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...In the latest spat this week, authors including Art Spiegelman, Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman denounced an “overzealous” law in Missouri banning distribution of works “harmful to minors”....
...“King Charles has also travelled very widely in the Commonwealth and I think it will be a priority for him also to be out and about renewing the ties in his new capacity . . . he will bring his own touch...
...And then, of course, in the end, he fell out with Margaret Thatcher, clashed with her over her economic adviser, Alan Walters, and ended up resigning from leading the Treasury....
...And I suppose whatever your politics, just imagining what her life has been like, the only representative in parliament of her party, I mean, she has colleagues in the House of Lords, but of course they...
...Her deep understanding of the New York of the 1970s and 1980s helps to explain what makes Trump tick....
...In their place is a new economic unit whose role is to help Truss and her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng take on the ‘Treasury orthodoxy’ that Truss spent so much of her leadership campaign railing against....
...Along with Johnson’s strategist Kempsell, Heaton-Harris decided, however, that they should go in and see Johnson one by one — an echo of the cabinet procession that went in and saw Margaret Thatcher individually...
...One EU insider calls it the “fretful trio” of the Northern Ireland bill, ECHR membership and the UK data regime, which might not individually sink EU-UK relations, but when combined have the capacity to...
...Her loyal aide Charles Powell later wrote two accounts of the meeting. Only a handful of officials got the full story. We journalists were also kept in the dark....
...Her best guess of the fatality rate at the time was a little under one per cent. I nodded, believed her, did the maths in my head — 50 million dead — and went about my business....
...When Margaret Thatcher took power in 1979, the Treasury, along with the vast majority of economists and much of industry, derided and sought to block her new monetarist economic policy....
...Downing Street insiders talk of a “week of two halves”, starting with the low-key departure of Theresa May and finishing with the full-scale revolution ushered in by her successor, Boris Johnson....
...Because Boris Johnson wrote a famously bad biography of Churchill, he looks in the mirror and sees the man whom Margaret Thatcher liked to call “Winston”....
...I discussed this matter with my aides and ministers, including those in charge of law enforcement agencies and other senior officials....
...enforcement Margaret Cole....
...They have not been too obvious in this campaign — though they were present in her first speech entering Number 10 and in parts of her manifesto. She could develop them....
...When Margaret Thatcher’s opposition collapsed in 1983 she reshaped the economy — and the political debate — with radical conservatism....
...Her entry into wrestling, and her coach’s willingness to train young women alongside boys, initially met with resistance from her family and the community....
...“England in effect is insular,” he said. “She is maritime, she is linked through her exchanges, her markets, her supply lines to the most diverse and often distant countries.”...
...Portsmouth has large numbers of eastern European workers — especially Romanians — and is an official entry point for hundreds of asylum seekers....
...“If there’s anything I can do to be useful in any further capacity I will look forward to that,” he says....
...“Margaret Thatcher — she really used to spend 80 per cent of her time selling the reforms,” says Mr Das. Mr Modi seems to be paying attention, at least as regards land....
...Any settlements agreed in principle with HMRC officials in mediations must comply with the LSS, and must be signed off by senior officials....
...“She may sit in silence for some time and the danger is you end up babbling away,” says one official. She does not lose her temper but prefers the power of an icy glare....
...from them when Margaret Thatcher introduced her madcap poll tax....
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