Hints and tips:
...We talked about Trump versus Biden 2024 and other morale-boosting topics. Rana Foroohar responds Welcome back, Ed. Yes, indeed I did have conversations about Israel-Gaza over the holidays....
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...A funding crisis has also reduced staff numbers and further sapped morale....
...It was this imbalance in returns that was at the crux of a three-year campaign by activist Edward Bramson to scale back the UK’s last remaining global investment bank....
...Morale is weak on the Russian side as well....
...Indeed, there is ample reason to think their morale will be even lower....
...Lockdowns made that impossible and she only made it as far as Prince Edward Island near Nova Scotia....
...Putin arrived in Uzbekistan as Russian forces in the north-east of Ukraine have been forced into retreat by a Kyiv counter-offensive that has recaptured important territory, boosted Ukrainian morale and...
...Edward Luce responds Rana, I have complex feelings on this subject. You’re undoubtedly right that there has been a drop in the quality of people going into public life....
...Supply and morale problems created the longest traffic jam in the world — a 65km caravan of Russian tanks and armoured vehicles that was eventually forced into reverse....
...Staff morale has deteriorated further this year over the organisation’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, current and former employees said....
...He rarely showed a crack in his morale, so the stories go, keeping up the spirits of all around him, making jokes, dancing jigs and winning drinking competitions, never standing on ceremony....
...And while Queen she had two more children, Princes Andrew and Edward....
...Sir Edward Leigh, another Tory grandee, said Sunak had to move “in a far more radical direction on the overall tax burden”....
...The plane was forced to land amid US suspicions that whistleblower Edward Snowden may have been aboard....
...edward.luce@ft.com Letter in response to this article: Taliban time horizons start with the Crusades / From Meghnad (Lord) Desai, House of Lords, London SW1, UK...
...But one former senior employee tells us: “Morale is low and there is no confidence in the new direction.”...
...Napoleon is said to have estimated that the success of any campaign was one-quarter attributable to numbers and material and three-quarters to morale....
...In Mother’s Milk, the greatest of Edward St Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose novels, this sense of home and body as one takes on a more surreal edge....
...“If you’re a boss of an AMC [asset management company] and your future is to close it down next year as was originally designed,” he added, “it’s probably not good for morale.”...
...Finally, do also read this moving obituary by my former colleague Quentin Peel of 11-year FT veteran Edward Mortimer, who has left us far too soon....
...Are young Americans going through a crisis of morale? Yes and no. Millennials suffer from a lot of unfair stereotyping. Occasionally I have been guilty of that....
...One of Edward VII’s first acts as King was to suggest that Cartier open a London branch....
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