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A different kind of Lunch with the @FT: a tour of Jharkhand and a ₹500 meal w/Jean Drèze. Detained during the CJP protests, the economist had plenty to say about India’s progress and those left behind. “There was a readiness for some kind of eruption” ft.com/content/002074da-f937…
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"For Trump there are only two kinds of election; ones that he wins and ones that are stolen." My weekend FT cover essay on what to expect from Trump's final two years. as.ft.com/r/0640c95d-029e-40…
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Trouble in India’s ‘City of Dawn’. Founded as a utopian experiment in the 1960s, Auroville is now engulfed in a bitter political struggle over its future. My latest for @FTMag | as.ft.com/r/92b7590e-5377-45… via @FT
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FT Political Editor @GeorgeWParker shares his views on the state of British politics from the Big Ideas Stage at the FT Weekend Festival. #FTWeekendFestival
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New: Morgan McSweeney is this week's Lunch with the FT. Loads of insights over a Mr Lava Lava pizza about his traumatic exit, moving too slowly, Treasury blunders, the winter fuel debacle and how he didn't urge Starmer not to quit in recent weeks. ft.com/content/3d0a7027-39fe…
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Speaking to FT chief economics commentator Martin Wolf at the #FTWeekendFestival, Paul Krugman reflected on the changing balance of global influence and how America's place in the world is often perceived from within its own borders.
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On stage at #FTWeekendFestival, Rahm Emanuel, former United States ambassador to Japan, offered a stark assessment of the risks and consequences of intervention in a rapidly shifting geopolitical landscape.
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It is often said that a “wave” or “tsunami” of technological change is heading our way. These metaphors are powerful because they shape our sense of what is reasonable, and what is unreasonable. What does AI as a "wave" imply is a reasonable course of action? (1/...)
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In April, Crispin Odey dropped his £79mn #libel claim against us. This is the inside story of how Odey’s battle to reclaim his reputation backfired. It's about the brave women who spoke out — and the new allegations the two-year legal saga unearthed. ft.com/content/edbe449d-fbb0…
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Doug Wilson was once a fringe figure on the evangelical Right. Now he preaches at the Pentagon and his followers are helping to run the Trump admin. My Lunch with the figurehead of America's growing Christian Nationalist movement, in @ftweekend. as.ft.com/r/ccd6ebe7-ab5d-40…
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'Milan’s average house-price-to-income ratio is about 12.5 according to FT analysis — higher than in London.' My story on Milan's 20th century apartments, European facelift, tourism boom – & how it all coalesced into one of Europe's worst housing crises: ft.com/content/e6a2bca9-be5d…
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Biotech billionaire Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw: ‘I’ve always been very unconventional’ The Biocon founder on building an Indian pharma powerhouse, weight-loss drugs — and how to get Bangalore moving again. Do read my first Lunch with the FT: ft.com/content/08e9d47d-3a66…
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"A statue of Jefferson Davis still holds pride of place inside the Capitol a mile or two from where we are meeting. “I mean, are there statues of Hitler in Berlin?” Stevenson asks." Lunch with Bryan Stevenson - one of the most remarkable people I've met. ft.com/content/4c17235e-ae41…
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"From sex to healthcare, education and criminal justice, new technologies are enabling the amplification of ancient patterns of gendered power and abuse." Insightful essay by Laura Bates for the @ftweekend. ft.com/content/60e2a900-8999…
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The @FT editor, Roula Khalaf, shares the eight tracks, book and luxury item she would take with her if cast away to a desert island bbc.in/4kKMCxH @khalafroula
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My new FT Magazine cover story out today - How a failed baseball player and ex-Merrill Lynch broker became an international arms dealer
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Take part in a live Ask an Expert Q&A today at 1pm GMT, with Isabel Berwick, the FT's Working It newsletter editor. She will be sharing advice on how graduates can stand out and find their first job. Submit your questions here on.ft.com/4rbl5Za
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How an unknown, then 27-year-old, German kept trading Russian oil when western rules meant others stopped. In 30 months he made more than $250m. Now, as we talked, he regularly asked whether telling his story could get him sanctioned… on.ft.com/4hUJpdI
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Huge congratulations to the authors on the shortlist for the @FinancialTimes & @Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025 Award! #BBYA25 We can’t wait to see who takes the top prize on 3 December! Find out more: bit.ly/4270VET
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