Month: November 2019
Dorothy L Sayers famous for her Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane detective series, was also equally known during her life for an essay asking “Are Women Human?” Women’s rights were expanding rapidly during Sayers’s lifetime as she and her friend were some of the first women to receive degrees from Oxford although they faced…
Acknowledging the contributions of gardens to our mental and physical wellbeing and often the economic benefits are often overlooked, economic historian Roderick Floud steers to put it right in his latest book “An Economic History of the English Garden”. This is the first book to question how much gardens and gardening have cost, and…
Silver Lake, a US private equity firm is buying more than 10 per cent of the Manchester City Football group whose valuation of $4.8bn after the Gulf owners of Manchester City agreed to sell $ 500m stake. Abu Dhabi-controlled business that owns the English champions and affiliated teams in the US and China puts the…
Elon Musk blamed the embarrassing launch incident on the order in which a demonstration had taken place. The Cybertruck was first struck with a sledgehammer in what appeared to be a successful demonstration of its armor body’s strength which developed an unseen crack which had subsequently led to the windows smashing when they had been…
National Grid and SSE have shifted large parts of their UK operations into offshore holding companies to try to protect shareholders from any assets being nationalised by a future Labour government after Labour’s pledge included to take back into public hands the wires and pipes that deliver electricity and gas to homes and businesses. These…
Bernard Arnault’s luxury LVMH is set to buy Tiffany & Co for $16.7bn, after the US jeweller negotiated to raise the offer by $600m to clinch an agreement. Europe’s richest man and his group can restore Tiffany to its former glory as one of the top brands in global luxury. The boards of both companies…
28 people have died after a passenger plane crashed into houses in Goma City in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo according to locals. Nine family members on the ground and 17, passesngers and two crew members were among the victims. The small aircraft went down in the Mapendo neighbourhood after “missing” its take-off from the…
One in four divorces involve a dispute over a pet, according to the Blue Cross Animal Charity. For couples embroiled in lengthy and expensive divorce negotiations, the fate of family pets is no laughing matter. So many couples end up squabbling over pets that the Law Society is recommending custody issued to be addressed in…
Rock Victoria, a Sri Lankan national, set up a cashew factory in Quilon (Kollam), South India in 1920 for processing of cashew nuts, with Swaminathan as a worker who later became a prominent cashew businessman. The first batch of cashews exported from India was from Kollam to USA in 1920 by Indian Nut Company, established…