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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.”...
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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....
...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 Wallis I don’t think anyone thinks that it’s an easy problem to solve. There probably are always gonna be some people crossing the channel by boat....
...If that sentence is giving you déjà vu, that’s because “closing loopholes and cracking down on tax avoidance” is essentially the go-to funding mechanism for an opposition party that doesn’t want to touch...
...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”....
...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...
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...Pass the buck Prince William’s aim to eradicate homelessness in the UK is a worthy one, and you can see how it makes sense from a regal perspective, because there isn’t an explicit “pro-homelessness” caucus...
...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...
...After a while, you realise that The Fraud isn’t Smith’s first historical novel....
...But in more recent scent-seeking endeavours, I can’t help but notice a new ubiquity of incense. It’s a homecoming, of sorts....
...She does carry some clout still in the party, doesn’t she? Stephen Bush Well, no. Yeah, I kind of think that she doesn’t, right, which isn’t essential, right?...
...’t support the police in this instance either....
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...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...
...Which means that R* doesn’t sound like a lodestar we can rely on?...
...The national debt rose by 72 per cent during president Ronald Reagan’s first term, another 66 per cent during his second, and then 54 per cent during George H.W. Bush’s time in office....
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...Some pro-government commentators have talked up Australia’s success here, which, frankly, with friends like that, Rishi Sunak really doesn’t need enemies....
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