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FTSE 100 Live 30 May: Index rises after slow start, markets await US GDP update
Evening Standard via Yahoo Finance· 16 minutes agoGlobal stock markets remain under pressure as worries mount that interest rates will stay high for...
How Britain’s free spirits became priced out of their canal boats
Daily Telegraph· 5 days agoDixey’s boat is one of more than 35,000 vessels now meandering through Britain’s 4,700-mile...
Javier Milei Is Argentina’s Anti-Trump
The American Conservative· 3 days agoFree-market capitalism, Milei says, generated “an explosion of wealth that lifted 90 percent of the world's population out of poverty [via] the ...
'Turner captured the planet's turning point'
BBC via Yahoo News· 4 days agoWilliam Turner was born in London in 1775 and became what many consider to be one of Britain's greatest Romantic artists. Known as "the painter of...
Book Reviews for May 28, 2024
The Valdosta Daily Times· 4 days agoAge of Revolutions: Fareed Zakaria
Opinion | The Tories Will Lose the Election. But What Will Labour Win?
New York Times· 2 days agoA snap election is a rush to judgment on the state of a nation, and in Britain, the vote coming in...
This Ealing comedy is pure pleasure – but its gags about Britain’s failings are also cold truths
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 days agoAlexander Mackendrick’s 1951 Ealing comedy The Man in the White Suit is not only surprisingly...
France stands as a chilling warning for the UK today
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 day agoLike many undecided British voters today (and quite a few exasperated Tory ones), I recall what it felt like after two decades of increasingly...
FTSE 100 Live 28 May: Index closes down 60 points, ICG profits double
Evening Standard via Yahoo Finance· 2 days agoThe London Stock Exchange’s embrace of crypto securities went up a gear today after the world’s...
Biden’s Allies Hate His Latest Move Against China. They’re Wrong.
Slate via Yahoo News· 3 days agoNot everyone agreed with Hamilton. Congress ultimately approved...using its farming profits to...