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...As soon as you see our fabric, you want to touch it,” says Margaret-Anne Speirs, Bute’s quality manager, who has worked at the company for 30 years and now runs the laboratory, testing yarns and fabrics...
...US food manufacturer General Mills was one of the first to make a big push towards regenerative agriculture practices, announcing in 2019 a target to extend these to 1mn acres of farmland by 2030....
...For Auckland-based designer Rachel Mills, that means “considered details” such as breathable fabrics, aptly placed gussets and a smooth apex where a cup meets the strap....
...For things such as jeans, your run-of-the-mill thrift stores or Oxfams are great....
...Margaret Hodge, chair of the cross-party committee in parliament on tackling corruption, has called for new legislation to compel companies profiting from public contracts to publish accounts in the wake...
...A bronzed bust of Ronald Reagan that once belonged to Margaret Thatcher....
...I first dipped into my grandmother’s vast collection of Mills & Boons as a teenager in late 1980s India; in between Margaret Atwood, Clarice Lispector and Jorge Luis Borges, I was soon devouring romance...
...Welsh mill Melin Tregwynt, which has created homewares for Margaret Howell and Comme des Garçons, makes technicolour throws and cushions woven with quintessentially Welsh motifs, while Purdey and Toast offer...
...It is, in his telling, the union-breaking of Margaret Thatcher, the class-free politics of Tony Blair, and the dominance of “neoliberalism” that creates the world we live in....
...In the late 1970s, the designer Margaret Howell stumbled across Fox Brothers at the British Woollen Mills trade show in London. “I saw an elderly gentleman sitting alone at a stand,” she says....
...This tragedy provided grist for society’s rumour mill. Gossip portrayed Safra, worth $1.3bn at her death, as a black widow....
...The writer is an FT contributing editor When the Liberal philosopher John Stuart Mill dubbed the Conservatives the stupid party he was not proffering a compliment....
...The enablers of these failed tax avoidance schemes are breaking the law, plain and simple,” Dame Margaret said....
...“Investors still think it’s dark satanic mills and shipyards and flat caps here,” he says, gesturing to the mosaic. “But in that river, we’ve changed.”...
...Liz Truss, the new foreign secretary, leaned into an updated version of Margaret Thatcher’s voracious look....
...Margaret HeffernanFarrington Gurney, Somerset, UK...
...A steel mill worker named Mike Lefevre described being “chewed out” by his foreman, who told him, “Mike you’re a good worker, but you have a bad attitude.”...
...Courtney WeaverI actually found that the people it was most helpful for were actually parents whose kids had serious, serious issues, not kind of run-of-the-mill toddler issues....
...The book’s protagonist, Lady Margaret, is an ancestor of Ferguson’s, fleshed out with her own experiences....
...Nelson’s flagship Victory cost more than £60,000, 12 times the cost of a cotton mill....
...This is the logic behind Jo Rossell’s eponymous brand, which utilises reputable mills, family-run factories and certified fabrics....
...Mills has passed this expertise on to the team at his chilled Soho barbershop, who can tackle and style, fade or cut....
...Margaret Ford, international head of books at Christie’s, said the book came with an interesting provenance, since it included a letter from Edmond Malone, the celebrated Shakespeare expert, written to its...
...Barely a decade later Margaret Thatcher, then prime minister, opened the UK to global competition and production shifted to Asia. “The Eighties were brutal....
...Under Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government, British Steel’s workforce shrinks from 142,000 in 1980 to 52,000 in 1988. 1988 British Steel is privatised and enters the FTSE 100....
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