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...The new group will be named after Harold Burson, a PR veteran and co-founder of New York-based public relations firm Burson-Marsteller, which became BCW. Burson passed away in 2020....
...Harold Hamm, a shale oil magnate who co-chaired Paulson’s event, told the FT’s Jamie Smyth that the $50mn showed Trump’s fundraising was in “very, very good shape”....
...The event also was named in memory of her husband, newspaper editor Sir Harold Evans, who died in 2020 at the age of 92....
...And the actress, Elaine (Scott Thomas), has a powerful #MeToo tale to tell about why she has hidden away for 30 years....
...Only four of Labour’s 19 leaders — Ramsay MacDonald, Clement Attlee, Harold Wilson and Tony Blair — have achieved that in more than 100 years....
...Harold Wilson: The Winner by Nick Thomas-Symonds, Weidenfeld & Nicolson £25, 544 pages Philip Collins is a former chief speechwriter to Tony Blair Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century seized global attention a decade ago with its call for a global wealth tax. Yet politically, the idea now appears to be struggling....
...But Harold Wilson’s attempt to beef up the Department of Economic Affairs was deemed a short lived failure....
...At the end, he looks at the work of Thomas Piketty. Today, he argues, we have more theories, more data and a wider focus on both national and global inequality. We also have more concern....
...The brothers’ company produced commercial and critical successes for another decade, including The Great Escape (1963), The Pink Panther (1963), The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) and Fiddler on the Roof (1971...
...Yet after a sparkling run, in which some of the great arts interviews were recorded — look up the one with Harold Pinter, for instance — his South Bank Show was cut....
...Trouble was, Harold “Kim” Philby was so adept at espionage that not only did he deceive his enemies, but also his allies at MI6....
...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 Mozley York, North Yorkshire, UK...
...The story begins on the opposite, north-east coast, in Hull, where clockmaker Thomas Kirk set up a business in 1798 that expanded into jewellery and silverware....
...Mention of Sir Harold Acton, Florence’s most famous British aesthete, gets the aside “such a terrible bore”....
...In the 1930s, almost every one of the 300 pages of the Thomas Cook Continental Timetable included at least one sleeper, and we are nowhere near that level, but who knows where Generation Z (“the Thunberg...
...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....
...As long ago as the 1840s the Scottish essayist and historian Thomas Carlyle declared the past to be “the history of the great men who have worked there”....
...Profiting from the invention of rubber-tyred bicycles, and then cars, he rebuilt Chalfield Manor to the 1840s plan with the help of a skilled neo-Gothic architect, Harold Brakspear....
...Harold Wilson did it; David Cameron famously bought off the peg when he didn’t need to....
...Designed in 1960 by LA-based architect Harold Zook (a protégé of Swiss-born Albert Frey, whose work in Palm Springs made him one of the fathers of desert modernism), the bungalows have been rehabilitated...
...“When patients are harmed, staff often get blamed,” writes Harold Thimbleby, professor emeritus of science at Swansea University....
...This time the director was Joseph Losey, working from a script by Harold Pinter....
...Sir Thomas Lipton created one of the first global consumer brands by acquiring plantations in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in the 1890s and selling tea leaves cheaply in yellow packets....
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