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...Modern (Sebastian Barry or Olga Tokarczuk), classic (Virginia Woolf or James Baldwin) or genre (Stephen King, Margaret Atwood, Georges Simenon) — it doesn’t matter....
...FEBRUARY Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin (William Collins)The man who would be Britain’s next prime minister is put under the spotlight by a veteran Westminster political journalist in an authorised...
...The last thing I bought and loved was a charcoal-grey pinstripe Margaret Howell blazer. When I am in London, I buy her clothes at Liberty....
...It is, in his telling, the union-breaking of Margaret Thatcher, the class-free politics of Tony Blair, and the dominance of “neoliberalism” that creates the world we live in....
...Father Benjamin Speare-Hardy, the African-American rector of St Margaret’s Episcopal Church in Dayton, said he was doing a “bit better”....
...Mr Johnson’s election victory on December 12 based on his pledge to “Get Brexit done” was the Conservatives’ best performance since the party was led by Margaret Thatcher, but the poll was significant in...
...Baldwin signed a first edition of his book No Name in the Street, “For Horace, my brother,” from “Jimmy B”....
...Arthur Scargill, leader of the National Union of Mineworkers from 1982 to 2002, and scourge of Margaret Thatcher, resided here in a grace and favour flat during the 1980s strike....
...Indeed, Japanese carmakers set up factories in Britain on the basis of Margaret Thatcher’s promise that it would be a launch pad to the larger European market....
...Photograph: Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images...
...As war became more destructive and civilian populations more vulnerable — “the bomber will always get through”, Stanley Baldwin famously warned in 1932 — so grew the lure of the short, sharp war....
...I admire Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, Margaret Atwood, James Baldwin, Elizabeth Strout, DO Fagunwa, Sefi Atta, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Colm Tóibín and Junot Díaz....
...Heath did not resign as party leader despite another close election defeat in October, eventually succumbing to a challenge from Margaret Thatcher in 1975....
...LGBT people of all kinds have this lineage too — he mentions black bisexual singer Bessie Smith and black gay novelist James Baldwin....
...Margaret Thatcher was watching and, apparently, pitying (how that would have enraged him, to be pitied by her)....
...Think Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, Winston Churchill and Harold Macmillan in the 1950s, Stanley Baldwin in the 1930s, even Lord Salisbury in the 1890s....
...It could feature Maggie’s dresses, Stanley Baldwin’s spats, Harold Wilson’s bicycle clips and the Lavrenti Beria boxer shorts favoured by Jeremy Corbyn’s new communications chief....
...Their fluid posse included David Bainbridge, Michael Baldwin, Terry Atkinson, Mel Ramsden and Joseph Kosuth....
...But Harriett Baldwin, City minister, refused to give MPs the final say, arguing it was appropriate only for the committee to hold a “pre-appointment hearing” before the new chief executive was in post....
...This, after all, is one of only four Tories in the past century to lead their party for a decade; the others were Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill and Stanley Baldwin....
...Playboy would dangle big breasts in front of one-track minds and then give them a Margaret Atwood or a James Baldwin, too....
...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...
...Stanley Baldwin quit in 1937 in a blaze of affection and gratitude, especially for his determination to keep the peace with Adolf Hitler....
...Almost 30 years ago Harold Macmillan, the former Conservative prime minister, stood up at a dinner in London and made a now famous speech about Margaret Thatcher’s privatisation policy....
...It told the true story of Neil Baldwin, a failed clown with learning disabilities, who wants to manage Stoke City Football Club and write an extra verse for the Lord’s Prayer....
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