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...Despite the discomfort of King George V — whose cousin the Tsar had been executed by the Bolsheviks — Labour formally recognised the Soviet Union....
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...In the past 75 years, only three out of 24 — Harold Macmillan, John Major and Gordon Brown — moved to Number 10 directly from the Treasury (a fourth, James Callaghan, also made it but only after two other...
...In the play, feckless heir Hal is crowned Henry V and ditches his friends. “Presume not that I am the thing I was,” the new king tells his old friend Falstaff....
...John V Orth William Rand Kenan, Jr Professor of Law, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, US...
...Mr Trump got a rare boost from the oil industry last month thanks to Harold Hamm, chief executive of the shale pioneer Continental Resources....
...Hardly, surprising, then, that Remain v Leave is also about Dave v Boris....
...The culture secretary, John Whittingdale, once a youthful aide to the Iron Lady, has also asked the V&A for a more detailed explanation....
...We canvassed together for Harold Wilson in 1964 on gritty streets where she seldom took no for an answer....
...Doctor Scroggy may not feature prominently in medical history, but Harold Gillies does....
...When we were playing the Roses matches [Lancashire v Yorkshire] we’re talking 30,000. In those days people would arrange their holidays to watch county cricket.”...
...Predecessors in the part – Patrick Magee, John Hurt, Harold Pinter – opted for a style more like naturalism. But Wilson’s Krapp is not wrong or invalid. He acts, directs and designs....
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...It will stretch from Ewyas Harold, in south-west Herefordshire, to Rowley in Shropshire, a journey – according to Google Earth - of 65.5 miles, taking an hour and 47 minutes....
...An exhibition with the same title is at the V&A from October 18 ………………………………………....
...These included David Lloyd George – the first true media prime minister – Harold Macmillan, Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair....
...Pistols at Dawn: Two Hundred Years of Political Rivalry from Pitt & Fox to Blair & Brown By John Campbell (Jonathan Cape, £20) Politics, says John Campbell, is inescapably about power....
...Buffery is now bankrupt and the pub he ran, the Temple Bar Inn in the Herefordshire village of Ewyas Harold, is closed....
...My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times – An Autobiography By Harold Evans Little, Brown, £25 Amid the gloom surrounding the future of newspapers, Harold Evans’s memoir lifts the spirits....
...Lynette Costello, co-founder, Mothers Against Murder and Aggression. Timothy Coulson, London bomb hero. Jody Cundy, Paralympic cyclist. James Degale, Olympic boxer....
...This was highlighted in the 1958 film version of John Osbourne’s 1956 play Look Back in Anger....
...At Anglomania, last year’s big Met show, curator Harold Koda was able to juxtapose work from designers such as Alexander McQueen and John Galliano against 18th- and 19th-century clothing, to demonstrate...
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...If Thompson’s wrecking ball has “Harold Jenkins” inscribed on it, Wells’ has “Harold Bloom”....
...Cubitt for a span John Anderson, whose imminent departure from Royal Bank of Scotland was reported first in Mudlark, has a new berth....
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