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...Charles Rice has the right brightly focused baritone, with ringing top notes, as Figaro....
...Total control: Vladimir Putin’s guaranteed re-election in March means he will have been in power longer than Stalin, writes Tony Barber....
...Additional help by Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Monica Lopez. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer....
...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com. More than almost any international dispute, the Middle East has a way of exposing the limits of the EU’s aspirations to operating an effective common foreign policy....
...In 17th-century England, pamphlets and tracts spread the conspiracy theory that a vast plot existed to kill King Charles II and replace him with a Catholic....
...Revered but flawed statesmen, often with a military background, loom over the 20th-century history of Europe and its neighbourhood: Winston Churchill in the UK, Charles de Gaulle in France, Józef Piłsudski...
...tony.barber@ft.com...
...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com. Russia and the world Let’s look first at the impact of Russian propaganda around the world....
...Medvedev, an exiled scholar based at the University of Helsinki and Charles University in Prague, has written a slim, polemical volume whose caustic eloquence — well captured in Stephen Dalziel’s translation...
...Charles Kerrigan, a crypto specialist and partner at law firm CMS, said fines would likely fall because crypto was already much more tightly controlled than it was in its infancy....
...Quinn’s tough guys in cowboy hats, “Homeboy Down the Block” (2018), “Buck Nasty: Player Haters Ball” (2017), “Charles Re-visited” (2015), are split apart, turned inside out, fractured, while “Father Stretch...
...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com....
...Plus, European Council president Charles Michel proposes a target date for adding new members to the EU....
...All eyes are now on King Charles, and whether his purported desire to modernise the institution translates into tangible change....
...Tough neighbourhood: Centuries-old regional rivalries will complicate EU attempts to expand in the Balkans, writes Tony Barber....
...Additional help by Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley....
...His dispassionate portraits of Alabama sharecroppers and idled Mississippi barbers have lent him a reputation as a saintly humanitarian evangelising for the welfare state....
...I’m all the happier to fill in for Tony Barber this week....
...Charles himself was to embrace Catholicism on his deathbed....
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