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...Swampians will forgive me but I must drop two clichés: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds” (Ralph Waldo Emerson); and “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?”...
...edward.luce@ft.com...
...My column this week looks at 2024’s potential Ralph Nader election spoiler: Robert F Kennedy Jr, who this week made an obscure pick as his third party running mate — Nicole Shanahan, the wealthy ex-wife...
...To be fair to the No Labels’ perspective — and almost nobody is — their working hypothesis is Ross Perot in 1992, not Ralph Nader in 2000 or Jill Stein in 2016....
...silver Square signet ring, £1,475 Retro Super Future acetate Numero 96 glasses, £177, specscollective.com Studio Nicholson denim jacket, £540, farfetch.com Sunspel cotton T-shirt, £190, mrporter.com Edward...
...Edward Lucas Absolutely....
...His music is firmly rooted in Germanic tradition (Wagner, Strauss and Berg are invoked), and both his vocal writing and his orchestration are breathtakingly assured....
...Bellingcat’s lead Russia investigator Christo Grozev made the prediction earlier this month in an interview with the FT’s Edward Luce....
...Shortly after the takeover, Wagner hired sports industry veteran Garry Cook as Birmingham City’s new chief executive....
...Gideon talks to Edward Lucas, author and senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis, about the stability of Vladimir Putin’s regime in Russia....
...Opinion: Trump’s financial difficulties pose risks for America as well as for himself, argues Edward Luce....
...As both director and designer, Charles Edwards has devised a production in which the visual element plays a big role — symbolic daylight streaming through the doors, decay and detritus littering the final...
...The recent attempted coup by Yevgeny Prigozhin, Putin’s former caterer, whose business empire included the Wagner mercenary group, was predicted by Grozev....
...America’s ‘do-harm’ Congress: Republicans in Congress will not take yes for an answer, writes Edward Luce. They are blocking steps that they urgently demanded on immigration and Ukraine....
...Of course the plane carrying Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner leader, may have had an accident. But I think most of you would agree that that would be a remarkable coincidence....
...Peak lapel tailoring has been a recognisable part of the late Savile Row tailor Edward Sexton’s DNA for decades....
...“The entire industries grew,” said Cole, who previously worked for Ralph Lauren and LVMH....
...Additional reporting by Gloria Li in Hong Kong and Edward White in Hong Kong...
...Miles Johnson had a fascinating investigation into Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group and its sanctions-evasion network in Africa and beyond....
...Here was a conductor who always achieved a good standard of playing and proved himself equally strong in composers as diverse as Wagner and Britten, Janáček and Strauss....
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