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Political espionage
UK to expel Russian defence attaché for spying
...But, he said, the UK “will not fall for it, and will not be taken for fools by Putin’s bots, trolls and lackeys”. “Our response will be resolute and firm,” Cleverly said....
May 8, 2024
News in-depthGeorgia
Georgia’s puppet master turns towards Moscow
...explanation for his Russia pivot is that, with elections looming, Ivanishvili is adopting tactics used by Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, polarising the political debate, painting domestic opponents as foreign lackeys...
May 6, 2024
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
Letter
Letter: It’s not Orbán I think of, but Germany in 1933
...Second time round, Trump will act swiftly to put his lackeys in key positions. In the army, which might no longer refuse to seize voting machines....
November 9, 2023
The FT ViewThe editorial board
Donald Tusk’s forced reboot of the Polish state
...As it removes PiS lackeys from state institutions and companies, it must refrain from substituting its own loyalists but choose independent-minded figures....
January 16, 2024
Venezuela
Venezuela orders oil drilling in Guyana-run territory
...Exxon is now building up production from the Stabroek offshore block, something Venezuela’s government has seized on to paint Guyana as a lackey of US imperialism....
December 6, 2023
News in-depthAutomobiles
How VW and Toyota became the targets of an emboldened US union
...“Big Biz & their political lackeys are crying that the South’s economic model is under attack,” said UAW strategist Chris Brooks on X. “They’re right....
April 4, 2024
FT Live
Investing in America
Foreign companies as drivers of US growth, resilience and competitiveness
Tuesday, 10 DecemberHybrid Conference
The FT ViewThe editorial board
The path to liberal democracy reopens in Poland
...In doing so, however, it must avoid the temptation to substitute its own lackeys; disenchantment with perceived cronyism contributed to the defeat of the last Civic Platform government in 2015....
October 16, 2023
Martin Wolf
A Trump win would change the world
...Most obviously, embrace by the US of a man and a party that have openly repudiated the central norm of liberal democracy would dishearten those who believe in it and encourage despots and their lackeys everywhere...
November 7, 2023
Unhedged
Olivier Blanchard on debt explosions Premium content
...A scary alternative scenario is that Donald Trump is elected, that he puts a lackey at the Fed, who monetises some of the debt, and we get high inflation....
November 17, 2023
Free LunchMartin Sandbu
Liberal democracy strikes back in Poland Premium content
...Some PiS lackeys will be hard to remove; for others, there is a risk of being seen as simply replacing them with placemen of one’s own....
October 19, 2023
ReviewMusic
Five stars for Die Zauberflöte, Metropolitan Opera, New York — dazzling new production gets metatheatrical
...The temple is presented as a Masonic lodge, with an amiable Sarastro (bass Stephen Milling, relaxed and commanding) presiding over meetings and Monostatos (tenor Brenton Ryan) a craven, hapless lackey....
May 23, 2023
The indictment of Donald Trump
Donald Trump’s legal drama features a colourful cast of characters
...The Trumps appear to have viewed Cohen, who was involved in the taxi medallion trade, more as a lackey. It was Cohen who arranged to pay Daniels $130,000 for her story....
April 1, 2023
Live news updates from November 21: Iger replaces Chapek as Disney CEO, DOJ accuses two of $575mn crypto fraud
Labour explores replacing House of Lords with elected chamber
...He criticised former prime minister Boris Johnson for appointing “lackeys and donors” and riding “roughshod over the appointments system”....
November 20, 2022
ReviewUpstream
Happy Valley’s classy finale — and the legacy it leaves
...These moments of levity are a counterweight to the darkness and dread elsewhere, seen in a PE teacher delivering sadistic beatings to his young wife and a crime lord visiting brutal revenge on a lackey who...
February 6, 2023
Letter
Letter: Who needs a wendigo if you’ve got Boris as leader
...I’m sure Mercedes Lackey wrote a short story about such a beast. In it, the beast was a shape-shifting creature which could not be killed, only outwitted....
August 31, 2022
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Labour Party UK
Labour to set out plans for devolving UK economic powers
...He said former prime minister Boris Johnson had appointed “lackeys and donors” to sit on the red benches....
December 4, 2022
UK politics
Labour explores replacing House of Lords with elected chamber
...He criticised former prime minister Boris Johnson for appointing “lackeys and donors” and riding “roughshod over the appointments system”....
November 20, 2022
The Trump Organization
Trump Organization convicted of tax fraud in Manhattan trial
...He added that if the actions of Weisselberg, who earned over $1mn a year as CFO, were truly unimportant to the running of The Trump Organization, it would make him “the highest-paid lackey in history”....
December 6, 2022
News in-depthUK labour disputes
Sunak struggles to defuse Britain’s ‘winter of discontent’
...The prime minister also believes that Sir Keir Starmer, Labour leader, can be presented as a union lackey — and someone who would make unaffordable pay offers to them, were he to win the next election....
December 16, 2022
Letter
Letter: Don’t miscast Putin’s Syria adventure as a ‘success’
...For no one but a monster or the lackey of a tyrant could present anything to do with the ongoing Syrian civil war as a “success”....
April 14, 2022
The Big Read
Somalia rebuilds: ‘the glass is now half-full’
...The terror group’s aim is to overthrow successive governments they dub apostate lackeys of foreign powers....
April 16, 2023
ReviewTheatre
Auto-erotic passion and chip-shop romance at the Traverse Theatre — review round-up
...Sophie Steer is wonderfully funny as her Machiavellian adviser, who orders one incompetent lackey to crawl back into his mother’s vagina and start life afresh....
August 10, 2022
Summer Books 2022
Best summer books of 2022: Business
...Servant of Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats and Criminalsby Oliver Bullough, Profile Books £20 A razor-sharp recasting of PG Wodehouse’s Jeeves as a darker metaphor for the UK’s post-imperial role as lackey...
June 21, 2022
Transcript
Rishi Sunak’s dash for oil and gas
...George ParkerAnd as a result, what you have is a lot of basically political cronies like Charlotte Owen or Ross Kempsell, who is another one of Boris Johnson’s lackeys, have been put in the House of Lords...
August 3, 2023
House & Home
Ten years on, what is the Olympic legacy in east London?
...The maestro pulled down his cap and gestured to a lackey to wipe his glasses. Then the cab was gone. I woke up. That was when I decided that enough time has passed....
June 24, 2022

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