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...Harold Wilson caused a widespread stink over his resignation honours list in 1976....
...Billionaire donors such as Ken Griffin and Harold Hamm showered cash on anti-Trump candidates. But there was no strategy or co-ordination of their efforts....
...But I don’t have a lot to add about that, other than George Parker and Delphine Strauss have written an excellent piece about Rishi Sunak’s election strategy....
...It’s more the fundamentals,” said Bob McNally, president of consultancy Rapidan Energy and a former energy adviser to George W Bush....
...Despite the discomfort of King George V — whose cousin the Tsar had been executed by the Bolsheviks — Labour formally recognised the Soviet Union....
...As we meet her, she is on day one of her treatment and still focused enough to read George Eliot’s novel Daniel Deronda....
...February 25 to July 28; further information and tickets here ‘Harold Cohen: AARON’, Whitney Museum of American Art AARON was the late artist Harold Cohen’s proto-AI art software, which was programmed to...
...Miranda GreenI also thought what was really interesting about your interview, George, was this sort of white heat of technology theme that Blair was developing, which was a Harold Wilson theme all those...
...Job moves Linklaters has hired veteran dealmaker George Casey, a global managing partner at Shearman & Sterling, as UK “magic circle” firms seek a stronger footing in the US....
...Among established Republican donors, Trump expects to depend upon Oklahoma oil tycoon Harold Hamm and casino magnate Miriam Adelson, who stayed neutral in the primary....
...The idea for the group, in part, grew out of Citi’s philanthropic efforts to address racial inequity after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020....
...Yet some believe Starmer has become too dependent on counsel from Blairites: “Harold Wilson, who won four elections, often said that like a bird, in order to fly Labour needed both a right wing and a left...
...In the changing room, recounts Duncan Hamilton, full-back George Cohen, holding the only medal he would ever win, remarked: “It’s bloody ridiculous. I don’t feel anything.”...
...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....
...He started early with lost causes: at an interview for a posh private school, he told the headmaster how Harold could have won the Battle of Hastings....
...Before becoming prime minister, William Gladstone, Winston Churchill and Harold Wilson were all presidents of what?...
...Harold Wilson did it; David Cameron famously bought off the peg when he didn’t need to....
...But Harold Wilson’s attempt to beef up the Department of Economic Affairs was deemed a short lived failure....
...“Dull is the eye that will not weep to see/Thy walls defac’d, thy mouldering shrines removed/By British hands,” he wrote in “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”....
...When he won the Labour leadership it was all about Harold Wilson and not mentioning Blair, and Blair’s got more and more mentioned the closer Keir Starmer thinks he’s got to power....
...As a result, Starmer and Rishi Sunak both sound a lot like Harold Wilson, who in 1964 won an election to lead a country whose existing economic model looked creaky at best....
...The square was laid out between 1776 and 1780, during the reign of George III, on an estate belonging to the Duke of Bedford....
...Like Harold Pinter (a huge fan), Coward used repetitive, banal-seeming utterances to mask undercurrents of love — or menace....
...Acutely aware that his own title to the throne would be contested, Harold had himself crowned in a hurry at Winchester Abbey after Edward’s death....
...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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