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...Just last year, Anna Funder’s Wifedom reconstructed the life of Orwell’s first wife, Eileen O’Shaughnessy; while Sandra Newman’s novel Julia imagined Nineteen Eighty-Four from the point of view of its chief...
...I was there with friends on the promise of transgressive S&M....
...Both also ignited what may be 2024’s biggest trend: “cowboycore” western fashion. One question stuck in the mind: since when did US fashion become so self-referential?...
...This pessimistic painting was chosen as poster image for 2024’s Brussels/Paris blockbuster exhibition Imagine! 100 Years of Surrealism....
...The England No1’s raging rooks found the fastest way to end the game. Click here for solution...
...s=21&t=wNQNk4kuiy6TFUVKRlEI1Q Defending US Open champion Emma Raducanu had an early exit from this week’s Italian Open in Rome after retiring with a back injury in the opening round....
...It has been shortlisted for 2021’s Royal Institute of British Architects South West Regional Awards....
...Sorry trees, it’s Covid-19’s fault....
...(Eileen Rodriguez) Chart of the day ESG is a nice thing to have in a bull market, but have investors rushed back to conventional investing during the coronavirus emergency?...
...(Kristen Talman and Eileen Rodriguez) Chart of the day There have been historic falls in carbon emissions recently....
...Indeed, an intriguing “S” fight is brewing at McDonald’s....
...Chart of the day As we noted above, ESG investors are putting a lot more emphasis on the social (or “S”) part of their analysis....
...it’s clear that Eileen hadn’t quite scratched her itch for some light literary teasing....
...Several groups, from clothing retailer Eileen Fisher and Walt Disney’s theme parks to casino operator Las Vegas Sands, have said they will continue to pay staff while their operations are shuttered....
...This year, buyback activity is likely to drop to $798bn, based on S&P Global estimates....
...Vanya and Astrov in Conor McPherson’s new version of Chekhov’s masterpiece Uncle Vanya (Harold Pinter Theatre, London, from January 14) and, a month later, Roger Allam and Colin Morgan as father and son(s)...
...(Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, Billy Nauman, Kristen Talman and Eileen Rodriguez) Chart of the week The economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic has hit women and young people significantly harder than...
...(Eileen Rodriguez and Kristen Talman) Green financing deals gallop ahead Moral Money has covered the boom in green bonds and the ESG movement into collateralised loan obligations....
...B&Q owner Kingfisher slipped to a one-month low after scrapping an earnings target linked to its long-running restructuring programme and announcing the departures of Steve Willett, the director in charge...
...Poetry Danez Smith releases Homie — the follow-up to 2018’s astonishing Forward Prize-winner Don’t Call Us Dead — in January in the US, a few weeks later in the UK (Graywolf RRP$16/Chatto & Windus RRP£10.99...
...The B&Q owner said it had begun succession planning for the exit of Veronique Laury, chief executive, and announced the retirement of Steve Willett, its chief transformation, digital and IT officer....
...At his side, invariably, were two fellow civilians: his secretary, 29-year-old Eileen Morden; and his assistant and driver, Fred Hards, who was 36....
...Abernathy MacGregor has hired Eileen Cohen as a senior counsellor specialising in corporate governance and shareholder engagement....
...Other figures include Danny Webb as an Austrian exile, Sinéad Matthews as his unfaithful beloved, Lloyd Hutchinson as a drunken painter, Eileen Walsh as a religious crackpot (from Belfast, of course) and...
...Professor Keith Willett told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “A crisis is when you haven’t got in place mitigations and when you haven’t got a plan to deal with it.”...
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