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...The 1945 government was composed of towering figures: as well as Bevin and Bevan, it included Herbert Morrison, Hugh Dalton, Stafford Cripps, Hugh Gaitskell and Harold Wilson....
...Gordon, Jamie, Nigella, Hugh and Rick still roam the swamp and few quicker, younger creatures have emerged....
...When Donald Trump Jr texted: “He’s got to condemn this s*** Asap,” Meadows agreed....
...Logsdail Jr took over the reins of Lisson in 2019, just as Covid-19 began to grip....
...Invoking Clement Attlee’s 1945 election triumph, he argued: “I don’t think you cease to be a patriot because you notice your country has flaws....
...His successor, Clement Attlee, prioritised building the welfare state....
...Crossword 16,425: Bill Stewart, Leicester; R Harpur, Herefordshire; Martyn Abbott, Lincolnshire Polymath 1,065: P Johnson, Berwickshire Crossword 16,419: Paul Rock, Walden, England; James Simpson, France; Hugh...
...(Many don’t spy the blue plaque bearing his name — but they do queue for selfies by a blue door the actor Hugh Grant made famous in a romantic comedy.)...
...Hugh Young Rienhoff, Jr San Carlos, CA, US Letter in response to this letter: Voters’ wrath will be directed at MPs who paid lip service to Brexit / From Roger White, Sherborne, Dorset, UK...
...Brothers and sons including Billy Carter, Neil Bush, Hugh Rodham and, most recently, Donald Trump Jr have all rightfully faced some of the same questions now being thrown at Hunter Biden....
...Historians aren’t prophets; I didn’t see this coming from either extreme, right or left....
...Young Rienhoff, Jr, San Carlos, CA, US...
...“Would Clement Attlee, Churchill’s trusted deputy during the second world war, have told British Jews they didn’t know the meaning of anti-Semitism?”...
...Dallas: A thuggish Texas oil baron, the character of JR Ewing is an ideal turncoat for climate change campaigners. Sadly the actor who played JR, Larry Hagman, died in 2012....
...I didn’t want Brexit, but I assumed the Brexiters had a plan. I didn’t think Donald Trump had a plan, but I assumed the Republicans did. They didn’t....
...“There ain’t no flats going there! There ain’t no luxury nothing!” she said. “There’s going to be a memorial.”...
...But they haven’t successfully erected “post-truth” as the defining, evil spirit of our age....
...No, we don’t feel isolated at all.”...
...“Trust in politicians is very low — people just don’t believe they will deliver on their promises,” says Duncan McDonnell, politics lecturer at Griffith University....
...As Hugh Johnson, the British wine expert, writes in Vintage: The Story of Wine: “These lands to the north of Château Pape Clement were swamplands until Dutch traders began to drain them in the 17th century...
...The Plunketts, poor and obscure, didn’t even get Hugh’s backpay....
...De Niro Jr doesn’t have his father’s attractive, crooked-toothed mouth but he has the same hooked nose, dark eyes and neat, slender build and, as is clear from photographs, the physical resemblance between...
...The best three TV comedies of the past year have all been based at work: Armando Iannucci’s two political shows The Thick of It and Veep, and the Olympics sitcom Twenty Twelve, starring Hugh Bonneville as...
...Eleven Rings : The Soul of Success, by Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty, Penguin Press, $27.95, 368 pages Jackson isn’t just a revered American basketball coach; this son of Pentecostal ministers is also...
...Michel Roux Jr loves jellied eels....
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