Crazy Diamond: how LSD ruined Pink Floyd s fragile genius Syd Barrett
19 Feb, 2021 01:28 AM
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Syd Barrett, far right, during his tenure with Pink Floyd. Photo / Getty Images
Daily Telegraph UK
By: Neil McCormick
Syd Barrett is the lost boy of British pop. A dazzling original who saw and heard differently to everyone else, he went through the looking glass in search of his psychedelic vision, and never came back. Barrett s story is a tragic saga of glory and madness, part daring adventure, part cautionary tale. By the age of 23, he had changed music forever – and it had destroyed him.
Diana Wichtel on the new normal and how it is quickly undone by presidential falsehoods and mutating viruses
19 Feb, 2021 03:00 AM
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Political theatre or reality? Photo / Getty Images
By: Diana Wichtel It was a weekend of the Big Gay Out, the Americas Cup … We spent time with friends, out and about, scanning and masking as required. We were living, if not the dream, then at least our slightly nervous nearly normal. Then the country was back into degrees of lockdown.
Later that day my mobile suddenly emitted a nerve-shredding eldritch shriek of the sort you might expect if being alerted to a nuclear facility in core meltdown. I swear I levitated half a metre off the couch. Still, effective public health communication, for sure.
(MENAFN - DailyFX) Canadian Dollar Talking Points
USD/CAD pares the rebound from the monthly low (1.2610) as it struggles to climb back above the 50-Day SMA (1.2744), and the rebound from the yearly low (1.2589) appears to have been a correction in the broader trend rather than a change in behavior as key market themes remain in place.USD/CAD Rate Rebound Unravels Following Test of 50-Day SMA Advertisement
USD /CAD struggles to retain the advance following the US Retail Sales report even though longer-dated Treasury yields hold above pre-pandemic levels, and the exchange rate may consolidate over the remainder of the week as the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) Minutes highlight a wait-and-see approach for monetary policy.
(MENAFN - ING) With the UK back under lockdown, it ll come as little surprise that retail sales plunged.
That said, the 8.2% fall was considerably higher than we d expected (around 4%), and provides clear evidence that the hit to consumer spending is noticeably larger than it was during the November restrictions. In all likelihood, these latest restrictions have amplified what is already typically a quiet time for retailers.
Still, it s worth putting this into some context. Unlike the wider economy, the retail sector was already operating comfortably above pre-virus levels. While savings levels rose last year, it s also clear that consumers spend some of the money amassed on buying more goods. Unsurprisingly this heavily benefitted online retailers. The pandemic has triggered an abrupt switch to online retail