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...His parents had more conventionally swanky connections: King Edward VII was a close friend of his mother; architect Harold Peto was a school friend of his father; Edwin Lutyens (New Delhi’s designer) was...
...The epidemiologist Neil Ferguson estimated that locking down a week earlier could have reduced Britain’s death toll — at that point about 50,000 — by “at least half”....
...While Boris Johnson has clear authority over his party, he does have to worry about what former Tory prime minister Harold Macmillan called “events, dear boy”, notably lorry driver shortages and recent sharp...
...After four years of demolition, it is still one of Britain’s biggest buildings, the most breathtaking manifestation of prime minister Harold Wilson’s vision of a “white heat” of technology....
...One subject, Harold Pinter, seethed at Brown at a party, and only just declined to hit him, saying “I wouldn’t dirty my fists.”...
...On the morning of Friday October 11 1957, a terse message landed on the desk of Sir Edwin Plowden, head of the UK’s Atomic Energy Authority....
...It’s mayhem at Bracken House / From John O’Byrne, Harold’s Cross, Dublin, Ireland...
...House steward Helen Davis explains this would have been scrap paper used by the bookbinder, and “Harold and Vita wouldn’t have seen it”....
...In 1953 it was the patrician Harold Macmillan who, as Tory housing minister, could boast of having completed 318,000 new homes in one year alone....
...Edwin McAuley New Territories, Hong Kong...
...Chapters are contributed by prominent central bankers, economists and economic historians including Paul Volcker, Maurice Obstfeld, Catherine R Schenk, Edwin M Truman, James Boughton and Harold James....
...Both the house and gardens were remodelled by British architect and landscape designer Edwin Lutyens at the turn of the 20th century....
...Niall Ferguson, the conservative historian, is among those who cheekily identify as a “punk Tory”....
...It bypassed Pakenham’s sister, Antonia Fraser, who became a London-based historian, mother and eventual wife of Harold Pinter....
...I haven’t even asked a question and he’s already mentioned John Birt, Harold Pinter and Stephen Fry. Are all these names just a sign of his insecurity, I ask later?...
...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....
...Subsequently, Mr Ferguson has argued: “The 21st century will belong to China.”...
...He shows how Los Angeles, by virtue of its position as the background to Hollywood, has been forced into every possible filmic version of the city, from buzzing backdrop to Harold Lloyd and Laurel and Hardy...
...“For 99 per cent of policing this type of ordnance is irrelevant and what police really need to be doing is engaging communities and finding ways to reduce social tension,” says Harold Pollack, co-director...
...Harold Wilson may have loved the Scilly Isles – he was even buried there – but pictures of him wearing shorts and sandals did little for his image as a statesman....
...Sir Harold’s sons – John and Robert – remain involved in the nursery business....
...Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist, by Niall Ferguson, Allen Lane, RRP£35/Penguin Press, RRP$39.95 Ferguson’s revisionist line, signalled in his subtitle, may not convince those who see Kissinger as the...
...Matthew Bremner Illustration by James Ferguson...
...“You could discuss anything with him,” recalls former goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar....
...As Harold James of Princeton has shown, the only result of debt mutualisation was strife. The US and Switzerland have no-bail-out clauses for states and cantons....
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