Hints and tips:
...Brian Mansfield, managing editor of music publication Country Insider, says: “This is the closest thing to a true overnight sensation that any of us have ever seen....
...But what last week’s fight made clear is that McCarthy will be a very weak Speaker, and there are several parliamentary fudges (“discharge petition”, anyone?)...
...It will still be a fudge, but a classy one....
...One would-be challenger, Marcia Fudge, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus and longtime representative from Ohio, recently announced that Ms Pelosi had secured her support after the latter promised...
...Brian Coulton: Yes, we have recently edged up our 2020 and 2021 forecasts partly in response to fiscal easing....
...In the control room of a noisy Northern Ireland sawmill 15 miles from the border, Brian Murphy looks at 3D images of logs as they grind through the cutting machines....
...If there is some resolution or fudge which kicks the can down the road then there could be a recovery in growth and a sterling rally as immediate uncertainty eases....
...“Cheese is hip,” says Brian Keyser, who set up Casellula in 2007 and is about to open a second cheese and wine bar in Pittsburgh. “It’s amazing how many people go crazy about it . . ....
...Here it is significant that Sir Brian was careful to praise the merits of an independent bar....
...When Sir Brian Leveson published his report into the British press last November, he was clear about the regime that he wanted....
...He welcomed the cut in corporation tax but said the planned cut in the top rate of income tax from 50 per cent to 45 per cent next year was a “fudge that will do little to combat the impression that Britain...
...“This fudge will do little to combat the impression that Britain is a high-tax country where ambition is not welcome,” he said....
...No doubt our European leaders will fudge this as they do so much else....
...David Smith, Institute of Economic Affairs: Both UK and Continental politicians like to play up intra-EU differences for their domestic electorates and there will most probably be some fudge or another...
...Not a big surprise since there were no other candidates. 9.28: And from Ralph Musgrave, in Durham, northern England, in today’s letters page: “Sir, I was interested to learn from Brian Garcia (Letters...
...brian.groom@ft.com...
...As Wolfgang Münchau has pointed out, last week’s European Council was not a solution but a fudge....
...Potter disagrees: “We need M&S or other nationwide brands, not quaint fudge shops.”...
...Brian Seadon, Shrewsbury DC: The value of a Venture Capital Trust is treated like any other taxable asset in your estate....
...Brian Barwick, the FA’s chief executive, resorted to jokes about the matter....
...So the plans for strengthening foreign policymaking are a fudge that will create new spokesmen and give them new resources, without abolishing national foreign ministers and embassies....
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