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...Jeremy Leaf, an estate agent in London and a former residential chair of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics), said the ONS data was the most comprehensive of all surveys because it includes...
...Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has made tackling economic inactivity a priority, with a £4bn expansion of free childcare for working parents, a £2bn push to help people with health conditions into work and a tougher...
...But this year as The Spectator’s Low Life columnist Jeremy Clarke got closer and closer to his end in May, I started to live for updates even as he was dying....
...From the reincarnation of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt to the illustrious London Library, the first lending library in London, whose early members included Charles Dickens, John Stuart Mill and future...
...Past clients in the bank’s history have included the authors Charles Dickens and Jane Austen and the former prime minister William Pitt the Elder. It is now owned by NatWest Group....
...Nothing about it seems to have changed since Charles Dickens was a regular....
...This is, it must be said, a twist on Charles Dickens’ redemptive novel....
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...The Dickens character illustrates why the British prize home ownership. Barratt Developments demonstrates its value to investors....
...The three-bedroom council house on Dickens Place in Wigan, in the north of England, is unremarkable. But it transformed Stan Webster’s life....
...We were drinking tea in the kitchen of the Henry Dickens Community Centre, named after the great author’s grandson, a local councillor and a champion of public housing....
...The little time off he has is spent with his favourite authors — who include Charles Dickens, particularly Bleak House — and watching football....
...In the end, 19 winners correctly named the Pickwick Papers as Charles Dickens’ first novel, splitting the prize pot to get $105.26 each....
...They cheer Sadiq for opposing Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit and forgive him for nominating Jeremy Corbyn for Labour leader....
...June’s UK general election saw a surge of support for the Labour party led by the far-left Jeremy Corbyn....
...Oscar Wilde said you’d need a heart of stone to read Charles Dickens’ account of the death of Little Nell in The Old Curiosity Shop “without laughing”....
...One of the most memorable characters in Charles Dickens’ novel Bleak House is Mrs Jellyby, a woman who spends her life raising funds to build “settlements” for poor children in Africa, while neglecting her...
...Jeremy Sams’s production presents the opera like a Dickens novel set to music....
...Playing the older Pip and his friend Herbert Pocket, Jeremy Irvine and Olly Alexander battle the shades of John Mills and Alec Guinness....
...As Churchill sits with the disdainful Halifax (Jeremy Clyde) and starchily attired Chamberlain (Robert Demeger) to his right, and Attlee (Michael Sheldon) and the gruff, brown-suited Greenwood (Dicken Ashworth...
...Charles Dickens: A Life, by Claire Tomalin, Viking, RRP£30 Dickens has a place in the heart of the nation....
...Authors represented include Dexter’s great hero, the poet AE Housman, Charles Dickens, JM Barrie and Raymond Chandler....
...For if Shakespeare is the British dramatists’ patron saint, their inspiration is more Charles Dickens....
...Missing Dates was an analysis of failed middle-class lives and Little Nell a witty account of the tangled love life of Charles Dickens....
...The best epitaph, Dickens suggests - and these books bear it out - is both a laying to rest and an act of recovery....
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