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Hunt’s Budget dilemma: play it safe or be ‘bold’ to save Tory seats

...But Sir Robert Buckland, a moderate Tory former minister, said: “Is Rachel Reeves really going to deviate from Hunt? Probably not....

March 5, 2024

Conservative Party UK

Christian influence grows as Britain’s Conservative party shifts rightward

...He said: “You can go back to the 19th century and Christianity was of course important back then, [former Conservative prime minister] Robert Peel’s Christianity was a strain of evangelicalism, but I don...

March 31, 2024

FT Live

Commodities Asia Summit

Enabling decarbonisation in a time of disrupted trade flows

Cryptofinance

Venture capital not done with crypto yet Premium

...But Brine Fi and its investors are running firmly against the grain....

September 8, 2023

FT Globetrotter

A cool, dry place: the best martinis in Manhattan

...Serrano notes that he once took the olive brine out of the olive jar. That would be impossible now: he goes through two large jugs of the stuff (the brand is Filthy Premium Olive Brine) every night....

May 2, 2023

UK politics

Sunak insists he can restore integrity to politics after Zahawi affair

...Steve Brine, chair of the House of Commons health select committee, said the way ministers are appointed “needs looking at”....

January 30, 2023

Batteries

Vulcan increases lithium targets as demand grows from carmakers

...It is also aiming to raise €1.5bn for capital expenditure — double previous plans — to expand the extraction of the compound from lithium-rich brine as it prepares to build commercial plants for its still...

February 13, 2023

FT Live

Commodities Global Summit 2025

The pre-eminent gathering of senior commodity executives, traders and financiers

UK labour disputes

UK braced for widespread strikes as government digs in

...This sentiment has been echoed by senior Conservatives such as former justice minister Robert Buckland, former Tory party chair Jake Berry and chair of the health and social care select committee Steve Brine...

December 18, 2022

UK labour disputes

Ministers reject nurses’ pay demand amid historic strike

...Meanwhile Steve Brine, chair of the parliamentary health and select committee, suggested that ministers should encourage the independent body to “look again” at its pay recommendations....

December 15, 2022

FT Magazine

Mashama Bailey is the most important chef in America

...They brine ham shanks, smoke them, braise them, then set them in aspic, a jelly made with meat stock. It wobbles in cubes. “Cool,” I say. “Yeah,” he says. “Super old school.”...

July 2, 2022

UK Government

Security sweeps of Whitehall offices ordered after Hancock CCTV leak

...Steve Brine, a former health minister, said no one knew meetings were being recorded: “The issue to my mind is . . . more who had access to those images?”...

June 28, 2021

ReviewFilm

An American Pickle — two Seth Rogens in an immigrant’s life of brine

...Except Leone never had Robert De Niro fall into a giant vat of brine — then emerge a hundred years later, perfectly preserved, a living relic reborn in the 21st century. Like I said: zing....

August 5, 2020

US politics & policy

Biden oil clean-up plan slammed as bailout for fossil fuels

...“If you need to get the water out of the bathtub, one of the first things you have to do is shut off the faucet,” said Robert Schuwerk, executive director at Carbon Tracker....

April 13, 2021

Commodities

Bill Gates-backed fund leads $20m investment into lithium start-up

...Carmichael Roberts of the $1bn Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund said the company would allow lithium producers to extract much larger quantities of lithium at significantly lower cost....

February 20, 2020

Travel

Travel discoveries of 2020

...For visitor information see turismoextremadura.com; for the latest on entry requirements and travel restrictions in Spain, see spain.info A wilderness of wind, sand and stars sophy roberts Earlier in...

December 12, 2020

The 2020 festive food and drink guide

All I want for Christmas . . .

...We brine it overnight and get up early to make the stuffing, which should still be warm when it goes inside the bird....

November 27, 2020

FT Live

Business of Art

Market shifts and future growth

FT SeriesNicholas Lander, Restaurant Insider

SingleThread, California: ‘could not be more impressive’ — restaurant review

...Then our final savoury course, an interpretation of tsukemono, Japanese vegetables preserved in brine, served alongside a shimmeringly clear consommé....

March 5, 2020

Life & Arts

The Londoner harvesting sea salt on Tasmania’s coast

...Then solar power is used to heat the brine so that it crystallises into flakes. Their business chimes with growing recognition of Tasmania as one of Australia’s top gourmet destinations....

October 20, 2017

News in-depthBatteries

Electric car growth sparks environmental concerns

...Chile’s SQM, one of the largest producers of lithium from brine, said more than 97 per cent of its energy comes from the sun, and other types of energy is only used for pumping and transporting the brine...

July 7, 2017

Best of the Big Read 2017

Sand castles on Jersey Shore: property boom defies US flood risk

...The scars endure in cities such as New York, whose train tunnels were corroded with brine....

October 29, 2017

Commodities

Bolivia makes first shipment of lithium to China

...In the so-called lithium triangle of Chile, Argentina and Bolivia, the material is found in brine under the desert’s salt flats....

August 17, 2016

Life & Arts

FT travel writers’ discoveries of 2014

...Photographs: Ian Trower; Alamy; Robert Harding...

December 12, 2014

Global Economy

Question 7: Housing

...The market is being preserved in the brine provided by QE, but it remains overvalued....

January 2, 2013

Life & Arts

Haunted, Guggenheim Museum, New York

...But even the most banal family snapshot acquires a wistful ghostliness if it is left to marinade long enough in the brine of time....

March 31, 2010

Nigel Andrews

Film releases: February 26

...Robert De Niro is the main reason to see Everybody’s Fine ()....

February 24, 2010

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