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...Who outside central Europe knows the first world war battles of Przemyśl, Lemberg (now L’viv) or the dozen or so on the Isonzo river?...
...observation may be pertinent to our own times, with a mammoth year of elections across the democratic world upon us, but it was made by James Callaghan, UK prime minister, in 1979, the year he was defeated by Margaret...
...The standard model for English bus networks outside the capital dates back to 1986, when Margaret Thatcher opted to deregulate them in a move designed to stimulate competition....
...Asked how APC’s relationship with L Catterton is developing, Touitou describes it as “fruitful”....
...Margaret Thatcher’s 1986 reforms were intended to increase competition and improve a service relied upon by millions of passengers a day....
...Buy a case and save some for a while.£36 The Wine Society L’Aurage 2018 Castillon (15%)From the same stable as Le Tertre Roteboeuf and in the same exuberant, late-picked style....
...In return for more powers, the two respective mayoral Andys — Street and Burnham — must now come under scrutiny from MPs, via brand new quarterly select committees....
...Margaret Thatcher 2. Winston Churchill (while his full name does not have two “t”s, his last name does) 3. Tony Blair 4....
...The other was set up by Greater Manchester’s Labour mayor Andy Burnham in 2019 to drive the regeneration of Stockport town centre....
...The hotel had arranged for guide Margaret Raneri to take us around the amphitheatre, and she was full of entertaining stories about the site....
...Both Princess Margaret, modelling a plastic bonnet at the Equestrian Games in Stockholm in June 1956, and Vogue’s cover in August 1962 featuring a model in a high-fashion bonnet, showed they were a fashion...
...Her blue-grey eyes focus on the poster for the Sam Szafran exhibition currently on at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris....
...Margaret Howell cotton shirt, £395. Paul Smith cotton trousers, £260. Birkenstock suede leather mules, £120. Falke wool socks, £20. Bennett Winch leather Weekender bag, £1,450....
...Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, right back to Margaret Thatcher....
...Then came the Margaret Thatcher era. A wave of privatisations, strikes and recessions, depicted in the 1997 film The Full Monty, ensued....
...The latest boutique winery to enter the scene: Cobble Hill Vineyards, just outside Burnham Market....
...Stagecoach, which lost its judicial review against Burnham last month, warned that buses “don’t operate in a vacuum”....
...Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England by Anne L Murphy (Princeton) The story of how the 18th-century Bank of England became — in the words of Adam Smith — “a great...
...Despite the mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham’s protestations — very well reported in Sebastian Payne’s Broken Heartlands — the idea of “Greater Manchester” has never captured the hearts of people...
...One omission, however, had to be Chanel’s Camélia secret cuff watch, which would have performed spectacularly with Margaret Qualley’s Chanel ensemble. Another time, another place, perhaps....
...She describes herself as “two-thirds [Angela] Merkel and one-third [Margaret] Thatcher” and says she gets things done. “My opponents call me the Iron Lady,” she told the Financial Times this year....
...Robinson believes Burnham’s vision has significance beyond Manchester. “It’s the first time since Margaret Thatcher deregulated the buses that the dogma of privatisation has been challenged,” she says....
...I think Andy Burnham as mayor of Manchester should be demanding their return and this by May 17 and the planned reopening of England’s museums and galleries....
...Just over a week after the strategy was published, Andy Burnham, mayor of Greater Manchester, announced a switch to franchising....
...Labour looks certain to hold on to its metro mayors in the big cities of Greater London and Greater Manchester, where Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham respectively are runaway favourites....
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