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...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...Smith and I are on a grouse hunt....
...The developers of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine have demanded an apology from Europe’s drug regulator for comments made by the head of the agency likening having the jab to “Russian roulette”....
...Russia is seeking to manufacture its Sputnik V vaccine in Italy to meet a surge in overseas contracts....
...(FT) Video of the day Gillian Tett explains ESG’s importance Companies and investors are no longer able to ignore the impact of environmental and social governance issues....
...If you missed it, this long read by our media correspondent Anna Nicolaou charts the drama of The People v Harvey Weinstein trial....
...Against the general trend, yesterday Ferrari confidently guided to a V-shaped recovery in its P&L from H2/20....
...Smith & Nephew states that ‘multiple [UK] private hospital groups [are] aiming for late June to restart’ – this is in line with our expectations given that the 14-week NHS deal started 30 March....
...The other quarter-final matchups on Saturday pit Italy v the Netherlands and Germany v Sweden. The tournament has revealed which countries are most welcoming to women’s sport....
...The environmental party’s ambitions to represent a progressive “new normal in society” are embodied by Robert Habeck, a novelist-turned-politician and ubiquitous television talk show presence who recently...
...Climate change poses profound challenges to all economies but Mr Malkiel cautions that combining environmental and financial metrics is not straightforward....
...James Smith, economist at ING: A full 2021 recovery is unlikely....
...Smith remembers numerous “practical eccentricities” of pulling off a project in this most unusual of cities....
...AIG’s connection with Stowe dates back to the 1940s, when company founder Cornelius V Starr was a frequent visitor....
...“Conflict and environmental degradation show no sign of lessening,” said Andrew Simms, co-director of the New Weather Institute....
...Her family farms in Lincolnshire Illustration by Jane Smith...
...In the Lonely Hour, Sam Smith 2. X, Ed Sheeran 3. Wanted on Voyage, George Ezra 4. 1989, Taylor Swift 5....
...One way to picture the economic impact of a Brexit may be the shape of a letter ‘V’ or a ‘tick’....
...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....
...But spend that same amount on a sprawling historic building and the money can be swallowed up on restoration, fixing leaky roofs and installing expensive new services and environmental controls; if the job...
...“They took a bit of a risk,” says Nicola Smith, director of policy and research at Ecorys. “There was no guarantee that it would come out positively.”...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...There is no better opportunity to dig ourselves out of the current economic crisis than by confidently investing in environmental innovation....
...Unless there is a wave of countercyclical investment to reflate the economy through its environmental transformation the recession will be deeper, and longer with unnecessarily high job losses....
...Like Adam Smith, or Jefferson, Macaulay was not against creating monopolies as a spur to innovation....
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