Hints and tips:
...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...
...One subject, Harold Pinter, seethed at Brown at a party, and only just declined to hit him, saying “I wouldn’t dirty my fists.”...
...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?...
...Subsequently, Mr Ferguson has argued: “The 21st century will belong to China.”...
...“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....
...Matthew Bremner Illustration by James Ferguson...
...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....
...Decades later, Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard played together on those same London fields. Yet none of them wrote about cricket in a serious fashion....
...Harold Wilson: Double or Quits Mr Cameron’s third and most attractive option is to try a version of Harold Wilson’s strategy after February 1974....
...Civilisation: The West and the Rest, by Niall Ferguson, Allen Lane, RRP£25, 432 pages Ferguson’s trademarks as a historian are his range, his boldness and his financial literacy....
...Niall Ferguson has written of an “axis of upheaval“. Harold James has predicted a reversal of globalisation....
...Harold Wilson 33. Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe PM 34. Nero 35. Gloria Steinem, US feminist 36. Steve Biko, anti-apartheid activist 37. Ronald Reagan 38. John Major 39. Saddam Hussein 40....
...High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg, by Niall Ferguson, Allen Lane RRP£30 Ascetic, troubled and multi-faceted, Siegmund Warburg was the exiled German Jew who built and defined SG Warburg...
...The book included a detailed account, by the Princeton academic Harold James, of the company’s record under Nazism....
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