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...(Her character, Professor Pieixoto, a historian, was originally a man who appears in the “Historical Notes” section of Margaret Atwood’s novel.)...
...Margaret Thatcher was never so content as when dancing on the international stage with Ronald Reagan. Tony Blair once told me he thought it a “duty” to stay on good terms with Washington....
...Thirty years ago, at one of the hinge points of European history, Margaret Thatcher tipped up at the Kremlin for talks with Mikhail Gorbachev....
...That was the, er, chilling headline in the Telegraph on May 9 from known computer whizzes David Davis (former Brexit Bulldog secretary) and Matt Ridley (the chairman of Northern Rock until it collapsed,...
...Nicholas Ridley, a member of her cabinet, had to resign after giving an interview comparing Chancellor Helmut Kohl of Germany to Adolf Hitler....
...Likewise, tempting though it is to watch the TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, I have already read the Middle East section of the newspaper....
...Last week’s drama at the EU summit in Salzburg coincided with the 30th anniversary of the Bruges speech given by Margaret Thatcher, the then UK prime minister, at the College of Europe....
...In 1990, Nicholas Ridley, one of Margaret Thatcher’s most ideologically loyal cabinet ministers, lost his job after railing about a “German racket” to take over Europe; at least wartime resistance had offered...
...Yet Margaret’s story doesn’t end there....
...Mr Ridley's weekend exit coincided with the leak of the devastatingly one-sided Whitehall memorandum drawn up after Mrs Margaret Thatcher's Chequers discussions in March with historians and experts on Germany...
...He was a key figure in Margaret Thatcher’s transformation of Britain, being one of her closest advisers at the beginning and acting as her nemesis at the end....
...Sir Nicholas Ridley, who held the job under Margaret Thatcher, said: “I’ve got nothing to do and ten thousand civil servants to help me do it.”...
...Philip Stephens Nicholas Ridley, who served as a minister in Margaret Thatcher’s government, once mused that it should scrap health and safety regulations in the food industry....
...I asked Jane Ridley, expert biographer of our royals, for an update. Little Victoria was married and sent abroad at the age of 17....
...It is not what Margaret Thatcher would have done....
...The best rebuttal to Mr Piketty is the “rational optimism” of Matt Ridley, the Conservative peer and author, who argues that trade has improved everything from our calorific intake to our privacy....
...Back in 1990 Nicholas Ridley, a UK government minister under Margaret Thatcher, had to resign after he termed European monetary union “a German racket designed to take over Europe”....
...The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves, by Matt Ridley, Fourth Estate RRP£20 Ridley saw the financial crisis up close and personal as chairman of the failed mortgage lender Northern Rock, rescued...
...I also remember one of my academic colleagues, who equated Margaret Thatcher with CS Lewis’s White Queen in that realm of frozen snow in Narnia....
...Matt Ridley, Northern Rock’s chairman, oversaw a bone-headed business strategy – but he is a much admired science writer. 7....
...They imagined British Airways as the global airline it later became and ushered Margaret Thatcher into office. The “cool Britannia” that Tony Blair devised in 1997 owed a lot to them....
...Only three were alive but one of them was a Kemp’s ridley, the rarest species of marine turtle which is considered critically endangered....
...RICHARD DAWKINS: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think edited by Alan Grafen and Mark Ridley Oxford University Press ₤12.99, 283 pages There’s no getting away from Dawkins this year....
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