Hints and tips:
...Six months after Labour’s 1997 landslide, Tony Blair hosted British artists, musicians and entertainers for a Downing Street soirée....
...In between those Oscars, she won her first Bafta for Sunday, Bloody Sunday and Emmy awards for her stunning performance as Elizabeth I in the BBC’s timeless mini-series, Elizabeth R....
...The UK’s share of global pharma R&D has dropped sharply since 2012, from 7.7 per cent to 4.2 per cent in 2020....
...Officials forecast total public revenues of R$2.37trn this year....
...Thatcher, Major and Blair largely steered clear of interventionism....
...First, productive factors like human capital, R&D and infrastructure....
...We’re investing quite a lot in R&D into aerospace and into clean tech, clean aviation, hydrogen and so forth....
...The R-word now hanging around Rishi Sunak, which she was quick to exploit....
...The real went from R$5.41 per dollar on Friday to R$5.17 per dollar on Tuesday....
...Tory MPs reported the same mood on the eve of the electoral wipeout of 1997, when Tony Blair’s Labour swept to power....
...Unless that is fixed, Britain will lose further ground in the race to be a science superpower — and no amount of R&D announcements will hide it....
...Tony Blair’s own original five-policy pledge card came many months in advance of his election victory in May 1997....
...As Tony Blair and Starmer both do. On immigration, for example, there is no support for a return to ‘free movement’....
...Then you have the problem that you don’t want R&D exclusively conducted by governments because of bureaucracy....
...When I was younger, I was a republican with the lower case r....
...“The 1969 film and the 1992 documentary Elizabeth R were broadcasts that changed the scope and style of the monarchy.”...
...Voters here had been majority Labour since 1935 but flipped to the Tories in 2019, as they did in Sedgefield, Tony Blair’s old seat, just down the road....
...When Merkel first came to power, Tony Blair was still the UK’s prime minister, George W Bush was starting his second term, Jacques Chirac had another two years to go as president of France and Twitter hadn...
...said Alastair Campbell, the writer and former director of communications to Britain’s former prime minister Tony Blair. “It would be very weird if you didn’t.”...
...“It’s important to understand that peace agreements aren’t fairy stories,” Jonathan Powell, chief of staff to former UK prime minister Tony Blair at the time of the peace deal, told me....
...As health adviser to Tony Blair in the early 2000s, he embraced market disciplines to ginger up the health service, jarring the sensibilities of a public system historically resistant to the private sector...
...Presented by Vann R Newkirk II, it tells an epic story of environmental catastrophe, government ineptitude, misinformation and institutional racism....
...He wanted to be a musician but his demo tapes failed to make 1970s A&R men put down their tightly rolled fivers....
...Dan Keeling had been the A&R man who’d discovered Coldplay, rose fast to become managing director at Island Records, then abruptly shifted careers to spend more time with wine....
...Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s former spin-doctor (and a man not always associated with truth-telling), reckons so....
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