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...Gassan Al-Kibsi, chair of McKinsey’s Middle East business, and Homayoun Hatami, former managing partner in France, round out the list....
...He was inspired by the way musicians such as Pharrell Williams dressed, alongside the work of designers, such as Raf Simons....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Isabel BerwickThis episode of Working It was produced by Mischa Frankl-Duval and mixed by Simon Panayi....
...Follow Simon on X @KuperSimon and email him at simon.kuper@ft.com Follow @FTMag on X to find out about our latest stories first Letter in response to this article: Parliament and the citizen both benefit...
...As Wachowiak et al correctly note, the recent pressures militating in favour of greater cooperation (Ukraine, a second Trump presidency, fiscal constraints), “have not, to date, proven sufficient to overcome...
...UN climate chief Simon Stiell said: “No G7 country has yet ‘over-delivered’ on climate. On the contrary, there is a lot more action needed, specifically from them....
...So Moral Money will issue a daily note this week, written by Simon Mundy, Gillian Tett and the wider FT team, to summarise the good, the bad and the ugly bits of ESG news from Davos....
...The recent rise of the Faangs, et al, looks like a knee-jerk reaction to the fall in rates and rate expectations that followed the banking mess (the 10-year yield has fallen from 4-ish per cent to 3.6-ish...
...Et tu Brutus? Or in Boris Johnson’s case, Et pretty much everyone — Rishi, Sajid, even Priti for goodness sake (non-aficionados of UK politics should Google them)....
...But this is the landscape as it emerged after the December 2019 election at which Boris Johnson was triumphant....
...His father’s company — then called the Al-Zahawi Group, but now known as Iraq Projects Business Development (IPBD) — quickly procured a contract to provide cleaning, logistics and support services to the...
...In the case outlined by Haddad et al, Goltz said investors were buying a stock “even though the price has gone up”, so demand is more inelastic and “you can have additional volatility from shifts in demand...
...In conversation with the FT’s Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, this week’s Behind the Money podcast explored how social attitudes towards corporate profits are souring....
...Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson (Public Affairs) Economists Acemoglu and Johnson make the case that decisions about technology...
...We have our evil leader for today (you-know-who in Moscow), but do Biden, Johnson, Macron et al fit the bill as statesmen?...
...And generally speaking, they are the stocks that have been hardest hit by the past, probably 12 to 14 months of regulatory crackdown under Xi Jinping, who has been sort of making Alibaba, Tencent et al feel...
...Here’s a quick list of recent mega-transactions either in the works or agreed: Johnson & Johnson agreed to buy cardiovascular technology group Abiomed for $16.6bn including debt....
...He says whoever wins the contest to succeed Boris Johnson faces two pivotal challenges. Could the prime minister’s fall be a turning point for Britain, asks Simon Kuper....
...As Lord David Pannick QC et al observed in a letter to the Times this week the doctrine of necessity requires “grave and imminent peril” to which the state in question has not contributed....
...Known as Bertie in the family, he was the second son of King George V and expected his elder brother, known as David to the family, to become king....
...Just as Al Capone was nailed for false accounting not gangland killings, Johnson’s Christmas parties are a window into his vandalism of far weightier conventions, such as those embedded in Britain’s unwritten...
...All assets may perform badly under stagflation, but we’d rather own Pepsi, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Bristol-Myers et al than sit and watch our cash lose its earnings power....
...It’s time to write his political obituary, says Simon Kuper....
...I am thinking here of the demise of Al Franken, the former Saturday Night Live comedian turned highly effective Democratic senator from Minnesota....
...Is it better, worse or different from the Boris Johnson and previous Tory administration?...
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