Hints and tips:
...Consider Phlebas, the first title in his Culture series, which can fetch around £1,750 for an inscribed copy, JG Ballard’s The Drowned World, which retails at around £3,000 for a first-edition hardback, and Margaret...
...This is an often-told story but Vinen uncovers new layers of nuance in his portraits of the main players — shop stewards Dick Etheridge and Derek Robinson, and Leyland chairman Michael Edwardes — where the...
...Moby-Dick would almost certainly be slapped with a trigger warning about brutality to animals. “There are descriptions in Moby-Dick that are heartbreaking, which I can barely read....
...This quote comes not from some spendthrift European socialist but reputedly from the distinctly conservative Dick Cheney, vice-president of the US from 2001 to 2009....
...For those such as Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher, old enough to have seen the horrors of Nazism, attitudes were influenced by an attachment to Zionism and Israel....
...And, in politics you can take various lessons from, you know, the fall of Margaret Thatcher, whoever....
...Dick Newby, leader of the Liberal Democrats in the Lords, a position Williams held from 2001 to 2004, called her a “charismatic, committed and fearless politician”....
...The Senate has been split evenly just once before, in 2001, when Dick Cheney, George W Bush’s vice-president, was able to cast the tiebreaking vote for Republicans....
...“There is a risk,” says Dick Winchester, former subsea engineer and an adviser to the Scottish government on the energy transition, “that Yorkshire becomes the new Aberdeen.”...
...Future episodes will feature conversations with the fashion designer Zandra Rhodes, the publisher and writer Margaret Busby and the experimental film-maker Vivienne Dick....
...Child’s fans include Philip Pullman, Rick Gekoski and Margaret Drabble, and he is one of this year’s Booker Prize judges....
...The exhibition’s title, There Is No Alternative — a reference to Margaret Thatcher’s defence of her economic policies — announces the explicitly political nature of the work....
...Far worse, in my opinion, is the dilemma facing fans of Christian Bale, who is currently starring in the film Vice as a fat, toadlike Dick Cheney....
...But there are too some inspired touches: Dick and Tom Cat find themselves aboard a vessel named Boaty McBoatface; there’s a neat description of the nasty rodent outbreak as “the alt-rat movement”; and Margaret...
...Indeed the obvious criticism of Blade Runner, which is based on Philip K Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, is that its dystopias are a bit tame....
...Overall, across the city, sale prices rose 2 per cent between 2017 and 2018, says Margaret Hogan of Gardner Realtors....
...Or take Margaret Atwood, for example, who wrote in an essay, “The Pleasure of Reading”, about her early fascination with junk science-fiction: “I used to drag the really dubious books off into corners, like...
...Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said the allegations would be fully investigated....
...The documents show that Thatcher was countered by Dick Cheney, then US defence secretary, an unlikely dove....
...At the annual GLC pantomime, he played the cat to Livingstone’s Dick Whittington. Another year, he played a policeman alongside Paul Boateng dressed as a judge in a basque....
...According to Dick Fiddy, archive TV programmer at the British Film Institute, it was Spelling Bee in 1938, a transfer from radio, in which contestants had to spell words correctly....
...Dick Costolo, chief executive of Twitter at the time, tweeted: “This has ‘take out of context’ stamped all over it.”...
...Perhaps it was his choice this time of fantasy that did it; what Margaret Atwood refers to as “speculative fiction” might sometimes struggle for mainstream literary recognition but it still fares better...
...Barr, who has died aged 85, brilliantly dissected an upper slice of society at a time when Margaret Thatcher was etching her ideas on the country....
...Margaret Aspinall and Trevor Hicks, who fought for 25 years on behalf of the victims of the Hillsborough football disaster, become CBEs....
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