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...This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future by Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns Two hardened political reporters dissect the 2020 presidential campaign and the subsequent January...
...McCarthy also noted that DS Smith had a greater presence in western Europe, while Mondi’s assets were more focused on eastern Europe....
...As a quasi-Western, The Settlers also feels, for much of its length, like the closest that cinema has yet come to an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s prairie nightmare novel Blood Meridian....
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...US president Joe Biden is meeting House speaker Kevin McCarthy and other top congressional leaders to address the threat of the nation defaulting on its debt....
...Some think it’s the banks (WSJ $) — From quiet desperation to quiet quitting: on John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle’s “Henry at Work” (LA Review of Books) — How business can address waning trust in capitalism...
...Citizen of London: Richard Whittington — The Boy Who Would Be Mayor by Michael McCarthy Hurst £25, 432 pages Jonathan Guthrie is the head of Lex Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Have a good week and email me with any comments at jonathan.moules@ft.com....
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...He replaces Kevin Lansberry, who took over from longtime finance chief Christine McCarthy on an interim basis in June....
...Jonathan — There’s nothing meeja types like better than reading about rivals....
...Normality has been restored at least in the US Congress with the vote to install Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House of Representatives....
...Kevin McCarthy’s big test: The Speaker has surprised doubters by uniting a fractious Republican conference almost six months into his tenure. 2....
...The Passenger and Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy, Picador £20 each/Knopf $30 & $26 You wait 16 years for a Cormac McCarthy novel then two come at once....
...Mary McCarthy said Hardwick could make figures “dead or imaginary” seem to be “living a few blocks down the street”....
...“He [McCarthy] resuscitated him.” The authors brand McCarthy as “perhaps the most ingratiating figure” in the Republican party....
...Kirkland & Ellis London M&A partner Tom McCarthy is joining the legal team of private equity firm Triton Partners....
...Swampians who want to learn more should read Axios’s Jonathan Swan on Trump’s Schedule F plans....
...“President Trump and MAGA will demand it, a real investigation with Jordan, Banks, Gaetz, MTG [Marjorie Taylor Greene], and others,” said Bannon, adding, “McCarthy won’t be Speaker unless he signs on.”...
...In 2019, the lauded American novelist Jonathan Franzen wrote an article in The New Yorker titled, “What If We Stopped Pretending?”, arguing: The climate apocalypse is coming....
...But you know, Kevin McCarthy, the Republican minority leader for now, who could potentially become the House speaker very soon....
...Philip Roth: The Biography, by Blake Bailey, Jonathan Cape, RRP£30, 898 pages Jonathan Derbyshire is the FT’s acting deputy world news editor Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...John Tonkiss, head of retirement home builder McCarthy & Stone, sees the high street as fertile ground for development....
...Even Kevin McCarthy, the House of Representatives’ top-ranking Republican, was in a buoyant mood. The bipartisan bonhomie will fade quickly. No matter....
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