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...The establishment didn’t really get it,” says Iain R Webb, who at the time was fashion editor of The Times, and describes grunge as “finding beauty in places where you weren’t supposed to find beauty”....
...However, Steve Webb, a former pensions minister, said the government would be using a “sledgehammer to crack a nut” if they reformed the entire system just to solve the problem of doctors leaving the NHS...
...For the final song, “Summer Renaissance”, she was hoisted above the audience on a horse, like Bianca Jagger at Studio 54, while singing high notes in the style of Donna Summer....
...Also, it will also be exactly the time when you will want to access your pension savings — to finance the 30-odd years of R&R ahead. All this brings me to current concerns....
...Merryn Somerset Webb is editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek. The views expressed are personal; merryn@ft.com; Twitter: @MerrynSW...
...Renaissance adds dance music to her usual palette of R&B, soul, pop and hip-hop. It is the first of a trilogy recorded during the pandemic....
...I sang Donna Summer and The Spinners into my hair brush and got to practice my dance moves by watching Soul Train on TV (I’m still a HUGE Philadelphia sound fan....
...Somerset Webb is doubly wrong. To passively “wait” for the problem to be solved supposes that R&D investment into renewables does not depend on how we view the medium-term future of fossil fuels....
...Speakers here are discussing everything from exploiting data from the James Webb space telescope to building communication apps for sex workers....
...It has all been loosely but effectively co-ordinated on social media chat groups — the key Reddit group, r/ wallstreetbets, has 4.8m users....
...The excitement has died down since the r/WallStreetBets Reddit chatroom has dropped out of the headlines....
...Merryn Somerset Webb While you need never think of GameStop again, now the r/WallStreetBets Reddit chatroom has dropped out of the headlines, you should definitely keep thinking about silver. Why?...
...Think lots of R&D and low leverage, something reflected in their generally lower dividend payments....
...The wild ride of the r/wallstreetbets discussion forum has become an investing rollercoaster and its vendetta against hedge funds has meant volatility for markets on both sides of the Atlantic....
...Donna McCracken, who used to run the Black Mountain Action Group in a loyalist area of Belfast and now works there part-time, says there was an “extreme change in attitudes in communities” after the flags...
...around the City singing “shares are cheap today, cheaper than yesterday” to the tune of “La Donna è Mobile”....
...Sold-out booths were reported by David Kordansky gallery (works by Ivan Morley, $40,000-$85,000) and Simon Lee (Donna Huanca, $50,000-$75,000). Frieze runs until Sunday....
...that celebrated the creative methods of the writer Donna Tartt....
...The 39-year-old, hailed by Abloh as “the Anna Wintour of club music”, wants to banish the cliché of the Donna Summer fashion show soundtrack....
...Now New York dealer Emmanuel Di Donna is bringing it to Basel (price: $18.5m). “It’s not an auction picture. It’s a complex painting about ideas and needs context, time and discussion,” he says....
...Merryn Somerset Webb is editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek....
...Since the 1980s, as share prices have gone up for the largest global multinationals, spending on R&D as a percentage of revenue has gone down....
...At this gig, backing vocalists cooed, keyboards were bittersweet and Sarah Anne Webb sang her storytelling lyrics with power and accuracy....
...Photographs: Akg-images/André Held; Salvatore Scarpa; Robert R McElroy/Getty Images...
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