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...This 1970 duly comes in loving stylistic quote marks, the film given the soft, grainy look of a movie from the time, like the lost half of a double-bill with Harold and Maude....
...This assumption is making the rounds again, this time in Missing Millennials, a report from think-tank Onward UK, headed by Sebastian Payne, formerly of the FT....
...sebastian.payne@ft.com...
...Or Harold Wilson doling out honours to assorted cronies. Or Tony Blair withholding Iraq war advice from his cabinet....
...October 5-December 24, Harold Pinter Theatre, London, atgtickets.com...
...Presented by Sebastian Payne. Produced by Anna Dedhar and Howie Shannon....
...In the 1960s Harold Wilson’s government commissioned the Humber bridge, dubbed the Bridge to Nowhere — to help prop up Labour support ahead of a by-election in Hull....
...Harold Wilson embraced “the white heat” of technological change in the 1960s, but failed to see it through....
...Sebastian Payne (“Abolish the House of Lords to fix England’s democratic deficit”, Notebook, September 22) is prescient about the lack of legitimacy for the House of Lords....
...Johnson is seen by his party as the most pro-spending Conservative leader since Harold Macmillan’s time in Downing Street from 1957 to 1963....
...I enjoyed Sebastian Payne’s fantasy dinner party, especially putting Barbara Castle and Michael Heseltine together (Life & Arts, FT Weekend, September 5)....
...Two British prime ministers in the postwar era have temporarily handed over the reins to other ministers due to ill health: Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan....
...Some Conservatives are bracing themselves for a bloody reshuffle, similar to Harold Macmillan’s “Night of the Long Knives”, when seven ministers were dismissed in one night in 1962 in an attempt to rejuvenate...
...Sebastian Payne will be responding periodically through the day...
...There is only one example (Harold Macmillan in 1959) where a PM managed to win a big majority in an October election....
...Writing a long speech took Wilson no time at all: letter from John O’Byrne, Harold’s Cross, Dublin, Ireland With reference to Conor Magill’s letter: in 1919, US president Woodrow Wilson responded to a question...
...The most underrated prime minister Martin Wolf reflects on Harold Macmillian, the British leader who embodied a courageous pragmatism that, he argues, is sorely missing in the Conservative party today....
...I'm Sebastian Payne, and in this week's episode, we'll be discussing the Conservative Party Conference, Tuesday's extraordinary speech, and a lack of new policy ideas and a lack of new thinking....
...Call him Payne the Brain. Not in the sense that playwright Nick Payne is a raving genius (nor to deny it, ahem), but rather in the Welsh sense, like “Jones the milk” or “Evans the bread”....
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