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Investing in commodities futures contrasts sharply with newer future of food funds

The fashion brand shows it has lost none of the sense of adventure that first put it on the luxury map

A party jacket is a bespoke gem-set jewel that can transform a treasured solitaire, giving it extra sparkle — and a new lease of life

Distilleries had suffered a drop in revenues in the wake of Covid travel restrictions and Trump’s trade war

US media group tries to convince investors it can survive alone despite costly battle for subscribers

Until the conflict, Africa’s second-most populous country had been regarded as one of its most promising economies

Modular housing developer TopHat says facility will be able to produce 4,000 homes a year

Data entry mistake in 2020 leads to infighting among creditors of indebted US cosmetics group

Beijing must find the confidence to lift capital controls and make the renminbi fully convertible

Paschal Donohoe insists bloc’s economies are in ‘completely different’ shape from a decade ago

There is no hiding from the long-term transition to more challenging financial conditions

Andrea Coscelli says Britain is falling behind Europe on reining in dominance of Big Tech

Markets are singling out the country as the worst of a bad lot among eurozone nations

1. The deafening silence over Brexit's economic fallout  Financial Times
2. The Tories’ Brexit obsession has no future in a changing Britain. They just won’t admit it  The Guardian
3. Editor's Letter: Six years on from the Brexit vote, and never a dull moment  The Independent
4. The UK's 'no mates' economy is down, but not quite out  The Times
5. Britain's Brexit gamble: will it reinvigorate economy or trigger permanent decline?  The Irish Times
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The US Top Chef winner — and recipient of one of Florida’s first Michelin stars — shares his favourite spots for food, golf and spearfishing

Government officials camped out at Shanghai bourse to ensure steady flow of listings during lockdown

Martin Wolf selects his best mid-year reads

As economists start to quantify the damage from leaving the EU, a tentative debate has begun over how to soften the blow

Americas Northrop Grumman Systems won a $458 million deal for fiscal 2022-2026 shipyard field operations, program management, systems engineering, documentation, logistics and hardware production activities in support of the Columbia and Dreadnought Fleet Ballistic Missile Program. The contract action contains option line items. Work will take in California, Washington, Florida, Maryland, Georgia and the UK. […]

Forget about the militia.

July 2022 By Jean Kerr Some years ago, I was asked to plan the provisioning for a transatlantic crossing. The boat was an older Bristol 40, and the duration was two to three or maybe four weeks. I asked the owner/captain if he could be more precise than that. HeRead More

On June 17, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel approved the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States to face 18 criminal charges: One count of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion, and 17 counts of violating the Espionage Act of 1917. If convicted on all charges, Assange faces up to 175 years in prison. His … Continue reading "Free Assange? Yes, But That’s Not Nearly Enough."

July 2022 By Susan Cornell Matthew Barnes’ passion for nautical is tattooed into his forearm, with the latitude and longitude of his home port, Stony Creek, at Connecticut’s Thimble Islands. A wooden boat builder, Barnes has been a woodworker for most of his life. In the summer of 2016, heRead More

Compromise in Washington D.C. may be rare, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible.

July 2022 By Randy Randall So, what is girding? Funny you should ask. Maybe some kind of medieval torture or that feeling you get in your stomach when the long sea swells go on forever? Well, it’s none of those. Girding (sometimes called tripping) describes a marine accident that couldRead More