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...Which song by Phil Collins was the first track on the first Now That’s What I Call Music! compilation album? Which movement was started by Tarana Burke in 2006?...
...Ukraine’s War of Independence by Yaroslav Trofimov, Penguin Press £25.11/$32, 400 pages Putin’s Exiles: Their Fight For a Better Russia by Paul Starobin, Columbia Global Reports £12.99/$17, 126 pages Tony...
...Then, leaders such as US President George W Bush and Tony Blair, the UK prime minister, pushed the marginalised region to the top of the international agenda, he said....
...Please find me at tony.barber@ft.com....
...Both George W Bush and Barack Obama’s administrations obfuscated on Afghanistan....
...The luxurious property owned by Italy’s late former prime minister has hosted several world leaders including George W Bush, Tony Blair and Vladimir Putin. Here’s more on the lavish Villa Certosa....
...£30, 463 pages Tony Barber is the FT’s European comment editor Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley by Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans (Torva/Henry Holt) Tony Hsieh turned Zappos, the Amazon-owned footwear etailer, into a case...
...In foreign policy, he won the gratitude of George W Bush, the US president, for defying domestic public opinion and sending Italian troops to Iraq after the US-led invasion of March 2003....
...Black Success by Tony Sewell (Swift Press)In a provocative, often surprising account that combines memoir and polemic, Sewell explores the drivers of black British success, tracing its hard-won achievements...
...and “Alone, Together” — two more bangers that predate the second George W Bush administration....
...Quite the opposite, says Tony Hall, head of temperate collections at Kew Gardens and author of the newly published Gardening with Winter Plants....
...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com. First, the results of the poll in last week’s newsletter....
...George W Bush and Tony Blair went ahead anyway “to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger”. Dr John Doherty Medical Director, IAEA (1993 — 2008) Vienna, Austria...
...Watching the film Official Secrets would be a good memory jogger if people have forgotten how Tony Blair stood with George W Bush in sidelining the UN and how British insiders who knew the truth were silenced...
...Yet, in polite society, each of those names still carries far less stigma than George W Bush or Tony Blair do for the active debacle of the Iraq war....
...Harold Wilson: The Winner by Nick Thomas-Symonds, Weidenfeld & Nicolson £25, 544 pages Philip Collins is a former chief speechwriter to Tony Blair Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Finally, I try to take a bit of time for pampering at the end of a long day on my feet with a foot massage at the Away Spa at the W South Beach hotel....
...Like George W Bush on Iraq, Obama wasn’t much interested in the advice of regional experts....
...It is a massive achievement given that O’Sullivan only founded his studio 10 years ago after periods working with Martin Brudnizki, David Collins and Annabelle Selldorf....
...Tony Blair stepped in to de-escalate a dispute between Beijing and Washington that followed the capture of the crew of a US spy plane in April 2001, declassified cabinet papers show....
...After the war, he attended classes at the New School’s Dramatic Workshop, alongside Marlon Brando, Tony Curtis and Sydney Poitier, who became a life-long friend....
...Excerpted from ‘Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining’ by Lee Unkrich and J W Rinzler, published by Taschen Follow @FTMag to find out about our latest stories first...
...Melvyn P Leffler ably examines these issues in this first scholarly history of President George W Bush’s decision to invade Iraq....
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