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...In the dying days of Boris Johnson’s government, he even held one of the great offices of state, serving as chancellor of the exchequer for two months....
...Ever since Harold Wilson’s shortlived Department of Economic Affairs, prime ministers have tried to create a second commercial powerhouse to rival the Treasury....
...Unlike Sondland et al, they did not buy their positions. Nor will most of them be able to monetise their experience when they leave government....
...Using previously unreleased US government documents, The Zhivago Affair tells the story of this intriguing cold war battle....
...The writer is Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs at the London School of Economics. His books include ‘Makers of Modern India’...
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...Schooled at Eton, he studied history at Oxford, where he drove a blue Porsche and partied with future chancellor George Osborne et al as a member of the Bullingdon Club....
...Jo Johnson is the FT’s bureau chief in Delhi....
...THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART PRESENTS AMERICA (THE BOOK) by Jon Stewart et al Warner £21.71, 240 pages THE BOROWITZ REPORT: Give us Thirty Minutes and We’ll Waste it by Andy Borowitz Simon Schuster...
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