Hints and tips:
...The son of a historian and admirer of British wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill, Netanyahu’s self-proclaimed mantle as “Mr Security” was shattered by Hamas’s attack....
...Then, about five years ago, while failing to sleep — I’m a terrible insomniac — I was listening to the audiobook of Andrew Marr’s A History of Modern Britain....
...Eighty years ago, a full year before Britain emerged from the second world war, Churchill’s government set up the body that would become the Design Council, dedicated to promoting “the improvement of design...
...There are also inspiring quotes from Churchill — though not, alas, “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat”, which could rattle the weary traveller....
...Certainly, Channel 4’s decision to air the two-part Andrew: The Problem Prince, about Prince Andrew’s car-crash 2019 interview with Emily Maitlis, either side of the coronation seems mischievous, to say...
...Andrew WhiffinLex Writer...
...No one much younger than the 74-year-old King could remember the last one, which took place when Winston Churchill was prime minister....
...There’s a market for quotes from Gandhi, Churchill and basketball coaches, or diagrams of suited figures climbing mountains while arrows point to words such as “crucibles”, but they are not everybody’s cup...
...“It’s led all of us to be a lot more humble,” says Andrew Ang, head of factor investing at BlackRock....
...He has an eye for a telling quotation, and in the age of Churchill, Lloyd George and Mrs Pankhurst, is never short of material. Yet the focus of the book is surprisingly narrow....
...In 1953, despite the revolutionary presence of television cameras (opposed by Winston Churchill as intrusive “mechanical arrangements”), Richard Dimbleby presented the coronation as prescribed by ancient...
...The state funeral, the first in Britain since Winston Churchill’s death in 1965, was the culmination of 10 days of national mourning....
...— environment ministerStuart Andrew — housing ministerKemi Badenoch — levelling up ministerNeil O’Brien — levelling up ministerAlex Burghart — education ministerJulia Lopez — culture ministerLee Rowley...
...schools ministerFelicity Buchan — PPS at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyJohn Glen — City minister and economic secretary to the TreasuryVictoria Atkins — justice ministerJo Churchill...
...In the second world war, brandy and champagne kept Winston Churchill going while ordinary civilians made do with watered-down beer....
...Whimsy can only take so much Prince Andrew. Still, to the film’s credit, it seldom airbrushes....
...She was the weekly confidante of 14 prime ministers from Winston Churchill onwards, and just days before her passing swore in her 15th, Liz Truss....
...Jennie Jerome, daughter of a New York financier, married Lord Randolph Spencer Churchill. Later that year, she gave birth to Winston Churchill....
...“From Churchill onward, former British PMs have been pretty much unbookable in their own country. Thatcher made a fortune in the US and no one was interested over here,” he said....
...The distinguished industrialist, philanthropist, historian and Conservative party donor Sir Andrew Cook seeks to justify the alleged Downing Street parties by referring to “the role of alcohol in highly...
...Stuart Andrew Housing minister“There comes a time when you have to look at your own personal integrity and that time is now.”...
...Criticism of “the Boss”, for, say, aloof parenting or having funded Prince Andrew’s aggressive legal tactics, has never stuck....
...Although Winston Churchill, prime minister at time of her ascension, said that Hollywood itself could have not have cast a more perfect person in the role, her reign has also had struggles, particularly...
...Miranda GreenAnd his great hero, of course, is Winston Churchill....
...Current regulars include Kazuo Ishiguro, William Boyd, Lady Antonia Fraser and Andrew Marr. “Our members publish around 800 books a year,” Marshall reveals....
International Edition