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...David Cameron and his chancellor George Osborne were both in the Notting Hill set....
...D’Amaro’s division, officially known as Disney Experiences, also includes its cruise lines and a consumer products division that ranges from Mickey Mouse sweatshirts to Buzz Lightyear figures....
...Ben Zaranko, at the Institute for Fiscal Studies think-tank, said cuts to the civil service and a larger portion of the R&D budget “won’t be enough” to fund the defence spending pledge to 2030....
...improv style – one minute he sticks his head between the legs of a sculpture, the next he’s biting the wings of the Golden Pegasus, then holding McKillen’s hand in a reflection of the nearby sculpture of Mickey...
...So while it might be more difficult these days, I will continue doing what I consider to be God’s real work: taking the mickey out of it. jemima.kelly@ft.com...
...Mickey Mouse first appeared in Steamboat Willie (1928), and on January 1 the US’s draconian 95-year copyright period comes to an end....
...But as the programme explains, when its emerging composing duo Joel Goodman and Jan Osborne met playwright Joan Greening at the Fringe, she persuaded them that she should give the script a substantial revamp...
...So if you decide to write anything, I’d rather it wasn’t about me.”...
...In contrast, it tightened persistently in 2010-14, under former Tory chancellor George Osborne....
...They remember that the IMF warned George Osborne about his plans, only to be surprised by the UK’s economic performance....
...I’d love your thoughts....
...That, in Osborne’s view, meant an elected mayor. Such mayors were subsequently made a prerequisite for devolution deals elsewhere, too....
...“I talked to one nice Australian visitor who joked, ‘I thought I’d just check that the whole place hadn’t been stolen,’” Beard says. It was a painful jest....
...There are lots of things I’d like to change. If it’s affordable to do so, then I would do so,” he added. How many people are affected?...
...“It felt more the Cameron/Osborne approach — you try and allow people to fulfil their potential,” said one Tory MP....
...When George Osborne did it in 2007, he scared Gordon Brown away from calling an election. But even Osborne never went through with it. Can the Conservatives find a new raison d’être?...
...D:Ream’s 1993 hit is a banging tune and perfect dance-floor filler, with a chorus everyone can sing with their arms in the air. It was also New Labour’s 1997 election song....
...There is nothing in the pit to match the siren wail of Osborne’s vocals and onstage guitarist Marc Hayward, while excellent, never quite takes control — a better sound mix might help....
...There is Indian notation, letters and numbers as an aide-memoire, so they can find their place when Alpesh Chauhan, the conductor, asks them to rehearse from figure D or wherever....
...I’d sooner watch 10 films by Roman Polanski than a single Marvel film. (OK, that’s a slight untruth, because I love some Spider-Verse.)...
...One former Tory cabinet minister said: “I’d expect Labour to put up taxes on the other side of the election....
...In 2007, the UK’s then shadow chancellor, George Osborne, promised that the Conservatives would raise the inheritance tax threshold to £1mn if they were elected....
...I couldn’t decide whether to buy or sell, but I’d just like to buy high-level headhunters. Because there are lots of Conservative ex-ministers out there looking to be placed in work....
...When I moved to California a few years ago, I persuaded a friend to come along to Disneyland with me so I could see what I’d missed out on while growing up in England....
...I’d like the [green] surcharge on electricity bills to go for starters,” he told the FT....
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