With the 2024 presidential contest eight months away, and Mr. Biden and Trump all but certain to face off again in the general election, the president is likely to use the speech to draw distinctions between his party and the GOP, and try to quiet concerns about his age. The president's...
On 10 June 2019 the transposition and implementation deadline for the shareholder engagement rules imposed upon institutional investors and asset managers
Is King Charles the most prepared monarch in UK history? Laura Bundock, royal correspondent: King Charles has waited more than 70 years to come to the throne, essentially training his whole life to be prepared for that very moment. At just three years old, he became heir after his m...
A key innovation of our approach is our focus on firms’ performance with respect to subsidy-specific job creation targets.Footnote3Proponents of subsidies frequently argue that it is insufficient to analyze a subsidy on the basis of the number of jobs created by that particular subsidy’s recipie...
As well as their own welfare, national leaders also have to consider whether it is the right time for their party and their country to have a change of leader. While Ardern’s star was considered to be waning – domestically, at least – ahead of a general election later this year, Stur...
These are called the ‘Unholy Slippers‘. All of my family and my friends who are aware of the three pairs of slippers have, virtually the same opinion: garbage the Holy Slippers and donate the Not-4-Me Slippers.That is not the opinion I hold. My decision has been to, yes, donate ...
byJohnAllman.UK|Wednesday 20th January 2021 · 23:56 Do the science, Mr President, to give peace a chance In the still-unfolding, still-unfinished aftermath of the bitterly-disputed US Presidential Election of 2020, it seems like only yesterday – because itwasonly yesterday – that the Unite...
It shows the poverty of your discourse if the only comeback you have is that because I (and indeed the vast majority of the movement and Scots in general from what I’ve seen) reject your “Scotland and colony” fantasy, I must ipso facto be aligned with “the oppressor”. One side ...
Not only are Ministers open to evidence, but there is an institutional grounding for evidence-based policy in government. Meanwhile, the creation of devolved institutions has created new sites in the UK for evidence-based policy-making, despite the political tensions between UK and devolved ...
Exactly. And so the numbers that the OBR set out were interesting. They showed that the tax burden, which is the amount of tax as a share of the overall economy, is going to continue rising even after the measures that the chancellor introduced and reach a postwar high in the next five...