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...The main draw of the evening is set to be a conversation between the three Democratic leaders moderated by CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert....
...Evan Seigerman, an analyst at BMO Capital Markets, said investors who drove up these stocks in a “sugar-high rush” were now “mentally over the pandemic”....
...Hall proposed to scrap the Ulez expansion, which is really best understood as a form of “sin tax”: yes, duties on cigarettes, alcohol and sugar are designed to hopefully wean us off fags, booze and sweeties...
...And Stephen, you think he might yet still ruin our Christmas holidays. Stephen BushYeah....
...Stephen BushWhat I think . . . So someone like Liz Truss has always been opposed to things like sugar taxes, the smoking ban....
...But visibly too much of the party wants the sugar high of big and exciting moves, whether it is yet more rhetorical heat on immigration or further tax cuts in this parliament’s remaining fiscal events....
...A homemade mix of white wine, lemons, sugar, cinnamon and cold soda, it was originally given out gratis by locals, in a nod to the magnanimity of their beloved San Cayetano, or Saint Cajetan — the 15th-century...
...Ulez is best understood as a sin tax: like taxes on booze, fags and sugar, it is doing double duty, both as a measure designed to change behaviour and as a revenue raiser for London’s devolved government...
...In 2022 the UK imported more than 40,000 tonnes of liquid eggs from the EU, according to the CFA, which has warned in a letter to Stephen Barclay, the environment, food and rural affairs secretary, that...
...Lucy Fisher Also here is the FT’s Stephen Bush. Hi, Stephen. Stephen Bush Hi Lucy....
...In tributes on Thursday morning, Lord Alan Sugar said Parkinson’s death was “the end of an era”, while comedian Eddie Izzard called him the “king of the intelligent interview”....
...Meanwhile, his adviser Egereg (Bold-Erdene Sugar) — the actual father of the Queen’s child — plots to ensure it is his son who becomes heir to the throne. Needless to say, no good comes of this....
...If the Conservatives go into opposition, they will surely go for the sugar rush of simply criticising the government rather than reimagining the serious reform proposals that they had under David Cameron...
...Natural wine can sometimes come with surprises: without the additions of sulphites, sugar or other additives, it can lack consistency from bottle to bottle....
...Poor harvests in Europe and north Africa pushed up the price of fruit and vegetables while the rising cost of sugar increased the cost of chocolate and confectionery products....
...Sold south by her own father, she is buoyed on a Dante-esque journey to a sugar cane plantation by spirits and stories of her woman-warrior ancestor in Africa, passed on by her beloved mother, who finds...
...Sugar could not be immediately reached for comment....
...Inside, you sit with Stephen. It’s the 25th anniversary of “Torn” and Natalie Imbruglia is on This Morning. Stephen keeps pointing at the TV and then at his chest. “Yes, from in here? Song?”...
...So a little bit of light Brexit boosting is, Hunt hopes, the spoonful of sugar that will make his internal critics take their medicine again in March....
...Lots of questions” about Epstein, and one in which the financier was referred to as a “Sugar Daddy!” for young women....
...And Stephen Flynn, the SNP leader at Westminster, was saying this week it was a failure of the whole Westminster system....
...Most of the cash coming in heads straight back out on player wages and transfer fees — what Alan Sugar liked to call the “prune juice” effect....
...The pair had spotted an opportunity to develop a high-end rum in the Philippines, a sugar- producing nation with a supply of molasses....
...In fact, he had yet another health scare two years ago when he was told he was in danger of becoming diabetic, and had to cut out sugar – “even carrots”....
...stephen.bush@ft.com...
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