Hints and tips:
...Kim and Tokat arrived at Centerview as mid-level bankers around its launch in 2006 and were eventually promoted to partners. Kim, 48, started his career at Lazard and Wasserstein Perella....
...Tony Blair interview: The “mess” Labour will inherit if it wins next year’s UK elections cannot be fixed by taxing and spending, the former prime minister told the FT....
...Kim’s appointment has been universally hailed by Centerview insiders including Handler partisans who praised Kim’s integrity and leadership....
...Old-school monsters, which the audience are expected to hate and fear, feature only as political bogeys: the Spitting Image puppet of a snarling Margaret Thatcher, a photograph of a smiling Tony Blair frozen...
...“Tony Blair [then leader of the Labour opposition] really tried to pick his way in with the scene that was happening....
...(Although, by way of comparison, it must be noted that the reverse-ageing Kim Kardashian has more than 320mn.)...
...Streeting opposed the war, but he says Blair did not act with malign intent and that the party would be better off leaving the trashing of Blair’s domestic record to the Conservatives....
...Kazakhstan’s highest-profile paid UK adviser was Tony Blair Associates, a consultancy set up by the former prime minister that is no longer in operation....
...How did private conversations between George W Bush and Tony Blair run in the lead-up to the Iraq war (David Hare’s Stuff Happens)?...
...In Batley and Spen, Labour’s candidate Kim Leadbeater was upbeat and local. She stood for decency in the face of a horrid culture war....
...“Biden will want to make a good impression,” said Kim Darroch, another former British envoy to Washington. “We should be going to them really early and asking what he wants to get out of it.”...
...It is worth noting however that the current constitutional crisis can be largely attributed to Tony Blair’s regime....
...The comedian Kim Noble also launched a new series, despite his assertion that “podcasts are for losers”....
...Nonetheless, in 2004 he accepted a UK knighthood from Tony Blair’s government....
...Former PMs David Cameron, Tony Blair and John Major all joined opposition to the bill, which overrides last year’s Brexit withdrawal treaty. Sterling suffered its worst week since March....
...Meanwhile, South Korea’s spy chief doubts that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had heart surgery....
...(WSJ) Koreas exchange gunfire A rare skirmish inside the demilitarised zone took place hours after Pyongyang released images of Kim Jong Un in public for the first time in three weeks....
...At Oscar de la Renta, design duo Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia used patchwork themes to fuse together different cultural elements, looking across the Atlantic towards Asia....
...Law firm Orrick has hired Keily Blair and James Lloyd to handle cyber and privacy enforcement and litigation in the UK and Europe as part of the company’s global cyber and security team....
...At last month’s memorial service for the late, great cabinet secretary Jeremy Heywood, Tony Blair joked that he had never been sure who had been working for who....
...He was Tony Blair’s Downing Street adviser on European affairs and Gordon Brown’s permanent representative to the EU....
...Ed Royce, top Republican on the House foreign affairs committee, warned that Mr Kim had “gained much from step one”....
...“[Mr Kim] figures he’s done enough and let’s see if he can get something out ofit,” said Adm Blair....
...Mr Blair, who also served as director of national intelligence, says the second category entails moving significant military assets to the region to scare Mr Kim into thinking that an attack was imminent...
...But this would be a big logistical operation and could itself be the trigger for pre-emptive action by Kim Jong Un’s nuclear-armed regime....
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