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...Robert ShrimsleyI did think it was extraordinarily interesting that Reform UK openly admitted, or at least Ben Habib, the deputy, was saying they’re not contesting local elections....
...But Ben Houchen, you know, were he to lose, I think of all of them, that's going to panic that whole raft of already very panicked northern Tories who won their seats in 2017 and 2019....
...Finally, Ben points out that you need to be careful in how you talk to your colleagues about your exciting plans to go travelling....
...He is very keen indeed to replace Ben Wallace at the Ministry of Defence....
...Miranda Green explains more. T+1. Are you ready yet? Jim McCaughan, former CEO at Principal Asset Management, wrote for us on what it all means....
...In recent years, the area’s Conservative mayor, Lord Ben Houchen, has successfully lobbied the government for green investment, winning funding to regenerate post-industrial sites into a new energy cluster...
...Whether by Drusus Tabor for Schumacher or by designer Jermaine Gallacher, they tell a modernist tale reminiscent of the naturalistic abstract wonder of English artist Ben Nicholson....
...Wallace urges funds for military boost | UK defence secretary Ben Wallace has said he is braced for an “uphill battle” with the Treasury over increasing military spending, as he warned that global threats...
...In a report published last month by the Rand Corporation think-tank, Charap and Miranda Priebe argued there were several reasons to think Russian nuclear use was still possible, not least because Putin regards...
...Tomorrow my colleague Miranda Green, deputy opinion editor, will be next in line to cover Stephen, who is back on Monday....
...Miranda GreenExactly....
...Miranda Green Will the ECB use its new backstop to contain the bond spreads of Italy or others? No....
...Yet now the genre is stuttering: Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story a flop at box office, Miranda’s Tick, Tick . . . BOOM! an Oscars postscript....
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...The last time the bar world went all-out escapist, the result was Tiki, a mid-20th-century movement that saw men the world over get comfortable drinking cocktails tricked out like Carmen Miranda....
...Miranda Keyes’s daffodil yellow and emerald green jesmonite and glass bowl has caught my eye, as have artist Ben Burgis’s chain tables, made for an exhibition at Gallacher’s called Smoke and Mirrors....
...“It was being used for storage but owner Ben Wilcock wanted to make it into a bar.”...
...On Brexit night, on Friday night, you may have to do the bongs, because there will not be any official Independence Day bongs from the Big Ben....
...Most well-off urbanites will ride out the pandemic, paying rock-bottom interest rates to work from home (or “live at work”, as Miranda Sharp, a trustee at the Centre for Cities, says)....
...Presented by Sebastian Payne, with Miranda Green, Robert Shrimsley, Ben Hall, Laura Hughes and Mure Dickie. Produced by Anna Dedhar and Jack Denton....
...Miranda Green Will there be an independence referendum in Scotland? No, not next year....
...Presented by Sebastian Payne, with Miranda Green, Robert Shrimsley, Jim Pickard and Ben Hall. Produced by Anna Dedhar and Eoin McSweeney....
...“Mitsotakis really understands business,” says Miranda Xafa, an economist and former IMF official. “He understands very clearly what needs to be done....
...“[Houseparty’s popularity] seems to have followed coronavirus around the globe,” said 26-year-old copywriter Miranda di Carcaci, who noticed a couple of weeks ago that many of her friends in Italy were sharing...
...Defence secretary Ben Wallace was due to attend, but pulled out this week (adding to the speculation he may be sacked by Boris Johnson in Thursday’s Cabinet reshuffle)....
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