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...Click here for the results at 11am CET UK: 2023 Turner Prize winner announced at an award ceremony in Eastbourne’s Winter Gardens....
...As Wachowiak et al correctly note, the recent pressures militating in favour of greater cooperation (Ukraine, a second Trump presidency, fiscal constraints), “have not, to date, proven sufficient to overcome...
...In 1937 the writer began what would have been his first theatrical play, to be called Human Wishes, and based on the life of Samuel Johnson....
...Johnson also spoke to Saad al-Kaabi, Qatar’s energy minister, on the margins of a UK global investment summit last month....
...The recent rise of the Faangs, et al, looks like a knee-jerk reaction to the fall in rates and rate expectations that followed the banking mess (the 10-year yield has fallen from 4-ish per cent to 3.6-ish...
...And I do wonder if this is going to feel quite so clever by the new year if, for example, we have a bad winter in the NHS. The precedence......
...Et tu Brutus? Or in Boris Johnson’s case, Et pretty much everyone — Rishi, Sajid, even Priti for goodness sake (non-aficionados of UK politics should Google them)....
...His father’s company — then called the Al-Zahawi Group, but now known as Iraq Projects Business Development (IPBD) — quickly procured a contract to provide cleaning, logistics and support services to the...
...Some good news With so many people suffering serious hardship this winter, it’s good to occasionally highlight some of the contributions from Britain’s community groups and businesses....
...In the case outlined by Haddad et al, Goltz said investors were buying a stock “even though the price has gone up”, so demand is more inelastic and “you can have additional volatility from shifts in demand...
...But Stokes’ leadership has been obvious; Prince Hal transformed into Henry V at a succession of Agincourts....
...But this is the landscape as it emerged after the December 2019 election at which Boris Johnson was triumphant....
...We have our evil leader for today (you-know-who in Moscow), but do Biden, Johnson, Macron et al fit the bill as statesmen?...
...The US Federal Reserve will publish minutes from its November policy meeting at 2pm ET/7pm London....
...And generally speaking, they are the stocks that have been hardest hit by the past, probably 12 to 14 months of regulatory crackdown under Xi Jinping, who has been sort of making Alibaba, Tencent et al feel...
...As Lord David Pannick QC et al observed in a letter to the Times this week the doctrine of necessity requires “grave and imminent peril” to which the state in question has not contributed....
...The latest European price is equivalent in energy terms to $400 a barrel of oil, as Russia restricts supplies and traders race to secure supplies ahead of the winter....
...One noted he was appearing on Monday evening at the Tory winter party at the V&A, as well as doing a speech in the City of London and attending a crucial House of Commons vote on the government’s social...
...All assets may perform badly under stagflation, but we’d rather own Pepsi, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Bristol-Myers et al than sit and watch our cash lose its earnings power....
...Beijing Winter Olympics Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping presented a united front in talks just hours before the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics....
...Saad al-Kaabi, the gas-rich Gulf state’s energy minister, told the Financial Times he expected that the global gas shortage, which has spread from the UK and Europe to other regions, to last a “few years...
...Saad al-Kaabi, Qatar’s energy minister, said the amount of Qatari LNG that could be diverted to Europe is only 10-15 per cent....
...Millions of Afghans face starvation this winter after the withdrawal of foreign aid when the Islamist Taliban took power....
...Monday Greece, torch-lighting ceremony at Olympia for the 2022 Beijing winter Olympics UK, vaccine passport scheme enforcement begins in Scotland Tuesday South Korea, Seoul International Aerospace and...
...(NPR) Opinion: There is still work to be done cracking down on methane and other superpollutants (Bledsoe et al, NYT)...
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