Hints and tips:
...His biographer, Walter Isaacson, is also roaming about and doing some sort of pseudo public relations job, it seems. Musk isn’t being indiscriminate about his firing....
...Finally, a brief mention for a fine new series of thrillers published by Pushkin Press in association with Walter Presents, Channel 4’s splendid sub-channel devoted to foreign crime and thriller television...
...The last time a prime minister lost a chancellor over an overmighty adviser — when Nigel Lawson quit over the influence of Margaret Thatcher’s aide Sir Alan Walters — the adviser was quick to follow....
...and a prime minister’s adviser can be highly destabilising, citing the “worst case” when Nigel Lawson, Tory chancellor in the 1980s, quit after Margaret Thatcher refused to sack her economic adviser Alan Walters...
...But the last chancellor to resign over an overpowerful adviser was Nigel Lawson in 1989, protesting against Margaret Thatcher’s aide Alan Walters....
...quite correct: Boris Johnson is not the first Conservative prime minister to seek to recruit in-house policy advisers to No 10 Downing Street, whether they be experts, or weirdos and misfits, as Dominic Cummings...
...We are a long way from the world in which Margaret Thatcher could say of her economic adviser Alan Walters that “advisers advise and ministers decide”....
...And sometimes an adviser's been involved, most famously when Nigel Lawson left because of his objection to Margaret Thatcher's adviser, Alan Walters....
...Gropius’s elegant house for Benn Levy and Constance Cummings in Chelsea, and the gentler Modernism of Impington Village College in Cambridgeshire....
...Tamara Ingram, chief executive of J Walter Thompson, insists the right political TV ad can still resonate “with the whole nation”....
...Caitlin Lynch, Erica Brookhyser and Mark Walters are outstanding as the principal vocal soloists, as are countertenors Daniel Brubeck, Brian Cummings and Steven Rickards, whose close harmonies sound otherworldly...
...Margaret Thatcher’s Number 10 received unwelcome attention for her heavy reliance on the economic advice of Alan Walters and foreign policy advice of Charles Powell....
...” … Gove’s critics pinned the blame for the abrasive style on Dominic Cummings, the minister’s former adviser, who was often accused of vicious briefings against perceived enemies....
...In 1822, Sir Walter Scott orchestrated the visit of King George IV to Edinburgh. It was the first trip by a monarch across the border since the 1630s....
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