Hints and tips:
...There are reminders, too, of the servile roles Epstein wanted women to occupy. When he wanted a coffee at his Palm Beach mansion in Florida he would order it via a secretary in New York....
...It suggests that in June 2009, when he was the UK business secretary, Mandelson stayed at Epstein’s lavish townhouse in Manhattan, while the financier was in prison for soliciting prostitution from a minor...
...And a reciprocal invocation of Article V — if, say, Europe was attacked by Russia — is at best untested and, at worst, a bluff....
...But in fact, there has been some criticism of the party leader, Mary Lou McDonald, because as soon as the assembly was reinstated, she was already talking about reunification, which was seen as quite a provocation...
...For analysis of this, and current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s predicament, read Robert Shrimsley’s excellent column US: Democrats hold their second presidential primary contest, while the Republicans hold...
...And he's not the only very senior Tory who's had to find a new seat. The Home Secretary Suella Braverman, this was her existing seat in the pink....
...Zahawi, who was promoted to education secretary in an autumn reshuffle, is thought likely to run for the Tory leadership if Prime Minister Boris Johnson is forced out by MPs over the “partygate” scandal....
...shrug from observers — not least the FT’s Robert Shrimsley....
...Robert Buckland, the Conservative former justice secretary; Dame Margaret Hodge, the veteran Labour MP; and Stuart McDonald, the Scottish National party’s justice spokesperson, are among the MPs voicing...
...McDonald said in December that Raab’s “abrasive and controlling” behaviour meant officials were “scared” to enter his office when he was foreign secretary between 2019 and 2021....
...Robert Rubin, the former US Treasury secretary and longtime Goldman Sachs executive, said that when he joined Centerview as a senior counsellor in 2010, the company had to offer to complete projects for...
...Lord Simon McDonald, who was permanent under-secretary at the Foreign Office when Raab was foreign secretary, told Times Radio in November that “many [civil servants] were scared to go into his office”....
...David Cameron, the former prime minister who earned millions of pounds as a boardroom adviser to the controversial financing firm, told Zahawi via text in 2020 that he had been “v helpful” with Greensill...
...victim of sex offender Jeffery Epstein, among other high-profile cases....
...In the BBC interview he cited the Shakespeare plays Henry IV and V and the changes in the young King Henry V as he becomes monarch....
...Robert ShrimsleyYes....
...Nota bene: the Duke of York has agreed to a multimillion-dollar, out-of-court settlement with Virginia Giuffre, who was suing him for sexual abuse in connection with the Epstein saga....
...Ministers, however, face a difficult choice, said Chris McDonald of the Materials Processing Institute, an industry research group....
...Giving a speech in an open collar, khaki trousers and with a V-neck cardigan under his jacket, he looks like a man making an immense effort. The famous shot of him tapping at a keyboard in a (fitted!)...
...Yvette Cooper, shadow home secretary, said the Home Office should ensure Ukrainians with family in the UK could “swiftly” join them “as a top priority”....
...Stuart McDonald, a Scottish National party MP who sits on the Commons home affairs select committee, reiterated his party’s call for the government to follow the lead of the EU by allowing anyone fleeing...
...she asked.Stuart McDonald, a Scottish National party MP, who sits on the Commons home affairs select committee, said Patel’s statement amounted to a “paltry offer”....
...I’m not supposed to say but he had — well let’s just say — a v high level meeting. He is a bit self-effacing and likes to work off-grid but he’s gold dust....
...In court documents filed yesterday, he admitted meeting Epstein in or around 1999 but denied claims by Virginia Roberts Giuffre that he sexually abused her....
...Go deeper: Robert Armstrong looks more deeply at the alleged fraud and asks if the whole operation could have been a “pump and dump” scheme on a previously unimagined scale? What do you think?...
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