Hints and tips:
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...Yet Merckx comes out in his jeans and V-neck jumper to wave us off. There is a genuine smile on his face as we roll into a downpour....
...It’s built from glass, forged steel and polished concrete. My idea of a heavenly evening is downing local oysters on the top deck, watching the sun set into the sea....
...Her response to the project is “Stone Butch”, a sculpture, film and drawing which takes inspiration from rock formations in West Yorkshire’s Calder Valley....
...Europe’s economy can live with the Trump steel tariffs. Escalating tension in the trading system would threaten it much more....
...Free trade for the future: While the US and China are busy slapping tariffs on each other’s steel, pork and wine, the future of global trade looks rather brighter in Africa, notes David Pilling....
...(FT) Big Tech v Big Pharma Critics fear Silicon Valley lobbying has weakened the defence of intellectual property and sapped innovation. Rana Foroohar reports....
...The biggest activist fight — Nelson Peltz v Procter & Gamble — was only recently settled, two months after a shareholder vote....
...What does it say about Silicon Valley that venture capitalists poured $120m into his company?...
...(FT) Iceland v tourists Iceland may be beautiful, but it’s dangerously close to full....
...The spaceship was a non-starter: Von Braun’s Saturn V, the rocket that powered Apollo, had killed it off....
...We’re also opening negotiations on a city deal with Edinburgh; we back the new V&A in Dundee....
...Built from a simple steel skeleton covered in stretched canvas, it barely looks roadworthy, let alone fit to take to the sky....
...While here in London we’ll help the British Museum, the Science Museum, and the V&A move their collections out of storage and on display....
...David Richards, chief executive, preferred his home steel city to Silicon Valley for unsentimental reasons....
...He describes his 12 glass-and- steel houses at Pinnacle in Andreas Hills as “elegant yet quiet”....
...Today, Bolivia’s military guard the entrance to the v-shaped valley that hosts the cluster of adobe shacks that feed the mine....
...It was a strange time to be doing so, as Sheffield razed one factory after another, brick dust choking the road to Attercliffe, the valley where the world’s steel had been made....
...Why: Pembroke House also has bomb and bulletproof windows, a steel roof, CCTV, alarm system and a booth for a security guard....
...the downturn, writes Jonathan Guthrie Part IV: Newcastle builds bridges over troubled times The home of Northern Rock is upbeat thanks to redevelopment and a fighting spirit, finds Chris Tighe Part V:...
...Michael V....
International Edition