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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...
...Modern (Sebastian Barry or Olga Tokarczuk), classic (Virginia Woolf or James Baldwin) or genre (Stephen King, Margaret Atwood, Georges Simenon) — it doesn’t matter....
...Lucy FisherAnd Stephen Bush. Hi, Stephen. Stephen BushHi, Lucy....
...Dame Margaret Beckett, the UK’s first female foreign secretary, has been awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire, one of Britain’s highest honours, for her five decades in frontline politics...
...For about two minutes last week, I accidentally found myself in the company of Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, Salman Rushdie, Han Kang and other stars of the literary world....
...“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...
...Top stories today Starmer’s Thatcher comments spark backlash | In a pitch to Tory voters, Keir Starmer lauded Margaret Thatcher as one of three key change-makers in modern British political history, alongside...
...It’s a good example of how Hunt, like all of his recent predecessors, has never quite been able to get out from under the shadow of Margaret Thatcher’s chancellors....
...stephen.bush@ft.com...
...Stephen Bush (“The importance of the zero-star review”, Opinion, Life & Arts, December 16) is not the first observer of the literary scene to pronounce the last rites for the hatchet job....
...Margaret Thatcher, with the assistance of a team of advertisers, consciously remade her own image, in a way that aped the style of Barbara Castle — the Labour party MP who was, at the time, one of the most...
...A marginal note Voters go to the polls today in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election, which was triggered after constituents voted to remove the former Scottish National party MP Margaret Ferrier...
...John Major was perceived as more moderate in absolute terms than Margaret Thatcher — but less so than Tony Blair....
...The comments made in an interview with the BBC on Thursday drew ire from the SNP leader at Westminster Stephen Flynn, who took his Aberdeen South seat from the Tories in 2019....
...For Margaret Thatcher, Sir Bernard Ingham was a “tough, blunt, humorous Yorkshireman” who “never let me down”....
...Everything from George Osborne’s Help to Buy scheme to Margaret Thatcher’s privatisations were built around making more and more of these people....
...The privatisation of the water industry in 1989 was seen as a high point of Margaret Thatcher’s economic revolution. Britain had been labelled the “sick man of Europe”....
...Tory donor accused of silencing Margaret Hodge | Mohamed Amersi has been accused of using bullying legal threats to suppress a report by the veteran Labour MP Margaret Hodge, which alleged he was “mired...
...Stephen King Senior Economic Adviser, HSBC, London E14, UK...
...I have been invited to Budapest by Stephen and Margaret de Heinrich de Omorovicza, founders of Hungarian skincare brand Omorovicza, whose products use the city’s thermal waters, together with a patented...
...Margaret Atwood and Stephen King are concerned that their works are being used to train AI systems, which can (in Atwood’s term) “glurp forth” prose on command....
...She used the 2013 debate to commemorate the death of Margaret Thatcher to deliver a blistering speech condemning the late prime minister....
...When Neil was elected party leader after Michael Foot’s disastrous loss to Margaret Thatcher in the 1983 general election, Glenys was forced into forging a new role — that of a public political spouse....
...Labour’s debate over “modernisation” in the 1980s and 1990s was shaped in part by the policy successes of Margaret Thatcher and John Major....
...The UK is out of the single market, one of Margaret Thatcher’s great policy achievements....
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