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Harold Macmillan

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Name: Harold Macmillan

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 reports

Andrew Feldman denies calling Tory activists ‘right wing loons’

What a strange day. Lord Feldman, the Tory co-chairman, appears to have identified himself as the unnamed Cameron ally reported by several newspapers as referring to party activists as ‘swivel-eyed loons’. He strenuously denies making the comments, and ... [Published The Coffee House | Politics and News Discussion ... - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Andrew Feldman, Right Wing, James Kirkup

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 reports

Canary Wharf Group Plc

A clear and present danger, but for who

Categories: Panacea CommentWhen I was a kid (very many years ago, but yes I was a kid once) the 1950’s was a very different world to the one we see today. As was the sixties in my teen years- I must have been there too as I “cannot remember it” as the ... [Published PanaceaIFA - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Clear and Present Danger, Canary Wharf Group Plc, Financial services

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

David Davis

Friends in far off places

Will the President get the PM out of his latest scrape? Sam Macrory reportsOne of the loneliest jobs around will have felt even more isolating than usual for David Cameron recently.Grumbling backbenchers, voting against your Government’s legislative agenda. ... [Published PoliticsHome - May 17 2013]

Entities: David Cameron, David Davis, Michael Gove, Barack Obama

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Michael Gove

The Conservative Party, Europe and a Referendum

After several years of successfully bottling the Conservative Eurosceptic Genie it has been released again: a draft bill offering a yes-no vote on EU membership is promised and two Cabinet ministers, Michael Gove and Philip Hammond, have declared they ... [Published University of Birmingham - May 16 2013]

Entities: Referendum, Michael Gove, The Labour Party (United Kingdom)

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Britain drops its first H-bomb, May 15, 1957

Britain's first effort at a hydrogen bomb took place on May 15, 1957 when a bomb code-named Short Granite was dropped over Malden Island in the South Pacific Ocean as part of Operation Grapple.Short Granite was a two-staged nuclear weapon that had a predicted ... [Published EDN.com - May 15 2013]

Entities: Hydrogen Bomb, Thermonuclear, Granite, United Kingdom

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Centrica plc

Comment: Centrica’s price promise creates a warm glow

MARKETS regard anything that cuts corporate costs as a reason to send company shares upwards as it means more on the bottom line. Even job cuts get a cheer. Human pain, yes, but the City sees a buck as big as a bedspread.Conversely, some analysts were ... [Published The Scotsman - May 14 2013]

Entities: Centrica plc, Young's, British Gas

First reported May 12 2013 - Updated May 12 2013 - 1 reports

David Cameron

On Europe, David Cameron is in danger of making himself a laughing stock | Tim Bale

After Michael Gove's intervention, the question of an EU referendum has never been more serious for Cameron According to his biographers, David Cameron "chillaxes" over the weekend by playing a spot of tennis, messing about on his iPad and having friends ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 12 2013]

Entities: David Cameron, Referendum, Harold Macmillan, Jane Austen

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

A world on the brink

QUESTION for the older readers: What were you doing 50 years ago during the Cuban missile crisis when the world seemed to be on the brink of extinction?I wonder how many felt as helpless as I did, and could only think of protesting in the typical English ... [Published Camden New Journal - May 09 2013]

Entities: Mark White, Cuban Missile Crisis, Harold Macmillan

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Soapbox Sylvia Riley: Thatcher's legacy? She turned our...

MARGARET Thatcher's greatest loyalty was not to this country, but to a moneyed elite. When I heard she had died I neither mourned nor celebrated. The damage had been done.She lived in a mist of illusion and her supporters are still in that mist when they ... [Published Derby Telegraph - May 06 2013]

Entities: Margaret Thatcher, Mineral, Harold Macmillan, Edward Heath, North Sea Oil

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 2 reports

Victor “Vicky” Weisz: A permanent sense of sorrow

“He really wanted to use the cartoon to change the world, to try to engineer opinions.”On 22 February 1966, the political cartoonist Victor “Vicky” Weisz took an overdose of sleeping pills and died at his flat in north London. He was 52. The previous ... [Published New Statesman - May 02 2013]

Entities: Harold Macmillan, Stan Franklin, Norman Mackenzie, Berlin University of the Arts

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 3 reports

Can 'mystery woman' in Stephen Ward sketch shed light on Profumo affair?

She has dark eyes, full lips and short hair in one of the favourite styles of London in the "swinging 60s" but who is she? And could she help shed light on the infamous Profumo scandal, the heady tale of espionage, sex and politics that held Britain spellbound ... [Published The Independent - May 01 2013]

Entities: John Profumo, Christine Keeler, Stephen Ward

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

Lord Forbes: One of the last surviving ministers to have served under Harold Macmillan

Nigel Forbes was one of a dwindling band of ministers who held office under Harold Macmillan; only Lord Carrington remains his senior. Fleetingly, in 1958 and 1959, he was Minister of State for Scottish affairs at a time when Supermac wanted his Scottish ... [Published The Independent - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: John Forbes, Harold Macmillan, Scotland

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This is a new, farcical low and David Cameron i... [Published Guardian.co.uk - 10 hours ago]
Andrew Feldman denies calling Tory activists ‘r... [Published The Coffee House \| Politics and News Discussion ... - 14 hours ago]
A clear and present danger, but for who [Published PanaceaIFA - 18 hours ago]
Dan Dare: Car-repair manual publisher releases ... [Published Mail Online UK - 19 hours ago]
Friends in far off places [Published PoliticsHome - May 17 2013]
The Conservative Party, Europe and a Referendum [Published University of Birmingham - May 16 2013]
Britain drops its first H-bomb, May 15, 1957 [Published EDN.com - May 15 2013]
War - what (prime minister) is it good for? [Published Total Politics - May 15 2013]
Floundering in a European mire of his own makin... [Published Mail Online UK - May 15 2013]
The Dowager Countess of Albemarle DBE: Devoted ... [Published EDP 24 - May 14 2013]
Comment: Centrica’s price promise creates a war... [Published The Scotsman - May 14 2013]
On Europe, David Cameron is in danger of making... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 12 2013]
Memories of Margaret Thatcher: Petronella Wyatt [Published Iain Dale's Diary - May 12 2013]
Memories of Margaret Thatcher: Michael Cockerell [Published Iain Dale's Diary - May 10 2013]
Unveiling the Abbott approach [Published ABC Online - May 10 2013]
Is political oratory gone for good? [Published BBC - May 10 2013]
A world on the brink [Published Camden New Journal - May 09 2013]
17:33 When Henderson’s first opened, meat-free ... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 09 2013]
When Money Dies - the horrors of inflation [Published Mail Online - Peter Hitchens - May 08 2013]
Heads or tales . . . [Published Northern Echo - May 08 2013]
1963: the defining year of the civil rights mov... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 07 2013]
1963: from the Stones to Dr Strangelove, a year... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 07 2013]
Soapbox Sylvia Riley: Thatcher's legacy? She... [Published Derby Telegraph - May 06 2013]
Profumo affair: The scandal that changed a nation [Published The Scotsman - May 06 2013]
Don't panic yet, Dave. It's Red Ed who should b... [Published Mail Online UK - May 05 2013]
A taste of honey [Published Jamaica Gleaner - May 04 2013]
A taste of honey [Published Barbados Daily Nation - May 04 2013]
Alf Young: Borderline case a cause for concern [Published The Scotsman - May 04 2013]
Oh what a lovely war [Published Northern Echo - May 03 2013]
Tories see off UKIP in South Bucks elections [Published This is Local London - May 03 2013]

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Andrew Feldman denies calling Tory activists ‘r... [Published The Coffee House \| Politics and News Discussion ... - 14 hours ago] What a strange day. Lord Feldman, the Tory co-chairman, appears to have identified himself as the unnamed Cameron ally reported by several newspapers as referring to party activists as ‘swivel-eyed loons’. He strenuously denies making the comments, and ...
Memories of Margaret Thatcher: Petronella Wyatt [Published Iain Dale's Diary - May 12 2013] This is an extract from my new book MEMORIES OF MARGARET THATCHER , which is published this week. A new extract will appear at 9am every day this week. The book contains 215 such essays by people from all walks of life who encountered the Iron Lady. ...
Memories of Margaret Thatcher: Michael Cockerell [Published Iain Dale's Diary - May 10 2013] This is an extract from my new book MEMORIES OF MARGARET THATCHER , which is published this week. A new extract will appear at 9am every day this week. The book contains 215 such essays by people from all walks of life who encountered the Iron Lady. ...
When Money Dies - the horrors of inflation [Published Mail Online - Peter Hitchens - May 08 2013] Most of us think we know about the great German hyper-inflation of 1923 – the people struggling through the streets with wheelbarrows full of billion-Mark notes (it really happened – but sometimes thieves stole the wheelbarrows and left the money behind) ...
Why do authoritarian leaders give such long spe... [Published FP Passport - Apr 25 2013] style> On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin sat for his nearlyannual televised live-call-in show -- which, this year, went on for nearly five hours. Inaddition to tackling some weightier questions about the Russian economy and the country's ...