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Next, the FTSE-100 retail behemoth, is among a pack of suitors considering a new year swoop to buy LK Bennett, the struggling fashion retailer. Sky News has learnt that Next is weighing a cut-price offer to buy LK Bennett’s brand and other intellectual property assets as it prepares to call in administrators. Retail industry sources…
The holiday season is Hallmarkβs Super Bowl. This year alone, Hallmark has 80 hours of original holiday-themed programming, including two unscripted series, two scripted series, a holiday special and 24 movies with titles such as βThe Snow Must Go Onβ and βChristmas at the Catnip Cafeβ that run from mid-October to Christmas. The company also…
Baroness Michell Mone has accused Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch of using “reckless” language that could prejudice a police investigation, and says she has “no desire” to return to the House of Lords as a Tory peer. A day after she wrote to Sir Keir Starmer, accusing the government of pursuing a vendetta against her, the…
The private equity firm set up by Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, is to take a stake in OakNorth, the British-based lender which has set its sights on a rapid expansion in the US. Sky News has learnt that Affinity Partners, which has amassed billions of dollars in assets under management, has signed a…
In what might be the most decisive critique yet of President Trumpβs remake of the Kennedy Center, the Washington National Operaβs board approved a resolution on Friday to leave the venue it has occupied since 1971. βToday, the Washington National Opera announced its decision to seek an amicable early termination of its affiliation agreement with…
I know a lot of people who suffer from a chronic malady that gets worse each time thereβs news out of Washington. Supporters of the current president of the United States might refer to this condition as a side effect of Trump derangement syndrome, but itβs more like Trump fatigue syndrome. Symptoms can include a…
The world’s most valuable company has reported another series of expectation-defying results, lessening fears, for now, of an AI bubble bursting. Nvidia said its revenue reached another all-time high, hitting more than $200bn (Β£147bn) in its 2026 financial year, far outpacing Wall Street estimates and the company’s own guidance. Money blog: Bank customers to be…
Jerry Adler, who spent decades backstage on Broadway before reinventing himself in his 60s as a television actor, most memorably as Herman βHeshβ Rabkin on HBOβs βThe Sopranosβ and Howard Lyman on CBSβ βThe Good Wife,β has died. He was 96. Adler died Saturday in New York, where he lived, according to his family. A…
πListen to Politics at Sam and Anne’s on your podcast appπβ―β―β―β―β―β―β― “Education, education, education” was how Tony Blair set out New Labour’s priorities in the early noughties. A quarter of a century on, what story is Sir Keir Starmer trying to tell about schools under his premiership? In this episode, Sam and Anne are joined…
Suffolk, England – For parents Daisy Greenwell and Joe Ryrie, freedom means looking up at the world around them instead of down at their phones, and they’re determined to pass that sense of non-digital liberty on to their children. Their daughter started asking for a smartphone when she was just eight years old, because her…
