motivation probably money. price per barrel which was over $120 in march by late september dipped below 80. and it also seems designed to help russia which has been hurt by sanctions since its invasion of ukraine and heavily depends on its oil profits. surely, opec plus knew the move would also impact america s election which is just a month away. when joe biden took office the national gas average was $2.39 a gallon by this summer, it more than doubled, $5. even higher in california, and his popularity plummeted. and then in the wake of the supreme court overturning roe versus wade on june 24th, the democrats have been getting more hopeful signs about the midterms, maybe hoping to hold on to the senate and a slim chance to keep the house which many attributed to abortion rights and that issue. but could the real issue be something else, as nate cohen suggested in the new york times this week isn t st. the gas price, stupid? cohen pointed out ten days before the issue on ab
LONDON. KAZINFORM Total trade in goods and services (exports plus imports) between the UK and Kazakhstan was £2.3 billion in the four quarters to the end of Q2 2022, an increase of 63.3% or £896 million from the four quarters to the end of Q2 2021, the official website of the Department for International Trade reads.
regions same for ashton region in ohio. farmington, norristown, tennessee, muncie, indiana, so on, you get the picture. on a national level, with the post labels the trumpest fifth of the country, counties where trump received 63.3% of the two-party vote in the last presidential election, 33% of the restaurants in that area, chains. while in the least trumpy fifth, where he received less than 32.1% chains comprise only 23% of the local restaurants. what accounts for the large disparity? joining me is andrew van dam, washington post columnist in its department of data. thank you for providing me great fodder on radio. because i read your column aloud, everyone had an opinion. here s one, a caller said conservatives like consistency. so when they go to mcdonald s or taco bell, they know what they re getting and it s like comfort food.
of a positive test. on average in the past week, there were 262 deaths per day. vaccinations are continuing at a slower pace. on average, in the last week nearly 124,000 people per day had a boosterjab. 63.3% of the population, aged 12 or over, have now had three doses. the culture secretary, nadine dorries, has suggested that the days of the bbc licence fee are numbered, in a tweet about the present charter which runs until 2027 being the last. our media correspondent david sillito explained what happened this morning on social media. i tweet this morning, and this license fee announcement will be the last. the days of the elderly being threatened with prison sentences and bailiffs knocking on doors are over. there are essentially two bits of information on this. a licence fee announcement essentially indoors in the boozing mail on sunday as suggesting it be frozen for the next
national institution at the time. david, thank you. now to the latest coronavirus data which today does not include figures from scotland, due to a technical issue. elsewhere, there were 70,921; new infections, in the latest 24 hour period. that means an average of nearly 108,000 new cases per day in the last week. another 88 deaths were reported of people who died within 28 days of a positive test. on average in the past week, there were 262 deaths per day. vaccinations are continuing, at a slower pace. on average in the last week, nearly 124,000 people per day had a boosterjab. 63.3% of the population aged 12 or over have now had three doses. a man who took four people hostage at a synagogue in texas and held them for ten hours, was a british citizen, the foreign office has confirmed. the four hostages were freed by police the hostage