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...Karen Johnson, head of retail at Barclays, said: “Retailers were hopeful that discretionary spending would bounce back by mid-year, buoyed by falling inflation and the prospect of better weather....
...The tone is still essentially pastiche, though — in the trailer we see an angry Karen wielding hammers in a sundress, a naked guy chased through a gas station by cops and a billboard for antidepressants...
...Victoria Beckham cotton V-neck top (worn underneath), £390. Santoni leather Penny loafer shoes, £505. Pantherella cotton ribbed socks, £16....
...Time Come: Selected Prose 1975-2021 by Linton Kwesi Johnson (Picador) Graduation from firebrand to national treasure hasn’t happened to Linton Kwesi Johnson....
...“The wet weather has been a key factor in the slowdown in discretionary spending, as it’s meant fewer visits to the high street and to hospitality venues,” said Karen Johnson, head of retail at Barclays....
...Silver specialists Craftmasters Gallery has invited Cartier Award-winning hand-engraver Karen Wallace to show her work at Hedonism Wines....
...“As inflationary pressures begin to ease, retailers will be hopeful that the onset of warmer weather lifts spending,” said Karen Johnson, head of retail at Barclays....
...I remember when the Supreme Court was just about to overturn the Roe v Wade abortion ruling in 2022. I spoke to the CEO of a large American business....
...Karen Johnson, head of retail at Barclays, said that, while grocery and retail spending “didn’t see as much of an increase as we might have expected during the height of the festive season”, “hospitality...
...In parliamentary systems, members of parliament can also revolt, as they did in the UK against Boris Johnson and Liz Truss....
...Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock, and Barbie’s Ryan Gosling took it several steps — or buttons — further, displaying what is unfortunately known as “heavage”....
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...Paul Johnson, head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a think-tank, said Labour’s plans to increase taxes on private schools, individuals with non-domicile status and private equity bosses, would raise...
...Cio-Cio-San will be sung alternately by sopranos Karah Son (who studied under the late Mirella Freni) and Gisela Stille; countertenors Evan LeRoy Johnson and Thomas Atkins play the caddish Pinkerton....
...Lantink’s work has been acquired and shown by museums, including London’s V&A and the Costume Institute at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, while celebrities such as Beyoncé, Billie Eilish and Janelle...
...This month’s offerings include more tech stocks than earlier in the year, when the market was dominated by the $4.3bn spin-off of Kenvue, the consumer brands arm of Johnson & Johnson, which chose NYSE....
...But I’m more eagerly looking forward to Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black, which stars Marisa Abela....
...“In terms of the impact of globalisation and industrialisation, the nadir for Stoke was somewhere between 2005 and 2010,” says Tristram Hunt, director of London’s V&A museum and author of The Radical Potter...
...“China is a very big fish,” said Karen Mathiasen, a former US Treasury official and now a project director at the Center for Global Development....
...I think a lot of people were anticipating a V-shaped recovery . . . People are now waking up the realisation that volatility is going to be normal going forward.”...
...The Korean Wave” exhibition at the V&A Lola Shoneyin Writer and festival organiser by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lola Shoneyin’s subversion is deliciously sly, her humour mordant, her eyes pitiless and...
...Puzzle 2502 Kirill Alekseenko v Karen Grigoryan, Sunway Sitges 2022. White to move and win. The Russian, playing under the neutral Fide flag, went on to take first prize. Click here for solution...
...Von der Leyen and Sunak made the announcement in front of a portrait of King George V, who inaugurated Northern Ireland’s parliament in 1921 with an appeal for unity....
...“Pecker is going to testify that they had this [catch-and-kill] agreement,” Cay Johnson said....
...On Thursday, our colleagues broke a story about Lord Jo Johnson....
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