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...tony.barber@ft.com Letters in response to this article: Did Russia’s priests have a part in Putin’s palimpsest?...
...In other words, as people get more discretionary income, they spend more on services, like nicer hotels or fancier barbers....
...In line with this thinking, Putin’s Russia celebrates “good” eras of history — the conversion of ancient Rus’ to Christianity in the 10th century; the reigns of Peter the Great and Catherine the Great, marked...
...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com. First, the results of last week’s poll....
...Others included Catherine of Braganza, Charles’s queen, and Thomas Clifford, a senior government minister. Charles himself was to embrace Catholicism on his deathbed....
...Additional help by Peter Barber and Gavin Kallmann. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley....
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...The war is an opportunity for Europe to reinvent itself and uphold the rule of law, writes Tony Barber....
...Janet M Hartley, Yale University Press, RRP £25/$35, 400 pages A Short History of Russia: From the Pagans to Putin, by Mark Galeotti, Ebury Press, RRP£12.99/Hanover Square Press $27.99, 208 pages Tony Barber...
...Two scientists, Neil Ferguson and Catherine Calderwood, fell on their swords and resigned from high-level public positions for not following the lockdown advice....
..., 762 pages Machiavelli: The Art of Teaching People What to Fear, by Patrick Boucheron (translated by Willard Wood), Other Press, RRP£14.99, 176 pages Tony Barber is the FT’s Europe commentator Join our...
...As David Olusoga writes Black and British (2016), the slave trade and Caribbean migration brought many to London, mostly to be servants — Samuel Johnson’s manservant Francis Barber was Jamaican....
...Lionel Barber is the former editor of the Financial Times, and presents LBC’s What’s Next?...
...Tony Barber is the FT’s Europe editor Books of the Year 2019 FT commentators, critics and guests select the titles of the year that you need to read. Explore the series here....
...Some highlights: Monday: Andrew Hill on business Tuesday: Martin Wolf on economics Wednesday: Gideon Rachman on politics Thursday: Tony Barber on history Friday: John Thornhill on technology Saturday...
...Tony Barber is the FT’s Europe commentator For a look at the best summer books across genres, go to ft.com/summerbooks2019 Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
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...(Anand Menon and Catherine Barnard, The UK in a Changing Europe) Victor d’Hondt, the dead Belgian who could influence the European elections “In 1882, the former lawyer devised a mathematical formula,...
...An up-to-date piece of research on this topic is We’ll be fine, a report for theBertelsmann Stiftung written by Catherine de Vries and Isabell Hoffmann....
...In the Winter Palace, home to the tsars, I made my way through gilded throne rooms and vast ballrooms to the apartments where Catherine the Great entertained her lovers....
...Yet Catherine De Vries, a Dutch political scientist, makes a valuable point in her new book Euroscepticism and the Future of European Integration....
...Meet the judges Tony Barber Tony Barber is Europe editor and associate editor at the Financial Times in London....
...tony.barber@ft.com Letter in response to this article: Populism has engulfed the Netherlands’ entire political landscape / From Nikki Ikani, King’s College London, UK...
...Lenin on the Train, by Catherine Merridale, Allen Lane, RRP£25 With the 100th anniversary of the two Russian revolutions of 1917 around the corner, new books on Vladimir Lenin, the Bolshevik coup and the...
...“Although Geert Wilders frames himself as a political outsider, he and his party have become part and parcel of the Dutch political landscape,” says Catherine de Vries, a Dutch politics professor at Essex...
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