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The Hill newspaper reported this week that Manchin was in talks with some Senate Republicans about small changes to the rule that might prove acceptable to both parties, but the changes reportedly discussed appear unlikely to make passage of the proposed election and voting reform legislation any more likely.

Arsenal are hopeful of securing the highly rated France striker Alexandre Lacazette after lodging a club record bid worth £44m, a fee likely to prove acceptable to Lyon and spark a flurry of knock-on movement in the transfer market.

If the ECJ were to rule that article 50 is revocable, it would enable the UK to reject the outcome of Brexit negotiations should they not prove acceptable to parliament or voters, and remain in the EU.

But it isn’t clear that this will prove acceptable to the U.S., which is reluctant to allow the creation of a permanent new legal apparatus, or indeed sufficient to assuage European public opinion.

Even without Ms. Swift, the album of the year category is stacked with options that should prove acceptable to both the Grammys voting establishment and mainstream listeners.