‘Trades are very well paid here compared to anywhere else in the world I have been’
“Trades are very well paid here compared to anywhere else in the world that I have been. A good carpenter could expect to ...
Fake flowers make me sad and mad: Plastic, plastic everywhere and I can’t stand it
Why do shop and restaurant owners seem to think adding to the world’s collection of plastic tat improves the ambience?
Amitav Ghosh: ‘Ireland is where the British created all their colonial methods, it’s where they tried it out first’
Acclaimed Indian writer Amitav Ghosh’s new work explores how the climate crisis has its roots in European colonialism ...
Short-traders take a bite out of Greencore shares
A short bet is a risky trade in which the investment fund borrows shares in a company from a broker, sells them on the open ...
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‘It is a right that was violently taken away’: The Jews who want to be German again
It wasn’t until Brexit happened that Bradford, West Yorkshire-born Rabbi Walter Rothschild reclaimed the German citizenship ...
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Builder knows best? The Apple gamble that paid off big
Are stock tips from random builders the secret to stock market fortunes? Apparently so, in the case of American football star ...
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo’s emotional love-ins take publicity to another level
The Wicked stars’ sentimental gush lachrymose interviews have surely helped drive the film to an enormous opening in US ...
Podcast giant Joe Rogan may have played key role in US elections
Donald Trump profitably chatted to influential figure with broad church audience just days before the vote when Kamala Harris ...
Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+: 10 of the best new shows to watch in December
Skeleton Crew, Squid Game season two, Beast Games, Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking and One Hundred Years of Solitude ...
Social media taps into a dark human need to be mean to other people
As people – even Stephen King – flee the platform, discussion of where to move to feels underpinned by a sadness that the kind of virtual space they crave may no longer be possible ...
Dermot Whelan: ‘Mindfulness isn’t a cult. We don’t have to get naked and cover ourselves in hummus’
Dermot Whelan made the choice to walk away from radio in order to focus on wellness, his own and other people’s. He doesn’t ...
Crime fiction: New works by Nick Harkaway, Louise Penny, Scott Phillips, David Safier and Jane Casey
Stunning literary ventriloquism will see George Smiley defer his retirement for some time to come, while Scott Phillips ...