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“The chemistry between Lively and her co-star Justin Beldoni is non-existent but compensated by Blake Lively’s passion for Blake Lively. That chemistry leaps off the screen.”

The moral of the story is drop the propaganda. Make a balanced movie that has likeable characters where even the dodgy ones can achieve redemption and forgiveness encouraged.

The last five years have been per head the worst in 200 years. This really matters as ultimately all the nice things are closely linked to wealth, and our relative position is unambiguously in structural decline.

According to the annual UBS wealth report the UK will lose 500,000 millionaires by 2028 (17% the total). That estimate is before Labour’s budget.

WE HAVE SEEN how Britain is failing. Its growth rate per head has collapsed to the worst in 200 years and the country is in relative global structural decline. We have seen how the State has…

“Essentially, the climate record when considered over the last half a million years shows that global temperatures rise before carbon levels increase, not the other way round.”

The Healey Review must find, fund, furnish and field the necessary forces. If, as may be the case, the UK can’t easily deliver on all capabilities, Healey must decide which to abandon.

The immediate problem Mr Healey must fix, ideally long before his review completes, is the RAF’s haemorrhage of trained personnel, and clear the logjam in pilot training. Without that, there will be no RAF.

Mr Healey knew he was likely to be Defence Secretary after three years shadowing the role. He knows what the major problems are. When is he going to do something about it?

THE NEXT President of the United States is 78, and has already been shot at once while under secret service protection. He happened to turn his head as the bullet flew past him…