Word: cabineteer
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...anti-five star property is the brainchild of designer Rabih Hage, who, in a heritage building in King's Cross, has created a series of interiors that look as though they were abandoned by their builders. In the tiny ground-floor lounge, a midcentury-modern cabinet holds art books while a huge portrait of artists Gilbert & George hangs above the mantelpiece. Old TV sets and worn furniture lie around. The bathrooms (some shared, others en suite) include both power showers and 1830s wallpaper, unearthed in the renovation and left in all its patchy, uneven glory...
Downing Street and the Cabinet Office vigorously deny all the allegations. Cabinet ministers are lining up to defend Brown. "I don't think [Brown] so much bullies people as he is very demanding of people," Lord Mandelson, the Secretary of State for Business and a mainstay of Brown's government, told a BBC program. But attempts to close down the story and move on have been thwarted by a fresh allegation. Christine Pratt, chief executive of a charity called the National Bullying Helpline, has spoken to British media outlets claiming that Downing Street staff contacted her organization for help, telling...
...allege that Brown hit anyone. His book does claim that Brown swore at U.S. political strategist Bob Shrum, stabbed the white leather interior of an official car with a black pen, grabbed a staff member by the lapels and earned a "pep talk" about how to treat staff from Cabinet Secretary, Gus O'Donnell. Taken together with Watt's depiction of a temperamental premier sulking at a dinner including Louis Susman, later appointed U.S. ambassador to London, after guests took their seats without waiting for Brown to allocate placements, and Price's account of Brown's "extraordinary flashes of anger...
...coup itself was over just hours after it began Thursday, when shots were heard at the presidential palace in the dusty capital of Niamey, where Tandja was holding a Cabinet meeting. Late that night, a group of army officers calling itself the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy appeared on national television and announced the suspension of the constitution and dissolution of all state institutions. An unnamed uniformed officer asked the people of Niger to "remain calm and stay united around the ideals postulated by the council," which were to "make Niger an example of democracy and good governance...
...grab-bag of social gripes—ultimately succeeded as a purifying force for Britain. The great kick they aimed at the nation’s too-comfortable posterior helped send it flying into the next, culturally revolutionary decade. As long as the Obama administration apes the Churchill cabinet in continuing to demand sacrifices and a cut of each month’s paycheck without results, there will be a similar reaction—and as the movement this time isn’t quite so literary, there’s no guarantee it will behave quite so well. That?...