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The FT ViewThe editorial board
Macron’s defeat shows his political vulnerability
...But Sunday’s elections showed that dégagisme, the French love for turfing out establishment figures, is as strong as ever....
June 30, 2020
The best of TV and streaming this week
Gentleman Jack — the BBC and HBO series about a 19th-century lesbian landowner is a sparkling delight
...She’s ruthless, screwing the last penny of rent and turfing an elderly tenant out of his farm — shooting a sick horse gives her more of a pang....
May 31, 2019
FT Live
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Saturday, 7 September London, UK
News in-depthThe Big Read
Canada’s housing market flirts with disaster
...Friends of the 35-year-old web co-ordinator who rent their homes live in fear of “renoviction” — landlords turfing tenants out under the guise of refurbishment, then ordering them to pay much more in rent...
February 8, 2018
Pilita Clark
Share the love, peace and peanut butter
...A third was turfing out a bottle of “virtually full” Tesco malt vinegar, “best before June 2013”. Then I saw a photo of a large, half-empty bottle of Coca-Cola....
June 16, 2017
Life & Arts
Too Thoreau for his own good
...For Emerson, an apostle, “the trimming and turfing of gardens” cannot awaken man to “Culture in the highest sense”. Wild nature can, with “horrid thickets, wide morasses, bald mountains.’’...
August 15, 2017
InterviewWorld
Pushing for ‘more Europe’ risks fanning populism, warns Rutte
...Speaking to the Financial Times in his cramped, gothic office in The Hague, Mr Rutte attempts to diagnose the populist surge that has dominated European politics in 2016, turfing leaders — including Mr Rutte...
December 11, 2016
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
Gig economy
Too rich or too busy? What we now pay to have done for us
...Turfing over an average sized London back garden will easily cost a few thousand....
September 16, 2016
On Wall StreetTom Braithwaite
Tech ‘unicorns’ opt for dual share listings
...Instead, the reverse is true: the disaster of turfing Steve Jobs out of Apple in 1985 has lent moral authority to structures that protect founders....
October 16, 2015
UK politics
Designers fly the flag for a free Scotland
...It references the Yes campaign turfing out Trident....
September 17, 2014
The FT ViewUS banks
Compelling trades
...The current proposals are unusual in that they are predicated on economic benefits that hinge not on turfing people out of their homes but keeping them inside....
August 18, 2013
Serious MoneyNorma Cohen
What about the last-time buyers?
...Nor would they be turfing out their children; over 40 per cent of them are couples with no dependent children. The standard riposte to this is that the older people do not want to be uprooted....
November 15, 2013
PerspectiveLife & Arts
Undemocratic developments
...According to one lobbyist engaged in battles over development in the UK, astro-turfing “goes on all the time”....
November 30, 2012
Trader's DiaryPersonal Finance
The perils of post-election predictions
...We can add two other races to the broad theme of Republicans turfing Democrats out of office. Democrat Lyndon Johnson chose not to run for re-election in 1968....
November 2, 2012
beyondbricsMarkets
Budapest upscale hotels: sleeping easy?
...He has a point; several travellers have complained – unprompted – to beyondbrics about Ryanair’s policy of turfing out passengers onto the tarmac rather than using the flexible bridges installed at the airport...
July 20, 2012
Eurozone economy
Balls says austerity tide has turned
...Mr Livingstone said “turfing out” his opponent would send a clear message to the government that it was going in the wrong direction....
April 30, 2012
FT Live
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Thriving in an Unpredictable Environment
Thursday, 16 MayEuropean Convention Center Luxembourg, Place de l'Europe, Luxembourg
UK politics
Sir Humphrey alive and well in Whitehall
...When Mr Brown became PM I revealed tales of the terrible atmosphere in government with “GB” turfing out the Number 10 “garden girls” of their chairs and throwing phones across the room....
November 8, 2011
beyondbricsKatrina Manson
30 heads of state in a dust bowl
...hand over the keys to the committee as from the date of this letter,” said a note dated July 4 and hand-delivered to a long-stay hotel guest by a Chinese staff member who, so embarrassed at the shame of turfing...
July 6, 2011
Life & Arts
The Diary: Melvyn Bragg
...One of the reasons given for turfing out the hereditary peers almost en bloc (and more would have been lost but for the silken, hereditary, centuries-honed skills of Lord Salisbury, who campaigned on their...
April 1, 2011
FT AlphavilleTracy Alloway
Baseled and interBank
...Presumably the turfing out of financial assets from the liquidity buffer would mean higher and less predictable funding costs for banks — the first of which is coming anyway, thanks to the NSFR....
July 28, 2010
NotebookUK schools
Gus O’Donnell and the climate of fear
...News that he had outraged the Number 10 garden girls – the secretaries – by turfing one of them out of her chair and taking over her keyboard appeared here more than two years ago. Not that surprising....
February 23, 2010
Work & Careers
Blogs that spin a web of deception
...UPS is developing its own online ethics policy after recognising how damaging Astroturfing and other online misbehaviour can be for a company’s reputation....
February 11, 2009
UK politics
Labour charges members to meet its costs
...But a Labour official defended the decision to charge, saying: “We are asking people to pay the £10 but not turfing out anyone who doesn’t.”...
May 27, 2007
ReviewBooks
Just what we ordered the doctor
...It was one example of what health writers Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels dub astro-turfing, or “the creation of fake grassroots campaigns by public relations professionals and in the pay of large corporations...
March 17, 2006
Personal Finance
Nick Louth: Vintage year puts me on a high
...There have been few major disappointments in 2005, partly because I am more disciplined about turfing them out while they are still minor ones....
December 30, 2005
Inside EuropeMergers & Acquisitions
European Comment: Europe's best and worst of 2004
...The Forlorn Hope Shield goes to shareholders of Eurotunnel, who hoped to improve their fortunes by turfing out the old Anglo-French management but have seen problems worsen....
December 30, 2004

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