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...The two songs by Bonds, both settings of Langston Hughes, were a welcome choice, never sounding second-best alongside the more celebrated Gershwin....
...As Laura Hughes reports, the government’s commitment to building 40 new hospitals is nowhere close to being kept....
...Among the older works are two appreciable short cycles setting Langston Hughes, Robert Owens’s lucid Silver Rain (1958) and the happy, romantic Songs of the Seasons (1955) by Margaret Bonds. ★★★★☆ ‘Rising...
...Laura Hughes and Peter Campbell report on events at the UK engineering group, Dyson....
...Truss, born in 1975, grew up in a leftwing household where Margaret Thatcher was despised, but the rebellious future premier admired Thatcher’s economic stance and her willingness to stand up to the Soviet...
...Clean by Alia Trabucco Zerán, translated by Sophie Hughes (4th Estate)A nightmarish examination of the life of a live-in maid who dies — and the toxic family and societal relationships that surround her...
...MP Margaret Hodge, former chair of the public accounts committee, said it was “an utter disgrace that massive global companies are borrowing taxpayer-backed cash while hiking up their dividends at the same...
...In 2018, Dame Margaret Beckett, a former Labour foreign secretary, said “the constitutional future of this country . . . trumps bad behaviour”. Bercow joined the Labour party in June 2021....
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...“We don’t need a white paper, we need legislation,” said Dame Margaret Hodge, a Labour MP. “I am dismayed.”...
...In 1856 a local paper reported Margaret Hughes of Nant Syddion had miraculously given birth to quadruplets....
...Peter Hughes, regional secretary at the union group Unite, said: “Steel is a strategic industry and must be central to the UK’s economic strategy....
...The party also ousted Margaret Thatcher in 1990 ahead of the first Gulf war....
...However, former prime ministers Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Theresa May were all wounded by votes on their leadership....
...The rot sets in with a woman, his new queen, Margaret of Anjou....
...Since the days of Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s Conservatives have defined themselves as the party of low tax and small government....
...Timothy Sainsbury, who served as a trade minister under Margaret Thatcher and John Major, has donated an undisclosed amount to the campaign of Sam Gyimah, the candidate in his home constituency of Kensington...
...Socks, Edwina’s own Above left, Matilda wears Margaret Howell cotton knit slipover, £225, and cotton shirt, £295....
...“Sculpture is not rape,” the British sculptor Barbara Hepworth reminded art critic Robert Hughes when he marvelled that she was so petite. “People . . . still think of sculpture as a male occupation....
...The rollout of such a high-profile campaign on British television and social media may echo action taken by Margaret Thatcher’s government more than a quarter of a century ago, when it sought to warn the...
...Mr Clarke, an MP for almost 50 years and a cabinet minister under Margaret Thatcher, is more warmly regarded by Eurosceptics than Mr Hammond....
...Margaret Greenwood, the shadow work and pensions secretary, said the delay was “hugely embarrassing” for the government....
...Additional reporting by Laura Hughes, Olaf Storbeck and David Sheppard...
...Darren Hughes, chief executive of the Electoral Reform Society, which advocates abolition of the House of Lords, said: “By appointing a host of ex-MPs, party loyalists and his own brother, the PM is inviting...
...Mr Johnson’s team denied it briefed against individual civil servants but argued that former prime ministers including Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair gradually brought in senior officials they trusted...
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