Jonathan Powell, key advisers to Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair, or Jeremy Heywood, the late cabinet secretary....
...They blame his advisers for a series of mistakes in the handling of the Covid crisis and lament the communications strategy overseen by Mr Cain and Mr Cummings....
...Kite is an operative for Box 88, (HarperCollins, £14.99) an elite, super-secretive British mini-spy agency in Charles Cumming’s new thriller. MI5 are on the trail of Box 88, determined to know more....
...As a writer, Graham has frequently explored the shadowlands between fact and fiction, depicting other living characters such as Prince Charles in the Netflix series The Crown, Dominic Cummings in the television...
...Box 88, by Charles Cumming, HarperCollins, RRP£14.99, 496 pages Bonjour Tristesse meets Len Deighton in this ambitious fusion of coming-of-age novel and gripping espionage thriller that switches between...
...The 4,000-word promise to build a better country was, as Charles Moore, his former editor at the Daily Telegraph, fondly observed, typically larded with “elements of Borisian tosh”, but it also contained...
...Privately many Conservative MPs want Mr Cummings — not Mr Johnson — out of Downing Street. The mood is febrile....
...One influential backbencher questioned the role of Dominic Cummings, Mr Johnson’s chief adviser, and whether he was effectively responsible for the U-turns....
...In 1854, Charles Trevelyan, then head of the Treasury, wrote a paper calling for a professional service of permanent government appointed on merit, not patronage....
...Rapid changes in policy and the lack of consultation by the prime minister and his chief adviser Dominic Cummings are causing growing unease among Conservative backbenchers....
...Pressure group Majority Action targeted Wells Fargo chair Charles Noski (pictured) at the bank’s annual meeting....
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