Hints and tips:
...Extreme Cashmere offers 12 colours in its n°35 Bandana (£151, extreme-cashmere.com)....
...The chancellor instead delivered a “pick‘n’mix of in-the-weeds proposals” that fails to improve access for novice savers, according to Bell....
...The concert concluded with Julia Wolfe’s Dark Full Ride; the four men sat at what Currie described as “basic rock’n’roll drum kits” and gave a masterclass in synchronicity....
...This year, the women’s competition is getting equal billing to the men’s, says England and Wales Cricket board deputy chief Clare Connor....
...No way back on N Ireland There is no path back to a pre-Brexit Northern Ireland, writes Robert Shrimsley, and only when the ultras and unionists have accepted this will there be hope for a deal everyone...
...“For the first time ever we have a pro-choice majority in Stormont,” said Connor, who herself travelled to Britain for an abortion almost a decade ago....
...“On-demand” services might have made people feel wealthy, but the model is in jeopardy, writes Sarah O’Connor....
...Rememberingsby Sinéad O’Connor, Sandycove £20/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $28 O’Connor admits to being an unreliable narrator of her life story....
...Will the UK and EU agree a deal on N Ireland? Talks will resume this week on how to resolve the long-running dispute over trading arrangements....
...But they can’t hire people to be their family (although Connor, the eldest, most delusional child, does try)....
...Stifel’s George O’Connor (“buy”, target £23.43) gives a good overview of what’s going on: On 22 July, we upgraded FY2020 revenue to £5,099.8m, prior £5,006m, but the real difference is at profitability...
...Here’s RBC with the main points: Underlying EPS i n-line: FY2020 underlying EPS of 32.7p is down 6% yoy, in-line with our forecast (32.8p) and 1% below company-compiled consensus....
...Their amiable, eminently danceable fusion made them practically the house band of Womad for a decade or more, and a mainstay of RealWorld Records — their CDs for the label saw guest slots from Sinead O’Connor...
...‘There is only football’ France won the football World Cup for the second time, with a wonderful set of players including N’Golo Kanté (above left) and rising star Kylian Mbappé (right)....
...Sarah O’Connor argues that reskilling those losing traditional manufacturing jobs will only go so far. They also need lasting “safe” jobs to apply for in the places where they have put down roots....
...Look on the bright side Analysts at N+1 Singer, a brokerage firm, think corporate Britain is forgetting the upside: when people are paid more, they spend more, particularly if they have low incomes....
...While higher wages are an extra cost for retailers, rising disposable incomes will also boost sales, according to Matthew McEachran, an analyst at N+1 Singer....
...We are so fixated by the threat of human-like machines that we have failed to notice the spread of machine-like humans who would benefit from more fulfilling work, says Sarah O’Connor....
...Morgan’s only previous novel, All the Living (2009) — which like The Sport of Kings is set in her native Kentucky — was compared to the work of Carson McCullers and Flannery O’Connor....
...But it is not all gloom, writes Sarah O’Connor....
...Charlize Theron and George Miller dined at the Wreck restaurant, which belongs to Beach Lodge, a quirky beachfront hotel (doubles from N$1,990 (£108) per night)....
...“It was evident in Skyfall with Crockett & Jones, N Peal, Sunspel and Barbour....
...Official data n Wednesday showed the workforce expanded by 202,000 and offered some hope that wage growth — long missing from the economic recovery — is beginning to pick up....
...Mr Kelly will hit the target, inherited from his predecessor Guy Berruyer, to grow annual revenues by 6 per cent, Mr O’Connor predicted....
...Additional reporting by Chris Tighe in Newcastle and Sarah O’Connor in London Price fall hits SNP forecast Plunging oil prices would have thrown the finances of an independent Scotland into disarray, with...
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