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...To the intense frustration of university leaders like Stern, the higher education minister, Robert Halfon, batted away talk of a crisis while giving evidence to the House of Lords in May....
...David trained under acclaimed English chef Glynn Purnell before moving to Norway, where he was part of the team that won three Michelin stars at Oslo’s Maaemo....
...Perhaps the most unedifying moment is when Bower takes potshots at Sonia Purnell, Johnson’s previous and less forgiving biographer....
...Robert Shrimsley FT UK editor-at-large For fiction and underworld escapism, James Ellroy’s Underworld USA trilogy, especially the first novel, American Tabloid....
...Nicholas Purnell QC representing John Varley Mr Varley’s barrister, Mr Purnell, is one of the country’s top silks — or Queen’s Counsels — with more than four decades of experience....
...“It is a truism of politics that divided parties do not win elections,” says Roberts....
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...Adam Purnell “I don’t understand them striking over a button. They have tried to make the service better by ordering better trains but the people don’t want to change.”...
...“It’s not the fact of delegation,” said Nicholas Purnell QC, Mr Dahdaleh’s barrister, during Wednesday’s hearing. “It’s the manner of the delegation.”...
...Under the stewardship of James Purnell, former Labour culture secretary and recently appointed as director of strategy and digital at the BBC, discussions over the cost of these retransmission fees have...
...James Purnell, the former Labour culture secretary, was on Thursday appointed director, strategy and digital....
...Earlier this month he appointed James Purnell, the former Labour culture secretary, to a new position of director, strategy and digital....
...Mr Redwood jumped alone; it remains to be seen if Mr Purnell has too. One can argue about degree....
...Robert Shrimsley is managing editor of FT.com and a former chief political correspondent...
...to secure at least five A-C grade passes at GCSE … But Brian … …and that this compares to 65 per cent for Mr Cameron, 63 per cent for Mr Clegg, 59 per cent for Mr Salmond and just 48 per cent for Mr Purnell...
...An age-defying Rupert Everett turned heads with his friend Michael Roberts, Vanity Fair fashion director, who was sporting a Dickensian tweed cap....
...Mr Purnell said that rhetoric was a return to the traditional Conservative stance of seeing the state as “mainly a problem”....
...Yet whichever party wins will face a grindingly difficult time, argues Robert Waller, a political psephologist....
...The days when Robert Kennedy would pull out a quote from Aeschylus to include in a speech, as he did in his instant response to the assassination of Martin Luther King, are long gone....
...“It’s still possible to buy a reasonable apartment in a good area for the equivalent of £100,000,” says Robert Pierce of the buying agency Property Finders....
...FT: James Purnell, the culture secretary. JM: Equal weight. FT: Mark Thompson? director-general of the BBC? JM: Equal weight. FT: Newspapers? JM: Long....
...for Culture, Media and Sports has asked education advisor Paul Roberts to conduct a review of creativity in schools....
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