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Taylor-Johnson directs Amy Winehouse biopic ‘Back to Black’ — reviews by Danny Leigh and Jonathan Romney
...Lara Trump is married to Eric Trump, the former president’s second son who runs the Trump Organization alongside his brother, Donald Trump Jr....
...“There have been legacy political issues that people have found very disturbing,” he said, a reference to the recent turbulent past of the Boris Johnson and Liz Truss premierships....
...The Financial Times revealed on Friday that Nigel Adams, at the time one of Johnson’s closest ministerial allies, was involved in the recruitment process that led to Canadian businessman Sam Blyth ending...
...Sam Blyth, a multimillionaire Canadian businessman and relation of Johnson, was at the time offering to guarantee a £800,000 loan facility for the prime minister, an arrangement that was first discussed...
...Your heart may sink a little at the thought of Back to Black, the new biography of the late singer Amy Winehouse from director Sam Taylor-Johnson. It will sink more watching it....
The ability to make our indoor spaces consistently warm transformed how we live — now, climate change demands a similar upheaval
...Congress finally passed bills to fund the government, third-party presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr picked a running mate and Donald Trump introduced a $60 Bible to help fund his campaign....
...She, a junior Johnson aide who ultimately became LBJ’s biographer, felt the decade’s greatest liberal achievements — particularly in civil rights — were Johnson’s masterwork....
...Paul Johnson, director of the IFS, said pensioners had benefited over time from lower housing costs and from the triple lock, while working-age benefits had been cut....
...Without that she is going to be forced into some nasty decisions on cutting spending or increasing taxes,” Johnson added....
...“When I look at all the monuments around here,” she says, gesturing towards a new sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr, “I feel proud to be in Massachusetts.”...
...Hunt’s ambition to improve public sector efficiency was the right one, said Paul Johnson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, but “delivering on such plans and securing cash savings will be very tough indeed...
...Ackman, who has led a vocal campaign against Harvard University in recent months, also gave smaller amounts to Ramaswamy, Haley and Christie — and independent candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr....
...Produced by Remi Kabaka Jr of Gorillaz, Where’s My Utopia? pushes their sound to its bulging limits....
...A top Republican donor to Donald Trump’s past presidential campaigns is helping to bankroll Robert F Kennedy Jr’s long-shot White House bid, as conservative cash keeps flowing to Joe Biden’s main challenger...
...Johnson previously noted at the time of the Autumn Statement in November that any tax cuts were in the context of “the biggest tax-raising parliament in modern times”....
...In the summer of 2022, while vying with Liz Truss to succeed Boris Johnson, Sunak claimed he could cut the basic rate of income tax from 20p to 16p by 2029 if he won the next general election....
...Former prime minister Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak, his then-chancellor, in 2020 provoked a rebellion among senior Conservatives by cutting £4bn a year from the UK’s aid budget as they scrapped a law guaranteeing...
...The bigger problem, Johnson argued, concerns fiscal policy....
...It comes after House Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled a new package of legislation that could compel the Senate to support the measure....
...“We are in a horrible fiscal bind,” said Paul Johnson, director of the IFS....
...However, many Tory MPs oppose such a squeeze and Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said it would be a “big choice” that would inflict pain on “some of the poorest” in society....
...immediate and certain tax cuts in response to highly uncertain changes in assumptions about the UK’s medium-term economic prospects is not a recipe for good management of the public finances,” warned Paul Johnson...
...Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies think-tank, said the cut to national insurance contributions “pales into relative insignificance” next to the increase in personal taxes created...
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