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...The age-old relationship between economic sentiment and a government’s popularity has disappeared in the US, but remains as strong ever in western Europe, says chief data reporter John Burn-Murdoch....
...Henry Farrell, professor at Johns Hopkins, explains why we are not all programmable zombies....
...He will be succeeded by Michele Bullock following her appointment by Treasurer Jim Chalmers in July Spain: 78th La Vuelta a España, aka Tour of Spain, cycling race finishes in Madrid...
...John Derian agrees: “It’s a fun way to express yourself. They become heirlooms.”...
...That pie – a layering of pickled and poached apples with apple compôte and ginger crumble – is one of the recipes in their debut cookbook Black Power Kitchen. Though “cookbook” hardly does it justice....
...It led employers who were in charge of those old school pensions, aka the defined benefit plans, to make some major changes to how they invested their money....
...Apple iPhone factory workers clashed with police at the Foxconn plant in Zhengzhou in a protest over bonuses....
...Apple’s new deal in New Delhi will serve as a critical test, writes the FT’s John Reed....
...All these writers have been described, at some point, as the heir of John le Carré, aka David Cornwell, the master of cold war espionage fiction who died in 2020 at the age of 89....
...There’s stock crashes, and there’s this: At pixel time, the shares of Meta Platforms — aka Facebook and its family of surveillance capitalism apps — are down 24 per cent on the day following what can only...
...Finished with padded uppers and grippy rubber soles, the shoes are imbued with a distinctive streetwear-focused aesthetic and, therefore, tend to be the preserve of a more youthful crowd (AKA not me)....
...(AP) Alternative alternatives A new legion of investors is looking to replicate private equity strategies in the public market....
...Apple suppliers in China have also been affected by power outages as Beijing tightens control of energy consumption....
...The influential retailer Lane Crawford dropped the label, and Net-a-Porter removed its wares from its Chinese website....
...In 2015, as Spotify hit 60m free users and 15m premium ones, Apple launched a new competitor — Apple Music — that had the automatic advantage of coming pre-installed on every iPhone....
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...Job moves Former Barclays chairman, John McFarlane, was meant to be retiring. Again....
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...We learn that John Lydon, aka Rotten, did a “phenomenal” screen test for the leading role, before disdainfully saying he wouldn’t be seen dead in a film featuring The Who’s music....
...Controversy was stoked by reports that Paramount Pictures wanted to cut a 40-second scene in which Taron Egerton — who plays Reginald Dwight, aka Elton John — romps with his lover and manager John Reid,...
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...In 1896, a salad with nuts and apples was named after the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, where it was first served. In 1924, an Italian chef called Caesar Cardini invented the Caesar in Tijuana....
...In 2015, a study by forensic psychologists Julia Shaw and Stephen Porter demonstrated that participants could be induced to falsely remember and even confess to fictional crimes....
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