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...Over the past half century, Goodwin, who is 81, has written award-winning studies of Lyndon Johnson, the president responsible for pushing through the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who...
...During the decade, Dick Goodwin became close to two presidents — John F Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson — and played an important role in the 1968 White House campaigns of both insurgent senator “clean” Eugene...
...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....
...In parliamentary systems, members of parliament can also revolt, as they did in the UK against Boris Johnson and Liz Truss....
...Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock, and Barbie’s Ryan Gosling took it several steps — or buttons — further, displaying what is unfortunately known as “heavage”....
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...Johnson added that the tax cuts had effectively been funded by a bigger squeeze on the value of public investment....
...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...
...Nor in Downing Street, where talented aides from the pre-Johnson era, Adam Atashzai and Jamie Njoku-Goodwin, have quietly reappeared....
...“With the government assuming no increase in departmental spending, this implies even greater real terms cuts in spending after the election,” said Andrew Goodwin of consultancy Oxford Economics....
...Lantink’s work has been acquired and shown by museums, including London’s V&A and the Costume Institute at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, while celebrities such as Beyoncé, Billie Eilish and Janelle...
...“In terms of the impact of globalisation and industrialisation, the nadir for Stoke was somewhere between 2005 and 2010,” says Tristram Hunt, director of London’s V&A museum and author of The Radical Potter...
...Johnson at 10: The Inside Story by Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell (Atlantic) A detailed and damning account of Boris Johnson’s rise to power and period as prime minister....
...I think a lot of people were anticipating a V-shaped recovery . . . People are now waking up the realisation that volatility is going to be normal going forward.”...
...The contrast with his predecessors, notably Boris Johnson, could not be more marked....
...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....
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...“For us, anything that will support the build out of fossil fuel infrastructure is a no go,” Dana Johnson of WeAct, an environmental justice group, told me last week....
...Johnson did not deny he had told other ministers he was prepared to “privatise the arse off” underperforming public bodies....
...The event was attended by Boris Johnson for around 30 minutes and was planned in advance, with staff invited to the event via an email from Reynolds....
...Boris Johnson? Uxbridge Man 1Boris Johnson, yeah. I’m not particularly happy about the way he carried on. He lied, continually lied. Lucy FisherAnd miss, have you voted Conservative in the past?...
...(WSJ) — Dominic Cummings unloads on Boris and Carrie Johnson. (Unherd) — The Bank of England attempts to predict financial crises with a neural net....
...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...
...But Stokes’ leadership has been obvious; Prince Hal transformed into Henry V at a succession of Agincourts....
...Albert Johnson spearheaded racist legislation that closed America’s doors to Asians and eastern Europeans for decades. Better known American figures also come off badly....
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