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...A row has broken out in the Conservative party over Rishi Sunak’s plans — revealed by Henry Zeffman, Chris Mason and Brian Wheeler at the BBC — to water down measures tied to the UK’s net zero targets....
...In Vanity Fair, Brian Stelter, the much-followed media watcher, dubbed all this “The Great Tune-Out of 2024”. Can Biden win a turnout election if voters are turning off?...
...By this metric, the 2020 election was slightly closer than Trump’s 2016 victory, and the closest since 2000, when George W Bush beat Al Gore in Florida by just a few hundred votes....
...Now try this This week, I mostly listened to Brian Eno’s “In Dark Trees” while writing my column....
...I think the key difference in the first two years of the Bush administration is that there was actual concrete action on those. And in those cases, bipartisan....
...Second, Bush focuses on the receipt of fees. He has ignored the other huge benefit to the private school sector – charitable donations....
...Even folks who have been reluctant, they are shoulder to shoulder with him,” says Brian Ballard, a Florida-based lobbyist close to Trump....
...“This is rather fun,” Brian Eno says....
...AC Brian, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, UK...
...This was back in the early days after China’s WTO membership when the George W Bush administration was telling us that this was really a geopolitical necessity, that we would be changing China more than...
...Plus if you really miss Brian Cox et al, you can slowly flick through the archive photographs while humming a haunting piano theme....
...The departure of Dominic Raab as deputy prime minister last week has highlighted the dysfunctional nature of political workspaces, writes columnist Stephen Bush....
...Trump’s backing also held sway in Texas, where Ken Paxton beat George P Bush, one of the youngest members of the US political dynasty, in the race to become the Republican nominee for state attorney-general...
...George W Bush does not but he had lots of post-9/11 goodwill on his side in 2002....
...In Texas, the Republican primary nomination for attorney-general — between Trump-endorsed incumbent Ken Paxton and George P Bush, nephew of former president George W Bush — will also be closely watched....
...Neither Barack Obama, George W Bush nor their political fundraising arms were involved in funding their paintings, the museum added....
...Republicans who were seen as more distant from Trump, or more moderate, performed far better — such as Brian Kemp, a Republican who was re-elected as Georgia governor....
...Trump’s backing had been sought by David McCormick, the former hedge fund executive and senior Treasury official under George W Bush, the other leading candidate in the race....
...In a statement to the Financial Times, Brian Deese, the director of the National Economic Council, said the White House was content with Yellen’s performance....
...Deconstructing ‘dogfooding’ Executives testing a company’s product or service has been dubbed “dogfooding”: Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky plans to stay in the company’s properties every few weeks; Lyft...
...Young’s earlier book, Electric Eden (2010), told how visionary folk history lingered and flourished in music from Vaughan Williams to Kate Bush....
...In 2006, President George W Bush called for an investigation into whether oil companies were manipulating prices....
...George HW Bush, Bill Clinton and George W Bush all pressed the producer group for more supply during periods of rising petrol prices or US military interventions in the Middle East....
...For a certain kind of establishment Republican, David McCormick has the perfect CV: a West Point graduate and former Army ranger with a PhD from Princeton, several years in the George W Bush administration...
...He then moved into politics, serving as deputy counsel to President George W Bush....
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