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...In 2021, the commander of US troops in the Indo-Pacific at the time, Phil Davidson, stated in congressional testimony that China may have the capability to successfully attack Taiwan by 2027....
...Phil Hammond, for example, trailered his heavily customised 1979 Honda CBX all the way from his home in San Sebastián to the finish line in Monaco before riding it the 400 miles to the start....
...Phil Reynolds, a partner at the restructuring advisory firm FRP, said Wednesday would be a “watershed”. “It is effectively two quarters rent you are catching up . . ....
...It hasn’t exactly been a quiet summer, with EU trade commissioner “Big Phil” Hogan resigning from his post after claims he broke Ireland’s coronavirus restriction rules....
...But ‘Spreadsheet Phil’ had more use of Microsoft Word then Excel....
...UK chancellor Philip Hammond’s cost estimate of “more than £1tn” (report, June 6) for a net zero emissions 2050 target sounds huge: that figure is about half of the UK’s gross domestic product this year....
...And he pledged also to reform the way government takes decisions, as he made thinly veiled criticism of his predecessor in Number 11, Philip Hammond, who was known in the Treasury as “Spreadsheet Phil”....
...The first person to make the idea famous, of course, was none other than Chancellor of the Exchequer Phillip “Spreadsheet Phil” Hammond himself, who said the magical distributed spreadsheet was the “most...
...’s £1tn and a cost-benefit calculation / From Richard Lewney and Phil Summerton Hammond’s £1tn estimate is rather less than it seems / From Nick Mabey, CEO, E3G, London, UK Costs should be set against...
...Since arriving at the Treasury in 2016 Mr Hammond has become known as “spreadsheet Phil” but he suggested the austerity associated with his predecessor, George Osborne, is now over, and noted that he has...
...“Standing up to the Brexiters has taken an even bigger toll on Phil than I feared.”...
...Colleagues say that “Spreadsheet Phil” can be arrogant. He tried to make the most of this reputation, joking about his love of productivity analysis....
...It has been the making of him: while he’s there he will just carry on being Big Phil.”...
...Asked if the government had secured enough support, Mr Hammond told the BBC: “Not yet; it is a work in progress.”...
...Quote of the week “A political stunt, pure and simple, designed to change the news cycle in the UK” — Phil Hogan, EU agricultural commissioner on the UK’s no-deal tariff plan....
...Here was Spreadsheet Phil giving Have-A-Laugh Hammond a turn. How funny all this will seem by March remains to be seen. But as he put it: “It’s the way I tell them.”...
...I am sure the headline writers were ready with, “Spreadsheet Phil turns Santa Claus”. Others were desperate for it to be on Wednesday, “Hammo House of Horrors”, perhaps....
...But Mr Gove is facing resistance within the British government from Philip Hammond, the chancellor, and Liam Fox, the International Trade Secretary, who insist that tariffs must remain low in order to protect...
...item on its wish list UK chancellor provides rescue package following months of high-street pain Fiscal Phil’s Budget routine may leave joke on Brexiters Chancellor plays adult among political children...
...But in his Commons speech on Monday Mr Hammond announced it would happen sooner than planned....
...The recent near-death experience of Patisserie Valerie and collapse of Conviviality, the bargain booze business, might make Chancellor Phil Hammond think again about all those rich tax breaks attached to...
...‘If Phil Hammond wants to find someone as predictably unpredictable as Mark Carney, the only hope he has is in Pyongyang … or the White House.’...
...Philip Hammond, a man so detail-focused as to have earned the nickname “spreadsheet Phil”, looks an unlikely warrior in the latest “tech-lash”....
...Paper cracks Fiscal Phil Hammond is counting on the Royston Crow and Keswick Reminder giving his Budget a warm welcome....
...I’ve heard there’s a guy called Pistol Phil Hammond, who goes around deliberately making enemies. Writer: It’s Fiscal Phil. And he doesn’t do that deliberately. Agent: What about Gavin Williamson?...
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