Hints and tips:
...Yalda Hakim, broadcasterBook: A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle by Julian Jackson “Jackson’s biography of Charles de Gaulle taps into the way I feel about Afghanistan....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Julian Jackson’s biography of Charles de Gaulle, A Certain Idea of France....
...Because Boris Johnson wrote a famously bad biography of Churchill he looks in the mirror and sees the man whom Margaret Thatcher liked to call “Winston”....
...Because Boris Johnson wrote a famously bad biography of Churchill, he looks in the mirror and sees the man whom Margaret Thatcher liked to call “Winston”....
...Je crois que non / From Julian Jackson, Professor of Modern French History, Queen Mary University of London, UK...
...I’m a fan of chef Jackson Boxer’s cuisine. He fuses all kinds of amazing flavours: burrata with figs and pine kernels or Dorset clams with nduja and lime....
...A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle, by Julian T Jackson, Allen Lane, RRP£35/Harvard University Press, RRP$39.95 During the past three decades Jackson, a professor at Queen Mary, University...
...Jackson-Stops is marketing a five-bedroom detached house overlooking Mount’s Bay with two balconies and a garden for £695,000....
...His wartime jousts with Churchill were famous for his use of intransigence to bolster his claim that the true France had not surrendered to the Germans and that he was its embodiment....
...I love Kate Atkinson, so her new Jackson Brodie book, Big Sky, is on the list, as is What Dementia Teaches Us about Love by Nicci Gerrard and Singled Out by Virginia Nicholson....
...“She believed there was a danger of repeating Winston Churchill’s historic error of fixing the parity of the £ at too high a level,” an official note of the meeting reported....
...It will be made out of plastic, like the new £5 note, which features Winston Churchill, and will be in circulation from September 14....
...He is survived by his partner, Buntzie Ellis Churchill, his son Michael and daughter Melanie....
...The note will be made out of plastic, like the new £5 note featuring Winston Churchill, and will be in circulation from September 14....
...Winston Churchill famously described Russia as “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma”....
...Churchill proclaimed, Ciceronian-style, “If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood”....
...We stopped that night at the Londonderry Arms, a former coaching inn in Carnlough once owned by Winston Churchill....
...director of JJ Churchill, a precision engineer that employs 120 people in the Midlands....
...The Bank of England sparked an outcry when several years ago it replaced the £5 note featuring Elizabeth Fry with one depicting Winston Churchill, leaving no UK banknotes recognising the achievements of...
...Like many visiting US conservatives, Mr Jindal gave his speech at the Henry Jackson Society, a UK think-tank named after Henry “Scoop” Jackson, the former US senator, who many see as the father of neoconservatism...
...Andy Haldane in quotes On regulation, in speech at Jackson Hole, August 2012: “Modern finance is complex, perhaps too complex . . ....
...The glamour of cigars – as epitomised by politicians and film stars, from Winston Churchill to Clint Eastwood – has been extinguished as smoking bans, coupled with ever higher rates of duty, have taken their...
...One property for sale is El Fureidis (“tropical paradise”), an estate once owned by the author Thomas Mann, who hosted parties there attended by Winston Churchill and Albert Einstein, and which featured...
...The magnolia tree used for the gifts was planted by Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the US, following the death of his wife Rachel in 1829....
...Glenda Jackson drew fury from the Tory benches when she lambasted the late prime minister’s 11-year reign....
International Edition