In this week’s newsletter: Yes, it’s technically still spring, but with garage already pumping out and the 00s legends making a comeback, it’s time to celebrate the often-overlooked women who defined the genre • Don’t get The Guide delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Hello everyone. I’m Coco Khan, covering for Gwilym this week, and I’m officially calling it. Summer is here. No, I’m not a meteoro...
In this week’s newsletter: Yes, it’s technically still spring, but with garage already pumping out and the 00s legends making a comeback, it’s time to celebrate the often-overlooked women who defined the genre • Don’t get The Guide delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Hello everyone. I’m Coco Khan, covering for Gwilym this week, and I’m officially calling it. Summer is here. No, I’m not a meteorologist or an astronomer – rather, I rely on a measure I’ve developed over many summers: the UKG Index. The more UK garage you hear – through passing car windows, pumping out of festivals, or floating on the breeze from a nearby barbecue – the more likely the mercury is climbing. And this year the sound of summer has arrived early, and with some exciting news: a Mis-Teeq reunion. Continue reading...
Gluten-free versions of everyday staples such as bread and biscuits are becoming a luxury, with shoppers complaining that a “decent” small loaf now costs nearly £4. Consumers have always paid a premium for these specialist foods, making any price increases a source of concern, particularly for people who follow a gluten-free diet for medical reasons. While a standard 800g loaf of supermarket white...
Gluten-free versions of everyday staples such as bread and biscuits are becoming a luxury, with shoppers complaining that a “decent” small loaf now costs nearly £4. Consumers have always paid a premium for these specialist foods, making any price increases a source of concern, particularly for people who follow a gluten-free diet for medical reasons. While a standard 800g loaf of supermarket white bread can still be bought for less than £1, a smaller (550g) gluten-free equivalent typically costs about £1.90. Branded products are even pricier: a 480g Promise gluten-free loaf is now £3.90 in many shops. “A decent gluten-free loaf now regularly costs about £4,” says Alison Peters, who runs the website Coeliac Sanctuary. “Promise bread is now £3.90 in Tesco and Sainsbury’s. Even the supermarket own-brand [gluten-free bread] is often about £2 a loaf.” Before the Iran war started, UK food price increases were slowing down after a jump following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The cost of food and drink rose at about 3% in the year to April, but the economic disruption from the war could see this figure reach almost 10% by the end of the year. Peters, who has coeliac disease herself and whose website offers advice and resources for sufferers, fears that gluten-free food is “becoming a luxury rather than an essential medical diet for managing a lifelong autoimmune disease”. “If you have children with coeliac disease or multiple coeliacs within one household, which is common due to genetics, the costs add up incredibly quickly,” she says. “A family could easily go through several loaves of bread a week alone.” Peters has noticed brands such as Promise and Doves Farm becoming costlier. Today a loaf of gluten-free bread typically costs £3.12, which is 17p – or nearly 6% – more than in May 2025 (based on a basket of 40 products), according to Trolley.co.uk, a UK grocery price comparison service. For gluten-free flour (based on 17 products) the increase is more ...
Javier Bardem and his co-star are brilliant as the duelling pair at the heart of a dread-packed psychological drama – where evil lurks in plain sight The 1991 revenge thriller Cape Fear boasts many famous moments. A teddy bear rigged with fishing wire. A drowning man speaking in tongues. But the image I cannot shake is the back of a sailboat, piloted by a lawyer who is being hounded by Max Cady, a...
Javier Bardem and his co-star are brilliant as the duelling pair at the heart of a dread-packed psychological drama – where evil lurks in plain sight The 1991 revenge thriller Cape Fear boasts many famous moments. A teddy bear rigged with fishing wire. A drowning man speaking in tongues. But the image I cannot shake is the back of a sailboat, piloted by a lawyer who is being hounded by Max Cady, a rapist he once sent to jail. The boat is called Moana. It makes sense – throughout Polynesia, moana means “ocean”. However, watching now, I can’t help but wonder if the Rock is going to appear and save the day with his magical pec tattoo. Martin Scorsese’s classic was a remake of a 1962 film, which was based on a 1957 novel. Recycling IP can feel depressing, but Cape Fear always stirs the pot. The 60s film, starring Gregory Peck as a morally upright man tormented by a senselessly evil one, had a Book of Job mystery to it. Scorsese’s version introduced sympathy for the devil, and a jaundiced view of its protagonist: a lawyer who buries evidence that might exonerate his client, whom he believes should go to jail. The high-water mark, though, is probably Cape Feare , the Simpsons parody featuring Sideshow Bob. (Best. Episode. Ever.) Continue reading...
From Akkadian and Babylonian to ‘ancient, morbid and toxic’, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz 1 The UK’s video recorders were reset in 1997 in advance of what? 2 Which tree is described by the Woodland Trust as “ancient, morbid, toxic”? 3 Which Midwest university has the biggest sports stadium in the US? 4 Henry and Edward are the title characters of what 1886 novella? 5 Which Hollywood ...
From Akkadian and Babylonian to ‘ancient, morbid and toxic’, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz 1 The UK’s video recorders were reset in 1997 in advance of what? 2 Which tree is described by the Woodland Trust as “ancient, morbid, toxic”? 3 Which Midwest university has the biggest sports stadium in the US? 4 Henry and Edward are the title characters of what 1886 novella? 5 Which Hollywood star couldn’t abide wire hangers? 6 In 1413, whose body was moved from King’s Langley Priory to Westminster Abbey? 7 Which races are held over the 37-mile Snaefell Mountain Course? 8 Which soft drink was originally launched as Pickup’s Appetiser? What links: 9 Cecily stained glass; Meiping vase; Rodin’s Thinker; Temple Pyx fragment; Wagner garden carpet? 10 The King and I; Boy on a Dolphin; My Fair Lady; West Side Story? 11 Fátima; Guadalupe; Knock; La Salette; Walsingham? 12 Sumerian; Akkadian; Babylonian; Assyrian? 13 Bayern’s Müller and WBA’s Brown; middleweight Graham; Air Marshal Harris? 14 I Am Maximus; Tiger Roll; Reynoldstown; Poethlyn? 15 Archaea; Bacteria; Eukarya? Continue reading...
Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brainteasers for future quizzes Submit a question Molly Oldfield hosts Everything Under the Sun , a podcast answering children’s questions. Do check out her books, Everything Under the Sun and Everything Under the Sun: Quiz Book , as well as her new title, Everything Under the Sun: Al...
Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brainteasers for future quizzes Submit a question Molly Oldfield hosts Everything Under the Sun , a podcast answering children’s questions. Do check out her books, Everything Under the Sun and Everything Under the Sun: Quiz Book , as well as her new title, Everything Under the Sun: All Around the World . Continue reading...
Lindisfarne and Bamburgh, Northumberland Day one Circular walk of Lindisfarne (4 miles) Day two Budle Bay to Bamburgh to (5 miles) The first swallows are swooping round the headland as I follow the coast path along the western side of the Holy Island of Lindisfarne. There are ringed plovers on the beach and a couple of grey seals bobbing out at sea. A barefoot guy is splashing along the tidal Pilg...
Lindisfarne and Bamburgh, Northumberland Day one Circular walk of Lindisfarne (4 miles) Day two Budle Bay to Bamburgh to (5 miles) The first swallows are swooping round the headland as I follow the coast path along the western side of the Holy Island of Lindisfarne. There are ringed plovers on the beach and a couple of grey seals bobbing out at sea. A barefoot guy is splashing along the tidal Pilgrim’s Way, an ancient post-marked path across shining sands. Lindisfarne is only accessible when receding tides uncover this path and the curving causeway road nearby. The original 62 miles of Northumberland coast path, which opened 20 years ago, bypassed the island, so I’ve been looking forward to walking this stretch of the England coast path, which opened two years ago. Very few of us will walk the full 2,700 miles of the King Charles III England coast path, which was inaugurated in March, but a four-mile stroll around Holy Island is an adventure in itself, a shifting landscape of wader-foraged mudflats, dunes, beaches, whinstone cliffs and a reedy blue-and-gold lough. Waymarked posts lead through grassy sand dunes, freckled with cowslips. Skylarks and stonechats clack and chirrup, while courting lapwings tumble over the fields. Gertrude Jekyll’s little walled garden, on the hillside facing the clifftop castle, is bright with marigolds and purple rock cress. double quotation mark From the ramparts of Lindisfarne Castle, a telescope shows the seal colony near two obelisks guiding boats into the harbour Edward Hudson, founder of Country Life magazine, bought Lindisfarne Castle in 1901 and hired architect Edwin Lutyens to turn it into a home. Inside the craggy fortress, there are four-postered bedrooms and an elegant drawing room in the old gunpowder store. From the ramparts, a telescope shows the seal colony near two obelisks guiding boats into Holy Island harbour. Just over the fields are the red sandstone arches of Lindisfarne Priory; these ruins date from the 12th centu...
Venture capitalists and industrial giants in China are aggressively backing developers of dexterous robotic hands – the toughest bottleneck in the global humanoid hardware arms race – in a funding blitz that is rapidly driving up start-up valuations. The latest capital injection was announced on Friday by Xynova. The Hangzhou-based start-up said it had completed a series A round from investors inc...
Venture capitalists and industrial giants in China are aggressively backing developers of dexterous robotic hands – the toughest bottleneck in the global humanoid hardware arms race – in a funding blitz that is rapidly driving up start-up valuations. The latest capital injection was announced on Friday by Xynova. The Hangzhou-based start-up said it had completed a series A round from investors including the venture arms of smartphone maker Xiaomi and electric vehicle giant Li Auto , bringing total capital raised to nearly 1 billion yuan (US$148 million). The announcement came just two months after Xynova’s previous round, underscoring the frantic pace at which larger players in the sector are securing capital. The sheer speed of these transactions reflects a structural shift in how hard-tech start-ups are being financed in China. Advertisement AgiLink, backed by Chinese robotic star AgiBot, recently completed a funding round that propelled its valuation past the US$1 billion mark, according to reports last week by The Paper and several other state-run media. AgiLink did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday. The start-up has made industry history by completing four funding rounds since it was spun off from humanoid robot manufacturer AgiBot in January. A robot threads a needle at the World Intelligence Expo 2026 in Tianjin, north China, on May 28. Photo: Xinhua “Achieving unicorn status in less than 150 days is unprecedented in the humanoid component sector,” said Wu Meimei, senior analyst at ITJuzi, which tracks China’s venture-capital market.
Vachilavit Sanameang/iStock via Getty Images Market overview U.S. Treasury yields were relatively stable to open the quarter and drifted lower in early February, as the market appeared to view the U.S. Federal Reserve as maintaining a tilt toward at least modest policy easing. The tone shifted at the end of February with the onset of the U.S.-Iran conflict, which disrupted Middle East shipping and...
Vachilavit Sanameang/iStock via Getty Images Market overview U.S. Treasury yields were relatively stable to open the quarter and drifted lower in early February, as the market appeared to view the U.S. Federal Reserve as maintaining a tilt toward at least modest policy easing. The tone shifted at the end of February with the onset of the U.S.-Iran conflict, which disrupted Middle East shipping and drove sharp increases in crude oil and fertilizer prices. Inflation expectations moved higher, and the outlook for Fed interest-rate cuts was called into question. After successive cuts in September, October and December of 2025, the Fed held its benchmark rate steady at both its January and March meetings, leaving the federal funds target rate in the 3.50%–3.75% range. In its March commentary, the Fed cited solid economic growth, somewhat elevated inflation and heightened uncertainty stemming from Middle East developments as supporting a stable policy stance. The Treasury yield curve finished the quarter higher and flatter, with shorter maturities experiencing the most significant increases. The bellwether 10-year Treasury yield rose 12 basis points (bps) during the quarter, moving from 4.18% to 4.30%. (A basis point is 1/100 of one percent.) The broad U.S. investment-grade taxable bond market returned -0.05% for the quarter, as gauged by the Bloomberg US Aggregate Bond Index. U.S. Treasuries returned -0.04% (Bloomberg US Treasury Index), while corporate bonds returned -0.54% (Bloomberg US Corporate Bond Index) as credit spreads moved modestly wider late in the period. Securitized assets posted a small positive return of 0.40% (Bloomberg US Securitized Index), although mortgage-backed securities were not immune to March's broad market weakness. Top holdings (% of net assets): as of March 31, 2026 Columbia Quality Income Fund 28.97 Columbia High Yield Bond Fund 9.04 Columbia Dividend Opportunity Fund 8.01 Columbia Floating Rate Fund 7.02 Columbia Emerging Markets Bond Fund...
(Bloomberg) -- A $25 billion Danish pension fund that earlier this year made headlines by ditching Treasuries as Donald Trump was threatening to seize Greenland now says it won’t touch SpaceX.Most Read from BloombergSingapore Hands Byju's Founder His First Ever Jail TermStrait of Hormuz Ship Transits Are Rising Thanks to Help From USCVS Returns Zepbound to Drug Plans After Lilly Slashes PriceApple...
(Bloomberg) -- A $25 billion Danish pension fund that earlier this year made headlines by ditching Treasuries as Donald Trump was threatening to seize Greenland now says it won’t touch SpaceX.Most Read from BloombergSingapore Hands Byju's Founder His First Ever Jail TermStrait of Hormuz Ship Transits Are Rising Thanks to Help From USCVS Returns Zepbound to Drug Plans After Lilly Slashes PriceApple to Overhaul iOS 27 Siri, AI Features: Here's a First PeekSpaceX Said to Cut IPO Value Goal to at Le
oonal/iStock via Getty Images Trillions of dollars fly by so fast they’re hard to see. By now, 11 US companies have a market value of $1 trillion or more. Combined, they have a market cap of $29 trillion. Walmart ( WMT ) was already in the $1 trillion club for a few weeks, if barely, but recently fell off the wagon. If we add Walmart back into it, the 12 US companies have a market cap of $30 trill...
oonal/iStock via Getty Images Trillions of dollars fly by so fast they’re hard to see. By now, 11 US companies have a market value of $1 trillion or more. Combined, they have a market cap of $29 trillion. Walmart ( WMT ) was already in the $1 trillion club for a few weeks, if barely, but recently fell off the wagon. If we add Walmart back into it, the 12 US companies have a market cap of $30 trillion – roughly 43% of the total market capitalization of all S&P 500 stocks. During that little dip from January 28 to March 6 this year, the combined market value of these 12 companies dropped by $1.8 trillion. Over the 58 trading days since then, their combined value jumped by $4.9 trillion. Over the past six years, market value exploded from $6 trillion to $30 trillion. These are generational gains (data via YCharts): Micron Technology ( MU ) became the latest entry into that club. Since the low of April 3, 2025, the stock exploded by 1,315%, and its market capitalization exploded from $72 billion to just over $1 trillion. And it did the second half of that trip, from $500 billion to $1 trillion in just 48 trading days, an all-time record — creating another WTF AI Mania Chart . The 11 US companies in the Trillion Dollar Club: NVIDIA ( NVDA ): $5.11 trillion Apple ( AAPL ): $4.58 trillion Alphabet [ GOOG / GOOGL ]: $4.57 trillion Microsoft ( MSFT ): $3.34 trillion Amazon ( AMZN ): $2.91 trillion Broadcom ( AVGO ): $2.12 trillion Tesla ( TSLA ): $1.64 trillion Meta Platforms ( META ): $1.61 trillion Micron Technology ( MU ): $1.09 trillion Eli Lilly ( LLY ): $1.04 trillion Berkshire Hathaway [ BRK.A / BRK.B ]: $1.02 trillion Walmart ( WMT ): $922 billion Eli Lilly is threatening to fall off the wagon. It wouldn’t take much for Micron to fall off the wagon either – just a minor day-to-day squiggle would do it. These are volatile stocks at this point. $30 trillion used to be a huge amount. Not long ago – only four years ago exactly – the entire debt of the US government was $...
Jose Mourinho's return to Real Madrid was always going to get people talking. Among the many questions surrounding his reappointment, one stands out: How will he manage his relationship with Vinicius Junior? It will be one of the most closely watched aspects of Mourinho's second spell in charge at the Bernabeu. Mourinho has signed a three-year deal to return to Real, but the 63-year-old's contract...
Jose Mourinho's return to Real Madrid was always going to get people talking. Among the many questions surrounding his reappointment, one stands out: How will he manage his relationship with Vinicius Junior? It will be one of the most closely watched aspects of Mourinho's second spell in charge at the Bernabeu. Mourinho has signed a three-year deal to return to Real, but the 63-year-old's contract will only be valid if current president Florentino Perez wins the presidential election on 7 June. The Portuguese coach was at Benfica when they faced Real in the Champions League in February. After the first leg of the knockout phase play-off, Mourinho faced criticism for comments he made about Vinicius Jr's behaviour. The Brazil forward had alleged that Benfica winger Gianluca Prestianni had racially abused him. Prestianni strongly denied the accusation. Mourinho will now coach not only one of the best talents in football, but also one of the most scrutinised players in the world. He is a manager whose success has often been built on trust, loyalty and a connection with his players. But his relationship with Vinicius could become a defining narrative of his second spell in charge.
This interactive model has a limit on the number of drivers that can be modified in a single scenario. When the limit is reached those drivers not yet modified become disabled for modification. Your options are: Create new scenarios to try different combinations of driver modifications Reset one of your driver modifications in this scenario in order to modify another driver
This interactive model has a limit on the number of drivers that can be modified in a single scenario. When the limit is reached those drivers not yet modified become disabled for modification. Your options are: Create new scenarios to try different combinations of driver modifications Reset one of your driver modifications in this scenario in order to modify another driver
This interactive model has a limit on the number of drivers that can be modified in a single scenario. When the limit is reached those drivers not yet modified become disabled for modification. Your options are: Create new scenarios to try different combinations of driver modifications Reset one of your driver modifications in this scenario in order to modify another driver
This interactive model has a limit on the number of drivers that can be modified in a single scenario. When the limit is reached those drivers not yet modified become disabled for modification. Your options are: Create new scenarios to try different combinations of driver modifications Reset one of your driver modifications in this scenario in order to modify another driver