Hints and tips:
...Private equity firm Francisco Partners has hired Erin Blake as a managing director of legal M&A in San Francisco and Jason Warner joins as head of data science in New York....
...More recently, he has become a big donor to a new, younger crop of rightwing populists, including Blake Masters and JD Vance, who are seeking election to the Senate in the 2022 midterm elections....
...Vicky Blake, University and College Union’s president, said the disputes and negotiations the union was involved in were “the tip of the iceberg”....
...Vicky Blake, the union’s national president, warned of a “serious threat” of industrial action....
...Letter in response to this article: Here’s a ‘loophole’ the chancellor could close off / From Michael Ladenburg, London SW6, UK...
...The University of Reading’s vice-chancellor last month said a worst-case scenario would mean losing the equivalent of 500 full-time jobs....
...“If you’re a student, you’ve been sold the idea that you’d have this slightly modified experience,” says Vicky Blake, president of the University College Union, which represents more than 120,000 academics...
...In his reviews of the tax system, UK chancellor Rishi Sunak should look at policies to reverse this trend....
...Whether it’s the activities of the gilets jaunes or the Labour party’s shadow chancellor, my encounters with the British director always start with a round-up of French and British news....
...John McDonnell, the Labour shadow chancellor, has lunch with the FT this week. He tells Jim Pickard how his party is planning a large-scale transfer of private wealth to workers....
...the recent film I, Daniel Blake by director Ken Loach....
...Neil Blake: More of an impact in 2021 and beyond than in 2020....
...Letter in response to this article: Can any MP match Blake’s ideal prime minister? / From Sean Magee, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, UK...
...Neil Blake, global head of forecasting, CBRE A weak Q1. Bounce back in H2 if a deal is agreed....
...Southampton, whose vice-chancellor, Christopher Snowden, was paid £433,000, has also come under scrutiny....
...But Simon Blake, secretary to the commission, said it was “hard to imagine another cause”. The data also fit with anecdotal evidence from employers....
...Labour’s motion is unlikely to pass in the House of Commons, but highlights the scale of those recent cuts: John McDonnell, shadow chancellor, contrasted them with the tax cuts for the wealthy in the March...
...Philip Hammond, the chancellor, has sought to keep open Britain’s membership of the single market, stoking tensions with pro-Brexit ministers who want a clean break with the EU....
...Neil Blake, head of global forecasting, CBRE A bit more than in 2017 but most companies inability to pass on price rises will constrain wages growth....
...George Osborne, the chancellor, announced in the Budget that all schools must at least start to convert to academy status by 2020....
...Describing the ADA’s claims as “simply not true”, it said the chancellor had increased flood defence spending to £2.3bn by 2021 in his spending review....
...Last month, the Chancellor announced proposals to reconfigure the 89 LGPS funds as up to six British Wealth Funds, which would have an infrastructure bias, but also create cost savings though pooling....
...He was therefore not surprised when Blake escaped after five years....
...George Osborne, the chancellor, has made it clear that other cities can win similar deals if they agree to an elected mayor. But most are sceptical....
...He added “the chancellor [George Osborne] has forgotten the definition of a pension scheme, which is to provide retirement income for however long the member lives”....
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