Hints and tips:
...He also gives a limpidly concise potted history — from Arnold to Aaron Burr and James Buchanan — of the history of American treason....
...Rachman Review (featuring Ed Luce): Investigating ‘the doubts’ about the US presidential election Courtney Weaver: Covid-19 strips the last spontaneity out of a tired political drama US postal service...
...Trump, like James Buchanan, did not invent America’s democratic crisis, even though he has made it far worse. They pre-exist him. Eventually something has to crack....
...But Mike Buchanan, executive director of the Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference, said the proposals would “tear apart the fabric of education” in Britain....
...Jeffrey Buchanan, the company’s chief financial officer, conceded on a call with Wall Street analysts that the hazards of doing business as a gunmaker played a role in the move....
...In The Moth and the Mountain, Ed Caesar investigates a quixotic early assault on Everest by English eccentric Maurice Wilson, a tale full of dash and derring-do with hints of something darker (Viking, March...
...With cross-party support and generous budgets, the NEA had the freedom to take risks: avant-garde artists Ed Ruscha, Dan Flavin and Donald Judd were among the first grant recipients....
...Ed Luce meets some of Trump’s most passionate supporters — and a 22-year-old swimming against the tide. (FT) This is how a revolution ends The Sanders campaign is losing steam....
...Ed Luce meets some of Trump’s most passionate supporters — and a 22-year-old swimming against the tide....
...(NPR) Is Trump the new Pat Buchanan? Nate Silver wonders whether the GOP frontrunner’s loss in Iowa didn’t expose him as the modern analogue to the two-time, far-rightwing candidate....
...It coincided with both David Cameron and Ed Miliband publicly signalling that they would not resign if Scotland voted “yes”....
...————————- Letters in response to this article: The US grid utilities’ problems are largely self-inflicted / From Leonard S Hyman All hands on deck for an electricity local generation / From Alistair Buchanan...
...The improved view on blackout risk comes just over a year after Ofgem’s former chief executive Alistair Buchanan warned that declining capacity margins appeared “uncomfortably tight” over the middle of the...
...Labour leader Ed Miliband told his party conference in September that Ofgem was a failed regulator....
...Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, has pledged to freeze household fuel bills if his party wins power in 2015....
...Ofgem chief executive Alistair Buchanan said: “I am glad to say suppliers have already responded with some initiatives but these don’t go far enough.”...
Regulator demands ‘simple tariffs, clearer bills’
...Alistair Buchanan, chief executive of energy regulator Ofgem, recently warned that “while firms need to earn returns to invest in our future, this cannot be used as a fig leaf for excessive profiteering”...
...Alistair Buchanan, Ofgem chief executive, said the regulator’s role was “to ensure that companies can invest, but do not use investment as a shameful excuse to overcharge consumers”....
...Mr Buchanan said it was “not our job” to choose between the various proposals....
...Alistair Buchanan, chief executive of Ofgem, told the Financial Times there was a risk that new gas supplies from Russia and the Caspian region might not be available in time to meet UK demand as domestic...
...Ed Miliband, energy secretary, talked recently about the “troika” of electricity sources for the future: renewables, particularly wind, nuclear power and “clean coal” plants that capture and store their...
...In his recent low-carbon strategy Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, said he planned to set new objectives for Ofgem to address the threat of climate change and concerns about the impact of rising fuel bills...
...In his letter to the companies, Mr Buchanan said wholesale prices ”look set to fall further as we head into the winter.”...
International Edition