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...Paul Nowak, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, the umbrella body for the UK labour movement, criticised the decision as “obscene”....
...Sunak’s weakening of UK net zero targets this week lashed out at the fundraiser, saying that wealthy individuals spending tens of thousands of pounds on auction lots “when the world is burning is seen as obscene...
...Give away 10 per cent of that and they’ll still own an obscene 66 per cent. I could scrape by on that....
...The Israeli embassy to the UN in Geneva rejected the accusations as “an obscene inversion of reality” and insisted Israel was complying with international law....
...Incidentally, the arbitrary access to cheap dollars has been an obscene source of government corruption (as in Venezuela)....
...Even obscene?...
...When I was a foreign correspondent, the obscene amounts of money in the US political system vied only with our lax gun control laws as the thing that most baffled foreigners about America — and the things...
...Under Putin, a third feature of Russia’s political culture is the defiant, norm-breaking use in official circles of obscene language and imagery....
...The top-of-the-range Sharpe of 0.8 is still good, but not really what investors are expecting for 20 per cent of any profits and the often obscene costs they are forced to eat in the multi-manager “pass-through...
...He was also filmed appearing to make an obscene gesture at a person who identified himself as a Jewish American as they argued on a pavement. He and a woman told the person: “Go back to your country.”...
...Depardieu has been thrust into the spotlight in recent weeks after a French television documentary showed him making obscene remarks and gestures during a 2018 trip to North Korea....
...They are no longer the “obscene mockery” that John Updike once described....
...Censored topics vary widely but include articles critical of Erdoğan and his family, pro-Kurdish and opposition websites and material viewed as obscene or criminal, according to İFÖD....
...“I find the British government’s knee-jerk endorsement of everything that Israel does obscene and a departure from previous stances in which we have sought some fairness in these dreadful situations,” he...
...Surviving on a diet of raw grass, tree bark and faith in the “bright future” promised them by party apparatchiks, these men and women come face to face with obscene violence and brutality....
...His nephew Giovanni Francesco would use della Mirandola’s work to justify the 1471 slaughter of Jewish community members in Trent, after an obscene blood libel in which they were accused of murdering a Christian...
...To some, this payout will look obscene — particularly since it is funded by the losses of gamblers, whose habit can have severe consequences for them and their families....
...“This is a classic Joyce move: pretend to take responsibility while pocketing obscene amounts of money,” he said in a statement. Qantas would not comment on whether Joyce’s pay would be reviewed....
...Sunak’s courteous manner should spare him from the most lurid stories — obscene WhatsApp messages are not his style — but he will be linked again in the public mind with his predecessor....
...But jealousy alone can’t explain the self-hatred and violently obscene language used both by Woodman and (in a fascinating case coming to UK screens next year as Wicked Little Letters) by the seemingly impeccable...
...The current market narrative is that an obscene amount of AI hype is the only thing lifting global stocks this year....
...It will also forbid “acts of obscene exhibitionism”....
...Ultimately The Horror is too grim and obscene to be whimsical, too offbeat to terrify....
...I found the concept that it was probably someone’s job to neatly arrange fresh produce like a work of art so obscene.”...
...Rayner herself has previously called the policy “obscene”....
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