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...This being the season of redemption and resurrection, I thought I’d start with a couple of cheerier Brexit stories for once....
...In one case an entire paragraph, about the relationship between the writer H.G. Wells and the economist Beatrice Webb, is very similar to one written in Webb’s Wikipedia page....
...I had to force myself to get through last week’s report that levels of Antarctic sea-ice are shrinking at “mind-blowing” speeds....
...We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold Rushby Andrea G McDowell, Harvard University Press £34.95/$39.95 When California was ceded by Mexico to the US in 1848, much of the territory was sparsely...
...“It’s like a fucking disco in here,” says Tony, three broken lights flickering behind his head. “I think I’m having another stroke.” There are grumbles about the lift, which has been broken for a week....
...Lucy FisherShall I save you both? Robert ShrimsleyThe economy, the environment. Stephen BushSo highest growth within G-7, that’s one of the missions . . . Robert ShrimsleyChildcare for all, yes....
...The many sides of Guo Wengui Guo Wengui has been called many things, including “honest” and “forthright” by former UK prime minister Tony Blair....
...“I Contain Multitudes” shimmered with bent steel-guitar notes and brushed drumming. Dylan played a line about “those British bad boys, the Rolling Stones” for laughs, and got them....
...‘I think we’re in for a volatile second half’ Last week was a busy week for corporate earnings....
...In a world of green-screen Marvel and dino-driven entertainments, there’s something hugely gratifying about watching Miles Teller’s face melting in G-force....
...He did his own press, which got noticed by big London DJs like Tony Monson. Errol Michael HenryYou know, I still now have very few friends....
...Directed by Tony Scott, it became both the highest-grossing movie of that year and at the time among the highest in history....
...“The first thing I noticed at Canoo was everything is different, nothing that I learned before counted for anything any more,” he says....
...“I thought we collectively decided that D*lce & G*bbana was over,” tweeted the designer Christopher John Rogers, who watched the weekend’s events unfold from New York....
...He ends by saying: “It’s been a real treat, and I’m looking forward to the game show, and hopefully I’ll get to come and see you at some point in one of the restaurants.”...
...“I really would prefer it if we had a home secretary who could pronounce the G at the end of a word,” Tony Blair’s former spin-doctor Alastair Campbell said recently in reference to Priti Patel....
...Until now, the USD has been the norm.” — Tony Golding, London, England...
...One EU official wonders what Gove expected from Brexit: “The UK pilot may have had a few G&Ts before taking off.”...
...“I have been laid off — how do I get a job amid the current crisis?” Send your employment questions to our expert Jonathan Black, director of the University of Oxford’s careers service....
...If Debt/GDP is about 1 now (UK-US levels) you can run a primary deficit of (g-r) — where g is growth rate and r is real cost of borrowing — and keep Debt/GDP constant....
...“The biggest change I’ve made is not assuming that companies’ past returns are always going to be maintained,” he says....
...Crisis management expertise comes at a premium, he notes, saying: “I’d be surprised if people don’t have a healthcare expert on many boards going forward.”...
...And, just after, I said that while I hoped for something like Norway’s status, I didn’t expect the UK to leave in any meaningful sense....
...the worst in the films we don’t (I don’t like Bohemian Rhapsody)....
...“Few visitors realise how large the Falkland Islands are,” Tony Smith reflects as we drive through a severe landscape of rugged mountains and green hills dotted with sheep....
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