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...Referring to the electoral contest that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is expected to call in the second half of this year, Macpherson said in an interview with Radio 4’s Week in Westminster on Saturday: “It...
...That makes him 2024’s potential Ralph Nader, the Green party candidate who in 2000 siphoned support from Al Gore. The winner was George W Bush. This time it would be Donald Trump....
...The last time US and UK elections took place within a few weeks of each other was in 1964, at the height of the cold war and after the assassination of John F Kennedy....
...“It’s been a fucking difficult week,” admitted one ally of Sunak, reflecting on Number 10’s maladroit handling of a dispute over a leading Tory donor, Frank Hester....
...Movement”, a twinkly synth gospel number from 2018, he shed the guitar and sang with hands plunged tragically in his pockets, before snapping back into the mixture of infectious rock riffs and “eh-eh-eh”s...
...Sunak said in a recent article in the Times that he “understand[s] people’s anger when that dream [of home ownership] feels too far away for too many, especially the younger generation”....
...Business and consumer confidence also expanded with the closely watched S&P PMI survey indicating private sector activity grew at the fastest pace in eight months in January....
...That euphoria has yet to be duplicated, though the IPOs in 2020 saw an average of 50 per cent first-day returns relative to the S&P 500....
...Meanwhile on the stage, Stephen Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures and Kimber Lee’s satirical untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play exemplify a more critical or contested perspective on postwar Asian narratives....
...S&P rates EDF as BBB compared with AA for French government bonds....
...But I can’t help feeling that Come and Get It, like Kennedy’s dorm room, simply contains “too much stuff”....
...An idiosyncratic example of Arts and Crafts architecture, it was designed by James Sarsfield Kennedy at the turn of the 20th century....
...There’s also an interesting Kennedy connection, because Biden has always historically been close to the Kennedy family. And of course, Caroline Kennedy is his ambassador here in Australia....
...Chart of the day The S&P 500 rose 3.1 per cent in July after closing up 0.2 per cent yesterday at 4,588.96....
...Louise Haigh, shadow transport secretary, insisted the cancellation of HS2’s northern leg was “the exact opposite of the levelling up we were promised” and a sign of “chaos” in Sunak’s government....
...HS2’s burn rate means it is scheduled to consume more expenditure per year than the Highways Agency’s renewals programme for the national road network or Network Rail’s capital programme on an annualised...
...HS2’s price tag has more than doubled from the original budget of £33bn a decade ago when the line was originally envisaged to run from London to Birmingham before splitting into two sections to Manchester...
...The debate over HS2’s northern leg had become about “Britain’s ability to do the tough stuff successfully”, he said, and its “credibility as a place to invest”. “That’s what’s now at stake,” he added....
...How many of 2016’s “thick and thinners” will waver during the next nine months of “lawfare”?...
...Chief executives of companies on the US S&P 500 index are paid far more than their UK counterparts, receiving a median of $14.1mn in 2022, according to an annual study published this month by labour union...
...These new Irish brands are following in the footsteps of the likes of Magee 1866, a fifth-generation family tweed-maker based in Donegal (Sarah Jessica Parker, who has a home in the county, is a fan), and...
...“In the last 10 years there’s been a growing and I think regrettable trend for lawyers to actively parade their politics and identify more with their clients,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme....
...Also, S&P Global November PMI data for manufacturing and services UK: GfK Consumer Confidence Survey US: S&P Global November PMI data for manufacturing and services....
...Both also ignited what may be 2024’s biggest trend: “cowboycore” western fashion. One question stuck in the mind: since when did US fashion become so self-referential?...
...I/O, standing for “input/output”, is his first set of new songs since 2002’s Up. Even by his standards, it’s a lavish undertaking....
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