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...Unlike some other outlets, it never definitively attributed an attack on the Al-Ahli Arab hospital in October to an Israeli rocket....
...We had major assassinations, cities on fire, two failed presidencies [Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon].”...
...As Wachowiak et al correctly note, the recent pressures militating in favour of greater cooperation (Ukraine, a second Trump presidency, fiscal constraints), “have not, to date, proven sufficient to overcome...
...“If I think back to those broadcasts that Boris Johnson used to make during the pandemic: ‘I need to level with you, we’re going to have to make some big sacrifices here, because we’ve got this big problem...
...Henry I had his treasurers unpleasantly mutilated after they “clipped the coinage” and Henry VIII, in a way that he got used to, had his father’s treasurers (Edmund Dudley et al) beheaded for their fiscal...
...Henry ManceBoris Johnson thought he had countries signed up to that, but . . ....
...Plus if you really miss Brian Cox et al, you can slowly flick through the archive photographs while humming a haunting piano theme....
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...The recent rise of the Faangs, et al, looks like a knee-jerk reaction to the fall in rates and rate expectations that followed the banking mess (the 10-year yield has fallen from 4-ish per cent to 3.6-ish...
...And generally speaking, they are the stocks that have been hardest hit by the past, probably 12 to 14 months of regulatory crackdown under Xi Jinping, who has been sort of making Alibaba, Tencent et al feel...
...Et tu Brutus? Or in Boris Johnson’s case, Et pretty much everyone — Rishi, Sajid, even Priti for goodness sake (non-aficionados of UK politics should Google them)....
...But Stokes’ leadership has been obvious; Prince Hal transformed into Henry V at a succession of Agincourts....
...But this is the landscape as it emerged after the December 2019 election at which Boris Johnson was triumphant....
...His father’s company — then called the Al-Zahawi Group, but now known as Iraq Projects Business Development (IPBD) — quickly procured a contract to provide cleaning, logistics and support services to the...
...We have our evil leader for today (you-know-who in Moscow), but do Biden, Johnson, Macron et al fit the bill as statesmen?...
...In the case outlined by Haddad et al, Goltz said investors were buying a stock “even though the price has gone up”, so demand is more inelastic and “you can have additional volatility from shifts in demand...
...Known as Bertie in the family, he was the second son of King George V and expected his elder brother, known as David to the family, to become king....
...al) wouldn’t bring globalisation to a halt....
...Here’s a quick list of recent mega-transactions either in the works or agreed: Johnson & Johnson agreed to buy cardiovascular technology group Abiomed for $16.6bn including debt....
...Former Salomon Brothers economist Henry Kaufman — Wall Street’s original Dr Doom — says the US Federal Reserve needs to “toughen up” its fight against inflation....
...Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson (Public Affairs) Economists Acemoglu and Johnson make the case that decisions about technology...
...henry.mance@ft.com...
...As Lord David Pannick QC et al observed in a letter to the Times this week the doctrine of necessity requires “grave and imminent peril” to which the state in question has not contributed....
...All assets may perform badly under stagflation, but we’d rather own Pepsi, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Bristol-Myers et al than sit and watch our cash lose its earnings power....
...Just as Al Capone was nailed for false accounting not gangland killings, Johnson’s Christmas parties are a window into his vandalism of far weightier conventions, such as those embedded in Britain’s unwritten...
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