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...Friedrich Engels was horrified by what he saw in Manchester in the 1840s, and described the squalor in which most of its people lived in his book The Condition of the Working Class in England....
...Dallas FC, the Major League Soccer club, is increasingly a breeding ground for top international talent, boasting Juventus midfielder Weston McKennie and Crystal Palace center back Chris Richards among its...
...Letter in response to this article: Five QE questions for the Bank of England sceptics / From Richard Barwell, Head of Macro Research and Investment Strategy, BNP Paribas Asset Management, London EC2, UK...
...Whatever the result, this is a remarkable turnaround for a family who were pariahs (albeit very rich ones) when Marcos Sr was ousted in 1986....
...As in the south-west of England now, one issue was the inflation of house prices beyond the means of locals....
...Hill’s book is also a compelling memoir about her journey from a working-class background in northern England to the corridors of power in Washington....
...Chapel (1730-1), one of the original buildings in Sir Richard Grosvenor’s development of his farm into what we now know as Mayfair....
...George W Bush, US president from 2001-2009, son of a former president, attended elite prep and boarding schools, then Yale and Harvard Business School....
...The hotel brands affected included W Hotels, Sheraton Hotels & Resorts and Le Meridien Hotels & Resorts....
...Before Donald Trump, there was George W Bush. Before him, there was Jimmy Carter. And before Mr Carter, Herbert Hoover....
...The UK has become the first country to embrace the monetary financing of government to fund the immediate cost of fighting coronavirus, with the Bank of England agreeing to a Treasury demand to directly...
...The most disconcerting aspect of the Brexit process remains the absence of what George H.W....
...The British government is targeting June 22 for the reopening of England’s pubs and restaurants and the rest of the hospitality sector ahead of the lucrative summer season....
...Instead of rushing off to the White House, he waited for Richard Nixon to visit him at Chequers. Henry Kissinger, Nixon’s secretary of state, called him England’s version of Charles De Gaulle....
...John Wraith at UBS notes: “The drawings of the W&M facility in April 2020 stood at £0.4bn. During the financial crisis, it peaked at £19.9bn....
...In coronavirus, Silicon Valley has met an adversary it can’t outrun, Richard Waters writes....
...In January 2004, George W Bush announced his own space strategy, including a goal to “return to the Moon by 2020”....
...Isabel.Berwick@ft.com @IsabelBerwick Andrew Hill is away Letter in response to this column: No one gives you a manual on how to design a culture / From Jonathan Richards, Horsham, W Sussex, UK...
...It recently added Joshua Bolten, chief of staff to President George W Bush in 2006-09....
...Ann Richards....
...The King and the Catholics: The Fight for Emancipation 1829, by Antonia Fraser, W&N, RRP£25 The history of Britain’s 19th-century struggle for Catholic rights....
...Richard Nixon pressured Arthur Burns to keep rates low in the early 1970s, for example....
...Richard W Painter, the chief White House ethics lawyer under Republican George W Bush, wrote in the New York Times that he had filed a complaint against the FBI for violating the Hatch Act, which bars government...
...Of the 16 presidents since Roosevelt, only Republicans — Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush — have not used it....
...Gathering Blossoms Under Fire, by Alice Walker, W&N, RRP£18.99/Atria, RRP$30 (September) Extracts from 50 years of journals and letters by the author of The Color Purple....
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