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...martin.wolf@ft.com Follow Martin Wolf with myFT and on X Letters in response to this article: Graceful exits are rarely available to the autocrat / From Peter Slessenger, Reading, Berkshire, UK Singapore...
...I mean, I’m thinking of like a scene from The Wolf of Wall Street where Jordan Belfort shows up at this brokerage to sell penny stocks....
...She deftly weaves in cultural representations of the double — from Dostoevsky and Graham Greene to Philip Roth’s Operation Shylock and Jordan Peele’s film Us — to frame her thinking....
...In 1973, with the Roe v....
...‘Ukraine fatigue’: Western countries must display the will to help ensure Russia does not prevail, or the price could prove to be beyond reckoning, writes Martin Wolf....
...My colleague Martin Wolf also had an interesting take on China’s growth conundrum. Sticking to the China theme, do not miss Evan Osnos’ New Yorker essay on China’s Age of Malaise....
...With the heat of 2023, these opening words in a G20 report released last week are more than figurative, writes Martin Wolf....
...As though in response, a senior broker in Wolf tells Jordan: “We don’t create shit. We don’t build anything.”...
...While the global economy has proved resilient, performance has deteriorated in the longer term, writes Martin Wolf....
...Spending is down sharply on last year, with the most headline-grabbing move so far being the swift unravelling of Jordan Henderson’s ill-fated move to Saudi Arabia....
...The White House has said countries such as Colombia, Peru, Jordan, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Nigeria, Kenya, and Vietnam might all benefit from more lending from the World Bank....
...Stylist’s assistant, Jordan Renou Rohel. Production, SW Studio Paris...
...Overnight, three American soldiers have been killed in Jordan by an Iranian drone, the latest sign that the Israel-Hamas war threatens to boil over into a larger conflict....
...It begins with a clip of Jordan Belfort being told by his boss that he is “lower than pond scum”, which is a movie clip used somewhat out of context....
...Hilary Mantel called it “the ultimate edition of Wolf Hall”....
...multi-award-winning author John Banville and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas author John Boyne discuss their new books returning to characters from earlier novels, along with Oscar- and Bafta-winner Neil Jordan...
...Identittiby Mithu Sanyal, translated by Alta L Price, V&Q Books £12.99 Questions about race, culture and belonging abound in this entertaining debut by German journalist and academic Mithu Sanyal....
...Thomas Jordan, chair of the Swiss National Bank, joined in today, warning: “Don’t underestimate the second round effects....
...For older teenagers, DiCaprio’s Oscar-worthy performance in The Wolf of Wall Street (18) takes the get-rich-quick hustle to a more extreme, adult level....
...In 1969, Collingwood became the first living weaver to show at the V&A when a series of his rugs and wall hangings went on display alongside the work of potter Hans Coper....
...Animals are fun to do, after all: think of Frederick Ashton’s chickens or the witty menagerie in Matthew Hart’s much-missed Peter and the Wolf....
...The de facto leader of Saudi Arabia will meet Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the final leg of a Middle East tour that also took him to Egypt and Jordan....
...As always, reach out to us at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com with thoughts and topics....
...As Rob Ford, politics professor at the University of Manchester, puts it: “It’s about getting to ‘us v them’ politics, to stimulate ‘Leave’ partisanship.”...
...As a professor of Renaissance history at Manchester Metropolitan University who had worked as an adviser on the televised version of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, she was well prepared to establish her credentials...
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