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...The sale harks back to Margaret Thatcher’s vision of “popular capitalism” in her privatisation campaigns of the 1980s, most famously that of British Gas accompanied by the “Tell Sid” advertising campaign...
...“It’s time to get Sid investing again,” Hunt said as he delivered the Autumn Statement, referring to an advertising campaign used to promote a privatisation drive by Margaret Thatcher’s government in the...
...Each creation possessed its own quirky energy, attracting admirers such as Margaret Howell, Paul Smith and Dries Van Noten, with whom they collaborated on a range of accessories in the mid-’90s....
...He returned to London in 1984 and was named Schroders’ chief executive when only 42, just ahead of Margaret Thatcher’s Big Bang reforms of the City, which turbocharged the British financial sector....
...Scruton’s own preference for buildings of a classical bent was flagged as early as 1979 — the year Margaret Thatcher came to power and set about putting council houses up for sale — and outlined in his book...
...It’s a far cry from Thomas Adès’s frosty depiction of the comparably scandalous Margaret, Duchess of Argyll and her coterie in Powder Her Face, but both pieces provoke via their salaciousness....
...The news has been greeted, privately, with glee by US investment banks, which will be the main beneficiaries of the change and have grown to dominate London since Margaret Thatcher’s sweeping deregulation...
...Bovan remembers being captivated by images of the Burryman, Morris dancers and the ’Obby ’Oss, from festivals in Yorkshire, Scotland and Cornwall as a child....
...That year, Morris says, her block was issued with additional charges for repairing faulty guttering. The guttering still leaks, she adds....
...The deal will allow UTA to tap into Curtis Brown’s deep well of literary talent, which includes writers such as The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood and the estates of Ian Fleming, John le Carré, AA...
...“Margaret backed me,” he says....
...The spores of the anthrax bacteria thrive in Queen Elizabeth National Park’s calcium-rich, pH-neutral soil, said Margaret Driciru, a wildlife veterinarian at UWA who helped to found the lab....
...Spanning six continents, it has no space for Doris Lessing, Vikram Seth, Jan Morris, Nadine Gordimer or JRR Tolkien....
...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....
...Mandy Morris, the principal, hopes it will make opportunities more visible. “I was shocked when I met some adults and they said ‘College, me? No chance’,” she says....
...A Brooklyn toymaker, Morris Michtom, created “Teddy’s Bear” in honour of his kindness. Another cuddly politician was “Iron Lady” Margaret Thatcher....
...There were two things that really vexed me — the live transport of animals, and seal culling — and I used to be constantly writing letters to Margaret Thatcher.”...
...What clinched it for the UK capital was Big Bang, Margaret Thatcher’s sweeping deregulation of the City of London, which began in 1983....
...I put a few Penguin 60s by the hand sanitiser, and was delighted when someone paid £2 for a Jan Morris. Comics, which I brought to the front of the shop, flew out the box....
..., written by Morris Pearl and Erica Payne....
...Almost exactly 100 years ago, in February 1921, Margaret C Anderson and Jane Heap, editors of the New York-based literary magazine The Little Review, lost an obscenity trial....
...It’s fair to say memories of Margaret Thatcher and her deregulatory Big Bang loom large in their post-Brexit visions....
...Deluged by paperwork from regulators around the world, the co-founders of BioNTech missed the TV footage of 90-year-old Margaret Keenan rolling up her sleeve at a hospital in Coventry in the UK to become...
...Arthur Scargill, leader of the National Union of Mineworkers from 1982 to 2002, and scourge of Margaret Thatcher, resided here in a grace and favour flat during the 1980s strike....
...The Morris was William Morris, poet, socialist and revolutionary designer, who believed there was moral aspect to design, that it could improve lives....
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