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...“This discussion of ‘what is the best technology’ is not helpful,” says Fabian Brandt, head of automotive at Oliver Wyman....
...There have always been clever fools: Cambridge spies, eugenics-smitten Fabians, Hitler appeasers with All Souls fellowships....
...Fabian von Oesen, a civil engineer who has spent much of the past decade working on offshore wind, leads Leag’s renewables division....
...“The hope was that summer would provide some release for the European energy market,” said Fabian Ronningen, analyst at Rystad, a consultancy....
...Edith Nesbit, author of The Railway Children, founded the Fabian Society....
...Harry was only 15 at the time and sat for Wonnacott in the rooms of his tutor at Eton College....
...harry.eyres@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/eyres...
...One way to explain the award of such far-reaching powers is “the Fabian-Benthamite theory of government”, a phrase coined by another Canadian, the late professor Harry Johnson....
...It’s about a circle of English families committed to the progressive ideals of the Fabian Society and the Arts and Crafts movement in late Victorian England....
...At the turn of the century, with the first world war looming, a loosely knit group of Fabians and libertarians pour their utopian ambitions into idealised visions of childhood that obscure the complexity...
...Harry Eyres is the FT’s ‘Slow Lane’ columnist ………………………………………………………....
...Harry Fabian, Kersh’s anti-hero, is a pimp and a fantasist, involved in get-rich-quick schemes including a fantastically gory wrestling match set out in nose-crunching detail....
...There is a further fallacy, which the late Harry Johnson called the Fabian-Benthamite idea of government as disinterested individuals intent only on the public good without the mixture of motives that operates...
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