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...Additional reporting by Samuel Agini and Oliver Barnes...
...In 1937 the writer began what would have been his first theatrical play, to be called Human Wishes, and based on the life of Samuel Johnson....
...Meanwhile, BP has finally announced a new permanent chief following Bernard Looney’s abrupt departure in September after failing to disclose past relationships with company colleagues....
...Some 15,000 black people were estimated to live in the city in 1772, and both Reynolds and his friend, the literary wit Samuel Johnson, had black servants....
...The government official argued that Johnson felt he could no longer hold the line against a windfall tax after the BP boss’s comments. “It was a game-changer.”...
...Samuel Pepys wrote his diary when Christmas was still recovering from the Puritans. He seemed to spend Christmas Days listening to “dull” sermons. In 1662, he practised arithmetic....
...Since Samuel Johnson acidly inquired “How is it that we hear the loudest yelps of liberty among the drivers of negroes?”, this founding contradiction has never been out of view....
...As David Olusoga writes Black and British (2016), the slave trade and Caribbean migration brought many to London, mostly to be servants — Samuel Johnson’s manservant Francis Barber was Jamaican....
...The biggest risk relates to a no-deal departure from the EU whereby import prices rise because of: i) lower sterling, ii) higher tariffs vs EU, and iii) goods shortages. Jagjit Chadha: Somewhat....
...“Everything I wrote from Brussels,” Boris Johnson remembered of his time peddling myths of Euro-tyranny as a correspondent there, “was sort of chucking these rocks and . . ....
...When Samuel Johnson wrote the entry for usquebaugh, or whisk(e)y, in his dictionary of 1755, he made his tastes quite plain: “The Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and mild flavour...
...Norway for now), iii) no deal or iv) remain....
...President Johnson’s speechwriter Robert Hardesty advised “four-letter words, four-word sentences and four-sentence paragraphs”....
...That pompous curmudgeon Samuel Johnson (no relation to Alan, as far as I know) observed in 1759 that writers who told their own story were in undisputed command of the facts....
...Instead, the plays, on stage andas reinterpreted here, mirror the complexity of life, partaking as the great empiricist Samuel Johnson wrote of them, “of good and evil, joy and sorrow . . . expressing the...
...First editions abound, from Charles Dickens and Samuel Johnson to Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf. “F” takes me to Flaubert....
...When they found themselves without a maidservant, Samuel Pepys insisted on going to Leadenhall market for “a leg of beef, a good one, for 6p” under the cover of darkness in case someone saw him....
...I became most aware of this split sensation when reading Wade Davis’s haunting book Into The Silence, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2012....
...slave, arrived in England in 1750 to work as the valet of Samuel Johnson, the giant of 18th-century English letters....
...Encyclopedia Britannica was a concept conceived in 1768 in the head of a Scot: William Smellie (with much content borrowed from Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson)....
...(iii) Brexit (see below)."...
...Mr Bernard remains optimistic of further growth to come. “Demographics are a significant long-term driver,” he argues....
...Gerard Lyons, Chief Economic Advisor to The Mayor of London Boris Johnson Yes, a decent pace, between 2.5 per cent to 3 per cent....
...Names to remember are Paul Evans, Bernard Rooke, Hans Coper and Brian Willsher.”...
...Gerard Lyons, Chief Economic Adviser to The Mayor of London Boris Johnson Yes, it does matter....
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