Archive for April 2017

Donald Trump skipped the White House correspondents’ dinner

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Donald Trump skipped the White House correspondents’ dinner

“He made that up,” said Dean Baquet, executive editor of the New York Times on CNN on the morning of April 30th, adding that “he does that sometimes.” Mr Baquet was referring to President Donald Trump’s claim, made to an adoring crowd at a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania the day before, that the New York Times had to apologise for the way it had covered Mr Trump during the presidential campaign. It had not. Mr Baquet said the Times was tough and aggressive in its coverage of the president, but always fair.

Mr Trump’s speech in Harrisburg was remarkable not for the familiar boasting about his achievements, the ritualistic promises to build his wall, his talk about lawless immigrants and his vow to repeal and replace Obamacare, but for the amount of time he spent whacking the media. For almost 15 minutes, at the start of his speech, he talked about the failing Times, which he said could not even sell their valuable real estate in Manhattan lucratively, and had to...Continue reading

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Beachcomber: 100 years old and still a giant among dwarfs

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Beachcomber: 100 years old and still a giant among dwarfs


HAVING begun my Friday scribblings with the words Handy, Dandy and Sushi, it occurred to me that the tale of Snow White could have been very different if Disney had given his dwarfs different names.

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An EU summit shows unity in the face of Brexit

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An EU summit shows unity in the face of Brexit

“BRITAIN has had the same foreign policy objective for at least the last 500 years: to create a disunited Europe.” Like many lines delivered by Sir Humphrey, the roguish civil servant in Yes Minister, a British television comedy from the 1980s, this carried the ring of truth. But on April 29th it became clear that the current British government has achieved the opposite. One month after Theresa May, the prime minister, triggered Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty, notifying the European Union of Britain’s intention to leave, the club’s 27 other leaders met in Brussels to approve a set of negotiating guidelines for the two-year Brexit talks to come. They rubber-stamped the text within minutes of sitting down, and applauded themselves for doing so. Donald Tusk, who chaired the summit as president of the European Council, said it had been far easier to keep unity among “the 27” (as they have come to be called) than he anticipated. 

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Core values are key to Conservative poll win

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Core values are key to Conservative poll win


THERESA May is expected to use her party’s manifesto to set out a bold social vision for Britain that will park Tory tanks firmly on Labour’s front lawn.

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City news: Mallzee, Oil prices and Engie

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City news: Mallzee, Oil prices and Engie


GROWING numbers of fashion retailers are discounting more than half of their ranges in response to waning demand and rising costs, according to data from shopping app technology group Mallzee.

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Sainsbury’s expected to cut dividend

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Sainsbury’s expected to cut dividend


SAINSBURY'S is set to disappoint investors this week by cutting its dividend for a third year in a row, even though its profits are forecast to be nearly £50million higher.

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RBS back in black as turnaround continues

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RBS back in black as turnaround continues


ROYAL Bank of Scotland raised hopes it had turned the corner after nine straight years in the red as it posted its first quarterly profit since 2015.

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Our security services are doing a remarkable job

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Our security services are doing a remarkable job


YESTERDAY, following the arrest of a man with a bag of knives in Whitehall and the events in north London, we had a real sense of the challenges that our security services face day after day.

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Macedonian nationalists storm the parliament to hold on to power

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Macedonian nationalists storm the parliament to hold on to power

“I AM still alive,” said Radmila Sekerinska in a shaken voice. “That is a cause for relief, considering the alternative.” The deputy head of Macedonia’s Social Democrats required stitches after being dragged by the hair on the evening of April 27th, when a mob supporting VMRO, the nationalist former ruling party, smashed into the country’s parliament.

Macedonia has been in a state of political crisis for more than two years, but the attack in Skopje may prove a turning point. For weeks VMRO had been filibustering efforts by the Social Democrats and their allies, an ethnic Albanian party, to elect a new speaker. On April 27th they at last managed to vote in Talat Xhaferi, an ethnic Albanian MP. Several hundred VMRO supporters, who had been demonstrating outside parliament, stormed the chamber and assaulted Social Democrats, ethnic Albanians and journalists. At least four deputies were hurt, one badly.

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The pope visits Egypt

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The pope visits Egypt

“SHOW me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.” So said Manuel II Palaiologos, a Byzantine emperor, of Islam’s founder. Some six centuries later, in 2006, Pope Benedict XVI used the quotation in a speech about reason and religion. The Muslim world was not pleased.

Jorge Bergoglio, then a cardinal in Argentina, criticised Benedict’s comments. In 2013, when Father Bergoglio succeeded Pope Benedict, taking the name of Francis, he immediately called for more interfaith dialogue. Two weeks later, when the new pope washed the feet of prisoners in Rome, a Christian ritual, he included two Muslims. In 2014 he toured Jordan, Israel and Palestine, further mending the Vatican’s relations with Islam.

Pope Francis hopes to continue improving relations between Christians and Muslims when he visits Cairo on April 28th-29th, the first such trip since...Continue reading

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