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Lunch with the FT has been a weekly FT institution since 1994. Over three decades we've sat down with the world's most fascinating people, from Elon Musk to Henry Kissinger, Toni Morrison to Roger Federer, Hillary Clinton to Larry Gagosian. They choose the restaurant, we pay the bill, and you get a seat at the table.
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    British Museum chief Nicholas Cullinan: ‘I start with the idea that everything is possible’

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    The stage and screen star on portraying Succession’s ice queen, reimagining Shakespeare’s women — and taking on Margaret Thatcher

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    Former Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg: ‘So far, we have called Putin’s bluff’

    The Norwegian politician on his decade as a KGB contact, crossing Russia’s red lines — and what comes next for Ukraine

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    Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: ‘I see AI as born out of surveillance’

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    Super-producer Jack Antonoff: ‘Don’t make anything you wouldn’t die for’

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  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
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    Michel Houellebecq: ‘People who have humanitarian ideas are a catastrophe’

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    Economist Eugene Fama: ‘Efficient markets is a hypothesis. It’s not reality’

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  • Friday, 23 August, 2024
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    Meteorologist Celeste Saulo: ‘Climate change is not a movie. This is real life’

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    Financier Stuart Roden: ‘Labour has a generational opportunity’

    The investor and Labour donor on the challenges facing Keir Starmer’s Britain — and why hedge fund management is like tennis

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    Nigerian entrepreneur Tony Elumelu: ‘America was colonised too and look at where they are’

    The proponent of ‘Africapitalism’ on the legacy of imperialism — and why he’s getting into the business of oil

  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
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    Helen Toner on the OpenAI coup: ‘It was about trust and accountability’

    The former board member who (briefly) ousted Sam Altman talks about taking on one of tech’s most powerful CEOs

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    Evangelical leader Franklin Graham: ‘Americans realise Trump is not pastor-in-chief’

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    The powerbroker with a ringside seat to big US mergers on knife-edge decision-making — and how clients can become friends

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