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Trade missions are almost comically pointless nowadays, as George Osborne’s visit demonstrated this week in Beijing. He is right that there are serious problems in our trade relations with China — an emerging economic superpower that buys more from Switzerland than it does from Britain. In fact, we export depressingly little to any major emerging
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Home Shares in Royal Mail, floated on the stock market at 330p, began trading at 475p. SSE, the energy supplier, raised prices by 8.2 per cent, and other suppliers were expected to follow suit. Ofwat, the water regulator, said it would block Thames Water’s request to increase bills by up to 8 per cent next
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I’m gonna regret this in six months’ time
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Stay still damn you
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‘I’ve got some good news and some bad news.’
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‘It’s a bit thin.’
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‘O.M.G….’
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‘He should just be grateful he wasn’t turned into lasagne.’
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Newton discovers lower-back pain
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‘And you must be nimby.’
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Goldilocks and the Three Beers
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FatBratNav
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‘You’re pathetic, Johnson — I like that in a regulator.’
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‘Ignore it — it’s just a mirage.’
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‘Smug widowed!’
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Nursing standards Sir: I share Mary Dejevsky’s concern regarding the impact of tired, overworked nurses on the quality of patient care (‘Short shrift for long shifts’, 6 October). However, it is unwarranted to blame nurses for detrimental work cultures when the contributing factors are complex. Nurses generally do not have a choice about the length