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...The store was founded by husband-and-wife duos Jeff and Natasha Patten, and Josh and Stephanie Cohen....
...Evercore has named former Goldman Sachs senior banker Stephen Withnell as a senior adviser focused on metals, materials and mining....
...“People won’t trust the Met to change itself, in the same way they didn’t trust the RUC to change itself” says Professor Stephen White, a senior officer with both the RUC and PSNI who worked on the reforms...
...infected Hong Kong with the virus of freedom and an appreciation for the rule of law without allowing anything close to full democracy or self-determination (despite the belated democratising efforts by Chris Patten...
...A more theatrical note is promised by Truly Madly (Sphere, March), Stephen Galloway’s account of the passionate, turbulent, captivating romance between actors Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier....
...Philip Stephens is right that the biggest and most complicated area of policy where the EU and the incoming US administration of President Joe Biden need to coalesce is that of China (Opinion, January 22...
...Well, Lord Patten has his answer. On February 1 Brexit becomes the legal reality....
...Change UK has also recruited former Conservative health secretary Stephen Dorrell and Neil Carmichael, a Tory MP from 2010-2017. Half of its candidates are from non-political backgrounds....
...Why did the government not make use of John Kerr, who drafted Article 50 and Stephen Wall who wrote the history of Britain and the EU? Now a new volume is needed....
...Sebastian Barry talks to Chris Patten March 22, 6pmSheldonian Theatre, £8-£20 Sebastian Barry, laureate for Irish fiction, talks about his life and career with Chris Patten, chancellor of the University...
...Chris Patten once remarked that for all its decades of membership, Britain had never really joined the EU....
...Too long coddled by the US, Europeans should welcome the president-elect’s admonition to stand on their own feet, says the FT’s Philip Stephens....
...First Confession, by Chris Patten, Allen Lane, RRP£20 A memoir by the politician who presided over the UK’s handover of Hong Kong to China 20 years ago....
...“We’re going into a brave new world of energy in the UK,” said Stephen Bull, senior vice-president for offshore wind at Statoil....
...Chris Patten, the last governor before the handover, has noted that a British government would never have signed any document as now framed by Beijing....
...Beginning and Beyond Eternity Sunday March 22, 12 noon Corpus Christi College, tickets £12 Roger Penrose is a physicist and mathematician whose distinguished career includes groundbreaking work with Stephen...
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...“The BBC Trust’s position appears to be that they were not aware of material information relating to Mark Byford’s pay-off,” said Stephen Barclay, a Tory MP....
...He toured and recorded regularly, wrote copiously and started performing with such new-generation free musicians as Evan Parker and John Stephens....
...The review, by Nick Pollard, a former head of Sky News, criticised Mr Entwistle and Helen Boaden, the broadcaster’s head of news, and led to the resignation of Stephen Mitchell, deputy director for news....
...Earlier, Mr Davie tried to restore trust in the broadcaster’s crisis-hit news operation by sidelining Helen Boaden, head of news, and Stephen Mitchell, her deputy....
...Tim Davie sidelined Helen Boaden, head of news, and Stephen Mitchell, her deputy, on his second day in the job, stressing the need to be clear who was running the BBC’s news operation....
...Some MPs turned their fire on Lord Patten. “How can the BBC move on until Lord Patten is sacked?” asked the Labour MP John Mann....
...Philip Stephens is an FT columnist...
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