Conrad Quilty-Harper
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Freelance reporter, editing Dark Luxury https://t.co/NV9yZh4L0r
Joined March 2007
Having a lot of fun over at Dark Luxury, a newsletter which investigates the luxury industry What's going on at Kering is the subject of today's email hitting inboxes in the next 30 minutes https://t.co/mewUyAeWHh
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BREAKING: UK’s response to Covid was “too little too late”. Acting faster could have saved 23,000 lives in England according to the public inquiry. Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
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“The UK Covid-19 Inquiry says the government response to the pandemic in March 2020 was ‘too little, too late’” No shit, and now we know it may have cost 23,000 lives 23,000 people
bbc.co.uk
The inquiry says an earlier lockdown could have saved 23,000 lives in the first wave in England - and lockdown could have been avoided altogether with earlier interventions.
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Truly such a nuts story
The more you think about it, the more extraordinary - and disturbing - it is... A group of hackers have singlehandedly caused a fall in UK GDP. Weeks ahead of the Budget. Can anyone think of a parallel in recent economic history? I can't.
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More newspapers/media orgs should have a slightly unhinged, super-niche and ultimately, free offshoot of the main publication like @FTAlphaville ‘Big Short’ star Michael Burry names FT Alphaville charts quiz winner as successor
ft.com
… while pub quiz photographer misses scoop
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Exclusive--The UK has suspended sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes they are illegal, sources tell CNN. https://t.co/EsFENxQx6R
edition.cnn.com
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes...
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Interesting reporting Nexperia purchased an estate with a luxury farmhouse, outbuildings, swimming pool in a Dutch village this summer for €6.7mn, "which serves as a Dutch residence for Chinese CEO Wing. 4 months after the purchase, he was ousted" https://t.co/uNpFX4HAAE
rtl.nl
Chipbedrijf Nexperia heeft deze zomer voor 6,7 miljoen euro een landgoed met luxe woonboerderij, bijgebouwen en zwembad in Loenen aan de Vecht gekocht. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek door RTL Z. Volgens...
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Sanctions evasion 101 from a guy flaunting his profits from Russian oil. A lesson in the loopholes "The cargoes Eppinger bought were certified as having originated or blended outside Russia. Lawyers advised there was no requirement to verify the documents
ft.com
Christopher Eppinger kept trading Russian oil when sanctions meant others stopped
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"Saving a relatively poor person 20p on a babygrow while exempting someone who's rich by more than £100 in VAT [on a D&G babygrow for £560] doesn't seem to me a good way of ensuring poor people can live decent lives."
Best followed up with this FT podcast with @timleunig who has a nice example of why zero-rating things like food and children's clothing isn't a particularly effective way of supporting poorer households https://t.co/Fjs6ms3Nye
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Tripadvisor just killed one of the best websites on the internet and put its logo on the gravestone
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Clever poll
Jesus may have said “it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God” but rich people don’t appear to be heeding the warning. Those earning over £100,000 are the most likely to think they’ll go to heaven.
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What a corker of a headline
The Ministry of Justice has been convicted of a crime and fined £1,000, in a closed-door court hearing the department itself was apparently not aware was happening https://t.co/cJe9tFjFX9
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Skeleton arguments or witness statements from civil trials or hearings will be made available online from 1 January, a delay from October The judiciary's Transparency and Open Justice Board is dragging the courts (and lawyers) into the 21st century
New date set for court documents pilot: https://t.co/q6OAYk9E2o
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Excellent timing for such an event
Join us for tomorrow evening's Media Society debate via Zoom on how the British media has covered both the Israel/Gaza conflict during the last two years, and the latest historic developments in the story. 6pm tomorrow, Tuesday 14th October. Tickets here:
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Not sure he meant Albania there… and that was quite the scoop that he is negotiating to get Bagram back??? partly because it’s close to where the Chinese makes nukes…
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No, AI isn’t going to kill us all, despite what this new book says. @jjaron on fine form here, also with the jaw dropping fact that he’s read the author’s 660,000 word Harry Potter fan fiction.
newscientist.com
The arguments made by AI safety researchers Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares in If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies are superficially appealing but fatally flawed, says Jacob Aron
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Look at this juxtaposition of Tony Blair (photographed for Attitude in 2005) at the Wolfgang Tillmans exhibition at the Pompidou
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I don't think it's a coincidence that this is also an obsession for many of the Silicon Valley elite
Quite a hot mic moment on CCTV in Beijing today as Putin and Xi, both 72 years old, are caught casually talking about living to 150 and maybe forever thanks to organ transplants. (As picked up by Bloomberg.)
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Cool cool
Undiscovered Second World War bombs and tank shells have been exploding as fire continues to spread across a part of the North Yorkshire Moors - the blaze having now reached an area used as a tank training ground in the 1940s. Firefighters and farmers are trying to extinguish
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