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...Martin Wolf (Opinion, March 20) is of course right that the west’s international standing and credibility depend upon our helping Ukraine at least avoid total defeat by Russia....
...I tend to nod along, not always entirely sure what particular aspect of f***edness in the world I’m nodding along with....
...As tyranny’s appeal seems to grow around the world, Martin Wolf reminds us that democracy is still better than autocracy....
...The “weak link”, as Jefferies puts it, is Refinitiv’s “desktop franchise”, ie Eikon, ie the Bloomberg terminal competitor that is often invoked in the sentence “stupid f---ing Eikon”....
...Condemned by the left, Wolf ran into the arms of the far right — who are all too eager to welcome exiles such as Wolf and Robert F Kennedy Jr, who position themselves as deplatformed truth-tellers....
...Jonathan DerbyshireMartin Wolf, thank you very much....
...There are plenty of counterfactuals here (not only Biden and Obama, but also John F Kennedy and Harry Truman)....
...Could John F Kennedy have engineered a peaceful solution to the Cuban missile crisis, with Fox News on in the background 24 hours a day?...
...There is yet another way to fix the bank problem, besides those that Martin Wolf has discussed (Opinion, March 22)....
...It was there in a certain appetite for the medieval in 21st-century entertainment: Wolf Hall, Game of Thrones, the pre-industrial Britain of the otherwise well-judged Olympic opening ceremony 10 summers...
...John F Kennedy chose a Daiquiri to toast his victory over Nixon. In recent times it has been a more temperate place – both Trump and Biden are teetotal....
...Opinion: The west should strengthen sanctions, though they may ruin Russia’s economy without changing its policy or regime, argues Martin Wolf....
...Wolf is certainly right to point to the success of public-private co-operation in the development of new vaccines....
...Open trade is at risk We have moved into a third epoch of the postwar global economic order, writes Martin Wolf. The first was in the context of the cold war....
...US media reported Akram arrived at New York’s John F Kennedy airport about two weeks before the hostage incident....
...They include Ann Lowe, the designer of Jacqueline Bouvier’s wedding dress from her 1953 marriage to John F Kennedy....
...Although Sinema is a Democrat, she falls in the Joe Manchin category of frequent Republican allies, a wolf in cutesy clothing....
...Robinson was described as a “wolf in lamb’s clothing” by one former associate and even “a shark in a Val Doonican jumper” — a reference to a homely Irish singer....
...The past several decades of economic history might have been quite different if not for Robert McNamara, a cerebral, tightly wired colossus of a figure who, as secretary of defence under President John F...
...Ford, with its very popular F-150, has an electric version due in the spring. Now, we don’t know whether those companies can really scale their production....
...For the past four decades Ford’s F-150 pick-up truck has been the best-selling auto in the US....
...But my local great reveal is on the F train in Brooklyn. The train sets free at a height and hugs a curve, bending us down into the city and revolving it, like a plane or a planet....
...Amazon, too, is littered with reviews that say “cannot get into this authors’ writing” for Toni Morrison, or complain that “the tempo is SO slow” with regard to Hilary Mantel’s outstanding Wolf Hall trilogy...
...For Economics books published in the first half of the year, see Martin Wolf’s mid-year selection Martin Wolf is the FT’s chief economics commentator Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books...
...All this looks unsustainable, but then we anglosaxon neoliberal French-bashers have been crying wolf about that for decades....
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