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...Only four of Labour’s 19 leaders — Ramsay MacDonald, Clement Attlee, Harold Wilson and Tony Blair — have achieved that in more than 100 years....
...From Manchester’s fabled Liberals to Ernest Marples, the modernising Tory MP of the 1960s who brought us postcodes and motorways (and much else), there have been rightwing views of progress....
...In the hundreds of books and magazine features about Everest, the remarkable story of Maurice Wilson has been rather forgotten....
...Ernest Bevin, foreign secretary in the Labour government, formed a joint Anglo-American Commission on Palestine in 1945 as a way of preparing some shared responsibility....
...Sir, In “Beauty and the East” (House & Home, March 10), Matthew Wilson briefly introduces botanist Ernest Wilson as one of the British plant hunters who went to China....
...The huge project, “Soundtrack of America”, is the brainchild of brilliant film-maker and artist Steve McQueen, evolved with Quincy Jones, NYU music professor Maureen Mahon, producer Ernest Dion Wilson and...
...Think of a famous plant hunter associated with botanising in China, and names such as Robert Fortune, Ernest Wilson or George Forrest might come to mind....
...It will take decades to reverse this and will require a degree of workforce planning we have not seen since Ernest Bevin’s wartime service....
...Arthur Mizener’s biography of Fitzgerald, The Far Side of Paradise (1951), was an unexpected bestseller, and since then the Scott and Zelda Show, and associated acts such as Ernest Hemingway’s, have generated...
...Tilia japonica Ernest Wilson Named after the plant hunter and curator of the Arnold Arboretum in Boston. A fine lime with excellent yellow autumn colours....
...“Ernest Oppenheimer had to reconstruct this organisation. Harry Oppenheimer had to do it,” Anglo’s 57-year-old chief executive says, referring to the company’s founder and his son....
...Founded in 1917 by Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, Anglo is arguably the world’s most complex large mining company....
...The music, overseen by one of rap’s most imaginative producers, Ernest “No ID” Wilson, is Californian noir at its best, an insistent and sinister pattern of beats and loops that ends abruptly after an hour...
...Ernest Koroma, president of Sierra Leone, said the investment “marks a turning point as we start to rebuild our economy . . . one of Sierra Leone’s most important companies has not only weathered the Ebola...
...The big seller of the time was Frenchman Ernest Renan’s Vie de Jésus (1863), and it told the same story, of a purely human Jesus....
...The author skilfully discusses the Victorian cult of little girls, citing Ernest Dowson’s 1889 article “The Cult of the Child” — in which the poet sees the contemplation of childhood innocence as an antidote...
...But Ernest wrote five operas, some of which have been performed at the Met in New York....
...Close up, on this cold, grey day, the foothills reminded me of Ernest “Chinese” Wilson’s comment about the area of Yunnan where he found the sensational scented white trumpets of the Regal lily: “No more...
...Goode was born into a musical family in Kingston, Jamaica; his uncle is the guitarist Ernest Ranglin....
...But Prof Wilson underplays how aware educators are of these problems....
...Ernest Hemingway was a journalist!” Funnily enough, so was Lou Reed....
...It failed, but Jonathan Wilson’s The Blizzard has since made the idea work in Britain....
...Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman’s play Happy and Glorious, with its Ernest Shepard illustrations....
...Ernest Vincent, chief executive, Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London. Ed Warner, chairman, UK Athletics. Graham Wilson, chief executive, Nabma, the retail markets organisation ....
...Ernest Wilson’s A Naturalist in Western China (1914) is subtitled With Vasculum, Camera, and Gun. But the sums were bigger than that....
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