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...John McDonnell, who was shadow chancellor under the leftwing leader Jeremy Corbyn in 2015-20, criticised “factional behaviour”....
...The chancellors who came immediately after him — John Major, Norman Lamont and Ken Clarke — were all in a sense destroyed by his failures....
...Sir John Redwood, who ran Thatcher’s policy unit, said Lawson had been a central figure in creating an enterprise economy in the 1980s....
...To quote another ex-chancellor — John Major — “if it isn’t hurting, it isn’t working”. But the dangers of policy over-reach are manifest. John Murray Mayfield, East Sussex, UK...
...Perhaps it was when pomegranates became a staple of Christmas cooking: Nigella Lawson’s “Christmas salad” with radicchio and chicory; Yotam Ottolenghi’s pomegranate and Brussels sprouts slaw....
...Catch-22 introduced one of literature’s immortal characters — 28-year-old Captain John Yossarian, an American bombardier stuck on a Mediterranean island during the second world war....
...Who can forget the lavish scenes from Stephen Schwarzman’s birthday just as the financial crisis was setting in, or the three nights of Venetian festivities for John Studzinski’s celebration in 2016....
...Later, Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson found themselves the subject of whispering campaigns after falling out with Thatcher about the sterling exchange rate and Europe....
...Other readables Nigel Lawson, one of the UK’s most renowned chancellors of the exchequer, died this week. Our obit. Investors in the pound are quids in. Want to buy a dinosaur? Here’s how....
...In a 2015 study, Colin Lawson and John Hudson sifted through the EU’s Eurobarometer data on public opinion and concluded: “Mistrust of big business . . . strongly suggests that a root cause of anti-American...
...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....
...Boris Johnson sometimes joked that he dreamt of shaking up the Treasury by making John Redwood, the former cabinet minister and Thatcherite radical, his chancellor of the exchequer. It stayed a dream....
...Alexandra Lawson, +336-7374 2610. @charlescoudert. Henri-Pierre Pace, +331 4606 1524 With time on my hands, I’d love to tour the world by boat. On a boat, time is completely different....
...Writing in 1919 on The economic consequences of the peace, John Maynard Keynes, the darling of the political left, also noticed the benefits of inflation to some politicians....
...Together with his co-founders, Evan Cooke and John Wolthuis, Lawson self-funded the company’s modest costs and took no salary....
...John Butt and his Dunedin Consort turned up with a grand total of 25 performers (10 singers and 15 instrumentalists)....
...Sir John Major is the only former prime minister who is already a member of the order....
...In a sign of the government’s scramble to take hold of booster programme, the NHS has drafted in the former head of the vaccine programme, Emily Lawson, from the Number 10 delivery unit to steer the rollout...
...“Academic research has now shown repeatedly” that this blind trading rule has been “greatly exploited by insiders,” said John Coffee, a law professor at Columbia University....
...Thus there are lessons from the [Nigel] Lawson boom and bust of the late 1980s....
...Massimo De Carlo, who will show John Armleder and then Lu Song in the new hub, says plans are afoot for a more permanent foothold in the Chinese capital....
...Throughout that period, she was taught to cook by “the Tall Man”, as she refers to her then partner, the writer John Underwood, who died of cancer in 2018, aged 28....
...FT Money reader John Foster says it all comes down to the personal touch....
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