Hints and tips:
...Gallagher’s delegation is expected to meet Lai in addition to Han Kuo-yu, the newly elected legislative Speaker from the opposition Kuomintang, a party Beijing is more comfortable with because it views Taiwan...
...More than 86 per cent of Moderna’s jabs have been delivered to high-income countries, compared with 74 per cent for BioNTech/Pfizer, 63 per cent for Johnson & Johnson and 19 per cent for AstraZeneca....
...Hou Yu-ih from the Kuomintang, the largest opposition party, had 33.5 per cent of the vote and Ko Wen-je from the smaller Taiwan People’s party had attracted 26.5 per cent....
...I remember when the Supreme Court was just about to overturn the Roe v Wade abortion ruling in 2022. I spoke to the CEO of a large American business....
...Finally, Sun Yu and Joe Leahy have a great Big Read on the breakdown of China’s social contract. For almost 40 years the Chinese have become used to rapidly growing incomes....
...In parliamentary systems, members of parliament can also revolt, as they did in the UK against Boris Johnson and Liz Truss....
...Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock, and Barbie’s Ryan Gosling took it several steps — or buttons — further, displaying what is unfortunately known as “heavage”....
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...Paul Johnson, head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a think-tank, said Labour’s plans to increase taxes on private schools, individuals with non-domicile status and private equity bosses, would raise...
...“Wen mi jus come to Landan toun / mi use to work pan di andahgroun / but workin pan di andahgroun / yu dont get fi know your way aroun,” says the deep-voiced man....
...Lantink’s work has been acquired and shown by museums, including London’s V&A and the Costume Institute at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, while celebrities such as Beyoncé, Billie Eilish and Janelle...
...“In terms of the impact of globalisation and industrialisation, the nadir for Stoke was somewhere between 2005 and 2010,” says Tristram Hunt, director of London’s V&A museum and author of The Radical Potter...
...I think a lot of people were anticipating a V-shaped recovery . . . People are now waking up the realisation that volatility is going to be normal going forward.”...
...Seto Kaiba is the anti-hero of the Japanese manga series Yu-Gi-Oh! — an intelligent and Machiavellian orphan who inherits a weapons empire and pivots it into virtual reality technology....
...But Li sold to Yu Pun-Hoi, a Beijing-friendly media baron. Xiong says he suspects that Li sold to Yu to ingratiate himself and improve his chances of becoming a conduit for Wall Street in China....
...Von der Leyen and Sunak made the announcement in front of a portrait of King George V, who inaugurated Northern Ireland’s parliament in 1921 with an appeal for unity....
...Marc Filippino But later in the day, Johnson met with members of his own cabinet who also urged him to resign. Johnson said though he’s not going anywhere....
...Marc FilippinoThat’s our China economics reporter Sun Yu....
...“At that time, predicted that the reopening would happen in the first half of 2023, but I didn’t expect it to be so soon,” Yu said....
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...Alicia García-Herrero, chief economist for Asia-Pacific at Natixis, warned against expecting a “V-shaped recovery” from the world’s second-biggest economy and biggest consumer market if President Xi Jinping...
...“A V-shaped recovery is extremely unlikely.”...
...Johnson did not deny he had told other ministers he was prepared to “privatise the arse off” underperforming public bodies....
...The event was attended by Boris Johnson for around 30 minutes and was planned in advance, with staff invited to the event via an email from Reynolds....
...(WSJ) — Dominic Cummings unloads on Boris and Carrie Johnson. (Unherd) — The Bank of England attempts to predict financial crises with a neural net....
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