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...Other recipients include cabinet ministers such as chancellor Rishi Sunak (£5,000 to his Richmond constituency) and chief secretary to the Treasury Simon Clarke (£20,000)....
...“The philosophy is that our politics is for Singaporeans to deal with,” K Shanmugam, the law and home affairs minister, said during a second reading of the bill on Monday....
...The Daily Telegraph reported a Tory MP as saying this might be seen as Johnson’s “Ratner moment” — a reference to jewellery boss Gerald Ratner denouncing the quality of his own company’s products....
...Carter’s predecessor, Gerald Ford, voiced no criticism of the Iran mission — Operation Eagle Claw — that went so badly awry. Reagan’s criticisms were restrained by today’s standards....
...New Jersey, US Crossword 16,320: Robert Holloway, Paris, France; Michael Shipster, Winchester, England; S Fisher, London, England Polymath 1,047: Nicholas Hartley, Belgium Crossword 16,314: A Dixon, Richmond...
...Gerald Mason, director of T&L Sugars, has been vocal in blaming protectionist EU sugar and trade policies for boosting beet sugar producers at the expense of sugar cane refiners....
...Soon we were gliding through Twickenham and Richmond, past Syon Park and Kew Gardens, and down the Oxford and Cambridge boat racecourse to Putney....
..., Surrey, UK Let’s hope India’s bold economic gamble pays off / From Samir K Jha, Taikoo, Hong Kong...
...“Russia, U.K., China, Saudi Arabia, Japan.”...
...As Gerald says, street lit is “never the type of genre that gets critical praise”....
...Zero K, by Don DeLillo, Picador, RRP£16.99/Scribner, RRP$27 At 79, the American master surprises yet again with a dystopian take on our desire to preserve life beyond its sell-by date....
...Jerome K. Jerome’s three men in a boat spent comically disastrous nights under the canvas canopy of their Thames skiff....
...Tribal governments have only enjoyed self-governance since the 1970s, when the Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon administrations made strides on the issue....
...“LCM has 80 employees and a turnover of about €5m, meanwhile our customer base has expanded from 15 when we were a K-centre to 150 now,” says Gerald Schatz, managing director....
...It all started 25 years ago, when Gerald Finley successfully auditioned for the Glyndebourne chorus....
...OFFICER, OBE Gerald Balding, for services to horseracing. Vernon Barker, managing director, First TransPennine Express. Janice Blackburn, philanthropist. Richard Bottomley, senior partner, KPMG....
...F**K YOU, RORY BREMNER!!”...
...Admit it: you can never quite remember what the skeleton is (see K)....
...RIFKIND, Rt Hon Sir Malcolm (Kensington and Chelsea) Member of Advisory Board, L.E.K. Consulting LLP, 40 Grosvenor Place, London. Advisory Board meeting 4 times a year....
...In humorous, keenly observed prose, it recounts Jerome K. Jerome’s languorous journey along the Thames with two friends (and dog)....
...Gerald Ells, veteran tennis player. Paul Goodison, Olympic sailor. Lewis Hamilton, Formula One world champion. Carol Hoy, former nurse specialist....
...The authors contesting the best book award in Europe and south Asia are: David Davidar for The Solitude of Emperors; Mohshin Hamid for The Reluctant Fundamentalist; Usha K.R. for Girl and a River; Hari Kunzru...
...Nicholas Daniel held the hall rapt on the softest thread of sound as soloist in Mozart’s Oboe Concerto K.314, improvising some hit-and-miss witticisms as he went along....
...Once at least in the life of every human,” wrote the matchless food writer M.F.K. Fisher, “whether he be brute or trembling daffodil, comes a moment of complete gastronomic satisfaction.”...
...“The Fed is ever so slowly preparing the markets for a move to policy neutrality,” said Gerald Lucas, senior investment advisor at Deutsche Bank....
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