Model Adriana Lima has teamed up with sportswear brand Puma to launch a capsule collection of performance pieces. This is the first collection the model has done with the brand. The capsule is inspired by Lima’s passion for boxing and includes a range of Puma’s classic clothes and shoes reimagined to align with the streetwear…
Read moreThe perfect storm fueling New Delhi’s deadly pollution
The dangerous levels of pollution have prompted authorities in New Delhi to declare a public health emergency, diverting planes, forcing schools to shutter, halting construction, and instituting new traffic controls limiting the number of cars on the road. ### Most residents who can afford to are staying home with air purifiers turned on, though working…
Read morePriyanka Chopra wears mask on set as Delhi chokes in record smog
“It’s so hard to shoot here right now that I can’t even imagine what it must be like to live here under these conditions,” Chopra wrote on Instagram Sunday, while authorities in the city scrambled to deal with smog so toxic it grounded flights and forced schools to close their doors. ### “We r blessed…
Read moreIndia is opting out of a China-backed trade deal. That could hurt its economy
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided not to sign the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) at a summit in Bangkok, Thailand on Monday, a proposed trade pact involving 16 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. ### “India had significant issues of core interest that remained unresolved,” Vijay Thakur Singh, a senior official at India’s foreign ministry,…
Read more‘People cannot be left to die’: India’s top court calls out authorities for not doing enough to stop pollution
Thick smog has blanketed the country’s capital in recent days, forcing flights to be canceled and schools to be shut. New Delhi, which is home to more than 18 million people, has declared it a public health emergency, with authorities halting work at construction sites and instituting new traffic controls limiting the number of cars…
Read moreThe myth of shareholder primacy
In the late 1960s, a young banker named Joel Stern was working on a project to transform corporate management. Stern’s hunch was that the stock market could help managers work out how their strategies were performing. Simply, if management was effective, demand for the firm’s stock would be high. A low price would imply bad…
Read moreNeoliberalism tells us we're selfish souls – how can we promote other identities?
“Economics is the method: the object is to change the soul.” Understanding why Thatcher said this is central to understanding the neoliberal project, and how we might move beyond it. Carys Hughes and Jim Cranshaw’s opening article poses a crucial challenge to the left in this respect. It is too easy to tell ourselves a…
Read moreWestern style ‘democracy’ in Africa is just a way of pushing the neoliberal agenda
This article is part of ourEconomy's 'Decolonising the economy' series. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent rise of 'good governance' as a development strategy is more than a coincidence. In his famous article The End of History, the American political analyst, Francis Fukuyama, proclaims that the end of the cold…
Read moreTelegraph poll shows sale downturn
Britain’s retailers have seen a disturbing slowdown in sales, according to a poll of top chains carried out by The Telegraph and backed up by the monthly BRC figures. The grim outlook will send a stark warning to the Bank of England not to announce an increase in interest rates later this week. The government…
Read moreLoafing around
Loafers are hot again. For some this classic wardrobe staple never fell out of favour, but for the extremely fashion conscious among us the loafer was always the coward’s choice when there were so many stilletto’s to choose from. This season, however, loafers and moccassins are back with a vengeance. Ever since Cate Blanchett graced…
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