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Lorien Kite is deputy comment editor, a post he took up in 2009 after four years as a commissioning editor on the analysis page. He joined the FT in 2000.
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Kenneth Ballen: Inside the dreams of Mullah Omar
Editorial: A pitiful exercise in Euro-minimalism
Editorial: The Gaul of it
Editorial: Deficit attention
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