Hints and tips:
...Last week, Sir John Bell, the immunologist and entrepreneur who will soon lead the Ellison Institute of Technology at Oxford university, told the FT that a businessperson could take the UKRI helm, to inject...
...“In the last 15 years, real wages have barely grown,” said John Van Reenen, professor at the London School of Economics....
...The recent inflation rise has taken the average British worker’s real wages down to 2.5 per cent below their 2009 level, but earnings are down 13 per cent for nurses and 24 per cent for junior doctors over...
...Italy’s billionaire Agnelli family has acquired a 15 per cent stake in Dutch conglomerate Philips in a roughly €2.6bn transaction, backing the group’s effort to shift away from consumer electronics to healthcare...
...Consensus Economics, which tracks leading forecasters, expects consumer price inflation to average 7.3 per cent in 2023 and 3.2 per cent in 2024....
...You just spent 18 months finding John Doe to fill that job gap; you’re not going to rush to fire him in this downturn....
...Borrowing falls from 4.2% of GDP in 2023-24, to 3.1%, 2.7%, 2.3%, 1.6% and 1.2% in 2028-29. By the end of the forecast, borrowing is at its lowest level of GDP since 2001....
...Using the private equity “carried interest, two and 20” business model, they take a management fee of 1 to 2 per cent of committed capital and a 20 per cent cut of profits once a hurdle has been cleared....
...Now I was listening to the Jeremy Vine Show on Radio 2, which is always a fascinating barometer of what public opinion is. And it was so split down the middle on the callers....
...This was about eight times the annual salary of a nurse or police officer in Sweden at the time....
...And despite record numbers of voluntary resignations, the NHS has 12 per cent more hospital doctors and ambulance staff and 8 per cent more nurses....
...The Liberal Democrats’ Rob Herd came third with 2,368 votes....
...On the other hand, on the Republican side, there’s an argument that, OK, and they made this argument that if this was John Doe who was accused of this kind of crime, it’s unlikely that he would have been...
...And, in what will no doubt go down as a historic gig, Elton John will perform his last ever UK show on the Pyramid Stage on Sunday night....
...Humza Yousaf has unveiled John Swinney, the deputy first minister, as his big eve-of-poll endorsement in the SNP leadership race....
...I won’t get into that announcement here (see John Burn-Murdoch’s illuminating thread on why the NHS badly needs that cash). The cracks go deeper than we might think....
...Prime minister Rishi Sunak said the country could not afford significant increases in nurses pay....
...Instead, it argues, “ensuring Britain has enough people ready to work as nurses and teachers should be seen as what it is: a challenge for policy”....
...Biletsky said doctors and nurses were helping but were working underground, as throughout Mariupol, with a lack of medicines, including antibiotics and anaesthetic....
...The proportion of GDP absorbed by the NHS has risen from 2.24 per cent in 1948 to 9.17 in 2022. As the public felt the impact of the service, its popularity soared....
...Among them was John Brett, a building site manager who needed to be in London to supervise the construction of a new Soho hotel....
...John Llewellyn: Quite tough, because the legitimate issue of relative pay (nurses) has become intertwined with the issue of absolute pay (train drivers)....
...The Kinshasa mausoleum in which the tooth now lies, which reportedly cost $2.4mn, was built by a Chinese company....
...and an intensive care nurse....
...The towpath alongside the River Lea Navigation has been curated into a series of phone-instructed walks: “Select option 2, pin number 370”....
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