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...Earlier frictions are likely to feature in Chris Patten’s book The Hong Kong Diaries (Allen Lane, June), in which the last British governor of the former colony chronicles the run-up to the 1997 handover...
...“It’s important to stop the sort of predatory buying up of important security interests in the UK by China or anyone else,” said Lord Patten....
...But Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong between 1992 and 1997, says the bank should take a more active approach....
...The affair is Thomas Becket meets Tom Sharpe, on the site that gave rise to Alice in Wonderland....
...The House of Commons will be recalled on Monday to pay tribute to Ms Cox, whose alleged killer Thomas Mair told a courtroom on Saturday his name was “Death to traitors, freedom for Britain”....
...Mr Thompson and Lord Patten are due to air their differences before the public accounts committee on Monday....
...It was like Thomas Cromwell. Tony could hear him.”...
...The Hong Kong Suite was commissioned by Chris Patten, that territory’s last British governor; The Amandla Suite celebrated the trades union merger that created Unison....
...Lord Patten calls for a “radical structural overhaul” of the BBC, but others say the scandals arose from a problem involving people rather than systems....
...Fran Unsworth, head of newsgathering, and Ceri Thomas, editor of the BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, will assume their roles in the interim, while Karen O’Connor, former commissioning editor for BBC news...
...Nick Thomas, analyst at Informa Telecoms & Media, said: “The fears are that he is not enough of a digital bod to understand that for millions of its consumers, the BBC is now as much a provider of digital...
...Sir Anthony Bamford – JCB Malcolm Brinded – Royal Dutch Shell Richard Lambert – CBI Chris Patten – Chancellor University Oxford Alan Parker – Brunswick David Brewer – Former LM of London/Chair China British...
...Chris Patten, Chairman of the BBC Trust and chancellor of Oxford University Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour (Allen Lane) by Michael Lewis is a funny if scary description of financial disaster tourism, through...
...Surrounded by the enveloping tapestry of City history, we noticed a portrait of Sir Thomas More gazing down on us. He seemed to look askance at the proceedings. No wonder....
...Chris Patten, Chancellor of Oxford University The late Tony Judt published two books in 2010....
...: Surviving the 21st Century By Chris Patten Allen Lane £25, 512 pages In an erudite volume, Chris Patten considers the global condition, including climate change, world poverty and nuclear proliferation...
...To illustrate his point, he compares the writing of David Ricardo and Thomas Malthus, two early 19th-century English scholars of political economy....
...As this festival has a strong musical side it will include the Russian premiere of Thomas Adès’s chamber opera Powder Her Face, and much else....
...Chris Patten is a former governor of Hong Kong and former European Commissioner for external relations....
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