Hints and tips:
...The great photographer Irving Penn, taking his portrait, got him to relax by telling him to think of the Spanish mystic nun St Teresa de Ávila (Blahnik has all of her memoirs)....
...It makes little sense for the government to require enhanced environmental and social reporting (as they are pressing ahead with), while simultaneously abandoning improvements in the G of ESG....
...As Dan Davies wrote in AV earlier this year: Financial conditions indices, a wise economist once told me, are like dreams and assholes....
...Influences range from John Currin’s 2008 painting The Teenagers, which shows two adolescents locking in a particularly tongue-based snog, to Bernini’s baroque masterpiece The Ecstasy of St Teresa....
...Wiktionary says it is: (rare) A device that maintains equilibrium or balance, especially a part of a heavy gun (e.g. an artillery piece or a tank gun) which balances the barrel and other parts so as to...
...A large gallery with G&G’s vivid, stained glass-like pictures on the walls....
...You've got to be so strong in your neck for the G-forces....
...Spanish energy and environment Teresa Ribera said on Friday that a section of pipeline crossing from Spain into France could be constructed in less than a year as part of attempts to wean Europe off Russian...
...Writers have long been wise to the prejudices that surround humour — too often dismissed as shallow entertainment....
...Katie MartinE, S and G are possibly the most explosive, divisive three letters in the English language, at least in financial markets circles....
...Funds wise, I’d go for the Xtrackers Nikkei 225 UCITS ETF, which charges just nine basis points, or the L&G Japan Equity UCITS ETF....
...But would a tax break really convince significant numbers of retail investors to allocate more capital to UK stocks and, even if it did, would this be a wise move?...
...Spanish energy and environment minister Teresa Ribera said on Friday that a new section of pipeline from Spain into France could be constructed in less than a year as part of attempts to wean Europe off...
...Harold and Marvin, Mirisch produced a remarkable string of Hollywood classics: Billy Wilder’s Some Like it Hot (1959) and The Apartment (1960), followed the next year by West Side Story, directed by Robert Wise...
...In an open letter to the European Commission, Teresa Ribera Rodríguez, minister for ecological transition, complained that Brussels’s plan to ask countries to cut gas demand by 15 per cent starting next...
...Going with a fresher face might be wise, given the challenge ahead....
...Spain’s energy minister Teresa Ribera said she was confident Sonatrach, Algeria’s state-owned gas company, would respect its commercial contracts....
...The Iberian neighbours reached a “political agreement” with the commission on the issue, Teresa Ribera, Spain’s environment minister, said on Tuesday after she and her Portuguese counterpart met Margrethe...
...Teresa Ribera, Spain’s energy and environment minister, will put the detailed case for adopting the Iberian scheme more widely across Europe at a meeting of EU energy ministers on September 9....
...Governance-wise, they have been fined again and again by regulators for money laundering, trading scandals, you name it....
...One considers E, S and G as inputs into an investment process, the other as outputs — or goals — to maximise. This conflict leads to myriad misunderstandings....
...James Kynge, our wise China hand, argues that Xi Jinping is losing patience with Putin, and has quietly dropped the “no limits” bit to their relationship....
...Teresa Ribera, Spain’s energy and environment minister, said it was premature to write off the pipeline....
...But the central figure in his sights is the most revered “wise man” of them all — Henry Kissinger....
...There was no single fix for P&G. And like Unilever, P&G had a turnround plan in place before Trian turned up....
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