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...Robert Lighthizer, the former US trade representative and architect of the big commercial battles with China, the EU and many others the last time around....
...“He’s supposed to represent all of us. He cannot be seen to be privileging one religion over all others.”...
...He cracked down on the children of members too....
...La méthode Barnier is now established as a way for the European Commission to handle external negotiations on behalf of member states and its parliament....
...Wilders wants a referendum on leaving the EU, of which the Netherlands was a founder member, and has long pushed for a ban on the Koran and mosques. But he will have to compromise to govern....
...Green Pastures is an evangelical megachurch situated on a sprawling 97-acre plot just off the motorway outside Ballymena. First opened on a smaller site in 2007, it now boasts more than 1,000 members....
...Council members had to sit meekly as they nursed bruised egos. So now, Putin himself sits uncomfortably on his presidential throne and occupies a political no-man’s land of his own making....
...An army of lawyers around the world are poring over the hastily worked-out details, trying to find weak spots to launch suits on behalf of investors and clients who lost out on Credit Suisse’s collapse....
...Similarly, Assange and Snowden should be allowed to argue their cases in court — and the UK government should allow whistleblowers, leakers and, I fear, journalists to explain the public value of their actions...
...And the customer should not face unreasonable barriers when trying to act on behalf of relatives....
...Obviously being hosted in Liverpool on behalf of the Ukrainians. But no, it is handy for the government that this is being eclipsed in many way by other more shiny and easy-to-interpret events....
...Yes, BlackRock’s Larry Fink is a Democrat and has been vocal on the importance of ESG and “stakeholder capitalism”. But he’s hardly a paid-up member of the DSA....
...And then, you know, going round the parties as I have to do on behalf of the FT, drinking (Miranda laughs) Pol Roger and so forth . . . Miranda GreenReally tough job....
...And obviously all of us when we talk on this podcast we go, well, actually, look Rishi Sunak’s on the right of the party....
...Actually, I think some of the strikes in, particularly, the health service and in schools really do affect those members of the public who notice them and who are on the receiving end....
...Incidentally, we’re very, very different from most other European nations in that way that happily do have a mixed economy on public and private provision....
...Girls snaked through the crowds in single file, holding each other’s hands, and the grass was trampled to mulch....
...He’ll redo the plot, supplanting words with laments or adding his own texts, yet all on prime-time television, blurring the boundaries between comedy and tragedy, real and theatre – a kind of Beckettian...
...of the then-prosecutor-general and one of his top deputies....
...It concluded that members of the Belgian government “and other Belgian figures” had “a moral responsibility in the circumstances which led to the death of Lumumba”, though it fell short of accepting any...
...With so much public attention on the case, some say LDP members and other politicians will find it difficult to seek support from the church in the future....
...Above all, Tory members and the Conservative-supporting parts of the media want tax cuts....
...All the other men on the colliery, 1,600 men, were thrown on the dole.”...
...Since the chief of MI6 is the only member of the agency who is named or permitted to speak in public, and because all of them have been men, this is the first time that female SIS officers have ever spoken...
...So in a sense, the Tory leadership now and the MPs are all in it together against their own membership, but on behalf of the country at least sort of settling things down....
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