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“... The civil service itself was cut from 481,000 to 384,000, reaching its lowest level since the war in 2016, just in time for the colossal demands of the Brexit transition. Only in 2022 did it recover to its 2010 level, but then in April Sunak decided to fund a spending increase on defence by cutting numbers all over again (by a proposed 70,000). In ...”

“... of seven of the children from their head teacher, but did not approach their class teachers. It is normal practice in cases of suspected abuse to hold a multi-disciplinary case conference – which would normally include doctors, teachers, district nurses, play-leaders, and anyone else directly involved with the family. No case conference ...”

“... he was afraid that if he went back to the Navy base he’d get busted back down to Seaman Third Class. (As a 12-year-old, I was obsessed with such details of service life. The whole set-up sounded marvellous to me.) In Art’s story, the maid, a pretty young Latina woman, arrives one morning to clean the room when he is sitting in his bathrobe, hung over ...”

“... or service provider who didn’t understand what a Coutts account meant was demonstrably too lower-class to deserve patronage from Coutts clients such as the queen and Wayne Rooney.) RBS by contrast planned to keep the subsidiaries together as part of a new company, the Royal Bank of Scotland Group. RBS won the fight, and became the second biggest UK bank ...”

“... they were unreliable parents. Again, Marten was in combat mode, fighting a battle and losing the war. And her account wasn’t the whole truth. There were many other occasions when they failed to turn up for visits. This ‘lack of commitment and inconsistency’ was causing their children emotional distress, Judge Reardon ruled. When they did spend time ...”

“... work that way. They now have to go to the end and live with it. But they’re doing it on first class. When this Satoshi thing comes out I can see a lot of bad things happening, and they are not geared up for this, any of them.’ ‘I’m concerned for him,’ I said. ‘There’s not really a happy ending here,’ Pedersen said. ‘Was it the same in ...”