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...Thus did we get the world to pay for Richard Curtis films. A brilliant ruse, the voice, but no less cruel for that....
...Harold Wilson did it; David Cameron famously bought off the peg when he didn’t need to....
...“Harry” is Sir Harold Evans, the fearless former Sunday Times editor who was Brown’s husband from 1981 until his death in September 2020 at the age of 92....
...One subject, Harold Pinter, seethed at Brown at a party, and only just declined to hit him, saying “I wouldn’t dirty my fists.”...
...In roughly chronological order, William Cobbett, Woodward and Bernstein, Sir Harold Evans and Ryszard Kapuściński....
...Bronwyn Curtis, chair of JPMorgan Asian Growth and Income, said the head start with vaccinations could mean “the UK economy would open up earlier and therefore recover more quickly than other G7 countries...
...Bronwyn Curtis, chair at JPMorgan Asian Investment Trust: No....
...In 1965, Harold Wilson’s Labour government announced a big increase in corporate taxation, but that increase wasn’t implemented until 1966....
...Other readables Harold James looks to history for experience with how to handle displacement of workers whose skills are made obsolete by technology....
...Rupert Harrison, portfolio manager at BlackRock, former chief of staff to George Osborne Wage growth should pick up a bit thanks to a tight labour market and some pass through from higher inflation....
...Bronwyn Curtis, chairman, JPMorgan Asian Investment Trust My guess is that they won’t raise rates at all. I would like to see the bank rate raised by 0.25 per cent at least once in 2018....
...Rupert Harrison, portfolio manager, BlackRock and former chief of staff to George Osborne I really hope so but I’m not holding my breath....
...Rupert Harrison, portfolio manager, BlackRock and former chief of staff to George Osborne Yes it will be an easier year....
...Bronwyn Curtis, Chairman, JPMorgan Asian Investment Trust 1.3 per cent to 1.5 per cent but much depends on how confident consumers and companies are, and that depends on how the Brexit negotiations are...
...Bronwyn Curtis, chairman, JPMorgan Asian Investment Trust More pessimistic than 12 months ago....
...In his year were two future members of the post-punk group Gang of Four and film-maker Adam Curtis. Greengrass was drawn to the art room. “It was a place of magical possibilities....
...Rupert Harrison, chief macro-strategist, BlackRock Again I think the Bank forecasts are more realistic than some of the more dramatic forecasts from NIESR and others....
...Bronwyn Curtis, Society of Business Economists If, as seems likely, some big companies and a lot of highly paid jobs leave the UK, there will be a hole in the tax take which will hard to fill....
...Bronwyn Curtis, Society of Business Economists I don’t expect a change in the monetary policy stance in 2017....
...Rupert Harrison, chief macro-strategist, BlackRock I think this is almost impossible to forecast. The OBR forecasts seem like a sensible middle ground for the next few years....
...Bronwyn Curtis, from the, Society of Business Economists It will slow by from 2.1% in 2016 to between 1.1% and 1.6% in 2017....
...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....
...“It is tough,” says Curtis Shuck, Red River’s vice-president of business development. “Suppliers are out of flesh to cut and they are getting down to the bone. It’s pretty damn painful.”...
...a delicate pastel-hued beach scene by Rose Hilton, and a five-minute cycle ride reveals a superb display at Tresco’s Flying Boat Restaurant, including paintings by Alfred Wallis, Graham Sutherland and Harold...
...It was called the Wallace K Harrison house. Harrison took the 11-acre site in Huntington, New York, in 1931 as a family retreat and centre of architectural experimentation....
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