Never seen Cde Brown stand so tall! Just begun reading, Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World by Anne Applebaum “Nowadays, autocracies are underpinned not by one dictator, but by sop...
09.17.2024 irishexaminer.com , theguardian.com and 2 sitesR osyth dockyard lies just upstream of the three bridges – two road and one rail – that span the Firth of Forth. But on a September morning it is impossible to see the river through the thick early mi...
09.15.2024 Theguardian.com and 3 sitesImportant information - the value of investments and the income from them, can go down as well as up, so you may get back less than you invest. The last two years have been kind to investors. 2022 was...
09.19.2024 Telegraph.co.uk and 1 sitesAny prime minister and their spouse would be forgiven for looking enviously at the White House and the US president’s £38, 000 expense account. If, as the Foreign Secretary David Lammy suggested, it w...
09.17.2024 Telegraph.co.uk and 1 sitesRachel Reeves has been given the keys to Dorneywood after speculation that the grace-and-favour Government mansion might go to Angela Rayner instead. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is listed as the latest occupant of the 18th-century property and is understood to have had access to the Georgian mansion since July. The move is a break from Labour tradition, owing to the fact that John Prescott, the then deputy prime minister, was allowed access to the 21-room mansion over Gordon Brown, the forme...
09.17.2024 Telegraph.co.uk and 1 sitesA former minister has called on the government to closely scrutinise Shein for possible links to forced working as the China-founded fast-fashion retailer prepares for a stock market listing in London...
09.16.2024 Theguardian.com and 1 sitesShe enjoyed raving on the Spanish island of Ibiza, but Angela Rayner is unlikely to be able to hold any country house parties. For the Daily Mail understands that Dorneywood, a 21-room grace-and-favou...
09.17.2024 Dailymail.co.uk and 1 sitesOn a flying visit to Scotland in the last week of the referendum campaign, Rupert Murdoch entertained the prospect of the Scottish edition of The Sun supporting a Yes vote, just as it had supported ...
09.15.2024 Dailymail.co.uk and 1 sitesThere was a rare sighting of Rishi Sunak in the corridors of the Commons last week. He cut a lonely figure, shorn of the entourage which always accompanied him when he was prime minister. Instead, by ...
09.16.2024 Dailymail.co.uk and 1 sitesM onday will be the 32nd anniversary of Black Wednesday . For younger readers, and older ones with ailing memories, Black Wednesday, on 16 September 1992, was the day the Tories lost their reputation for economic competence. True, they had lost it on...
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