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Financial Times - Comment
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Financial Times - Comment
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Business folk can’t resist a gong
Of the 277 people who declined an honour between 1951 and 1999, artists, writers and actors were the most notable refuseniks, writes Brian Groom
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How to rescue the Syrian peace plan
An alternative is a military intervention to create safe zones for civilian protesters, writes Anne-Marie Slaughter
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Africa can remind us of the capitalist way
A decade ago, the end of fuel subsidies in Nigeria could have led to political crisis. Now Nigerians just want to get back to work, writes Dambisa Moyo
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Shame Obama for pandering on trade
If he is wet behind the ears on outsourcing, then his surrender to the fetish of manufacturing is a disaster, writes Jagdish Bhagwati
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The ice is cracking under Putin
The sense that taboos are being broken is reminiscent of the glasnost that signalled the beginning of the end of the Soviet era, writes Gideon Rachman
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The way to cut bonuses: scrap public subsidies for banks
Mr Cameron is fast winning a reputation as a weather-vane. What’s required of his government is a set of principles and consistency in their application, writes Philip Stephens
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Forget Fred and focus on the real banking scandal
Capitalism works – and works far better than any other system – because the discipline of the marketplace keeps greed, folly and incompetence in check, writes Nigel Lawson
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The reality of American decline
A new essay argues that America’s future will hinge largely on taking a very different turn to the one in which US foreign policy is headed, writes Edward Luce
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Germany: A Bric, or just stuck in a hard place?
With unification Germany has become too big to be an ordinary European state, yet not big enough to be a superpower, writes Wolfgang Münchau
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It’s time to support the opposition in the Syrian civil war
Thanks to the morally bankrupt policies of Russia and China, there is no guarantee Syria can avoid a bloody fate, write Malcolm Rifkind and Shashank Joshi
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