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...Top stories today Mountain ahead | There are few silver linings for the Conservatives in the polling data, even among their traditional base....
...But at the same time, he also sounded quite sort of robotic and weakened in terms of his voice, his projection of his own power in a sort of almost a kind of Theresa May-type feel about it....
...In 2018, Theresa May, then UK prime minister, wore one of Doshi Shah’s torques for a state dinner in Kenya. But expanding out of the local market is tough....
...(Gordon Brown and Theresa May, bleaker in temperament, which is always misread as depth, fell short.)...
...Mitchell said the new formula — and its acceptance by some potential rebel Tory MPs — was “a tribute to the chancellor’s silver tongue”, but he added: “It is a fiscal trap for the unwary.”...
...Like Harry Potter sending a silver stag to fend off the Dementors, the bespectacled Michael Gove has conjured a defensive shield for Boris Johnson....
...Equally, this is no silver bullet in terms of corporate behaviour as myriad German corporate scandals testify....
...As the palm trees of Silver Lake sway outside my window, I do the natural thing. I watch a BBC documentary about a long-dead foreign government....
...“None of [the options out there] is a silver bullet solution for care funding, but together they form a suite of options,” said Yuille....
...There is one silver lining in the otherwise horrific aircraft hijacking and kidnapping of Roman Protasevich and Sofia Sapega by the Belarus government: it forces a moment of clarity on Europe, and the west...
...“We’d built few bridges at that point, and suddenly we had to come together and forge a coalition,” said state minister Theresa Schopper....
...In the 18th century, Maria Theresa and her son Joseph II pioneered an influential rationalist fusion of Enlightenment rule and centralised governance....
...- Theresa May makes it onto the Contrarian Prize shortlist....
...And finally Mr Trump attended a state banquet at Buckingham Palace, a white-tie occasion attended by around 170 guests dining off the silver gilt of the Grand Service made for George IV....
...Pro-EU campaigners celebrated twin victories on Tuesday that appeared to reduce sharply the chances of a no-deal Brexit and further eroded the authority of prime minister Theresa May....
...Theresa May faces a clash with Brussels after the House of Commons backed her efforts to rewrite her own draft Brexit treaty, an attempt to break the deadlock at Westminster....
...There is a silver lining for Remainers....
...But for some European politicians, there might be a silver lining in Mr Johnson’s likely ascent to Downing Street....
...It was bad luck after his probably inevitable departure that his successor Theresa May, finding herself in a deep hole, concluded that the sensible thing to do was to dig even deeper....
...(Silver lining: employment is low so we’re not worrying about losing our jobs.)...
...Pen poised, the silver-haired Frenchman is flanked by his deputy Sabine Weyand and strategy chief Stephanie Riso, each with bulging dossiers conspicuously absent on the British side....
...Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the charismatic silver-haired 65-year-old president of Mexico, is one of the world’s most popular politicians....
...She visits a Tokyo branch of the Silver Centres that find part-time jobs for older Japanese people, saving local businesses time and promoting a sense of ikigai, or “reason for being”....
...he asks, spinning his silver spoon in his espresso. It didn’t end too well for Gorbachev, I say. “It’s not ended too badly,” demurs Greig, a trustee of the Soviet leader’s wife’s charity....
...Luc Slithy-Tove — the silver-haired, silver-tongued demon deal-jockey and chief executive of Bandersnatch Bank — drafted a New Year memo to his team this week....
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