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...Gordon BonnymanEast Sussex, UK Letter in response to this letter: Home almost had the last laugh in the 1964 election / From Roger Macy, London N1, UK...
...The mythological Helen of Troy maligns herself with this odd turn of phrase in Emily Wilson’s new translation of Homer’s Iliad....
...Gordon Bonnyman (Letters, December 15) says “the aristocratic Earl of Home was for a short time the British prime minister. This irked Harold Wilson, the then leader of the Labour party.”...
...In 1964, Harold Wilson argued that the Treasury was too powerful, creating the Department of Economic Affairs....
...Lord Digby Jones, the outspoken former CBI boss, served as a trade minister in Gordon Brown’s Labour government but stayed in that role for little more than a year....
...Gordon Brown and Theresa May are, in different ways, doing the same thing: focusing on elements which people generally agree they did successfully in their careers....
...The players’ victory bonus, paid in brown envelopes, was £1,000 each — less, keeper Gordon Banks discovered, than a T-shirt seller outside Wembley made from the tournament....
...But following the global financial crisis Gordon Brown had a good story to tell, too: without the actions he and other governments took, the aftermath could have been worse....
...Most Labour peers are in the House of Lords because, as one of them once put it to me, Tony Blair or Gordon Brown put them in there for “services to bashing the Trots and not joining the SDP” in the 1980s...
...We’ve got a great line-up of speakers, including Nick Moakes, chief investment officer of the Wellcome Trust; Nigel Wilson, departing chief executive of Legal and General; and BlackRock’s head of Emea Stephen...
...While pundits debate whether Keir Starmer is more influenced by Tony Blair, Gordon Brown or Harold Wilson, the figures who loom largest are Ed Miliband and Neil Kinnock....
...Britain after Brexit is edited by Gordon Smith. Premium subscribers can sign up here to have it delivered straight to their inbox every Thursday afternoon....
...Simon French, chief UK economist at Panmure Gordon, said: “The cost of an advert has fallen so far since the good old days of dead tree adverts that [this] perhaps incentivises companies to ‘hold’ adverts...
...Wilson told the head of what came to be known as Mintech that his first task was to save the British computer industry....
...Even Gordon Wilson, the chair of Zenitech, which has hosted Patel, cautioned: “It’s not a silver bullet this thing . . . just because individuals have been an observer it doesn’t mean they are qualified...
...“The towel throwing seemed to be a classic case of a change in price causing a change in sentiment,” said Kevin Gordon, an analyst at Charles Schwab....
...Additional reporting by Tom Wilson, Owen Walker and Peter Campbell...
...But Harold Wilson’s attempt to beef up the Department of Economic Affairs was deemed a short lived failure....
...Special advisers, or “spads”, were created in their modern form by Harold Wilson back in 1964, though arguably the role predates Wilson’s reforms....
...Bulgari is absent from Palexpo, preferring to exhibit at the Hotel President Wilson, where it is showing its new Octo Roma, (is it round? Is it octagonal?...
...But Bevan’s first film as a producer was My Beautiful Laundrette, the landmark gay romance between a Pakistani-British Londoner (played by Gordon Warnecke) and a white punk (a young Daniel Day-Lewis)....
...Perhaps because of that embarrassment Gordon Brown also left office in 2010 without this nod to tradition....
...successful IPO might encourage other European oil majors — most of whom have ruled out such a move for now — to consider a similar operation at some point in the future,” HSBC analysts Kim Fustier and Gordon...
...“There are encouraging signs that the crisis at the pumps is easing,” said Gordon Balmer, the PRA’s executive director....
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