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...Now try this I’ve just started reading Nick Thomas-Symonds’ very enjoyable biography of Harold Wilson, subtitled The Winner. It came out last year and is notable for a number of reasons....
...Harold Macmillan’s Conservative government first dabbled with the idea of an earnings-related state pension in the early 1960s, before Labour’s Harold Wilson championed a more full-blooded version, alongside...
...Then came Rachel Joyce’s The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2012), in which an elderly man sets off to post a letter to a former colleague and ends up walking to the other end of England to deliver it...
...That is the view of both Harold Hamm, a leading figure in the US shale industry, and Ali al-Naimi, the veteran Saudi oil minister....
...Among the more sceptical voices was Karl Otto Pöhl, the head of Germany’s Bundesbank, the most powerful and credible central bank in Europe....
...History At Home: A Short History of Private Life, by Bill Bryson, Doubleday RRP£20 The ever-entertaining Bryson provides a trawl through the ways we have lived since Neolithic times, taking as his point...
...What probably got me started is that my grandfather, Harold Toksvig, was a professional artist....
...Harold Rosenberg asked at New York’s Jewish Museum in 1966. “They build a Jewish Museum, then ask: ‘Is there a Jewish art?’ Jews!”...
...My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times – An Autobiography By Harold Evans Little, Brown, £25 Amid the gloom surrounding the future of newspapers, Harold Evans’s memoir lifts the spirits....
...Conservative ministers did not take seriously the long-term projections, which were at the mercy of what Harold Macmillan called “events”....
...Interestingly, in 1964 Harold Wilson and Labour swept away a moribund, patrician and detached Conservative government of 13 years....
...Harold James is the author of “Family Capitalism”, published in April 2006 (Harvard University Press)....
...Otto Dix’s portrait of Sylvia von Harden, dated 1926, is a ferocious statement of a woman’s right to beat her own path through the modern world, smoking all the way....
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