2014年8月19日 星期二

2014-08-20 U.K. Spotlight


Keep rates low until the hidden jobless return to work  Financial Times
This year's annual conference of central bankers in Jackson Hole is focused on the right question: how to determine the extent of labour market slack in the US and other advanced economies. This is the most pressing issue for Janet Yellen, Federal Reserve ...


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The kosher controversy at Sainsbury's speaks to a profound problem ...  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Were you outraged by a Sainsbury's store's decision over the weekend to hide away its kosher foods in an attempt to placate anti-Israel protesters? You should have been. For this incident, though seemingly a one-off, speaks to a profound problem in Europe ...


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Islamic State shifts to new platform after Twitter block  BBC News
A sustained clampdown on the Twitter presence of Islamic State (IS) has forced the hardline jihadist group to explore less well-known social media platforms, setting up a string of accounts on the privacy-focused Diaspora. Since IS began a series of ...


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Li Ka-shing and Jardine Matheson's entwined but distinct empires  Financial Times
Here are the highlights from a fortnight in the life of Li Ka-shing's press coverage. Companies controlled by Asia's richest man have announced they could spend $5bn to get into aircraft leasing and won control of a $2.2bn Australian gas distributor. And, yet ...


   


When did we decide that Parliament must always vote on any form of military ...  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Britain's unwritten constitution evolves over time. Without any fuss or debate, we now seem to have adopted the doctrine that Parliament must always vote on any form of military action whatsoever. The Royal Prerogative gives the government the power to use ...


   

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Richard III was bottle-a-day drinker, study suggests  BBC News
A study of the teeth and bones of Richard III show the king drank up to a bottle of wine a day in the last years of his life. The research by the British Geological Survey and University of Leicester revealed he also ate exotic meat including swan, crane, heron ...


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The greatest threat is the destruction of global ties that bind  Financial Times
The geopolitical ructions of recent weeks pose a new level of threat to the infrastructure of globalisation. Conflicts, actual and potential, in Ukraine, the Middle East and elsewhere are also now a real risk to economic recovery. The shooting down of the ...


   

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How independent is the independent Bank of England?  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Inflation has fallen again. A CPI reading of 1.6 per cent is below the City's expectations, and makes it – for now, anyway – at little bit less likely that the Bank of England will raise interest rates this year or early in 2015. Cue relief and even a bit of jubilation in ...


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HTC reveals cut-price One M8 Windows Phone device  BBC News
The handset maker HTC has unveiled a new smartphone that runs a Windows Phone operating system. The modified One M8 is being sold at roughly half the price of the same handset running Google's Android. This is the first time the struggling ...


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How the human brain folds itself up  New Scientist
Figuring out how the brain works is enough to make your head spin. But now we seem to have a handle on how it gets its folded shape. The surface layer of the brain, or cortex, is also referred to as our grey matter. Mammals with larger brains have a more ...


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