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...Someone close to Rishi Sunak said that the resignation was less Geoffrey Howe and more Nadine Dorries, which I thought summed it up....
...Even mild-mannered Geoffrey Howe marginalised his inconvenient permanent secretary at the Treasury. Tony Blair complained of the impossibility of public sector reform....
...Today, Brown’s art collection contains works by modern British artists including Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, Bridget Riley, William Turnbull, Kim Lim and Barbara Hepworth – while his home is currently...
...They begin with his early direct style: “Catherine Moore” (1752), fiancée of architect William Chambers, meets us with a frank, intelligent gaze....
...Sam Stein KC, for law firm Howe & Co, which represents more than 150 postmasters, told the hearing that “ongoing suffering is happening right now”....
...First came Picnic, a 1955 adaptation of the William Inge play about a small town atwitter over a ruggedly handsome visitor, which starred William Holden, Kim Novak and Rosalind Russell....
...Gordie Howe [who played a season in the National Hockey League aged 51] is the only athlete I know that’s done it at this age.”...
...Two of the 20th century’s greatest statisticians were William S Gosset, who worked for Guinness, and Ronald A Fisher, whose career was shaped by a long stint in agricultural research....
...Dunn was inspired to take up music by a childhood love of Hank Williams. But he sounds more like another country great, Johnny Cash, a centred singer with a deep, resonant voice....
...“She’s the Boudicca of British craftsmanship,” says Christopher Howe, an antiques dealer for whom she once worked....
...Jenni Fagan’s Luckenbooth (WF Howes, £16.99) is the tale of the devil’s daughter who, concealing “the sharp tip of my horns”, fetches up in an Edinburgh tenement in 1910....
...The fabric we used came from 36 Bourne Street, the fabrics and wallpapers arm of Howe London....
...Taylor Howes, taylorhowes.co.uk....
...Bank of America has hired Gary Howe from Lazard as co-head of its financial institutions group in the Americas alongside William Addas....
...As we wind down lunch, he mentions yet another book he’s currently keen on, The Fourth Turning, written in 1997 by two American historians, William Strauss and Neil Howe....
...Peter Williams, a veteran retail executive, was elected to the board by the same margin....
...In the 1980s, Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson enacted radical changes to economic policy, many of which survived changes of both personnel and political direction at the Treasury....
...As Hancox writes, an 1883 painting of the Thames by William Wylie is titled Toil, Glitter, Grime and Wealth on a Flowing Tide....
...In between cities, we had almost a week on Lord Howe Island, a flight of about two hours in a propeller plane east of Sydney. I am tempted not to mention it at all, lest it attract too many visitors....
...Douglas William Gretton Wass was born in Liverpool on April 15 1923, the only son of a customs official....
...Sam Marsh Teaching Fellow, University of Sheffield Prof Guy Nason Professor of Statistics, University of Bristol Prof Chris Metcalfe Professor of Medical Statistics, University of Bristol Dr Laura Howe...
...Kynaston quotes the assessment of historian Anthony Howe, in a study of the composition of the Bank’s Court of Directors, that “by and large this was no world for Dick Whittingtons”....
...In this role, she had overall responsibility for the policing of Prince William’s wedding to Catherine Middleton....
...Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge and George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin are among the high-profile couples to have sought sanctuary on North Island....
...Outside the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, south London’s oldest gay venue, I meet William, 24, who is dancing to the sounds spilling out of the Eurovision-themed event inside....
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