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...Tony Brenton Former British Ambassador to Moscow, Cambridge, UK Letter in response to this letter: A mischievous letter from a respected diplomat / From Sir Malcolm Rifkind, London SW1, UK...
...” of Tony Blair’s New Labour administration — established his reputation as one of the sharpest chroniclers of British politics....
...There are other big-ticket items, such as further orders for the F-35 stealth fighter jets, which cost about £90mn each and are needed for the UK’s two new aircraft carriers....
...My colleague Tony Barber is away this week, so I have taken the reins....
...Both Tony Blair and John F Kennedy won power at the age of 43: Blair talked up a “young country”; JFK was the symbol of an optimistic future after two terms of Eisenhower, by then 70....
...By 2025, there should be 48 F-35B Lightning II fighter jets, although this programme has been beset by delays. The army will be cut to 72,500, with only 148 tanks....
...I tasted a range of its wines, including a no-added-sulphites red cleverly named On Souf(f)re Pas that Flache had devised. I was impressed....
...“It was hate, it was violent: ‘You get out of my face, you f***ot.’ I thought, these people know better than me; they’ve had success.”...
...A leading Conservative business figure has quit the party after almost 40 years, citing the party’s alleged “f*** business” attitude and willingness to put vulnerable groups on the front line of a culture...
...Some buildings have markings like “Anno X E.F.”, meaning “1932, the 10th year of the fascist era”....
...This article has been amended to correct the date of John F Kennedy’s campaign to 1960...
...I’m standing in for Tony Barber, who will be back for next week’s edition. You can contact me at ben.hall@ft.com....
...Tony Blair to N.F.L star Tom Brady and his supermodel wife Giselle Bundchen....
...The air force has also shrunk but is slowly taking delivery of new F-35 fighters and has begun a “future fighter jet” modernisation programme, known as Tempest....
...(A text message he wrote to a colleague mused about what he would say to other shareholders upon the buyout closing: “Adios mutha f******s”.) McCormick awarded shareholders roughly $40mn in damages....
...The CIA was behind President John F Kennedy’s assassination. The Bush administration had a hand in the 9/11 attacks. The Covid-19 pandemic was masterminded by the American “deep state”....
...Deep-sea ecosystems “take millennia to establish and can take seconds to destroy”, said Tony Worby, a marine scientist at Australian non-profit Minderoo Foundation....
...But my mother was this incredible woman, and she performed at the snowed in Kennedy inaugural with my father, Tony Curtis....
...In fairness to WANdisco, fraudsters do not have a big “F” tattooed on their foreheads....
...Murdoch has known presidents since John F Kennedy. But no relationship compared with Trump....
...A second Raffles, this one a resort, is being developed amid the yacht clubs and tony apartment complexes of Sentosa Island, off Singapore’s south coast....
...Dressed in cargo shorts and a T-shirt he appeared onstage in the Bahamas, where his company is based, alongside Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. (Soon after, he had Lunch with the FT.)...
...John F Kennedy and Harold Wilson were slick but shallow icons of generational change. Jimmy Carter and James Callaghan were decent plodders in difficult times....
...The film also envelops us in a jet stream of nostalgia as seductive as any F-18 vapour trial....
...There used to be such a creature as the urbane and even bohemian rightwinger (William F Buckley was at least one of those things)....
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