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...The Bank of England will delay implementing the latest package of global post-crisis banking reforms for another six months, aligning its approach with the US as officials wade through an avalanche of industry...
...In the Bodleian’s exhibition, Mary Shelley’s manuscript of Frankenstein, with Percy Bysshe Shelley’s editorial suggestions inked into the margin, is on display....
...Letter in response to this article: Charles III can offer PM some pharaonic wisdom / From Trevor Lyttleton, London NW11, UK...
...Emma Corrin is ice-cool as Anna, impossible to read, calculatingly offbeat and deliberately evasive; Nabhaan Rizwan’s Ariel becomes agitated as he wades into deeper and deeper water....
...Next week we spend the whole episode on the likely repeal of Roe v Wade and the right to abortion in America....
...They’re both spawning grounds for opinion as fact -- “newspapers dug their own grave by not adopting micropayments”, “M&S lost Middle England the day it introduced the vegan Percy”, that kind of thing --...
...(iii) Such a property wealth tax would cause a large industry of tax avoidance....
...Keith Wade: Will build up slowly to 1 per cent per annum in 2023, an outcome which suits the political cycle....
...Norway for now), iii) no deal or iv) remain....
...A character on their way to an urgent meeting wanders into Regent’s Park, a detour both physical and emotional, past the pond where Percy and Mary Shelley sailed their paper boats and across the hilltop...
...“Directors who can fill that role are few and far between,” wrote Alan Bennett in the preface to The Madness of George III....
...Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, was kingmaker to Henry VII at Bosworth in 1485 when Richard III was consigned to Leicester’s soil....
...The present 12th Duke of Northumberland, Ralph Percy, is the descendent of Harry Hotspur and his brother Sir Ralph Percy who fought – and lost – against the Scottish Earl of Douglas at Otterburn in 1388....
...“The issuance of a UK sovereign sukuk sets a precedent for the western financial world with the high demand hopefully encouraging further issuance from western countries and corporates,” said Humphrey Percy...
...(iii) Brexit (see below)."...
...Keith Wade, Schroders Yes, the economy faces headwinds from a slower housing market and election uncertainty, but should continue to grow at a decent pace helped by the drop in oil prices....
...Keith Wade, Schroders Not in 2015 or 2016, but thereafter, like last time, the austerity plans will slip....
...Keith Wade, Schroders: In London and the southeast where there is the risk of a bubble I would expect restraint to be needed, especially as the deadline for the scheme begins to loom....
...iii) The weakness of the housing market is well documented....
...On the night, I ended up adoring Wagner: when I heard Act III Scene 4, its incandescent heart-stopping beauty so overwhelmed me that I wept....
...It’s a restored 1966 Jaguar Mark III, a gleaming gangster’s car from a time when The Beatles still wore suits....
...Keith Wade, Schroders: Most of the gains in employment in 2012 were down to an increase in the self-employed, those volunteering, and those working on a part-time basis....
...Keith Wade, Schroders: The concern in leaving the European Union would be the breakdown in trade relations, and the additional barriers to trade that would be erected as a result....
...Keith Wade, Schroders: There is anecdotal evidence that banks are turning down good credits as they shrink their balance sheets....
...Keith Wade, Schroders: Pressure to slack off the pace of deficit reduction will intensify in 2012 as growth weakens....
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