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...Three years later, the historian Ernest Barker commended English queuers for their knack “of ‘fitting in’ neatly on a little space”. Both Orwell and Barker conflate Britishness with Englishness....
...(Patrick Temple-West) Smart reads Joe Biden’s landmark green bill is set to prove far more expensive than expected — and that’s a very good thing, writes Paul Krugman in the New York Times....
...The figure exceeds the $12bn spending in the 2020 election year, when Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the presidential election....
...Joe Root, one of the finest cricket batsmen of his generation, has resigned as captain of the England men’s Test team after a woeful run of results, leaving a fourth vacancy at the top of the sport’s national...
...The couple were big donors to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign and have backed organisations fighting climate change and fake news....
...Daniel Ek, Spotify chief executive, told investors it was “too early to know” whether the backlash over Joe Rogan’s podcast had cost the streaming company customers in his first acknowledgment that the fallout...
...The decision by Twitter — subsequently revoked — to block users from sharing a link to a story from the New York Post about Hunter Biden, the son of president-elect Joe Biden, caused a furore....
...Global media editor Alex Barker investigates....
...Tim Wu, the White House adviser on competition policy and a key player in the push by Joe Biden’s administration to increase antitrust, stepped down from his role last week....
...Tej Parikh Will Joe Biden stand for president again? Yes. There is no getting around the president’s age; Biden will be 81 by the 2024 election, and 82 when the 2025 inauguration happens....
...The call came as pressure mounts on Joe Biden’s administration to contain the highest inflation in four decades....
...Janan Ganesh: Joe Biden is right to go to Saudi Arabia, argues our chief political commentator....
...Power broker Who is Joe Ravitch, the Raine Group co-founder tapped to sell Chelsea FC?...
...Some of the former president’s supporters railed against Fox News in the aftermath of the November election, when the network called the vote in favour of Joe Biden even as Trump refuted the results....
...However, after a violent mob over-ran the US Capitol last week, some conservative media groups are backing away from the theory that Joe Biden only won the election due to mass voter fraud....
...“It feels like the movie we’ve all seen before and it is getting pretty old,” said Bret Barker, a portfolio manager at TCW....
...Adam Barker, an analyst at Shore Capital, said GSK was focused on “smart allocation of resources”....
...Even the relatively small podcasting industry is now offering big paydays for stars, with Spotify giving Joe Rogan, a popular comedian, $100m to make his podcast exclusive to its app....
...The burst of anger was triggered by America’s dominant conservative news network declaring on Tuesday night that Joe Biden had won the state of Arizona, giving the Democratic candidate his first “flip” victory...
...Polls before the vote suggested that Democratic candidate Joe Biden would win by a clear margin, but the contest turned out to be far closer than any of these models had predicted....
...Alex Barker asks: will the broadcaster have the firepower to reinvent itself as a streaming service that can attract tens of millions of subscribers outside Britain?...
...Meanwhile, Catriona Ward’s twist-filled The Last House on Needless Street (Viper, £12.99) arrives festooned with excited blurbs from the likes of Stephen King and Joe Hill....
...Joe Kaeser, Siemens chief executive, acknowledged that the prospects of the deal being approved were slim, arguing in a in a press conference on Wednesday that Brussels’ competition regime was “backward”...
...Additional reporting by Joe Miller in Frankfurt and Hannah Murphy in San Francisco...
...(FT) Sports leagues should join forces with streamers There are ways to make streaming live sport a viable business, argues global media editor Alex Barker....
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