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...Whitehall has shelves stacked with reports about how to manage this transition in different sectors, but they have common themes about how to achieve the dream, as set out by Professor Dame Angela McLean...
...Torsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation think-tank, said the government’s claim that the defence pledge was fully funded was “a joke”....
...“If Trump wasn’t running I’m not sure I’d be running,” Biden said. “But we cannot let him win for the sake of our country.”...
...James Moore, a psychologist who studies voluntary movement, and who singled out the compact Englishman Ian Bell as among the most elegant players he’s seen, told me that the brain craves certainty and likes...
...And the other point I’d make, by the way, on people like Rob Halfon and James Heappey, I mean, you have a natural tendency — 14 years in government, people come to the end and they look at the situation,...
...I’d forgotten along the way that dressing is always dressing-up. I emerged from lockdown girlishly, enjoying it for the first time....
...In It Had to Be Tough, his history-cum-memoir of UK Commando training during the second world war, veteran James Dunning vividly describes new volunteers’ arrival at their Scottish Highlands boot camp....
...I’d rather listen to the song of the surrounding trees or rushing stream in that lovely landscape....
...“We’ll be there with bells on.”...
...Derek MaltzWhen we signed up to be DEA, we didn’t sign up to be firemen where the bell rings, you slide down the pole and you go put out the fire....
...The legendary DJ Readers Wifes will kick matters off from 3pm. 11 August; from £31, heritagelive.net Glyndebourne Festival, Lewes, East SussexDon Giovanni, Semele, Dialogues des Carmélites, L’elisir d’amore...
...Last summer, local pub The Bell renovated its café to cater for the new demand. “It used to be very much the ‘grey pound’....
...I have two Pomeranians, Bell and Shijo Kingo. I have never bonded with a dog the way I have with Bell. I said to my therapist: “I depend on the dog too much, I’m getting a second.”...
...David Bell, professor of economics at the University of Stirling: Worse....
...These days, she runs the two-Michelin-star Kitchen Table restaurant with her husband, chef James Knappett, where a champagne flight costs £250....
...“Typically, they’re a legal arse-covering exercise for firms rather than something customers can actually use,” says James Daley, founder of Fairer Finance....
...There's that story of he knew Angela Merkel was afraid of big dogs....
...There are big-name collaborations such as James Turrell’s limited edition with Lalique (launching in October), while events like the British Glass Biennale (26 August-1 October) and The Venice Glass Week...
...How SVB f****d up Silicon Valley Bank trusted Goldman Sachs, and it got shot in the foot....
...In cryptography terms, they’d hit the jackpot....
...A good, succinct analysis appears in this Brookings Institution briefing by Célia Belin, James Goldgeier, Tanvi Madan and Angela Stent....
...The Simplon Orient was the setting for Murder on the Orient Express and much of From Russia with Love, in which James Bond spends almost the entire journey either having sex or battling fellow spies....
...Investors and the financial press are suckers for stories about “star” fund managers such as Terry Smith, James Anderson, Nick Train and Neil Woodford....
...They’d listened to his music. They’d watched his gaming videos. They’d seen his beefs with other internet personalities and the scorn he’d thrown at the misogynistic influencer Andrew Tate....
...Whether the new owners maintain the down-at-heel vibe remains to be seen but they’d be foolish to tamper with a winning formula....
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