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...Thankfully for America, FDR replaced Wallace with Harry S Truman just a few months before he passed away. Will explains just how close a call this was. Wallace was a fan of Stalin....
...Foreign policy is not usually a hot presidential campaign topic, but Benjamin Wallace-Wells tells us how and why that has changed this year....
...Monetary policy: Federal Reserve board governor Christopher Wallace is set to give a speech on the economic outlook at an event hosted by the Brookings Institution....
...After much back and forth they finally settled on Tyrian by Edward Bulmer; known as the “purple of the ancients”, it chimes with the regal atmosphere of the space....
...Finally, do read David Wallace-Wells’ bracing NYT essay on whether America is ready for back-to-back pandemics....
...China spies,” former RAF Air Marshall Edward Stringer wrote on Twitter....
...Edward Cutler knows a lot about a very particular sort of international travel....
...But such finger-pointing is mostly unfair to the Fed, Edward Luce argues....
...It has also exposed the thinness of Britain’s armed forces, which defence secretary Ben Wallace has described as “hollowed out”....
...Despite a £24bn increase in defence spending spread over four years that was finalised in 2020, Ben Wallace, the defence secretary, has repeatedly warned that the British army has been “hollowed out” by...
...The New York Times’ David Wallace-Wells has an excellent primer on the floods that now cover a third of Pakistan — a statistic that I find hard to digest....
...When I need to feel inspired, I meditate or go to The Wallace Collection in Marylebone: that’s my little hideaway. I walk around The Wallace Collection on my own quite a lot. It’s amazing in there....
...Covid-19, as the excellent David Wallace-Wells wrote this week in the New York Times, was a crisis-equals-opportunity moment....
...chapel retreat in the hills north of town where he could meditate away from the Wild West shootouts (and the emerging tourists who came in search of the sort of dude-ranch glamour then made fashionable by Edward...
...Finally, do read the always excellent David Wallace-Wells in New York Magazine on the west’s responsibility for its historic carbon emissions — and the case for climate reparations....
...LAF’s museum partner was The Women’s Art Collection, owned by Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, which displayed works by the likes of Paula Rego, Tracey Emin and Linder....
...Finally, do read Benjamin Wallace-Wells in The New Yorker on why America’s right is so infatuated with Hungary’s Viktor Orban, the pioneer of illiberal democracy and, in my view, postmodern fascism....
...The Wallace Collection, Manchester Square, London; wallacecollection.org...
...Edward Luce is on book leave and will return in mid-March....
...As the blizzard swirled and the canvas of their little tent flapped, he extended his arm around his friend, Edward Wilson, before that too froze solid. True, the motivation of many was questionable....
...And in the FT, I enjoyed this Lunch with Chris Wallace, though I remain far more optimistic about the Biden administration....
...The house belonged to Allen Harriman and Edward Judd, whose huge collection was sold across several Sotheby’s auctions....
...As author of the bleak The Uninhabitable Earth, Wallace-Wells’ sunny-spiritedness is all the more welcome....
...FT columnists Rana Foroohar and Edward Luce, who hosted an online “watch-along” during the 90-minute debate, called it “toxic” and “an assault on the senses”....
...Among those flagging the risk have been Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, former commander of the UK’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear regiment, and UK defence secretary Ben Wallace....
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