Hints and tips:
...The judgment forced Scholz and his ministers to make huge savings in their 2024 budget, a revised version of which only passed on Friday last week....
...In a poor start to my last year of £5 tickets, my regular D&D group conflicts with this very good-looking concert by the Nash Ensemble next week....
...Government data obtained under freedom of information by a coalition of children’s charities found that 14 per cent of children in the West Midlands and 13 per cent in the North West were made worse off...
...Last week a report from the UK parliament’s committee of public accounts found that just 10 per cent of the money intended to regenerate local areas under the government’s levelling up programme had been...
...Analysts said some banks could lift their guidance when they report first-quarter results beginning this week....
...Then when you consider some of the stories about the UK public realm from the past week alone — that faulty aerated concrete has been found in more schools and that less serious criminal offenders in England...
...“What cannot be done is a salami slicing of services,” said Andy Street, the Conservative regional mayor of the combined authority for the West Midlands....
...This week, Egypt’s richest man reveals the lie behind football deals....
...Currently, parents of three- and four-year-olds can claim 15 or 30 hours of free childcare a week during term time....
...We’ll meet again here next week. [MUSIC PLAYING]...
...Trade-off between environment and growth My own reporting on the Environment Agency (see this piece on East Midlands airport’s record of polluting local water courses without apparent sanction) leaves me...
...As current chair of the SADC’s security organ, Zambian president Hakainde Hichilema has kept the bloc’s critical observer report on the agenda, including discussions at a meeting this week....
...Miranda Green Well, I’m also selling this week, but I’m selling with some regret Andy Street, the Conservative mayor of the West Midlands region, because on May the 2nd as well as the local elections, there...
...Lutyens’ Midland Bank was one of the first to go....
...To secure his 80-seat majority in 2019, Johnson built a remarkable Tory coalition of traditional wealthy Tory voters in the south and working class, pro-Brexit voters in the north and Midlands....
...“I guess they are the correct ones for Karnataka’s future,” said Nandini V, an engineering student. “They will do what they have promised.”...
...The cap on tuition fees was raised sharply by the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition a decade ago and is currently £9,250 a year....
...Last week, the tireless Yousefzada, who describes himself as an interdisciplinary artist, had just finished installing several pieces of work at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, an institution built...
...The Conservatives face a fight on two fronts, with Labour looking to reclaim the “red wall” of the North and Midlands, and the Liberal Democrats looking to make gains in the southern Tory “blue wall”....
...And for Labour, it’s about former seats they used to hold in ex-industrial parts of the north and West Midlands....
...This is an audio transcript of the Payne’s Politics podcast episode: ‘Truss vs the ‘anti-growth’ coalition’ [MUSIC PLAYING] Sebastian Payne Liz Truss closed a traumatic Tory party conference this week...
...OK, there are some levers he could pull which he’s not going to, but they would all explode his coalition and his party, right?...
...Hello and welcome to the working week....
...Can I just say how superbly you handled yourself in what must have been a v stressful week. Whatever the polls say I don’t think Labour should be calling in the interior designers just yet....
...Now, as MPs and Tory supporters alike contemplate the difficulty of holding together the unlikely 2019 electoral coalition of working-class voters in England’s north and Midlands alongside more affluent...
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