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...No wonder it is so chic to be bleak. A pessimist is never disappointed — or accountable. Email Janan at janan.ganesh@ft.com...
...As both ITV and the Mail report, the mood in Downing Street is bleak and there is a lively debate about whether Sunak should go to the country in June or July....
...“I’m not convinced the IPO market is going to open soon.”...
...“I think we’ve given a lot of aid to Ukraine, I don’t think it should be without end,” said Thea Alfes, who had travelled to the conference from Connecticut....
...“I don’t want that for the future.”...
...I’ve started to think we need an upgrade — perhaps it will help entice me out of doors while the days are bleak. (And, I’m afraid, I don’t think we’ve seen the back of grey days in England just yet.)...
...I’m grateful to India Ross for sharing the experience of egg freezing (“The frozen future”, The Weekend Essay, March 23)....
...“I’ll make no apology for ensuring our plan is fully costed and fully funded within the inheritance we’re going to get, and it’s going to be a bleak inheritance,” she said....
...This message needs to change quickly, and action needs to follow, otherwise Roach’s bleak picture may swiftly become reality. Let’s hope it does not....
...I’m concerned that we might have great rules, and if the US institutions follow them that’s wonderful, but US citizens and customers will still be victims of those external organisations that are going to...
...I’m only half way through the 640-page doorstopper, which explores class, race, corruption, hubris and disgrace, but I can already say it’s a must-read....
...Oleanna (1994), a story about a professor and the student who accuses him of sexual misconduct, was a bleak rehearsal of what was to come with #MeToo....
...The mood among Conservative MPs remains bleak. “It’s very sad, there’s a lot of angst,” said a former minister....
...Hannah RockDeputy editor, FT Edit (@HannahRockFT) • Like a lot of Britons, I rely on trains to get to work....
...It’s a terrific interview – although, readers, I don’t recommend trying toad at home....
...I was standing with my father on the landing of the tiny Georgian cottage that I was born in, looking out on to this bleak landscape of the garden, and the builders. Our bathroom was being built....
...“I haven’t changed,” Kumar smiles on-air. But the Indian media have — seismically, by Shukla’s telling. NDTV increasingly looks like a lonely outpost....
...“I paid for Willy Wonka and got Billy Bonkers,” said another. Though I suspect that rather oversells it....
...But the overall picture remains bleak....
...“I think Yann is being a bit naive. The future of humanity rests on this,” Hinton responds. The calm and measured tones of Hinton’s delivery are in stark contrast to the bleak fatalism of his message....
...Bleak and barren, it’s a lunar landscape. At this, the highest – and halfway – point of the walk, a long, low building appears ahead, looking like a welcome refuge. This is Job’s Well....
...It’s unspeakably bleak, yet what makes it, for so many, the great American play is the love that courses through it....
...If this is a state-of-the-nation novel, O’Hagan paints a bleak portrait....
...There’s nothing about Alan Turing’s bleak trajectory (from code-cracking, OBE-winning wartime heroism to unjust disgrace and early death) that screams “musical theatre”....
...It is a conservative insight, I suppose, that if you change one thing about society, even for the better, don’t count on the rest of it remaining the same....
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