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...“Our biggest selling product, burger and chips, is still the same price [of £6.29] it was back in 2019,” said Hollywood Bowl chief executive Stephen Burns....
...Homer and His Iliad by Robin Lane Fox (Allen Lane) With a long-held adoration of the great epic poem, English historian and FT gardening columnist Lane Fox presents a many-threaded study of Homer’s work...
...He installed Pierre Frey’s Caisson Bouquet, a cut-pile in a floral 19th-century pattern, in the bedroom and – much to the fury of social media – the bathroom of Lily Allen and David Harbour’s Brooklyn brownstone...
...“If you look at the approach we’re taking to production, where you’re drilling wells 10,000 feet underground into these saltwater reservoirs — that’s obviously directly in our wheelhouse and capability set...
...Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power by Erica Benner (Allen Lane)A political philosopher explores the flaws and weaknesses of people power in a world defined by competition, wealth...
...We’re also entering the thick of the earnings season with US companies picking up the pace, notably tech ventures Tesla, Intel, Netflix, IBM and Seagate....
...Last Saturday a far-right extremist opened fire with an AR-15-style rifle on passers-by at a shopping mall in Allen, Texas. He killed eight, including two children, and wounded a further seven....
...The 1mn- barrel-a-day cut is temporary and will be re-evaluated, the prince says....
...Humans were “lights in the palace of God”, he once declared. But they were bound to burn out....
...The warning from John Kirby, National Security Council spokesperson, underscores increasing US alarm over dangerous interactions between US and Chinese forces in international air and sea lanes....
...In Data Drill, Amanda looks at a sharp drop in global electric vehicle sales recently, and what it tells us about China’s central role in propelling the EV market....
...“If we’re hampered over too many regulations . . . it is just going to make it harder to develop projects,” said David Burns, vice-president of clean hydrogen at Linde, which sees a $30bn investment opportunity...
...Now we’re back to wanting to be quirky and eclectic . . . The bathroom becomes a place to experiment in,” she says. “I find bathrooms fascinating,” she adds....
...By structuring it a little bit and publishing these principles, we’re hoping to level the playing field.”...
...They went out and interviewed swing voters from these demographics and simply allowed them to speak their mind on the issues they’re thinking about in the lead-up to the election, and how they view each...
...(Amanda Chu) Power Points “People will burn anything”: Millions of people in eastern Europe are struggling to afford the exorbitant energy prices caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine....
...“We’re getting north of 300 ESG data requests at Carlyle every year and they’re all in slightly different formats with slightly different definitions,” she says....
...Still, he adds, “You’re different, and you recognise that.”...
...(MIT Technology Review) — We’re drowning in old books....
...(CBC) What else we’re reading and listening to Salman Rushdie and the sacred right to irreverence The Satanic Verses author has long been one of the modern world’s freest writers: his wordplay defies gravity...
...This company is like you’re in a plane that is headed towards the ground at high speed with the engines on fire and the controls don’t work,” he said....
...Even so, many attendees came away feeling that Amanda Staveley and her Saudi partners snapped up a relative bargain with their £300mn purchase of Newcastle United in late 2021....
...Dechert has hired private equity lawyer Nick Marchica as a partner based in New York. He joins from Allen & Overy....
...a group called They Can’t Burn Us All....
...commitments or we will lose any chance of meeting the Paris target,” said Thom Allen, an oil and gas analyst at Carbon Tracker and one of the authors of the report....
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