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Editors and correspondents at the Financial Times reflect on the words of the year
...Scenes with the society artist Thomas Lawrence and with a fencing master in Dublin do have a purpose but outstay their welcome. If the play were honed more, its points might be more forceful....
...It is a bitter, baffling world for those who have devoted their lives to thinking about how society might organise itself better. Welcome to the winter of the wonk....
...I don’t know how realistic Milei is being about the mandate he has, given how fractured society is, and the depth of the crisis we’re facing.”...
...No mention of the B-word, then....
...The 40 minutes of Out of the Blue swerve from flamenco to jazz to klezmer to chanson and spoken-word poetry, sometimes within the same track....
...Most people try to avoid language such as the N-word or misogynist slurs. But they also dislike the constant updating of “correct” terminology, which seems designed to punish those who haven’t kept up....
...“A lot of the sales went through word of mouth,” the acclaimed Irish writer told The Guardian. “A lot of people bought the book for other people for Christmas.”...
...Why did the authors make no attempt to cover the horrors of their society’s past?...
...This weekend, millions of people will celebrate Easter. For Christians, the passion of the Christ signifies redemption through divine self-sacrifice....
...The UK’s Coventry Building Society has agreed heads of terms to buy Co-op Bank for £780mn in a deal that would return the private equity-owned bank to mutual ownership....
...one executive put it, to help tell the “amazing stories that are part of the heritage of our brands”....
...Its ill-fated 2009 takeover of Britannia Building Society during the financial crisis exposed it to a pile of bad loans and a £1.5bn capital shortfall....
...Instead of taking offence at this nasty and gratuitous remark, Dr Muhammed Al-Husseini voiced his “deep concern and opposition to the criminalising of theological disagreement, at a time when our society...
...The box office success of both halves of Barbenheimer was part of a changing of the guard on the silver screen....
...But in the tussle between good intentions and bad actors, society is in danger of losing sight of what it most needs to protect. Minority groups are feeling increased hostility....
...My Hands” (2021) is a frenzied, almost Baconian double portrait of fragments of the same face, eyes raised, appealing for divine help....
...Bored of words, Ma et al. then tried numbers — roughly recreating the ratio of earnings revisions deployed above, but utilising forecasts of “earnings and other metrics” instead of just rating labels: We...
...Rights groups were already operating in a hostile atmosphere as society veered rightward during the 15 years that Netanyahu has dominated the political landscape....
...Welcome then to the Palm Royale: the eponymous setting of a lavish if lightweight high-society satire on Apple TV+....
...The two words were apparently first coupled by a leftwing American activist, Carl Oglesby, in 1969 in an article decrying the “north’s dominance over the global south”....
...This article was the winning entry in the 2023 free FT Schools programme student essay competition with Royal Geographical Society on the risks and responses to climate change....
...And all of these people knew how to play themselves. Divine This picture of Divine is what he looked like, in real life. He always wore that one piece garbageman’s outfit....
...to be kept apart from society for a period of time”....
...(verb) the act of diversifying supply chains to avoid relying too heavily on one geography In 2023, the G7 nations decided to drop the dreaded word “decoupling,” when referring to their policy approach...
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