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For the last few years, the UK has been behaving as if it did not have enough money for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) to pursue a coherent humanitarian and development policy.
From a slyly clueless documentary presenter to a soulful pair of private eyes, here are the latest trans-Atlantic imports.
IN the 1987 film Wall Street, Michael Douglas’s character Gordon Gekko says “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.”
Does Britain face a problem of higher inflation? Not now, as inflation is substantially undershooting the Bank of England’s target of 2 per cent annually, but figures this week showed that the
The only people to have bragged about vaccine supply are ministers themselves. Rewind to last summer and you could be forgiven for thinking that we would soon be drowning in the stuff. On August 14, the Business Secretary Alok Sharma made the third in a string of world-beating vaccine supply announcements with news of a further “90 million” doses. “It means the UK has placed orders for six experimental vaccines, taking its potential stockpile to 340 million doses,” explained the BBC’s Fergus Walsh. “In theory, there should be enough for everyone in the UK to get five doses.” B...