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...Anti-Islam extremist Geert Wilders won elections in the Netherlands in November and the far right is expected to enjoy a surge in support in much of the EU in European parliament elections in June....
...Additional contributions from George Russell, Benjamin Wilhelm, Grace Ramos and Euan Healy...
...Parliamentary arithmetic and the dire state of the country’s economy pose huge challenges for the insurgent, writes Latin America editor Michael Stott, meaning that some of Milei’s wilder promises were unlikely...
...Businesswoman Heather Ridout becomes Australia’s first female consul-general in New York....
...Alec Russell responds Rana, I love your idea that as the FT’s foreign affairs editor I should consider fashion part of my beat!...
...Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West by Peter Heather and John Rapley (Allen Lane) Western hegemony is in decline....
...Some scenes feel a bit tepid (the cake-baking could be wilder; the jeopardy could be dialled up more in the rescue), but there’s such an appealing, good-natured feel to the show that it’s hard to mind....
...In the long sightlines of the uplands you witness approaching winds in the flailing of the moor grass and heather. You enjoy the company of the slow-marching clouds....
...Last year, together with architect Russell Potter and, later, chef Florence Knight, Gent opened the Sessions Arts Club in London; it fast became one of the city’s buzziest restaurants, thanks to its unusual...
...The restoration of Bowden’s own five-bedroom family home in Finsbury Park similarly indulges her wilder side....
...“We can’t take the same approach we used to,” says Heather Kernahan, its chief executive....
...“I can’t wait [for the end of restrictions],” said Heather Hayes, an HR director. “I love it. It’s just having the team together.”...
...Alec Russell FT Weekend editor I have read more enduring books this year than in any single year I can recall and yet one easily stands out: The Passenger....
...“It’s very important to show where populism leads and how it plays with fire,” says Heather Grabbe of the Open Society Institute....
...On Dartmoor I found a connection to an older, wilder Britain. It was the first place I ever felt at home....
...Another delight was Jonathan Coe’s Mr Wilder & Me, an account of Billy Wilder’s later years that sweeps beautifully from Hollywood to Greece and London while all the time reflecting on the horrors of 20th-century...
...The Russell 2000 index of US small companies has also broken lower today, suggesting a bigger correction is under way....
...Without so-called natural capital, the economy cannot survive, said Martijn Wilder, co-founding partner of Pollination....
...“I think the Wall Street complex is crumbling,” Mr Russell said....
...Heather Boushey’s Unbound spells all this out in convincing detail....
...I knew the succession at Kiftsgate since 1919: Heather Muir, her daughter Diany Binny and nowadays Diany’s daughter, Anne Chambers. I did not know how good the garden already was in the Muir years....
...Excitement about this starry renovation project, overseen down to the last stuffed squirrel by interior designer du jour Russell Sage, has been ramped up cleverly over the past year on Instagram — from the...
...The walk has been enhanced over the past decade by gardener Russell Watkins, with additional plantings including heathers, hellebores and thousands of flowering bulbs....
...Art is still attractive, but it’s all about currency and liquidity, security and safety, and peace of mind,” says Heather Maizels, senior adviser to the international private wealth lawyers Charles Russell...
...Alec Russell’s full Lunch with the FT interview with Emmerson Mnangagwa will appear on FT.com on Friday...
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