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...The MP for Bromsgrove, who served Johnson as chancellor and later as health minister before quitting in July 2022, becomes a knight bachelor....
...John le Carré took months to construct the opening of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974)....
...A spokesperson for the chair of the Conservative Climate Caucus, Utah congressman John Curtis, said he has “had conversations” with Johnson, the new speaker....
...John Kerry, the top US climate diplomat and former presidential candidate, will retire in the coming months and reportedly help with Joe Biden’s re-election campaign....
...The R-word now hanging around Rishi Sunak, which she was quick to exploit....
...This week it leapfrogged Johnson & Johnson and UnitedHealth to become the world’s most valuable drugmaker and healthcare company by market capitalisation....
...The other was John Currin, whose titillating “Nice ’n Easy” (1999) had been estimated between $7mn and $10mn. In 2016, this work sold for $12mn....
...JSR’s American chief executive, Eric Johnson, says the company originally approached JIC in November 2022....
...Here it is worth noting that the role of Speaker of the House of Commons has limited power yet attracted a divisive egotist, John Bercow....
...Tory parliamentary candidates in the run-up to the 1997 general election reported that voters were no longer angry with John Major’s administration....
...For a visit to the Jardin du Luxembourg, a green floral Ulla Johnson midi with puffy sleeves and a keyhole neckline “made me come to life”, she recalls....
...Anthony Wells, director of political polling at YouGov, says he had not seen a government so “exhausted” since John Major’s Conservative administration in the 1990s....
...The programme is all-American, with classics by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and John Williams, as well as beloved pieces such as Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, 100 years after its debut....
...“They are incredibly motivated to make equity [partner] and that’s a real engine room for profits,” says John Markland, a former Kirkland partner....
...Downing Street confirmed on Friday that 26 new peers — 13 of whom will have conservative affiliations — have been approved by King Charles III....
...Talking to me from Manchester, where she had been attending the Stirling Prize ceremony — this year awarded to the John Morden Centre, an older people’s home in Blackheath, south London — Brown is withering...
...King Charles III paid tribute to his late mother Queen Elizabeth as “a promise with destiny kept” in a heartfelt address to the nation marking the first royal transition for seven decades....
...All industries need finance, legal support and R&D to thrive....
...Rishi has achieved at the very least more than Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and David Cameron combined.”...
...He was soon presented to King George III at Kew Palace, after being fitted for a velvet coat, white waistcoat and satin breeches....
...The crypto group’s Fanatics investment is now part of the FTX bankruptcy estate that the company’s new boss John Ray III, Sullivan & Cromwell and bankers at Perella Weinberg Partners are looking to monetise...
...They begin — Ilia’s aria from Act III of Mozart’s Idomeneo. Biermann paves the way on the piano. Then, Helene begins to sing. Suddenly the room, me, Biermann, the piano, orbit her....
...He believes that has been under stress since Brexit and especially under the corner-cutting regime run by Boris Johnson....
...The point, instead, is to go from being Robert Armstrong, journalist, to R.K. Armstrong, author of The Fall of the House of Lucre: A Tale of Greed, Sex and Accounts Receivable....
...We’re investing quite a lot in R&D into aerospace and into clean tech, clean aviation, hydrogen and so forth....
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