Hints and tips:
...Weiss left for rival Universal in 2011, and Stringer took over from Doug Morris as boss of the group in 2017....
...The ex-Pink Floyd leader is rock’s most prominent, and controversial, pro-Palestine activist....
...As well as the disproportionate impact of the pandemic, they are responding to the killing of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and many other black Americans....
...Other companies reporting include Procter & Gamble and cigarette maker Philip Morris International....
...“We’re not a political organisation and we don’t want to be,” he told the FT’s banking editor Stephen Morris in an interview....
...We intensified our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion after the tragic killing of George Floyd last year....
...“Imagine what that feels like for the young black girl who walks into the William Morris Gallery [in London] and sees herself or her mother or someone who looks like her.”...
...Few companies have answered, with the tobacco company Philip Morris International and private equity group EQT standing out as notable exceptions....
...May is wary of the dangers: “If a Japanese person came to England and did a travel show about Beefeaters, old pubs and morris dancing, I’d get annoyed.”...
...This brilliant piece by Floyd Norris in the New York Times explains what happened....
...Morris On, an electrified set of morris-dancing standards from the 1970s on which he plays, seems odd grounding for someone now recognised as a “groundbreaking force” in American alternative country....
...Floyd Abrams, a lawyer representing Lorillard, said Monday’s ruling “reaffirms fundamental First Amendment principles by rejecting the notion that the government may require those who sell lawful products...
...Only two of the top 10 touring artists – Lady Gaga and Michael Bublé – broke in the past 20 years, and older artists such as Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fame, the Eagles and Leonard Cohen, typically filled...
...I went for the Morris Minor option – a £100 plastic wormery that arrived with a box of live worms....
...It will be undertaken by Anthony Dean Griffey, a gentle American giant most celebrated, perhaps, as Lennie in Carlisle Floyd’s Of Mice and Men....
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