Hints and tips:
...I think the extent to which, really, Putin has become the state, it's like maybe - I might be getting the French king wrong, but I think it's Louis XIV who said, l'etat c'est moi - I am the state....
...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...Economists say a V-shaped recovery is unlikely. Even then it could be two Vs stuck together – a W, in other words....
...Unsurprisingly, Greenspan et al believe China’s integration of its low-cost workforce and state-subsidised capital into the world economy over the past two decades has depressed prices everywhere....
...Mr Black says the “so-called dynasty issue just cancels out” if the race ends up being Bush v Clinton....
...Caroline Daniel Editor of FT Weekend How I could have lived my life without having read George Saunders, I have no idea....
...I know you have the ear of the Pope, Obama, Lakshmi et al, but I ask you humbly to let this be strictly “off the record”....
...Ahmad al-Omran, a Saudi blogger, said he was surprised by the mention of Muslims in the speech. “I didn’t expect it at all,” he said. “But when he was elected, he said he would bring change and hope.”...
...Now it’s by the will of the state or whoever acts in its name.” I asked him about Kukly, which came off the air in 2001. “In 2001, it was the end of independent NTV. It was taken over by the state....
...I guess I could have been popular by accepting Kyoto [the climate change protocol], which I felt was a flawed treaty.”...
...“I stand for democracy and I stand for the democratic institutions. I stand for rule of law, my struggle all [the years], since I was deposed, has been for the rule of law.”...
...Mr Bin al-Shibh insisted that he be provided with a translator who could speak the kind of Arabic spoken in the Gulf States....
...George W. Bush, US president, on Tuesday said he first learned that the tapes had been destroyed in a briefing by Gen Hayden last week....
...Richard Armitage greets me with an apology when I arrive at Cafe Milano. The former deputy US secretary of state is already seated with a coffee. I join him and order a glass of Pinot Noir....
...Last September, George W....
...President George W....
...“I write as a jilted lover,” begins Balmer’s prophetic, heartbroken new book....
...Announcing a strategic partnership between the US and India last year, George W....
...“When I was young and irresponsible,” he said, “I was young and irresponsible.”...
...He was a “working man of the theatre” - arguably (but not in every respect) superior to Dekker, Middleton, Jonson et al, and no different in kind. He lived in a real world....
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...THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GUILTY PLEASURES edited by Michael Moran et al John Murray ₤12.99, 352 pages Classic toilet material: its half-page alphabetical entries are eclectic, opinionated tilts at icons and...
...He said in a statement: “I am confident that at the end of this process I will be completely and totally exonerated.”...
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