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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...
...In 1964, Harold Wilson argued that the Treasury was too powerful, creating the Department of Economic Affairs....
...Brown, who Henry Mance interviewed this week, has focused on fighting poverty, internationally and abroad....
...The event also was named in memory of her husband, newspaper editor Sir Harold Evans, who died in 2020 at the age of 92....
...There are, however, more benign instances of documenting here, from old Parisian cast-iron door knockers recorded by Eugène Atget to photographs of long-lost monuments which remind us that photography and...
...Five (Alec Douglas-Home, John Major, Gordon Brown, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak) did so when their party was in a degree of electoral and political trouble....
...who have flocked to Trump after initially supporting his rivals: Robert Bigelow, a real estate investor who was the biggest donor to Florida governor Ron DeSantis during his failed presidential bid, and Harold...
...Harold Wilson’s devaluation of sterling in 1967 haunted Labour until Tony Blair became leader, while it took the global financial crisis to repair the damage the Conservative party suffered from the UK’s...
...Among other pleasures, there are pastel cloudscapes, loose and exhilarating: “Sky Study” (1869) by Armand Guillaumin; Eugène Boudin’s flaming “Sunset over the Sea” (c1860-70); Pissarro’s “White Frost” (1890...
...Next year’s, which is opening in January at the Harold Pinter Theatre in the West End, is The Hills of California, with Sam Mendes directing....
...Although it’s a clinic, we see no evidence of any staff, and time lurches forward in odd jumps, signalled by shifts in lighting (Isabella Byrd) behind the latticed wall on the biscuit-brown set (from the...
...The BPI has retained Gibson Dunn partner Eugene Scalia, labour secretary for part of Trump’s presidency and the son of former US Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia....
...The players’ victory bonus, paid in brown envelopes, was £1,000 each — less, keeper Gordon Banks discovered, than a T-shirt seller outside Wembley made from the tournament....
...Harold Wilson likewise won the party leadership in 1963 as the candidate of the left, against George Brown, and then led the party to four election victories....
....” ★★★★★ To January 20 2024, crazyforyoumusical.com Dr Semmelweis Harold Pinter Theatre, London There’s another headstrong maverick at the Harold Pinter Theatre, but this time he is based on a real...
...While pundits debate whether Keir Starmer is more influenced by Tony Blair, Gordon Brown or Harold Wilson, the figures who loom largest are Ed Miliband and Neil Kinnock....
...“CoBrA was created in response to the horrors of the second world war,” says Harold t’Kint de Roodenbeke, a Brussels-based gallerist and the chairman of the city’s Brafa art fair....
...Gordon Brown also created a separate department for Energy and Climate Change. By this time, industrial policy was back in vogue and actively pursued by the coalition government (2010-15)....
...He begins with the so-called golden age in the 1950s and 1960s, when the prime minister Harold Macmillan reflected the country’s postwar boom in his “never had it so good” remark....
...Its young stems are purple and it gives small, white flowers in early summer followed by red-brown berries in the winter....
...Twitter: @thejamesmax Letter in response to this article: When gardening requires some blue-sky thinking / From Harold Mozley, York, North Yorkshire, UK...
...Most Labour peers are in the House of Lords because, as one of them once put it to me, Tony Blair or Gordon Brown put them in there for “services to bashing the Trots and not joining the SDP” in the 1980s...
...This was a period of high romance in landscape design, the era of Capability Brown and his successor Humphry Repton, who created rolling, tree-studded parkland for country estates....
...In “Eugène Manet on the Isle of Wight”, painted on Morisot’s honeymoon, her husband surveys a seascape through a dazzle of fluttering layers — lace curtains, glass, window-boxes, fencing, a frieze of passing...
...Perhaps the spirits of Harold Wilson and George Brown are kicking themselves on reading your front page article “Kwarteng tells Treasury to adopt new focus ‘entirely on growth’” (Report, September 13), given...
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