Hints and tips:
...I first dipped into my grandmother’s vast collection of Mills & Boons as a teenager in late 1980s India; in between Margaret Atwood, Clarice Lispector and Jorge Luis Borges, I was soon devouring romance...
...Hayek lost the debate on macroeconomics in the 1930s and moved on to political economy, especially with The Road to Serfdom, published in 1944, which found an acolyte in Margaret Thatcher....
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the most famous “Builder Back Better”, but Herbert Hoover had his public works projects....
...The big subscription channels hoover up viewers like giant trawlers with three-mile nets. That competition is the rationale for a change of ownership. Yet Channel 4 is in rude financial health....
...Hansa off our cash France and Germany are fighting over the fate of Margaret Thatcher’s €5bn UK rebate if the UK crashes out without a Brexit deal....
...I’d love to pretend that I’m sucking up sonnets like a Hoover, but the effort involved in stuffing them permanently into my puny mind is colossal. It’s always worth it....
...Margaret Thatcher had just come to office and I was a cub reporter on the Scotsman in Edinburgh....
...If Mr Corbyn does not get on the ballot paper, Mr McDonnell could hoover up his support among the grass roots....
...He is well-connected among the Conservative establishment: Margaret Thatcher was honorary president of the Bruges Group, the Eurosceptic organisation he co-founded in 1989....
...The writer is editor of Die Zeit and a fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University...
...“The country is changing and the Republican party is lagging, but they are getting there,” says Margaret Hoover, a Republican strategist and gay rights advocate....
...In financial services, Banco do Brasil, South America’s biggest bank by assets, is starting to expand abroad – not to hoover up assets, but to service Brazilian companies on their foreign forays....
...Oh, and from now on UK members of the European parliament will be able to hoover up far better pensions than Westminster MPs....
...Most of the comparisons have been have been between the surging British Conservative Party, finally no longer in thrall to Margaret Thatcher, and the faltering Republicans, still beholden to Ronald Reagan...
...Niall Ferguson is a professor at Harvard University and Harvard Business School, a fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, and a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford...
...Those who recall the debacle that was Hoover’s 1992 offer of free flights will appreciate this is not to be sniffed at....
...Jeff Koons’ Plexiglas consumerist satires are an obvious choice: “New Hoover Celebrity IV and Quik Broom” and “New Hoover Deluxe Shampoo Polishers” line up behind Lucas’s vacuum cleaner enhanced with cigarettes...
...Perhaps it is because I went to university in Britain in the 1980s, when many of my fellow students seemed to be convinced that Margaret Thatcher was a “fascist”....
...The writer is publisher-editor of Die Zeit, the German weekly newspaper, and a fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution...
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