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...And Blair said, look, we always talk about moving the tax rate by 1 per cent of up or 1 per cent down. It’s totally irrelevant. There’s a much bigger picture here....
...Puzzle 2532 Artur Davtyan v Vladislav Kovalev, Dubai 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...June 1; further information and tickets here Royal Ascot Dust down your hat — it’s the big one....
...Other pieces are held by the V&A and the Courtauld Gallery in London. I knew all this because I had seen — and written about — a nearly identical bowl for the FT last year....
...It quickly sold out and is now being resold on AbeBooks for £1,995....
...Even among Tory voters the positive differential has nearly halved, shrinking from around plus-44 to (67 ‘well’ v 23 ‘badly’) in January 2020 to plus-23 (58 ‘well’ v 35 ‘badly’) today....
...His former chief strategist, Dominic Cummings, promised a “hard rain” would fall on Whitehall, while allies drew up hit lists of leading officials....
...“He’s v bright, tough and politically savvy with a small p,” tweeted Rupert Harrison, the former Tory chancellor’s one-time chief adviser....
...The revelations that Mr Cummings broke lockdown rules may have hit confidence levels. Some other data, however, suggest progress in the last week of May....
...“There is a similar one in the V&A; it’s now worth in excess of £5,000.”...
...With an estimated 1 per cent fatality rate, that implied 400,000 deaths. According to some Sage members, the turning point came with the intervention of Cummings....
...(WSJ) What else we’re reading Just one in 10 fund managers expect V-shaped recovery V, U, W, L — just a handful of the letter-shaped recoveries that investors have put forward as possible paths for the...
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...She noted that the fall in the PMI employment index was “particularly worrying” because it “provides further support to our view that a perfect V-shaped recovery is extremely unlikely”....
...Johnson himself (raised in Brussels, adventured in Australia), his adviser Dominic Cummings (created a failed airline in Russia), the Brexiters Iain Duncan Smith (studied in Perugia) and Nigel Farage (two...
...And, as Johnson and his adviser Dominic Cummings pointedly told MPs this summer, a few could get violent. 3....
...Duncan and I visited friends a few weekends ago, but found ourselves running late and without time to select a thoughtful gift....
...(Annals of Family Medicine) Podcast of the week Criminal treatment Nearly 50 per cent of US prison inmates are mentally ill yet many receive very limited therapy, says Alisa Roth, author of a new book...
...Inmates dropped these things there as anonymous charity donations....
...Rather than being put through cold turkey on the floor of a cell, inmates were sent to a 1,500-bed facility in Lexington, Kentucky, where they were slowly weaned off drugs....
...Email duncan.robinson@ft.com Twitter @duncanrobinson Email paul.mcclean@ft.com Twitter @psmcclean...
...In 2016, he won a significant case contesting a death sentence in Hurst v Florida....
...He is to become head of the V&A Museum. There has been some debate whether his predecessor at the museum, Martin Roth, quit last September because of frustration over Brexit....
...Duncan Wilson, chief executive of Historic England, said the theatres “are where some of the world’s greatest stories were first told…....
...Dominic Cummings, a former Tory adviser now running a “Brexit” campaign, once remarked: “As Bismarck said about Napoleon III, Cameron is a sphinx without a riddle. There’s no mystery to him....
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