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...Following them all the while is a shadowy, saturnine detective, Clarence (Benedict Wong), who brings a touch of procedural earthiness to this sky-gazing sci-fi....
...Even the people who Clarence Avant helped were at times unsure about what he did....
...The Conservative party lost because of other reasons: the charisma of Tony Blair, Black Wednesday, the constant infighting and sleaze, you name it....
...interesting, too, isn’t it, that it also draws attention to the geographical reality of our continued proximity to the European continent, which, you know, considering how chary they are of even mentioning the B-word...
...Tony Blair was floored at the height of his powers in 2000, when 10,000 members of the Women’s Institute slow hand-clapped him for trying, they thought, to co-opt them into politics....
...It is too soon to say a) whether the reformed bus system introduced in September will be deemed a success in the long run or b) what a sustainable funding model might look like.)...
...unknown’ As we laid out in some detail in a report that leveraged the FT’s network of European correspondents, the big “known unknown” here is a) how prepared EU exporters are for the new paperwork and b)...
...Perhaps the most amusing piece this year was James B. Stewart’s examination of the apparently dodgy goings-on at high-end New York wine seller Sherry-Lehmann....
...No, well, they won't have an expectations management problem, will they, like Tony Blair. Nailed it. Expectations are quite low. So yes, so he's not... he's not Blair....
...(To put that in perspective, Tony Blair gained 146 in 1997, while David Cameron gained 90 in 2010.)...
...Powell did not have the same prolonged relationship with Blair but he enjoyed Blair’s absolute trust (and civil servants knew he enjoyed Blair’s trust)....
...His leather saddle bags and satchels, fastened with lower-case ‘b’s and copiously draped with faux fox fur, are meant to be the kind of “bags you can chuck on the floor,” he said....
...B, wages are better working at a shop or a call centre. And, C, it takes ages to do....
...The key loophole in that text was that, A, the language wasn’t binding, and B, there was no clear date....
...He had gained admission despite middling A-level grades (a B in history, a C in French). Distracted by royal duties, he graduated with a lower second....
...The reason that’s bad is because a) it doesn’t usually work, and b) it just invites retaliation....
...George Parker Well, the piece really sort of focused on this remarkable rearguard action fought by the hereditary peers during the Blair government where they basically persuaded Tony Blair to let 92 of...
...But in 2006, Blair delivered a stunning U-turn....
...Eric Williams, who being both (a) the first prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago and (b) dead, seems not to have noticed we are 15 minutes behind schedule because he is discussing the finer points of writing...
...“It has been pretty dramatic,” said Marco Ruijer, emerging markets portfolio manager at William Blair....
...Lucy FisherWell, for me, Robert, I was really struck by Tony Blair predicting that the UK will end up going back into the EU....
...“What I Like” reverts to the tone of their debut with a B-52’s-style party tune featuring Sugar Bones on lead vocal....
...The Queen, Tony Blair and many politicians were there, and in the middle of it a man started shouting at Blair and the Queen, ‘You have not said sorry yet,’ and calling to the black musicians, ‘Get up and...
...Rather like Tony Blair (leader 1994-2007), he emphasises the party’s pro-business, pro-law and order, patriotic credentials....
...During his time in opposition (he was first voted into parliament when Tony Blair won his third election) and later as education secretary, he was part of a movement under which the Tory leadership embraced...
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