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of widespread unrest. taiwans president tsai ing—wen has pledged to bolster the islands combat power and defences in a major speech on taiwans national day. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking. there is one question which haunts the chancellor, haunts any chancellor of any political party stopping it is, what will the iss say? because the verdict of the institute for fiscal studies on whether the numbers add up, any budget o...

of the institute for fiscal studies on whether the numbers add up, in any budget, or what these days we have to call fiscal event, can be devastating for a politician. that verdict is treated like the word of god, not least by broadcasters like the bbc who have experts from the ifs on our programmes all the time. my guest this week is the director of the ifs, pauljohnson. welcome to the programme. if the ifs is the word of god, that makes you god. how does that feel? very strange. he c...

ten people have been killed and eight injured in an explosion at a petrol station in the republic of ireland — police say it appears to have been a "tragic accident". protests continue in iran and around the world as three people are killed in the country. now on bbc news — its political thinking with nick robinson. welcome to political thinking. one question haunts the chancellor, any chancellor of any political party. it is what will the iss say because the verdict of the institu...

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Tottenham court road at the moment, nick. tottenham court road. thank you very much forjoining me on political thinking. thank you. as pauljohnson said, politicians of all parties have quoted the ifs to make their case. but back a few years, gordon brown wasnt mightily impressed with the verdicts of his predecessor robert choate. the word "choate!" used to be shouted out, to the horror of treasury officials. i have an instinct of the word "johnson" might be used once or twice in the difficult we...

Thrown back at you. but it is easy to point at all sorts of things that liz truss and other people said, quoting us in support of their arguments. pauljohnson, i will let you get back to north london. thank you very much. tottenham court road at the moment, nick. thank you very much forjoining me on political thinking. as pauljohnson says, politicians of all parties have quoted the ifs to make their case. but back a few years, gordon brown wasnt mightily impressed with the verdicts of his predec...

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A federal grand jury returned two indictments on Thursday charging a total of seven defendants with various drug-trafficking crimes, including conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and heroin, as well as multiple counts of distribution of methamphetamine and heroin, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.