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...As reported, they’re indefensible: he is alleged to have said that looking at Diane Abbott means “you just want to hate all black women”, and that she “should be shot”, according to reports on Monday night...
...pressure to give back donation | Opposition parties are calling on the Conservative party to return its biggest-ever cash gift after the donor was reported to have said that looking at former Labour MP Diane...
...With me here in the FT studio to discuss some of these issues: our political fix regulars, Stephen Bush. Hi, Stephen. Stephen Bush Hi, Lucy. Lucy Fisher And Robert Shrimsley....
...Over coffee with his wife Diane and their Shih Tzuh, Cinnamon, he tells me there were between 75 and 100 donors there, about double the number who had attended the last fundraiser on the island at the end...
..., 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....
...Starmer’s dilemma Diane Abbott, MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, has had the Labour whip suspended over a letter to the Observer....
...DIANE GLOSSMAN: In hindsight, the Citi-Travellers deal created a lot of angst....
...We’ve seen other prominent members — Diane Abbott also suspended for various reasons....
...(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....
...titans Kelcy Warren and Tim Dunn, Trish Duggan, a Florida scientologist divorced from venture capitalist Bob Duggan, World Wrestling Entertainment co-founder Linda McMahon, Wisconsin roofing distributor Diane...
...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...
...The last thing I bought and loved was a little Hermès Kelly bag in pink leather: very simple but very pretty. It goes with so many colours – black, brown, blue....
...And lo, more flower corsages at Balenciaga, which opened with a beautiful interpretation of an original Cristóbal Balenciaga design worn by Grace Kelly to her 40th birthday....
...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”....
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