before all else

“Is Blackness itself,” Holiday asks, “becoming an asset to the propaganda machine before all else?”

Whitesides’ campaign manager, Emma Harris, said in a statement that “as a father of two kids, 12 and 14, George puts the safety of his family before all else.”

“Hungary before all else,” Mr. Orban said on Saturday at the end of a state of the nation address in which he said Europe’s policy of supporting Ukraine had “failed spectacularly.”

Like Sir Tony was in the 90s, Sir Keir is at pains to stress that economic credibility must come before all else, in part to nullify Tory attacks on Labour's financial competence.

Abigail reminds us that Keynes — father of macroeconomics, who’s misquoted as frequently as he’s misunderstood — “was before all else a humanist, an old-school liberal pragmatist.”