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..., a niece of president George W Bush, in the nearby Vance Barn); a 1940s low-slung beach house in Montauk (the easternmost beach town in New York’s Hamptons) built by a disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright; the...
...I started my Saturday as usual with the FTWeekend, and particularly enjoyed Simon Kuper’s essay on the making of a modern oligarch, Jemima Kelly’s tour of the US’s new “anti-woke” universities, and Martin...
...stephen.bush@ft.com...
...The Beltway commentariat immediately began sounding the death knell for Bush’s prospects in November....
...(A good Jemima Kelly column on that, albeit one that made this particular centrist splutter into his cornflakes.)...
...No resolutions: Instead of tedious new year’s resolutions, Jemima Kelly asks us to make a “24 for 2024” list of achievable goals for the coming 12 months....
...Among these, George HW Bush, John Adams, Jimmy Carter and John Kennedy stand out....
...Jemima Kelly takes on the overuse of the diagnosis, which is now applied very generally (any bad boss gets called a narcissist) but which has roots in very specific traits....
...particularly enjoyed Owen Walker and Stephen Morris’s brilliant account of the birth, life and death of Credit Suisse, Simon Kuper’s weekend essay on whether it is time for a sixth French Republic, and Jemima Kelly...
...Stephen Bush discusses books about “the masculinity crisis” (Life & Arts, November 19). It was ever thus. This “crisis” has been going on forever, as far as I can tell....
...John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser and the former US ambassador to the UN under George W Bush, has publicly criticised him, as have Mark Esper, his former defence secretary, and John Kelly...
...Was it Bush? Lilah Raptopoulos I think it was Bush. I always thought of those as like trying to be quite sexy. Nathan Brooker Oh, they’re dreadful....
...to Gender Justice by Ivan Jablonka, Allen Lane £25, 368 pages Men After #MeToo: Being an Ally in the Fight Against Sexual Harassment by Kenneth Reinicke, Palgrave Macmillan £22.99, 267 pages Stephen Bush...
...Kate Bush. I mean, I would love Taylor to do a Kate Bush. I’d love her to, like, drop an absolutely awesome album and then vanish for, like, 15 years, 20 years, I think. And she’s heading that way....
...Sidney Nolan’s “First-class marksman” (1946), for example, part of his Ned Kelly series, is now flanked by fragments from a 1906 Kelly Gang movie and Tom Roberts’s bushranger (bandit) scene “Bailed up”....
...country-specific create the same issues with respect to conflicts of interest and criminal insider trading that individual stocks do,” says Richard Painter, former chief ethics lawyer for the George W Bush...
...Stephen Bush FT columnist and associate editor When I was 20, I had two plans for the money I had earned selling bad food at Legoland....
...Most recently, the 50-50 split in the Senate of the 107th Congress reflected the epic George W Bush-Al Gore presidential contest of 2000, when the result depended on the infamous “hanging chads” in Florida...
...Kelly Dittmar, associate professor of political science at Rutgers-Camden, agrees: “We’re already seeing Trump and those who back him . . . leveraging this as a way to deride the current administration and...
...There’s nothing gonna be like John Kelly in a second Trump term....
...Finally, for those who enjoy Freudian slips, watch George W Bush railing against “the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq — I mean of Ukraine ”....
...Though I was not invited to George HW Bush’s funeral, or John McCain’s, I watched both on TV with one ear blocked....
...The UK’s aspirations to become a “global hub” for cryptocurrencies get the once-over from FT Alphaville’s Jemima Kelly....
...By the time her book came out, both Dana and his sister Kelly weren’t talking to their mom. “We all were close. That’s the saddest part of it all,” Kelly says. “Dana never did anything to her....
...Teneo’s first public event featured Blair, Clinton and his successor George W Bush on stage with Andrew Liveris, then chief executive of Dow Chemical, who would become an important source of fees for Teneo...
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