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...The works of art that changed everything for me were Cicely Mary Barker’s Flower Fairies illustrations....
...Wilfred’s nocturnal wanderings in Soho and on Hampstead Heath evoke the too-permeable line between the pleasures of cruising and its dangers, especially at the height of the Aids crisis....
...Heath department insiders said St Mary’s remained part of the New Hospital Programme and suggested rebuilding would start before 2030, although they acknowledged that work would continue beyond that date...
...In Kat Heath’s haunted house set, lights suddenly glow alarmingly, doors slam shut, and one bedroom has such an “atmosphere” that no one will sleep there....
...The novel’s heroine, Mary Yellan, suspects that the bleak surroundings have warped the minds of the locals, and that there is “something of the Devil left in them still”....
...Tim Bale, professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London and a historian of the Tory party, said the downfall of Thatcher was the most analogous to Johnson’s situation....
...“We tried to create a multisensory environment,” Heath explains....
...And there are few historical insights to glean, unlike with Henry VIII’s Mary Rose, which yielded a Tudor time capsule when it was raised from the depths in 1982....
...Heath LedgerSelfie by Ledger with Lixenberg and assistant Danielle van Ark, New York, NY, 2005 This was in my home in New York on Broadway....
...hired Gregg Berman, the SEC’s former head of research who examined the role of high-frequency trading on the world’s largest equity market, as well as Ryan VanGrack, who was an adviser to former SEC chair Mary...
...Mary, the middle sister, uses high levels of Latinate words, but this indicates her pretentiousness rather than her intelligence....
...Erin Meyer, co-author with Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings of No Rules Rules (shortlist, 2020), recommended Made to Stick (2007), Dan and Chip Heath’s “entertaining, practical guide to communication”, and...
...Should you ever want to test the truth in prime minister Ted Heath’s line that sailing is like standing under a cold shower tearing up £5 notes, buy an old wooden boat. Yet what looks!...
...My fantasy dinner party isn’t a dinner at all but a picnic on the meadow at Kenwood Ladies’ Pond, on Hampstead Heath in north London....
...This government is overly drawn to bold strokes, new tech and Hail Mary passes. “Move fast and break things” has its place as a slogan, but someone has to pick up the pieces....
...As Tim Bale, professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London, put it to me: “Democracy isn’t just about an election every five years....
..., Devon; JR Jefferies, Dudley Polymath 1,028: John Clune, Ireland Crossword 16,200: Edward Cooper, Norwich R Winter, Worthing; Kate Lloyd-Williams, Somerset Polymath 1,027: Christina Dyall, Chadwell Heath...
...“The failure of the frontrunner to win the race is a thread that runs through every Tory leadership contest,” said Tim Bale, a political historian at Queen Mary, University of London....
...Losing to Edward Heath’s Conservatives six years later, by the time Wilson returned to office in 1974 he was visibly declining, physically and mentally....
...Later this year, Cook’s house will be adorned with a plaque from the Heath & Hampstead Society....
...The pool is a cut above the average public baths — with a backlit wall, water jets and a bubble pool — but Mazzucato usually swims on Hampstead Heath....
...The writer is professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London...
...Mary Cane helped to found the KLPA and has been swimming here since 1982....
...The bells have chimed the hour at St Mary’s church in Burpham for the past 1,000 years....
...Take Wimbledon Common, the wide plateau of heaths and bogs that, along with Richmond Park, forms London’s largest green space, a heaving city lung that begins right at the end of my road....
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