At a dinner party on the American east coast last week with guests from finance, tech, academia and a former senator, one of my neighbours whispered across the table: “Do you think we are living in Leopoldstadt?”
For those who have not seen Tom Stoppard’s multi-award-winning play of that name, it centres on a Viennese Jewish family who initially dismiss the threats of the Nazis as fantastical but later pay a terrible price.
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Financial Times
Gillian Tett is chair of the editorial board and editor-at-large, US of the Financial Times. She writes weekly columns, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues.
