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Companies will need to find solutions that do not require consumers to make difficult choices that often leave them feeling guilty, says Steven Van Belleghem. As consumers, we are pretty used to making choices. When we’re making buying decisions we’re not only weighing up what products look and feel like, but also wider moral issues. Do you want privacy or convenience? Do you want cheap products or ethically manufactured products? Do you want personal freedoms in parts of your life such as diet and travel, or is it more important to be doing good for the planet? How heavy is your suitcase...

The tumultuous ’60s had begun. The Byrds’ “He Was a Friend of Mine” served as a rock 'n' roll eulogy in a similar way Walt Whitman's “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd” soothed the country following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. The story continues below the video. “I was 13 when Kennedy was assassinated,” Springsteen said. “I always remember I was in gym class playing soccer in the field. Someone came running out of the high school and slammed themselves up against the chain-link fence and said the president's been shot. We all rushed insi...

Leisure 06:09 The catering industry remains closed until at least 8 May, but a pub in the centre of Brussels opens its doors every weekend. Drinkers are welcome, provided they know the password. The operators believe they are not doing anything illegal. "If the police come in, we'll call in our lawyer." Journalists from Bruzz obtained the information needed to enter the COVID ‘speakeasy’ and went undercover to report on a ‘forbidden evening’ of drinking and socialising in the heart of the Belgian capital this week. While the establishment itself may have been contravening restrictions...

Bruce Springsteen's characters have hungry hearts. This isn’t unique to Springsteen. Rock ‘n’ roll songwriters have spent decades populating tunes with people obsessed with romance, lust and rocky relationships. But few of them take the time to even name their characters, or flesh out their leading ladies beyond asking them to squeeze the juice from their lemon. The Boss stands out for the devotion and details he gives his protagonists and their muses. Often, he’ll conjure a heartbreaker with only a nice turn of phrase: Think of the barefoot girl on the hood of a Dodge drinking warm b...

In roughly the year since Floyd’s death — with the trial of police officer Derek Chauvin continuing this week — a slew of songs about Floyd have been released, many in hip-hop. But next month, Specter’s “The Ballad of George Floyd” will be elevated to another level when it’s included in “Songs of Conscience, Sounds of Freedom,” a new exhibit on the history of protest songs set to open May 21st at the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Originally displayed at the Grammy Museum in L.A. in 2009, where it focused largely on songs emerging from the civil rights movement and...