Cough up £10m to keep 15th century statuette of Saint Christopher in London June 4, 2021 A 15th century German statuette of Saint Christopher will be shipped out of the UK unless a buyer willing to spend £10m on it can be found. The late Gothic statuette was a gift to the Monastery of Kaiserheim in South Germany in 1493 and shows the Saint wading through a river, holding a staff [...]
Brussels to break down Northern Ireland barrier to UK medicines, sources say June 4, 2021 Brussels is eyeing Northern Ireland’s barriers to British medicine supplies, looking to remove them in a bid to ease Brexit border negotiations, according to reports. The Northern Ireland Protocol has been wreaking havoc on negotiations, but the European Union is expected to offer an ‘olive branch’ in London on Wednesday, The Telegraph first reported. [...]
Portugal debacle shows traffic light system risks another chaotic summer June 4, 2021 There was something inevitable about the government’s decision to remove Portugal from the UK’s quarantine-free travel list last night. Despite hopes that more countries could be added to the list, by the afternoon, holidaymakers, airline bosses and travel firms were once again facing the realisation that their best laid plans had once again been trampled [...]
Airline stocks dive and bosses fume after Portugal axed from UK travel ‘green list’ June 4, 2021 Airline stocks dropped as London’s markets opened for trading today after the government removed the one popular holiday destination from its travel “green list”. Wizz Air led the fallers on the FTSE 250, dropping 3.5 per cent by the mid-afternoon, while Easyjet shed 1.9 per cent. Easyjet had added hundreds of extra flights to Portugal [...]
Wall Street opens higher as jobs report eases inflation concerns June 4, 2021 Wall Street’s main indexes opened higher today after data showed modest US jobs growth in May, easing concerns about an early tightening of monetary policy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.3 per cent at the open, while the Nasdaq Composite gained 0.65 per cent. The S&P 500 added 0.5 per cent as it continued [...]
Bitcoin investors are growing weary of Elon Musk’s tiresome tweets June 4, 2021 Bitcoin holders throughout the world will eventually begin to ignore Elon Musk’s incessant tweets, and the Tesla chiefs influence will have no bearing on the market.
How I discovered of Haitian ‘clairin’ rum, my drink of the summer June 4, 2021 For something new this summer, adventurous drinkers should turn to the boutique distilleries of Haiti, with the island country now exporting some of its finest spirits into the UK. Clairin – Creole for ‘clear’, also known as rhum sirop de canne – is an organic, Haitian wild sugar cane distillate which has a reputation for [...]
For wind energy to be truly sustainable it needs to be circular and re-use retired turbines June 4, 2021 We are fast approaching COP26. It is now quarter of a century since the world first convened to agree action on climate change. At that time offshore wind was in its infancy with only one small farm located off the shores of Denmark. Few would have predicted that we could realistically target powering every home [...]
20 times that AI has tried to make it in the music business June 4, 2021 Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming omnipresent across every segment of cultural and economic activity. But this phenomenon is not new – AI has been trying to carve a name for itself in the music business as a collaborator, composer, artist and lyricist since 1951… 1) The first computer generated music (1951) In 1951 British mathematician Alan [...]
US job growth accelerates in May as unemployment rate falls to 5.8 per cent June 4, 2021 US employers boosted hiring in May as an easing pandemic pulled more people back into work. Payrolls shot up by 559,000 last month, the Labor Department said in its highly anticipated employment report today. The number fell short of economists’ forecasts of 650,000 new jobs in May, but still offers assurance that the economy’s recovery [...]
