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Regional rail is usually defined as providing services that link settlements to each other, unlike commuter rail [citation needed] which links locations within a singular urban area. Unlike inter-city services, regional trains stop at more stations and serve smaller communities. They may share routes with inter-city services, providing service ...
Iron Dome ( Hebrew: כִּפַּת בַּרְזֶל, romanized : Kippat Barzel) is an Israeli mobile all-weather air defense system, [8] developed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries. [7]
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Titanic is a 1997 American epic romantic disaster film directed, written, produced, and co-edited by James Cameron.Incorporating both historical and fictionalized aspects, it is based on accounts of the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912.Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet star as members of different social classes who fall in love during the ship's maiden voyage.
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Portillo was born in Bushey, Hertfordshire, to an exiled Spanish republican father, Luis Gabriel Portillo (1907–1993) and a Scottish mother, Cora Waldegrave de Portillo (née Blyth; 1919–2014). Portillo's father, a devout Catholic, was a member of left-wing movements in the 1930s and fled Madrid when it fell to General Franco in 1939, settling in En...
Portillo graduated in 1975 with a first-class degree in history, and, after a brief stint with Ocean Transport and Trading Ltd., a shipping and transport company, he joined the Conservative Research Department in 1976. Following the Conservative victory in 1979, he became a government adviser to David Howell at the Department of Energy. He left to ...
In September 2002, Portillo became a non-executive director of the multinational defence contractor BAE Systems. He stepped down from that position in March 2006, owing to potential conflicts of interest. He was a member of the board of the Kerr-McGee Corporationfor a few months in 2006.
Television
1998 saw Portillo make his first foray into broadcasting on Channel 4 with Portillo's Progress—three 60-minute-long programmes looking into the changed social and political scene in Britain.From 2002 onwards, Portillo developed an active career in media, both as a commentator on public affairs and as a writer and/or presenter of television and radio documentaries. Between its inception in 2003 and cancellation in 2019, Portillo appeared in the BBC weekly political discussion programme This We...
Press and radio
Portillo has written a regular column for The Sunday Times, contributes to other journals (he was a theatre critic for the New Statesman until May 2006), and is a regular radio broadcaster on UK radio. He is a long-serving member of the panel in the BBC Radio 4 series The Moral Maze. In September 2011, he presented a two-part series on BBC Radio 4 called Capitalism on Trial. He has also presented a history series on BBC Radio 4 called The Things We Forgot to Remember. In June 2013, he present...
Since 1998, Portillo has been a Commissioner of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP). He is President of DEBRA, a British charity working on behalf of people with epidermolysis bullosa(EB), a genetic skin blistering condition. Portillo served as chairman of the 2008 Man Booker Prizecommittee. In 2011, Portillo became chairman of a...
Michael Portillo was sworn in as a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 1992 upon his appointment as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, giving him the honorific title "The Right Honou...
Great Continental Railway Journeys, (22 October 2015) ISBN 978-1857023350Great American Railway Journeys, (26 January 2017) ISBN 978-1789291445Portillo's Hidden History of Britain, (2 May 2019) ISBN 978-1471151514Greatest British Railway Journeys, (15 October 2020) ISBN 978-1472279279Sources
1. Gove, Michael (1995). Michael Portillo: The Future of the Right. London: 4th Estate. ISBN 1-85702-335-8. 2. Snowdon, Peter (2010). Back from the Brink: The Extraordinary Fall and Rise of the Conservative Party. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-730884-2.
Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Michael PortilloPortillo's columns for The Sunday TimesThe Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD; French: Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, [1] [4] founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade. It is a forum whose member countries describe themselves as ...
Background Gaumont newsreel containing the only known footage of Titanic, 1912. The name Titanic derives from the Titans of Greek mythology.Built in Belfast, Ireland, in what was then the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, RMS Titanic was the second of the three Olympic-class ocean liners—the lead vessel was RMS Olympic and the final ship in the class was HMHS Britannic.
