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.... ★★★★☆ To August 20, almeida.co.uk The Seagull Harold Pinter Theatre, London Chekhov was the great master of “if only”....
...Is it better, worse or different from the Boris Johnson and previous Tory administration?...
...Lyndon Johnson might have paid more heed to Harold Wilson, who kept Britain out of the Vietnam war, the only time the UK has not stood shoulder-to-shoulder with America in a serious war....
...Should the much-desired V-shape recovery arrive, Mr Sunak will be credited, but Mr Johnson will remain popular. If the downturn is severe, he is the one in charge of the finances....
...But people should give up on the idea that Mr Johnson is going to be a nice moderate Harold Macmillan dressed up like Donald Trump....
...Two former chancellors, Ken Clarke and Philip Hammond, and others, might no longer be in Mr Johnson’s party by the end of the week, possibly the start of a formal schism....
...The strict order to stay at home was issued five weeks ago by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to halt the spread of coronavirus....
...The writer is part of a collaborative project with Harold Clarke, Paul Whiteley and Marianne Stewart...
...His Budget did not go down well with the country, the cabinet or, most importantly, with prime minister Harold Macmillan....
...However, Clarke insists the trust has donors waiting in the wings....
...Mr Gove’s ejection is unsurprising — his betrayal of Boris Johnson, former London mayor and fellow Leave campaigner, was not taken well by Tory MPs amid concerns that he was no longer suitable for the highest...
...Much is expected from former chancellor Ken Clarke, who has received a £430,000 advance for a book due later this year....
...Hardly, surprising, then, that Remain v Leave is also about Dave v Boris....
...His move echoes the party management of Harold Wilson, the former Labour prime minister, who allowed his cabinet to take either side in Britain’s 1975 referendum on membership of the forerunner of the EU...
...& Johnson Professional Export Johnson Matthey , Emission Control Technologies Jon Tibbs Associates JSB Group K Kiln Flame Systems L Leverton Clarke Linguamatics Loch Fyne Oysters London Tradition...
...One way to picture the economic impact of a Brexit may be the shape of a letter ‘V’ or a ‘tick’....
...Responding to an invitation to attend the launch of Reds, Whites & Varsity Blues , a book about the Oxford v Cambridge blind wine-tasting competition, I said I should probably be there as I’d managed to...
...When we were playing the Roses matches [Lancashire v Yorkshire] we’re talking 30,000. In those days people would arrange their holidays to watch county cricket.”...
...So my blind tastings these days are round the dinner table with good friends – and once a year when I act as a judge, with Hugh Johnson, in the Oxford v Cambridge wine-tasting competition....
...Clarke recalled, “I wondered whether I was smuggling something out for him. I retired to the privacy of the lavatory....
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...Wilson that “William Clarke is to the City of London what Boswell was to Dr Johnson”; and from 1987 to 1992 he was chairman of ANZ Merchant Bank....
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
...If Thompson’s wrecking ball has “Harold Jenkins” inscribed on it, Wells’ has “Harold Bloom”....
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