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PM accused of allowing businessman to blur lines between private activities and public responsibilities
...Additional reporting by Sarah Provan and Sebastian Payne in London, and Katrina Manson in Washington Letter in response to this article: Fall of Kabul recalls the question Brzezinski posed / From Yugo...
The UK prime minister’s own finances may be shambolic, but a secretive donor club is transforming his party’s fortunes
...Benjamin Barber, author of If Mayors Ruled The World, argued that such roles have to be pragmatic by their nature, “Mayors are not so much post-ideological as they are oblivious to ideology, seeing in ideology...
...Faced with a dogged core of vaccine scepticism, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to start opening up the economy from Sunday, with shopping malls and libraries opening to all Israelis....
...Mr Trump’s favourite phrases — such as “fake news” — were picked up by leaders as diverse as Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu....
...Additional reporting by Guy Chazan in Berlin, Victor Mallet in Paris and Sebastian Payne in London...
...Netanyahu ousted Israel’s parliament has voted in a new government, ending the 12-year grip on power of rightwing stalwart and five-time premier Benjamin Netanyahu....
...Sebastian Payne digs in on the latest Payne’s Politics podcast. (FT)...
...Carl Benjamin, who is running as an MEP in the South West, has close to 1m subscribers on his YouTube channel under the sobriquet Sargon of Akkad. His channel has received 281m views....
...The one nation strand of conservatism goes back to Benjamin Disraeli, the 19th century Tory prime minister who forged policies to tackle inequality and poverty....
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...The FT’s Whitehall correspondent Sebastian Payne asks what the deep divisions over the UK leaving the EU reveal about Britain. (FT)...
...Among his students who have gone on to make their names are composers as diverse as Thomas Adès, George Benjamin, Jonathan Dove and Judith Weir....
...So said Benjamin Graham, the investment guru known as Mr Market who has inspired Warren Buffett among others....
...Public sector must protect communities — letter from Benjamin H Bradlow “The urgent question is not about what Amazon can do voluntarily to be seen as a more “socially responsible” corporate actor....
...(Paul Krugman, NYT) The party of Trump arrives in Cleveland (Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker) Political sideshow “Let the hungry for power games begin!”...
...Staged on the shelving beach, with the North Sea as its backdrop, the production married Benjamin Britten’s most popular opera to the setting that inspired it....
...Recent critical successes include Benjamin Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream and Hector Berlioz’s Damnation of Faust, staged by Monty Python’s Terry Jones....
...Since the death 35 years ago of Benjamin Britten, the last really successful opera composer, most composers have gone down the traditional route, turning existing literature into old-fashioned musical narrative...
...This Teenager Agonistes is also a chickling version of The Graduate’s Benjamin Braddock....
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