Lionel Barber was the Editor of the Financial Times from 2005 until January 2020 and is widely credited with transforming the FT from a newspaper publisher into a multi-channel global news organisation. He spent more than a decade with the giants of business, finance and politics, often privy to their innermost thoughts in moments of crisis. During this time, Barber was witness to the events which shaped the first part of the 21st century: the rise of China, Brexit, the tech boom and the crisis of western liberal democracy. His diaries – The Powerful and the Damned – offer unflinching portraits of this time, and of the leading characters in this drama from Trump, Cameron, Blair, Obama, Putin, Merkel, Draghi and May, to Prince Andrew, Mohammed Bin Salman and Dominic Cummings. His work is essential reading for anyone interested in politics, the economy, business, pop culture, high society and what the powerful, and occasionally dammed, really think.
Lionel Barber was the Editor of the Financial Times from 2005 until January 2020 and is widely credited with transforming the FT from a newspaper publisher into a multi-channel global news organisation. He spent more than a decade with the giants of business, finance and politics, often privy to their innermost thoughts in moments of crisis. During this time, Barber was witness to the events which shaped the first part of the 21st century: the rise of China, Brexit, the tech boom and the crisis of western liberal democracy. His diaries – The Powerful and the Damned – offer unflinching portraits of this time, and of the leading characters in this drama from Trump, Cameron, Blair, Obama, Putin, Merkel, Draghi and May, to Prince Andrew, Mohammed Bin Salman and Dominic Cummings. His work is essential reading for anyone interested in politics, the economy, business, pop culture, high society and what the powerful, and occasionally dammed, really think.