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...Heather Thomas Trustee, The Jane Austen Society London N1, UK...
...Letter in response to this article: More to Austen than bonnet-laden romance / From Heather Thomas, Trustee, The Jane Austen Society, London N1, UK...
...It was a particularly flowery spring, and Caerhays’ magnificent 25ft campbellii Princess Margaret strutted her dark pink cups against a china blue sky....
...This led to close relations with senior Conservatives and a relationship with Margaret Thatcher, who spent her last days living at the Ritz under their ownership....
...“You know most images of Jane Birkin,” Andelman says, who turned detective to track down the picture’s author....
...Citigroup chief executive Jane Fraser last week warned that “cracks” were emerging in the health of US consumers....
...Jane Maitland Executive Coach, Nailsworth Gloucestershire, UK...
...The 17th-century philosopher Margaret Cavendish, that “uncompromising materialist”, gets three pages; the medieval polymath Hildegard of Bingen gets none; Marie Curie just a few lines....
...During the Margaret Thatcher era, London’s Scala cinema was a sanctuary for cultural refugees from across Britain....
...Letter in response to this article: Why executives are often in denial about succession / From Jane Maitland, Executive Coach, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, UK...
...What’s going on, asks Margaret Heffernan....
...The redevelopment of the former docklands was the emblem of the UK’s economic transformation in the 1980s and ’90s — kicked off by the “Big Bang” under Margaret Thatcher, which deregulated the UK’s financial...
...It’s me, Margaret We are set for our first test of Scottish public opinion under Humza Yousaf....
...The choice of shoe sets your smartness-ometer; loafers or Mary Janes dial it up, while Adidas Gazelles and chunky socks tone it down....
...The red equivalent is excellent too.£11.95 The Wine Society Vasse Felix Classic Semillon/Sauvignon Blanc 2021 Margaret River 12.5%Smells much more of Semillon than Sauvignon with the vague waxiness that...
...An honorary professor at Manchester University and a visiting fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, from 2016-19, she was appointed an honorary fellow at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in 2020....
...Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, co-curators of The Horror Show!, provide a horror-inflected history of certain strata of British life over the past 50 years....
...Large scale voluntary transfers of social housing stock under Margaret Thatcher’s premiership in the 1980s from local councils to housing associations — which later amalgamated — enlarged associations, leaving...
...If she succeeds, Truss would follow Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May to become Britain’s third female occupant of Number 10, all Conservative....
...In the opening story, “Creature”, Carol recalls babysitting for a wealthy family in New England when she was 14, “halfway through Jane Eyre for summer reading”....
...Jane Augsburger, 55, addressed what she saw as criminal damage to the planet....
...In September, we had welcomed Ethel Jane Whyman, to be called “Ettie”, our beautiful daughter. But since her birth, something strange had happened. Ettie had been transformed. She was Ettie no longer....
...And, as he knows, the previous two Conservative prime ministers, David Cameron and Theresa May, like Margaret Thatcher before them, were unseated by fellow Tories....
...Jane Thornley Farnham CommonBuckinghamshire, UK...
...In the UK, Margaret Thatcher’s employment secretary, Norman Tebbit, was fond of telling people about his father who, when unemployed, “got on his bike and looked for work, and he kept looking till he found...
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