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...for last week’s event seen by the FT listed those due to attend as including well-known British business figures such as Philip Green of Arcadia Group, Dragons’ Den star Peter Jones, and Ocado boss Tim Steiner...
...“It’s a love-hate thing,” said Adam Steiner, a local artist, who describes Coventry as “an underdog city” whose residents are “used to being kicked around”. Coventry boomed after the war....
...The 1980s, when conservative leaders such as Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Helmut Kohl defined the world’s political climate, saw a significant change....
...“One suddenly had the feeling that one was very rich, very elegant, very sophisticated,” said the literary critic George Steiner, recalling the evening half a century later....
...It is a good job that Santa runs his toy depot at the North Pole better than Tim Steiner manages Ocado’s distribution centre in Hatfield....
...(The triumphs of resolutely uncool figures such as Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher show what happens at times of crisis....
...He has also set up a Redonda imprint and, each year, he and his dukes and duchesses confer a prize on a writer, the latest recipient was literary critic George Steiner, now Duke of Girona....
...Where else might one spot Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt tripping over colossal cobbles while Margaret Atwood fingered dresses and geared up for serious bird-watching?...
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