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...Even strong-stomached viewers will be put off their gruel. ★★★☆☆ On Disney+ in the UK and Hulu in the US now...
...The question I would be asking, were I a Tory MP, is that in 2015, attempts to cut in-work benefits knocked the re-elected government of David Cameron off course, and I would ask myself “what has changed...
...Elsewhere, it’s thin gruel for earnings news, as you’d expect in the run-up to a long weekend holiday....
...“In some respects there’s something rather brave and admirable about it,” former Treasury minister David Gauke said. “But it’s taking a big political risk.”...
...As our energy editor David Sheppard put it over on Twitter: If Labour think this is over in six months . . . Triple it and you’d get a more realistic read....
...We needed a feast of ideas; instead we got a thin gruel.”...
...Instead, it was all thin gruel. Some pain today, much more pain tomorrow, with only a hope that something might turn up to improve the situation....
...“If we do get a deal it will be as thin as gruel.” The long-running Brexit talks are thought likely to reach a denouement within days, although there is still no guarantee that a deal will be struck....
...Take it out of the equation, and you can easily wind up with a drink that tastes like a bath bomb and goes down like gruel. There are, however, a few newcomers that are worth seeking out....
...As David Bianco at DWS notes in respect of the Fed and President Trump: “Slow the pace of hikes, plenty of time to get to 3%” and “Carry a big trade stick, but also hold out a carrot”....
...At a time of tottering public services and stagnant wages, voters have rejected the Tories’ offer of more gruel....
...David Cameron took a NATO and security charm offensive to Warsaw on Friday, attempting to win over Poland to his EU deal, as its prime minister dug in her heels over proposed migrant cuts....
...Eurosceptics have mocked the measures as “thin gruel . . . watered down”. Few economists think the benefit curbs will reduce migration....
...David Cameron has won over the most important critic of his plan to curb EU migrant benefits, persuading Poland with pledges of military support, political blandishments and concessions on treaty change....
...David Cameron on Friday said he had made progress, but “not enough”, after talks in Brussels aimed at brokering a deal to curb EU migration to Britain ended in stalemate....
...The SCMP’s coverage of China and Hong Kong, while far more spicy than the gruel typically served in the Chinese mainland’s state-controlled media, has been criticised for becoming more insipid since Robert...
...As you’d expect, there’s plenty of commentary to digest, even if Paul Krugman describes the decision as “thin gruel” for journalists....
...Jacob Rees-Mogg called Mr Cameron’s demands “pretty thin gruel”, saying they were “much less than people had come to expect from the government”....
...Jacob Rees-Mogg, another backbencher, said they amounted to “thin gruel”....
...Christopher Nieper, managing director of David Nieper, a women’s fashion manufacturer based in Derbyshire that employs 230 people, said: “It is very disappointing that the chancellor has postponed making...
...Politicians don’t get elected by telling their electorate the unvarnished truth and electors don’t vote for thin gruel. If it’s Grexit today it will be another country exiting tomorrow....
...The heated footrest, designed for chilly Chinese water closets, has proved one of its most popular features globally, says David Kohler, president of the family company founded by his great-grandfather in...
...“There were very few heroes in this whole thing,” says Professor David Chandler, a historian who has written extensively about the Khmer Rouge and S-21....
...As viewed in its new decorations, the piece is more restrained, though the leading couple, Gillian Murphy and David Hallberg, are doomed to actionable sugar-pink outfits....
...david.pilling@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/davidpilling...
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