Hints and tips:
...“I don’t want Trump to fail, and I don’t want Melania Trump to fail,” Talley told Dowd....
...Directed by Stephen Frears, 2015 Studiocanal Lance Armstrong’s dizzying climb and precipitous descent of the Tour de France’s mountain roads — and of the sport of cycling itself — is told crisply, absorbingly...
...Frances Cairncross, chair of court, Heriot-Watt University Perhaps to just over 2%....
...Frances Cairncross, chair of court, Heriot-Watt University As long as the economy (and the workforce) continue to expand next year, borrowing should fall in 2017....
...Kevin Dowd, professor of finance and economics, Durham University I am not expecting any change to UK monetary policy....
...Kevin Dowd, professor of finance and economics, Durham University On balance, I expect Trump’s presidency to be mildly positive for the UK....
...Kevin Dowd, professor of finance and economics, Durham University I don’t expect much change to immigration, which has a mostly positive impact on the UK economy....
...Kevin Dowd, professor of finance and economics, Durham University I expect a deterioration in economic growth in 2017 due to an escalation of the banking/economic/political crisis in Europe, the prospect...
...As politics moves to the right, the election of Marine Le Pen as President of France becomes a real possibility....
...But our Imaginary Invalid continues moaning about its own misfortune, which led Maureen Dowd, in a piece for the New York Times, to deplore the “gaze de navel” that seems to have infected the French psyche...
...President François Hollande of France has demanded that the alleged spying stop immediately....
...Indeed, according to the US press corps, it will be the high point of a week-long European tour that includes a three-day state visit to the UK, a stopover in Poland and a Group of Eight summit in France...
...Last month I returned with the family from three weeks in France to find a burst water main had flooded our cellar....
...He said long-haul tourism was already “struggling very badly”, but arrivals from France, Germany, Italy and Finland had all dropped in the last month or so....
...Stephen Dowd of UKinbound, which represents tourism organisations for visitors to Britain, said the industry was dismayed at the scale of the increases, especially revenues were growing more slowly than...
...Maureen Dowd, also of the Times, is often achingly funny but occasionally crabby....
...Simon and his grandmother Ada discover the Great Book Exchange, which is far more than just a second-hand bookshop. (12+) A SWIFT PURE CRY by Siobhan Dowd David Fickling ₤12.99, 256 pages Fifteen-year-old...
...I do not want to know why “foreign dignitaries” have importuned Thomas Friedman for his imperial opinions, nor what wicked lines Maureen Dowd has devised to explain away what happened....
...AH: But you and Paul Krugman and Maureen Dowd and other New York Times columnists, whether that gamble succeeds or fails, will always have a franchise you can play on....
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