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...A farsighted headmaster, Kenneth Thompson, gave every new boy at his school, Broughton Hall in Staffordshire, a square yard of mud and a packet of Virginia stock seeds....
...And then there is his beloved Broughton Grange, its gardens part-designed by the Chelsea gold medal winner Tom Stuart-Smith, where Hester spends every other weekend....
...Wilful Blindness Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril By Margaret Heffernan Walker & Company/Simon & Schuster, $26/£12.99 The moment I read this book’s subtitle, “Why we ignore the obvious at our peril...
...Margaret Wood, managing director, ICW. Philip Woodworth, oceanographer....
...Margaret and Mark Constantine began the brand in a shed in their garden and now run 700-plus stores in 44 countries....
...But it is Mr Walsh and his smooth chairman, Martin Broughton, who have finally brought BA to the brink of its most transformative deal yet....
...FT reviewer Philip Delves Broughton said the book made “a convincing case” that wilful blindness persisted at all levels....
...Lord Bilimoria, the entrepreneur who founded Cobra Beer, is typical of many in saying that his fears that a Labour government would reverse Margaret Thatcher’s 1980s market reforms have not been realised...
...By the end of November, one poll put Labour 13 points behind the Conservatives, the biggest deficit since Margaret Thatcher’s heyday in 1988....
...His sidekick, Margaret Hodge, meanwhile, took a long time after joining the DTI to admit that, yes, she might just be the junior minister responsible for small business....
...Turning to his homeland, Bébéar said: “In France, we need a president that looks like Margaret Thatcher.”...
...Martin Broughton, BA chairman, sounded sympathetic and said he would take advice but such a move is not in BA’s gift....
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