The Budget reply was Rishi Sunak’s last big gig in the House of Commons – despite Keir Starmer’s joke during Prime Minister’s Questions that the Conservatives change leader so often, “he may be back here” soon. Starmer paid tribute to his defeated opponent’s “decency”; Sunak was softly spoken and bipartisan. “If the party opposite disagrees with the choices that I …
Chandler’s work is not the only classic detective story to be given a printed warning by Vintage, and publishers have applied the same blanket disclaimer to a string of novels including Dashiell Hammett’s revered work The Maltese Falcon. “We present these works as originally published.” The note further explains that Vintage, itself a subsidiary of Penguin Random House, acquired the …
In a matter of couple of hours, a meeting of Opposition parties in Patna that began on a convivial note was reduced to a war of words between the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party, according to people who were part of the meeting. Delhi Chief Minister and AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal insisted that the Congress make its stand …
A lone voice of concern against the growing influence of BJP in Tamil Nadu at the expense of its larger ally, AIADMK, has emanated from the Dravidian party, giving vent to a silent rumbling within the party ever since the political narrative shifted to a DMK versus BJP tussle in recent months. V Ponnaiyan, former AIADMK minister and long-timer at …
