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...Another writer beloved by collectors is Octavia Butler, the first black woman to receive both the Nebula and Hugo Awards, and the first sci-fi author to be granted a MacArthur fellowship....
...Unfortunately, such is Margaret’s generosity, when we wake up the next morning nobody can remember what the answer was. Fergus Butler Gallie is a clergyman and writer....
...by Judith Butler (Allen Lane/ Farrar, Straus & Giroux)An argument for how a fear of gender is fuelling reactionary politics around the world from one of the leading authorities on the subject....
...’s Tale (Margaret Atwood) Lindy Chamberlain Nanny state...
...The writer is author of ‘The Prime Ministers We Never Had: Success and Failure from Butler to Corbyn’ As Boris Johnson totters in the wake of the Downing Street “Partygate” allegations, Keir Starmer’s Labour...
...It’s stridently traditional for a start: a world in which a sports car might be frowned upon, where the butler’s pantry is still presided over by a butler, jewellery thefts go unreported to avoid scandal...
...And one comparison a senior Tory made to me this week is this: Rishi Sunak’s historical sort of lineage is much akin to Rab Butler, who of course was the famous education secretary who brought in mass secondary...
...Britain today gets a critical reception from Oliver Bullough in Butler to the World (Profile, March), in which the investigative journalist details how London has become a global centre for all manner of...
...“Because you’re a woman, I’m not that interested because by the time you’re 30 you will be having babies and making jam,” sculptor Reg Butler informed Barlow in 1963....
...“Families from the nearby embassies like four or five-bedroom apartments, which new-build options rarely do,” says Holly Butler of agent Garton Jones....
...This serious, full-bodied blend of 60% Viosinho with a mix of local port varieties is aged in French barriques and is unlike any other white wine. 13% Lenton Brae Semillon/Sauvignon 2018 Margaret River...
...But the One Nation group of Conservative MPs was formed in the 1950s, when ministers Rab Butler and Iain Macleod carried the torch for moderate conservatism....
...Hayek’s typewriter, writing desk, photo albums, passports, a speech signed by former prime minister Margaret Thatcher and a set of cufflinks given to him by ex-US president Ronald Reagan are among the items...
...First, it would mark the reversal of 40 years of a privatisation of the energy sector begun by Margaret Thatcher and Nigel Lawson....
...Rab Butler, Michael Heseltine, Denis Healey, Roy Jenkins and several others were fully formed figures as they sought and failed to become leaders....
...Under the magical moon, an adulterous triangle is reconfigured, a thieving butler becomes a successful magnate, and so on....
...Mr Lewis replaced Patrick McLoughlin, who served as a minister in Margaret Thatcher’s government....
...Robin Butler was cabinet secretary to three prime ministers — including John Major, who had to contend with the so-called Eurosceptic “bastards”....
...And when Margaret Thatcher talked about Britons feeling “swamped by people with a different culture”, her words stung like a slap across the face. It was superheroes that rescued me....
...“You don’t have to like sponsors,” says the Canadian scholar Margaret MacMillan, an admired contemporary historian and former warden of St Antony’s College, Oxford....
...A unique collection of 17th-century Ming dynasty porcelain was broken up at the weekend following an acrimonious family squabble between the four children of Sir Michael Butler, a former adviser to Margaret...
...Rab Butler, the then chancellor, caught the mood in describing Messina as some “archaeological diggings . . . in an old Sicilian town”. British diplomacy could derail such projects....
...Key staff are obvious pros: a South African chef, a Sri Lankan butler, a South African helicopter pilot who spends every free minute fishing....
...Robert Armstrong was the dutiful lightning rod in the mid-1980s for Margaret Thatcher over the Westland affair, a dispute over the future of the UK helicopter industry....
...Margaret Thatcher ousted Edward Heath in 1975 by promising a “listening leadership”. The way is open for Mr Osborne’s competitors to follow her example by leading a coalition of the dispossessed....
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