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...In 2012, Danny Boyle’s much-feted opening ceremony for the London Olympics, which sought to distil modern Britain for the world, featured a parade of dancing NHS nurses and sick children....
...The consultation would be overseen by John Whittingdale, the current minister for media and former private secretary to Margaret Thatcher....
...Created by Margaret Thatcher to smash the television duopoly in 1980s Britain, Channel 4 has survived countless proposals for privatisation, first by her and then from several of her successors in Downing...
...Boyle lays out a programme of resistance aimed at curbing a system that “has infected and stupidified the official mind”....
...There’s Margaret Thatcher ordering food for her cabinet (“What about the vegetables?” “They’ll have the same as me”)....
..., or Spitting Image, whose grotesque renderings of Margaret Thatcher and others won audiences of 15 million in the late 1980s....
...Margaret (Venice van Someren) more or less justifies the Peter Pan comparisons on her own, combining as she does Peter’s irrepressibility with Wendy’s insight....
...— Margaret Atwood, in the Globe and Mail, wades into a university discipline row in Canada, pointing out that #MeToo was a response to the fact that women could not get a fair hearing through institutions...
...And partly because I don't think Margaret Thatcher particularly wanted to do it. I mean, it's odd, because privatisation is much associated with Margaret Thatcher, and rightly so....
..., Leicester, UK Now turn your attention closer to home, FT / From Prof Roger Levy, London School of Economics, UK Expose the powerful men who exploit their position / From Angela Boyle, Cambridge, UK...
...Margaret Atwood 15. College student Nick Silvestri plugged his mobile phone into an electrical socket on the set in order to charge it. The socket was fake 16....
...Margaret Curran, shadow secretary of state for Scotland, said that only a “fool” would deny that Labour is facing a tough battle in the west coast city....
...I grew up with Margaret Thatcher proclaiming “Great Britain is great again” after the country’s victory in the Falklands war, while crowds sang “Britannia rules the waves” outside Downing Street....
...The flame was passed on to blind footballer Dave Clarke and then Margaret Maughan, winner of Britain’s first Paralympic gold medal in 1960, who lit the cauldron....
...Margaret MacMillan’s monumental The War That Ended Peace (Profile) must rank at the top of the pile....
...San Miguel , by TC Boyle, Bloomsbury, RRP£14.99 One of the most inventive and adventurous writers in the US today, Boyle charts the history of two families as they struggle to survive, escape and eventually...
...Richard Barker, former director-general, Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, for services to the pharmaceutical industry Harold “Dickie” Bird, for services to cricket and to charity Andrew Boyle...
...free-wheeling Rabelaisian wit of Billy Connolly (whose endless runs at the Hammersmith Apollo were the closest UK equivalents to the arena comedy being pioneered by the likes of Steve Martin in America). 1980s If Margaret...
...Paul Boyle, ex-chief executive, Financial Reporting Council. Anne Brannagan, complex trauma manager, the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre. Ross Brawn, principal, Brawn GP, the Formula One team....
...A more surprising addition is the novelist Margaret Atwood, who takes Swift’s satirical portrayal of the Society as the “Grand Academy of Lagado” as the basis for an entertaining meditation on the notion...
...Alf Boyle, 70, a retired chartered engineer who worked at Tate & Lyle for 47 years, recalls: “You had Tate & Lyle, Fisons, Pinchin Johnson and, further west, British Oil & Cake Mills....
...The Women By TC Boyle Bloomsbury £12.99, 464 pages Boyle directs his raw satirical powers at a flawed, egocentric manipulator: architect Frank Lloyd Wright....
...Baroness Scotland and Margaret Beckett, the foreign secretary, used meetings last week with senators and administration officials to push for quick ratification of the pact....
...But she also warned that the US should have got a “wake-up call” when allies such as Margaret Thatcher, a former Conservative UK prime minister, and Tom King, former defence secretary, both lined up as members...
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