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...The UK’s energy regulator has commissioned a probe into power company Drax’s compliance with sustainability rules, after growing external scrutiny of the wood it burns to generate electricity....
...When Lily Jones, aka Lily Vanilli, was thinking how to mark 15 years of her East London bakery – which has made cakes for everyone from Elton John and Madonna to the V&A and 10 Downing Street – she knew...
...“And I think the V is about a superhero.”...
...Towards the end of our interview, he mentions, “I wanted to have a giant bonfire and burn my entire archives....
...You can get up close and personal with Trajan’s Column at the V&A, or at least with the remarkable plaster cast that’s been part of its collection since 1873....
...of smouldering slow burns....
...So if you happen to have an empty exhibition space, friends in South Kensington and a million quid to burn, we should talk....
...No wonder today’s central bankers all want history to remember them as a Volcker not a Burns. But note the question mark in his title....
...When the V&A asked Mugrabi if she would subsidise the programme for 10 years, she chose to start with three....
...A century ago, the London Society, an influential civic group, produced a plan for London’s future made up of contributions from such leading Edwardian architects as Edwin Lutyens and Aston Webb....
...Merryn Somerset Webb is editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek. The views expressed are personal. merryn@ft.com...
...This Saturday, she will unveil They Burn Witches Don’t They, a collection of 30 pieces, half of which were handmade by Hogg alone in her Hackney studio....
...Some say “just let crypto burn”, but the idea that it will disappear of its own accord may be wishful thinking....
...Working with spatial designer and sculptor Jobe Burns, they created a space filled with tonal colours, natural materials, texture and comfort....
...Alexey Repik, chief executive of R-Pharm, one of the manufacturers of Sputnik V doses, said the export demand for the vaccine was “colossal”....
...The furniture is a mix of old and (then) new: 17th and 18th-century pieces meeting bespoke designs by Webb and Morris himself....
...I don’t think we need to burn the document or anything....
...Yet her company’s prized product is something humbler: the tabiki, a folding, stainless-steel fireplace that will flicker at the centre of a campsite without leaving any burn marks (depending on the model...
...Merryn Somerset Webb is editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek. Views are personal. merryn@ft.com. Twitter: @MerrynSW...
...“It’s an interesting circular economy story,” says V&A festivals curator Meneesha Kellay....
...The makers of Russia’s Sputnik V have said it was “more efficient against the Delta variant of coronavirus . . . than any other vaccine that published results on this strain so far”, but provided no evidence...
...The exhibition at the V&A, London, runs until January 9; vam.ac.uk Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
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...As a 1982 Time magazine cover declared strong the new sexy, Jane Fonda urged women attending her Beverly Hills classes to “go for the burn”....
...I’d also been to the V&A and seen one of his famous japonisme sideboards: the earliest versions may date from the late 1850s but it is a spectacularly modernist piece of geometric design....
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