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...“When I woke up in hospital I said, ‘Where’s my jeans, I’d better get going, it’s Olympia [now LIHS] next week.’...
...US corporates spend roughly twice what European companies do on capex and R&D (as a share of cash flow)....
...“Before, I’d be starting seeds March to June but my gardens were super-weedy....
...Still, there were much darker tableaux to be found in another Cannes highlight: Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar’s Into the Hairy....
...Labour councillor Sharon Thompson, the deputy leader of Birmingham city council, has blamed “successive Conservative governments for denying the city £1bn in funding”....
...If those gorillas didn’t want to interact with Freya they’d tell me with their body language before she goes in.”...
...P Soleil d’Or gives bright yellow berries on red stems, and P rogersiana Flava has glossy yellow fruits....
...Douglas looked as though he’d thrown on something found at the bottom of Sharon Stone’s wardrobe, the morning after the night before....
...We Need to Talk About Inflation: 14 Urgent Lessons from the Last 2,000 Years by Stephen D King, Yale £20, 224 pages Nicholas Macpherson is a former permanent secretary at the UK Treasury Join our online...
...Job moves John Lewis has named Jason Tarry as chair, succeeding Sharon White. He previously spent more than 30 years working for Tesco....
...“I never thought I’d end up where I ended up,” Tarry recounted in a 2020 conversation with media platform Worth of Mouth....
...“We said we’d build 40 new hospitals — we haven’t. We said we’d build the northern leg of HS2 — we’ve cancelled it. We said we’d level up....
...“We’d like to see the government nurturing a homegrown plant industry,” says Curtis-Machin, suggesting tax breaks for nurseries that sign up to Plant Healthy, a voluntary biosecurity certification scheme...
...“You’ve got the two biggest beasts in the middle market, you’d be forgiven for thinking they can’t both do well [in food] at the same time, or can they?” said Hyman....
...It was also here that Sharon was inspired to found Hewi....
...“It’d be one thing if Israel had a popular prime minister. Maintaining this conflict might save him a trial....
...Inexperience was much in the UK news last week after Dame Sharon White, boss of the troubled John Lewis retail group, said she would step down after five years in the job....
...That would put him alongside longstanding donor Lord David Sainsbury in the list of wealthy individuals backing Labour, and I’d expect to see quite a few other names appearing in the official list of party...
...If a customer does insist on it I’d charge them double,” he jokes....
...Lord Nick Macpherson, former Treasury permanent secretary, was unimpressed. “I’m full of admiration for Tata’s ability to extract ever higher rents from a desperate government,” he tweeted....
...Here it is parents-of-two Andrew and Nicci (Michael Sheen and Sharon Horgan)....
...I mean, I can understand why they’d rather have somebody else....
...But Sharon Graham, general secretary of Unite, one of the main ambulance worker unions, said ministers were making no sincere efforts to resolve the pay dispute....
...But there’s one bit from the 60 Minutes interview we’d like to push back on....
...Then I’d have a go at doing it myself,” she says....
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