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...With regard to Nicholas Gruen’s piece on “how to improve economic forecasting” (Opinion, August 29), forecasts of output and inflation depend on the economic theory held by the forecaster(s)....
...Nigel Lawson told me that in his experience all radical ideas had come from the political side of the Treasury. He’s probably right. Politicians inject direction and urgency....
...The quartet of soloists — soprano Mhairi Lawson, countertenor Owen Willetts, tenor Nicholas Mulroy and bass Robert Davies — was well matched, but why have countertenors taken over?...
...Thus there are lessons from the [Nigel] Lawson boom and bust of the late 1980s....
...make the decision before British MPs simpler by killing off the possibility of a Brexit reversal Anjana Ahuja explains the enduring appeal of the periodic table as we mark its birth this year Carlos Nicholas...
...public’s enduring faith in its founding principles — a universal service, largely free at the point of use — that have made it “the closest thing the English have to a religion”, as former chancellor Nigel Lawson...
...The tradition of the Christmas orange probably goes back to the legend of St Nicholas in the Netherlands in the 16th century....
...Three decades on, Nigel Lawson’s 1988 Budget, which cut the top rate of income tax from 60 per cent to 40 per cent, has still made the most lasting impact....
.../ From Nicholas Coulson, Carlisle, Cumbria, UK To receive alerts when Gideon Rachman’s articles are published, go to his page here and click on “add to myFT”...
...And whenever a chancellor has assumed higher trend growth, such as Nigel Lawson in the late 1980s or Gordon Brown in the 2000s, they have usually had cause to regret it....
...The four soloists — soprano Mhairi Lawson, countertenor James Laing, tenor Nicholas Mulroy and bass Matthew Brook, sounding on refulgent form — stepped out of the ranks of the choir....
...Nicholas Comfort...
...Similarly the partnership between Margaret Thatcher and Nigel Lawson, until 1987, and that between John Major and Mr Clarke, were based on mutual respect and a recognition the chancellor was in the lead...
...Many people saw much of this policy agenda as an unwelcome return to 1970s corporatism, but Professor Nicholas Stern of the London School of Economics sees the proposals for reducing inequality as typical...
...Nigel Lawson, then chancellor, examined the way other countries did it. Copying them, he concluded, would be “out of the frying pan and into the fire”. In purely NHS terms, that verdict still stands....
...Some in the Cabinet, like the Environment Secretary, Mr Christopher Patten, are not crusading economic liberals; others, like the Employment Secretary, Mr Norman Fowler, or the Industry Secretary, Mr Nicholas...
...The drinks list also makes some interesting forays beyond cocktails, including the revival of Russian “polugar” bread wine. 10 Lady Lawson St, Edinburgh; timberyard.co Volta, Manchester A Wild Garden...
...Letter in response to this editorial: Rich countries have the biggest role to play on coal / From Max Lawson...
...“Dealing rooms are more sober places,” Mr Lawson says....
...I also want to take this moment to thank another great public servant, Sir Nicholas Macpherson....
...Nicholas Barr, Professor of Public Economics, LSE Not much effect — the core problem is too few houses....
...: The Logic, Urgency, and Promise of Tackling Climate Change, by Nicholas Stern, MIT Press, RRP£19.95/RRP$27.95 Lord Stern was author of the 2007 Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change....
...Nigel Lawson, former chancellor the exchequer, once described it as “the closest thing the English have to a religion” and many outside observers watched the role it played in last year’s Olympics opening...
...“You tend to forget how important exporters are,” says Nicholas Smith, a strategist at CLSA in Tokyo, citing a government study that showed the auto industry accounted for close to half of Japan’s growth...
...“I imagine he moved over because of the show, not because of what happened,” says George Lawson....
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