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...European Council president Charles Michel has announced he will run in EU-wide elections in June in a move that would force him to step down early from his current role if elected, and could hand more influence...
...Although the change was criticised by the Conservative opposition and by Reid’s immediate predecessor, Charles Clarke, it endures today. It has certainly made the home secretary’s job more manageable....
...Clip from Mr Bates vs the Post OfficeWe’re fighting a war against an enemy owned by the British government, while we’re just skint little people....
...A section on “cultural nationalisms” ranges through a depiction of a Hopi corn dance, posters for the National Park Service, Charles White’s double portrait of “Sojourner Truth and Booker T Washington” —...
...As Stephen Bates, author of Royalty Inc, puts it: “The monarchy is one thing the Americans don’t have.”...
...Justin Bates, head of UK research at Canaccord Genuity, said: “It seemed to come as a big surprise, this £175mn of exceptional spend....
...The next morning he would be going down the Mall with King Charles. He had a spring in his step. He teased some of his younger, more idealistic questioners....
...In 1840, Charles Darwin fitted wheels to his armchair and used it to zip between specimen drawers....
...Role models such as Marina Gibson, April Vokey and Gilly Bate have encouraged in more women....
...“The president and Senator Manchin had a good, constructive phone call and agreed to follow up with one another in the coming days,” Andrew Bates, a White House spokesperson, told the Financial Times....
...Bates gets away with it because he trafficks in rootless drifters....
...Set on the leafy Upper East Side, the landmark institution counts Washington Irving, Herman Melville, Willa Cather and Tom Wolfe among its historic members, while modern-day writers flock to the quiet fifth-floor...
...Bonnet tells me that not long ago he snapped up “one of the nicest houses” in the seaside resort of Knokke on the Belgian coast (a 1927 modernist villa by Louis Herman De Koninck)....
...The term “LARPing your job” was coined in 2015 by writer John Herman, following Slack’s popularity as a replacement for email in the tech and media industries....
...“My godfather gave me a Shaker box for my 21st birthday — he worked for Herman Miller — and I’ve never looked back.”...
...“There but for the grace of God goes God,” Herman Mankiewicz once remarked on seeing Orson Welles pass by in a restaurant....
...It is now up to the 79-year-old informateur Herman Tjeenk Willink to test the resolve of Rutte’s former allies and decide whether they really have an appetite for change....
...And I remember walking up the hill from the spring-fed stone drinking fountain in early autumn as Emma shamefully humiliated Miss Bates with a low jibe....
...Far from the Golden Age of Hollywood, audiences may not instantly throng to the true-ish story of screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz and his role in scripting Citizen Kane....
...Charles Gore Brighton, E Sussex, UK...
...Many people might talk to their plants, Prince Charles-style, urging them to grow, perhaps, or perk up slightly....
...Here are Mr Rathi’s biggest challenges: Covid-19 debt burden In announcing Mr Rathi’s appointment, FCA chair Charles Randell thanked stand-in boss Mr Woolard for “steering the FCA through its initial response...
...Yet its portrayal of a celebrity demagogue — the anti-Semitic aviator Charles Lindbergh, who coasts to power on an isolationist platform — seemed to acquire prophetic resonance with the election of Donald...
...King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne , by Janet L Nelson, Allen Lane, RRP£30, 704 pages David Bates is emeritus professor in Medieval History at the University of East Anglia Join our online book...
...to the hapless Miss Bates....
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