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...Meanwhile, Egypt goes to the polls at the weekend with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi widely expected to win re-election despite an economic crisis including record inflation and foreign currency shortages...
...By contrast, suspected paedophile MPs including Cyril Smith and Clement Freud flourished unpunished. When sexual and financial rules changed, so did the nature of scandals....
...As Wachowiak et al correctly note, the recent pressures militating in favour of greater cooperation (Ukraine, a second Trump presidency, fiscal constraints), “have not, to date, proven sufficient to overcome...
...Additional contributions from Grace Ramos, Gordon Smith and George Russell...
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...Zahawi, who was promoted to education secretary in an autumn reshuffle, is thought likely to run for the Tory leadership if Prime Minister Boris Johnson is forced out by MPs over the “partygate” scandal....
...Somalia conflict: President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud told the FT he was confident his new military offensive against al-Shabaab would “defeat” the al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group....
...Nasa: The US space agency will introduce the four astronauts at the Johnson Space Center in Houston for its Artemis II lunar fly-by mission....
...has indicated it is considering expanding the list to cover other products, like organic chemicals and polymers, with a view to extending CBAM to cover all goods under the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS...
...His remarks reminded me of Boris Johnson’s first big Brexit speech in February 2020 in Greenwich where he promised to preserve the general “va et vient” for “academics, students and businesses” before blithely...
...His father’s company — then called the Al-Zahawi Group, but now known as Iraq Projects Business Development (IPBD) — quickly procured a contract to provide cleaning, logistics and support services to the...
...That UK participation would have been unthinkable in the Johnson-Frost era and does mark a significant step forward, according to insiders....
...The recent rise of the Faangs, et al, looks like a knee-jerk reaction to the fall in rates and rate expectations that followed the banking mess (the 10-year yield has fallen from 4-ish per cent to 3.6-ish...
...Et tu Brutus? Or in Boris Johnson’s case, Et pretty much everyone — Rishi, Sajid, even Priti for goodness sake (non-aficionados of UK politics should Google them)....
...IBM, Netflix, Johnson & Johnson and Philip Morris were among the companies to warn last week that the strengthening dollar could weaken revenues in the coming months....
...Other companies reporting today include Johnson & Johnson, Lockheed Martin and Hasbro....
...In the case outlined by Haddad et al, Goltz said investors were buying a stock “even though the price has gone up”, so demand is more inelastic and “you can have additional volatility from shifts in demand...
...But this is the landscape as it emerged after the December 2019 election at which Boris Johnson was triumphant....
...We have our evil leader for today (you-know-who in Moscow), but do Biden, Johnson, Macron et al fit the bill as statesmen?...
...And generally speaking, they are the stocks that have been hardest hit by the past, probably 12 to 14 months of regulatory crackdown under Xi Jinping, who has been sort of making Alibaba, Tencent et al feel...
...Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson (Public Affairs) Economists Acemoglu and Johnson make the case that decisions about technology...
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...Even among Tory voters the positive differential has nearly halved, shrinking from around plus-44 to (67 ‘well’ v 23 ‘badly’) in January 2020 to plus-23 (58 ‘well’ v 35 ‘badly’) today....
...As Lord David Pannick QC et al observed in a letter to the Times this week the doctrine of necessity requires “grave and imminent peril” to which the state in question has not contributed....
...Our economics editor Chris Giles and US economics editor Colby Smith are in discussion in an Instagram live on August 18 at 4pm BST/11am ET....
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