Hints and tips:
...And it was, were you up for Portillo? Because that was a measure of how far the country had swung to Labour. And could Jeremy Hunt be the Portillo moment of the coming election?...
...Goldman Sachs forecasts a V-shaped recovery in oil demand from this year’s low, with the world’s thirst for crude expected to exceed pre-pandemic levels in 2022....
...Polymath 1049: Mary Whittaker, Leicester, England Crossword 16,326: Simon Dare, Surrey, UK; Max Stewart, Australia; David Brown, Massachusetts, US Polymath 1,048: Craig Shadbolt, New Jersey, US Crossword...
...Sterling would crash (it was 1.50 to the USD before Sunderland reported on referendum night v 1.30 today, so surely we could survive a short-term move to 1.10?)....
...But he warned: “All that can cloud our judgment and could lead us down the road of populism.”...
...For us, it’s a branding opportunity, for sure.” Richard Milne is the FT’s Nordic correspondent....
...Eduardo Luisi, Bethesda, MD, US...
...Favourite things Gardiner smiles and points to Hector and Cuddles, his two golden retrievers — nine-year-old siblings — who have arranged themselves on and around a small sofa in the sitting room....
...Hardly, surprising, then, that Remain v Leave is also about Dave v Boris....
...Diabetes is the top cause of adult death in Mexico, which leads the world in child obesity and is second only to the US in adult obesity....
...But it’s also necessary to consider the influence that globalisation has brought us.”...
...David Portillo, heralded as “guest artist”, brought radiant tone and dynamic finesse to the tenoral laments of the Crusader Renaud....
...Today, Bolivia’s military guard the entrance to the v-shaped valley that hosts the cluster of adobe shacks that feed the mine....
...– it soon becomes apparent how much the rest of us have to learn....
...Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life, by Karen Armstrong, The Bodley Head, RRP£12.99, 224 pages The religious slanging match that divides the media of the western world – Dawkins v Creation, Allah v Hitchens...
...There are keen collectors in the UK, notably Elton John, Sir David Attenborough and Michael Portillo, but glass is associated with craft, and contemporary craft, unlike contemporary art, has an undeserved...
...This show includes figurative works as well as the abstract “Clearing V” (2009), in which Gormley uses 12 kilometres of aluminium tubing to create a “three dimensional drawing in space”, and “Body” (1991...
...A few steps away is Berlinde De Bruyckere’s “Robin V”, a scrawny corpse lying in a vitrine like a shrivelled archeological artifact....
...But Hector Ruiz, chief executive, sought to reassure worried investors on Thursday, promising to return AMD to profitability in 2008 in what he dubbed a “phenomenal transition year”....
...Helen of Troy comes at us from a different camp: women’s romance....
...The estate agent signed up Michael Portillo to support the proposition “Britain's future depends on the special relationship with the US, rather than being at the heart of Europe”, with the opposite side...
...With the boos ringing in his ears from last night’s appearance, there’s still more discussion on the prime minister’s recent ”boo v boom” throwdown with the south London schoolkids....
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