“... reforms could have undesirable side effects, and there was a tightrope to be walked. In February 2019, after further public consultation, a new constitution was approved by referendum. It retains an insistence on Cuba’s socialist character and on the primacy of the Communist Party, but differs from the 1976 version in significant ways. It straightens out ...”

“... free labour as authors and reviewers and made them pay through the nose to read the results. In 2019 Elsevier, the largest of these companies, had a profit margin of 37 per cent. The open access movement, begun by activist scientists around the turn of the century, makes the moral case that readers shouldn’t have to pay to see the results of science that ...”

“... Sicily in the last fifteen years – in New York (2005), Rome (2006), Rovereto (2013) and Milan (2019). These shows, and the books that accompanied them, have been an important means of consolidating our knowledge of Antonello and appreciating the quality of his work. Only two of the books – from the Met show in New York and the more recent Palazzo Reale ...”

“... of the 1960s, all that imprinted on the “75 pages” a special mystery and aura.’Then in January 2018 de Fallois died, and his papers too went to the Bibliothèque nationale. They contained, among many other things, some stories Proust had chosen not to print – these were edited by Luc Fraisse and published in ...”

“... subject to intense lobbying by both sides. The Solomon Islands switched allegiance from Taiwan in 2019, while Nauru has switched and switched back again in recent years. ‘A war for Taiwan is equivalent to a war between China and the United States,’ Panuelo wrote. ‘Whoever wins in such a conflict, we will once again be the collateral damage.’The ...”

“... refused promotion. Without promotion, your career in the civil service reaches a dead end. Every January, when party members must report, tempers run high in families and home life becomes strained.The pressures increase with career advancement. A 50-year-old male cadre at the division level, like Xiwang’s husband, will probably retire between the ages of ...”

“... In England and Wales, a campaign by the charity Inquest led to a change in the law, and since January 2022 bereaved families have been entitled to non-means-tested legal aid for all Article 2 inquests (deaths where the state had a duty to protect the deceased). This legislation doesn’t cover Scotland, though the Allans were granted legal aid after a ...”

“... and a hostile media that teachers were still ‘working’. But an Ofsted guidance note from January 2021 cautioned against the assumption that live lessons are the ‘gold standard’ of remote education. It is difficult for pupils to sustain concentration for the duration of a class, and for the teacher to get a meaningful dialogue going or give proper ...”

“... with managers improved, as symbolised in the ceremony on the day the NCB came into being, 1 January 1947, at Horden colliery in Durham, when the trade union lodge secretary and the pit manager came together to bury an actual hatchet. The NCB’s huge investments transformed a technologically backward industry into a far more productive one. Miners were ...”

“... innocent lives and removing a dictatorial regime.’ The enthusiasm for intervention remains. In January this year, as a Russian invasion of Ukraine seemed increasingly likely, RUSI’s research fellow for European security, Ed Arnold, argued that the crisis in Ukraine would provide an opportunity ‘to demonstrate exactly what Global Britain means’. At ...”

“... The Barclays had offered to pay for a Sark helipad; the government refused to consider one. In January 2012, the seigneur’s wife had to be taken to Guernsey by lifeboat ambulance. Delaney’s Sark Newsletter accused the island’s doctor of negligence for not using the Barclays’ helicopter on Brecqhou. The doctor resigned and left the island; one ...”

“... shares in Ryanair had fallen by 12 per cent over the previous quarter and by 29 per cent since January 2018.Passports: By the end of October, Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs had recorded 158,763 applications for Irish passports from citizens of Northern Ireland and Great Britain since January; in 2012, there ...”

“... against former British soldiers.Few legacy cases of any sort have resulted in prosecution. Between January 2012 and May 2023, the Northern Ireland Public Prosecution Service brought prosecutions in nine cases related to republican paramilitaries, four related to loyalists, five to former soldiers and none to former police officers. To date, only one former ...”

“... some senior officers he doesn’t have a reputation for being corrupt.Perhaps this explains why in 2019, when Munir was running the ISI, he complained to Khan that his wife was allowing people around her to make money corruptly. Khan was so offended he dismissed Munir from the ISI. When Munir was appointed chief of army staff in November 2022, a few months ...”