Hints and tips:
...Johnson has tarnished almost everyone in his orbit: Allegra Stratton, filmed sheepishly thinking about how to cover up the parties; Simon Case, the cabinet secretary who has been utterly compromised; the...
...It is no error that the film includes the line, “Stratton Oakmont is America.”...
...Well, you know, I think Harriet should have recused herself or she shouldn’t have sent those tweets saying he’d lied or....
...I’ve been trying to imagine how I’d have felt, had I still been working in 10 Downing Street, if I’d been invited to the now infamous garden party in May 2020....
...after we’d watched him throw his elder brother’s toy down the drain. Conservative MPs used to say “Boris will be Boris” with the same forgiving smiles....
...Reaching for the wartime metaphors which come so instinctively, one former party strategist adds: “When you’ve got D-Day, no one remembers Norway.”...
...After parties in high school, we’d sometimes end up at a 24-hour diner in a strip mall a couple of miles from my house....
...“When I say Stratton — you say Oakmont,” instructs a character. “Stratton!” We responded: “Oakmont!” After a few renditions, I’m not even sure we were being ironic. It was quite cathartic....
...If you’d asked me six months before all the scenarios, I would have said Three was least likely. I thought the trend in consolidation was going in a different direction,” he says....
...Review by BF … Where’d You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple, Phoenix, RRP£7.99, 304 pages Where’d You Go, Bernadette?...
...I’d also like to think that my new-found optimism is shared by lots of people, but it palpably isn’t. Investors are on a real downer when it comes to local Chinese equities....
...Specialist investors, such as the managers of Stratton Street Capital’s Wealthy Nations Bond Fund, reckon you have to stick to those with strong national balance sheets....
...If you want to read a serious analysis about the Miliband dilemma, I’d recommend Jason Cowley in the latest edition of the New Statesman....
...The stations of the cross, for characters brought in from Allan Stratton’s novel Chanda’s Secrets, are walked through with dignity and brave grace. Emotional climaxes are risen to....
...You could buy Stratton Street’s Wealthy Nation’s Bond Fund, which will give you good currency exposure....
...No, I’d look at this space for simple diversification reasons. If you do buy into globalisation, don’t make the lazy assumption that it will only ever be captured by equities....
...These are not arrows that you’d pluck out of your leg before continuing the fight. Shot from a longbow, they would pulverise bone and destroy organs. We head outside to shoot at a thick foam target....
...Incidentally I’m interviewing Mili-D this week and would welcome any particularly sharp questions from readers....
...In fact, I’d much rather attempt diversification using a bond fund than trust in some shiny metal. No, my reticence has been for two other reasons....
...There is a way in for the ordinary investor – the Stratton Street Renminbi Bond Fund....
...Verisign was 5.3 per cent higher at $29.43 after chief executive Stratton Sclavos resigned....
...Verisign rose 11.4 per cent to $30.36 this week after chief executive Stratton Sclavos resigned....
...This was music especially dear to Elgar: in his final illness, he kept playing the newly made recording by Harriet Cohen and the Stratton Quartet on his bedside gramophone....
...Stratton Sclavos, the chief executive of Verisign, which controls registrations for the .com domain, said his company would spend $30m (£17m) over the next three years on non-revenue generating equipment...
...Stratton Sclavos, chief executive of Verisign, which monitors traffic as it is relayed across the internet, told the same conference that hacking had moved from being a mischievous hobby to a job....
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