Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett’s 10-month-old coalition government is facing its stiffest challenge to date under the combined pressures of a wave of attacks and the shock loss of its parliamentary majority. Fourteen people have been killed in a spate of Palestinian attacks inside Israeli cities, the most recent in Tel Aviv on April 7,
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Shares in start-ups are sinking in private trading as a sell-off in public technology companies and a pause in new listings send shockwaves through Silicon Valley. Forge Global, one of the largest venues for trading in private start-ups, said the prices of companies on its platform had fallen 19.9 per cent in February and March
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Petrochemicals group Ineos has warned that British manufacturing is coming under threat from competing regions such as the US because of its higher energy costs. Britain’s largest privately owned company said European chemical producers were suffering from gas prices that had hit seven times the levels paid by competitors in the US, where abundant shale
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The cocktail trolley is back in vogue. Dolce & Gabbana has included one as part of its first homewares line. Meanwhile at the luxury design ecommerce site 1stdibs, sales are up 30 per cent. “People are trying to recreate that experience of happy hour at home,” says 1stdibs editorial director Anthony Barzilay Freund. “And who doesn’t
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Covid-19 cases are once more on the rise in the US, but this time there is little impetus for new restrictions or funding to help combat them. The number of daily new cases in the US has increased by 14 per cent since the beginning of April, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University, reaching
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Memphis Milano, the design movement beloved of ’80s obsessives, shows no sign of going away. And why would it? With its playful shapes and primary colours, its daring, positivity and spirit, we are still irresistibly charmed. Founded by Ettore Sottsass, who brought together the collective of designers and makers known as the Memphis Group in 1980, the gang first showed together
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Welsh designer Bethan Gray did something she hadn’t done for some time during the enforced hiatus of 2020: she started to paint. Choosing Chinese calligraphy brushes, she began to create freeform lines in ultramarine ink on a canvas laid on the floor of her studio. It was a spontaneous act, but what emerged was progress
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When legendary designer Philippe Starck met Spanish investment banker Pedro Gómez de Baeza 30 years ago in Madrid they bonded through their quickfire, raucous sense of humour. The occasion was the opening of Starck’s transformation of a dilapidated old theatre into Teatriz, a restaurant with dramatic decor and an experimental menu. “Madrid had seen nothing
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