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...Japan and other countries are supporting the effort partly because they hope it will lead to the US joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, a big trade agreement...
...On “Meeting is a Pleasant Place”, its slow crescendo bolstered by the transgender choir Trans Voices, he issues a call to “Measure England’s miles with me, old friend”....
...There’s no question that trans rights is another issue on which Starmer’s stance has changed....
...Lord David Anderson KC, former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation in the UK, told the BBC that the definition was “extremely broad” and risked catching both sides of the trans rights debate....
...Trump withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would have tied Malaysia and other US-China “swing states” into a US-anchored commercial zone....
...“The fact that David took time out of his day to come down and be part of that sends a message, I think, both internally and externally that management of Goldman Sachs is supportive of their trans population...
...Sir David Lidington, former Tory Europe minister, said he doubted Starmer would break his election pledge, not least because it would be complex and require Britain to rip up post-Brexit trade deals....
...Hence their fervour for men such as David Barton, an author famous for pseudo-history books that argue America’s true origins are as a theocracy....
...Yet the festival also keeps up with filmmakers who are more under the radar, such as David and Nathan Zellner (Sasquatch Sunset, apparently about a family of bigfoot creatures) and Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw...
...And why, back in 2017, Jewish lesbians were thrown off a gay rally in the US for carrying a rainbow flag with a Star of David....
...Tran, who focuses on Martell, said that with inflation, “prices have gone up across the board, but tequila is still cheaper than cognac”....
...Starmer has made the occasional conscious choice to either retreat (as he has over trans rights, withdrawing from his party’s previous positions on the reform of gender self-ID) or to draw a line....
...The plan was unveiled at the PM’s country retreat and prompted an instant walk out by David Davis, the Brexit secretary, followed the next day by Boris Johnson, the then foreign secretary....
...Non-fiction is particularly egregious: books are either “necessary” (trans: bad, but I agree with the argument it is failing to land) or “urgent” (really bad, but important and I agree with the argument...
...A childhood rife with abuse and violence has turned Lenny into a thuggish pimp (played with great, dead-eyed swagger by Joe Cole) and Joey into a damaged, inarticulate would-be boxer (David Angland)....
...Stephen’s fateful choice of holiday time has somehow triggered another shock announcement in UK politics (during his last break, Rishi Sunak fired Suella Braverman and roped David Cameron into his cabinet...
...She discusses the need for more companies to step up for trans staff in an interview with the FT....
...Additional reporting by David Pilling in London...
...Combined with hardline rhetoric on migration and trans issues from Cabinet ministers behind the podium this week, several centrist MPs departed the conference in a state of despair....
...Trade experts confirmed that members of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership — a group that includes Canada, Japan and Mexico — were worried about the issue....
...A decade after David Cameron told his party to “get rid of all the green crap”, Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives are again ready to water down their environmentalism....
...He then lionised the UK’s membership of the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership — worth a 0.08 per cent long-term boost to GDP by the government’s own estimate — and extolled the value...
...The whole Europe debate and the trans debate as well....
...for Trans-Pacific Partnership, a regional trade pact, as friction with the US mounts....
...David Kemp has been a member of the Scottish National party for most of his adult life, but the 85-year-old Glaswegian says the controversies that culminated in the resignation of outgoing first minister...
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