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Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
Not many writers can claim to have produced material for both the comedian Ronnie Barker and Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath, but Chris Bryant was a man of many talents, working as a writer, politician and lawyer. His multiple jobs did cause occasional problems, and there was some controversy in Canada in the early 1960s when it came out that the Attorney-General’s assistant...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
... of tax on earnings above £150,000 – the first rise in headline income tax rates since 1973, when Edward Heath was Prime Minister. But in another surprise move that will test the aspiration credentials of new Labour, people earning more than £100,000 will have their personal allowances cut in half, and those earning more than £140,000 will have them removed altogether. In 2011, someone...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/22/2008
... A11 to Norwich. However any acceleration in the project is a moot point – the plan was proposed by Edward Heath 37 years ago. The Prime Minister has asked Mr Hoon to step up his efforts to push through building projects. Officials at the transport ministry have been frantically sifting through proposed schemes so that some accelerated road-building projects can be included in Monday's...
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politicalbetting.com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
... replaced by another party with a workable majority. That was at the shock election of 1970 when Edward Heath’s Tories ousted Harold Wilson’s Labour. At all other elections when there has been a change of government the outgoing party had lost a workable majority (1951, 1979 and 1997) or the incoming party did not get enough seats and another election followed soon afterwards (1964...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
... Peter Mandelson, Don King, Ian Paisley, Osama bin Laden, David Irving, Robert Kilroy-Silk, Edward Heath, Gordon Ramsay, Nick Griffin, Peter Ackroyd, Hunter S Thompson and Martin Amis Volume Two: Women, Sunday 30 November Includes interviews with Paula Yates, Kate Moss, Tori Amos, Imelda Marcos, Esther Rantzen, Norma Major, Ruby Wax, Elle MacPherson, Rosemary Conley, Marie Helvin,...
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Daily Express (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
... years.Those with long memories will recall that Sir Keith Joseph was once favourite to succeed Edward Heath as Tory leader.But he made a speech in 1974 which appeared to call for unsuitable parents to be discouraged from having children. The ensuing outcry ensured his hopes of leading his party were over and the more pragmatic Margaret Thatcher stepped into the breach. The rest, as...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
... about what Mr Osborne did in the summer holidays. It was another former Tory Prime Minister, Sir Edward Heath, who in 1988 described Nigel Lawson as "in golfing terms…a one-club man", meaning that the then Chancellor was only prepared to use interest rates to influence the economy. Mr Cameron exposed himself to the same charge, levelled by Gary Gibbon of Channel 4 News, by declaring:...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Dilhorne The Tower of London will go up in flames tomorrow night, or at least a model of it will. Edward Heath, 59, a pub landlord from Staffordshire, will set fire to the 40ft-high replica he has built out of wooden pallets and plywood at a bonfire event for charity. Mr Heath, who has been such making bonfire buildings since 1996, took nine weeks to construct the fortress.
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politicalbetting.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
... and votes are overseen from the Speaker’s chair by the Father of the House (in 2000, this was Sir Edward Heath). Should Michael Martin choose to stand down before the next General Election, this will be Alan Williams (Lab, Swansea West) who has indicated he will not contest his seat next time. If Speaker Martin retires at or after the next General Election, the Father of the House...
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Financial Time (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
... the US, 8m people were unemployed throughout the 1930s. Even people in their mid-40s may remember Edward Heath’s three-day week and Jimmy Carter’s “malaise” speech.
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The Remote Viewer (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
... the 3rd Baron Rothschild, he always sat on the Labour benches. Yet the Conservative prime minister Edward Heath put him in charge of his think tank, the Central Policy Review Staff, and Margaret Thatcher made him a security adviser. As a scientist, Lord Rothschild chaired the Agricultural Research Council, then worked in Cambridge’s zoology department as well as holding a research...
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Not a sheep (Free subscription) | 10/20/2008
Not a historical recalling of Edward Heath's 1974 question, with the answer that he really didn't want but a question arising from David Cameron's proposal to give small companies a six month delay in paying their quarterly VAT. A good idea BUT one that would almost certainly fall foul of EU law as EU law requires that all states apply VAT in the same way. How much room for manoeuvre...
