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The Times view on Marcus Rashford and free school meals: Fair Play
The House of Commons will debate today the Department for Education’s decision not to extend into the summer holiday the scheme entitling disadvantaged schoolchildren to free meals. Usually only
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Simon Nixon
A moving piece by an inspirational man. Delighted that @thetimes leader today backs Marcus Rashford’s campaign thetimes.co.uk/article/the-ti… thetimes.co.uk/article/ending…
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Marcus Rashford: Ending child poverty is a bigger trophy than any in football
It can be funny where your career takes you sometimes. If someone had said ten years ago that I would one day be writing for The Times I would have laughed, and yet here I am on Monday evening opening
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Simon Nixon
A moving piece by an inspirational man. Delighted that @thetimes leader today backs Marcus Rashford’s campaign thetimes.co.uk/article/the-ti… thetimes.co.uk/article/ending…
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Boris Johnson facing dilemma over coronavirus second wave
As Boris Johnson faced mounting calls this week from cabinet ministers, backbenchers and industry to lift the two-metre rule, his thoughts were focused on events on the other side of the Atlantic.
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Simon Nixon
Interesting nugget here in this analysis of Tory tensions. Who are these MPs considered so talented that they have been catapulted into ministerial jobs without ever speaking in parliament? thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-… pic.twitter.com/mZnKmWWLsB
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The Last President of Europe by William Drozdiak — can Macron be crumbling Europe’s saviour?
It is a mark of the impact that Emmanuel Macron has made since he exploded on to the global political scene three years ago that this is the third book about the French president published in Britain
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Simon Nixon
The Last President of Europe? It’s too soon to write off Macron - my review of a new book analysing the French president’s mission to reform France and revive the European Union.
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PM scrapped Cabinet pandemic team six months before COVID-19 hit UK
Prime Minister Boris Johnson scrapped a team of Cabinet ministers tasked with protecting the UK from a pandemic six months before coronavirus arrived, a Mail investigation has found.
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Simon Nixon
Extraordinary: Boris Johnson scrapped the cabinet pandemic team six months before coronavirus hit UK to focus on Brexit.
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22 days of dither and delay on coronavirus that cost thousands of British lives
There is a simple mathematical truth that would have caused alarm about the coronavirus pandemic if it had been more fully appreciated when it was first flagged up in reports from China in late
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Simon Nixon
Johnson should be grateful to Cummings for deflecting attention from this deeply reported and utterly devastating account of his dithering and incompetence in the weeks before lockdown.
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Where is Boris Johnson?
Not even its most ardent supporters could deny that the government has had a difficult couple of weeks. Boris Johnson’s televised announcement of his timetable for easing the lockdown created
What could be more reckless than us putting up trade barriers mid-crisis?
Even in the middle of a global pandemic, there is no escape from European politics. EU leaders will meet in Brussels today for what are, as so often, being described as make-or-break talks to come up
Coronavirus has exposed the myth of British exceptionalism | Fintan O'Toole
This virus does not respect Johnson’s delusions of national character, says Fintan O’Toole, columnist with the Irish Times
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Simon Nixon
Coronavirus has exposed the myth of British exceptionalism > brutally accurate by @fotoole on the ideological roots of the Johnson government’s tragic mishandling of the pandemic
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Ventilator crunch looms after snubbing EU action
Boris Johnson is facing criticism for his failure to join an EU-wide ventilator procurement scheme as hospital chiefs warn that Britain will be desperately short of the life-saving machines when the
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Simon Nixon
So it seems Johnson launched his appeal for British-built ventilators three days before an EU ventilator buying scheme closed and two days after Brussels publicly said Britain was free to join. Hard to square with No. 10 claims of “communication problems” thetimes.co.uk/article/ventil… pic.twitter.com/gY9HJiNBoW
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The economy was spluttering even before this pandemic hit
The coronavirus pandemic is a global disaster but the financial markets clearly believe that Britain has caught a particularly serious infection. Sterling has been dropping like a stone and the pound
Why isn't the UK testing more people for coronavirus?
There are two broad types of tests for coronavirus. Manufacturers of the kits are vastly ramping up their production cycles
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Simon Nixon
Excellent piece by @WiredUK on the mystery of Britain’s lack of coronavirus testing. There are British firms supplying tests to the rest of Europe that have not even been contacted by the NHS, plus dozens of labs. wired.co.uk/article/corona… pic.twitter.com/wR8khEDjDf
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No Deal 2) Why I, a leading former Remainer, am making a case for Johnson actively seeking it
From the political perspective of the Government, there is a rather persuasive argument for ensuring the talks blow up. And the sooner the better.
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Simon Nixon
This is very good by @DavidGauke and I suspect entirely accurate as to the government’s Brexit strategy
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Home Office at war after staff accuse Priti Patel of bullying
Priti Patel has attempted to oust her most senior civil servant after a toxic clash at the top of the Home Office.Multiple sources inside the department have accused the home secretary of bullying
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Simon Nixon
“A Home Office source said: Sir Philip and [Priti Patel] have a fundamental disagreement about the rule of law. He’s committed and she isn’t.” Extraordinary story.
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Gove tells business to be prepared for checks at border after Brexit
Michael Gove has told businesses to prepare for “inevitable” border checks in the first official confirmation of how a “Canada-style” deal will lead to trade barriers after Brexit.Mr Gove, the
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Simon Nixon
How far we’ve come from “exactly the same benefits as before”. Who would have thought that the self-proclaimed party of global free trade should be putting up barriers to trade? #redtories
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Promises to UK fishing industry were just another Brexit fantasy
For a moment of self-proclaimed national triumph, the lack of celebration is striking. No grand treaty-signing ceremony in Brussels, just Boris Johnson alone at his desk in London. No festival, no
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Simon Nixon
Nowhere will the post-Independence Day collision between Brexiteer rhetoric and reality be more painful than the case of the UK fishing industry. My latest on a sector that looks ripe for another great "betrayal".
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Brussels may be weak, but it still has the upper hand in Brexit talks
There was a celebratory mood in Frankfurt on Tuesday evening. We had gathered at the European Central Bank headquarters for a dinner to bid farewell to Benoit Coeuré, who has come to the end of his...
General election 2019: Business is going to have to find a way to shape post-Brexit Britain
One of the peculiar features of this dismal election has been the absence of that campaign staple: the business letter. It used to be that no campaign was complete without the publication to much...
Radical change is coming to Britain and we need a sensible opposition
What makes the current election so unusual is not merely the depth of antipathy that much of the country so obviously feels towards both Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn. It is also the nature of...
Brexit fears drove Tesla’s giant factory to Germany
Elon Musk has said uncertainty over Brexit influenced Tesla’s decision to choose Germany over Britain as the site for its first European megafactory, which is expected to create 7,000 jobs. The...
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Simon Nixon
Brexit fears led Tesla to choose Berlin over Britain for the site of its new European mega-factory. Hardly a surprise but another depressing sign of the times...
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