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Politics, economics, high finance and morality – this blog addresses the issues being considered by the FT’s comment team, and their thoughts.
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.
Ian Holdsworth became assistant features editor in 2009 and was previously chief production journalist for the features pages.
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