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...I remember when the Supreme Court was just about to overturn the Roe v Wade abortion ruling in 2022. I spoke to the CEO of a large American business....
...Paul Johnson, head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a think-tank, said Labour’s plans to increase taxes on private schools, individuals with non-domicile status and private equity bosses, would raise...
...Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future by Ian Johnson (Allen Lane) “Who controls the past, controls the future,” wrote George Orwell....
...version, The Madness of King George....
...As Wachowiak et al correctly note, the recent pressures militating in favour of greater cooperation (Ukraine, a second Trump presidency, fiscal constraints), “have not, to date, proven sufficient to overcome...
...Additional contributions from Grace Ramos, Gordon Smith and George Russell...
...If he had a George HW Bush or even an Al Gore as vice-president, Biden’s frailty might not be so off-putting to voters. And so to the Democrats’ second un-spinnable problem....
...The Ulez was first introduced by then-Tory mayor Boris Johnson in central London to tackle air pollution, but has since been expanded to cover a wider area of the city — stretching to the north and south...
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...A plaque above the organ nods to the city’s once-thriving ceramics industry, honouring local potter George Meakin, who in 1851 founded ceramics manufacturing company J & G Meakin with his brother James....
...Al Mureijah Art Spaces, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE, until March 10, sharjahart.org. Whitechapel Gallery, London, June 12-September 1, whitechapelgallery.org...
...We had major assassinations, cities on fire, two failed presidencies [Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon].”...
...And it worked very well for example for George Osborne in 2015....
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...Von der Leyen and Sunak made the announcement in front of a portrait of King George V, who inaugurated Northern Ireland’s parliament in 1921 with an appeal for unity....
...That UK participation would have been unthinkable in the Johnson-Frost era and does mark a significant step forward, according to insiders....
...The recent rise of the Faangs, et al, looks like a knee-jerk reaction to the fall in rates and rate expectations that followed the banking mess (the 10-year yield has fallen from 4-ish per cent to 3.6-ish...
...has indicated it is considering expanding the list to cover other products, like organic chemicals and polymers, with a view to extending CBAM to cover all goods under the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS...
...Because whatever you think of Boris Johnson, he did have an awful lot of political nous. George ParkerYeah....
...Et tu Brutus? Or in Boris Johnson’s case, Et pretty much everyone — Rishi, Sajid, even Priti for goodness sake (non-aficionados of UK politics should Google them)....
...Chart of the week Industrial metals have ripped higher since November on bets China’s reopening will boost demand for raw materials, write Harry Dempsey and George Steer....
...The Haldane was occupied by successive Secretaries of State for War, not just Churchill, but Kitchener, Lloyd George, Eden, Profumo and more....
...Leffler clarifies that Bush did not believe Saddam had connections with al-Qaeda....
...His father’s company — then called the Al-Zahawi Group, but now known as Iraq Projects Business Development (IPBD) — quickly procured a contract to provide cleaning, logistics and support services to the...
...In the case outlined by Haddad et al, Goltz said investors were buying a stock “even though the price has gone up”, so demand is more inelastic and “you can have additional volatility from shifts in demand...
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