The new Mini is a curious confection.
The car is a British icon with roots going back to 1959.
Now under German ownership with giant automotive parent company BMW at the strings, the popular hatchback is in its fourth generation and s set to play a major part in the brand’s transition to electric power at the end of the decade.
However, the battery-powered Cooper E and SE versions aren’t being built in Britain or Germany but in China as
A toddler drowned while her parents cooked dinner aboard a catamaran during a family vacation in Fiji.
“By the time we could find her, it was too late,” a friend of the family wrote on a donation page to cover the costs of flights back from Fiji and a funeral for the deceased.
“Māhina was a beautiful, happy, smiling child who loved the water and life on the boat,” the family friend wrote on the page.
“To the beloved Māhina,
Britain has immense vision and ambition for big projects to drive higher productivity and a better economic future.
But the ability of government, regulators and managers to deliver is feeble.
Advocates of HS2 cannot but be appalled by the way that public confidence in a transforming infrastructure project is being undermined by leadership upheavals, budget over-runs and internecine wars over the Euston terminal in London.
The scheme has only become ‘unachievable,’ in the words of the Infrastructure & Projects Authority,
When superstar Adele put her divorce down to planetary upheaval, the world raised a collective eyebrow. Talking of the breakdown of her marriage, she cited her ‘Saturn Return’, saying: ‘When that comes it can rock your life. It shakes you up a bit: Who am I? What do I want to do? What makes me truly happy? All those things.’
Astrologers smiled knowingly; it’s a famously difficult time. But what, you may well ask, is a Saturn Return?
In short,
