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...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...Adam Curtis’s six-part documentary, Can’t Get You Out of My Head, is on the UK’s BBC iPlayer...
...Today’s opinion Britain has more illusions to shed on Brexit Agreeing a final deal will be complex and probably take years Free Lunch: Fiscal union v banking union Two views of the euro battle it out...
...At the start of this year, a British businessman named Adam Robson received some awful news....
...Jonathan Chait argues that Trump is not, contrary to his campaign’s argument, like Al Gore in 2000. Here’s the FT View on Trump’s remarks. The debate saw a more subdued Trump out of the gate....
...“I’m approaching my Bill Gates moment. People say, ‘You don’t want to run a public company’ — and they’re right. It’s not what I’m good at.”...
...Statistical studies (see for example Gadea et al) confirm that there has been no significant break in the behaviour of volatility in the five year period since 2008, compared to that experienced during GM...
...Overall, Koo thinks that barring any reckless experiments in monetary policy, Abe et al might actually be able to pull Japan out of its twenty year balance sheet recession....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...My uncle read V.S. Pritchett and A.J.P. Taylor. I preferred Anthony Powell and E.P. Thompson....
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...The anointed moderate Bashar al-Assad casts off sheep’s clothing to reveal himself as fully the wolfish equal of his father. The Gaddafis are taking it to the temerity of the rebels....
...President Barack Obama, who was notified of the deaths, had authorised the use of force in the case of an imminent threat to the hostages, a White House press secretary told reporters....
...Dugong et al v Robert Gates, a lawsuit that has been playing out in a San Francisco court since 2003, gained fresh importance yesterday after Japan’s government agreed to build a replacement for the Futenma...
...Dispensing with such bonhomie, however, some fans viewed England v the US as something of a grudge match....
...I know you have the ear of the Pope, Obama, Lakshmi et al, but I ask you humbly to let this be strictly “off the record”....
...Nick Hornby et al followed. Davies deserves this reissue under a new title....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...On the eve of our encounter, several senior US generals had bluntly accused the ISI, Pakistan’s military intelligence, which backed the Taliban in the 1990s, of still sympathising with al-Qaeda....
...It felt like a gate across my path of life swinging open....
...Again, Hugenholtz et al, point out that the majority of cases brought under the Directive have been about databases that would have been created anyway - telephone numbers, television schedules, concert...
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