Take a hike Start at Kongens Nytorv , site of the Royal Theatre (if you can fit in a ballet, it’s worth every kroner – 00 45 33 69 69 69, ) and the huge Magasin du Nord department store. Head past Nyhavn’s caf?towards the sea, then turn left along Kvaesthusgade and Havnopromenade. Stop [...]
Mr Boulger says this allows Ms Holland to control her pension, rather than relying on contributions being made to the state, which is determined by the Government. “The value in real terms of the state pensions has been falling and it is impossible to predict what they will do by the time she retires.”Mr [...]
A draw now seems likely, a result that could tip both the northern giants into the Second Division.And who was the last Lancastrian to carry his bat in a Roses match? Charlie Hallows, 72 years ago.. By the time it rained on Surrey’s parade yesterday they were right in the middle of a serious [...]
When censors were brutal and stupid they were less dangerous because they were unpopular. It was the charming ones that presented the acceptable face of something odious. To that extent, Mortimer’s praise continued, Mr Trevelyan was among the most dangerous censors Britain had ever had.”Because remember,” Mr Mortimer concluded, “that every book you read, [...]
The BG trio sat in with me there, too.In those simple words Hampton recalls the incident when Benny Goodman and his patron John Hammond first heard Hampton play. In the 1955 film The Benny Goodman Story, Hampton played the role of a manager-cum-waiter of a snack bar who, when asked by casual customers Hammond [...]
Only a fraction of the material was ever decoded, but it was sufficient to unmask dozens of spies including the Rosenbergs and Klaus Fuchs, as well as the British “Cambridge spies”: Kim Philby, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean. Venona thus provided much of the raw material for the red-baiting excesses of McCarthyism.As MI6’s liaison [...]
I wonder how the leader of the “no” campaign tried to inspire his supporters after Saddam got a 100 per cent “yes” vote in his election. I suppose he said: “Obviously we’re disappointed, but we fought a good campaign and I enjoyed every minute. I’ve made no decision about my own position yet, though [...]
Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure opened in London in 1954 and was a great success, and in 1955 it was an equal hit on Broadway.Davies then did some distinguished work for the cinema. For the comedy which satirised the singer Johnnie Ray As Long As They’re Happy (1955), he and Paddy Stone partnered the [...]
With so much at stake, most parents find it hard to shake off the notion that they know best. That still works for some families, but it is more likely to be met with outright rebellion from today’s younger generation, who vote with their feet by messing up entrance exams or digging in their [...]
Johnson Matthey, the platinum and chemicals group, has seen its shares tumble along with the market this year but over the past five years it has been a sterling performer, outperforming the rest of the market by a substantial margin.
It’s a complicated business with interests in precious metals, supplying platinum for jewellery and catalytic [...]
