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...Margaret Thatcher complained of what her successors would describe as a “blob”; when she suspected civil servants of not being “one of us”, she meant not supporting her agenda....
...Margaret and Sandy were the last to go....
...We did a podcast with Margaret Heffernan, brilliant business thinker who would featured regularly in the FT....
...That was true in 1945, when a new Labour government began turning Britain into a social democracy, and again in 1979, when Margaret Thatcher reversed the process....
...Davis is grinning broadly alongside Olly Robbins, his chief civil servant, and Sir Tim Barrow, permanent representative to the EU....
...The result of that storied gathering was of course the UK rebate, won by Margaret Thatcher after five years of squabbling that paralysed the European project....
...Robert Armstrong, who was Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet secretary, says disapprovingly: “They are terribly disorderly. It creates a very bad impression.”...
...” – Margaret Atwood, the prophet of dystopia. – Further, further reading....
...Just as punk rock transformed British popular music in the late 1970s with its rawness and aggression, the new wave of alternative comedians that followed the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979 had an...
...“This move will affect the higher earners who have the capacity to maximise their pension contributions each year,” said Margaret Snowden of JLT an employee benefit consultancy....
...Tom Robbins Fashion and style Sporting Guide: Los Angeles 1897, by Liz Goldwyn, Regan Arts, RRP$29.99 Admired by fashion designer Erdem Moralioglu, Goldwyn’s book is a series of deeply researched but...
...… Travel by Tom Robbins The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World, HarperCollins, RRP£150 Early atlases were status symbols as much as navigational tools, and with global mapping now available at the...
...re told, have screens showing scenes of city life, famous London quotes and some bizarre-sounding animations of celebrated residents: Dickens and Shakespeare rowing on the Thames together, Karl Marx and Margaret...
...DAME COMMANDER, DBE Margaret Beckett, MP. Angela Watkinson, MP....
...… Diary of the Fall, by Michel Laub, translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Harvill Secker, RRP£14.99 Memory, guilt and fatherhood are at the centre of this poignant novel by Laub (named among the “Best...
...Margaret MacMillan’s monumental The War That Ended Peace (Profile) must rank at the top of the pile....
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...In high school, I worked as a receptionist at a hair salon, scooped ice cream at Baskin Robbins and waitressed at Mr Steak....
...Presiding over the polished driftwood counter will be Basil Charles, owner of Basil’s Bar in Mustique, a celebrated watering hole whose clients have ranged from Princess Margaret to Amy Winehouse....
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...Princesses Margaret and Elizabeth came to dance at balls, and it was here that Elizabeth was first seen in public with her future husband....
...Wilful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril, by Margaret Heffernan, Simon & Schuster, RRP£12.99 Heffernan presents a readable analysis of the way powerful and intelligent people deliberately...
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