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...I got an incredibly tight squeeze from Cherie Blair after moderating a panel convened about 15 minutes before it started when the Ghanaian president couldn’t make it for our “fireside chat”....
...Additional reporting by Samuel Agini and Oliver Barnes...
...(The Tony Blair Rock Opera)....
...John Major, who had since become prime minister, was resolutely defeated in the 1997 election by Labour’s Tony Blair....
...The Queen, Tony Blair and many politicians were there, and in the middle of it a man started shouting at Blair and the Queen, ‘You have not said sorry yet,’ and calling to the black musicians, ‘Get up and...
...Martin Amis, a victim of that prejudice, cites Samuel Beckett and JM Coetzee as examples of the undeservedly feted....
...Play ’em off, Samuel Tombs: Raising Bank Rate to almost 6% also would lead to a sharp rise in mortgage defaults....
...During the uproar over the Super League, former British Labour prime minister Tony Blair, who chairs JPMorgan’s International Council, which is made up of business executives and former political leaders...
...Comedians mocked it, advertisers boycotted it, Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s former spin-doctor, called it the “most evil paper in the world”. “They just get on everyone’s tits, don’t they?”...
...In fact, two Iliad shareholders are so frustrated with founder Xavier Niel’s belated efforts to recover his mojo that they draw parallels with Samuel Beckett’s French play Waiting for Godot, in which two...
...stimulus is likely to depend on the precise nature of the stimulus and the degree to which it kick-starts genuine productivity raising supply-side improvements Kallum Pickering: By the most since the Blair-Brown...
...British Library, David Kynaston expressed admiration for the work of historian EP Thompson in “rescuing forgotten and marginalised subjects from posterity’s enormous condescension”, as well as for Raphael Samuel...
...Philip Stephens: Blair must look to Europe 2006: Referendum averted Prime minister Tony Blair had promised a referendum on the proposed EU constitution — a vote pencilled in for spring 2006....
...A long list of high-achieving old boys, including poet John Milton and London’s famous diarist Samuel Pepys, reflects the intellectual ambitions of 16th-century founder John Colet, dean of St Paul’s Cathedral...
...Politics, for Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury, and former UK culture secretary under prime minister Tony Blair, shares a similar space....
...The Unravelling is shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction and it is a book with a rare perspective....
...consumer confidence index jumped six points in June, taking the overall score to seven — the highest since early 2000 and a level not consistently recorded since the late 1990s and the early days of the first Blair...
...whose career spanned a half-century from Clement Attlee to Tony Blair....
...He married Diana Clemetson in 1980; along with Sir Samuel, she and two stepdaughters survive him....
...At weekends, he tries to find time for his two young sons Samuel and Daniel and his wife Justine, an environmental lawyer whom he met in 2002....
...Lawrence De Maria, an analyst at William Blair, said earnings per share could fall to less than $5 in 2016....
...Whatever people might think of Edward Samuel Miliband when they meet him, the polls suggest he is the least popular British opposition leader on record — albeit at a time when all mainstream politicians...
...After a half-century with the FT, Sir Samuel Brittan retired last week, signing off with a valedictory essay and video chat....
...Think of some of the modern-day masters: Tony Blair, Boris Johnson or Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury....
...… Talking to Terrorists: How to End Armed Conflicts, by Jonathan Powell, Random House, RRP£20 As Tony Blair’s chief of staff, Powell played a key role in the Northern Ireland peace negotiations....
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