Hints and tips:
...I continue to think that a spring election is a) in the interests of the Conservative party and b) very unlikely for a number of reasons....
...As always, email me at scott.chipolina@ft.com....
...In attacking Conservatives who have accused the National Trust of wokery, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has rolled his tanks onto the genteel lawns of Middle England....
...Sources close to Rayner and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was not clear specifically what the GMP was investigating. The force has been approached for further comment....
...Joe Twyman, of DeltaPoll, told the BBC that the results represented a “very bad day for Keir Starmer”....
...A third contest could be held in Blackpool South where local MP Scott Benton is facing a 35-day suspension from parliament for allegedly breaching lobbying rules....
...But Keir Starmer has once again repeated his personal commitment to it, surprising many at Westminster, who expected that Labour would retreat from the promise....
...So there isn’t, for the Labour party is, why Keir is absolutely right to be cautious about all of this....
...b) The majority she had inherited was too small to deliver Brexit. c) Any election in which the Labour party was led by Jeremy Corbyn was a massive gimme....
...Long before that, medical papyri show that the ancient Egyptians were working on an elixir of eternal youth (mummification was merely Plan B)....
...Progress was even slower for working class employees who were a) female or b) had an ethnic minority background....
...One of the most influential was Industry and Trade in some Developing Countries, by Ian Little, Maurice Scott and Tibor Scitovsky....
...Benjamin stayed on EWI for a cover of rapper Travis Scott’s “Antidote”, a rare foray into contemporary climes featuring dense organ voicings and sparse, atmospheric drums....
...Eyman is a veteran film critic whose previous biographical subjects include Mary Pickford, John Ford and Cecil B DeMille....
...These tax policies meant that Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves could say that Labour’s various spending pledges were both a) fully funded and b) wouldn’t involve touching the politically contentious taxes,...
...15mn b/d within five years....
...[enlarge] Here comes the B word. Peak hard Brexit angst?...
...Scott Miller, 54, the owner of a barbershop in Rushden, is another disenchanted former Tory voter....
...US oil production rocketed from about 5mn barrels a day in 2008 to 13mn b/d this year....
...So why don’t Sir Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat leader, or Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer relentlessly point out the negative contribution that a “Tory Brexit” has made to bread-and-butter issues, like rising...
...But the interesting thing, talking to Keir Starmer and people around Keir Starmer, they see this as a really important moment. So let’s say it starts in 2026....
...Signal failure The reason why computers are — or at least, are to me — an exciting tool in public policy is that we a) know that computers make mistakes and b) it is possible to understand, eventually,...
...It is too soon to say a) whether the reformed bus system introduced in September will be deemed a success in the long run or b) what a sustainable funding model might look like.)...
...Exhibit B: Norway’s parliament last month voted to open up for deep-sea mining in and close to the Arctic....
...F Scott Fitzgerald said that a first-class mind can hold conflicting ideas without breaking down. Well, see how you get on with these two. Sir Keir Starmer is a politician of grossly unsung excellence....
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