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...Arguably far more important, as Carl Henrik Knutsen notes in a 2019 briefing note for the V-Dem Institute, the outcomes of autocracy show much higher variance....
...Leah Williamson is the captain of the England women’s football team This special issue was led by Cherish Rufus, with assistance from Cordelia Jenkins and Baya Simons....
...According to Phillip V Snyder’s 1977 bauble bible, The Christmas Tree Book, the first glass ornaments from Germany arrived in the US in the 1860s....
...“This one’s for you, Rex,” he wisecracked to King George V during a royal command performance in 1932 in London....
...You can reach me at sid.v@ft.com. Happy reading!...
...Have your say Jenkins comments on Covid has been a catastrophe. Can it also be an opportunity? The first thing to be cheerful about is that it could have been so much worse....
...“I don’t think it’s a V-recovery,” he says. “An elongated U is perfectly possible. I’m a conservative. I plan for the worst and hope for better....
...Perhaps as a result there are slips — a composite of George V and VI appears at one point, who manages to be at once married to Mary of Teck, have a debilitating stammer, and a brother who abdicates for...
...SIONA JENKINS: Boris Johnson has promised that Britain will leave the EU by October 31, do or die....
...Patrick Jenkins is away cat.rutterpooley@ft.com...
...Roy Jenkins, Kenneth Clarke, Michael Portillo, David Miliband and George Osborne are just a few political heirs apparent who never clinched the top job....
...The judge, Christina Snyder, agreed....
...Club des Sports: Hacks v flacks To the Club des Sports complex in Acton, where two teams of financial journalists squared off on Sunday against their PR nemeses, in two pulsating encounters....
...Against the general trend, yesterday Ferrari confidently guided to a V-shaped recovery in its P&L from H2/20....
Truce does not resolve battle over the rapid growth of India’s shadow banking system
...Staley’s predecessor, Antony Jenkins, tried to shrink the investment bank during his tenure, but Barclays’ directors got cold feet and Jenkins lost out in a boardroom showdown, which led to his firing in...
...The V-shaped recovery in consumer spending feels too bullish in our view....
...What you’ve been saying Letter from Michael V Sternberg in response to Eyes down and history books open for Brexit bingo Gideon Rachman’s excellent article lists a number of historical parallels to where...
...Snyder sliced into the canvas and sewed some of the flaps back together, evoking the wounds that go with womanhood....
...(Noyer v, to drown; noyer n, walnut.) “He’s not drowning and he hasn’t cracked,” quipped one observer....
...Obit did not mention Naipaul’s best book: letter from John F May, Bethesda, MD, US Your perceptive obituary of V S Naipaul should have mentioned ‘A Bend in the River’ (1979), which is probably the best...
...It is an image from the 1920s of a woman, Ruth Snyder, in the process of her execution by electric chair. The composition is strange: too much foreground and awkwardly angled....
...Macron v Merkel Judy Dempsey argues that the French and German leaders desperately need to present a united front at next week’s EU summit. But that is much easier said than done....
...(FT) Warren v Wall Street? Elizabeth Warren is one of the country’s most prominent critics of Wall Street firms and big banks....
...Mr Jenkins lost out in a boardroom showdown and was fired in July 2015, opening the way for Mr Staley to take over....
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