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...US Federal Reserve: Michael Barr, the Fed’s vice-chair for supervision, speaks at the National Interagency Community Reinvestment Conference in Portland, Oregon. Five more top stories 1....
...John Patten, whose brief tenure was otherwise un-noteworthy, was sued by the “nutter”, Brighouse....
...Smart, administratively able, undoctrinaire: Patten wasn’t even the outstanding member of a Tory cohort that included a lawyer who took silk at 40 (Ken Clarke) and the builder of a commercial fortune (Michael...
...The 1995 publication Canteen Cuisine: In the Kitchen with Michael Caine delivered just that....
...infected Hong Kong with the virus of freedom and an appreciation for the rule of law without allowing anything close to full democracy or self-determination (despite the belated democratising efforts by Chris Patten...
...Earlier frictions are likely to feature in Chris Patten’s book The Hong Kong Diaries (Allen Lane, June), in which the last British governor of the former colony chronicles the run-up to the 1997 handover...
...But Jean Seaton, the BBC’s official historian, thinks Michael Checkland might be a closer parallel....
...Letter in response to this article: The funding of research requires transparency / From Lord Patten of Barnes, Chancellor, University of Oxford, UK...
...Michael Heseltine, a former member of the Thatcher and Major governments, said Britain had not granted settlement rights to Hong Kongers because it would have been seen as “a major insult to China” and would...
...Then there was, of course, the lying and the disloyalty of Michael Gove, Johnson and their Leave colleagues....
...Sir John’s former deputy prime minister, Michael Heseltine, has also backed the three Independents and has said that people should vote for the Liberal Democrats in other seats to try to halt Brexit....
...Bruce Millan 1995-99: Leon Brittan Neil Kinnock (Lab): Served first as transport commissioner, before being reappointed and asked to modernise staff regulations for EU officials. 1999-2004: Chris Patten...
...On the BBC’s future Chris Patten Lord Patten, chair of the BBC Trust from 2011-14, defends the broadcaster from the ‘aggressive assaults’ and backs the current funding model, saying: ‘I cannot see an alternative...
...A recent paper from Beijing-based US economist Michael Pettis raised doubts about the value of Chinese direct investment....
...Michael Peel reports on how the Europeans are pretty powerless in the fight to uphold the agreement....
...The astonishing thing is not that Thatcher fell, but that she came within two votes of survival in the first round of the fatal leadership challenge by Michael Heseltine....
...But they don’t reflect on the fact that Lord Patten himself is also one of the most pro-EU Tories around....
...The letter to Xi Jinping, Chinese president, seeks the release of Michael Kovrig, a former Canadian diplomat who worked for the International Crisis Group, and Michael Spavor, an entrepreneur who organised...
...Earlier this month Michael Cohen, Mr Trump’s former personal attorney, pleaded guilty to eight charges brought by prosecutors in New York in a case also referred out by Mr Mueller....
...Has Michael Gove finally noticed that we did not after all “hold all the cards” the day after we voted to leave?...
...Chris Patten, a former Tory cabinet minister, tabled the amendment, warning against going back to the “old animosities” in Northern Ireland....
...Mr Patten said he wanted the event to be “as forward-looking as possible”....
...“When the prime minister isn’t able to put the fear of God into people, then you’ve got a serious problem,” says Chris Patten, a former Tory chairman and cabinet minister....
...Lord Patten, chancellor of Oxford university, said recently that even though China was a “hugely important income stream” for the institution, Oxford University Press had not and would not block content....
...And Michael Pedersen’s latest collection, Oyster, is illustrated by Scott Hutchison, frontman of Scottish indie band Frightened Rabbit....
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