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How dreary! HENRY DEEDES watches party pooper PM and his Captain Cautious halt lockdown easing 

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The Prime Minister raised a chubby paw aloft like an overzealous lollipop lady and announced in that peculiarly elastic voice he was calling things to a halt. His easing of lockdown, which he’d moved along at a lickety-split pace these past few weeks, was being stopped dead in its tracks. ‘We should squeeze that brake … Read more

Barclays chief nicknamed himself ‘pooper scooper’ to exec

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A former Barclays boss nicknamed himself ‘pooper scooper’ to a more senior manager known as ‘big dog’, a High Court judge has heard. Stephen Jones discussed his hierarchical relationship with Roger Jenkins, then the bank’s executive chairman of Middle East business, in a 2008 phone call with a colleague, Mr Justice Waksman was told. Mr … Read more