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...One initiative is a crackdown on abortion, launched in close co-operation with the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church....
...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....
...Trump’s victory was the largest-ever vote share in a contested Iowa caucus, beating the 41 per cent won by George W Bush in 2000....
...Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State by Anna M Grzymała-Busse, Princeton University Press £25/$29.95, 256 pages Tony Barber is the FT’s European comment editor Join...
...In New York, I yielded to temptation and took Edith Wharton’s classic society novel The Age of Innocence off for a walk around Grace Church and Gilded Age Manhattan....
...“Tony Kushner and Steven Spielberg,” he says. “But then what would my job be?”...
...Tony Barber’s article “Russia gives an updated lesson in distorting history” (Opinion, August 12) was a magnificent illustration of George Orwell’s warning provided by Big Brother in Nineteen Eighty-Four...
...“Gospel” has woozy electric piano and southern African church vocals amid the rapping; “Menua” a swampy funk-soul rhythm....
...He attended Christ Church at the University of Oxford, where his history tutor was Hugh Trevor-Roper, and gained a first....
...Both George W Bush and Barack Obama’s administrations obfuscated on Afghanistan....
...Before their 1997 landslide victory, he and Tony Blair won over Tory voters by promising not to increase the top and bottom rates of income tax....
...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....
...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....
...An expected feature of Keir Starmer’s leadership has been political eruptions on occasions when he visits a church criticised for its anti-LGBT views....
...It has a large chapel — more like a small church — attached. Massini has history with this place....
...Either way, the struggle over the Church’s direction that has rumbled on since the Second Vatican Council and is being amplified by his synod may well be fiercer than ever. tony.barber@ft.com...
...FT HQ is next to St Paul’s Cathedral, the most awe-inspiring church interior in the UK. But I don’t talk about it, except with close colleagues 🤫....
...and “Alone, Together” — two more bangers that predate the second George W Bush administration....
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...He was, arguably, a born performer — first singing aged five in his Pittsburgh church choir....
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