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...There are even predictions that spiralling coal prices will soon prompt households to instead burn cheaper wood briquettes — or even waste — to keep warm....
...The moral hazard associated with continuing to burn fossil fuels because of the existence of an escape clause is “not relevant”, he adds. “We know we have to decarbonise. We know we’re not....
...Enter Lee Robinson....
...I mentioned the name Barbara Banke to the well-connected head of one of her UK importers and it meant nothing....
...The rest — Napoleon setting foot in Egypt, scenes from Robinson Crusoe (Le Petit Robinson), intrepid balloonists adrift or voguish chinoiserie — met the demand for topical scenes....
...Speakers include Jake Sullivan, Gucci Westman, Jancis Robinson and many more. As a newsletter subscriber, claim 10 per cent off your pass using promo code NewslettersxFestival....
...I knew it was bad when the houses around us started to burn.” Budnicka was born Hena Kuczer, but took the surname of the Pole who helped her to safety in a Catholic orphanage....
...He argues that decades of short-sighted planning decisions, which produced “slash and burn” development, have left many communities struggling to fulfil their promise, even as a wider range of Americans...
...His parents Joe Bankman and Barbara Fried embraced each other in the public gallery and lowered their heads, despondent....
...Now, as I’ve written before, and as the Economist’s Duncan Robinson sets out in an excellent column, that’s in large part because Sunak just is pretty rightwing....
...It’s made by zapping water, using electricity, and when you burn it, it just emits water vapour, which is way better than getting hydrogen from coal....
...The wine, A Tribute to Grace 2017, was made by Angela Osborne from Santa Barbara Highlands Vineyard, whose raison d’être as a winemaker, the accompanying notes tell us, “is replicating a bottle of Château...
...CIA chief William Burns was also visiting on Friday....
...I forgot to mention last week that my colleague John Burn-Murdoch had a typically original and concise take on America’s mortality problems. “Why are Americans dying so young?”...
...Burn Book: A Tech Love Story by Kara Swisher (Simon & Schuster)The tech industry said it wanted to change the world....
...In Coal: A Human History, Barbara Freese writes that the British resisted the efficient, “fire-concealing” iron stoves adopted elsewhere in northern Europe....
...Add to that a stirring story, a string of resonant themes and the sort of sizzling choreography and irrepressible performances that could burn through snow and you have the ingredients for a headline-grabbing...
...How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them by Barbara F Walter, Viking, £18.99, 320 pages This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future by Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns, Simon...
...As Thomas Webb, son of the respected Stellenbosch wine producers Gyles and Barbara Webb at Thelema Mountain Vineyards, put it to me: “The domestic market can’t bear much of a price increase.”...
...Jancis Robinson is away. More columns at ft.com/jancis-robinson Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...Buildings will burn. People will take down the Capitol.”...
...The war in Ukraine has further set back climate co-operation and some countries are planning to burn more coal to replace Russian gas supplies....
...If French support for Ukraine were to cool down, it would not be because of parliamentary pressure but because Macron himself has repeatedly signalled that he doesn’t want to burn all bridges with Russia...
...And big guns seem to agree: it’s the first smart basketball to be approved by the International Basketball Federation, Miami Heat shooter Duncan Robinson is a fan, and WNBA star Kayla McBride has said it...
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