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...Tammy Samuel, rail partner at law firm Stephenson Harwood, said this may force the government to take the “nuclear option” of taking contracts back in house if renegotiations failed....
...Most importantly, though, from 1942 until 1944, Belfrage was employed by the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) as the right-hand man of William Stephenson, who, as head of British Security Co-ordination...
...Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize....
...Newlands, partner, transaction advisory services quality leader, EY, on a 60 per cent contract Mary Starks and Deborah Jones, directors of competition, Financial Conduct Authority, on three days each Watkin Samuel...
...Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson, Borough Press, RRP£20 / William Morrow, RRP$35 Stephenson’s dense, detailed epic shows humankind struggling to save what it can of itself against a ticking-clock doomsday...
...Rosen’s recurring motif is Stephenson’s Rocket....
...One is Qu Li, a Chinese consultant who had a personal relationship with Nick Stephenson, one of the Phoenix Four directors who owned and ran MG Rover....
...Its customers have included Samuel Pepys, Lord Byron, Jane Austen and Elihu Yale, founder of the US university. But Hoare has taken steps that make clear that it is not mired in the 17th century....
...unwillingness to commit to a point of view: thus 19th-century painters such as Philip Wilson Steer hovered between impressionism and Constable, and 20th-century eminences such as Graham Sutherland tried to cross Samuel...
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