Hints and tips:
...In February the FT revealed that Sunak has authorised major cuts and delays under two secret initiatives called “Project Silverlight” and “Operation Blue Diamond” to find cost cuts....
...Jared Diamond went down to the level of plant and animal life to explain the divergence of civilisations....
...There are women in sequin dresses with four-strand diamond earrings....
...In 2018, Theresa May, then UK prime minister, wore one of Doshi Shah’s torques for a state dinner in Kenya. But expanding out of the local market is tough....
...There are also trips further uptown, to 171st Street, and downtown to the diamond district where Carney offloads stolen merchandise....
...In a speech at Lancaster House, Mrs May readied the ground for what one civil servant called a “diamond hard Brexit”....
...In 2017, Ivan Rogers, Britain’s ambassador to the EU, resigned after warning Theresa May that her plans for a “diamond hard Brexit” would not work....
...Corporate earnings and updates for Monday include Julius Baer, Ryanair and Petra Diamonds. 09.30: Hong Kong consumer price index 15.00: eurozone consumer confidence...
...(FT) Huawei, the FBI and a diamond sting Like all inventors, Adam Khan was paranoid about knock-offs of his diamond glass, which could make smartphone screens nearly indestructible....
...He reminds me that Theresa May said, before the referendum: “The reality is that we do not know on what terms we would have access to the single market.”...
...(NYT) Diamonds and divorce How girls can be separated from their best friend and boys from their watches when it comes to divorce court....
...(For evidence of West’s long-term camp, please revisit his sampling in 2005 of “Diamonds Are Forever” by Shirley Bassey on his track “Diamonds From Sierra Leone”, an act of unimpeachable campness.)...
...He will answer questions before a parliamentary committee about whether the state was deprived of $15bn in diamond revenues....
...His complicated financial empire — which includes diamond mines in South Africa — has been the subject of repeated scrutiny....
...News of Trump’s advice appeared not even to have reached the ears of Theresa May, Britain’s prime minister. Darroch kept his job....
...The purchase of a second lending institution — the UK branch of Nigeria’s Diamond Bank — is still awaiting regulatory approval. GFG hopes it will support British trade with emerging economies....
...To the contrary, he recently met Theresa May and Donald Trump (with whom he claims to have played golf)....
...(Reuters) The rise of DIY diamonds Machines are now able to produce diamonds that are identical to natural ones — in weeks, rather than billions of years....
...In his four years running Panmure — up to its sale to former Barclays boss Bob Diamond — he changed his team substantially....
...At the Diamond shopping square in Enniskillen, Tom McCusker offers another perspective....
...Not only has the government’s Brexit vibe softened, but Theresa May’s new business council is yielding comforting messages, too....
...“Due to the opaque nature of the diamond market, the true value of Anglo’s De Beers subsidiary can often be overlooked in assessing the investment case,” RBC said....
...The scribes are keen to criticise Theresa, but I want our coverage to be balanced and to humiliate Boris too....
...Whenever Theresa May might think matters could not get any worse, they always seem to....
...Every street is plastered with posters for both parties — the yellow diamonds are just about edging it....
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