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...Now, such stolen glimpses of the heart of British power are commonplace: Morgan turned The Queen into The Crown; Kenneth Branagh has just starred as Boris Johnson in Sky’s This England....
...Tom Robbins Food Savour: Salads for all Seasons, by Peter Gordon, Jacqui Small, RRP£25/$35 I love Gordon’s books for many reasons but in this case it’s the fantastically loose definition of “salad”....
...The two main-channel encounters between Mr Cameron, Nick Clegg of the Liberal Democrats and the then prime minister Gordon Brown, attracted Downton Abbey-sized audiences of nearly 10m....
...This vast series is the first to be installed, in the RA’s intimidating Gallery III, and when I arrive Hockney is standing alone contemplating it....
...Gordon Brown proclaims that we are climbing out of recession, though stumbling would be a more accurate description....
...Think of Stephen Frears’ Oscar-winner The Queen (2006), or his TV film The Deal (2003), about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown....
...Nonsense, says Gordon Brown, the prime minister, who criticised Mr Cameron for displaying “ridiculous behaviour on behalf of the opposition”....
...iii. Welfare systems, essential public services and pensions may get squeezed. Fiscal consolidation needs to be done with one eye on poverty indicators. iv....
...As Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff have documented in their history of sovereign defaults, England’s monarchs regularly refused to pay their debts....
...Gordon Brown, Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer (finance minister) and the man likely to take over from Mr Blair next year, also has good reasons to worry....
...Okay, Gordon Brown. And an object? A hammer. A hairdryer…no, I heard a hammer first. Okay, so here we are. The story of Gordon Brown and the hammer. Chapter One.”...
...(Less libertarian, the parliament in Mr Reid's native Scotland has imposed a public smoking ban and the Welsh Assembly is debating the same)....
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