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...There are tens of thousands of drones in Ukraine, and they’re really significant on the battlefield,” Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, chief of the UK defence staff, said earlier this year....
...Tony Travers, professor of economics at the London School of Economics, said: “Delaying but committing to the project just puts off the evil day when a chancellor has to make the final decision as to what...
...Britain’s “procurement process is fundamentally broken”, said Francis Tusa, a military consultant and editor of the Defence Analysis newsletter....
...This week sees the latest effort as Francis Maude, former Tory cabinet minister finalises his civil service review....
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...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com First, the results of last week’s poll....
...Directed by Tony winner Rachel Chavkin....
...London is simultaneously home to a network of piece workers in the garment industry and to the Francis Crick institute, with 1,250 scientists, one of Europe’s largest biomedical research centres....
...Francis Breedon: The inflation outlook remains highly uncertain....
...He guides us always in the way of peace, never that of war” — Pope Francis, speaking at a world faith congress in Kazakhstan, takes apparent aim at Patriarch Kirill, the Russian Orthodox churchman who backs...
...Francis Pym and John Biffen were among cabinet ministers disparaged by the Downing Street press operation when they challenged the prime minister’s tough economic strategy....
...Francis didn’t blame Vladimir Putin for unleashing the violence in Ukraine (“a pope never names a head of state,” he said last month)....
...The contest over the Catholic Church’s future The question of who will replace Pope Francis, who turns 86 next month, looms large....
...Tony Mok, professor of medical oncology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, who was not involved in the study, said the research findings were “intriguing and exciting”....
...It showcases the group of British artists that included Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Michael Andrews and Frank Auerbach with a treasure-trove of works — some well-known, some loaned from discreet private...
...It’s by Francis Maude. It was commissioned a year ago to look at how the civil service could be reformed to be more responsive to the needs of government....
...“I fell in love with the town because I thought it had incredible bones,” explains Argentine chef Francis Mallmann, who is often credited with kick-starting Garzón’s revival....
...Orchestra on September 11, lucernefestival.ch Letter in response to this article: Better late than never for FT Weekend pleasures / From Jacqui Francis, Birmingham, UK...
...“I would never have reorganised it if it had been the actual studio of, say Francis Bacon,” he says. “But it was already de-installed and reinstalled, and so I felt free to touch it.”...
...Johnson’s arms-to-Ukraine policy also represents a sea change from the 2000s when the then prime minister Tony Blair courted the Russian president, the Queen hosted Putin at Buckingham Palace and western...
...A: Francis Fukuyama, tweeting about Crimea’s Kerch Bridge five days before it was destroyed “It has been a pleasure to work with the Boom team and we wish them every success in the future.”...
...When Tony Blair paid tribute to the victims of 9/11, he chose to end his speech with a quote from one of his favourite novels, The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder....
...But the struggles have such deep roots that there is every reason to think they will continue long after the reign of Pope Francis has ended. tony.barber@ft.com...
...The moves to bring in outsiders to shake up what was seen as an inefficient and obstructionist Whitehall were led by Francis Maude, a cabinet office minister under Cameron....
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