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...The first mystery to be confronted on picking up Holmes, Margaret and Poe (Century £20) by James Patterson and Brian Sitts is: why not “Holmes, Marple and Dupin”?...
...Barack Obama, Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, Donald Trump? Albeit with varying degrees of enthusiasm, it’s a yes. Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, Kamala Harris, Ron DeSantis? An emphatic no....
...Margaret Thatcher privatised British Telecom in 1984. The FTSE 100 index ticked into life....
...Peter Holmes, a fellow at the UK Trade Policy Observatory, was sceptical....
...The skirt suits and pearls of Margaret Thatcher in the ’80s, for example, or Angela Merkel’s use of vibrant, solid colours took more than a leaf out of the Queen’s style book....
...They created modern sports, Keynesianism, Alice in Wonderland, Sherlock Holmes, Winnie the Pooh, The Jungle Book, Bertie Wooster, Nineteen Eighty-Four and James Bond....
...A letter from John Holmes, Blair’s then private secretary, dated October 10 1997 records that the prime minister had raised at a summit with Helmut Kohl, the German chancellor, the UK’s support for a joint...
...As US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes noted in 1927: “Taxes are what we pay for civilised society.” Yet, voters tend to prefer taxes that other people pay....
...The same year, in Wilful Blindness, Margaret Heffernan provided an enduring and unforgiving template for the analysis of how people allow scandals to happen....
...Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Three: Herself Alone, by Charles Moore, Allen Lane, RRP£35/Knopf, RRP$40 The third and final volume of the much-acclaimed official biography of Margaret...
...It’s a tableau of unselfconscious elation, a portrait of “just what the world should be like”, as Holmes put it....
...Why, then, did Ms Holmes strike the wrong note?...
...Everybody does it’ The story of Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced Theranos founder, has many fascinating elements but one I keep coming back to is her voice....
...Holmes believes that audiences tune in to quiz shows because they enjoy watching people under pressure....
...“We are sticking with this for the long term, and we are determined to deliver it out as soon as possible,” says Jerry Holmes, chief development officer at Qatari Diar UK....
...janan.ganesh@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Review is no ‘sham’ but a valuable opportunity / From Ed Holmes...
...His intellect, lively mind and ability to analyse complex problems remain obvious, reinforcing a resemblance to Sherlock Holmes noted by Frankie Howerd, the comedian....
...To paraphrase Sherlock Holmes, ladies and gentlemen the game remains very much afoot and it is time to begin actively and methodically competing once again; the Russians would expect nothing else....
...Other people can be Sherlock Holmes – I’m very lucky if I can be Dr Watson.” Gove’s friends say he means every word he says and that he acknowledges he is not very popular....
...… Diary of the Fall, by Michel Laub, translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Harvill Secker, RRP£14.99 Memory, guilt and fatherhood are at the centre of this poignant novel by Laub (named among the “Best...
...This consensus position was first laid out by US Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who said: “I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilisation.”...
...‘Impressionists in their Gardens’ by Caroline Holmes will be published in May (Antique Collectors Club, £25)...
...Oh, and at drop-off time, there’s a chance you’ll bump into Tom Cruise or Katie Holmes....
...Cáitlín Burke introduces a marvellously manic Mad Margaret, and Erika Person a properly warm-hearted Dame Hannah. There are a few problems....
...Michael Holmes, a millionaire businessman, takes over as leader. 1999 Ukip wins three seats – Nigel Farage (South East England), Jeffrey Titford (East England) and Michael Holmes (South West England) –...
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