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...So there was a time when the US understood that it could exert influence on Israel and in one instance — in the George H Bush presidency — actually succeeded in doing so....
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...In the lead-up to the 1992 US presidential race between Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, strategist James Carville famously quipped “It’s the economy, stupid.”...
...Prince William and Keir Starmer have both, albeit in different ways and using different wording, called for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war....
...William Wragg quits parliamentary roles | The senior Conservative MP has resigned from key parliamentary roles after admitting providing phone numbers of colleagues to a man he was in contact with on the...
...Stephen Bush Yeah, I’m very dubious that it will get through parliament. It was not in the 2019 manifesto, so the House of Lords can block it....
...Now try this I was really impressed by the Amsterdam Museum’s temporary home at the H’ART Museum (at Amstel 51) on my holiday: a really well-put-together account of the city, its complicated history and...
...According to today’s report by the parliamentary spending watchdog, just 10 per cent of the UK’s levelling up funds has been spent so far, with no “compelling examples of what had been delivered so far” (Jen Williams...
...stephen.bush@ft.com Letter in response to this column:Tory schools improvement is far from the whole story / From Professor Frank Land and Ian Benson...
...The Biden who, as senator in 1992, mocked George H Bush for trying to persuade “the American people they don’t have an economic problem”....
...Plus, the team looks at scandals in Westminster and considers how much William Wragg’s honeytrap debacle and allegations that Angela Rayner failed to pay the right tax on a former house sale – which she...
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...Has Prince William chosen his? Some thoughts on why his priority of ending homelessness looks risky to me....
...“She confirms that Ben H has put a hold on a range of funds coming to us,” he wrote on March 6, including in relation to match funding for “Towns Deal” projects, regeneration schemes partly funded by the...
...And the FT’s William Wallis goes through the government’s options for revitalising its plan to remove asylum seekers to Rwanda....
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...Then came the 1,046ft Chrysler Building, whose architect William Van Alen shrewdly concealed a 185ft spire within its tower until the final stages of construction....
...to Finland 1998-2001 Amb Michael McFaulDirector, Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, the US Ambassador to Russia 2012-14 David KramerExecutive Director, George W Bush...
...sticks (£35); and Pharrell Williams launched an incense holder with Neighbourhood: a Vulcan hand that smoulders from the fingertips (£180)....
...I’m quite fond of the theory, popularised by Dr William H Frey, a self-appointed “student of psychogenic lacrimation”, who concluded in the early 1980s that crying removes toxins that we build up in times...
...Additional reporting by Jennifer Hughes, Harriet Clarfelt and George Steer in New York and William Sandlund in Hong Kong...
...I read with interest Stephen Bush’s empathetic article “The problem with power parents” (Opinion, September 26) describing the ignominious outlook of financial ruin for Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried,...
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