Cultural capital: Museums, galleries and libraries get £128m cash injection May 9, 2022 Cultural venues including museums, galleries and public libraries will get a £128m injection of cash to improve accessibility to the arts and safeguard the future.
Buckingham Palace: Queen will not attend Queen’s Speech May 9, 2022 The Queen will not be reading out the Queen’s Speech at the state opening of Parliament on Tuesday. The monarch will not attend the state opening after “episodic mobility problems”. Prince Charles will instead outline the government’s priorities for the months ahead. A statement from Buckingham Palace Statement said: ““The Queen continues to experience episodic [...]
Investors fled equities in April in worst month of flows since March 2020 May 9, 2022 Global exchange traded products notched their worst month of flows since March 2020 in April as investor jitters spread amid soaring inflation and the continued turbulence of war in Ukraine.
Wake Up Punk review: Egos drown out discourse in search for true meaning of punk May 9, 2022 Just what exactly is Punk in modern society? It’s a question posed by Vivienne Westwood and son Joseph Corré in this new documentary. Sadly, the film never seems to find an answer as egos and hypocrisy drown out the discourse. The main narrative surrounds Corré’s protest in 2016, where he burned around £5m of his [...]
Malboro maker Philip Morris eyes up rival Swedish Match for £12bn May 9, 2022 Malboro maker Philip Morris in in talks to acquire European smokeless tobacco rival Swedish Match for an estimated $15bn (£12bn)
Police conduct two controlled explosions in the heart of Westminster after ‘suspicious vehicle’ leads to evacuation May 9, 2022 Two controlled explosions were conducted by the Met Police near Westminster Abbey after a “suspicious vehicle” forced the closure of numerous roads and evacuation of the QEII centre. The force said streets were cornered of-around the famous landmark and that it was “dealing with an ongoing incident involving what is believed to be a suspicious [...]
EU mulls plans to ban insurers from insuring ships carrying Russian oil May 9, 2022 The European Union is considering banning insurers from insuring ships carrying Russian oil, as another means of draining Russia of the financial resources it needs to continue bankrolling its war in Ukraine. If brought into force, the new sanctions would come as another blow to Russia’s energy export industry, as the EU also weighs up [...]
Trekking Malaysia, from jungle to sea May 9, 2022 I stand, deep in the rainforest, and listen. Life is pulsating, filling the hot and humid air. It is pervasive, all encompassing, and almost suffocating. The leaf litter beneath my feet moves a little. It feels primeval. It is primeval: these forests in Malaysia are over 130 million years old. The air is filled with [...]
Sam Torrance: Thorbjorn Olesen is back on the up after extraordinary British Masters win May 9, 2022 From his opening tee shot at The British Masters on Sunday, overnight leader Thorbjorn Olesen struggled to keep his ball on the course. He bogeyed the first, dropped further shots at the sixth, ninth, 14th and 15th holes, and on another day his scoring might have been even worse. I felt for the Dane, who [...]
Zuckerberg: Facebook and Instagram to test NFTs on user profiles May 9, 2022 Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed that the tech giant will start testing digital collectibles on Instagram and Facebook in the coming weeks, allowing users to display non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on their profile. Augmented reality NFTs will feature on Instagram stories via Spark AR, Meta’s AR software platform, and will be coming to the rest [...]
