Hints and tips:
...The Chinese officer made reference to past efforts to target Martin Selmayr, a former secretary-general of the European Commission who was once among the most powerful officials in Brussels....
...The most intense one, a near-hallucinatory episode, occurred during his wedding ceremony. His father-in-law mispronounced his name in the service, calling him “Ripley”....
...Anna Gross And one of my frustrations with what Wes said — and Victoria Atkins, who’s the current health secretary, said and under former health secretary Steve Barclay, they all pay lip service to the idea...
...Top stories today Playtime over | Michael Matheson has resigned as Scotland’s health secretary in a bid to close down a row over an £11,000 data roaming bill that his children helped run up on his work...
...The two biggest faces of that debate in 2006 were Patricia Hewitt, the health secretary, whose baby the policy was, and John Reid, her predecessor as health secretary and then the home secretary....
...As Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and his Treasury team work through the detail of fiscal policy ahead of the Budget on March 6, officials in Manchester are occupied by a very different set of problems....
...Justice secretary Alex Chalk on Monday announced emergency measures designed to alleviate capacity pressures, including allowing low-level offenders to avoid jail and releasing some prisoners 18 days early...
...Now that the foundation is operating in an official capacity, real changes are taking place....
...the US Citizenship and Immigration Services....
...The official line for my interview at the hospital was that I was in search of “meaning”....
...Harris’s political fragility is particularly relevant because US voters are overwhelmingly concerned about Biden’s age — he is 80 — and his capacity to serve two full terms in good health, placing the spotlight...
...talk to them, and with this kind of clout and presence to in those two debates stand opposite Alex Salmond and have the sort of required force of personality....
...We have a problem of crumbling public services....
...“Spending a lot of time in the States and with American politicians [before 2010] was part of the problem . . . Their civil service is much more open to outside ideas.”...
...Malloch-Brown was made a Sir for his service at the UN, which culminated in him becoming deputy secretary-general, and gained a Lordship in a two-for-one deal with his 2007 appointment as a minister in Gordon...
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on: Company results: Package delivery service FedEx reports results three months after upgrading its full-year outlook....
...Miranda GreenWell, I’m saying sell Steve Barclay, the health secretary, because the figures out this week on the waiting lists are so incredibly bad. 7.6mn of us in June waiting for routine hospital treatment...
...Wedgwood adapted his design in 1953 for the coronation of Elizabeth II, and added a second design, Guyatt’s lion and unicorn, to its range....
...I’m Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs commentator of the Financial Times. This week’s podcast is about America’s use of economic and financial sanctions in Gaza, Ukraine and around the world....
...Earlier this year, Gina Raimondo, the US commerce secretary, said Modi “is unbelievable, visionary and his level of commitment to the people of India is just indescribable and deep and passionate and real...
...EXCLUSIVE: Russia’s security services are confiscating the passports of senior officials and state company executives to prevent overseas travel, the Financial Times has been told....
...In the NHS in particular, any “minimum service standard” may swiftly become another benchmark that the health service is failing to meet....
...But then human nature once again reasserted itself....
...“I’m not that stupid,” he told the BBC in 2018....
...It had been, I think, Jeremy Hunt, who’s now the chancellor, but of course was a very long-serving health secretary....
International Edition