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...David Cameron, the former prime minister who earned millions of pounds as a boardroom adviser to the controversial financing firm, told Zahawi via text in 2020 that he had been “v helpful” with Greensill...
...He’s only five percentage points behind Keir Starmer in the polls on who make the best prime minister as opposed to 20-something on the Labour v Tory one....
...They bring back bad memories of Don Johnson and his Miami Vice footwear. I always worried he’d slip sideways when trying to apprehend a criminal. But they do have their place....
...Prime minister Boris Johnson said there were “serious issues” surrounding racism within the UK that needed to be addressed....
...Boris Johnson welcomed the reopening of schools in England on Monday but warned it would lead to a rise in coronavirus transmission....
...Plus, Sajid Javid abruptly quit as UK chancellor on Thursday after a brutal power struggle with prime minister Boris Johnson. The FT’s Robert Shrimsley explains what happened....
...Meanwhile, Boris Johnson’s cabinet is pushing to relax two-metre social distancing rules....
...What else we’re reading The People v Harvey Weinstein Only hours after Hollywood partied into the night, Harvey Weinstein hobbled up the steps to a New York City criminal court....
...Last week we shared Jemima Kelly’s unfortunate run-in with a ticket inspector, a dead iPhone and criminal conviction....
...Martin starts his column by highlighting the contemporary resonance of a quote from Joseph Goebbels on people v parliament....
...He also likes Balistreri v Pacifica Police Dept, a 1990 appeals court decision stemming from a domestic violence case, which he has mentioned 312 times....
...His first was to former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, a vocal Trump supporter found guilty of criminal contempt for defying a court order to stop detaining people his office suspected of being in the country...
...Wrestling’s good v bad, real v fake storylines provide clarity. What’s vital is this — fictional storylines can unleash genuine emotion....
...“For so long people have been confused by what goes on in a conflict but it actually follows a hidden order,” says Johnson....
...For Spain’s ruling politicians he is a criminal; for his supporters he is Robin Hood, stealing from supermarkets and redistributing the food to the poor....
...Johnson, whose wife was Lady Bird, danced to the tune of My Fair Lady in 1964....
...The boss of this infernal paradise – from around 1910 until he went to jail in 1941 – was the real-life Enoch “Nucky” Johnson (called Thompson in the series)....
...Jo Johnson is the FT’s bureau chief in Delhi....
...His research uncovered “a gang of cynics, manipulators, demagogues, tyrants and even a few criminals”....
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
...In the area of criminal justice, several unsolved murder cases of the civil rights movements have been re-examined....
...Within these words is a warning: that the new moral sheriff in town is as likely to misread the evidence, suspect the innocent and make wrongful arrests as the old one....
...Johnson’s blog on the Channel 4 News site....
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