An Italian restaurant has taken a savage swipe at locals after closing down – saying: “Thank you for never supporting us, not even once.”
Day: October 22, 2025
The warmness shown by the US president was held up as vindication of the PM’s foreign policy acumen, and the nerve he had shown in not begging for an earlier meeting
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Outside the White House cabinet room hangs a painting of Donald Trump flanked by Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan, in front of a billowing American flag.
The fan-fiction rendition of three Republican leaders, proudly displayed on a main thoroughfare amid a gallery of other photographs and portraits of Trump, is far from the oddest thing in the home and office of the 47th president. The White House is a homage to gilding and gold, crown moulding daubed in glittering paint, with knick-knacks gaudy and glistening stuffed on to his shelves, a Diet Coke button on his desk, and a new ballroom requiring the partial tear-down of the historic East Wing.
Annual September rate is same as August and July but confounds forecasts of cost of living increase
Inflation was unchanged last month at 3.8%, confounding expectations of an increase, official figures show.
The Office for National Statistics said that inflation measured on the consumer prices index (CPI) remained at 3.8% in September, the same reading as in August and July.