Epstein Secrets

Street shortly before his U.S. trip, he is looking fit and relaxed—the very antithesis of the man whose portrait glares down from his office wall. Winston Churchill overate, guzzled champagne and brandy, smoked Cuban cigars, and liked nothing better than to work into the EFTA_R1_00225770 EFTA01840714 small h

ox [of official papers] at 5:45 a.m. My grandmother always said it's the hours before midnight that count. My hours are completely the opposite of Churchill's." He plays tennis every Sunday and goes for a run through Hyde Park once a week. Only rarely do the pressures of the job disturb his sleep. And

t to see the spread of democracy and rights and freedoms that we enjoy here." It is in the realm of foreign policy that Cameron is most obviously Churchillian. Like Tony Blair, he is drawn to the idea of military intervention where human rights as well as national interest are at stake. It was he, not Pre

their leaders cannot take until all other options have failed — a state of affairs that, if you ask me, Greece is rapidly approaching. Germany and the European Central Bank could take action to make that extreme step less necessary, both by demanding less austerity and doing more to boost the European economy as a who

achs and the end of the partnership, investment banks bossed the City and The Street. In 2013 the money and talent will go elsewhere. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, it will not be the end of the universal bank, but it will most certainly mark the beginning of the end. Lionel Barber: editor, Financial Times Pa

talent will go elsewhere. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, it will not be the end of the universal bank, bu

nce assumed to be too big to fail will remain heavily exposed to troubled euro-zone countries' sovereign debt, whatever the palliative operations of the European Central Bank. In these circumstances, other players will enter the fray. Watch out for GSO, the credit ann of Blackstone, a private-equity firm. With over $50 b

rkel's leadership. If we are talking about the European economy and currency, Germany is the indispensable power. Only the combination of Germany and the European Central Bank, working in unison, has a chance of calming the mighty markets. For more than a year now, Merkel has attempted to find the narrow — perhaps nonexist

Both courses are fraught and logically open-ended. Thus the fear of potentially negative consequences from a war should not necessarily rule one out. Winston Churchill, reflecting on British policy before World War II, wrote: If the circumstances are such as to warrant it, force may be used. And if this be so, it s