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...It’s a terrific account of the fraught relationship between Sir John Gielgud and Richard Burton during rehearsals for the 1964 Broadway production of Hamlet, in which Gielgud was the director and Burton...
...(The only exception to that was a period driven by John Major and Tony Blair’s passion for private finance initiatives, an approach that came with some downsides of its own.)...
...Whether it is Gordon Brown in 2010, John Major in 1997, or indeed Major in 1992, governments that are trailing in the polls tend to wait until the latest possible moment, so it isn’t in any way surprising...
...Before he went on leave we debated the merits of Sea of Tranquility, the slim 2023 novel from Emily St John Mandel....
...Reforming the top table | The prime minister should break up the Cabinet Office and make big decisions with only a handful of key colleagues, according to a report set to be unveiled by former premiers John...
...This change was done as a signal that the age of John Bercow’s innovations had come to a halt....
...As Camilla Cavendish details in her column, that is part of a broader problem in UK politics that goes beyond technology, but, as John Thornhill sets out in his, there are specific lessons for this particular...
...Another excellent restaurant, but with a cookbook to be admired rather than used, is St John, which has kindly donated a lunch to our financial literacy charity Flic....
...Newsnight’s coverage of bullying and harassment in parliament, and its coverage of the allegations against John Bercow in particular, took place in the face of a BBC news desk that was reluctant to own the...
...Starmer’s namechecking of his party’s past in office — coming hand in hand with moves to modernise and change his party — recalls how David Cameron worked with John Major, who would often act both as a source...
...US climate envoy John Kerry has been meeting global oil and gas industry leaders to urge them to bring concrete plans to boost renewable energy and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 to the upcoming UN...
...currently chair of CCHQ, while former Conservative Cabinet minister Justine Greening has written a punchy piece in the Guardian calling on Sunak to abandon his rightwing tilt and govern in the style of John...
...And talking shops matter — as John points out, this was a summit at which American and Chinese leaders shared a stage....
...understood to be examining whether David Cameron failed to fully disclose taxable perks such as flights on private planes when he worked for the collapsed lender Greensill Capital, the Guardian’s Anna Isaac and John...
...score | Senior SNP figures were scrambling to salvage Michael Matheson’s career after it emerged that he ran up more than £7,000 of data roaming charges in one day during a holiday to Morocco, the Times’ John...
...And if you ignore the first thing I said after that — this was an excellent reason to appoint John Glen, the chief secretary to the Treasury, to the role — then that was almost prophetic!...
...John Sawers, the former chief of MI6, says that view will also be that of Israel’s security chiefs: Israel’s security chiefs know the goal of destroying Hamas is probably beyond their reach....
...Now try this This week, I mostly listened to Christina Vantzou and John Also Bennett’s excellent new modern classical record, Klima, while writing my column....
...In many ways, the position of the Conservatives now, John Major in 1997 and indeed, Gordon Brown in 2010 does look similar....
...Eden was, again not unreasonably, furious and it was part of why he removed John Sinclair from his post as “C”....
...government agents were involved in the assassination of a Sikh activist on Canadian soil has drawn global attention to the cause of Sikh separatists who want an independent state in northern India, the FT’s John...
...Sunak is trying to do what John Major did in 1992 and Boris Johnson did in 2019 — presenting himself as a big enough change from what has gone before to keep the Tory party in office....
...A lot of big achievements build on what went before, whether it is Blair in Northern Ireland building on what John Major did, or Gove in education building on what Blair did....
...John Major was perceived as more moderate in absolute terms than Margaret Thatcher — but less so than Tony Blair....
...John McDonnell, who was shadow chancellor under Jeremy Corbyn in 2015-20, criticised “factional behaviour”....
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