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...The first series of Norma Percy’s excellent documentary Putin vs the West considered how occidental powers underestimated the Russian president’s expansionist ambitions in the decade leading up to the invasion...
...In the Bodleian’s exhibition, Mary Shelley’s manuscript of Frankenstein, with Percy Bysshe Shelley’s editorial suggestions inked into the margin, is on display....
...Wearing as it can be to listen to politicians talk of misjudgments and missed opportunities, their testimonies of dealing with Putin — or talking to him “on the blower”, as Boris Johnson notes with his usual...
...Instead it was sent to a parliamentary aide to Andrew Percy, the MP for Brigg and Goole....
...Eastick’s tormentor, one captain Johnson Doyle, was later tried (and acquitted) of the boy’s murder....
...Andrew Percy, a Tory MP, hit back at Rees-Mogg, saying: “As someone who apparently loves the Union, his personal attack on Douglas . . . is a gift to the petty nationalists in the SNP who want to break this...
...The signatories to the letter, who also included actor Steve Coogan and film-maker Norma Percy, said the government’s public service broadcasting advisory panel has been meeting “in secret with no public...
...Tory MPs Roger Gale and Andrew Percy voted against the government....
...His father Percy served as a Tory MP for two decades. He was educated at Oxford university and then became a barrister....
...In addition to Mr Rees-Mogg and Mr Duncan Smith, they include Simon Clarke, Rob Halfon (who supported the deal in all three of the past votes), Charlie Elphick, Andrew Percy, Nigel Evans, Johnny Mercer and...
...(Surely his riposte to Boris Johnson’s line about Mr Corbyn’s “vested interests and interesting vests”.)...
...It is not irrelevant to recall that Sophocles’ great tragedy was written and performed on the edge of the Aegean, and that when Percy Shelley, who himself translated Oedipus Rex, drowned off the coast of...
...A 2016 pamphlet about Boris Johnson savaged the politician as “the blond beast of Brexit”. Anger was sharpened by wit and a quicksilver intelligence....
...Its currents and meanders bear the reader through the shoals of Hoare’s own childhood and family history and towards encounters with — among others — Sylvia Plath, Percy Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning...
...Drivelling on about Britons buying BMWs and prosecco, as foreign secretary Boris Johnson has been heard to do, is not going to change this hard reality or the economic facts....
...The city remained a vital centre of intellectual activity: look at Samuel Percy’s wax diorama (1785-1800) of a gathering at the Turk’s Head tavern in Soho, showing, among others, Samuel Johnson and Joshua...
...Conservative MP Andrew Percy said scores of Tory MPs were worried about the plan and that the government would never secure parliamentary approval with a working majority of just 17....
...He dropped that plan after a backlash from backbenchers including London mayor Boris Johnson....
...In the US, JPMorgan’s quarterly profits got a boost from a $2.2bn tax benefit, after shares closed down 0.24 per cent at $61.56, and Johnson & Johnson announced a $10bn buyback, one of this year’s largest...
...Thanks to “the father of the booktrade” Joseph Johnson, she was the first woman in England to live off a publisher’s retainer....
...When the managing director, Percy Chandler, died in the 1980s, the big clock stopped. I went up, another electrician checked too. We couldn’t find anything wrong with it....
...Alexander Pope considered the water a “translucent wave”; Samuel Johnson called it a “silver flood”, and Joseph Conrad knew it as “a sea the colour of lead”....
...Before she married Henry VIII Anne was betrothed to Lord Percy, son and heir of the Earl of Northumberland; if she consummated the union, this would mean that her daughter Elizabeth I was illegitimate on...
...But unfortunately Percy Bysshe Shelley was a rebel, an atheist and a proto-socialist advocate of free love – not the sort of man whose poems you hand out to teenagers....
...Johnson, Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC Robert Johnson, Founder, Chairman CEO, BET Interactive Sheila Johnson, CEO, Salamander Development LLC Thomas S....
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