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...Pilita Clark mentioned in her article “Sun, surf — and the politics of taking a holiday” (Business Life, August 7) that Margaret Thatcher “was famously not fond of holidaying”, yet the prime minister stayed...
...Margaret Thatcher was famously not fond of holidaying. Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed to be phenomenally anti-vacation....
...It’s Me, Margaret. Additional contributions by Gary Jones and Emily Goldberg...
...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...
...Margaret Thatcher was at a summit in Paris in 1990 when the then prime minister learnt her position in the Conservative party was in jeopardy....
...On the way, the reader is treated to pen-portraits of everyone from a domineering but refreshingly libertarian Margaret Thatcher to the “mildly sinister, longtime communist trustie” CY Leung, who went on...
...Margaret McGirr Greenwich, CT, US...
...Hopkins does just that on screen....
...One of the women was the sister of Canadian baritone Joshua Hopkins. In her memory, and to raise awareness of all such crimes of violence, Hopkins decided to commission a song cycle....
...Stalin’s War: A New History of the Second World War, by Sean McMeekin, Allen Lane, RRP£40/Basic Books, RRP$19.99, 832 pages Margaret MacMillan is emeritus professor of international history, University...
...There may be larger metropolises, but Margaret Childs, publisher of Metropole, says when she compares the former capital of the Austro-Hungarian empire with the other places she has called home, Vienna is...
...Success looks set to continue with a performance alongside Anthony Hopkins in The Father, a drama about dementia, which could be her Oscar card next year....
...The global death toll now exceeds 50,000, with more than 1m infections, according to Johns Hopkins University....
...Mr Kosov himself spent several years in the USSR’s London embassy — in which capacity he said he met Margaret Thatcher “many times” and reviewed “key documents” — but denied he had worked for the KGB, pointing...
...In one vote, the party has lost some of its most experienced and senior figures who served under Margaret Thatcher, John Major, David Cameron and Theresa May....
...beginning “Margaret are you grieving/Over Goldengrove unleaving?”...
...Only Matthew Macfadyen is streets ahead of Anthony Hopkins’ staid, dull Mr Wilcox, aligning masculine confidence and bombast with sly sex appeal....
...As Kingfishers Catch Fire: Books and Birds, by Alex Preston and Neil Gower, Corsair, RRP£25, 208 pages Peter Stothard is author of ‘The Senecans: Four Men and Margaret Thatcher’ (Duckworth) Illustration...
...Philip Stephens Nicholas Ridley, who served as a minister in Margaret Thatcher’s government, once mused that it should scrap health and safety regulations in the food industry....
...On Sunday, one of Margaret Thatcher’s closest advisers suggested the former prime minister would have backed Mr Cameron’s proposed deal for a new relationship with Brussels....
...The fast-talking mercurial former entrepreneur increased discounts for tenants seeking to buy their council homes to try to revive Margaret Thatcher’s keynote policy....
...So it is offering excellent value for money for taxpayers, and to suggest otherwise is simply absurd,” Mr Hopkins said....
...Not only have we rebalanced the books, but we’ve created more jobs and growth outside of London,” said Mr Hopkins....
...Margaret Hopkins, Cirencester, Glos, UK Erstwhile Bathonian, and Nit-picker...
...Deborah Brautigam, professor at Johns Hopkins University, curates a database on China-Africa lending that shows disbursements of $52.8bn between 2000 and 2011....
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