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...Curiously, Franco had applied to join the Masons in 1924 and was turned down. Preston observes that his later obsession with Freemasonry may have been a way of taking revenge....
...But he also craved influence and power — which led him to Labour’s Tony Blair in the UK when he scented a winner....
...Sir David Manning was British ambassador to Washington and to Nato, and served in Russia from 1990-93. He is a director of Gatehouse Advisory Partners....
...“There’s an enormous gap between announcement and delivery, although smaller projects are easier to control,” said Tony Travers, professor at the London School of Economics. What is left of HS2?...
...“We don’t have enough Brits to go round,” Tony Danker, CBI director-general, said this week, calling for fixed-term visas in areas where “we aren’t going to get the people and skills at home any time soon...
...Junior Orchestra at the start and the main orchestra at the end, joined by soloist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the young British cellist seen by millions playing at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle....
...Fortnum & Mason stopped the clock at its Piccadilly store, while John Lewis said the proceeds of flowers sold in its London stores would be passed to charities....
...Jonathan Powell, chief of staff to Tony Blair from 1995 to 2007, also contributed to this article We were promised an amicable Brexit....
...Letter in response to this article: Wilson’s achievements as PM were considerable / From John Mason, Buxton, Derbyshire, UK...
...I am not saying that all people to the left of Tony Blair or the right of John Major are harrowingly ghastly. I am not saying that all of them are....
...“There’s been a big outpouring from London,” says Tony Cathro of Fenn Wright....
...Tony Travers, director of the institute of public affairs at the London School of Economics, said the “core of London’s West End has never faced a threat like the current one”....
...I worried where this was all going when, as often happens, I found that Tony Bourdain had got there before me. “Writing and cooking are dominant acts,” he wrote. “Eating is a completely submissive act....
...“Ambition on wages without action on investment and productivity is ultimately just a pathway for higher prices,” Tony Danker, the CBI director-general, said on Wednesday....
...and Jonathan Powell, chief of staff to Tony Blair from 1995 to 2007....
...As early as 1995, Labour leader Tony Blair told a dinner of players and managers at London’s Savoy hotel that the newly flush game risked being “tainted by greed”....
...Tony Thomas, associate director of equity strategies at Morningstar, said: “2020 wasn’t great for active managers....
...Tony Blackledge, Mace Group’s project director for N06, says it has mostly managed to find enough staff....
...Letter in response to this article: Litigation lawyers remain in a holding position / From Tony Lewis, Partner and Head of FeeSolve, Fieldfisher, London EC4, UK...
...The prime minister’s New Deal rhetoric borrows not just from FDR but also from Tony Blair’s flagship workfare programme of the 1990s....
...Alice Lascelles is Fortnum & Mason Drinks Writer of the Year 2019. @alicelascelles....
...The comedian Bernard Manning performed at the opening of which influential nightclub in 1982? Which two ballroom dances feature in the Nato phonetic alphabet?...
...William “Tony” Keswick, Henry’s father, was mayor of Shanghai’s foreign settlements a hundred years later....
...Nicholas Hanna and Mark Tan will join Pinsent Masons as partners based in Singapore. Both join from K & L Gates....
...Langfeldt, Birmingham; Saira Kamaly, London Polymath 1,036: Eamonn O’Riordan, Ireland Crossword 16,248: Nicholas JP Weaver, Manchester, England; Steve Clark, London; DIA Cohen, New York Polymath 1,035: Tony...
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