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...UK boss Hywel Ball has also been granted an extension to the retirement age, which EY and its rivals impose partly to free up space to promote new partners into their top ranks....
...EY’s UK boss, Hywel Ball, said previously that the spin-off would enable investment to improve audit quality....
...As Katy Balls, one of the most plugged-in observers of Sunak’s thoughts and inner circle, explains in the Guardian: Keir Starmer was not mentioned in the address, as Sunak wanted to show he was rising above...
...“We are the first ones to get the ball rolling, but when we are successful, it will be everyone’s success within the industry, except for the executives.”...
...One aim of the Autumn Statement was to retain the option of calling an election in May, as Katy Balls explains in her column in this week’s Spectator....
...There is, I’m sorry to say, no evidence that Sunak is doing any of the stuff you’d need to get the ball rolling on a big national project to reform England’s qualifications system....
...Others, most importantly Ed Balls, the then-shadow chancellor, took the view that this wouldn’t work. As one of their number put it, frequently: “We would concede — and no one would move on.”...
...Lucy FisherMartin, just finally, can I tempt you to gaze into your crystal ball and tell our listeners just one thing they should be looking out for in 2024 regarding the UK or the world economy?...
...Lucy FisherAlso in the studio is Stephen Bush. Hello, Stephen. Stephen BushHi, Lucy....
...BAE aerospace deal | The UK’s largest defence company has agreed to buy the aerospace business of US conglomerate Ball Corp in a $5.6bn deal....
...This inspired, intensely moving piece of immersive theatre marks the 30th anniversary of the murder of Stephen Lawrence by performing a play on a red double-decker bus as it weaves its way through south...
...Stephen Flynn, SNP leader at Westminster, mocked both Sunak and Starmer in the Commons last week....
...As Katy Balls explains in today’s Times, it’s a reflection of how tricky the politics of this are for Sunak....
...No one did bittersweet like Stephen Sondheim, America’s supreme musical ironist....
...And the best gift I’ve received is an illustrated book by Stephen, who is an interiors photographer, of our first year together....
...It was Inka that first inspired Shrigley’s 2021 project Mayfair Tennis Ball Exchange at Mayfair’s Stephen Friedman Gallery, for which he displayed 12,166 pristine tennis balls equal distances apart on purpose-built...
...• You sent in your suggestions for what will happen in 2024 – and FT magazine editor Matt Vella joins Lilah Raptopoulos to look into the crystal ball and predict next year’s trends....
..., we’ve also invited ourselves to the best nights out in town – from Ashley Longshore’s champagne reception in New York City to an outdoor rendezvous in Montauk with star design duo Robin Standefer and Stephen...
...Gaga then asked Rowan to provide the gloves for her 2022 Chromatica Ball world tour. “It brought worldwide attention,” she says....
...“Our biggest selling product, burger and chips, is still the same price [of £6.29] it was back in 2019,” said Hollywood Bowl chief executive Stephen Burns....
...Margaret Atwood and Stephen King are concerned that their works are being used to train AI systems, which can (in Atwood’s term) “glurp forth” prose on command....
...You heard there the FT’s Stephen Bush talking about the Labour leader. Stephen’s here with me in the studio now. Hello, Stephen. Stephen BushHi, Lucy. Lucy FisherAnd the FT’s Miranda Green....
...You’re yes and you’re no Katy Balls’ cover story for this week’s Spectator is an unmissable account of the state of the Tory party, and the various attempts to mount a fairly “well-aimed political assassination...
...I was astonished to learn via Katy Balls in the Evening Standard recently that David Frost, one of Sunak’s most vocal critics, has not only successfully applied to become a Conservative MP candidate but...
...And you know, when you look at something like the Senate map in particular, the ball is in the Republicans’ court....
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