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Rule Britannia: Churchill, Thatcher top list of ‘most admired’ by CEOs
Britain’s wartime prime minister Winston Churchill on Saturday topped a poll of leaders most admired by chief executives, edging out Apple founder Steve Jobs and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela. The survey of some 1,300 business leaders, carried out by financial services giant PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), saw “Iron Lady” Margaret Thatcher as…
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Without question, the nation is undergoing a broad change in the nature of politics and the structure of representation in our traditional democracy. The emergence of a revolutionary, anti-government movement on the farthest to the right of the political spectrum, the monied, Supreme Court-sanctified attack on the ability of anyone…
National Archives publishes vintage wartime propaganda online
Winston Churchill with a jowl or two flatteringly removed, a fierce group of women in pinnies marching out under the banner “Up housewives and at ‘em!” to recycle their domestic waste into “planes, guns, tanks, ships & ammunition”, and a startling image of the assassination in 1942 of a Nazi…
Churchill’s will among millions published online
The wills of famous Britons such as Winston Churchill are among those of six million people being published online for the first time Wednesday. The massive collection of documents, which also includes the wills of Crimean War nurse Florence Nightingale and Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, has been made availabe by family history website ancestry.co.uk. The latest records show that…
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