Added to that, the British economy is sluggish and loaded with debt, and Starmer’s chancellor of the exchequer, Rachel Reeves, has no obvious options for raising revenues in her November budget, having ruled out tax hikes on working people in the election campaign.
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Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
13 Sep. 2025
Not an excuse, but definitely a factor, from what I was told, in what turned into a sluggish showing on both sides of the ball.
Once a working farm in the time of the gold rush, since 1962 the Greenhorn has been a place where the day is taken at a leisurely pace, where visitors soak in the 600 acres that abuts to 500,000 more acres of public land.
During the prelims in Tokyo, Seville had a concerning slow reaction to the starting gun.
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Katelyn Hutchison,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
Parisian servers may have an undeserved reputation for being slow, but instead of complaining or searching for faster service elsewhere, settle in with a book or newspaper.
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