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...In response to “Washington DC’s red herring on TikTok’s ‘digital fentanyl’”: “Mainstream America is paranoic about China....
...Blaming it on communications strategy is usually a red herring. Better salesmanship will not bring mortgage rates down from 7.5 per cent, or halve petrol prices....
...For some, the army’s shrunken size is a cause for lament but Sir Richard Barrons, former head of the armed forces, calls such numbers “something of a red herring” and believes new technology will help fill...
...“It’s the best of both worlds: sill (herring), rakfisk (fermented trout) and a shot or two of aquavit — followed by walks on Hampstead Heath,” he adds....
...The first is that the focus on the supposed lack of western long-range artillery and planes — Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) and F-16s — is a bit of a red herring....
...I remember once a Swedish friend brought a tin of fermented herring. She had to open it outdoors because of the smell and I couldn’t bring myself to even come near, never mind trying it....
...Although legally one scheme, notes pension expert John Ralfe, it consists of about 100 regional funds which together hold £400-500bn in assets....
...That’s the title of an upcoming book by John Judis and Ruy Teixeira, which I’ve been reading obsessively since I received the galleys....
...George Kennan may have opposed Nato expansion in the 1990s, as Professor John L Harper writes, but by then the ageing US diplomat had let down his guard (Letters, February 26)....
...John L HarperProfessor Emeritus of American Foreign Policy, The Johns Hopkins UniversityBologna, Italy Letter in response to this letter: Putin’s security concerns were always a red herring / From Emeritus...
...One winter morning in early 1637, a sailor presented himself at the counting-house of a wealthy Dutch merchant and was offered a hearty breakfast of fine red herring....
...There are gaps, overlaps, red herrings and conspiracies scattered liberally throughout the show. It’s deliberately gnarly and sometimes incomprehensible. Not an easy watch....
...But the year is 2045, and Shan has succeeded in creating autonomous hard light replicas of human beings, which he has dubbed “ghost dancers”, but which might as well be called red herrings....
...Or is this a total red herring? Two different audiences. We're talking about the country as opposed to the party. And the country clearly remains divided about Tony Blair....
...That central drum serves as something of a visual red herring....
...“The Minsk process is not so much a red herring as a dead duck,” said Nigel Gould-Davies, senior fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies....
...can make a vegan reconsider / From John Boothman, St Lawrence, Jersey...
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...Ukraine is a red herring for broader competition. Russia [and] China want to steal the future from us. Biden has been rather reactive, along with the rest of the west....
...They include Mr Day’s daughter Lauren and long-time associates Stephen Simpson and John Herring. All are directors at the three companies, according to Companies House filings....
...It involved herring, and a little inn called Sælhunden. “It’s not Noma,” warned Jørgen, “but it does serve the best herring in Jutland.”...
...But with images published of near-empty testing sites, Professor John Newton, the government’s co-ordinator of national testing, acknowledged that some NHS and care workers had been struggling to reach them...
...That idea was rejected by senior Democrats who said that even entertaining a conspiracy theory involving the Bidens was a red herring....
...David Allen Green, a law and policy columnist for the Financial Times, said Mr Johnson’s failure to sign the letter was “an utter red herring”....
...Jacob Rees-Mogg, leader of the Commons, will attempt to hold another meaningful vote by MPs on the deal on Monday, but the Speaker, John Bercow, may not allow it to be debated....
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