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...Harold Wilson used the new life peerages legislation to make the Lords a warmer home for Labour legislation*. Tony Blair cleared out most of the hereditary peers....
...And he, in turn, was stealing from the British intellectuals of the 1950s and ’60s — from Harold Macmillan to Alan Bennett — who had established that clever types wore cardigans....
...prominent rightwing politicians would have been unthinkable in past years in Huddersfield, a town that has voted Labour in every general election for more than three decades — and was the birthplace of Harold...
...One of the band’s co-leaders, veteran pianist Harold Mabern, had been taken ill and was replaced on piano by Mike LeDonne, with saxophonist Seamus Blake added to join leader Eric Alexander on tenor in the...
...But Lord Porter, Conservative chair of the Local Government Association, called for a “genuine renaissance” in council housebuilding....
...Public sector house building had its heyday in the 1950s when Harold Macmillan was the Conservative housing minister, but such provision was drastically curbed by Margaret Thatcher’s government....
...Manus x Machina will be the first exhibition to fall under Bolton’s full charge since he took over from Harold Koda as the Institute’s curator in charge in January....
...Mr Barry has seen both sides of the Hastings divide, even portraying the Anglo-Saxon King Harold in previous re-enactments — and suffering the requisite arrow in the eye reputed to have killed him....
...Another short-story writer, Katherine Anne Porter, needed 22 years to complete her only novel Ship of Fools, which became a bestseller; when readers complained, Porter retorted: “Look here, this is my life...
...Known as Lukpe Lawo in Balti, Snow Lake held an irresistible fascination for the interwar mountaineers Eric Shipton and Harold Tilman, who crossed it and the pass in 1937....
...Maria Friedman directs the delicious Cole Porter musical with enjoyable vivacity....
...SH atgtickets.com, 0844 8717623, to August 1 … High Society, Old Vic, London Maria Friedman directs this delicious Cole Porter musical involving marital shenanigans and a swell party....
...“He is one of a group of half a dozen truly important songwriters from a golden era, alongside Richard Rodgers, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern and Irving Berlin,” says Wilson....
...Ruth Porter, Policy Exchange: With some of the most expensive housing in the OECD this issue is driving the pressure on people’s living costs....
...At Tuesday’s closing party, current chairman Harold Tillman handed over to Massenet, an impeccably groomed ambassador for British fashion in a purple Christopher Kane dress....
...He sent his first play, The Kitchen, based on his experiences as a kitchen porter and pastry chef, to a playwriting competition. It didn’t win, but he was inspired....
...In 2008, her company received a significant lift when Harold Tillman, British Fashion Council chairman and owner of Jaeger and Aquascutum, invested in Ong’s label....
...This year’s anniversary production at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, of Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party, a product of 1958, is just one reminder....
...Almost everything was dark green and brass: motor cars, front doors, porters’ uniforms. Everything else was bright yellow (driving caps, cars, frocks)....
...David Baron was the stage name of one Harold Pinter. In 1957, a couple of months after it was performed in London, his play The Caretaker hit the provincial theatres. More balls....
...Then I said that, unfortunately, young Harold died last week, and a mutual friend had suggested that you might be a replacement for him.”...
...Saramago resembles the old provincial porter in Death at Intervals who is briefly consulted about an archaic proverb, and laughed at because “he still spoke as if he were sitting by the fireside telling...
...What the former British prime minister Harold Macmillan referred to as “events, dear boy, events” can dog any corporate leadership team....
...Martin produced a bewildering array of music – from original recordings of plays such as Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker, to Scottish bagpipe music to Humphrey Lyttelton’s jazz band....
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