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...They are no longer the “obscene mockery” that John Updike once described....
...John Patten, whose brief tenure was otherwise un-noteworthy, was sued by the “nutter”, Brighouse....
...Friday, 7.30am–3.30pm Website; Directions This Queen Anne-era building, designed by the renowned Baroque architect Nicholas Hawksmoor, was where the slaver-turned-priest and writer of “Amazing Grace” John...
...Job moves Kirkland & Ellis intellectual property partner John Patten has left to join Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in London, the latest in a wave of high-profile poachings by the New York firm...
...John Lewis reports that individual bauble sales are up 11 per cent year-on-year. We usually only have one or two really meaningful pieces....
...Patten, who was Conservative party chair and had just lost his Bath seat as an MP in the 1992 election when he was given the consolation prize of Hong Kong by prime minister John Major, is a genial and self-deprecating...
...John Witherow, one of Rupert Murdoch’s longest-serving editors, has stood down from the position at The Times and is to be replaced by his deputy Tony Gallagher....
...The press kept John F Kennedy’s secrets, and François Mitterrand’s. Even if they were so inclined now, a citizen with a camera phone and a Twitter account need not be....
...John Lewis is selling The Home Edit’s range of plastic containers and shelf dividers; the type you can decant cereal into cost £20 each....
...The signature, an “artistic rendering” of J Pierpont Morgan’s own John Hancock, exists in JPM branding to “reinforce the rich heritage of our organisation”....
...Oxford university’s chancellor, Lord Chris Patten, and vice-chancellor, Dame Louise Richardson, met senior figures at Christ Church this week to urge an end to the stand-off with the dean....
...Earlier frictions are likely to feature in Chris Patten’s book The Hong Kong Diaries (Allen Lane, June), in which the last British governor of the former colony chronicles the run-up to the 1997 handover...
...“Diplomacy is obviously not something that interests David Frost,” said Patten....
...The media minister in charge of these reviews, John Whittingdale, is actually a great supporter of the BBC and wants it to succeed. There is no hidden agenda here....
...alex.barker@ft.com This article has been amended to clarify a reference to John Birt....
...Among those detained were moderate former democratic lawmakers and human rights lawyer John Clancey — a US citizen who is believed to be one of the first expatriates arrested under the law....
...John Randall, who was Mrs May’s special adviser on the environment, remembers her as a keen birdwatcher who had been concerned about the melting of the glaciers....
...The policy is all the more striking when considering how John Major’s Conservative government — with the support of Labour leader Tony Blair — refused the same rights to Hong Kongers before the 1997 handover...
...You have to decide whose side you are on,” says Patten. “This is particularly difficult where senior executives have foreign passports.”...
...Lord Kerslake Lord Patten of Barnes Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws Lord McNally Lord Adebowale Prof John Ashton Baroness Altmann Baroness Blackstone Baroness Brinton Sir Muir Gray Lord McNally...
...They were egged on by a cabal of “bastards” as John Major called the group of hardline Tory Eurosceptics who plagued his time in office from 1990-97 and ruptured the party....
...Meanwhile Chris Patten, former Tory chairman and chancellor of Oxford university, warned that under Mr Johnson’s leadership the Conservatives were turning into “a narrow-based rightwing English nationalist...
...Julia (Mortimer), living in New York, rents a room to nearly penniless family friend Lilian (Grace Van Patten)....
...Well, Lord Patten has his answer. On February 1 Brexit becomes the legal reality....
...The advantages of what John Reith, the BBC’s founder, called the “ruthless force of public service broadcasting monopoly” are long gone....
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