Hints and tips:
...Boris Johnson’s time as Conservative leader and prime minister will be coloured by his resignation honours, which recommended peerages for those who had donated tens of thousands to the party....
...Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell recount that Lord Frost, the Brexit negotiator, wanted a “free-market . . . Singapore on Thames”....
...Seldon’s book makes detailed reading for those with the appetite to revisit the chaos of the Johnson years....
...Johnson at 10: The Inside Story by Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell (Atlantic Books) A detailed and damning account of Boris Johnson’s rise to power and period as prime minister....
...I remember when the Supreme Court was just about to overturn the Roe v Wade abortion ruling in 2022. I spoke to the CEO of a large American business....
...Not much of the “decorum” Seldon calls for was on show....
...In parliamentary systems, members of parliament can also revolt, as they did in the UK against Boris Johnson and Liz Truss....
...Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock, and Barbie’s Ryan Gosling took it several steps — or buttons — further, displaying what is unfortunately known as “heavage”....
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...Paul Johnson, head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a think-tank, said Labour’s plans to increase taxes on private schools, individuals with non-domicile status and private equity bosses, would raise...
...Johnson at 10: The Inside Story by Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell (Atlantic) A detailed and damning account of Boris Johnson’s rise to power and period as prime minister....
...Lantink’s work has been acquired and shown by museums, including London’s V&A and the Costume Institute at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, while celebrities such as Beyoncé, Billie Eilish and Janelle...
...As Boris Johnson himself put it on the morning after the 2016 referendum: “Oh shit, we’ve got no plan” (See Johnson at 10: The Inside Story by Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell that was serialised in The...
...“In terms of the impact of globalisation and industrialisation, the nadir for Stoke was somewhere between 2005 and 2010,” says Tristram Hunt, director of London’s V&A museum and author of The Radical Potter...
...I think a lot of people were anticipating a V-shaped recovery . . . People are now waking up the realisation that volatility is going to be normal going forward.”...
...Von der Leyen and Sunak made the announcement in front of a portrait of King George V, who inaugurated Northern Ireland’s parliament in 1921 with an appeal for unity....
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...Johnson did not deny he had told other ministers he was prepared to “privatise the arse off” underperforming public bodies....
...The event was attended by Boris Johnson for around 30 minutes and was planned in advance, with staff invited to the event via an email from Reynolds....
...(WSJ) — Dominic Cummings unloads on Boris and Carrie Johnson. (Unherd) — The Bank of England attempts to predict financial crises with a neural net....
...David Cameron, the former prime minister who earned millions of pounds as a boardroom adviser to the controversial financing firm, told Zahawi via text in 2020 that he had been “v helpful” with Greensill...
...But Stokes’ leadership has been obvious; Prince Hal transformed into Henry V at a succession of Agincourts....
...Albert Johnson spearheaded racist legislation that closed America’s doors to Asians and eastern Europeans for decades. Better known American figures also come off badly....
...Miles Johnson had a fascinating investigation into Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group and its sanctions-evasion network in Africa and beyond....
...Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson Well, one of the hot topics in the US right now is the Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn Roe v Wade, the abortion ruling that had held for about 50 years....
International Edition