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UK stocks bucked a European sell-off on Tuesday on hopes of an economic recovery after Boris Johnson said he was âvery optimisticâ all coronavirus restrictions in England would end on June 21.
This was enough to offset any worries over fresh data from the Office for National Statistics that showed Britainâs unemployment rate rising to 5.1pc in the final three months of last year, the highest recorded since the first quarter of 2016.
Investors focused on the positive and cheered the UKâs potential roadmap out of lockdown as they banked on the recovery of sectors hard-hit by the pandemic.
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U.S. President Joe Biden marked 500,000 U.S. lives lost from COVID-19 with a moment of silence and candle-lighting ceremony at the White House. The nation passed the grim milestone on Monday, just over a year after the first confirmed U.S. fatality of the pandemic.
Japanese Whisky Finally Gets A Definition, But It’s Complicated
A worker at Akkeshi Distillery in Hokkaido, Japan checks the spirit safe, positioned beneath a Shinto shrine. A new set of voluntary regulations will, for the first time, provide a definition for Japanese whisky. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)
It’s been an open secret for years that some Japanese whiskies aren’t so Japanese that is, they’re often made with imported whisky, blended or proofed down or simply bottled locally, and then labeled as “Product of Japan.” Many such brands exist, though typically not openly, cloaking themselves in kanji and Japanese names while never disclosing that some or all of the liquid inside the bottle came from Scotland, Ireland, Canada, or elsewhere. But such practices may soon be a thing of the past, as Japan’s leading spirits trade group has established guidelines to clarify what makes a Japanese whisky Japanese.
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February 22, 2021
The politics of memory, on the anniversary of tragedy
Within the space of a month, Christchurch is marking two painful anniversaries: the earthquake and the mosque terror attacks. Susan Wardell looks at how and why we choose to remember, and the complexities of collective public grief.
“Christchurch has suffered more than any community should have to endure,” the prime minister said last year in a national address.
It’s this suffering the city is currently preparing to revisit. Today is the 10th anniversary of the Canterbury quake; March 15 will be the second anniversary of the shootings at Al Noor mosque and Linwood Islamic centre.