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...Perhaps the most striking revelation is that three prime ministers, Wilson, James Callaghan and more surprisingly Margaret Thatcher, colluded to keep his spying secret....
...In response, Labour prime minister, Harold Wilson derisively dubbed Heath as “Selsdon Man” — accusing him of “designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring....
...The bickering rings true — as does the warmth — and it’s beautifully delivered by Alun Armstrong and Marion Bailey in a production co-directed by Richard Wilson and Terry Johnson....
...It is true that Britain under Margaret Thatcher was responsible for much of the single market’s implementation but it was what Brussels wanted anyway....
...covered includes the Cuban missile crisis, the Profumo affair, the assassination of John F Kennedy, the fall of Harold Macmillan and the brief premiership of Alec Douglas-Home before the election of Harold Wilson...
...Job Moves Hunting, a British oil and gas supplier, has appointed Stuart Brightman as non-executive chair and Margaret Amos as non-executive director....
...robert.shrimsley@ft.com Letter in response to this article: Brexit and the problem of square-the-circle thinking / From William Dixon and David Wilson...
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...“It’s still a bit of a hidden gem compared to regions like Yarra Valley, Margaret River and the Barossa.”...
...The larger venues, which boast the highest-profile matches, retractable roofs and air conditioning, are more expensive: tickets to the Rod Laver Arena started at A$109, and the Margaret Court Arena from...
...Another special place to swim is at Jupiter Artland [the board of which I am on] – the private family home of Robert and Nicky Wilson, which they opened as a sculpture garden in 2009....
...This alone is remarkable, but Carnegie’s donation of most of his $65bn (in today’s money) to charities and foundations — including Carnegie Hall in New York, the Peace Palace in The Hague and the Mount Wilson...
...(Keith Joseph, Margaret Thatcher’s first industry secretary, had questioned whether a separate department was needed.) The DTI portfolio changed several times during the 1980s and 90s....
...“It doesn’t diminish what Tom Hanks’ character feels about Wilson, because Wilson provided genuine comfort to him. But the thing is that . . . he is projecting on to a volleyball....
...Ahead of the statement, the FT’s chief economics commentator Martin Wolf pointed out that Margaret Thatcher’s government had already cut top tax rates and deregulated the economy . . . . . . and that the...
...As a result, Starmer and Rishi Sunak both sound a lot like Harold Wilson, who in 1964 won an election to lead a country whose existing economic model looked creaky at best....
...As Margaret Costa wrote in her Four Seasons Cookery Book (1970): “Prick a small, rosy, white-fleshed peach all over with a silver fork. Put it in a large wine glass. Fill it up with chilled champagne....
...Bar manager Sam Wilson crafted the cocktail list as “an ode to all the Ace Hotels around the world”....
...Douglas-Home retorted by calling Wilson “the 14th Mr Wilson”. He lost the election to Labour’s promise of modernity....
...As for Attlee, the one postwar UK premier who can look Margaret Thatcher in the eye, name one vivid thing he said....
...Labour MP Margaret Hodge, who chairs a cross-parliamentary anti-corruption group, said: “It is totally shocking that BP — a major British corporation — is fuelling the invasion of Ukraine and profiting from...
...Harold Wilson did it; David Cameron famously bought off the peg when he didn’t need to....
...I am not just harking back to Margaret Thatcher’s 1979 election campaign — which preyed on voters’ fears of unemployment. The slogan now describes the most urgent problem facing the UK economy....
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