Smart Reads May 9, 2013
♦ We love our multilateral organisations here at the FT, so we’ve taken a close look at how Roberto Azevêdo managed to win the WTO DG nomination – visiting a mere 47 countries along the way. Mr Azevêdo...
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To arm or not to arm the rebels: Cameron’s Syria dilemma
Syrian rebels in the southern town of Maaret al-Numan (AFP) US President Barack Obama’s decision to send arms to the Syrian rebels is clearly an important moment in the country’s civil war. It is a...
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Why the UK is highly unlikely to arm Syrian rebels
A Syrian flag flies over the clock town in Qusair (STR/AFP/Getty Images) By James Blitz and Elizabeth Rigby Senior parliamentarians and government officials in Britain believe it is highly unlikely...
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By Catherine Contiguglia ♦ Though support for a vote in favour of military intervention in Syria appears to be strengthening in the US, the sceptics still have strong arguments and Obama still has a...
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In the Picture: Celebrating Nelson Mandela
(Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images) Thousands gathered in Soweto’s enormous stadium for a lively memorial service celebrating Nelson Mandela’s life yesterday but much of the news focused on the behaviour of...
View ArticleDavos leaders: Cameron’s immigration contradiction
In his address to the World Economic Forum, the prime minister was his fluent self. But there was also an obvious tension between his embrace of a globalised and open UK and his determination to curb...
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The summit that will go down in history
(Getty) “There is a tide in the affairs of men “Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.” So said Brutus in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, and the same thought was surely the cause of much...
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Livre Blanc: France has learned the lessons of the UK’s defence cuts
(CARL COURT/AFP/Getty Images) President François Hollande this week published France’s long awaited strategic defence review, setting out what the French armed forces should be aiming to do in the...
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Taking the blame for the post-crash blues
Three weeks to go until the UK general election, and whatever the result – most likely no party with an overall majority in parliament – the remarkable thing is the serious underperformance of the...
View ArticleFT column: David Cameron’s ‘Little England’ is a myth
By Gideon Rachman When Angela Merkel won re-election in 2013, the outside world saw her success as a sign that things were going well in Germany. But David Cameron’s decisive victory in the UK’s...
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Obama, Cameron and the Libya blame game
What are we to make of President Barack Obama’s on-the-record criticism of the role of UK Prime Minister David Cameron over Libya? I would make four points. First, Mr Obama is trying to protect...
View ArticleFT column: Boris Johnson, David Cameron and the day after Brexit
By Gideon Rachman It is the morning of June 24th. Britain has just voted narrowly to leave the EU. Jubilant pro-Brexit campaigners wave Union Jacks in Trafalgar Square.Read more
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