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...Avatar and Terminator director James Cameron has backed plans for a new studio scheme west of London ahead of a crucial vote on planning permission for the site expected this month....
...“Jimmy Lai is probably number one on Beijing’s enemies list,” said Thomas Kellogg, executive director of Georgetown University’s Center for Asian Law....
...For a fairer measure of Cameron, go upstairs: the NPG’s permanent collection has her craggy, unyielding “Thomas Carlyle”, author of On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History....
Network Rail boss proposes polling staff directly on modernisation as Thursday action set to cripple services
...helen.thomas@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Slapping a green label on mortgages ‘won’t cut it’ / From Steve Round, Co-Founder, SaaScada, London EC3, UK...
...Cameron Hudson, a Sudan expert at the Center for Strategic International Studies, said Washington had struggled to deal with a war in which victory for either side was regarded as unpalatable....
...Lord David Cameron, the UK’s foreign minister, last week urged the Hong Kong government to reconsider the draft....
...Cameron McCann said the distillery already had between 7,000 and 8,000 people booked for tours in 2024, and hopes to eventually increase that to about 30,000....
...“Lai could be sentenced to a decade or more in prison, and that might be enough to ensure that he spends the rest of his days in prison,” said Thomas E Kellogg, executive director at Georgetown University...
...Campaign clips: the latest election headlines UK foreign minister David Cameron met Trump in Florida yesterday, as London urges Republicans to approve more aid for Ukraine, ahead of a meeting with Biden...
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...Thomas Hale has more details from Shanghai. The Big Read By 2045, about $90tn in the US alone is set to be transferred from those born before 1964 to their heirs....
...The Leveson inquiry was set up by the then prime minister David Cameron after the phone-hacking scandal, in which several newspapers unlawfully accessed the voicemails of celebrities, politicians and crime...
Committee warns UK risks falling behind other countries in the race to develop cutting-edge chips
Sunak’s departmental shake-up is unlikely to achieve much and will only cause upheaval
...David Cameron’s unorthodox comeback as the UK’s top diplomat brings experience as well as baggage to Downing Street....
Prime minister says UK will not pursue relationship with Brussels that relies on alignment with European rules
...The words of what Christmas carol — which has no direct religious references — were written by Thomas Oliphant in 1862?...
...Additional reporting by Nathalie Thomas...
Prime minister urges executives to ‘embrace restraint’ as their workers face a cost of living crisis
Premier will face calls to soften impact of Brexit when he addresses CBI on Monday
...Billionaire Republican donor Thomas Peterffy wants to bet on someone he thinks can win the White House in 2024....
...Clarke said the politics around wind turbines had changed since the Cameron ban seven years ago....
...Dame Ruth May, England’s chief nurse, joined the picket line outside St Thomas’ Hospital in London, according to The Times, and urged the government to negotiate with the RCN....
...Reporting by Anjli Raval, Robert Wright, Jasmine Cameron-Chileshe, Oliver Barnes, Chris Giles, Dan Thomas, Josephine Cumbo, Ian Smith, Kate Beioley and Bethan Staton...
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