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...Moments of honesty pierce the play — Cornwall’s servant urging restraint when his master is crazed with bloodlust; Alec Newman’s Kent solicitously stepping in; Michael Gould’s Gloucester innocently confiding...
...Plus, the FT’s Alec Russell unpacks Indonesian president Joko Widodo’s ambitious plan to build a new capital city and turn the country into an economic superpower....
...Join FT journalists, Martin Wolf and Alec Russell, as well as, expert guests on January 24 1pm GMT for a subscriber-exclusive webinar. Register for free here....
...Optimistically, Alec says that Ukrainians are keeping the faith, but they need their western allies to do so as well....
...Plus, the FT’s foreign editor, Alec Russell, explains why a new geopolitical order is emerging....
...The FT’s Lauren Fedor and Alec Russell join this week’s Swamp Notes podcast to discuss Donald Trump’s aggressive attitude towards Nato and how it resonates with American voters. Listen here....
...Opinion: Joe Biden seems to be getting the opponent he wants, writes Peter Spiegel, but is the president’s eagerness misguided?...
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...Along with Peter Spiegel and Alec Russell, Gideon was among the generous colleagues who nobly filled in for me while I was on book leave....
...By chance, the FT’s former Arts editor Peter Aspden was there. He met us at the quay and whisked us up the coast to his favourite beach....
...Peter FosterI think it was, George....
...The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire: 1918-1922 by Ryan Gingeras, Allen Lane £30, 368 pages The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy by Diana Darke, Thames & Hudson £30, 288 pages Peter Frankopan is professor of...
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...In late 2020, the 42-year-old struck a deal with a special purpose acquisition company backed by private equity billionaire Alec Gores to take his mortgage business public at a $16bn valuation....
...He has also invested alongside big private equity players such as Tiger Global, SoftBank and Peter Thiel....
...He cites the observation by Peter Hennessy, the historian and constitutional expert, that “war is an intensely prime ministerial activity”....
..., Brown, RRP£25/University of Chicago Press RRP$30, 352 pages Alec Russell is FT Weekend editor Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café Listen to our podcast, Culture Call, where FT editors...
...Alec Herron of Settled, a charity set up to help EU citizens navigate the application system, said his organisation was still getting “hundreds” of calls a day from those who had not applied....
...He remembers buying a vinyl record of Peter Sellers’ appearance on Parkinson as a teen, and memorising great chunks of it....
...A West London borough best known for its eponymous film studios (which catapulted Peter Sellars, Alec Guinness and Jamie Powell to fame), a large Polish community and, more drearily, as the old stomping...
...Drop us a line and join the conversation: Due.Diligence@FT.com Spacs on wheels With his first-ever Spac billionaire private equity investor Alec Gores bought the maker of the golden sponge cake Twinkies...
...“Control”, who loses it; the mean streak of integrity that is Peter Guillam; Jerry Westerby, who makes a fleeting but crucial appearance in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy but is the Honourable Schoolboy of...
...The event prompted local photographer Peter Hauser — who was already working on a project about the consequences of climate change — to document the wreckage....
...In Fulfilment (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March), Alec MacGillis brings the latest investigation into Amazon and its impact on small town, Main Street America....
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