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...A few days earlier, the Post’s Harold Begbie stood in an operating theatre at the Queen’s Hospital in Sidcup....
...an “unwritten” constitution there are almost infinite ways in which prime ministers with apparent majorities can be removed without a general election — as, for example HH Asquith, Neville Chamberlain, Harold...
...The complex interplay of human agency with what British prime minister Harold Macmillan once called “events” is Kershaw’s prism for an insightful series of essays about 12 exceptional leaders who stood at...
...The author admires politicians from across the political divide and writes with approval of Conservative politicians such as Harold Macmillan, Michael Heseltine and Kenneth Baker, as much as he does Labour...
...While his previous books may have had their critics, This Is Your Mind on Plants, places Pollan, for this reviewer at least, among those science writers — James Gleick, Marcia Angell, Harold McGee, Jared...
...Patrick J Allen River Forest, IL, US...
...The Anxious Triumph: A Global History of Capitalism, 1860-1914, by Donald Sassoon, Allen Lane, RRP£30, 753 pages Harold James is Professor of History and International Relations at Princeton University...
...In Britain it began with Lord Hailsham, a minister in Harold Macmillan’s Tory cabinet, denouncing homosexuals as perverts and paedophiles....
...But Malloy makes a patchwork quilt of songs, musical genres and stories, stitching together fragments from Arabian Nights, Grimms’ fairy tales, Edgar Allen Poe and many others, the common thread being death...
...She is matched by Allen, as her clinical, slightly spooky doctor, and Meera Syal as her sister....
...Released in 1972, Dr John’s Gumbo yielded a moderately successful single, “Iko Iko”, and was followed by two albums produced by Allen Toussaint and featuring The Meters, the house band of New Orleans funk...
...“Jeremy Corbyn and Labour have done everything they can to stop Brexit,” said Allen Burton, another of the attendees at Mr Farage’s rally....
...Britain’s European venture from Harold Macmillan to Theresa May has been a perfect roller-coaster ride....
...The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History, by David Edgerton, Allen Lane, RRP£30, 720 pages David Kynaston is the author of ‘Modernity Britain: 1957—62’ Join our online book...
...Inevitably for a talk-heavy comedy set among arty Jewish New Yorkers, the ghost of Woody Allen never seems far away....
...They compared those who were in their teens and early 20s during the 1930s-40s to those who came of age in the postwar generation, those who grew up under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, the Thatcher...
...Former prime minister Harold Macmillan grew up at number 52 What you can buy for . . ....
...Booz Allen fired Mr Martin “as soon as we learned of his arrest” and co-operated with the FBI investigation, spokesman Craig Veith said last year....
...One memorable cartoon in the Daily Mirror portrayed Soviet premier Sergei Kosygin as An An, scaling a tree in amorous pursuit of Harold Wilson as Chi Chi....
...According to court papers which were unsealed on Wednesday, Harold Thomas Martin has been accused of the theft of government property and the unauthorised removal of classified materials....
...It may be 50 years since The Homecoming first saw the stage, but Harold Pinter’s vicious family drama has lost none of its punch....
...“It seems to me that its whole aim is to make Harold Wilson’s renegotiation [in the 1970s] look good,” he said, to widespread laughter....
...More cordial personal relations were in play at the end of 1962, when Harold Macmillan persuaded President John F Kennedy to agree to the British purchase of submarine-launched Polaris missiles....
...It was a view shared by Harold Macmillan, Conservative prime minister from 1957 to 1963, who lamented the bitterness of the strike by “the best men in the world” in a speech in the House of Lords....
...Harold’s Hungry Eyes, by Kevin Waldron, Phaidon, RRP£10.95/$16.95 Harold is a small dog with an insatiable appetite, who sees food everywhere....
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