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...“Government isn’t actually that hard,” wrote the man who served Boris Johnson during the crisis and is still in his post as most senior civil servant in the UK....
...There has been one Labour, Chris Matheson and one SNP, Margaret Ferrier. But then we have seen people who’ve jumped before they were pushed — Owen Paterson, of course, and Boris Johnson....
...Framed as an ode to the people who couldn’t escape the city, there’s a twist: it’s deliberately unclear who wrote what....
...In a just world, Lupita Nyong’o would have won all the prizes for Us (2019), Essie Davis for The Babadook (2014) and Toni Collette for Hereditary (2018)....
...“Even 10 to 12 years ago, those structures and pathways to support weren’t there,” she says. “What I have learned is, regardless of sector, I want to embed those values wherever I work.”...
...But panicking MPs can’t even recall what Margaret Thatcher stood for: pragmatism and sound economic management....
...On July 17 1914, Margaret Gibb, a Scottish woman in her thirties, walked into London’s National Portrait Gallery and started looking at the paintings....
...Conservative leadership race” T-shirt....
...The old guard are also haunted by the shadow of Margaret Thatcher’s ousting in 1990. Michael Heseltine was the first MP to challenge Thatcher for the leadership but didn’t get it....
...The party also ousted Margaret Thatcher in 1990 ahead of the first Gulf war....
...I know it isn’t easy right now.”...
...“We can’t do this just based on what we assume works....
...Joan and Jericha are the absolute worst, and I can’t stop listening to them....
...These leaders have buried Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Coronavirus has also now caused a still more dramatic return of government than the financial crisis....
...He doesn’t irrigate and doesn’t till the soil, cultivating a rich diversity of the microbes that affect quality....
...As pointed out in Stuart Ritchie’s excellent review on UnHerd of Margaret Heffernan’s new book, Uncharted, we shouldn’t necessarily do away with predictions and modelling, but we should expect the forecasters...
...“They assume the landscape hasn’t changed since the last leadership contest when often it has.”...
...“The latter-day Margaret would have been in the thick of it.” Would she have been plotting with the European Research Group of Brexiter MPs?...
...(New Yorker) It’s not yet published but Margaret Atwood’s sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale is already on the Booker prize-shortlist. Here is the first extract of The Testaments....
...Davis is grinning broadly alongside Olly Robbins, his chief civil servant, and Sir Tim Barrow, permanent representative to the EU....
...Seyfarth Shaw has hired Tracee Davis as a partner in its litigation department in New York. Davis was previously a partner in Zeichner Ellman & Krause’s litigation and electronic discovery group....
...There are a high number of other female photographers in the socially-conscious collection — Dorothea Lange, Consuelo Kanaga and Margaret Bourke-White also feature....
...Margaret Tahyar, a partner at the law firm Davis Polk, said: “Overall, this is a sensible recalibration at the margins for the regional banks.”...
...A mile away, former Brexit secretary David Davis refused to rule out standing in any eventual leadership election. Mrs May cancelled a trip to Dublin and an afternoon cabinet meeting....
...He also warned that “if the cabinet agree” the deal, “the party certainly won’t”. David Davis, the Eurosceptic former Brexit secretary, called it “the moment of truth”....
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